tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89329492008-11-17T15:01:09.746-08:00advance copyit's like learning a new languagekenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.comBlogger732125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-4237268585536356112008-11-14T16:21:00.000-08:002008-11-14T16:27:29.015-08:002008-11-14T16:27:29.015-08:00classic vintage video.
Curve - "Coast is Clear" (1992)
kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-76329723541103465252008-11-14T15:53:00.000-08:002008-11-17T15:01:09.761-08:002008-11-17T15:01:09.761-08:00into>>the>>future
2009 artist to watch
.....or...something
Plushgun [Brooklyn]
My first thoughts were dang, Tommy Boy...this is hip-hop. Plushgun? Probably a boring generic rock band. Boy was i incorrect and will burn in hell. Plushgun's next album, Pins and Panzers is out from Tommy Boy in February 2009. Ravishing Postal Service/Joy Electric sputtery bounce led by Daniel Ingala. Listen to the kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-47997509978257627192008-11-11T08:01:00.000-08:002008-11-12T08:04:42.526-08:002008-11-12T08:04:42.526-08:00The Smiths
The Sound of the Smiths
(Rhino Reissue Repackage)
Release: November 11, 2008
If you've had any inkling at all to the post-proper studio album releases from the Smiths, you'd be aware of their now infamous best-of and singles comps, whether approved by Morrissey and Marr or not. Today Rhino releases this latest collection (in one-disc and two-disc form), which does get a helping hand kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-68585835730024095692008-11-06T18:10:00.000-08:002008-11-06T18:15:23.723-08:002008-11-06T18:15:23.723-08:00Mt. Sims
Happily Ever After (Hungry Eye)
release: October 21, 2008
style: gothy electronic plop
similar: Cruxshadows, She Wants Revenge, dark Bloc Party
[rating: **1/2] Back in 2002 (wow, life was sure different then huh), Mt Sims aka Mount Sims aka Matt Sims, revealed himself and his stage dancers as an absurd, sexually-charged electro act. Like the second album in 2005, Happily Ever After is a kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-18811523199932673332008-11-06T17:16:00.000-08:002008-11-06T18:18:35.609-08:002008-11-06T18:18:35.609-08:00These Arms are Snakes: Tail Swallower & Dove (Suicide Squeeze)
release: October 7, 2008
style: post hardcore
similar: Uncut, Blood Brothers, Russian Circles
[rating: ***] You seriously don't mess with a band named These Arms are Snakes. The band has been hot for a few albums via Jade Tree and now Tail Swallower is here to attack, sting and burn. The band continues to break down the walls of rock kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-34127803138734004802008-11-06T16:18:00.000-08:002008-11-06T18:21:22.616-08:002008-11-06T18:21:22.616-08:00Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre)
release: October 14, 2008
style: disasterous
[rating: *] Johnny Cash has got to be rolling in his grave right about now. Not exactly "remixes," these are more like "songs" that sampled Cash. The worst offender is first: Snoop Dogg of all people ruins "I Walk the Line" for one of the most pointless reworkings ever. A couple of efforts are effective, namely the kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-28860363324872769242008-11-05T13:42:00.000-08:002008-11-05T13:43:23.399-08:002008-11-05T13:43:23.399-08:00kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-53358921050579550232008-11-04T04:53:00.000-08:002008-11-04T04:57:20.139-08:002008-11-04T04:57:20.139-08:00Cineplexx: Picnic (Portia)
style: exotic singer-songwriter lounge pop
similar: Air, Serge Gainsbourg, European dudes named Sebastian
[rating: **1/2]
Picnic is sung in Spanish and acts like French pop for the hipstees. Sebastian Litmanovich's easy-going vocals are replaced only once in English by veteran Euro indie pop guy Duglas Stewart, one of a few notable guests. "Belle & Sebastian" shows one kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-51999136305973825422008-11-02T07:21:00.000-08:002008-11-02T07:25:41.508-08:002008-11-02T07:25:41.508-08:00Pee-Pee
