Sparklehorse on KCRW, 2002. New LP [likely - please?] September, 2006 - on Astralwerks?
"It's
a Wonderful Life""Eyepennies"
"More
Yellow Birds"Interview
["spah-kul-haas", "mahk leenk-us"]"Saturday""Morning
Hollow" [amazing]
Sparklehorse
on KCRW, 2002. New LP [likely - please?] September, 2006 - on Astralwerks?
"It's
a Wonderful Life"
"Eyepennies"
"More
Yellow Birds"
Interview
["spah-kul-haas", "mahk leenk-us"]
"Saturday"
"Morning
Hollow" [amazing]
the
glassy month of December
"Goddess
on a Hi[gh]way" [MP3]
- from Mecury
Rev : 1998's Deserters Songs. For s.
And
I know it ain't gonna last
When I see your eyes so bright - they explode like two bugs
on glass
"Steady
Diet of Slayer" [MP3]
- from !New
Grenada!, circa 2002's Open
Heart.
[GG
comments on LA] [GG
covers Cash {"I Still Miss Someone"} ]
Both from the junk-story
I
Was A Murder Junkie:
The last days of GG Allin [written
by "roadie" Evan Cohen].
You should also expect b&w photos of GG's anus, his feces and rather
small genitalia.
Life sucks [or, sucked], scum fuck! This
book has AIDS.
WE
don't need another HERO, MOTHER FUCKER!
...
I felt like / smashing my head through a clear glass window
us
ones in
between
[MP3]
[visual]
you
are a waterfall waiting inside a well
And
for a moment I lose myself, wrapped up in the pleasures of the world
"
Late at night is when I dream
Horrible things are what I see
Hard for me to believe
I wake up and I want free "
:: from the 1995 album Everything
I Long For, by Hayden
"
A mountain man with sky-blue teeth
Upon his head a python's wreath
A deer he slew in the dawning's dew
Her heart was a dagger for a murderer's brew "
Our
House [MP3]
[sing]
[ all about some
CSN&Y ]
"life used to be so hard."
Ready
to Die [MP3]
[ from the holy sons LP I
Want to Live A Peaceful Life ]
"[repeat - this is NOT a B.I.G. cover]"
Sunken
Treasure
[MP3][lyrics]
[from the defining timeline point that was the morphing of Wilco, Being
There ]
How this
2xCD is for sale at Amazon
for under $7 used somewhat amazes me. Being There will be 10
in October. Celebrate.
"I was maimed by rock and roll / I was maimed by rock and roll / I was tamed by rock and roll / I got my name from rock and roll"
"sliver"
[hushed version] [lyrics]
-from -
NiR_VAN_A_!
"MOM AND DAD
WENT TO A SHOW / THEY DROPPED ME OF AT GRANDPA JOE'S"
"I
Love Life"[lyrics]
-from -
PULP
from the Universal
album we love life. "So
get this right - I love my life; it's the only reason I'm alive. It's mine,
all mine - as long as I don't forget to breathe. Breathe in, breathe in,
breathe out. Corny I know, but you had better believe it: I love my life.
I love my life. I love my life. God, how I love my life."
"You
were are my Sunshine"[live] [MP3]
-by- grandaddy
you fuckers broke
up and I will never forgive you for it. now the drugs don't
work.
'nil
since thanksgiving's Welcome/Nowhere
- I haven't heard the calling to lock myself in a motionless & darkened
room to absorb and album. along comes Devil's
Blues from Joy
(Daniel Madri + band) available from shrimper[!].
good thing lyrics are included - this kind gent makes his poetry mesh with the
gentle stream of instrumentation almost too well.
almost. do find this album.
"You
were a Flood / You Were a Fire" [MP3] -by-
Joy [much
more music found]
[ "joy!"
Image borrowed from the fantastique! agadoni.com
]
"little
skinny girl / she's doing it for the first time"
"teenage
lust" {quiet
version} -by-
theJ&MC
kickball: "bird".
the anthem¹
of Spring.
