I’ve got to say I blame Thurston Moore and his Sonic Youth for making me think about instruments as a paint brush versus notes. Can’t say I ever dared to invent or play weird guitar tunings, except for the occasional drop “D” but I often enjoy working with a simple palette. Even a single not solo works for me. Anyway here’s a few tunes by the 99th best guitarists ever as noted by Rolling Stone and a zillion other guitar heads. I put him up and Lee Renaldo in the top 10 innovators of the instrument.
Circulation MP3 by Thurston Moore from Demolished Thoughts (Matador/2011) Pretty Bad MP3 by Thurston Moore from Psychic Heart (1995) Lonesome MP3 by Thurston More from Sensitive/ Lethal (2008) This one is really irritating noise so beware. Frozen Gtr MP3 from Trees Outside the Academy (2007) Shadow Of A Doubt MP3 by Sonic Youth from E.V.O.L. (1986) Madonna, Sean And Me MP3 from E.V.O.L. I Love Her All The Time MP3 by Sonic Youth from Bad Moon Rising (1985)
Dear 2012, can we put on our wish list that PULASKI the band of Baltimorians make some more music for us this year? Whiskey and beer can sometimes coax the muse out of the best of bands in Pulaski’s case it’s the simple motivation like these except for maybe breakfast food. Ok they’re prone to write the occasional break-up song like their classic “I want my records back” or the religious anthem the “Black Hand of g*d”? The inspiration is pleasantly misanthropic my friends so help reel in the vibe. They’ll brew a song about almost anything using any device that is of particular amusement at their disposal including toilet paper rolls and snoring. Beneath it all tho they have great handle on the song craft and really put the joy in music. They haven’t put out any new rock music in awhile except for the below version of “Frosty” but we can hope that the descendent’s of Sick and other Balmer bands can get a few hours away from their families and make some concerted noise together. I even hear there is a unapproved Documentary on the band that probably is not suitable for the general public on facebook but we’ll see about that.
If your a fan of these bands you’ll like Pulaski: Prom Night At Hater High MP3 by The Long Winters from When I Pretend to Fail Wasted MP3 by Camper Van Beethoven from Telephone Free Landslide Victory She Don’t Use Jelly MP3 by The Flaming Lips from Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (1993)
Now this is a protest song featuring all sorts of riot mayhem, police and anonymous action by the band Atari Teenage Riot. ATR wants you to lip sync to this tune and film yourself doing it with a black flag in the background. No not Rollin’s and Ginn’s Black Flag logo. A solid black one like the illustration above. A sure fire way of getting on a watch list so be sure to wear a mask with the mouth cut-out at least. Make sure to look angry and sinister! Atari Teenage Riot – Black Flags (feat. Boots Riley) by Alec Empire/ ATR
Songs about the color black: TV Party MP3 by Black Flag – Probably one of greatest songs about complacency my dear sheeple. Flat Black MP3 by True Widow. Make sure it’s not a glossy black but something rebellious and ominous looking. Thin Black Sail MP3 by British Sea Power from Valhalla Dancehall (2011) Black Window MP3 by The Nico Blues from their EP Color Me Black and White MP3 by Night Surgeon from Day For Night (2011) Black Diamond MP3 by The Replacements from Let it be (1984)- Probably the best kiss cover ever. Black Satin MP3 by The Raveonettes from Lust Lust Lust (2007) if your classy though and have black sexy sheets. Why not!?
VIDEO PREMIER: When ever there is a #2 in a song title I think of the melvins #2 Pencil track. Don’t ask me why it’s irrelevant here. This new The Nico Blues – “Folk Song Number Two” video is shot entirely on GoPro Cameras and is as folky sounding as kraftwork sounds like van halen. What? Yeah, seriously folks if Mitch Easter started producing the shins or superchunk he’d have them sounding like The Nicos Blues. Great band. Enjoy!
