so, he surprised us all with a 16 city tour called the Glitter and Doom tour. But now he's home, and I still haven't gotten to see him.
Well, the folks over at NPR are KINDA doing something about it. If you go to their website you can stream a 2 and a half hour show recorded in Atlanta, and if you're ok with podcasts, you can subscribe to their live concert series and download the show. Looking at the last few weeks of concerts, you also have spiritualized, the ting tings, fleet foxes, the raconteurs, the black keys, and nada surf.
so head over to www.npr.org/music and check yourself out some live tom waits.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
new kings of leon
SPIN.COM NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE KINGS OF LEON DOWNLOAD
"Crawl," From The Band's Upcoming Album "Only By the Night," Now Available Through Web site
"Only By The Night" Out on RCA on September 23
SPIN.com is proud to present an EXCLUSIVE free download from Kings of Leon. The song being featured is titled "Crawl," the first track (although not the official single) from the forthcoming "Only By The Night," due Sept. 23 through RCA.
The band has also been known lately to lead off their propulsive live sets with the track.
It's the first new material heard from the Southern boys since 2007's "Because of the Times," but as one of rock's busiest bands, the intervening period has seen them traverse the globe with shows ranging from Spin's SXSW party last year at Stubb's to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival.
Please visit the band's Web site to have "Crawl" as your very own. The track will be available for free for one week only, so get your download on, stat!
SPIN.com piece:http://spin.com/articles/exclusive-mp3-download-kings-leon-crawl
Download "Crawl" http://www.kingsofleon.com/spin_crawlfreedownload/
pretty serious tune. i love how you can always tell it's KoL, but it never sounds like it's going to be a KoL song.
"Crawl," From The Band's Upcoming Album "Only By the Night," Now Available Through Web site
"Only By The Night" Out on RCA on September 23
SPIN.com is proud to present an EXCLUSIVE free download from Kings of Leon. The song being featured is titled "Crawl," the first track (although not the official single) from the forthcoming "Only By The Night," due Sept. 23 through RCA.
The band has also been known lately to lead off their propulsive live sets with the track.
It's the first new material heard from the Southern boys since 2007's "Because of the Times," but as one of rock's busiest bands, the intervening period has seen them traverse the globe with shows ranging from Spin's SXSW party last year at Stubb's to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival.
Please visit the band's Web site to have "Crawl" as your very own. The track will be available for free for one week only, so get your download on, stat!
SPIN.com piece:http://spin.com/articles/exclusive-mp3-download-kings-leon-crawl
Download "Crawl" http://www.kingsofleon.com/spin_crawlfreedownload/
pretty serious tune. i love how you can always tell it's KoL, but it never sounds like it's going to be a KoL song.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
one day as a lion
do you like rage agains the machine?
and do you like the kid who played drums in the mars volta?
chekkit
http://www.myspace.com/onedayasalion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_as_a_Lion
pretty serious business so far.
and do you like the kid who played drums in the mars volta?
chekkit
http://www.myspace.com/onedayasalion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_as_a_Lion
pretty serious business so far.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
alicia penney
alright. like 5 or 6 years ago i met a girl on the net and slept with her maybe once or twice.
she was in a band. also in her band was alicia penney who is a fucking STELLAR singer/songwriter.
anyhow, the girl i slept with is, well, i don't know where she is... but alicia is in cape breton demo-ing stuff for her new record. in the meantime check out a fanstastic cover of the inbreds song "cut my throat" that alicia did with one of her bands, the excellent navigators on her myspace page. If the Inbreds are half as good as this cover is, I wonder why I'm not already a fan of theirs.
regardless, keep an eye out for alicia and her new band, "the responsibility band". It'll get rid of that rash, Sean. No lies.
she was in a band. also in her band was alicia penney who is a fucking STELLAR singer/songwriter.
anyhow, the girl i slept with is, well, i don't know where she is... but alicia is in cape breton demo-ing stuff for her new record. in the meantime check out a fanstastic cover of the inbreds song "cut my throat" that alicia did with one of her bands, the excellent navigators on her myspace page. If the Inbreds are half as good as this cover is, I wonder why I'm not already a fan of theirs.
regardless, keep an eye out for alicia and her new band, "the responsibility band". It'll get rid of that rash, Sean. No lies.