"bird
in my hand / will you remain where you did land"
"bird" [MP3]
From2003's Huckleberry
Eater
"but
bird I can't see / the magnetic forces pulling you from me"
[
¹unoffical.
]
2
selections from the Holy Fucking Grail of punk
to come - a chimerical bombination in 12 bursts.
"(Liberation Frequency)" [MP3]
From1998's epic album The
Shape Of Punk To Come
"We don't just want airtime / we want all
of the time all of the time"
"(The Apollo program was a hoax)" [MP3]
From1998's epic album The
Shape Of Punk To Come
"The destruction of everything is the creation
of something new"
Further evidence that heavy can be both loud as bombs (Liberation Freq.) and as quiet as dead church mice (The Apollo program) - for the 2 of you who did not already know.
+ Please do tell that you've witnessed the video for New Noise.. . if not - it's here.
"hey
everybody.. . I'm Daniel and I wrote this song! How are
you?"
"Love Forever" [MP3]
From my album Rejected
Unknown.
"when
you get that [fucking] look in yr eye"
this one's going
out to SamK...Old School-style.
Eclipse!
![[ talk from '02]](/piss/britt.gif)
"Metal Detektor", Britt Daniel.
"make the sound of getting kicked when you're down"
Original version might be found on the timeless LP A Series of Sneaks. Elektra fucking die.
"Keep
An Eye" - From his latest LP, PIP,
out NOW on HHBTM!
"Fucking."
M. Linkous covering J. Cash | "Dark As A Dungeon"
"And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall roll
That my body would blacken and turn into coal"
Oh
my. 2 tracks from the forthcoming (maybe May 22nd), much more upjive
Mojave 3 album
Puzzles Like You.
"Running
with your eyes closed" |
"Most
Days"
These are the sad songs. Joy!
Thee Maximilian Hecker. Many free *full* MP3's at kitty-yo.
I cannot suggest 'the days are long and filled with pain' (alt. version with Niina Susanna Rinneenough on vocals) - for they are & it is.
Oh, Mark.
"Saint
Mary" [MP3] From
Good Morning Spider.
Saint
Mary [Video]
From Good Morning Spider.
Sick
of Goodbyes [Video]
From Good Morning Spider.
Box
of Stars (Pt. I) [Video]
From Good Morning Spider.
"Sparklehorse's
"Saint Mary['s]" directed by Sophie
Muller has to be one of my favourite videos. About 5 of us went
out to Mark [Linkous of Sparklehorse's] ranch in Virginia - there was hardly
any money so everyone was doing about 4 jobs each. The aim was to shoot 3 videos
but in Sophie's magical way she managed to cut 5 from the footage. It was all
shot underwater in a pool at night in about half an hour. The
cameraman was weighed down by a rucksack full of rocks; Mark was just thrown
in weighed down by his boots and clothes. When it looked as though neither of
them could breathe anymore we'd fish 'em out with the leaf net, but they survived
and it is brilliant." - link.
Peter Adams has shown me
the way. It is paved with moonlight, beds made of stars and a heart strung with
contra-terrene matter.
"Cementalisque"
[MP3] From his debut album The
Spiral Eyes.
From
the official bio: "Skylines is the
debut record from North
Atlantic Explorers on Anniedale
Records. It’s a beautiful, engaging, and sonically stimulating record
flavoured with strings, horns, loops, samples, vibes, xylophones, banjo, upright
bass and vintage organs and pianos, with Glenn D'Cruze handling the songwriting
and much of the instrumentation including lead vocals, guitars, drums, and piano."
Agreed.
I have little doubt that Glenn D'Cruze dreamt of becoming an astronaut when
he was younger - or for that, up to his latest birthday. You just don't compose
entire albums like Skylines without the desire and dream to actually
set foot on the Moon, allowing you that chance of a lifetime at gazing back
on Earth.
