Iron Giant – Creator of Scars (Diminished Fifth Record 2008)
Alright. Let’s be completely fucking honest here. I’ve been waiting for the new Iron Giant record right from the minute somebody said they were writing. So imagine my excitement when Diminished Fifth Records decided they were going to put it out.
I decided I was going to like this record before I eve heard it. I have a really bad habit of doing that, and usually I get pretty disappointed (like the new atmosphere joint. Sux. Ballz.). Well, this time I wasn’t. Catchy. As. Fuck. And entire new side of the band is shown on this record. The title track has to be one of the best riffs from a band in Moncton ever.
Loud, obnoxious, riffy and pure east coast white trash this is a record for the ages. If they can keep the momentum going with the recent changes on the guitar spot 2008 will be the year of the Giant.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
The Cotton Jones Basket Ride
Michael Nau, previously well known as the primary singer/songwriter for Page France, will be pushing back the release of his debut full-length as The Cotton Jones Basket Ride in favor of an EP series to be released through Quite Scientific records.
Apparently it's a cd, but it's a book, too. This newfangled multi-tasking business is definitely going places.
Check out a song here: http://www.quitescientific.com/mp3/tcjbr-midnightmondayandatelescope.mp3
He's going on tour, too.
Cotton Jones On Tour:
Sat May 10 - Frostburg, MD - Rite Aid Benefit for the Children's Miracle Network
Tues May 13 - Baltimore, MD - Talking Head
Wed May 14 - Hamden, CT - The Space
Thurs May 15 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
Fri May 16 - New York, NY - Pianos
Sun May 18 - Philadelphia, PA - The M Room
Mon May 19 - Arlington, VA - The Iota
Tues May 20 - Norfolk, VA - The Boot
Wed May 21 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
Thurs May 22 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone
Fri May 23 - Charleston, SC - The Village Tavern
Sat May 24 - Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge
Mon May 26 - Lexington, KY - The Dame
Tues May 27 - Nashville, TN - The End
Wed May 28 - Cincinnati, OH - Southgate House
Fri May 30 - Charlottesville, VA - Tea Bazaar
Sat May 31 - Fredericksburg, VA - The 3rd Floor
Wed Jun 11 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
Thur Jun 12 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
Fri Jun 13 - Bloomington, IN - Bear's Place
Sat Jun 14 - Champaign, IL - Mike N Molly's
Sun Jun 15 - St. Louis, MO - Bluebird
Mon Jun 16 - Lawrence, KS - The Replay Lounge
Tue Jun 17 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
Wed Jun 18 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
Thur Jun 19 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
Fri Jun 20 - Iowa City, IA - The Picador
Sat Jun 21 - Dekalb, IL - The House Cafe
Sun Jun 22 - Madison, WI - Cafe Montmartre
Mon Jun 23 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's
Tue Jun 24 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
Wed Jun 25 - Detroit, MI - Alvin's
Thur Jun 26 - Toronto, ONT - Silver Dollar
Fri Jun 27 - London, ONT - London Music Club
Sat Jun 28 - Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
Apparently it's a cd, but it's a book, too. This newfangled multi-tasking business is definitely going places.
Check out a song here: http://www.quitescientific.com/mp3/tcjbr-midnightmondayandatelescope.mp3
He's going on tour, too.
Cotton Jones On Tour:
Sat May 10 - Frostburg, MD - Rite Aid Benefit for the Children's Miracle Network
Tues May 13 - Baltimore, MD - Talking Head
Wed May 14 - Hamden, CT - The Space
Thurs May 15 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
Fri May 16 - New York, NY - Pianos
Sun May 18 - Philadelphia, PA - The M Room
Mon May 19 - Arlington, VA - The Iota
Tues May 20 - Norfolk, VA - The Boot
Wed May 21 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
Thurs May 22 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone
Fri May 23 - Charleston, SC - The Village Tavern
Sat May 24 - Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge
Mon May 26 - Lexington, KY - The Dame
Tues May 27 - Nashville, TN - The End
Wed May 28 - Cincinnati, OH - Southgate House
Fri May 30 - Charlottesville, VA - Tea Bazaar
Sat May 31 - Fredericksburg, VA - The 3rd Floor
Wed Jun 11 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
Thur Jun 12 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
Fri Jun 13 - Bloomington, IN - Bear's Place
Sat Jun 14 - Champaign, IL - Mike N Molly's
Sun Jun 15 - St. Louis, MO - Bluebird
Mon Jun 16 - Lawrence, KS - The Replay Lounge
Tue Jun 17 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
Wed Jun 18 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
Thur Jun 19 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
Fri Jun 20 - Iowa City, IA - The Picador
Sat Jun 21 - Dekalb, IL - The House Cafe
Sun Jun 22 - Madison, WI - Cafe Montmartre
Mon Jun 23 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's
Tue Jun 24 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
Wed Jun 25 - Detroit, MI - Alvin's
Thur Jun 26 - Toronto, ONT - Silver Dollar
Fri Jun 27 - London, ONT - London Music Club
Sat Jun 28 - Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
Thursday, May 1, 2008
old record of the week
Record of the week
Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
Back in my early 20’s I was a hopeless romantic with bad hygiene. I used to spend most of my time off work and school on a bus to a few towns over to visit my girlfriend at the time. One time on my way back she couldn’t come with me to the bus stop, and I had some time to kill so I hit up one of my favorite record shops in the Maritimes.