Monday, July 21, 2008
the bells of san juan capistrano
right now, the state of independent music as a culture is resting solely on the shoulders of country music.
i've gotten my hands on a lot of free indie releases over the last couple of years. only a couple of them have made their way into regular rotation. the latest one being a young dude by the name of beau jennings.
he's not country in the way of whiskeytown, but more along the lines of bruce springsteen. you can hear that influence all the way through, but there's something that sets it just outside that niche.
it's a sing along record at it's finest, and a bit cheesy at it's worst. jennings voice seems like it's a bit too at ease in some places. i would hope he belts it a bit harder when he plays these tunes live, which i would imagine he does. i hope so.
there are some great moments of levity as far as lyrics are concerned on this record, my favourite being in the song "holy tulsa thunder"
when you were born you came out swingin'
and no one could pull you under
you tried to rumble but you blended in
to the holy tulsa thunder
it's a good record. you should probably buy it.
i've gotten my hands on a lot of free indie releases over the last couple of years. only a couple of them have made their way into regular rotation. the latest one being a young dude by the name of beau jennings.
he's not country in the way of whiskeytown, but more along the lines of bruce springsteen. you can hear that influence all the way through, but there's something that sets it just outside that niche.
it's a sing along record at it's finest, and a bit cheesy at it's worst. jennings voice seems like it's a bit too at ease in some places. i would hope he belts it a bit harder when he plays these tunes live, which i would imagine he does. i hope so.
there are some great moments of levity as far as lyrics are concerned on this record, my favourite being in the song "holy tulsa thunder"
when you were born you came out swingin'
and no one could pull you under
you tried to rumble but you blended in
to the holy tulsa thunder
it's a good record. you should probably buy it.
this might be important to somebody
a guy named Tito, which is a common nickname for my friends from me, emailed me today letting me know that Liz Phair is performing her "groundbreaking" "album" "exile in guyville" in it's entirety in three different cities at the same time while balancing the empire state builing on her chin.
some of that maybe a lie.
here's the release...
LIZ PHAIR TO PERFORM 'EXILE IN GUYVILLE'
IN PHILADELPHIA, DC & BOSTON
ON AUGUST 27TH, 28TH & 29TH
'EXILE IN GUYVILLE' REISSUE AVAILABLE NOW
ON ATO RECORDS
In celebration of the 15th year anniversary of the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville and its reissue by ATO Records, Liz Phair will perform the entire album at three engagements: August 27 at Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia; August 28 at 9:30 Club in Washington DC; and August 29 at The Paradise in Boston. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, July 23 via Ticketmaster.
These three additional shows come on the heels of four hugely successful sold out June events - two in New York City and one in each San Francisco and Chicago. Said Jon Pareles of The New York Times in his recent review of one of Phair's Exile in Guyville shows, "After 15 years of other people's indie-rock idiosyncrasies, "Exile" still holds up in all its conflicting impulses: its determination to be 'adamantly free' and its longing for someone to trust, its swagger and its pain." A modern classic, Pitchfork recently gave the album a 9.6 rating while both Rolling Stone and Blender gave Exile in Guyville a perfect score of five stars ("*****").
Exile in Guyville, which was out of print, is again available on CD, vinyl and - for the first time ever - in digital format. The special reissue package includes three never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions: "Ant in Alaska," with Phair simply accompanying herself on guitar, "Say You," which features Phair and a full band, and an untitled instrumental with Liz on guitar. Phair has also just completed a new, 80-minute DVD, "Guyville Redux," for the reissue.
