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The Soup Nazi 03.15.2019 11:09 PM
Out April 26: Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky, Droneflower. Dude, I really like Marissa Nadler but what the fuck is up with that Drunks n' Poseurs shit — I mean, NO!

 


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Droneflower is in bloom. The new collaboration between Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky (Cave In, Mutoid Man), is a sprawling and expansive exercise in contrasts. It is the sound of the war between the brutal and the ethereal, the dark and the light, the past and the present, and the real and imagined.

Brodsky met Nadler for the first time in 2014 at Brooklyn's Saint Vitus Bar when he came to see her play on her July tour, and they quickly became friends. Both of them had been wanting to explore songwriting that didn't fit into their existing projects, and they soon became energized by the prospect of working together. One of the first ideas they discussed was a horror movie soundtrack, and while Droneflower isn't that, it is a richly cinematic album. It's easy to imagine much of the record set to images, though it wasn't composed that way.

The first song that came together was "Dead West," based around a beautiful acoustic guitar piece Brodsky wrote while living on Spy Pond, just outside of Nadler's home base in Boston. By the time they started working on the song earnest, Brodsky had moved to Brooklyn. Nadler added lyrics and vocal melodies remotely, and even from a distance it was obvious there was real kismet in the collaboration.

All the songs on Droneflower were recorded in home studios, and they throb with the frisson of that intimate environment. For much of the recording process, Brodsky would stop by the ramshackle studio that Nadler set up in Boston whenever he was in town visiting family. Songs like "For the Sun" were written on the spot there, lyrics and all. The lush ambient pieces "Space Ghost I" and "Space Ghost II" began as Brodsky piano compositions and were later fleshed out by additional instrumentation and Nadler's inimitable vocals.

Nadler and Brodsky also recorded two cover songs for the album — the epic Guns n' Roses power ballad "Estranged" and Morphine's beguiling "In Spite of Me." Since childhood, Nadler had been transfixed by the "Estranged" video where Axl Rose swam with dolphins, and she and Brodsky breathe new life into the song here. Their take on "In Spite of Me" is invigorated by a guest appearance from Morphine saxophonist Dana Colley, who ironically didn't play on the original recording but is indispensable on Nadler and Brodsky's version.

https://marissanadler.bandcamp.com/album/droneflower

The Soup Nazi 03.15.2019 11:18 PM
Out... well, back in 2012, but apparently it's just been reissued: Elliott Smith, Alternate versions from Either/Or 7".

 


1. - Alameda (alternate version)
2. - Ballad of Big Nothing (alternate vocal)
3. - Angeles (alternate version)
4. - Punch and Judy (other version)

https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/al...from-either-or

_tunic_ 03.20.2019 12:27 PM
Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria announce new album are SING SINCK, SING



 





Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria

are SING SINCK, SING


CST144
180gLP / DL
Out 10 May 2019

TRACKLIST:
1. Do The Police Embrace?
2. Fight The Good Fight
3. A Humming Void An Emptied Place
4. Joy Is On Her Mount And Death Is At Her Side
5. We Will


PREORDER HERE



Stream the first advance track
“We Will” on your platform of choice

&lt;a href="http://singsincksing.bandcamp.com/album/are-sing-sinck-sing"&gt;are SING SINCK, SING by SING SINCK, SING&lt;/a&gt;


Efrim Manuel Menuck *– founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion – and Kevin Doria from Growing and Total Life are now officially a duo. Menuck recruited Doria to help him translate his acclaimed 2018 album Pissing Stars from the studio to the stage, and the pair have been touring under the Efrim Manuel Menuck moniker for the past year (often with Doria’s latest solo project KGD opening the proceedings). They’ve also been co-writing piles of new material, diving deeper into whirling maximalist electronics, still shot through with Menuck’s incantatory singing awash in plaintive distortion and hope.

Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria are SING SINCK, SING presents the first volume of songs forged from this febrile and fertile merger: an antifascist poetics of sound that unspools across five crushing, keening tracks driven by thick sweeping drones, battered by inscrutably searching, ricocheting vocals. Anguish, yearning, and desperate conviction combine in these saturated survivalist electro-hymns, for as long as the power stays on to overload the amplifiers.