"I should meet you on the Moon, but I'm too busy doin' nothing - and it's wearing me out"
Skylines
carries with it the longing to escape (hear: "Aerial View") all while
regretting that which you leave behind ("I Will Not Leave You Alone").
Songs take all the time they need to getting from point A to B, some running
well into the 7 minute mark.
"Aerial
View" would be my first choice to hook you on the spectacle that is
North Atlantic Exlporers, and our request to present it here has been ok'b by
the Space Station in Vancouver. Thanks Glenn.
"Aerial
View" [MP3]
[ find 4 more songs at NAE's
myspace page ]
Back
in the days of old, Her Space Holiday had this formula down
to precise measures - think the seriously unobtainable double volume The
Astronauts Are Sleeping from 1996-98 (
"Slide Guitars and Moving Cars" [MP3]
).
Devendra Banhart. Ever heard of this guy? Back in June of 2004 (06.28.04 | GO! ROOM 4) I had the chance to (try and) interview the fella, right around the Rejoicing.. . well, rejoicing. I took along my trusted Panasonic Slimline to capture our conversation, which lasted about 4 minutes, after I followed him and members of Vetiver around like a disjointed shadow through a record store (Nice Price Books) for about an hour. Oh yes, I had gone through the proper "people" and Devendra knew I was coming.. . I think my misplaced white boy appearance put him off a touch.
Anyhow, I had this Slimline with a good 80+ minutes of tape left - so I did what was right. I recorded his set. Below are the 2 MP3 files from his performance - including Andy, Alissa and Jim of Vetiver and Kevin Barker of Currituck Co..
Now, the tape I recorded on originally had some SEAL & acoustic sebadoh on it - so it's best to jump forward to the 1:00 mark of Part 1 for the proper transmission. Non-tracked and completely transferred from a vintage cassette - I listen to this thing set often and admit it's a damn fine glimpse into the non-Spanish tongue side of Devendra.
[click + 'save as' / 'download target' to get'em] Part 1 [28m36s; 26mb] Part 2 [17m10s; 15.7mb]
"Connections I've made never follow through, and sooner or later disappoint you.
Or cross you twice when your back is turned, that's how I've learned
that someone has got to be burned."
Eleven (or so) years after it's introduction - I think I finally found a use for the iTunes music store. Let's say you get a tip about some seemingly obscure band and really want to find those songs (in my case - a complete album) - but the P2P / Torrents are coming up dry.. . oh - it may help having an iTunes 'virtual gift card'. This was my case with the gifted hand of Soft Hearted Scientists, a brief tip coming from the current messages at (the every friday required browsing of) almostcool.org.
Somewhere between where Mojave 3 was with Excuses for travelers (think: "In Love With A View") and what may be if Songs of Green Pheasant sang into the mic - start with "I'll be happy I'll be sleeping", a quite surprising home recording. Uncanny Tales From The Everyday Undergrowth was readily waiting on the iTunes $9.99 machine, and I must say it was a swell spending of my 'digital currency' (thanks again Joy!). Collecting what was three 4-song eps (yes, Beta Band will come up in searches.. .) onto one handsome album - their reclusive manifesto came into the clear post-purchase. Lovely indeed.
The four souls in Dame Satan are obviously onto something out West there (SF, CA), and their self-funded Ghost Mansion is all the evidence needed to secure that bid. Banjo's, autoharp, wurlitzers and tales of the paranormal whispering longings through hallways of empty houses all fit the descriptives of a damn fine record. 3 songs from Ghost Mansion follow. Obtain the other eight. "If I die before I wake, throw my body in the lake".. . Boo!
