we had a hard drive issue yesterday, and thus you may still experience some random wonkiness throughout the day. hopefully, i/we should have everything back to normal shortly. thanks to the lovely folks at imountain for helping sort everything out and for the support. in the meantime, make sure you go download the choosy beggars record for free via their bandcamp site.

fingers and tonguesoff mountain meadows // elliott brood site

oh friday night how i have longed for you since about 6.15 am monday morning! ok now what, friday? oh, so you got nothing for me, huh? if you’re in new orleans there is a park the van showcase going on at tipitinas tonight featuring brass bed, native america and giant cloud.

fingernails – giant cloud
begs me not to beg – brass bed
universe city – native america – you can download their ep dancing about architecture via their bandcamp site. just got it and its sounding very cool.

in other news, got a hold of a copy of paper bird’s when the river took flight a few days ago, and thus far i am really diggin it. i am not really sure how to categorize their sound, there’s elements of bluegrass, rag time, and an all around feeling they reside in another place and time. which as it turns out, i am not alone in these feelings cause mr sean moeller seems to share the same sentiments. you can check out their daytrotter session here, which i didnt even know about til today. listening to said session makes em sound like they’re straight outta the the 30′s. everyone should just go a head and record everything at the daytrotter studios, cause everything always sounds incredible. here’s a couple tracks off when the river took flight.

yellow sun
wind and blood

back in 1995, paul janovitz, brother to buffalo tom’s bill, and his band cold water flat released their self titled record – i dont think it was a debut, although maybe full-length debut. regardless, said release was pretty awesome, couple that with the fact that he was bill’s brother, i had to assume the apple didnt fall far. the record was filled with some much promise that i was more that overly excited about their future. it also didnt hurt that i was a huge fan of stuff coming out of tim o’heir’s fort apache studios, which this record was a product. i figured by 96 or 97, they would have put something new out, but twas not meant to be, and thus i am still waiting. paul did go on to form drag strip courage, who i have never heard, sadly.

you can pick up cold water flat’s record on amazon
for like a penny or something ridiculous like that. here’s the song that ruled much of my 1995.

magnetic north pole

when i was in junior high, i had a babysitter, lets call her deana, and actually thats her name – and, two times, she may even see this. deana loved duran duran, and i mean loved em. i guess what teen girl didnt at the time? when she watched me and my brother she would quiz, extensively, on the members of duran duran. first it started with their names, and once we/i got those down, it moved on to their likes and dislikes according to tiger beat or whatever teen mag was around back then. i, of course, always pretended to hate em, just cause thats what prepubescent boys do. we hate stuff, and as it turns out thats what 36 year old men do as well. ive always kinda liked duran duran. i mean really how could you not? the songs were solid, the videos were pretty sexy, and well there was simon le bon.

i believe this was taken from a dvd of a show taped back in 84. its a pretty solid listen, i must contend.

1. tiger tiger is there something i should know
2. hungry like the wolf
3. union of the snake
4. new religion
5. save a prayer
6. rio
7. the seventh stranger
8. the chauffeur
9. planet earth
10. careless memories
11. girls on film

hey! sam prekop, of the sea and cake and shrimpboat fame, has a new record coming out on thrill jockey on 9.7 which he is calling old punch card. they, meaning sam and thrill jockey, have a bunch of special stuff going on with said record, and me being the lazy ass i am will leave it up to you to read about it, here. here be the first single…

the silhouettes

i dont know much about lia ices, other than she looks lovely, she recently signed to one of my absolutle favorite labels, jagjauwar, and i really dig this song. sometimes less is more, i suppose. even as i write this, i found lia’s site which gives a bit of back story on her, but again sometimes i dont wanna know and let the music speak for itself, and really this song is gorgeous enough to keep me ignorant. so, lets not ruin it. “grown unknown” is going to be off her jagjaguwar debut, but will actually her sophomore release. her debut release is entitled necima and was put out by rare book room records in 08.

grown unknown

Lia Ices “Half Life” from Rare Book Room Records on Vimeo.