WE STARTED PLAYING TOGETHER IN THE DARK WINTER OF 2017. 6 OSCILLATORS AND 3 LARGE AMPLIFIERS. DROVE THRU HELLA BLIZZARDS AND/OR HEATWAVES JUST TO LAND IN SMALL ROOMS, VIBRATING. A SERIES OF SHORT TOURS, A PROCESS OF FIGURING OUT WHILE EXHAUSTED WHILE HURTLING WHILE WORRIED. EVERYTHING ILLUMINATED EVERYTHING DESTROYED. WE LANDED IN MEXICO CITY LAST FALL, WROTE THIS RECORD QUICKLY WHILE THE POLICE DROVE ROUND AND ROUND. FIRST SONG IS SELF-EXPLANATORY. 2ND SONG A STATEMENT OF INTENT. THIRD SONG IS AN EMPTY SPACE BETWEEN TWO HIGHWAYS. FOURTH SONG IS ABOUT A MURDERED FOREST. FIFTH SONG INSISTS THAT WE WILL WIN. HOLD ON. THO THESE TIMES ARE DARK TIMES. HOLD ON. – E.M.M./K.G.D (SING SINCK, SING)

As the title suggests this is also an interstitial album of sorts, an identity-bridge that leads away from Menuck as ‘solo’ artist and towards SING SINCK, SING which will be the new band name for future work by the duo. Thanks for listening.



 



EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK & KEVIN DORIA SPRING/SUMMER TOUR DATES

DD/MM/YY PLACE VENUE

09.05.19 Montréal, QC Le Ritz PDB

10.05.19 Toronto, ON The Burdock

11.05.19 Hamilton, ON Christ Church Cathedral

16.05.19 Brooklyn, NY Murmrr

25.05.19 Biarritz, FR Festival Usopop

27.05.19 Limoges, FR Le Phare

31.05.19 Zottegem, BE Dunk Festival

01.06.19 Amsterdam, NL Best Kept Secret Festival

02.06.19 Barcelona, ES Primavera Festival

03.06.19 Poznan, PL LAS

04.06.19 Berlin, DE Arkaoda

06.06.19 Brussels, BE Botanique Rotonde

07.06.19 Diksmuiden, BE 4AD

09.06.19 Paris, FR Villette Sonique

The Soup Nazi 03.21.2019 08:28 PM
A dog person and a cat person making music together? Heresy!

The Soup Nazi 03.22.2019 12:08 AM
Another HOLY CRAP moment for me. Out May 24: Cate Le Bon, Reward.

 


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It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon's fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. "There's a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night," she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lake District which gave way to Reward. By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from scratch; by night she looked to a second-hand Meers — the first piano she had ever owned — for company, "windows closed to absolutely everyone", and accidentally poured her heart out. The result is an album every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically-inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider's back catalogue, but one that is also intensely introspective and profound; her most personal to date.

This sense of privacy maintained throughout is helped by the various landscapes within which Reward took shape: Stinson Beach, LA, and Brooklyn via Cardiff and The Lakes. Recording at Panoramic House [Stinson Beach, CA], a residential studio on a mountain overlooking the ocean, afforded Le Bon the ability to preserve the remoteness she had captured during the writing of Reward in Staveley, Lake District.

Over this extended period a cast of trusted and loved musicians joined Le Bon, Khouja and fellow co-producer Josiah Steinbrick —Stella Mozgawa (of Warpaint) on drums and percussion; Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) on bass and saxophone and longtime collaborators Huw Evans (aka H.Hawkline) and Josh Klinghoffer on guitars— and were added to the album, "one by one, one on one". The fact that these collaborators have appeared variously on Le Bon's previous outputs no doubt goes some way to aid the preservation of a signature sound despite a relatively drastic change in approach.

Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well as 2016's Crab Day, Cate Le Bon's solo work —and indeed also her production work, such as that carried out on recent Deerhunter album Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD, January 2019)— has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the eye, a flick of the fringe and a lick of the Telecaster.

