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The Soup Nazi

04.25.2019 11:26 PM

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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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Originally Posted by Peterpuff

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

Severian

05.10.2019 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

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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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

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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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

"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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Originally Posted by Severian

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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