howdy, top of the sunday evening! if there was a record i was looking forward to blasting through the baton rouge streets it’s king tuff’s latest self titled subpop release – due out on 5.29. sadly, i dont listen to em enough but when i throw em on, i know i am going to go on a major kick. if you like the 13th floor elevators, stones, howlin wolf, etc you should absolutely dig king tuff. i have not heard the entire thing, cause even though im 7 years into this i still cant get on the subpop pr mailing list. aint that a bitch?
oh hello, peoples. hope all of y’all are well. i have been on a huge superchunk/portastatic kick as of late and thought i would dig into the archives an repost this this sound board portastatic show, from 8.9.94 at the duke coffee house in durham. i cannot not recommend checking out mac’s portastatic enough, which of course you can purchase via merge.
tomorrow night, on a show i have never heard of, private practice, but apparently draws like 8 million people a week, friend of captains dead and just all around awesome dude, duquette johnston will have his song “roll baby roll” played at some point. fucking good for him! he is more than deserved of any exposure, accolades, etc that come his way. “roll baby roll” can be found on the duquette johnston and the rebel kings’ 7″ which if you buy it via communicating vessels you get some nice goodies for your money.
detective is actually supposed to be french, with an accent over the first “e,” and i would try to add one, but cant figure out how. they were named after a godard film of the same title, and are made up of james greer (ex-guided by voices, etc,) guylaine vivara and rory modica who both play in the l.a. band useless keys. theyve released a couple of eps, very fallen world and the forthcoming, basket of masks – which i have been listening to for the past few weeks.
howdy! on may 28 fire records is reissuing the complete works of rainer ptacek, a tuscon based guitar player who teamed up with howe gelb in the late 70s to form giant sand, but at the time i believe they were actually called giant sandworms. sadly, rainer died from a brain cancer in 1997, but his legacy, of course lives on, and hopefully these reissues will get some people to listen to his stuff. for more information on the reissues, including the awesome artists that contributed along the way, visit here – the fire records site. the inner flame is the first record they are releasing and is a tribute to mr ptacek and includes such acts as pj harvey, vic chesnutt, plant and page, evan dando and of course giant sand. here is calexico’s contribution…
hey hey the official video for hallelujah the hills’ “get me in a room” which premiered on consequence of sound this morning. thats right, im stealing it, well not really. no one knows what happens next, my second favorite record of the year thus far, is out on 5.22. a side note, i think i spot ms aimz from my aimz is true in the video.
well, hello again! turns out mr jeremy benson of roadside graves premiered his new video on when you awake earlier today, not bitter, for a song off one of my favorite records, darksongs 2, from 2011 – well it wasnt really released then, i just heard it last year. you can now grab it for your damn self via his bandcamp page, and i cannot recommend it enough. it may be free, i cant tell at this point, either way whatever he’s charging or not, its well worth your time.
top of the early evening. y’all like good music for a cause? shit, who doesnt? well friends of captains dead, aka me, country fried rock has teamed up with athens’ nuci’s space, a non profit that is an outreach center that focuses on the well-being of its local music community, for this comp. its free, mind you, but you can donate, and if you decide to, all proceeds go right to nuci’s space.
happy sunday morning, y’all. felt the need to hear/see this this morning, and for those that have never seen, my favorite movie, the blues brothers, you need to like right now. in other news, i am featured on hype radio this month, which you can find here. i come in at that 29 minute more or maybe a little before that. kinda sound like a dumbass, cause i tend to ramble. either way, check it out, if you care.