The multifaceted nature of Le Bon's art —its ability to take on multiple meanings and hold motivations which are not immediately obvious— is evident right down to the album's very name. "People hear the word 'reward' and they think that it's a positive word" says Le Bon, "and to me it's quite a sinister word in that it depends on the relationship between the giver and the receiver. I feel like it's really indicative of the times we're living in where words are used as slogans, and everything is slowly losing its meaning." The record, then, signals a scrambling to hold onto meaning; it is a warning against lazy comparisons and face values. It is a sentiment nicely summed up by the furniture-making musician as she advises: "Always keep your hand behind the chisel."

https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/album/reward

http://www.catelebon.com/

The Soup Nazi 03.22.2019 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Out March 22: Ex Hex, It's Real.

 

From Bandcamp Daily:
Ex Hex's Mary Timony is Real

Very nice article/interview. And pics. :)

Kuhb 03.22.2019 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
From Bandcamp Daily:
Ex Hex's Mary Timony is Real

Very nice article/interview. And pics. :)

It's a really fun album. Mid-80s style songwriting with punk delivery, hooks galore and Mary's guitar playing. It's very clearly retro, but super enjoyable for anyone who's a Mary fan.

The Soup Nazi 03.26.2019 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Kuhb
It's a really fun album. Mid-80s style songwriting with punk delivery, hooks galore and Mary's guitar playing. It's very clearly retro, but super enjoyable for anyone who's a Mary fan.

The Wire called it the best album of Mary's career — Autoclave, Helium and solo work included (!).

The Soup Nazi 03.26.2019 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
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Originally Posted by Moshe
it is really good!

Today I was extracting the audio from my CD to FLAC and noticed that the CD-text data has The World Goes as the album's title. All other information (artist name, track titles) is correct, so I wonder whether that was the working title and Gunn decided to change it near the end, but nobody modified the metadata.

Kuhb 03.27.2019 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

The Wire called it the best album of Mary's career — Autoclave, Helium and solo work included (!).

Woah! I can't go with them there when we have The Dirt of Luck, The Shapes We Make and Wild Flag... but it is great for sure.

choc e-Claire 03.29.2019 02:55 PM
Sigur Rós Announce Massive Ágætis byrjun 20th Anniversary Box Set - Pitchfork

_tunic_ 04.04.2019 07:05 AM
SOME BECAME HOLLOW TUBES

​Keep it in the Ground



Some Became Hollow Tubes floating in the ocean.
6 self recorded improvised drone rock waves from Eric Quach (thisquietarmy - relentless DIY powerhouse) and Aidan Girt (Godspeed You! Black Emperor).
Chords loop, pedals get pushed, pounding drum parts get added and subtracted, it starts quiet and gets loud. Eric no longer needs to worry about the rhythm, Aidan no longer has to worry about the song structure. All four ears stay cocked and listening even if neither of them are very good at keeping eye contact.
One life to live, pound drone and loop this moment into the present, hahaha lets keep joking, it's ok.... the music has our sadness. This world is dying, the machines are getting better and better at eating material things to create nothing and all we can do is make wordless music in response.



PERSONNEL:
Aidan Girt - Drums
Eric Quach - Guitar, FX, Synths

Recorded behind the meat shop in an old sexy car wash.
Additional overdubs done at TQA HQ.
Mixed at The Pines
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market.

Photography by Meryem Yildiz
​Layout/Design by Eric Quach

​
​GZH90
June 21st 2019
LP / Digital

NOTES:
LP is a limited edition of 300 copies on Bone coloured vinyl. Housed in a heavyweight, 350gsm, matte-finished sleeve.

Initial pre-orders come with a limited edition postcard print. Hand-printed and numbered by SmilingPaperGhosts.

Kuhb 04.06.2019 05:24 AM
Pitchfork gave the reissue of Autoclave's self-titled a well deserved writeup. This album still blows me away https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums...ave-autoclave/

_tunic_ 04.06.2019 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Kuhb
Pitchfork gave the reissue of Autoclave's self-titled a well deserved writeup. This album still blows me away https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums...ave-autoclave/


I'm so bad at musical genres. I always thought that Helmet is math rock. This doesn't sound like Helmet at all. It's cool stuff, I never heard of them. It reminds me more of Sebadoh and Bettie Serveert with more math or whatever put into it.


Speaking of reissues, the Ideal Crash of dEUS will be rereleased later this month in a special 20th anniversary edition, remastered and an extra disc of demoes atc.

The Soup Nazi 04.13.2019 08:47 PM
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Speaking of reissues [...]

