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Got there very early when they were soundchecking, met Alan and Mimi and then got to walk around the streets of downtown Tijuana with them, just sightseeing and doing a little shopping.

Some bad hombres get all the luck. ;):D

LOW will be answering fans' questions on Reddit in a few hours:
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/...ly_16th_10_am/

New remixed tune from Double Negative on Bandcamp: "Fly [King Britt's Fhloston Paradigm Remix]".

https://lowtheband.bandcamp.com/trac...paradigm-remix

The Current Rewind: 25 Years of Low. An awesome feature by The Current:
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2...parhawk-parker

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The Current Rewind: 25 Years of Low. An awesome feature by The Current:
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2...parhawk-parker

Neat-o, many thanks.

I like this video of a LOW concert from the "Trust" era (recorded by a member of the audience):
https://opuszine.us/posts/low-2272003-sokol-underground

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New interview with Alan Sparhawk:
https://www.columbusalive.com/entert...nks-everything

Thanks!

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New interview with Alan Sparhawk:
https://www.columbusalive.com/entert...nks-everything

hmmm, that site is blocking me :(. Is anyone else (non-American continent probably) not able to access that site or is it just me? I reinstalled my firewall (comodo free version) yesterday, I'm wondering if I did something wrong there, since I'm also no longer receiving any mails from the Dime's bot-list. which shouldn't make any sense because it's webmail, but you never know

This is the message I'm getting from this site

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Error code 16

This request was blocked by the security rules

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Is anyone else (non-American continent probably) not able to access that site or is it just me?

When you say "non-American continent", do you mean North America or Pole-to-Pole? Because I'm a bad hombre from a shithole and I can access the site just fine thank you very MUCH. :D

Low covered Wilco's "War On War" for Uncut magazine's Wilcovered special CD, included with the next issue (#270). In stores September 19.

Full tracklist:

01 - Cate Le Bon – "Company In My Back" ( <- click to listen)
02 - Parquet Courts – "I Got Drugs (At The End Of The Century)"
03 - Courtney Barnett – "Dawned On Me"
04 - Whitney – "Far Far Away"
05 - Kurt Vile – "Passenger Side"
06 - Low – "War On War"
07 - Ohmme – "Kicking Television"
08 - Mountain Man – "You And I"
09 - Ryley Walker – "Love Is Everywhere (Beware)"
10 - Jen Cloher – "Impossible Germany"
11 - James Elkington – "Black Moon"
12 - Sharon Van Etten – "Radio Cure"
13 - Liam Kazar – "Sunloathe"
14 - Kacy & Clayton – "How To Fight Loneliness"
15 - Puss N Boots – "Jesus, Etc"
16 - Handsome Family – "Capitol City"
17 - Twin Peaks – "Spiders (Kidsmoke)"

From Uncut's site: "All except one of these Wilco covers were recorded specifically for Uncut's free CD and are currently unavailable anywhere else".

SVE doing "Radio Cure"... Man oh MAN!

[dies]

The new issue of Under The Radar (two covers: Sleater-Kinney and Angel Olsen) is a "my favorite album" special, in which a big amount of cats (64 in the print edition, 83 in total in the digital one) talk about their all-time favorite LP. Alan Sparhawk partook in these shenanigans, and while the magazine's website's announcement doesn't reveal the titles (fewer sales otherwise, you follow), he had this to say, in part:

"This whole record was this giant thing. It was the step further beyond Pink Floyd's The Wall, which had been the teen angst record that had been around a lot when I was the age when you start thinking, 'Oh, man. Life is heavy.'"

Alan plays on Gaelynn Lea's new song, "The Long Way Around":

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ABOUT THIS TRACK:

Luscious violin loops, sparse but sparkling guitars and heartwrenching lyrics make Gaelynn Lea's newest single "The Long Way Around" a melancholy delight. This song was inspired by the relationships that take work but are worth it in the end. Musical guests include the likes of Alan Sparhawk, Charlie Parr, and several other talented Minnesota artists. Mixed by Portland's much-loved producer and engineer Tucker Martine at Flora Recording & Playback. Mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Robert Hadley of Hadley Mastering in Los Angeles, CA.

https://gaelynnlea.bandcamp.com/trac...ong-way-around

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Alan interviews Mark Kozelek:
https://www.talkhouse.com/alan-sparh...h-petra-haden/

Alan answered the question I've been wondering for years (see signature :) )

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“music first, then words”

cool interview, thanks for sharing

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Greetings,

Drone Not Drones just announced DRONE NOT DRONES: the 6th annual 28-hour drone, Minneapolis 2019, check it out here.

