"By The Freeway"The watchful eye of a Grandmother looking out on the kids filling her wood paneled basement could conjure a daunting, almost scornful, sentiment. Rather, in the case of Union Hall, it's homey. Albeit, a creepy sort of home, half dilapidated and populated by rusty steel sewing machines, withering bits of ancient love letters and the dust of cobwebs past and present. It's no surpr...
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"Big As A Humpback Whale"Kurt Vile's been making a lot of noise lately on the strength of a few solid vinyl only EP's and some CD-Rs. His Mexican Summer debut, God Is Saying This To You, is all but sold out, unless you know the right place to go, which, apparently I did, as the Academy Annex had one this afternoon. Not one to rest on his budding laurels, Vile also recently released The Hunchback
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"I Know What It's Like To Be Dead"Elusively titled "One More Time", the b-side to the Shop Assistants Big E Power 7" is actually a cover of the Beatles "She Said She Said." Whether or not this was a deliberate attempt to circumnavigate paying royalties to Apple Records (or Jacko) is beyond me, however, it certainly seems as if the reclusive Edinburgh band was going for obscurity with the lack of
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"Anthropologic"While reading an interview with Guillermo Scott Herren about his soon-to-be-issued Savath et Savalas record, I was intrigued by references Herren made to both Catalan and Brazilian psych folk, most specifically that of Marconi Notaro. An evening of trolling found that Time-Lag, the label responsible for releasing albums by MV+EE, Woods, Wooden Wand, RACCOO-OO-OON and many other
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"Been Drinking Too Much"Marissa Nadler recently posted this haunting video of new song "Dead Wives Club" (which may be titled "Marie") on her blog. Those in attendance at her recent NYC/BK shows at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah and Joe's Pub may recognize the tune as the one in which Marissa plays banjo. According to lore, Ms. Nadler hadn't touched a banjo in public in over ten years, which
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"Home I'll Never Be"(photo by Dorothea Lange)Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above, and the road below me Robert Louis StevensonLonely, broke and desperate, yet brimming with optimism, the song of the great American highway is deeply ingrained in the psyche of anyone born from sea to shinning sea. Some say it's Manifest Destiny, others merely an
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"We Could Slip Away"Yo La Tengo's Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 isn't just a clever use of alliteration, rather a comprehensive collection of highlights, gems and rarities that begs the question, "Why aren't Yo La Tengo the most popular band in the world?"While perennial fan favs like "Tom Courtenay" and "Autumn Sweater" appear on the greatest hits
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"Hallucinogen headlamps / my sane scape's disrupted in a pickup truck"In the wake of their reunion and the publicity of last year's Coachella, underrated 90's British shoegazers Swervedriver just re-released their first 3 albums (Raise, Mezcal Head, Ejector Seat Reservation) in the UK and now their first 2 here in the US. All three albums get a modest treatment, only adding a handful of tracks (
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"You Say Your Looking For Someone"(photo by grandchildren)He's done it again, this time covering Bob Dylan's classic "It Ain't Me Babe." As expected, absolutely majestic, most notably the doubled vocals, which give it a sort of campfire deep inside a cave sing-a-long vibe. Apparently this was on the White Antelope MySpace page, although it seems to have been removed. Oh well, you can snag an mp3
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"All Over Town" Listen, the snow is falling o'er town, Listen the snow is falling ev'rywhere. Between Empire State building And between Trafalgar square. Listen, the snow is falling o'er town. Listen, the snow is falling o'er town, Listen the snow is falling ev'rywhere. Between your bed and mine, Between your head and my mind. Listen, the snow is falling o'er town. Between Tokyo and Paris,
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"We Will Never Ever..." Due to the ubiquity of Atlas Sound posts in 2K8, I'll keep this one short. Bradford Cox played a (surprise?) hometown show on New Year's Eve at the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta. He prefaces it by saying "Happy New Year everybody...Did everybody get kissed? (Yeah) Good. Well, I'm here to depress to the shit out of you with my longwinded ambient music." From then on its a
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"I Promise/ I'm On It" By this time, I'm sure you're all sick of top 10 lists. Us too. Therefore, we've resigned to posting a list of stuff that we absolutely adored. There are no rankings, merely praise for everyone, in and of their own right. After all, 'tis the season. Artist of the Year Bradford Cox- Microcastle/Weird Era Cont., Let The Blind..., Logos, etc. This dude released more material
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Appropriate for the holidays, Cymande (pronounced sah-mahn-day) is derived from the calypso word for dove, signifying peace and love. The name is fitting since most of their members originally hailed from Caribbean islands like Guyana, Jamaica, and St. Vincent. This seemingly forgotten nonet of 70's self-taught British funk-a-holics released only three albums, all in the span of two years, before
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"I've Stopped My Rambling" (Photo by Karl Gunnarsson) We've discussed "These Days" before and probably don't need to go into details about a song that is adored by nearly everyone whose ears are lucky enough to hear it. However, last week, The Tallest Man on Earth helped revive a song that, while still very much adored, has sort of become ubiquitous in the post-Royal Tenenbaums world. The
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"I'm Not Loving You The Way I Wanted To" Flying Lotus gives "Love Lockdown" a bit of a Burial. Ahum. Supa dubbbby. Studio headphones, X-Bass, and a box of Vanilla Dutchee's highly rec'd. FlyLo continues to crush the remixes. (via Mad Dec)
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"Escape From Patterns Your Parents Designed" (photo by Diana Wong) After the freak-show that was the Roseland, we couldn't wait to catch Elephant 6-turned-neuvo Funk sexpots Of Montreal at the more intimate, and way closer to home, Music Hall of Williamsburg. While theatrics were certainly in toe, as they have been for the entire Skeletal Lampings tour, last nights show was incredibly toned down
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"Can't Not Seem To Remember My Dreams Lately" (Photo by redhead canvas) If you see a show and don't post about it, did you really see it? Well, that was the case with the phenomenal Ghostly showcase, which closed out CMJ at (le) Poisson Rouge roughly 2 months ago. It wasn't long after the Detroit powerhouse release School of Seven Bell's intoxicating Alpinisms, and pairing the synthetic dream-pop
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"Warning: This Video Contains Flashing Lights" Bjork "Wanderlust" It's been a good year for music videos. We like them. They make the work day go by that much faster. And with the exception of "Parisian Goldfish", they probably won't get you fired. Here are some of our favorite videos from 2008. Enjoy. M83 "Graveyard Girl" M83 "Kim & Jessie" Flying Lotus "Parisian Goldfish" Hercules &
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"I'd Rather Follow A Tidal Wave" Last night I found out at that the Silent Barn will be hosting one helluva show this Sunday. The venerable Ridgewood, Queens DIY performance space will showcase the quiet sounds of Kria Brekkan (mum, kria & avey tare) and Portland's absolutely enchanting Grouper, whose Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill is showing up on a lot of year-end lists, and with good reason.
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