Always good to see tris mccall jamming on the keys. Here are some more photos from the NY Popfest at the cake-shoppe. My Teenage Stride do this alla Jay Reatard a little bit. Total low-fi with the high fidelity quality of great 60’s singles and their Creep Academy single is great example of this psychedelic influence of the velvet underground mashing up with the pop aesthetic. Ok so the singer Jedediah Smith looks like he’s in his 40’s and that is ok. Pollard was in up there too when he broke to masses on college radio. So easy to say a creative peak indeed! Let your ears do the listening and your feet do the dancing as this music reminds me of what i got with wfmu Michael Shelly bonus pledge cd Cut that out! Sampled below for you to dig man.
John Reis and Rick Froberg still make music that sounds like Rocket from the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu and or the Hot Snakes. You can put them on different coasts but the proof is in the surf and genetic make-up of their output these San Diego punks. Even after Hot Snake’s demise they both somehow influence each other and carry on the flame with honor and make some dawg gone original music. To claim they are not influential to a whole generation of indie rockers and rabid alternative rock music fans would be as criminal as saying Van Halen was not influential to heavy hair metal or green day was to pop-punk bands(lame metaphors I know). What I dare (if you are a nerd you probably did this months ago) you to do is to put them all in a mix and hit shuffle. I haven’t tried to count them but easily there is a whole coffin of songs that all could be from the same box-set from their high-school band Pitchfork to their new projects. Obits and The Night Marchers respectfully all sound the same just a different era in their creativity. In this case splitsville. Like the inner fugazi argument, I couldn’t tell ya off the cuff what is a Ian Mccaye song and which is a Guy P song. Sure I can guess who is singing but its the sort of team make-up compliment each other for the sake of the music they make and players that jam with them. What’s cool to hear and understand in the research how influential SST was to these guys. Funny band rebuttal from Obits to a mp3 blogger here on 17dots.
Sample some San Diego bread rock: Rana by Pitchfork from Eucalyptus / Saturn Outhouse Chariots on Fine By Rocket From The Crypt from All Systems Go 3 Golden Brown by Drive like Jehu from Yank Crime Hi-Lites by Hot Snakes from Thunder Down Under Widow Of My Dreams by Obits(Rick Froberg) from I Blame You Bad Bloods by The Night Marchers (John Reis) from See you in Magic
Can you dig it man? I realize I’m leaving out some other side projects and crap so don’t get your panties in a bunch. If this is stuff is new to you and you dig the sounds of what a rock band is supposed to sounds like cool. Go buy some of their shit. Subscribe to the DJ Spork podcast where we bring stuff like this to your ear holes.
SHOW REVIEW: Thurs May 14th 2009. I know when I venture to a show like this I’ll see at least a few rock-n-roll addicts and sure enough Tom from the Stuntcocks was leading the pack, the guys from The Sex Zombies, Jeff Wood the record scavenger, a few other court tavern folks, and Jared from WRSU were all there to see Eddie Spaghetti and The Supersuckers do their thang. Opening the show were two loud local rock bands. First up was cutlass who sported three guitars which was cool and then followed by The Loose Roosters who were also good with a lemonheads/mudhoney/eddie vedder thing going on. Nothing compared to The Supersuckers who have survived some shit, paid their dues and will gladly take your money because they are a high-quality molten lava real rock-n-roll band. Last night’s performance at the only slightly cheesy Wonder Bar was no exception, sure it was a truck stop for them as they were heading over the pond to play with X and John Doe but who are we to complain. Well take a legendary band of this caliber anytime. I missed them last time and promised myself hell or high water I would go. The fuckers were loud, tight and brought everything you’d expect from living legends. You know you’re having a good time when during the country portion of the show the drunk girl who was with one the opening bands gets flagged literally twice in a row by two different bouncers who were watching her make a fool of herself all night long.
They have the merch thing down as I totally got sucked into the vortex of buying a beer koozi to go with my collection of summertime bar-b-q accoutrements. No medium long sleeve pirate skull T-though which was a bummer but I’ll survive. Maybe next time fellas or just send me one. The most recent release Get It Together! on Mid-Fi Records comes with a DVD of a 90 minute performance in Anaheim, California so pick it up. I prefer the early classics from La Mano Carnuda and in this show they mixed em’ all in there perfectly like the master drink masters of sin. They also cranked out a Ramones cover to boot so all was good ladies and germs. A few show pics and video. If you’re my facebook friend there are a ton more there. Adios.
Beer Koozi autographed by the man himself. Thanks Eddie.
Well ok, maybe not all of it. Musicians, artists and engineers have to eat. The things I think are working are film licensing, the retro vinyl market, merchandising, my emusic account, and live performances. iTunes raising the cost of single to $1.29 is totally absurd and fighting this thing called progress. Fingertips community’s music is not like water rant brought up a lot of these points in a rather long winded fashion around the idea of the Gorge Jetson’s flying machine throwing in a wrench of conventional wisdom but he brought up some pretty good points. Some of which i am paraphrasing here. Granted the music industry had its grips on the recording and radio payola for a very long time which is quickly changing and nobody is sure how. That is what worries the system. Paying per listen radio might work even though it is veiled like payola but you don’t actually “own it” even though it’s there all the time assuming you have a internet connection. I am sure it can’t all be free, some stuff should be free but not all; as other channels and models get developed in these tricky innovative financial times. Crap just take a look at how much money you spend on communication services. I wonder how else will music monetize itself and get a slice and maybe trickle it back down to the makers? ha! ha! We all can’t support all the artists we like by checking out a performance. The cheaper ticket is licensing the music or renting it but the price is too steep. there is also this thing called a glut in the supply and demand chain.