"Ghost Mansion" [mp3] "Golden Gate" [mp3] "Big Weed" [mp3]
From the Dame's themselves on their letter-pressed album's arrival: "Our albums arrived yesterday. Upon seeing the boxes stacked in the foyer, I hopped and hooted like a monkey on fire and immediately dashed up to Mike's room and began dragging all his furniture, clothing, and personal effects out into the hallway. Brendan arrived on the scene and he, Greg, Mike, and I feverishly filled that small empty room with our discs until a cardboard sea of exceedingly blazed blue moon stone crept up the sides of the walls. Mike did the pumpkin dance. Greg swooned. Our precious, Brendan screeched. Then, operating as an ensemble, we crushed a bottle of cheap brandy and dived into the depths of that fine album ocean like Scrooge McDuck into his vast trove of gold coinage."
The big cloud in the sky (no, that's actually not Jim James pictured up there) tossed a rod down on us today, warning us of our fate if we didn't show more respect to his only Son - Sufjan Stevens.
With that - please find Sir Sufjan's Christmas EP's [yet again] in handy Stuffit X format for the Season, in case you missed them the past 2 or 3 years.
Noel! Vol. 1 Hark! Vol. 2 Ding, Dong ! Vol. 3
It looks as though Grandpa's
Ghost aren't overly concerned if you hear about them or
not. Well I am. Their official site
has their immense discography
listed - yet nothing you can wrap your ears around (-or- audio
samples). A hunt on Myspace turns up blank - how can this be?
So, I did the only wrong thing I can think of and extracted a track ("between the lines") off one of my favorites, their 2xCD set from 2000 entitled Stardust & Smog / Early Autumn Waltz (Parts II & III of 'The Kiss'). [ok - so Amazon.co.uk might have a full set of 30-second samples].
Fans of Damien Jurado (think Ghost of David) or Your Favorite Music-era Clem Snide (a band whose own albums have been desrcibed as "sad, countryish ballads with mournful guitars and excellent lyrics") should seek Grandpas Ghost at their earliest, for lead Ghost's Ben Hanna and Bill Emerson have been crafting these timeless tunes for well into a decade. A current project finds Grandpa's Ghost members working with acclaimed Chicago Filmmaker James Fotopoulos.
Grandpa's
Ghost : "between
the lines"
[m4a
from
Stardust & Smog]
"A basement pop project gone completely
right" is how I might describe Elliott
the Letter Ostrich to a stranger - for my friends already know
why they love it. Read our latest review of Blood
Cape at sctas.
Elliott the Letter
Ostrich : "Get
plenty of sleep, you'll need it to keep your eyes open"
[m4a
from
Blood
Cape]
Plenty more full sounds at Asaurus - home of the perfect $5 record - some are $1 - 2.
So it's true: Don's
Mobile Barbers (or DMB[UK] to us lovers) and Kansas set
the Belles
are working on a split release. Some new stuff plus each doing a cover of the
other bands work {DMB[UK] will cover "Idle
Acres" | the Belles will Americanize "F08" (see below for
an *exclusive* download of the original)}. Fucking
yes to all that - and Don's
BOOM TIMES! is prep'd for release early next year. Go fall in love, kittens..
.
DMB[UK] : "F08" [from Version 2.0] [m4a] | the Belles : "Never Said Anything " [from Omerta] [mp3]
Ace
of Spades: Good compilations make life liveable. e14
Records has a limited run of their musical extravaganza that was
Ace of Spades (see our review)
- pulling in many artists from the Mama Buzz-accesible area. All proceeds
are headed right into the classrooms of California for musical purposes
via the non-profit orginization littlekidsrock.org.
One new band that present themselves on the 17-track cd is Black Bear - oh so good.
Black
Bear : "Furthest From the Sun"
[m4a]
tolchock
trio: I have become somewhat infatuated with this Utah crew over
the past few months. Their label, {exumbrella},
is the source of many great artists including TaughtMe
(> Blake Henderson > Quant).
sctas recently reviewed
tolchock's debut album, hello bird, and we aren't far off from putting
words down for their supreme follow-up - Ghost's Don't Have Bones. Plenty
of mp3's on {exumbrella}'s
media page - below was taken from Ghost's.. .
tolchock
trio : "Wolf Eyes"
[mp3]
In an attempt to raise funds for his upcoming
heart transplant, Jeff
Gomez has significantly slashed
the price of his ironically somber-yet-uplifting collection of songs under the
name Player Hater.