...Ut's Conviction has been remastered and reissued on CD and limited edish LP + 7":

 


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Conviction LP

Originally released in 1986
Recorded and Made Possible By Tim Hodgkinson at Cold Storage, with Bill Gilonis, Charles Bullen and Chris Gray, except "Sick" recorded at Berwick Street Studios. Remastered by Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios.

Produced by Ut

Ut 7" Single

Recorded at Sorcerer Sound, Mercer St NYC in 1980
Engineered by Al Fierstein
Produced by Charles Ball and Ut

https://utmusic.bandcamp.com/album/conviction

Read on Bandcamp Daily:
The Collective Discordance of the No Wave Group Ut

The Soup Nazi 04.13.2019 10:59 PM
J Mascis has released a cover of Tom Petty's "Don't Do Me Like That". And why not?

 


https://jmascis.bandcamp.com/album/dont-do-me-like-that

The Soup Nazi 04.14.2019 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
...Ut's Conviction has been remastered and reissued on CD and limited edish LP + 7"

I got it wrong: there's no physical release of this 7" ("Ampheta Speak"/"While I Wait", recorded in 1980 but never released), but both songs are included on the CD and in the fileset you receive with the LP (download code or immediately if you buy the vinyl via Bandcamp).

The Soup Nazi 04.21.2019 12:09 AM
Sometimes (most of the time) all news is shit, and sometimes it's something phenomenal that you've been waiting for twenty. fuckin'. YEARS. (Seriously, I have). From Smog Veil Records:

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HERE WE GO:

OK FRIENDS: as many of you have surmised and/or read, all of us at Smog Veil Records have been working for the last 10 years to create the definitive Peter Laughner retrospective. I am pleased to announce that the box set is now in production, and the wait is nearly over.

In cooperation with Peter's estate and his many collaborators, the box set will contain the definitive statement of Peter's musical talents and additionally showcase his writings and the many works he created with a variety of talented friends. Smog Veil's research team has looked in every basement, attic, and corner to uncover numerous gems and we are pleased to be able to place Peter's work on display.

Many of the 56 songs contained in the release are seeing the light of day for the very first time. All songs have been carefully mastered and sonically upgraded from the best possible sources by the Grammy-nominated team of Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering. The box set also contains a 100 page book of photos and writings. Two box set formats will be available: 5 LPs or 5 CDs, and both formats contain an identical box, book, and track listing.

Pre-sale for the box set will begin in May, and at that time, we'll reveal more details about the release. A special pre-order only bonus will be included and this bonus will not be sold separately or in stores.

I cannot thank enough the Smog Veil team and Peter's estate and collaborators for their diligence in creating this definitive work. The time and care they put into this release is without compare. Over the course of the last 10 years, the friendships we forged to make this release happen and the stories we collected reveal a history of Cleveland independent music that is the stuff of legends. I know our many fans will appreciate the release we are about to deliver and I thank each and every one of our fans for their patience.

As mentioned above, the box set is in production. Test pressings have been approved; all art and layouts have been completed by the team of Johnny Dromette and Ron Kretsch. We are awaiting the final book proofs and once those are approved, we'll be able to announce the release date.

We look forward to revealing more details, stay tuned here and at our Facebook and Twitter pages for more to come.

 


Come year's end, no need to vote for the best archival release of 2019, that's for shit fucking sure now... WOW.

The Soup Nazi 04.21.2019 12:20 AM
Out June 7: Peter Perrett, Humanworld.

 


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On his second album for Domino, Peter Perrett – former frontman of The Only Ones - continues to dissect romance and politics with his trademark sense of sardonic wit and wry humour, if not with even more vigour and a palpable sense of immediacy.

https://peterperrett.com/new-album-humanworld/

https://www.dominomusic.com/releases...mart-exclusive

https://peterperrett.bandcamp.com/

The Soup Nazi 04.21.2019 12:45 AM
Out now (why didn't anybody tell me about this one? You people are evil): Randy Randall, Sound Field Volume One.

 


https://arthurking.bandcamp.com/albu...eld-volume-one

https://dangerbirdrecords.merchnow.c...eld-number-one

From Under The Radar (too long to quote here; nice read - he mentions Sonic Youth at one point):
No Age's Randy Randall on His Debut Ambient Album "Sound Field Volume One"

The Soup Nazi 04.25.2019 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
From Bandcamp Daily:
Ex Hex's Mary Timony is Real

Very nice article/interview. And pics. :)


 


That little black box on top of the piano? Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies. I adore this woman.

