that kid is back on the escalator again!

Posted by doubter on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

so, who’s takin bets on lohan in the death pool?

i cant ask for anything more out of a band than possessing the ability to transport me to another time and place. a time before bills, a mortgage, and responsibility ruled my world, which is why i usually fall back onto the early – mid nineties as my go to dream place. atlanta’s parade has such the ability and thank god for em. maybe its their guitar tunings/tones or the fact that lead parader carrie hodge sounds vaguely reminiscent of ex-throwing muse and belly singer, tanya donnelly – who i used to absolutely love. their new ep, answer me, is cool plain and simple. its smart without being pretentious and familiar without leaving the “i have heard this all before” aftertaste.

thats hott

hunting

yune from a red button

penelope shoes from a red button

they are doing a whole bunch of shows over the next few months including lennys, atlanta, on 8.3. check their myspace page for details.

parade site / myspace

i was kinda excited at first when i got this press release about russian rapper ivan ives and his teamin up with cappadonna from the wu. the more i read the less excited i became though. i was hoping for an actual russian instead of a guy that was born in mother russian but now lives in brooklyn. not to say he’s not russian, shit his name is ivan, but whatever. luckily, this track off of his sophomore disc iconoclast is pretty tight.

victory feat vast aire

ivan ives site / myspace

tonight is an interesting collection of beatles songs entitled the rhine river tapes collected and posted by a former user of etree called heyrickey. i dont know if they are demos or what but the shit is very cool. if anyone has any info on these please feel free to pass along. this will be a two parter, btw.

1. two of us

2. i dig a pony

3. i got a feeling

4. dont let me down

5. i me mine waltz

6. let it be

7. for you blue

8. one after 909

9. long and winding road

10. get back

11. oh darling

12. across the universe

13. dig it


8 Responses to that kid is back on the escalator again!

  1. K B says:

    Dude, awsome stuff. i think i have this. but still awsome.

  2. matt says:

    mallrats is one of my fave movies ever. i still laugh my ass off every time during the game show scene

  3. ivan ives says:

    yo, thanks for including me in here..

    yeah actually i live in LA.. not sure which press release you read hahah, but you know i keep it fresh for the motherland still.

    respect,,

    ives

  4. melvyn duglas says:

    awesome. i love john and paul’s playful duet of across the universe- is the only duet version of this song? and Pual’s raucous I’ve gota feeling is a must hear. Brilliant!

  5. The Postman says:

    Thank you for the heads up about everything here.

  6. Martin says:

    Hi, about the beatles collection.. you said “the rhine river tapes” I thought that would be Let It Be album..

  7. gregor says:

    right, but these are different takes on what would become let it be

  8. clyde says:

    the rhine river tapes (including “more” and “final” to make 3 cd’s total) were taken from the january 1969 recording sessions at twickenham and abbey road. there are about 83 cd’s worth of materials from those sessions – the a/b sessions – all for the let it be album. let me know if you need the other two cd’s.

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