Enjoy!

So far, just two tracks can be streamed: Laraaji and Gaelynn Lea
No idea who or what Laraaji is, but I'm liking it. Got a sudden urge to pee though ;)

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No idea who or what Laraaji is, but I'm liking it.

Goddammit, it's like you're asking to be bitch-slapped. Liking it redeems you, though. :D

haven't checked Low's twitter on a while, here's some fun links:

slowestcore ;)

Bad Moon Risong :eek:

oh yeah FRAGGLE ROCK !!! :D

this is a splendid heavy rocking live version of Clarence White

Someone posted a comment and then removed it again ...
I wanted to reply that I feel the same way which is partly the reason that I saw them 30 times since The Great Destroyer came out and didn't see their last tour.

The last album is so bass-heavy that it hurts my tinnitus plagued ears. But as a form of art I still find it masterful

Was it another spambotter that had copy/pasted a previous comment?

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Oi Nevermind. I've been talking to myself again. Spambotter had copied part of my first post in this thread

Wow, 30 times......lucky you!

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which is partly the reason that I saw them 30 times since The Great Destroyer came out and didn't see their last tour.

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this is a splendid heavy rocking live version of Clarence White

So is this :D:

White and McGuinn "Traneing In" through "Eigh Miles High". Delicious.

Video of Low's performance at Nox Orae Festival 2019:
https://youtu.be/w-QXr41WFgA

It's Christmas for Jews as well. <3
https://soundcloud.com/feverdreammar...r-jews-as-well

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Originally Posted by @chrisgclarke1

One of my great curiosities for 2020 is how @lowtheband will follow up their one-of-a-kind 2018 album "Double Negative."

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Originally Posted by @lowtheband

Collab with Bjork, first band to go to Mars (October), our mime EP, tour backing up Michael Buble, soundtrack for Sharknado 8, Steve’s solo bass record called “Back to Bass-ics”, Mimi running for president (official announcement in February) and Alan has started a cult.

Low will release a Mime EP, finally!! :D:p;)

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Under The Radar has disclosed this information online, so now it's A-OK to post it here :):

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My Favorite Album: Alan Sparhawk of Low on David Bowie's The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
"Bowie was always cool. He was cool in the '60s. He was cool in the '70s. He was cool in the '80s."

I here was this book [sic :confused:] that my father had called Making Music by George Martin, The Beatles' producer. My dad was a drummer in a country band and was also an aspiring singer and songwriter. I had heard Bowie casually on the radio, but I remember seeing this picture of them playing live in Japan [in the book], and it was the most gnarly rock and roll picture ever. It just left an impression on me. And I thought, "Well, I'm going to buy [The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars] if I can find it." Of course, there were a couple songs that I had heard casually over the radio, just being around as a kid. But this whole record was this giant thing. It was the step further beyond Pink Floyd's The Wall, which had been the teen angst record that had been around a lot when I was the age when you start thinking, "Oh, man. Life is heavy." But for some reason the Bowie stuff was grittier and nastier. There are so many facets about it, anything from Mick Ronson being a sort of mixed and controversial Mormon, not unlike myself. I keep running into things where I realize what I'm attracted to about music and what I think about on a social and artistic level was heavily influenced by that record.

I was 12 or 13 when I bought it. Later on, I remember getting the Bauhaus record when I went to college and connecting through their "Ziggy Stardust" cover. Bowie was always cool. He was cool in the '60s. He was cool in the '70s. He was cool in the '80s. He was cool in the indie scene in the late '80s. And then we had kids, and there was a while there where we had to play Ziggy Stardust four or five times a day in the car with our son when he was two and three. And Hollis, our daughter, even before our son, there was a good while where "Changes" was her favorite song. Bowie has always been there in many ways. I guess that record, just because it was the start and the strongest record, I still catch myself singing the songs, even just strumming through them. My daughter is in college now, and she probably knows half a dozen Bowie songs off the top of her head. I'd probably have to look at a chart.

