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.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Titus Andronicus :: The Monitor
I wrote this album off initially because it was advertised heavily and I didn't know what to make of the band based on the cover. But damn, was I wrong. A civil war concept album from a New Jersey punk rock band whose name comes from a random Shakespeare play and that has influences from Neutral Milk Hotel = mindsplosion. There's so much put into this album. Startlingly personal lyrics, sound collage, long meandering songs for a punk rock format, and mucho more.
The Monitor ::
Released 09.03.2010
1. A More Perfect Union
2. Titus Andronicus Forever
3. No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future
4. Richard II or Extraordinary Popular Dimensions and the Madness of Crowds (Responsible Hate Anthem)
5. A Pot In Which To Piss
6. Four Score and Seven
7. Theme From “Cheers”
8. To Old Friends and New
9. …And Ever
10. The Battle of Hampton Roads
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Gonjasufi :: A Sufi and a Killer
I'm not going to try and pretend that I don't have a biased music taste. Usually if it hips or hops I'm not interested. But A Sufi and a Killer is lo-fi, acoustic/accordion/bizarro samples, spiritual, psychedelic. "She Gone" is ridiculous and I can't get it out of my head.
Tracks ::
01. (bharatanatym)
02. Kobwebz
03. Ancestors - download
04. Sheep
05. She Gone.
06. SuzieQ
07. Stardustin'
08. Kowboyz&Indians
09. Change
10. Duet
11. Candylane
12. Holidays
13. Love Of Reign
14. Advice
15. Klowds
16. Ageing
17. DedNd
18. I've Given
19. Made
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
New Of Montreal :: Hydra Fancies
Of Montreal :: Hydra Fancies
One word: GAFAR! Courtesy of some kind of awesome.
False Priest ::
08.28.10
01 I Feel Ya' Strutter
02 Our Riotous Defects
03 Coquet Coquette
04 Godly Intersex
05 Enemy Gene
06 Hydra Fancies
07 Like a Tourist
08 Sex Karma
09 Girl Named Hello
10 Famine Affair
11 Casualty of You
12 Around the Way
13 You Do Mutilate?
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
Album Review :: 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.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
The Tree Where Dead People Grow :: Film and Music Extravaganza 07.09
I wanted to make this mix and hand it out at the show as the "soundtrack to the film," but alas it was one of those good ideas that I never had time to transmute into a good thing to do. So, here's a playlist. Some of the songs are in the film, some of them I listened to while I was writing it, some of them are just thematically good matches. 'Melatonin' is me (as woolgathering) and its a pretty crappily recorded demo...for now. Suzanna Kopec is the actress in the film and is also an extremely talented musician. Her's is 'Bodies' and its awesome. Everyone else is a local Japlainanite or Bostartian.
I first got into local music with a group of literature merrymakers called "Operation Hemingway." That's how we started going to acoustic night at T.T. The Bear's Place every Monday for "A Softer Side of T.T.'s" or some nonsense like that. And it's how I first saw Spitzer Space Telescope, many moons ago, which made me think that Boston might just have something going on.
That and the first time I saw MANNERS opening for Mount Eerie. Greg was peddling those little cardboard CDs and something called a 'Preyer Book,' which contained illustrations of nightmarish transformations (which is still hanging on my wall). Phil had mentioned that he needed a place to crash, so I offered my couch and he said that he'd be staying at a magical place I had never heard of, called: the Whitehaus.
So, I'm honored to play alongside both of these folks.
This is also a big night, because it signals the long awaited death of my short film. I spent a year writing it, a year failing to make it a first time, and then another to actually finish it. It feels like forever and I don't think I would've made it without a stress absorbing racket ball and hugs from my cuddly PA's, producer, actress and, yeah, cinematographer. But, lo! It's finally dead. I want to send it out into the ocean on a barge and shoot a flaming arrow into it.
Come out tomorrow and help me.
07.09 :: the Whitehaus
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.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Preview :: Concord Ballet Orchestra Players - Palindromes
I first saw these guys at Blastfest 3 this year. Crazy psychedelic instrumental experimentations and they use a theremin. Check out their new release Palindromes for free at their bandcamp!
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
This Week :: The Tree Where Dead People Grow Screening and Show!
This is the week! Come by the Whitehaus on Friday for some film and music:
M A N N E R S
http://www.myspace.com/mnnrs
Spitzer Space Telescope
http://www.myspace.com/spitzerspacetelescope
woolgathering
http://www.myspace.com/turpentinehangover
THE TREE WHERE DEAD PEOPLE GROW (info and trailer here:)
thetreewheredeadpeoplegrow.tumblr.com
http://www.myspace.com/mnnrs
Spitzer Space Telescope
http://www.myspace.com/spitzerspacetelescope
woolgathering
http://www.myspace.com/turpentinehangover
THE TREE WHERE DEAD PEOPLE GROW (info and trailer here:)
thetreewheredeadpeoplegrow.tumblr.com
and maybe a special guest appearance by atomfoam!!! who knows!?
This event is free for everyone, but we are trying to raise some funds to enter it into festivals. So donate if you like it and help us go to the moon. Please and thank yous!
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Album Review :: 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.
Listening to Quilt can be like being swept off into a daydreaming adventure, and they’ve honed the art quite well with their latest four track 7” EP Agents of Play. Guitars wail back at one another, communicating in some language that you don’t know, but understand completely. All three members’ voices arise in unison, channeling monks that chant in monasteries far off in the mountains somewhere. The first track starts with someone counting off and it’s a nice reminder that recording was done completely by the band and label buddies, in the basement of the Butcher Shoppe house in Allston.
The Jamaica Plainers are from a few other well known acts in the area. Shane Butler is from The Good Party, Anna Rochinski’s self titled music is released through the Whitehaus Family Record, and Taylor McVay is also of The Good Party and has played with other locals like MANNERS. The record comes with a zine-style photocopy collage of lyrics and other interesting streams of consciousness, such as the clever secret acronyms, “Qdoba Understands, I Love Tacos” and “Quietly Unappreciating Inappropriate Lover’s Touch.”
Quilt’s first vinyl release is a nice little journey through the ether.
Listening to Quilt can be like being swept off into a daydreaming adventure, and they’ve honed the art quite well with their latest four track 7” EP Agents of Play. Guitars wail back at one another, communicating in some language that you don’t know, but understand completely. All three members’ voices arise in unison, channeling monks that chant in monasteries far off in the mountains somewhere. The first track starts with someone counting off and it’s a nice reminder that recording was done completely by the band and label buddies, in the basement of the Butcher Shoppe house in Allston.
The Jamaica Plainers are from a few other well known acts in the area. Shane Butler is from The Good Party, Anna Rochinski’s self titled music is released through the Whitehaus Family Record, and Taylor McVay is also of The Good Party and has played with other locals like MANNERS. The record comes with a zine-style photocopy collage of lyrics and other interesting streams of consciousness, such as the clever secret acronyms, “Qdoba Understands, I Love Tacos” and “Quietly Unappreciating Inappropriate Lover’s Touch.”
Quilt’s first vinyl release is a nice little journey through the ether.
//Breakfast of Champs//
//Jamaica Plain, MA//
//May, 2010//
//Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jimmy Hughes, Caleb Johannes, and Jake Yuhas @ the Butcher Shoppe, Allston, MA//
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Preview :: Of Montreal : False Priest
Of Montreal will release some more mind bending silly pop music in the form of False Preist on September 14th from Polyvinyl Records. Looks like they've got something to say with this one too. Really like this line: "All the shit that I don't have a language to say." Just check out that crazy cover, worth clicking and enlarging.
Saturday, July 03, 2010
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