The Soup Nazi 04.25.2019 11:49 PM
Out June 21: Prince, Originals.

 


From Under The Radar:

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A new posthumous Prince album has been announced, Originals, which collects his demos of songs he eventually gave to other artists. Almost all of the 15 tracks are previously unreleased and it includes Prince's original versions of such iconic songs as "The Glamorous Life" and "Nothing Compares 2 U." The album will at first be a TIDAL exclusive, starting on June 6. Then it will get a full digital release on all platforms on June 21, with a deluxe physical edition, on CD and 180-gram purple vinyl, on July 19 via Warner Bros. Check out the tracklist below. Above is the cover art.

When Prince passed away in 2016 he left behind a huge vault filled with unreleased material and so we can probably expect new albums from him for years to come. Last year saw the release of Piano & A Microphone 1983, which was culled from a previously unheard home studio cassette recorded in 1983 at Prince's Kiowa Trail home studio in Chanhassen, MN and just featured Prince singing and playing piano.

Troy Carter selected the tracks for Originals on behalf of the Prince Estate and Jay-Z.

Originals Tracklist:

01 "Sex Shooter" (Apollonia 6)
02 "Jungle Love" (The Time)
03 "Manic Monday" (The Bangles)
04 "Noon Rendezvous" (Sheila E.)
05 "Make-Up" (Vanity 6)
06 "100 MPH" (Mazarati)
07 "You're My Love" (Kenny Rogers)
08 "Holly Rock" (Sheila E.)
09 "Baby, You're A Trip" (Jill Jones)
10 "The Glamorous Life" (Sheila E.)
11 "Gigolos Get Lonely Too" (The Time)
12 "Love... Thy Will Be Done" (Martika)
13 "Dear Michaelangelo" (Sheila E.)
14 "Wouldn't You Love To Love Me?" (Taja Sevelle)
15 "Nothing Compares 2 U" (The Family/Sinéad O'Connor)

The Soup Nazi 04.26.2019 12:09 AM
Out June 28: David Bowie, The 'Mercury' Demos.

 


Official press release:

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"I recall how we lived on the corner of a bed"

DAVID BOWIE (WITH JOHN 'HUTCH' HUTCHINSON)
THE 'MERCURY' DEMOS 1 LP BOX SET FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DAVID BOWIE RECORDINGS

As part of the ongoing celebrations marking 50 years since David Bowie's first hit, "Space Oddity", and following the recent Spying Through A Keyhole and Clareville Grove Demos collections, Parlophone is releasing a further set of recordings known as The 'Mercury' Demos.

The 'Mercury' Demos are 10 early Bowie recordings captured live in one take to a Revox reel to reel tape machine in David's flat in spring 1969, with accompaniment from John 'Hutch' Hutchinson on guitar and vocals.

The version of "Space Oddity" from the Demos, originally released with edits on the Sound & Vision boxset, is presented here in its true context for the first time. The other nine recordings on the album are all previously unreleased. In addition to Bowie originals, the session also includes the Roger Bunn composition "Life Is A Circus" (which features as an earlier demo version on the Clareville Grove Demos set) and the Lesley Duncan composition, "Love Song", later recorded by Elton John for his Tumbleweed Connection album. David's own "Conversation Piece" is announced as "a new song" and "Janine" features a short nineteen second section sung to the melody of The Beatles' "Hey Jude".

The session was a basic recording of the "Bowie & Hutch" duo's set list at the time and was committed to tape at the request of Mercury Records A&R man Calvin Mark Lee, who wanted the tracks to be sent to his boss Bob Reno. Both Calvin and Bob are referenced during the 41-minute recording, and the demos were key in securing David his recording deal with Mercury Records.

The 'Mercury' Demos set will come in a replica of the original tape box and will feature 1 vinyl LP, a print, two photo contact sheets and sleeve notes by Mark Adams. The labels of the LP feature the same EMIDISC acetate styling as Spying Through A Keyhole and Clareville Grove Demos with the song titles in David's own handwriting.