Sure I am ranting now. I for one like to own music I like outright and I know that is a antiquated idea. Believe me I’m totally happy with said right to download what I like and then become a fan on my own terms. Lets face it not all of it is good. Owning a la carte is much better way to go though. Most of it is crap but what is one persons golden era is another person’s nightmare. Let think and discuss the details to the obvious answer that is right in front of us and remove the ambiguity and amplify the detail.
Don’t try this at home. You will overwhelm your storage space. You will eventually collect unemployment and won’t want to part with your records. In case this does happen. Hang tight you can always hide in the basement with your records and talk about the good ole’days of making mix tapes for your friends singing at the top of your lungs while driving down the garden state parkway to the shore.
In no particular order of hipness or musical taste. Was just cruising for some new music up on elbo.ws and came across these folks plus a few of my normal mp3 haunts. hypem.com has been too elitists recently. So enjoy the rock as this fan of music fans is fickle.
Lets Sexy Fighting – always gotta love weird blog names that make no sense sober but have good taste. dig it.
TOP SINGLES IN THE GREAT ESCAPE POD: Learn to Surf – Superchunk – Mac has not lost his touch. Kids please take a rock guitar lesson from your lame gitter twanging. I want you to know – Dinosaur jr.- dude nobody makes rock like this anymore Let Love Rule 2009 (Justice Remix) Lenny Kravitz High Class Slim Came Floatin In – Tortoise – a little annoying bit the retro keyboards do the trick Straight To Hell (The Clash) By Bill Janovitz I’d pay 10 bux to see him perform and I hate singer songwriters except for Glen Hansard from the frames. Yours Truly, The Commuter s/t by Jason Lytle solo record(grandaddy) giving AIR a run for their frenchy money.
Andy Diamond presents a rockn’roll seminar at the Court Tavern this coming Saturday, April 25th, 2009 featuring sets by The Stuntcocks, Eastern Anchors, Harlot and from Baltimore LandSpeedRecord![ View FB Event invitation ] Now in order to take advantage of this special offer you don’t much preparation to do except get there early by 10PM EST to enjoy everything the bands and court have to offer. You don’t even have to bring your friends. You will make friends but it would be nice if you brought your chick and some money to drink with. Sample some mp3s by the bands: “Punk Rock Guy” by The Stuntcocks “Release the Dogs” by Eastern Anchors Listen to more on last.fm “Dead girlfriend” by LandSpeedRecord!
Way back in the mid-80’s there was a great local alternative band called Animation that borrowed from Echo and The Bunnymen, Lou reed and whatever was hip at the time. The town benefited from having a pretty decent local record shop called the Music Staff. Life was good. Animation’s release Loud Day had everything; a great intro song with a stomping bass part promised you that the rest would be great and it was with suburban themes and a cover of The Velvet Underground. It didn’t get any cooler. Ok maybe, I’m lying. Westfield High School in the 80’s was not a normal place when I think about it. One of the school clubs was called the Young Leftist and another one The Radical Rock Reactionaries (RRR) that was found by the Margulis Brother’s Oren (88) and Gil(86). They put on shows and is where I got my taste of original live music not just attendee but as a musician. i was part of the scene and where i got to know the Don, Jerry and Bob from the Whirling Dervishes (pictured) – i probably saw them play more times than I can count. The good thing it was great every time. One of the bands RRR got to play early on was Animation who originated black T-shirt as far as I was concerned. Other bands that made appearances for RRR were Hoboken’s Tiny Lights, Das Damen (SST), the Whirling Dervishes of course, Spiral Jetty, The Unemployed (haha a one off band of mine) and Psychic Fair (WHS 86-88). There were probably others and maybe I’ll remember them later but in the meantime here are some selects by said “local” bands that enriched my life and introduced me to whole other world of alternative music. Another band that was in a parallel music universe to Westfield was Skunk from Maplewood, NJ. Enjoy. More later.
MP3s: Animation – What goes on (Velvet Underground cover) Animation – Hide & Go Seek off of Loud Day(Vital Records) Das Damen – Gray Isn’t Black from Jupiter Eye(SST) Tiny Light – Sweet Solutions from LP Prayer for the halcyon fear Spiral Jetty – The Hour from Dogstar LP (Absolute a go go/Rough Trade) Skunk – (There’ll Be Other Girls) Hoss from Last American Virgin LP (Twin/Tone) Skunk – Chezone and Trevor Whirling Dervishes – Cop from the CD Strange & Wonderful Whirling Dervishes – Your Little Finger from the CD Strange & Wonderful
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