In "Guyville Redux" - which features an introduction by Dave Matthews, founder/co-owner of ATO Records - Liz and the "guys" of Guyville take us back to the making of the album, the male-dominated, Chicago independent music scene of the early 1990's (which included Urge Overkill, Material Issue, and Smashing Pumpkins), and the Wicker Park neighborhood where it all happened. Phair interviews Gerard Cosloy and Chris Lombardi of Matador Records, which originally released the record, famed indie producer Steve Albini, Ira Glass of NPR's "This American Life," John Henderson of the elusive indie label Feel Good All Over, Brad Wood (producer of Exile In Guyville), John Cusack (who founded the Chicago avant-garde theater group New Crime Productions), Urge Overkill, and more.
Conceived as a song-by-song response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, Exile in Guyville was released in 1993, and ranked #1 that year on both the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll and Spin magazine's year-end critics poll. Incredibly influential to this day, its place as a seminal rock album has been reaffirmed by its inclusion in countless historical "best of" lists over the past 15 years, including: "Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time," Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005," Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock (the 50 essential albums)," Blender's "Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time," Pitchfork's "Top 100 Albums of the 1990's," and VH1's "Greatest Albums Of All Time," to name but a few. Exile in Guyville is, in the words of Pitchfork, "a certifiable indie roadtrip classic."
Phair is currently working on new studio album for the fall.
Maybe I ought to listen to it... I mean, I was kinda 12 years when it came out and really I was only into Billy Ray Cyrus, and boobs. What can ya do?
some of that maybe a lie.
here's the release...
LIZ PHAIR TO PERFORM 'EXILE IN GUYVILLE'
IN PHILADELPHIA, DC & BOSTON
ON AUGUST 27TH, 28TH & 29TH
'EXILE IN GUYVILLE' REISSUE AVAILABLE NOW
ON ATO RECORDS
In celebration of the 15th year anniversary of the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville and its reissue by ATO Records, Liz Phair will perform the entire album at three engagements: August 27 at Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia; August 28 at 9:30 Club in Washington DC; and August 29 at The Paradise in Boston. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, July 23 via Ticketmaster.
These three additional shows come on the heels of four hugely successful sold out June events - two in New York City and one in each San Francisco and Chicago. Said Jon Pareles of The New York Times in his recent review of one of Phair's Exile in Guyville shows, "After 15 years of other people's indie-rock idiosyncrasies, "Exile" still holds up in all its conflicting impulses: its determination to be 'adamantly free' and its longing for someone to trust, its swagger and its pain." A modern classic, Pitchfork recently gave the album a 9.6 rating while both Rolling Stone and Blender gave Exile in Guyville a perfect score of five stars ("*****").
Exile in Guyville, which was out of print, is again available on CD, vinyl and - for the first time ever - in digital format. The special reissue package includes three never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions: "Ant in Alaska," with Phair simply accompanying herself on guitar, "Say You," which features Phair and a full band, and an untitled instrumental with Liz on guitar. Phair has also just completed a new, 80-minute DVD, "Guyville Redux," for the reissue.
In "Guyville Redux" - which features an introduction by Dave Matthews, founder/co-owner of ATO Records - Liz and the "guys" of Guyville take us back to the making of the album, the male-dominated, Chicago independent music scene of the early 1990's (which included Urge Overkill, Material Issue, and Smashing Pumpkins), and the Wicker Park neighborhood where it all happened. Phair interviews Gerard Cosloy and Chris Lombardi of Matador Records, which originally released the record, famed indie producer Steve Albini, Ira Glass of NPR's "This American Life," John Henderson of the elusive indie label Feel Good All Over, Brad Wood (producer of Exile In Guyville), John Cusack (who founded the Chicago avant-garde theater group New Crime Productions), Urge Overkill, and more.
Conceived as a song-by-song response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, Exile in Guyville was released in 1993, and ranked #1 that year on both the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll and Spin magazine's year-end critics poll. Incredibly influential to this day, its place as a seminal rock album has been reaffirmed by its inclusion in countless historical "best of" lists over the past 15 years, including: "Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time," Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005," Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock (the 50 essential albums)," Blender's "Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time," Pitchfork's "Top 100 Albums of the 1990's," and VH1's "Greatest Albums Of All Time," to name but a few. Exile in Guyville is, in the words of Pitchfork, "a certifiable indie roadtrip classic."