LP Tracklisting

Side 1
Space Oddity
Janine
An Occasional Dream
Conversation Piece
Ching-a-Ling
I'm Not Quite (aka Letter To Hermione)

Side 2
Lover To The Dawn
Love Song
When I'm Five
Life Is A Circus

Musicians
David Bowie – vocals, guitar and Stylophone
John 'Hutch' Hutchinson – vocals and guitar

The 'Mercury' Demos LP is mono and plays at 33 1/3 rpm.

The Soup Nazi 05.02.2019 10:22 PM
Out June 14: Bill Callahan, Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest.

 


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The voice murmuring in our ear, with shaggy-dog and other kinds of stories, is an old friend we're so glad to hear again. Bill's gentle, spacey take on folk and roots music is like no other; scraps of imagery, melody and instrumentation tumble suddenly together in moments of true human encounters.

https://www.dragcity.com/products/sh...sheepskin-vest

https://billcallahan.bandcamp.com/al...sheepskin-vest

The Soup Nazi 05.02.2019 10:34 PM
Out June 7: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings.

 


In the fall of 1975, Bob Dylan embarked on his most unique tour to date: The Rolling Thunder Revue. In a break with tradition, the shows were performed in smaller venues with little advance notice. There was simply nothing else like it on the road.

The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings, available June 7, is the most comprehensive collection from that groundbreaking tour. This 14CD box set features all five professionally recorded shows from the first leg of the tour, plus rehearsal performances and rarities – 148 tracks in all, with more than 100 of these previously unreleased.

This must-own box serves as a companion piece to the new film, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, premiering on Netflix on June 12. Every one of Dylan's performances in the movie can be found in the new box set.

 


https://www.bobdylan.com/

The Soup Nazi 05.04.2019 01:05 AM
Out now: The Dream Syndicate, These Times.

 


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Los Angeles's The Dream Syndicate is thrilled to announce These Times, their second album of new music since their 2012 reunion nearly thirty years after they first influenced California's Paisely Underground scene.

"When I was writing the songs for the new album I was pretty obsessed with Donuts by J-Dilla," lead singer and songwriter Steve Wynn explained. "I loved the way that he approached record making as a DJ, a crate-digger, a music fan wanting to lay out all of his favorite music, twist and turn the results until he made them into his own. I was messing around with step sequencers, drum machines, loops—anything to take me out of my usual way of writing and try to feel as though I was working on a compilation rather than 'more of the same'. You might not automatically put The Dream Syndicate and J-Dilla in the same sentence, but I hear that album when I hear our new one."

If 2017's How Did I Find Myself Here was a 10 pm record, all swagger and cathartic explosion, then These Times is the 2 am sibling, moodier and more mercurial with the band acting as DJs of their own overnight radio station as the listener drifts off into dreams and wonders the next morning if any of it was real.

The Dream Syndicate recorded These Times once again at Montrose Studios in Richmond, Virginia. Co-produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Phosphorescent, Waxahatchee, Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr.), Wynn wrote all of the song's lyrics in the studio after the band finished tracking, so that the words would be dictated by the sound rather than the other way around. This process contributed to the urgency of the album's title.

"These Times. That's it. It is all we're talking about, all we're thinking about. There is no avoiding the existential panic of a world that's hurtling somewhere quickly, evolving, and shifting course by the hour. It seems like a lie to not address or reflect the things that we can't stop thinking about—the whole world's watching indeed. The lyrics are just a mirror of the dread, panic, mania, speculation, melancholy and ultimately shrugging abandonment that just might follow. It's just all about where we are."

The Dream Syndicate has a long and storied history. But where are they right now? They’re here. Right here. In These Times.

http://www.thedreamsyndicate.com/these-times.html

https://thedreamsyndicate.bandcamp.com/

_tunic_ 05.04.2019 04:37 AM
 



https://www.sebadoh.com/
https://sebadohfire.bandcamp.com/album/act-surprised


releases May 24, 2019



Lowenstein stated, "Of all the records we have made in our long career, this is definitely the most recent."

Peterpuff 05.09.2019 11:39 AM
Well, I might get slaughtered on this one, but I am a bit excited we finally got a date for Tool's album. Hate it or not, it certainly fits the idea of "anticipated."

Severian 05.09.2019 05:56 PM
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Well, I might get slaughtered on this one, but I am a bit excited we finally got a date for Tool's album. Hate it or not, it certainly fits the idea of "anticipated."

