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SnagFilms Does It Again: PresentingThe Gits
Posted in Music on August 29, 2009 by johnbuckley100Fleshtones At 930
Posted in Music with tags The Fleshtones on August 29, 2009 by johnbuckley100We’re playing catchup, as the whole gang at Tulip Frenzy world HQ was given permission to go on their annual vacations. However, on August 14th, the Fleshtones made a rare, rare, altogether too rare stop at Washington’s 930 Club, and they turned thee place upside down, inside out, and over the top. Bringing “Hitsburg USA” to the capital o’ the USA was cool enough, but then there was the set. Keith jumped down onto the packed floor and kicked his way through “Theme From The Vindicators,” and all the kids did the Gentleman’s Twist. Peter Zaremba was resplendent in his sequined duds, kicking off with “Hard Lovin’ Man,” and Bill Milhizer thundered like a one-man construction site. But the highlight of the show may have been when Kim Kane of D.C. legends The Slickee Boys took Keith’s axe and Ken Fox lifted some talented young kid up from out of the audience to play the bass for 1:30 of pure Powerstance rock. Who was that kid? Give him a contract! And bring the greatest rock’n’roll band in America back, puh-leeeze.
The Most Beautiful Place In The World, August Division
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2009 by johnbuckley100Leica M8. For a slideshow you’ll enjoy click on the link below the photo.
Pynchon Confirmed
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon on August 11, 2009 by johnbuckley100Yes, well, you, uh, read it here first:
For Those Who’ve Fallen for Pynchon’s Inherent Vice
Posted in Uncategorized with tags The Long Goodbye on August 10, 2009 by johnbuckley100Blur : Midlife
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There aren’t that many guitarists who qualify as geniuses, but Graham Coxon is one. When it came time for someone to put together a really intelligent Blur collection, lo and behold, it’s almost like they had showcasing Coxon in mind. Granted, hard to do a Blur collection and avoid the guitarist, but thank Heaven whoever was in charge of this had the right sensibiity. What a great band.
This Really Is Thomas Pynchon
Posted in Music on August 9, 2009 by johnbuckley100Confirmed by an unimpeachable source. Yeah, it’s him.
(And go ahead, read the book. Seriously, if you’ve ever been tempted to read Pynchon, but been intimidated because, after all, the guy knows everything about rocketry, astronomy, the history of World War II, the labor movement in Colorado mines circa 1900, how Mason and Dixon came to America, how Werner Von Braun came to America, alligators in the New York sewer system, what Ben Franklin smoked, how the Dutch invented ketchup, what song was on the BBC at 11:00 p.m. the night the first V2 rocket landed, the murder of Herero tribesmen in 1904, precisely where the woodbine twineth, which dogs really can talk, how a harmonica ended up going down a toilet in the US and ended up in London, how airships can travel underwater, which surf music bands from 1968 were best,etc. then this is the best introduction: a straightforward detective novel with a hippie Philip Marlowe. A-and it’s so much fun…)
the black ryder’s “Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride” Out In October
Posted in Music with tags the black ryder, The Morning After Girls, Tulip Frenzy on July 21, 2009 by johnbuckley100The Morning After Girls’ progeny the black ryder (lower case, like ee cummings) sent out an email this week announcing a first album out this October entitled By The Ticket, Take The Ride. Importantly, they also have posted a song from it on their MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/theblackryder). All we can say is Wow. “Burn and Ride” sounds like the glorious offspring of a marriage between Spacemen 3 and Luna, with Mazzy Star doing the officiating.
If, following Aimee Nash’s departure from The MAG, they went on to be a little too polished for their original fans, Ms. Nash gives us a reminder of what’s missing.
Watch The Pixies’ “loudQUIETloud”Right Here
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From our friends at SnagFilms. Enjoy.
The Morning After Girls “Alone” Is A Pretty Rock Classic
Posted in Music with tags The Morning After Girls, Tulip Frenzy on July 14, 2009 by johnbuckley100The thing I liked so much about The Morning After Girls’ first album, which had the rather utilitarian name of The Prelude EPs, 1 & 2, was the way it could be both raw and delicate at the same time. Here was an Aussie band firmly in thrall to the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, and all their progenitors and spore. But that was a long time ago, as Sacha Lucachenko and Martin B. Sleeman shed and gained new band mates, moved, more or less permanently, to New York, and over the course of the last few years, methodically kept the flame alive.
We’re glad they did, because Alone is a beautiful bit of artisanal crafting, bespoke tailoring on a classic last. There’s good news and bad news here. The good news is that they write oft-times brilliant songs — I’ve been grokking on “Who Is They” for months, and the title track is as great a bit of mid-90’s Britpop as anything Noel Gallagher would have produced after a three-day binge. I hear echos of the Stone Roses, the Charlatans UK, Luna, maybe even Spiritualized: good company. The bad news is that some of the rawness has been sandpapered smooth. Sacha and Martin sing very pretty harmonies, and one doesn’t often complain about good singing, but in this case it sometimes sounds pretty for the sake of it.
When they want to, they still can rock — “Death Processions,” for example, packs a wallop. The show I saw in January at the Mercury Lounge was ear-splitting and occasionally thrilling. And they have the classicist’s memory of how bands like the Beatles and the Stones really stuck in your mind — it wasn’t just the hooks, the chorus, the solos, it was those tantalizing outros, making you hark your ear toward the speaker as the song fades away. Oasis knew this from the start, but not many other bands do, nor do they have producers who understand the vaudevillian’s mantra of always leave them wanting something more.
It’s been a long time coming, a long strip tease, as some of these songs have for months been streamable on their web site. This is a band that, with the proper management and a little luck, could be huge. Based on the pleasures they offer, they deserve to be huge. I just hope they don’t forget where they come from. I don’t mean Australia, I mean raw and thrilling. Bands too pretty leave me cold.
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