Phair is currently working on new studio album for the fall.
Maybe I ought to listen to it... I mean, I was kinda 12 years when it came out and really I was only into Billy Ray Cyrus, and boobs. What can ya do?
Sunday, July 20, 2008
angelie jolie is somewhat attractive
so today was a good news/bad news/good news day as far as movies were concerned.
good news: my brother in law and i got tickets for DARK FUCKING NIGHT
bad news: the line ups were ridiculous even though we had tix.
good news: we traded in our tickets for WANTED.
it was pretty good. a couple of twists and turns, and most importantly, angelina's nekkid ass.
sweet. merciful. crap.
but yeh, good flick. Very Matrix meets Fight Club. James McEvoy's character was a bit annoying at times, and there's a scene with rats that's just ridiculous, but overall i was ok with it.
word.
good news: my brother in law and i got tickets for DARK FUCKING NIGHT
bad news: the line ups were ridiculous even though we had tix.
good news: we traded in our tickets for WANTED.
it was pretty good. a couple of twists and turns, and most importantly, angelina's nekkid ass.
sweet. merciful. crap.
but yeh, good flick. Very Matrix meets Fight Club. James McEvoy's character was a bit annoying at times, and there's a scene with rats that's just ridiculous, but overall i was ok with it.
word.
Friday, July 11, 2008
choke trailer
i read choke a few years back not long after i finally got to read fight club...
sam rockwell is going to SLAY this role.
sam rockwell is going to SLAY this role.
zune
they asked me to post this, but i'm not sure what it is...
i still like the zune... a couple of little things as usual... won't play avi's... takes a few clicks too many to get to the song i want to hear... but all in all it's a handy little rig... i'm really enjoying it...
go buy one.
edit: oh! THAT'S what it's for!
i still like the zune... a couple of little things as usual... won't play avi's... takes a few clicks too many to get to the song i want to hear... but all in all it's a handy little rig... i'm really enjoying it...
go buy one.
edit: oh! THAT'S what it's for!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Gallactus - Nine Mile Wood
Y’know, if I didn’t know any better, I would almost think this was going to be one kick ass cover of “Ballroom Blitz”. Ready, Steve?
Fuck. No. I was then kicked in the balls by Gallactus’ COSMIC BONG DOOM, straight out of the mean streets of Sussex, New Brunswick.
Gallactus and Blood Royal are responsible for one of the worst drunks of my life and for that and love and loathe them both.
The G-Men’s latest platter “Nine Mile Wood” is a pretty varied record. Well, as varied as COSMIC BONG DOOM can be, right?
The opening track THE FURY is fast heavy and brutal. Honestly I was hoping the record would be like that but alas, I’m a douchebag.
There are a couple of spots on this record that drag a bit, and one spot in particular that reminds me A LOT of a tune from their last record, EMPIRE OF THE EYE, but hey I’m not THAT picky.
COSMIC BONG DOOM is here to kick your nuts and steal your girl. And your beer.
HANG FROM THE LOCUST NOOSE!!!!
Fuck. No. I was then kicked in the balls by Gallactus’ COSMIC BONG DOOM, straight out of the mean streets of Sussex, New Brunswick.
Gallactus and Blood Royal are responsible for one of the worst drunks of my life and for that and love and loathe them both.
The G-Men’s latest platter “Nine Mile Wood” is a pretty varied record. Well, as varied as COSMIC BONG DOOM can be, right?
The opening track THE FURY is fast heavy and brutal. Honestly I was hoping the record would be like that but alas, I’m a douchebag.
There are a couple of spots on this record that drag a bit, and one spot in particular that reminds me A LOT of a tune from their last record, EMPIRE OF THE EYE, but hey I’m not THAT picky.
