Thursday, July 29, 2010
Living Things Video :: Quiet Hooves Show @ the Whitehaus
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Great Valley :: Holiday, Holiday EP
http://thegreatvalley.bandcamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/kennedysgreatvalley
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Laura Jorgensen :: Feathered Arms LP
This fine lady has a new full length out called Feathered Arms. She's got one of the most operatically powerful wind pipes I've ever heard, and she pairs it very nicely with accordion and dulcimer. It's one of the most bizarrely beautiful combinations you never would've suspected. On the album she's backed by upright bass, acoustic guitar, brushes on a drum kit, etc. There are also lovely sound collages between songs. At nineteen tracks its a stunning debut. You can hold it :: here.
Also, Some of the proceeds are going to a very worthy cause: aiding the little ones of Bulgarian orphanages. So, help this girl out!!! This is from her bandcamp:
"10% of the proceeds from this album go to supporting children in Bulgaria's horrifying warehouse orphanages. To find out more about this issue, please watch this BBC documentary."
Preview the whole thing here:
Monday, July 26, 2010
7/28 Showgazm :: Quiet Hooves, Living Things, Shira E., The Glow @ The Whitehaus
This is going to be an awesome show for a few reasons. I was introduced to Quiet Hooves by Atomfoam recently. They're crazy and catchy and it just sounds like their set is going to be very very fun.
When I think back to the craziest, most bizarre Whitehaus shows I've seen, I always think of Living Things. these guys went from playing in a standard band arrangement, to doing an all recorder solo, to a musical puppet performance, to wearing instruments like costumes and flailing about.
AAAND two Whitehaus classics that I've only heard on early hoot comps are "crawling out of the finests of woodworks."
SHIRA E.::
http://www.shiraerlichman.
LIVING THINGS::
http://www.youtube.com/wat
http://www.youtube.com/wat
QUIET HOOVES::
http://www.youtube.com/wat
http://www.partypartypartn
THE GLOW::
http://www.myspace.com/the
Friday, July 23, 2010
Prince Rama :: Om Mane Padme Hum from Shadow Temple
Another track to ease the anticipation of Shadow Temple out September 14th and a favorite from Threshold Dances.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Conor Oberst :: Playing Some Crazy Protest Shows
In response to Arizona's fun little new immigration game, Conor Oberst and a bunch of other folks have boycotted the state under the initiative called Sound Strike. In the name of protest Conor is reuniting Desaparecidos for one night only on July 31st in Omaha. Also, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band is playing in LA with Rage Against the Machine...which will be a bizarre and awesome combination.
Read Conor's open letter to Arizona:: here.
If you haven't heard Desaparecidos :: Read Music/Speak Spanish and you're interested, get a hold of it. It's one of my favorite records of all time. The tragedy of suburban America as only a sad folk singer pretending to be a punk rock star can tell it.
http://www.myspace.com/conoroberst
http://www.myspace.com/desaparecidos
http://www.thesoundstrike.net/
Monday, July 19, 2010
PREVIEW: Spitzer Space Telescope :: NEW EP
Spitzer has a new five track EP out and he's having his release show tonight (7/10) at Gallery 263 in Cambridge. The way its recorded is really interesting and sounds something like early Woodie Guthrie recordings. Also something new for Spitzer: there are two songs without instruments. Spitzer stomps, sings and hums his way through the tracks. And no, this isn't the actual cover for the EP. Even though its on CD, the band made 12", vinyl LP sized cases for them, complete with screen printed covers.
UPDATE: Below is the actual album cover for the EP ::
UPDATE: Below is the actual album cover for the EP ::
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Panda Bear :: Tomboy
Side A :: Tomboy.........Side B :: Slow Motion
Panda Bear :: Tomboy :: fall.
This is the first 7" single, the second will be 'You Can Count on Me' b/w 'Alasatian Darn.'
Two awesome carousel tracks for the manufacturing of z's. Although, I still miss when the animals played with instruments.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
The Music Tapes :: Lullabies at Bedsides
Julian Koster's Music Tapes will be traipsing through the night from house to house, not unlike Santa, visiting weary music lovers at their bedsides to sing them lullabies. They'll be playing is from For Clouds and Tornadoes and storytelling music from First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad. The group has played in private residences before, but this endeavor is a completely different and never before seen imagination cloud manufacturing event. It's not meant to be a "show" at all, but a precursor to dreams.
Write ups from the band include phrases like "how a lullaby makes its way through the night," "sleep over gatherings are acceptable and encouraged," and "Do not worry bedclothes and pajamas are perfectly acceptable as attire if it is your custom to wear them." They're also signed by the likes of "The Minister of Lullabies," "The Strangely Nonexistent Email Reading Polar Bear," and "the Official Lullaby Notifying Grey Whale."
The events are going to be intensely individual experiences, as the band says they'll even play to audiences of one. They also wrote "We are humbly asking an Internet Video blackout for these events, as we would like for these occasion to belong to each and every one of you as they occur."
There will also be a game played called "St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles" at secret locations. They say its "not unlike a form of freeze tag played with candles, which sometimes causes unexplainable things to happen." All you have to do is show up at the location with a candle thats 10-12 inches tall.
How they're planning the events are completely by invitation. It seems that Boston is all full, but if you're in New York or Philadelphia you may still have a chance to partake in the childlike euphoria. Send an e-mail to LullabyeDeliveries@gmail.com to invite them or find out about the games.
