4,992Shows
249,891Spins
Tuesday, Jul 24 2018, 6AM
Brings back those Magnolia emotions, which is rather dangerous. Provided context when one considers that Aimee Mann's favorite song is Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)."
Elliott Smith cover from the saddest of songwriters, Ms. Julien Baker. From an Elliott Smith tribute comp titled Say Yes: soundcloud.com.
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, and now based in Louisville, Kentucky, Tomberlin, aka Sarah Beth Tomberlin wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music growing up. She was raised in a deeply religious Baptist family, and one of the first memories she has of hearing music that wasn’t related to church was watching American Idoland realizing that she didn’t know any of the songs the contestants were singing.
The first CDs she remembers buying were the Chicago movie-musical soundtrack, Dashboard Confessional’s The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most, and Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. She hid them from her parents, terrified that they would find them and trigger a dialogue she wasn’t ready to have just yet. “Everything we saw or heard would end with this critical and analytical discussion,” she explains. “So if we went to the movie theater, we would then talk about what the message of the movie was, even (expletive) Finding Nemo.”
This track from The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers was released in the fourth installation of Esopus Magazine: www.esopus.org.
Project organized by Nora Guthrie, the daughter of Woody Guthrie, and original director of the Woody Guthrie Foundation. The Mermaid Avenue collection paired previously unseen lyrics by Mr. Guthrie, with the music of Billy Bragg & Wilco.
Tractor Tavern on October 16. He will be joined by the ambiguous Guests. Ms. Nash's new record, Lifted, will be released on July 27. It is described as "a modern day hippie-spiritual."
Barr Brothers have done a number of in-studios, most recently a late 2017 session with the lovely DJ Morgan: www.youtube.com.
Neko Case made her live radio debut with an in-studio for Hell-On, featuring great local fixtures Rachel Flotard and John Sangster: www.youtube.com.
Named after a Bruce Cockburn song, and peaked at No. 1 on the Modern Rock Charts. From the debut Primitive Radio Gods LP, titled Rocket.
Moby collaborating with local favorite Damien Jurado on this track from Innocents. Stuffed animal video: www.youtube.com.
From a new album out in September titled Kingdoms in Colour. Painful, optical illusion music video: www.youtube.com.
Sink Ya Teeth come out of Norwich, UK. of Maria Uzor and Gemma Cullingford. Good bass sounds: www.sinkyateeth.com
Thesis: a song complete with its own dance move is a song that deserves canonization. See: www.youtube.com.
Mr. Byrne's American Utopia tour is an excellent example of an artist putting his money where his mouth is. Props to David Byrne: www.kexp.org.
Same as it ever was... 100 percent of rapes are caused by rapists. More intersectionality by David Byrne: www.youtube.com.
New Love Language sounds quite good, out on Merge. Video for this track is available: www.youtube.com.
Welsh band provides excellent band name, album name, song name. Also has: good tunes, good video: www.youtube.com
Playing The Crocodile on October 19. Doug Fir Lounge in PDX on October 17. New single is titled I/m Not Here [Missing Face], and is out via Mogwai's Rock Action Records.
Wonderful in-studio from Shearwater around the time of the Jet Plane and Oxbow release. Another example of a musician channeling alienation / crippling anxiety into beautiful creative expression: www.youtube.com.
Playing this year's Bumbershoot Music Festival. New record, Hope Downs, is out on the ubiquitous Sub Pop. Disco ball video: www.youtube.com.
Over 80 million Tom Petty records sold worldwide. From the debut "solo" LP from Petty, which featured collaborations from George Harrison & Roy Orbison, among many others. 5x Platinum in the US.
Playing October 30th at Showbox Sodo with FIDLAR. New album titled Heaven out in mid-September. Lead-off track is stellar. Wonderful vocal range: www.youtube.com.
Somewhat surreal TV performance from Ms. Amos, in which she is backed by Jay Leno's band? Her hair looks really good too: www.youtube.com.
New music from Shannon Shaw of Shannon & The Clams. The musician's self-titled debut is available now. As is a music video for this track: www.youtube.com.
Mike Scott had a beautiful head of hair: www.youtube.com.
Awfully pretty song for a band named after a torture device. Additional vocals courtesy of Ms. Tonya Donnelly: www.youtube.com.
Love a good extremist Vice headline- "Death Bell’s Brooding Pop Will Pierce Your Soul and Crack Your Skull."
New record from KEXP favorites The Jayhawks, titled Back Roads and Abandoned Motels. Several Jayhawks KEXP in-studios in the books, including one from mid 2016: www.youtube.com.
Yeah, so are we. The Fader offers, "This Blushh song is for anyone who is truly over it," which feels rather on the nose. We can't all be blessed with the gift of subtlety.
Playing August 13 at Barboza. The NYC band's Tumblr has some good content, providing a titular Endless Scroll: bodeganyc.tumblr.com.
Is it spoken word? Is it art rock? Not to be confused with the Shabazz Palaces song, which luckily distinguishes itself with a hashtag: www.youtube.com.
Moniker of L'Orange & Solemn Brigham. New self-titled record available on Bandcamp: lorange360.bandcamp.com
We can only hope The Roots have made much money off their Jimmy Fallon gig. This comes from the first solo Black Thought release, titled Streams of Thought, Vol. 1. He is 46 years old, and remains thoroughly talented.
When you think it's "Planet Telex" and then it keeps changing. Track from Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: www.youtube.com
AND release. Still sounds massive, "everything // everyone is broken." From The Bends record, released in 1995. Peaked at No. 4 on the UK Charts, since certified triple platinum.
Best miserablist child vocals. Dark, dark, glorious video: www.youtube.com.
A good troglodyte tune from Rollins & Co. Or is it anti-trog... www.youtube.com
One has to think that Mr. Wall of Voodoo had never heard a Mexican radio broadcast: www.youtube.com.
Iggy crooning about sartorial issues has its charm, even if the video has no Iggy participation: www.youtube.com.
Local fixture Black Belt Eagle Scout has signed to Saddle Creek Records for her latest LP, titled Mother of My Children. It will be out in mid-September, and will deservedly be the subject of much attention.
Emma Ruth Rundle will soon embark on a lengthy tour of the US and Europe. New record, On Dark Horses, is available on September 14: emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com.
Dear Tommy will likely be a loop of Johnny Jewel humming melodies from previous Chromatics releases. Excited for the rendition of "Running up That Hill."
Mitski is playing Showbox Sodo on October 31. Saddest Halloween Ever. www.youtube.com
DeVotchKa will be at Showbox on September 20, alongside Orkestra Mendoza. This is in support of a new record titled This Night Falls Forever.
This song is about the sexual assault committed by a biker gang against Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde. While hanging out with a friend, she was asked to go to a "party" with some guys from a local biker gang. Her friend declined, but Hynde went along with the bikers. While she was being attacked, one of the assailants said, "Shut up or you're going to make some plastic surgeon rich!" She paraphrases that threat in the lyrics:
You know what they say:
"Stop snivellin', you're gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man...."