I’d be more excited about this one if I didn’t have to drive two hours to Tucson to see it. We had a blast the last time we saw Mr. Gregg Gillis, at the SoCo Music Experience in Tempe in the fall.
Anyway, Girl Talk is playing Rialto Theatre on Oct. 23 with Heart of Darkness and Grand Buffet. Tickets are $15. More info.
Did anyone pick up Feed the Animals? If so, how much did you pay?
A list of samples used in the song.
I’m going to try to keep up with the folks over at Stinkweeds – and hopefully a couple other local retailers – on a regular basis to see what their top-selling albums each week are.
I’d like to point out I was partially responsible for Nos. 2 and 3, both of which I purchased on vinyl last week. In a sign that my consumer habits are changing, I actually had the Wolf Parade CD in hand until I realized I’d get free mp3 downloads with the vinyl and the awesome artwork in a bigger size, to boot. (For more on that topic, visit Bows + Arrows.)
Otherwise, I own only one other record from this list (Evil Urges), though I do have the Silver Jews record on my to-buy list.
Stinkweeds’ Top 10 sellers for the week of June 22-28:
1. Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (XL)
2. Fleet Foxes – s/t (Sup Pop) // MP3: White Winter Hymnal
3. Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
4. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges (ATO)
5. Notwist – The Devil, You and Me (Domino)
6. Hercules and Love Affair – s/t (DFA)
7. King Khan & the Shrines – Supreme Genius (Vice) // MP3: Torture
8. Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City) // MP3: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat
9. Love as Laughter – Holy (Epic)
10. Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue (Secret City)
Wunderkind deejay A-Trak is the latest to contribute to the Nike+ Original Run mix, a 45-minute composition “specifically for runners, gradually building from a warm-up period, incorporating an extended middle section that finds a pavement-pounding groove, and ending with a downtempo closure for cooling down.” Well, that sounds like exercise and stuff. I’m exhausted just reading it.
Anyway, part of the mix is a song called Mastered that features Kid Cudi. But A-Trak tells us over at Kanye’s blog that it originally featured Lupe Fiasco. “We couldn’t get clearance for Lu so i had to take him off. But now that the record’s out, you can have his version.”
I haven’t even heard Kid Cudi’s version, but I’m gonna guess that it might not be better than this. I might even take up running! … Ehhhhhh, or not. But you can add it to a long list of great hip-hop songs about shoes (which is a post I’ve been thinking of doing for a long time now). If you just said that Run-DMC’s My Adidas is the best hip-hop song about shoes, then pass go and collect $200.
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I Used to Love H.E.R.: A-Trak (Pharcyde, Labcabincalifornia)
Thanks to Chromewaves for leading us in the direction of a new mp3 by the Broken West, whose record I Can’t Go On I’ll Go On was one of my favorites of 2007.
Perfect Games, the first single, comes from Now or Heaven, to be released on Merge on Sept. 9.
I liked Pitchfork’s description of the song as containing “warm-weather lyrics.” It’s a song to pop on for the early-morning wake-up and to remember to grab the day before it’s gone: “We waste our time when we could be righting every wrong.”
I’m serious, though: Have these guys written a tune that isn’t catchy? I wonder.
BONUS: Live on WOXY from November (remember?)
Tracklisting for Now or Heaven:
1. Gwen, Now and Then
2. Auctioneer
3. Elm City
4. Ambuscade
5. Perfect Games
6. House of Lies
7. The Smartest Man Alive
8. Got It Bad
9. Terror for Two
10. Embassy Row
The Baseball Project, a Scott McCaughey- and Steve Wynn-led band previously discussed here, appeared on Late Show with David Letterman recently. The resulting performance is below.
Also, McCaughey and Wynn chatted with, naturally, MLB.com. See the (pretty brief) interview here.
I’ve been obsessing over Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight, so it was a great pleasure to talk with lead singer Scott Hutchison about the record for an advance story of the group’s June 24 show in Phoenix at the Rhythm Room with Oxford Collapse and locals Dust Jacket.
I wasted no time, asking Hutchison the Most Important Question first: How many times have you read or heard your record called The Midnight Organ FLIGHT? He estimated in the double figures and said it was “definitely kind of annoying.”
Read the full story at azcentral.com and then buy tickets to the show.
Hey, remember that video with Alejandro Escovedo and Bruce Springsteen performing together?
Well, here’s the song, which is taken from Escovedo’s forthcoming record Real Animal, due out June 24 on Back Porch Records. (Thanks to Paste Magazine for including it on the latest sampler.)
ALSO: I’m headed on a plane today for Chicago, the home of at least a couple fine blogs: Can You See the Sunset … and Analog Giant. Go Cubs.
ONE MORE THING: I, uh, accidentally took my BlackBerry Pearl swimming with me on Monday. So I’m in the market for a new phone. Who’s got suggestions? I’ve been toying with the idea of that new iPhone. I’ve heard good things about the BlackBerry Curve, too. Any and all suggestions welcome.
One of my favorite songs of 2007, Devastation by the Besnard Lakes, now has a visual accompaniment. (Thanks to Chromewaves for the heads up.)
It’s a cool piece of animation. And you must watch, if only for the bad-assness that is the black stallion that graces the cover of the band’s album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse.
UPDATE: In more Canadian band news, stream Wolf Parade’s new record, At Mount Zoomer (due out June 17), on the band’s MySpace page.
Like my friend Weiss, I’m going to use this space to promote my freelancing exploits, if only because I’d be writing about these artists on my blog anyway.
Zachary James Dodds is a guitarist in Phoenix folk band The Via Maris, and when I first saw him — in an opening slot for the Cave Singers — I greatly admired his ability to speak candidly in front of a rather large gathering, something I’ve always dreaded.
As I say in the review, it’s almost stunning that someone so young is sharing such vivid tales. It’s great to see such promising artists like this in town.
That said, you can download his five-song EP, One More Life, at his MySpace page for free.
Read the review in the Phoenix New Times.
My first (and only) experience of Devon Williams so far has been seeing him and his band open for Destroyer last month. Already, the Los Angeles-based Williams is turning around for his own tour, which stops back at the Rhythm Room on June 18. Get tickets ($7) here.
Because I’m leaving for Chicago that day, I’ll miss the show. And, to be honest, I haven’t even listened to Williams’ full-length Carefree (at eMusic). But I have listened to the infectious song Elevator many times over. Based on that alone, I’d say it would be worth checking out the show. (Although it’s one of a slew of worthwhile shows that day … RZA, Jimmy Eat World, Russian Circles, Times New Viking and that one dude named Tom Waits.)
