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

strand of oaks’ leave ruin is a record that for some reason i didnt put on my best of list last year, and thats criminal. some of the other ones, looking back, could and do take a back to seat to said record. its not an immediate “hey this is the greatest thing ever” kind of record, but damn does it catch fire once its fully digested. well, timothy showalter and his strand of oaks are back with a new, equally excellent record called pope killdragon. pope killdragon “suffers” from the same immediacy issues as leave ruin, but again damn once it hits its a phenomenal record. top ten contender for sure, and can almost guarantee it. its only avail on emusic right now, i believe and can be grabbed by clicking here. here is a recent daytrotter session for your listening/downloading pleasure.

bonfire

top of the mid morning to you all. dont know if you guys have checked out buckner’s recent daytrotter session, but you probably should cause its lovely/heartbreaking. i only wish that daytrotter now offered an embedding feature with their stuff, since they did away with hotlinking the tracks – which i am normally against, but got permission from sean, fyi. still nothing but love for em, and imo is the best music site on the web hands down.

here’s a great dead kennedys show recorded live at on broadway in san francisco on 6.2.84.

1. intro
2. bleed for me
3. hop with the jetset
4. well paid scientist
5. dear abby
6. mtv get off the air
7. life sentence
8. nazi punks fuck off
9. jock-o-rama
10. goons of hazzard
11. holiday in cambodia

here is a short juliana and evan interview/performance from the world cafe on 7.14.93. btw, juliana has a new record coming out on 2.16 called peace and love which you can pre-order here .

here’s a couple tracks from her daytrotter session that she did earlier this year. for those with iphone/touches have you grabbed the daytrotter app? it would be nice if they made and android app seeing as how i know own a lovely htc hero, which i cant recommed enough.
law of nature
its only rock n’ roll

1. everybody loves me but you
2. interview
3. it’s a shame about ray
4. interview
5. ugly
6. interiew
7. confetti
8. interview
9. how much i’ve lied

i have not heard chapel hill’s roman candle’s oh tall tree in the ear, but i dig what i have heard, thus far. plus they’re opening for jason isbell and they did a daytrotter session which is more than enough of a push for me to listen to em. is it me or does everything sean and the daytrotter crew record sound unbelievable? i dont necessarily dig every band they bring in, but sound wise they really got something special going on.

oh tall tree in the ear is out now on carnival recordings

they say off oh tall tree…
eden was a garden via daytrotter
starting from scratch via daytrotter

Sept. 25 – Columbus, OH / Rumba Café (w/Jason Isbell)
Oct. 8 – Pittsboro, NC / The Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival
Oct. 9 – Charlotte, NC / Visulite Theater (w/ Will Hoge)
Oct. 16 – Birmingham, AL / Workplay Theater (w/ Will Hoge)
Oct. 17 – Memphis, TN / Hi-Tone Café (w/Will Hoge)

photo by shervin lainez

im pretty sure i spent a good amount of time with vandaveer’s 07 release, grace and speed. from what i remember it was pretty good, not great but good enough to warrant repeated listens. well dc inhabitant, mark charles heidinger (these united states/the apparitions) and his band vandaveer are back, or soon to be back, with their 8.25 release of divide & conquer. listened to it a few times over the weeks end, and its pretty great. the young lady who sings with him, and pardon me i dont know her name, has a particularly beautiful voice and their harmonies are really quite spectacular.

riyl: vic chesnutt, sparklehorse, tom waits, great lake swimmers, etc…

woolgathering
long lost cause via vandaveer’s daytrotter session

where did that vacation go? sure seems like i was never gone. eh, whatevs… although it sits in a folder on my desktop, staring me right in the eyes, i still have yet to hear the entire low anthem record, oh my god, charlie darwin, but i hear good things. these good things are coming from reliable sources, so maybe todays the day. dig this song, and the daytrotter session is pretty awesome….

charlie darwin
to the ghosts who write history books via daytrotter