Picking You Up Just to Put You Down has been a regular player on my
discman™ this year - and for $4,
you may be crossed off my Christmas card list if you pass it up. Both full selections
below are from the discounted album - "ballads of the broken over sleepy-eyed
break beats and acoustic guitars".
"Losing
More Than Sleep"
[mp3]
| "Who's Walking Away"
[mp3]
John
Dufilho (see: Deathray
Davies) has crafted a true gem with his latest s/t solo release
out this month on glurp.
Something for Everyone should've been the title of it - finding traces
of Mark Oliver 'E'
(hear:
"Paper Hats And Campfire Hands") all the way to the late Elliott Smith
(really, not just a lame reason to put ES's name beside someone / something).
Below we found 2 quite varied songs (the album truly covers alot of
ground) from John Dufilho that can be purchased at glurp
for $10.50 ppd! Also find a brief Q&A
around this
area.
"What
Are You Waiting For?"
[m4a]
| "My Circuits Are Blown"
[m4a]
October 25th, 2005 - The
Twin Atlas' release Sun
Township unto the masses! The masses rejoice by purchasing Sun
Township! Before the masses can be "sold", the masses require
listening for FREE! {" What'd you
say?"}
"Roll On " [mp3]
Many more songs readily available for sampling at TTA HQ , and read a past sctas feature with TTA here.
Duncan Sumpner reigns from 'round Sheffield (find a great pub!) and he's managed to bang out an albums-worth of "demos" on a 4-track in his kitchen.. . when not teaching or being artsy - or so the tale goes. It's a damn fine one, and "Knulp" [m4a] is one of ten Fat Cat has culled for Songs Of Green Pheasant, out everywhere now but here (US) until November 1st. Fat Cat has 4 more peeks of audio on their page. Think Kingsbury Manx recording in Great Lake Swimmers silo.. . think!
October marks the perfect time to hear Everything is Fine's Ghosts Are Knocking On Walls - properly issued on Indiana's Tract Records this past August. Whatever else it is you have been over-exposed to the past month, clear that filthy channel and absorb the chilling warmth of opening track "1000 Seconds" [MP3].
The past weekend saw Thanksgiving
(supporting his latest 3xLP Thanksgiving), Tom
Blood and Mt.
Eerie pass through town on a short tour of the East. Need I say all three
delivered what the edge of Portland holds near and dear: kindness, talent and
a wealth of music. We've put together a small page
of live captures from the shows, complete with minor details and some photos
(more to be added soon). Next up we're trying to lure YACHT
and E*Rock to our lair
for some ALIVE BroZone
action..
Don't go and destroy Josh's server
- get in an orderly line and download NMH goodies one file
at a time.
The weekend forecast:
"Galveston"
[MP3].
"In
The Sun"
[MP3]
"Threat
of Nature"
[MP3]
[ Jimmy Webb's "Galveston" by Sparklehorse; from a superb Loose comp. New Sounds Of The Old West Volume 3 that features Goldrush, Hayden, NoahJohn, Grandaddy and plenty more.] + ["In The Sun" - Joseph Arthur; from his 2000 classic Come To Where I'm From.] + ["Threat of Nature" - Beep Beep; from Business Casual.]
Zombies,
the : "Hung Up On A Dream"
[MP3] (from
the album Odyssey
and Oracle). If it's September where you live, and the nights get
a slight nip of chill - this Zombies non-hit should
sum up the coming of a perfect season. It was 1969 people.
Gay
for Johnny Depp : "Lights Out"
[MP3].
