by admin | Feb 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
“There are just too many things to say about this video. I really think that this band will be the turn-key in some huge shift in popular music culture. Like what the bee gee’s or grunge did. Fantastic!” No Women, Children or Indians were harmed during the filming of this rock video.
In other rock news: The boognish is making it on the wagon asWeen announces some shows in the south east. DJ Spork presents: has just posted his longest podcast ever with the follow up of Jersey’s Best Dancers II. [ download it now ]
by admin | Feb 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
My brother and his wife had a Mariachi band perform at their wedding in Vermont in 2004, eventhough they were 3 hours late, and literally fell out of the van to perform, they were great. They knew all the clasic Mexican songs like Cucurukukoo Paloma and my dad asked them to play few others. This recent sploid post called Death of the Mariachi’s is pretty good and really shows how latino america or Americanos are becoming part of our society but certainly with out an ongoing culture clash. The tartget of course is a racist post on aol. Get a fuckin’life estupido minister of non-culture I am pretty insulted, this music is rich, and about revolutions, land, and love and if you fight that you have nothing.
by admin | Feb 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
There is some fairly dark and mysterious intrigue about Joy Division, and the mystique surrounding the band and the brilliant-but-doomed singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in 1980 on the eve of the bands first American tour that have influenced many a band, and to learn that a documentary film called Control is in the works is pretty cool and very long overdue. Like most docs though I hope it continues the mystery, as they sometimes are too revealing in some cases and ruin that “coax” (thing in Spanish), that I don’t know that makes the audio experience special. Sure the press helps perpetuate the myth as that is their job. In another morbid sense though it’s cool to see tribute records like To: Elliott, From: Portland released, with all your favorite drunken-dark-junkie hits, like needle in the hay by Eric Mathews, and The December do justice to “clement”, so it is a matter of time before somebody will do a doc on elites mysterious self-stabbing. So much tragedy in brilliant rock music for instance the mentally unstable, who live on the edge of sanity, like Anton Newcombe’s world known as the Brian Jonestown Massacre there is a documentary that will draw you into his post modern music, featuring the Dandy Warhols in a film called DIG!(fyi currently on demand, so you already paying for it). But since you’re all hip 60s revivalist you probably knew all this already but if not, be prepared this dude is manic. As per usual do yourself justice, drop a tab and sample some from emusic, I personally would start with tracks from Take it from the Man!, pluck a couple tunes pointed out by the AMG folks and you won’t be disappointed. If you’re not a emusic member click the logo to your right so i get some credit. Thanks.
by admin | Feb 4, 2006 | Uncategorized
Tris Mccall’s critics 2005 poll came in a week ago, nice to see that people agreed with some of my choices. For a couple giggles and barried present social comentaty his misc category is a nice slice of 2005. In celebration of Indie Jersey celebrating and voting for something somewhat meaningful, I squeezed out a music podcast dedicated to NJ in January, DJ Spork Presents: Show #5 Jersey’s Best Dancers. Download it or subscribe.
by admin | Jan 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
big bummer reported about the famous modesto band via cmj & NME known as grandaddy. Fans saw it in the lyrics, and i suppose they had to keep a front to secure funds from their label for awhile, shame they that don’t have the energy for the farewell tour. Grandaddy would have cleaned-up had they toured on the new record slated for release in May. I smell a solo career for jason Lyttle.
by admin | Jan 14, 2006 | Uncategorized
On a google search for the Archers Of Loaf and the realization that my copy of icky mettle(cassette review copy -eh-hem for jersey beat eons ago), has been long gone for quite some time, I landed on this Chicago hipsters mp3 blog called Shake your fist, his snap-shot of some tracks from a lounge ax benefit cd is a nice little find; including The Apples in Stereo, and a Helium track. His top 2005 list is here and of course some mp3s for evaluation. In general I found a lot bands who’s bloggin’ buzz peaked my interest, including some newish band called tapes n tapes, whose sound is reminiscent to early pixie meanderings, where there is some guy yapping behind the core of a simple song. One school of my demented pov are transitions: for the best songs should stand on their own via a guitar and melody first, expand with a jam, minor studio layers, and then there is the live execution. An example of this transition theory are in these live Archers of loaf tracks. Where they conciously took lots of risks from the first steps and kept to their guns. For some reason the progress of aol, SY and polvo are hard to find in all this retro lo-fi-rock. 3 steps forward and 2 steps back I suppose is in motion.
