welcome home, son

what i'm listening to this week:

seabear - the ghost that carried us away
folk

radical face - ghost (link in comments for album!)
folk

the national - boxer
indie folk rock

black moth super rainbow - dandelion gum
drug rock

dan deacon - spiderman of the rings
quaint folk experimental

battles (like everyone else) - mirrored
instrumental rock

bill callahan of smog. woke on a whaleheart
singer/songwriter folk

paul mccartney - memory almost full
POP (also, the letters in the title rearranged spell out "for my soulmate LLM" which was apparently inadvertent, but you never know)

the shaky hands - the shaky hands
rock pop folk

hella - there's no 666 in outerspace
experimental, electronic, shoegaze
album for review

fatback circus - the elephant king
jamband, funk, rock, pop/punk
album for review

hopeful shows this week

soulive (which may not happen as it's friday cheers (aka crowded as fuck) and a funky jamband (my boyfriend dislikes that genre)

pink razors, roman holiday (RH's last show), antlers, punch you in the face, big (guessing it's not along the lines of PYITE), segway cops cd release.

maybe botox party again? it's close and convenient and fun.

mason dixon disaster cd release, perhaps.

los huevos diablos - apparently some "old time jazz"

the hotdamns! who have just gotten their new CDs in....

the fucking champs!

mermaid skeletons

tonight i wish i could have gone to see animal collective. c'est la vie.

the roots, botox party

the roots played richmond's rock the boat which was a celebration of the godspeed landing in richmond on the james river from jamestown. as the roots told us, they almost did not play this show as, they said, it marked the beginning of terrorism. regardless, they played a whole show for probably 50,000 people.

the stage was to the left. this was taken before the sun set and before the 'rocking' began.


they played some of their originals over horrible sound (really, it was hard for me to even see the stage, and the bass just clouded everything). they ended up covering dylan, hendrix, and zeppelin in a medley of sorts. most of the drunk rednecks had a blast.
again, the stage was on the left of the photo, and i could not even see the stage at this point.


i did manage to get something of a picture of ?uestlove, though:


next we walked about ten blocks to a bar to see our buddy's band botox party everyone was fairly drunk at this point, so it was nice to hear some rowdy, loud rocking.
fyi: this photo is gayer than the band itself:

and i am obsessed with the decorations in the establishment wonderland:

loves it.

medeski, martin and wood

assholes on the website said the show would start 30 minutes after they actually started, and i showed up even later than that. so i paid $20 (what's up with paying for shows?) for probably two whole songs. don't get me wrong, those two songs were on point. one of the raddest things about seeing bands in this venue is the beautiful scenery. it's in a botanical garden, so you walk by paths and trellises filled with all kinds of botanical items. the natural amphitheater is one i've been going to since i was born. i have seen mmw about three times before that, and i have almost all of their (proper and collab) albums. this was the most straight-ahead jazzy i'd heard them. chris wood was clearly the star of the evening, both from my own observation (solos, rockin amidst others taking the lead) and from hearing "oh man, that bassist was awesome!). john medeski was playing on a beat up wooden grand piano.







here is a snippet i found on youtube:

tulsa drone

tulsa drone played a gig last thursday night at the hyperlink cafe. with their new stage set up, the hyperlink hosted a total of four bands that night including marionette and caspian. caspian was blessed shoegaze while marionette was chamber indie. another loud band played as they were on tour with caspian. sorry, can't remember their name.
TD was as their name suggests, droning. they were loud and by the time they took the stage i was fairly drunk. being drunk = lame reviewing.

that picture is badass, i dont care what anyone else thinks.
the night was basically pure post-rock.
CASPIAN (hopefully the right one):

ukulele hotness, new reviews, arcana

hooray. learning this ukulele now for a couple months thanks to my adorable, loving man.

up for review next:
PANDA BEAR
hella
jenn grant
the dynamites
david vandervelde
lafayette gilchrist
will bernard
will harrison
fatback circus

currently loving that hipster darling amy winehouse. esp "you know i'm no good" and "fuckery"

and in a couple days i will go see arcana
(scroll down to the end of the post)
could be cool.

Bright Eyes, White Stripes, Lily Allen B-sides, Tori Amos, Radical Face

Things I'm Listening to This Week:
Lily Allen's B-sides, particularly her cover of the Kooks's "Naive" so classy. so hip.

bright eyes - Cassadaga (link in comments) i've been reading bright eyes afficiandos say this is the best bright eyes yet. i'm still intrigued. i wouldnt say it deserves a 9.0 like popmatters, but more like pitchfork's 6.0.

tori amos - american doll posse these links have been removed really quickly all over.

the white stripes - "icky thump" still trying to find the whole album.

radical face (still looking for album), "welcome home"

the bees - octopus it's like early sgt peppers beatles from the bit i've listened to so far.

A BAND OF BEES

red clay village

that's the back of singer/guitarist jamie rose's head. he is one of three members of red clay village, a recent project for the GDB trio. they have been working on their chamber-core styled rock to play live and record.

panda bear

person pitch is pretty much this year's quintessential summer album. animal collective's noah lennox has outdone himself. i'm working on my review of it for glide, and i can't stop loving it. think brian wilson meets john cage meets harlem boys choir harmonies.