Castile Jackine is Vooded at Broonus: Volume 1
(Helmet Room)
release: November 11, 2008
style: indie folk freakout
similar: Moldy Peaches
[rating: **1/2] Despite this Denver band's name, Pee-Pee doesn't have its head completely in the toilet bowl. Lead by Doo Crowder, the ensemble's simple psychedelic folk grabs a load of instruments causing a Brian Jonestown Massacre filtered through kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-86233597138452940582008-10-29T07:54:00.000-07:002008-10-29T07:58:11.775-07:002008-10-29T07:58:11.775-07:00Northern Valentine
The Distance Brings Us Closer (Silber)
release: November 4, 2008
style: cold ambient
[rating: ****] Lead by a married couple from Philadelphia, Northern Valentine glides through definitive icy spells that are remarkably created by guitars and no post-production. Having already set a mood by placing a photo from Iceland on the album cover, Amy and Robert (along with two other kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-90142373480476228322008-10-24T10:59:00.000-07:002008-10-24T11:11:29.324-07:002008-10-24T11:11:29.324-07:00they're actual size and now we are even older
they might be giants
live at the crazy donkey. farmingdale long island NY. October 23, 2008
set included (not in order) : don't let's start, ana ang, the guitar, spider, they might be giants, birdhouse in your soul, new york city, polk, racist friend, dinner bell, fingertips, istanbul, the sun, the revised updated sun, particle man, doctor worm, kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-11104893091178827392008-10-20T19:31:00.000-07:002008-10-20T19:35:36.394-07:002008-10-20T19:35:36.394-07:00International Jetsetters [Oxford]
similar: Monster Movie, Snowpony, BRMC"Inside Yourself" - [mp3]
While Andy Bell is still getting his kicks as a member of Oasis, his bandmate from Ride, drummer Loz/Laurence Colbert, has a new band along with singer/guitarist Mark Crozer (who played in Jesus and Mary Chain), bassist Bert Audubert, guitarist Paul Crozer and vocalist Fi McFall. Their Heart Is kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-9511925956705721712008-10-19T08:27:00.000-07:002008-10-19T08:37:11.952-07:002008-10-19T08:37:11.952-07:00The Divys
[New York City/Philly]
Similar: Foxglove Hunt, Book of Love
Undeniably indebted to vintage new wave pop, the Divys (William Rule and Kliff Ritz at the core) play the kind of tunes that would have been in a low-budget 1980s romantic-comedy. The Divys' "Sloppy Kiss," "Damaged Goods" and "Freak Boy" have an 80s-cheese awareness. These are songs that seem impossible to have been written kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-4714259354184974832008-10-19T08:25:00.000-07:002008-10-19T08:32:11.500-07:002008-10-19T08:32:11.500-07:00The Bolts [California]
Similar: Weezer, Fountains of Wayne
If i was a high school kid in this band's town, there would be excitement in the air when they play small local shows. Three brothers and two friends get the party started (they say they are available for school dances, company parties, weddings, etc) with the funfilling, catchy harmony-driven pop rock of "Like a Fantasy", "Dead of the kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-25182482260417518222008-10-19T07:04:00.000-07:002008-10-19T09:05:17.295-07:002008-10-19T09:05:17.295-07:00Caw! Caw! : Wait Outside EP (Slant Shanty)
release: September 23, 2008
style: lo-fi indie rock
[rating: *1/2] Lo-fi recordings are great but this Chicago band needs the tunes to go with that. "Organisms" could have been an early practice session from No Doubt when they were 15, as there is a sax and a generic ska-like guitar chugging. The drums are higher in the mix than the nasally vocals, whichkenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-20207292063910598322008-10-17T16:34:00.000-07:002008-10-17T16:44:39.197-07:002008-10-17T16:44:39.197-07:00classic vintage video.