Goddamn you SubPop. Ryan - I apologize here atop the yellow vines and the PMS 165 tones of pissyeller: Wolf Parade is THE wonderstuff. From their CBC session (opens full recording in .ram), I attempt to stop pressing repeat by placing it on this page.. . "I'll believe in anything, you'll believe in anything" [MP3].
Now go play the 'Spencer Krug wears the Hadji Bakara facial fur' game!
And if you stick around for fucking encores and what not, explain to me the Sunset Rubdown version of the same "I'll believe in anything, you'll believe in anything" [MP3]. This is Spencer (un-facial fur'd) Krug and his sonic side project.. . and the voice passes DNA probing as that of the Wolf Parade version. Goddamn you Wolf Parade.
David Beeman.. . that's just one letter shy of a gentle(ish)man known to avoid live presentation. This David Beeman, formerly a player in the [much retired] John Wilkes Kissing Boothe, has a handful of wonderful songs that should make a complete album soon on
Metaphor Records.
Recorded at Jay Bennett's (formerly of Wilco) studio in Chicago, this is a yet-to-be titled track [MP3] from his forthcoming solo album (which, too, has yet to be properly named).
There is very little information to go off of here in iLand pertaining to Mr. Beeman, or Metaphor Records - but if you pen a letter to this email, questions may very well be answered.
On September 13th, Merge is set to unveil what will be one of 2005's greater albums ( no sputnik - not the Arcade Fire [yawn] EP ) in the Rosebuds birds make good neighbors. "Hold hands and fight" [MP3] is the opening track from such album - and the greatness happened to spread through the entire record.
Happy couples, while said to not last, do make superb albums.
Somewhere along the timeline of great bands, Carissa's
Weird morphed (some original members intact) into Band
of Horses. Along the early part of that timeline, CW released a
handsome number of wonderful albums, one that you'll likely never find (You
Should Be At Home Here - Brown Records) .
Arizona-based
and sctas-adored label KEEP
Recordings dished out a great first volume of Keepsake
(in a strict edition of 100, long gone.. .) that just so happened
to archive Carissa's Weird covering a heartbreaking radio hit live..
.
[MP3].
Dug
out a rusty nail from the shed, Chin
Up Chin Up and their very own Fuck You Elton John
[MP3] live on WLUW
Chicago. I do believe this entire show (5 - 6 early songs [this was 2003] and
some chat) circulates on the p2p networks, I need to ask grandpa 'bout it. We
both agree CUCU are swell. Thanks Joy!
Beginning tomorrow (July 21st) Pattern
is movement set out on a serious month of dates
throughout North America. Lucky for us, they start the journey in Virginia,
and wind up in New York for a set of dates in late August. Thanks to their label,
NFI, we bring you a track
from their upcoming September release Stowaway - Talk back
to me
[MP3]. Plenty of documentation on the new record is visible
on the official Pattern
site.
BRAKES!
Cheney!
[MP3]. (.. .stop being such a dick!)
- and in completely related
news.. .
Ok,
so there's a Menomena
side Phenomena calling itself Lackthereof
that I've been unclued to for many a night, and by the taste of Let
U down as good as I did!
[MP3], everything you can grab of the audible nature over
there is
good keepin'. Second-clickin' upon Doodles proves Danny Seim's got talent all over the cerebellum basal ganglia.
The
(fabulous) Kingsbury
Manx will be releasing their fourth full album, The Fast Rise
and Fall of the South, this September
on North Carolina's YepRoc
Records. With NC being home to the Manx as well, we couldn't be
happier that these two have met in the middle. Courtesy of YepRoc,
here is the title track from The Fast Rise and Fall
of the South
[MP3].
Non-album
track from Portlands 31 Knots, originally found on Copper
Press presents...12. One Act Play
[MP3]. 31 Knots are indeed on Polyvinyl
now - update your scorecards, new album - Talk Like
Blood - in October.