COSMIC BONG DOOM is here to kick your nuts and steal your girl. And your beer.
HANG FROM THE LOCUST NOOSE!!!!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
me and every other canadian blogger...
...is writing about polaris announcing the short list for the polaris prize. i for one am pissed cadence weapon didn't make the cut. but here's who did...
Black Mountain – In The Future(Vancouver, BC) official site MySpace
Pretty serious record. Not what I was expecting. I wanted Mastodon and got Pink Floyd. Tomato, Tomato.
Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue (Montréal, QC) official site MySpace
No idea.
Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling (London, ON)official site MySpace
Hayden likes her and that's fine by me.
Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War (Montréal, QC) official site MySpace
I bought their last record (something about a fire) because Jesse from Kary told me to. I'm a fanboy of Kary, so I bought it. To be honest, the only part I liked was at the first. "When you have nothing left to lose, you have to set yourself on fire". After that, je n'etais pas interessé, for my francophone readers.
Caribou – Andorra (Dundas, ON)official site MySpace
I like the idea of Caribou. But the stuff I heard was TOO dancy. I might check it out again though cause lately I've really been digging on Datarock, Digitalism, Justice and...
Holy Fuck – LP (Toronto, ON) official site MySpace
Serious. That's all their is to it. MSTRKRFT with ballz. Plus a guy from Blue Rodeo played drums for them for a while.
Shad – The Old Prince (London, ON) MySpace
Huh?
Kathleen Edwards – Asking For Flowers (Ottawa, ON)official site MySpace
She's hot, and sounded great on Austin City Limits this one time. And a dude from Blue Rodeo likes her.
Two Hours Traffic – Little Jabs (Charlottetown, PE) official site MySpace
I liked these guys better when they lacked stage presence. The April Storm EP was serious business.
The Weakerthans – Reunion Tour (Winnipeg, MB) official site MySpace
I borrowed a copy of Reconstruction site from a girl I dated like 6 years ago and still have it. H, if you're reading this, the cd broke. Literally.
So there it is. I don't think we get to vote on this, sadly. There was a good Blue Rodeo content this year which is rockin', too.
Keep it up, Sarah.
Joe
Black Mountain – In The Future(Vancouver, BC) official site MySpace
Pretty serious record. Not what I was expecting. I wanted Mastodon and got Pink Floyd. Tomato, Tomato.
Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue (Montréal, QC) official site MySpace
No idea.
Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling (London, ON)official site MySpace
Hayden likes her and that's fine by me.
Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War (Montréal, QC) official site MySpace
I bought their last record (something about a fire) because Jesse from Kary told me to. I'm a fanboy of Kary, so I bought it. To be honest, the only part I liked was at the first. "When you have nothing left to lose, you have to set yourself on fire". After that, je n'etais pas interessé, for my francophone readers.
Caribou – Andorra (Dundas, ON)official site MySpace
I like the idea of Caribou. But the stuff I heard was TOO dancy. I might check it out again though cause lately I've really been digging on Datarock, Digitalism, Justice and...
Holy Fuck – LP (Toronto, ON) official site MySpace
Serious. That's all their is to it. MSTRKRFT with ballz. Plus a guy from Blue Rodeo played drums for them for a while.
Shad – The Old Prince (London, ON) MySpace
Huh?
Kathleen Edwards – Asking For Flowers (Ottawa, ON)official site MySpace
She's hot, and sounded great on Austin City Limits this one time. And a dude from Blue Rodeo likes her.
Two Hours Traffic – Little Jabs (Charlottetown, PE) official site MySpace
I liked these guys better when they lacked stage presence. The April Storm EP was serious business.
The Weakerthans – Reunion Tour (Winnipeg, MB) official site MySpace
I borrowed a copy of Reconstruction site from a girl I dated like 6 years ago and still have it. H, if you're reading this, the cd broke. Literally.
So there it is. I don't think we get to vote on this, sadly. There was a good Blue Rodeo content this year which is rockin', too.
Keep it up, Sarah.
Joe
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