WHO: It’s not a huge trade secret or maybe it is that I work for a pretty big advertising company. You can follow my every madman move on the twitters if you want. WHERE: Over the past year I’ve been working on this original creative content series called Create or Else that lives on a youtube channel and focuses on artists, creators and people who basically do some interesting shit. WHEN: We revealed the channel last year in Cannes France and now we’re in the running to win a Webby People’s Choice Award. Total honor. The Voting ends April 28th. WHAT: I need you to help us win by going to this Webby Awards link in the Online Film & Video category for documentary series. Just register quickly and VOTE so we can win. That is of course after you watch the above trailer and concur that this series is a good thing for creative types.
Here’s one of the videos we’ve been able to produce that features my pal Jack Rabid who publishes the epic music magazine The Big Takeover talking about the current state of music and how get started doing what he does.
Anyway if you like this mini doc would be super awesome if you voted — Thank You!
Dear CMJ Friends, here’s the one guy who has had the honor of drinking with Joe Strummer, seeing the music industry implode and basically keeping one of the most in depth music magazines alive for the past 30 years – The Big Takeover. This humble guy is Jack Rabid. His army of devout writers and friends have helped carry the torch for music with heart and that matters in a time when we need it the most. If you love music and understand the creation of it as one of those things that makes life meaningful. Then this is the essence what Jack and co have captured in print for all these years. I always talk “oh-crap – how did I miss this band or that band”. Jack Rabid and company don’t miss a beat or least twice a year they feature many not so obvious bands. What is super unique and whole reason in of itself to back-issues is he’s never posted one word of the content featured in the pages of his magazine. So you’ll only what I am talking about if you read and subvert this whole social media thing.
Back story: As I embarked on working on this Artist series for Ogilvy; little did a I know that myself as a super fan of his magazine, and a random music post about his 30th anniversary show that it would lead to episode in this mini documentary series. The topic is so close to my heart as the blood is in my veins that having him end up being featured has seriously made my year. So I am happy to share this video and I hope you dig it. Plus some of the others artists and tremendous talent I have been privileged to have met so far. Who should I interview next?
(The Create or Else Team: L-R Nancy H, Myself, Jack and D.Zellerford)
A short playlist for friends: I Didn’t See It Coming by Belle and Sebastian from their new one Write About Love [BUY] Second Life Life by Gang of Four from the Second Life EP [BUY] Nothin’ ’bout Nothin’ by Joe Strummer. This track is music Joe Recorded after disbanding The Clash. I didn’t know it existed until i found this comp from Permanent Records. [BUY] Big Takeover b/w Attitude by Bad Brains self titled (1982) – [BUY] Aftertaste by For Against from Nebraska. Featured in the video above. [BUY]
Don’t have any new music to share today but this is pretty cool. Crank it up at work and annoy your neighbors. Tons of jump-cuts with The Jesus Lizard blaring and David Yow howling about drunken nothingness by Jacob Bricca with close attention to stuff blowing up. Nice.
I love vinyl records. In my basement that I just finished I made sure there was built in shelving to house my minuscule record collection which pales in comparison to the WFMU record library featured here in a video series by Michael Cumella for www.goldminemag.com.
The new video for Following the River was not on Taxile on Main Street bootleg listing but who knows this could have been recorded back then. Sure sounds nice and not the edgy bluesy stones present on Exile. The Stones typically recorded twice as many songs as they needed and then culled from there; over-dubbed and put an album together. For some Exile on Main Street is the best album The Rolling Stones ever released. I’m partial to Let It Bleed and my good friend Steve remembers buying this on 8track when he was 12. I can’t wait to hear the whole thing mastered end-to end which would make this not a double album but a double-double? Regardless looking forward to this release a lot.
Major leage props to pitchfork (yes I know who knew this day would come) for posting 7 songs from their festival on their TV channel of the hold steady playing live. Damn. These guys were nerds. Nobody was paying attention to them years ago in their earlier incarnation of Lifter Puller. I had their cd back in the zines daze and thought they were just another rocknroll band too. Now they are doing the same thing on south and main from Brooklyn usa and still killing it 4 albums in. Drinking budweisers and talking at you live before happy hour starts. Check them out when you get a chance. If you dig the replacements and ac/dc and kiss. Chances are they will be as drunk as you are but still be able to hold their tune drinks above the bar as they have learned from the mistakes of their former masters and on their own. To repeat this is a bar band so you’re going to need to know the words because there are a lot of them.
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