When I got there, the guy working was closing up shop for the day, and I didn’t want to waste his time.
“I know you’re closing up in a few minutes. What should I buy? I’ve got a 5 hour bus ride ahead of me and don’t want to be bored.”
“Well, I’ve been listening to this record quite a bit lately. Really lo-fi stuff out of Florida.”
Good enough. I had just gotten my student loan so I picked it up. I stopped at a pharmacy and got some batteries for my Discman for the trip and went to the bus stop.
I don’t remember if it was an instant epiphany with this record, or if it took me a while to really get it, but I do remember that when I got it, I REALLY got it. This is a beautiful record. It’s the kind of record that invokes memories even if you’ve never heard it before.
Sam Beam didn’t set out to make Iron & Wine something big. He’s actually a fairly successful film teacher at a school in Florida. But when his friend’s band was in talks with Sub Pop, they sent a couple disc’s worth of Sam’s recordings along with their own. Sub Pop loved it, whittled down the songs to one album and released “The Creek Drank the Cradle”. They say the bigger your vocabulary the smarter you are. The average person has a 12,000 word vocabulary. Shakespeare had 25,000. While I agree with this to a point, it’s not always how much you have, but how you use what you have. Sam Beam probably doesn’t have a 25,000 word vocabulary. But the way he uses the words he knows makes for a beautiful experience. (I’ve used the word beautiful twice in this write-up).
This is a record I remember and a record I love. Sit down with this one. A nice glass of wine or a big mug of beer. You’re going to feel relaxed.
We found your name across the chapel door
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been
The shaking preacher told the captain's man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
Then pulled the shade to keep the crowd from peeking in
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house and telling everyone you'd drowned
The begging choir told the captain's man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two they gladly drag you down
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow across a long lost violin
Your lover's angel told the captain's man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm and placed it on your dreaming head
Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
Back in my early 20’s I was a hopeless romantic with bad hygiene. I used to spend most of my time off work and school on a bus to a few towns over to visit my girlfriend at the time. One time on my way back she couldn’t come with me to the bus stop, and I had some time to kill so I hit up one of my favorite record shops in the Maritimes.
When I got there, the guy working was closing up shop for the day, and I didn’t want to waste his time.
“I know you’re closing up in a few minutes. What should I buy? I’ve got a 5 hour bus ride ahead of me and don’t want to be bored.”
“Well, I’ve been listening to this record quite a bit lately. Really lo-fi stuff out of Florida.”
Good enough. I had just gotten my student loan so I picked it up. I stopped at a pharmacy and got some batteries for my Discman for the trip and went to the bus stop.
I don’t remember if it was an instant epiphany with this record, or if it took me a while to really get it, but I do remember that when I got it, I REALLY got it. This is a beautiful record. It’s the kind of record that invokes memories even if you’ve never heard it before.
Sam Beam didn’t set out to make Iron & Wine something big. He’s actually a fairly successful film teacher at a school in Florida. But when his friend’s band was in talks with Sub Pop, they sent a couple disc’s worth of Sam’s recordings along with their own. Sub Pop loved it, whittled down the songs to one album and released “The Creek Drank the Cradle”. They say the bigger your vocabulary the smarter you are. The average person has a 12,000 word vocabulary. Shakespeare had 25,000. While I agree with this to a point, it’s not always how much you have, but how you use what you have. Sam Beam probably doesn’t have a 25,000 word vocabulary. But the way he uses the words he knows makes for a beautiful experience. (I’ve used the word beautiful twice in this write-up).
This is a record I remember and a record I love. Sit down with this one. A nice glass of wine or a big mug of beer. You’re going to feel relaxed.
We found your name across the chapel door
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been
The shaking preacher told the captain's man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
Then pulled the shade to keep the crowd from peeking in
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house and telling everyone you'd drowned
The begging choir told the captain's man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two they gladly drag you down
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow across a long lost violin
Your lover's angel told the captain's man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm and placed it on your dreaming head
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