Aquarium Drunkard welcomes one of our all-time favorites, Silver Jews, to the Echoplex Friday September 26th. We have five pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Joos fan? Leave your name, email address and your favorite David Berman lyric(s) in the comments below. James Jackson Toth supports. Previously: Silver Jews, David [...]
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Silver Jews - "Strange Victory, Strange Defeat" . Saw the Silver Jews with Dan last night. What an amazing, beautiful show. David Berman up there like a kid and a teenager and a wise-man, all at once. He and Cassie having conversations with their eyes, there for us all to see. The band playing their instruments with a fierceness I'd not heard before; the Silver Jews' live sound is more fearsome...
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--- - |- MP3: Silver Jews - Aloyisius Bluegrass Drummer NOTE: Today's contribution comes from country bumpkin Matt Giordano, who I'd imagine from this post is enjoying some cool refreshments in the hard down south that is NYC. Yee haw (hick for Fuck yeah)!With a new album out filled with country-rock goodness, D.C. Berman's sixth record continues his fine tradition of get the bumpkins...
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WFMU presents Selected Sounds from the Free Music Archive Vol. 2 . Coated in a cool wintry blue, this second volume features an all-new set of sounds from Silver Jews, Vivian Girls, The Ex Getatchew Mekuria, Old Time Relijun, Indian Jewelry and more. The compilation includes tracks off some of our favorite commercial releases, as well as previously unreleased exclusives from the WFMU live ...
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--- - |- Silver Jews, Hallelujah The Hills, Who Shot Hollywood @ Middle East downstairs Stereophonics with People In Planes @ Paradise The House Jacks @ Club Passim FEAR NUTTIN' BAND, HELLO MAHALO, FORGETFUL JONES @ Harper's Ferry The Blue Wires, Fugitive Kind, The Lights Out, Sad Bastard Goes Pop @ Middle East upstairs The Pill: DJs Ken & [...] ~~- Silver Jews
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Photo by David GreenwaldMatthew Fluxblog and Amanda Perpetua touched upon an interesting topic in the final bit of their five-post (read: four more page views for Fluxy) conversation last Friday: The absence of larger-than-life figures in the endless flatlands of Internet-era musical discussion and fandom."Things have moved towards appreciating styles, and embracing things that conform to certa...
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Nashville, Tennessee based indie rock husband and wife duo Silver Jews will release their 6th full length album entitled ??Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea??(Drag City) in June, according to a spokesperson for the band.??David & Cassie Berman??The album will be the group's follow up to 2005's ??Tanglewood Numbers??, an album which broke the Silver Jews long-standing touring ban. David Berman had l...
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Silver Jews frontman David Berman is ditching music and becoming a screenwriter...or a muckracker. He's calling it quits with the band he shares with his wife Cassie and started 20 years ago. "I'm forty two and I know what to do," he told fans in the band's forum, Drag City "I'm a writer, see?"(Another sign of how bad the music industry is -- frontman gonna try and sling it in Hollywood.)"I alw...
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It looks like I'm interviewing David Berman of the Silver Jews next week and so I have been spending a good deal of time with his upcoming Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea. My favorite track, and this partly reflects what's been going on in my life the last couple of weeks, is "My Pillow is the Threshhold." It's about dreaming about people you've lost forever, and it's just kind of beautiful.
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It's a post about a band that I want to like. I am going through my list and Silver Jews is on it. So, I go to itunes and I see these songs:How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie DownSometimes a Pony Gets DepressedHonk if You're LonelyandI'm Going to Love the Hell Out of YouAnd I think to myself this looks very promising. But when I listened to the previews it sounded like somebody's drunk uncle s
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Tonight I told a girl, in a moment of drunken ignorance, that her eyes were the same color as my beer...I said this...out loud!!!
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I am loving the new, slightly more folk-tinged Silver Jews record, 'Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea'...David Berman's sligtly off vocals fit these slightly country lyrics oh so well.
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*rating* 8.0*summary* croaking, twangy Jews grow stronger without big-brother Pavement around to steal all the sad-sack rocker love.I once read a review of a Pavement album, I can't remember which one...doesn't matter...that described Steve Malkmus and co. as the "most atonal, non-musically inclined people making the best damn music i've ever heard". Though a little broad, that sentiment is th...
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First off, I call dibs on using "Punks in the Beerlight" as a band name 10 years from now.This record is really hard to describe. For one who listens casually, much may be lost on initial spins. It's a folk-punk-countrified mess of a record, and I don't mean that as a bad thing. What holds it all together is Dave Berman's oddly engaging lyrics and intruiging delivery. From the opening lines of ...
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