08-04 Boston and Cambridge, MA - Lullabies
08-05 Cambridge, MA - St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles
08-07 New York, NY - Lullabies
08-08 New York, NY - St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles
08-09 Philadelphia, PA - Lullabies
08-10 Philadelphia, PA - St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles
Write ups from the band include phrases like "how a lullaby makes its way through the night," "sleep over gatherings are acceptable and encouraged," and "Do not worry bedclothes and pajamas are perfectly acceptable as attire if it is your custom to wear them." They're also signed by the likes of "The Minister of Lullabies," "The Strangely Nonexistent Email Reading Polar Bear," and "the Official Lullaby Notifying Grey Whale."
The events are going to be intensely individual experiences, as the band says they'll even play to audiences of one. They also wrote "We are humbly asking an Internet Video blackout for these events, as we would like for these occasion to belong to each and every one of you as they occur."
There will also be a game played called "St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles" at secret locations. They say its "not unlike a form of freeze tag played with candles, which sometimes causes unexplainable things to happen." All you have to do is show up at the location with a candle thats 10-12 inches tall.
How they're planning the events are completely by invitation. It seems that Boston is all full, but if you're in New York or Philadelphia you may still have a chance to partake in the childlike euphoria. Send an e-mail to LullabyeDeliveries@gmail.com to invite them or find out about the games.
08-04 Boston and Cambridge, MA - Lullabies
08-05 Cambridge, MA - St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles
08-07 New York, NY - Lullabies
08-08 New York, NY - St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles
08-09 Philadelphia, PA - Lullabies
08-10 Philadelphia, PA - St. Nikolai the Wonder Worker's Wishing Game of Candles
Saturday, July 17, 2010
The Needy Visions
“Just down the street from here”
At the release show, Needy Visions singer Dan Shea was hanging with the crowd, sipping a 22oz. fin du monde, and wearing the same shirt he is in the photo on the back cover of their new vinyl LP. When he offered me a sip and asked where I was from I told him “just down the street from here.” Apparently he’d talked to a lot of “just down the street from here”s that night and told me that’s what it was all about. Everybody just needed a place to get together and hang out.
That’s really the essence of The Needy Visions. The first line of ‘Weymouth’ and also the opening to the record is “we are just a bunch of losers, hanging out in empty buildings. Jumping right into the ocean, full of shit, full of devotion, For our town and for our friends, at least the ones that keep on living. Getting drunk and getting stoned.” Locally, they’re everyone’s favorite band. The shows bring everybody out, because they are notoriously good times. These guys make a lot of noise with simple, fun lyrics that you can move to. Shea’s unexpected sometimes unbelievably high reaching vocals are infectiously catchy and have an inherent humor to them, such as the chorus of ‘Wey-ey-eh-ey-eheh-muuuuuth’ or ‘Endless Possibilities.’
In the past, the group has been a grooving acoustic four piece, tumbling along to a pounding djembe drum with beatkeeper Elliott Chaffe as a second guitarist. However, the new album sees the guys in the garage fuzz glory. The recording has a live sound, emulating their performances perfectly and sounding like it was done by a bunch of dudes hanging out in warehouse with recording equipment. The buzzfeast climaxes in the second to last track ‘Number of the Beast’ that dives right into you from the first shout and ends with a soloing rampage.
Besides just playing music as a means to gather the wayward, Both Shea and bassist Sam Potrykus are local music promoters. They book the new venue in Jamaica Plain called The Temple, work with local record label the Whitehaus Family Record, and help out with the Boston Counter Cultural Compass (look for these brightly colored fliers of local events stitched together by photocopy all around town).
The back cover features everyone involved in the recording process and all their families.
Pick up this 12” record and you can have everybody’s favorite local heroes in your very own living room. (Bodies of Water Arts and Crafts + Motorcycleface Records)
//Jamaica Plain, MA//
//May, 2010//
//Recorded at the Cottage in Dorchester, MA by Elliott Chaffee//
//Mastered by Jim Demain//
//Mixed by Elliott Chaffee//
Friday, July 16, 2010
Video :: New Belle and Sebastian Song
Belle & Sebastian :: I Didn't See it Coming
Live at Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland, 12.07.2010. These folks should have a new album coming out very very soon.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
NOW’S OURS :: ☮, ♥ Peace, Loving Radio Show ☮, ♥
Peace, Loving's Kate and Atomfoam have a radio show called NOW’S OURS: A YES-WAVE PROTOSPECTIVE every thursday from 3-5pm. They're spinning a lot of awesome local tracks and have playlists posted to whitehausfamilyrecord.com every week. If you don't have one of those outdated radio transmitters, you can listen online too at: www.wzbc.org.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Preview :: David Dondero : # Zero with a Bullet
David Dondero has got # Zero with a Bullet coming out on August 3rd from Team Love. His The Transient is one of my favorites. Classy existential self-deprecating blues folk. Worth a listen for fans of Bright Eyes or maybe Daniel Johnston or something like that.
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Quilt :: Agents of Play
"Questing underground into lulling trances"
You’re wandering deep into some catacombs, ossuaries lined with brightly painted skulls, following some faint noise. You don’t know how you got there, but you just have to know what those sounds are and what or who is making them. The deeper you go, the darker it gets, but the louder and more entrancing the chanting and noises become. Just when you think you’re hopelessly lost and the music is the only thing that could possibly be left in the universe and it’s all you will ever really need if you could just find it, a light cracks in from some corner revealing the source: tacos.
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