This last week we were privileged to be in attendance for a back-to-back southern Califronia Jay Reatard onslaught, kicking off at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, and then witnessing a kick-you-in-the-teeth-amazing performance at The Ken Club in San Diego. Free pool, cheap drinks, and a trails of tears-like winding bathroom line, the whole sh’bang. Started the night with a sneak-peek sound check and closed it out with Jay cannon-balling into the crowd. The band stampeded through a 16-song set with no filler, stopping only with Jay kicking an encroaching photographer off the stage. A definite highlight of the show was seeing Stephen(bass) booting a drunken stage-trespasser off the stage mid-song w/o missing a chord. The show was action-packed, I have the bruises to prove it. Read more of: Field Trip: Jay Reatard @ The Ken Club, San Diego CA. 1/24/09
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Looks like the recession just took its first major music festival victim. The 2009 Langerado Music Festival, which was to take place March 6-8 at Miami, Florida’s Bicentennial Park, has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. As previously reported, [...]
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Anna Ives is the very young, very adorable daughter of Zac and Amy Ives. Zac is co-owner of Goner Records, the singer for Final Solutions, and a flat-out great guy. The Goner Records BBS is currently holding an auction while Zac, [...]
Tuesday, Jan 27th, the fine folks at Merge will reissue two of the best and oft-overlooked albums to come out of the 80’s. No, I’m not talking about Standing in the Spotlight, I’m talking about the first two Volcano Suns records!
From the Merge website:
Volcano Suns were founded in Boston in 1983 by former Mission of Burma drummer Peter Prescott. In 1985, the band, with Jon Williams on guitar and Jeff Weigand on bass, released their debut album, The Bright Orange Years, and followed it up a year later with another classic, All Night Lotus Party. Both albums were originally released on Homestead Records but have never been available on CD.The Bright Orange Years is so chockful of catchy songs that it could be any other band’s greatest hits album. The opening track, “Jak”, is an addictive head-nodder from its opening bassline to its chiming chords and lyrics. By contrast, All Night Lotus Party is a heavier and darker record, with more distorted guitars and bass-heavy production.Merge will make both albums available on CD for the first time on January 27, 2009, with reissues remastered by Bob Weston featuring loads of bonus tracks including radio sessions and other rarities.
These will rock your face, do yourself a favor and pick these up right now. I’m still crossing my fingers for the re-release of the Suns’ ferocious Bumper Crop… hint hint, Merge. Oh, and while we’re dabbling in the wishing well, a Volcano Suns reunion would be pretty swell too.
It’s that time of year again… We get to take down the Christmas(or Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Jihad) lights, vow to drop some pounds, and look forward to the onslaught of music festivals for the upcoming year! South by Southwest gets a quick jump out of the gate, and has announced the first round of their 2009 lineup. Thus far, the lineup includes:
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Mission of Burma and longtime associates / Ace Of Hearts labelmates The Neighborhoods will be playing the Somerville Theatre on January 24, as a benefit for that fine town’s Center For Arts At The Armory. Tickets are available from [...]
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Because, after all, the number 2, followed by 11 zeroes, would make for a truly lousy album title, the rabblerousing Black Lips are calling their new record 200 Million Thousand. (That kind of reminds me of [...]
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This holiday season, why settle for the invariable onslaught of humdrum entertainment? Sure you can watch Ralphie shoot his eye out, or Cousin Eddie dump his shit in Clark’s storm drain yet again… but hows’ about a change of pace this year, ya’ sad sack? This Saturday, tune in to The Cherry Blossom Clinic with hostess Terre T on WFMU for a Fleshtones Christmas Party!
From WFMU: “The ultimate Super Rock party band holds it down for the ultimate holiday celebration. The Fleshtones have a brand new Xmas album on YepRoc called Stocking Stuffer, and it’s a festive blast of garage rock-n-roll even for people who hate Xmas music. The new album is so rockin’ you can listen to it all year round and it will debut on WFMU! Tune in this Saturday so you can still believe in Christmastime AND the Fleshtones after all these years!”
The superb Cherry Blossom Clinic can be heard every saturday from 3-6pm (EST) on WFMU, 91.1 fm (NYC/East Central NJ) and on WXHD, 90.1 fm (Hudson Valley,lower Catskills, Western NJ) and worldwide on the internet.
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The National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner curated this one, and its contributor list reads like the contents of your iPod, including Arcade Fire, Beirut, Beach House, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, Antony, MMJ, Feist, Ben Gibbard, Spoon, Sufjan, Yeasayer, [...]
Silly word pairing? Or super fun-time Kid’s Show/Los Angeles dance party with sludge-rock virtuosos? I think it might be a litte of both. If you’ve managed to kick the tryptophan withdrawal shakes… This Saturday, November 29, 2008 at The Troubadour in West Hollywood there will be a live taping of the stellar kid’s show Pancake Mountain featuring the Melvins. “What the F is Pancake Mountain?” you ask? Well here’s the scoop, or 411, or low-down, whatever the kids are saying these days at the soda shop. From the Melvin’s Myspace: “Pancake Mountain is a cool kids show out of Washington D.C.” If you’d like to attend, you must register here.
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Some ten years after they called it a day, the glorious noise rock clusterfuck they call the Jesus Lizard will reconvene for a series of shows next year. Yep, all of ‘em: the classic lineup [...]
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By: katie @ 8:00 pm on Jan 30, 2009
"I was at the Echoplex show and I'm jealous that you guys got to go to the SD show. It seems like Jay and company thrive at smaller venues. I've never witnessed such a debacle as the Doll Hut show in Anaheim. 3 songs in and the s went down. Awesome and disappointing at the same time. Hopefully they will keep touring before the next album comes out."