mp3: frank black – los angeles
i’ve been playing catch up recently on the ever-growing mounds of new content on beck’s website. the excerpt below is from the first part of a conversation beck had with tom waits a little while ago… and well, i beg to differ with mr. waits and mr. hansen.
TW: …Actually, Sinatra [...]
the soft bulletin was re-released on vinyl last week…. it’s a 2x 180-gram lp package with a bonus cd containing 3 non-album songs for $30. wait, only 3 non-album songs…. and $30?? i’m happy just to have the opportunity to pick up the album on vinyl, but that price seems a little steep to me. [...]
mp3: extraperlo – bañadores
this song is nominally about swimwear and i hear a mention or two of “la playa” in there (this is about as far as my spanish takes me), so my first impression of “bañadores” was of a carefree summer jam. watching the video now though, i wonder if there might be something [...]
mp3: the idles – heel to heel
new on acoustaclaw records this week we’ve got the idles’ ode to the red line, the red line ep.
when you go down the hole and then take a left
through the glass doors and down another hole again
watch for the blinking lights and then a take a step
on the red [...]
painting by aimee dingman
mp3: for the agenda – the year of aimee dingman
it’s two minutes in…. i think that this is the song the gods sing when pokemon evolve. and i, having listened to it countless times over the past few days, must be a legendary pokemon by now.
just one of the 19 awesome songs [...]
mp3: kurt vile & the violators – breathin’ out (live)
here’s “breathin’ out”, the closer to an awesome set kurt vile & the violators played on jersey’s wfmu last week. i’m still more a fan of the bedroom pop kurt vile — see solo wfmu set from last year — but the violators may be [...]
mp3: pree – in the parlor … [live video here]
i was fairly obsessed with pree’s debut, a chopping block, earlier this year… but i am consistently too lazy to make it out to their shows, no matter how much i want to see them. maybe tomorrow will be the night?
video: frau eva – morrissey smiling
i [...]
this is the 2nd or 3rd time i’ve seen annie do “actor out of work” acoustic and it has yet to do it for me. hearing the arrangements of “the strangers” played on guitar, on the other hand… that’s something i can get into. there’s a pretty good transcription of that acoustic arrangement on indie [...]
mp3: quidnunk – quiet water
new on acoustaclaw records this week… quidnunk’s dinner bell ep. free to download, as always, right here.
mp3: captain beefheart – blabber ‘n smoke
mp3: captain beefheart – call on me
this is why little king’s story is awesome…
