Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.I've heard it in the chilliest landAnd on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.~Emily Dickinson
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!http://pearlofcivilization.net/images/142.gif (Will drool for bells)!:http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/Diesslin.htmDo you have Pavlovian responses to any particular songs? There are a few that I have listened to so many times, and loved for so long, that the very first note can catch my attention in any situation. I feel like the beginnings of certain tracks could be used as superhero tech to ...
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Photo by Ilix - http://www.sxc.hu/profile/IlixJULY 2000: A rainy day in Glebe, Sydney, Australia. Some electric violin, the sound of tin shimmering as if drum patterns can form light, a guitar chord thickening with one stroke like someone lightly touching the back of your neck. What a sweet chill it is: The Dirty Three, loud and clear. New music for a dying afternoon at Badde Manors café. Out..
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photo by Pete Ottery (www.c41.au)Sometimes I could just run into a river and drown. That's what I'm thinking about mid-way into the set tonight when some electrical thing passes over me and this other realization comes that sound is the city's river and we're here in it already, in the river of a music coming right out of our landscape, and when I think that I see that I felt this from the star...
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Are you interest in touring China?Pitchfork posted wild cat Warren Ellis' astounding experiences during the Dirty Three Asian tour.Before they even got to China, the country's government "decided to cancel our performance permit because they thought we were a pornographic act due to our name. They asked that we change it to Dirt Three."With the help of Australian trade organization Austrade and...
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My liver has finally stopped aching from my weekend sojourn in Minehead. All who made the expedition had a splendiferous time at the Dirty Three curated ATP festival. Myself, rather blearily, included. Although owning a few of their records, I'd never seen the Dirty Three do their thing, and 'hazard!', I cried; they are bastard-well brilliant! If there were medals for sheer presence, a tidy r...
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I'm very glad to have discovered in these past couple years the beauty of taking the vocals out of music, and creating music that seems to stand outside the current paradigm of "tried-and-true-indie" or "so-avant-garde-as-to-be-unlistenable". Don't get me wrong, post-rock, or whatever you want to call it, has had it's share of criticism of backlash, but I seem to respond far more vividly to it...
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I love love love this album and with a chill of winter in the air today, here is something sweet and lovely to bring me into the night.
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We've just posted a set of Mick Turner videos from his solo performance at 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, MN on February 10th, 2008. This was our first shoot of the year, and if the year continues the way it started scheduletwo.com is in for a great year. Songs featured include: The Beach That Leads to Your Shore, Frenchie, In the Morning You Can Hear the Birds Singing, The Swing, and Fire Fo...
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Ah Holly Fam’ly broke the silence of a hushed Berbati’s Pan Thursday night and inadvertently transported the crowd to a lonely farm in Idaho, all clad in streams and dry grass and food-rearing mammals. At least that’s where I went. Suddenly, I had wildflowers adorning my pig-tail braids, a straw hat, denim overalls, and I was wandering in the meadow with my pet goat.Back at Berbati’s, Ah H
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The Dirty Three have announced a live date at the Southbank in December!
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The best late night slot on the main stage came from the three men I had hoped would blow me away. And that they did, emphatically. Shame that Zun Zun Egui, or The Phantom Band or Beth Jeans Houghton weren’t up there at midnight too.
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[September 11-13, 2009] Friday Saddling up with my photographer and go-to-bro Ben Seretan, we hit a rainy Interstate 84 in hopes of catching the first minutes of All Tomorrow's Parties NY, but thunderstorms and an exploded pickup delayed us by a couple hours. After a long but giddy ride, we sauntered up to stage one (Kutsher's main ballroom) shortly before The Dirty Three played their lauded Oc...
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Friday night at 8:30, in the newly renovated, virtually unrecognizable, and more succinctly-named Crocodile, the balcony’s front line was already claimed in preparation for Dirty Three. The stage lights were being tested, individually and in combinations, which lent a multi-hued strobe effect to the showroom. Though the impact of the renovation is truly revelatory, there is not a chair or stool.
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