There's something about his kind of whispery and mystical but also very deep singing style. There's a fantastical way in the things he sings about, and the way he delivers it sounds like a very wonderful storyteller. There's something childlike about the blurred gender that makes it easy to identify with maybe. Maybe as a kid there's something about his voice where, even though it's definitely an adult, it doesn't sound like an old person. It's something that even a child can trust about him. And if you trust someone as a child, you're going to trust them for life.

(Alan Sparhawk formed Low in 1993 with his wife Mimi Parker, whom he first met when he was just nine. The band's most recent album, Double Negative on Sub Pop, was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2018. Portions of Alan Sparhawk's conversation have been abridged and edited for structure and flow.)

[Note: This article originally appeared in Issue 66 of Under the Radar's print magazine, which is out now. This is its debut online. For the issue we interviewed musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album.]

www.chairkickers.com

www.davidbowie.com

This live session from 1996 is amazing
https://youtu.be/7088HRmhNaE

Wait - they covered Toto's "Africa" in 2011? That's nuts! And way ahead of them Weezers.

Robert Plant has covered another Low song with his new band: Everybody's Song

Friday, I'm in Low!
Low will be on Instagram Live every Friday at 3pm CST. :)
https://www.instagram.com/lowtheband

thanks for the note! I do hope you don't have to be a registered member in order to watch it, because I'm not, we'll see ...

I uploaded that Low set to Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/low2004-..._wm-f46.flac16
Brings back memories of how much I liked Poor Man's Daughter. Low rarely performed it, there's only one other set with that song on LMA

Here's a stunning version of it by RGC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDum2coNe1g

Coronavirus has claimed another legend today. Alan very recently had tweeted about LOW's song named after John Prine.

Fuck! AGAIN!
:(:mad:

Friday I'm In LOW session from yesterday is on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/kwqTpxt41UI

Thanks! Need to find a way to flip my TV to watch this properly

A fraction of this week's Friday I'm in LOW is on Youboob:
https://youtu.be/ma44bYY1oM0

:)

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A fraction of this week's Friday I'm in LOW is on Youboob:
https://youtu.be/ma44bYY1oM0

:)

Appreciate the YouTube link as I don’t IG

I’m watching in my living room, thankful for the opportunity, but this narrow camera view isn’t idea, but it’s better than nothing!

They slayed that last song!!!

I’m guessing that’s Mim’s sister reading comments from behind the camera?

I wish Alan would gather with his Neil Young cover bandmates in a empty school parking lot and crank out an hours worth of NY.

It's actually Hollis Mae Sparhawk (one of Alan and Mimi's kids) with the commentary and all the awesome filming skills behind the Friday I'm in LOW videos.

I agree the format isn't ideal, but these sessions so far have been really cool offering excellent versions of many beloved songs, cool vibes from the band and crew, and the opportunity to listen to a few new songs in development stages. :)

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I wish Alan would gather with his Neil Young cover bandmates in a empty school parking lot and crank out an hours worth of NY.

He didn't do that (yet?). He did do an acoustic stream session with Actual Wolf (aka Eric Pollard drummer of Retribution Gospel Choir) and two guys last month. His songs are mostly RGC.

Gaelynn Lea also did a session together with the other Al, Church. But the audio quality is lacking a bit

This is older, but here's an interview with Al's guitar

I thought there was a separate thread for this but can't find it so I'll just place this here

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DRONE NOT DRONES: the 7th annual live 28-hour drone –
a benefit for Doctors Without Borders

Held every winter in Minneapolis, DRONE NOT DRONES is a protest that is part benefit concert, part art project, and part community event. More than sixty acts rotated on and off the stage to create a single uninterrupted seamless drone to protest the extrajudicial and immoral drone program and raise money for the victims of the United States military-industrial complex.

January 31st to February 1st at The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, MN
credits
releases May 1, 2020

Recorded live at The Cedar Cultural Center and mastered by Tom Herbers and Mike Whitney at Third Ear, Minneapolis.

Artwork by Kendraplex

65 tracks with a few already streaming, but most are not yet. Haven't listened to them all yet, but I really like that last one by Saariselka (but only 5 minutes into it)

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I thought there was a separate thread for this but can't find it so I'll just place this here

This is the perfect place for it!

Possibly you were thinking of the Drone Music thread?

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Thanks for the links!