The Alarm- "68 Guns" (1984)
The still shot you see above and at 1:48 appears
to be Joe Elliott of Def Leppard.kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-14812119412979251762008-10-15T08:55:00.000-07:002008-10-15T08:57:41.049-07:002008-10-15T08:57:41.049-07:00Past Lives: Strange Symmetry EP
(Suicide Squeeze)
release: November 4, 2008
style: indie art rock
[rating: ***] For whatever reasons they had, the Blood Brothers broke up and most of them continued as Past Lives. Now, i can understand the transition of a band like Slowdive. They evolved from something that arguably peaked in the early 1990s to the simpler Mojave 3, which shed all the guitar kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-77283851726888484772008-10-15T08:54:00.000-07:002008-10-15T08:55:19.458-07:002008-10-15T08:55:19.458-07:00Other Lives: Other Lives (tbd)
release: October 21, 2008
style: lilting organic folk
[rating: ***] Until they are able to make a name for themselves, Oklahoma group Other Lives are going to be known as the band who had the second release from tbd records. The first of course being Radiohead's In Rainbows. Other Lives does resemble some Radiohead, specifically the quietness of, say, "The Tourist."kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-55024481367662934192008-10-08T02:22:00.000-07:002008-10-08T02:27:07.434-07:002008-10-08T02:27:07.434-07:00
More Amor - "Same Damn Song" [mp3] Doesn't start out too promising, but chill cause it improves. The melty "bah bah" harmonies wrap around the fluttering synth. This cancels out the detection of emo pop-rock type vocals.
dates with the nite
10/10 - The Electric Theater - St. George, UT
10/13 - Modified Arts - Phoenix, AZ
10/14 - Burt's Tiki Lounge - Albuquerque, NM
10/15 - The Black Sheep - kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-54186215826999369142008-10-06T21:26:00.000-07:002008-10-06T21:29:18.246-07:002008-10-06T21:29:18.246-07:00Antony and the Johnsons new audio + video. "Another World"
From EP out October 7 on Secretly Canadian. Full album in January. The song touches from a distance, the interpretive dance is a snoozefest.
Live Dates
10/14 Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA
10/16 Apollo Theatre New York, NY
10/30 The Barbican London, ENG
10/31 The Barbican London, ENGkenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-9223482030039225302008-10-05T11:17:00.000-07:002008-10-05T11:21:03.257-07:002008-10-05T11:21:03.257-07:00An Albatross
The An Albatross Family Album (Eyeball)
release: October 21, 2008
style: over the top post-hardcore prog noise
similar: Man Man, the Blood Brothers
[rating: ****] So named for including all band members of the past decade, the dizzying Albatross Family Album may be one of the most sprawlingly noisy concept records ever conceived. Saying Family Album is like carnvial music moving at kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-60852928407257334622008-10-04T09:40:00.000-07:002008-10-04T09:45:37.873-07:002008-10-04T09:45:37.873-07:00into>>the>>future. El Goodo
There's been many recent artists that use the blueprint of 1960s psychedelia. Welsh band El Goodo (not to be confused with El Guapo) is one of the most authentic-sounding of the bunch. It's a result of using the appropriate instruments (vintage Hofner bass, vintage Ludwig drums, Vox Continental, etc) and reverberated vocals. Super Furry Animals took them under their kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-63663152086856582582008-10-04T09:05:00.000-07:002008-10-04T09:06:16.073-07:002008-10-04T09:06:16.073-07:00TK Webb and The Visions get to play with Secret Machines.
October 16 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC *
October 17 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA *
October 18 - Webster Hall - New York, NY *
October 20 - Middle East - Cambridge, MA *
October 21 - Les Saints - Montreal, QUE *
October 22 - Lee's Palace - Toronto, ONT *
October 24 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY #
# Kemado CMJ Showcase kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-67514539993853419382008-10-01T08:05:00.000-07:002008-10-01T08:11:39.854-07:002008-10-01T08:11:39.854-07:00Ten Kens: Ten Kens (FatCat)
release: September 23, 2008
style: reverbed avante rock
similar: Elbow, TV on the Radio, Black Mountain
[rating: ***1/2] The previous Ten Kens record took a year to record. On this one they spent two weeks, albeit all day and night. Before burning out, the Toronto band was able to mount an album loaded with loneliness and sorrow. The band's earlier available track, "kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932949.post-29213384695597508142008-09-29T17:43:00.000-07:002008-09-29T17:48:23.299-07:002008-09-29T17:48:23.299-07:00Letters to Cleo to play first shows in eight years.
What an unbelievable year of re-united groups. the Verve- yes! mbv- yes! Swervedriver- yes! New Kids- ummm...yea sure! Letters to Cleo.... yea dude, Letters to f-cking Cleo! They had one hit song ("Here and Now") on the heels of the grunge era and the video was on Beavis and Butthead. And then they fizzled, later playing cover songs in the kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893708819189346422noreply@blogger.com1