I don’t get it, but happy for ya

Peterpuff 05.10.2019 02:41 PM
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I don’t get it, but happy for ya

Haha. Thanks! How I pine for the thread of you and SuchFriendsAreDangerous going back and forth on them. :)

Severian 05.10.2019 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Peterpuff
Haha. Thanks! How I pine for the thread of you and SuchFriendsAreDangerous going back and forth on them. :)

Yeah, I can’t believe that dweeb has been gone nearly 3 years.

I have so many quips about Tool’s uselessness

The Soup Nazi 05.10.2019 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Severian
I don’t get it, but happy for ya

 
:D

Severian 05.10.2019 09:25 PM
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:D

Do you want to fight about Tool? Because we can!

The Soup Nazi 05.10.2019 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Severian
Do you want to fight about Tool? Because we can!

I was referring to the "happy for ya" bit. "Oh, you like crap? (*) Hey, whatever floats your canoe, 'sall groovy, bro, you're beautiful... Pass the bong..."

(* Nothing personal, Peterpuff, but what can I tell ya.)

The Soup Nazi 05.10.2019 11:37 PM
Act fast if you want the physical edish. Out now: Circuit Des Yeux, Reaching For Indigo​:​ GAIA INFINITUS.

 



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Let it be known that I (Haley Fohr) once walked the Earth and chose to sing my way through life. Let it be known that one of these many singing rituals transpired on Nov 11, 2018 at Le Guess Who? Festival. On this evening Cooper Crain rearranged works from 2017's Reaching For Indigo, members of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra helped re-imagine this aforementioned music, Le Guess Who? Festival documented it, and here today we have Reaching For Indigo: GAIA INFINITUS: Performed Live at Le Guess Who? Festival.

Drag City & I have meticulously prepared a limited 300 count LP/DVD, featuring 100 different album covers, as well as a video documentation of the entire performance. It includes a previously un-released song written during the Indigo era, "Four Limbs", and is exclusively available on the vinyl version of this release.

LP is a numbered edition of 300 in hand-assembled covers, and includes a DVD of the performance (43 minutes, NTSC).
The download version has a five-song track list, and also includes video file (which is 1.39 GB).

LP Track List:
Side One: BLACK FLY / GEYSER / PHILO
Side Two: A STORY OF THIS WORLD PT II / FOUR LIMBS / FALLING BLONDE

Digital Download Track List:
BLACK FLY / GEYSER / PHILO / A STORY OF THIS WORLD PT II / FALLING BLONDE

DVD & Video File Track List:
BRAINSHIFT / BLACK FLY / PHILO / PAPER BAG / A STORY OF THIS WORLD PT II / GEYSER / FALLING BLONDE / FOUR LIMBS

https://circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com/...gaia-infinitus

https://www.dragcity.com/products/re...gaia-infinitus

https://www.circuitdesyeux.com/shop

The Soup Nazi 05.10.2019 11:44 PM
^ Also, and this I'm just finding out, if you go to the Drag City site and log in entering the username press and the password presto!, you get access to seriously neat-o gigantic pics, pdfs and whathaveyou of your favorite artists (they'll appear right there under "press materials"). NOICE.

The Soup Nazi 05.10.2019 11:53 PM
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The pre-sale has begun... :)

The Soup Nazi 05.10.2019 11:57 PM
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Out now: The Dream Syndicate, These Times.

Big Ups: The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn Picks His Bandcamp Favorites

choc e-Claire 05.11.2019 02:30 AM
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"Oh, you like crap? (*) Hey, whatever floats your canoe, 'sall groovy, bro, you're beautiful... Pass the bong..."

(* Nothing personal, Peterpuff, but what can I tell ya.)
Dude, are you okay? Or do you have some kinda personality disorder that makes you incapable of accepting that just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's worthless?

h8kurdt 05.11.2019 03:26 AM
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Yeah, I can’t believe that dweeb has been gone nearly 3 years.

I have so many quips about Tool’s uselessness

Mate, the amount of shite you like I don't think you can say anything about anyone liking Tool. Bet you're like the dildo on pitchfork who gave Lateralus 0 because it somehow has absolutely nothing redeemable on it. Which is nonsense of course.

Live and let live


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