by admin | Jan 13, 2006 | Uncategorized
After 5 years of god know what happens in iowa, this spring comes a new record by built to spill called you in reverse. A single is posted on myspace, “going against your mind“, very jammy, very spacey, everthing you love about Martsch and co, undiscript yet collaborative sounding and distinct. Don’t forget to get your new dj spork on podcast free music download and RSS featuring: art brut, wesly willis, the hold steady and other indie rockers.
by admin | Jan 9, 2006 | Uncategorized
Self promotion is damn-easy. Please enjoy the latest and first DJ Spork presents podcast of 2006. [RSS] recorded in glorious analog and then digitized for your podlovin’ pleasure. The DJ spork persona digs around the archives and top 50 lists of 2005 and spins some rock music.
by admin | Jan 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
Now, sure I prod and poke the PFM dorks for having a mixed-inclusive 2005, as think top 10-100 list should be categorized appropriatly because, as emusic’s owner Michael Azerrad (MA) points out there is never bad in year music and some of good stuff never trickles up to main stream public. The number one album, as written by MA, is this Afrian release congotronics by Konono No.1 and you know what it’s pretty cool,o, It sound like it is made from the earth and run on car batteries which indeed when they need aplification it is. Although, it is clear that MA has an agenda to promote independent artist they sell, no problem with thatthankfully and you sure as hell ain’t gonna find any bad pop-music on their site, so that filter is gone, and their prices are more than reasonable, well enough said. I took the first congotronic track and then another and the stuff is mezmerising. I am probably have A-D-D but the navigation and writing on the site will satisfy any music addict. Their 2005 list will keep me busy for awhile. I am not one to download a whole record and blow my 40 track wad, i am impulsive and usually will have to remember to back-track to complete a collection of songs, for instance this congotronics record. Emusic, has also included their member poll (methodology, an album receiving a first place vote was given five points, a second place vote four points and so on), which hits some of the obvious choices and some interesting ones as well, I took a sampling and some risks on The National release Alligator @ #6, which has this baritoney alt-country thing but start with atrack called “all the wine” has the safe cool guitar hooks, next up at #7 is Josh Rousch, a singer-songwriter type that i think move to spain but not before leaving his 5th record Nashville, it decent alt-country slide guitar, sounds like P. Westerburg a little so if that hits your cool meter dig “It’s the Nightime. Another reach-back to sexpistol-sarcastic brit-punk is Art Brut’s debut Bang Bang Rock & Roll” @ #16, the lyrics are dumb and literal which at its core has the heart of discovery to quote “my little brother just discovered rock and roll”; Bloc Party is polished in comparison for you new rockers or old-guys who dug The Fall. Same shit different decade -amen.
by admin | Jan 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
I have a basement of poster art but no Derek Hess work to speak of. I did play in a band that he made a poster for, really the headliner was Don Caballero, and I wasn’t in the band Bubblegum Thunder yet, but I digress. Mr. Hess’s interview on the cmj site is pretty good. Hard to believe this chicken wing chopping poster art guy has something in the damn Louvre but it’s true, there is taste out there. Eventhough, it is in France. Today’s nitty gritty free mp3 single download recommendation can be had from Matador Records via the band Early Man with a track called “death is the answer” -has this black sabbath thing going on. Don’t forget to catch the djspork podcast wave. The RSS 2006 indie rock playlists is in the works. If you got new material you want reviewed or played contact me and send it my way.ok, thanks rockon.
“There are just too many things to say about this video. I really think that this band will be the turn-key in some huge shift in popular music culture. Like what the bee gee’s or grunge did. Fantastic!” No Women, Children or Indians were harmed during the filming of this rock video.
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