mic check @ the Crosby in Santa Anna ’09
Jel & Odd Nosdam, founding members of Anticon, have been very busy lately. They took a few minutes to sit down with me and talk about their current and upcoming projects. Enjoy the Nosdam enhanced interview as you read the text below.
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Pamela: Ashely, Courtney, and Chris
San Francisco’s Pamela are putting together their next release. I sat in with them last Friday at Temple Randolph Studios to observe their first session for the new record. It is being recorded by Jasper Leach and Brian Davy, of the Myonics and Symbolic Jews, on a vintage Tascam Midistudio 688 cassette recorder. Continue reading
Sweet Heart Sweet Light is the latest offering and sacrament from Spirtualized. Throughout his career guitarist Jason Pierce (aka J. spacemen) has provided us with multicolored galaxy uppers, downers, screamers, and laughers. This album is definitely a downer. Like a potent mixture of Darvon and Valium this is the sort of rock & roll that would have killed Lester Bangs. Continue reading
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Tagged dream pop, Drug Pop, psychedelic, shoegaze, space rock
David Cohn (aka Serengeti, aka Kenny Dennis) has released 11 solo albums in the last ten years, in addition to appearing on almost as many split and collaborative records. He is about to release a new EP through Anticon written entirely from the perspective of his O’Doul’s drinking alter-ego named Kenny Dennis. Continue reading
Lantern are Phildelphia based rock and roll band. They have just recently released a cassette compilation entitled “Burned Youth”. This tape collects unreleased tracks recorded between 2009 and 2011. Continue reading
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Tagged garage rock, Lo-Fi, psychedelic, rock & roll
The Hussy are a two-piece trash band from Madison, Wisconsin. Last month they released a 7inch single: “Dokks” backed with “On the Cover”. I like this record! This band gets to the point, they make it, and they’re out. This entire single clocks in at under three minutes, making this the perfect record for today’s modern, drug-addled, hipster freak with an old, fucked-up turn table and a severely diminished attention span.
The sun never really shines in Portland, Oregon, but you would not know it by listening to “Oh Rats!”, the latest 7″ from Guantanamo Baywatch, the Bridge City’s best Rock and Roll band. Continue reading
Hello. My name is Dead Luke and I would like to share another mix of 50s and 60s rockers and mind benders with you, and what better place to do so than the always great Styrofoam Drone?
After an impotent winter here in the Midwest, there is no better remedy than a little rock n roll to be played at maximum amplification in order to exorcise the frustrations of a snow covered purgatory.
Notable in this mix are a couple of Wisonsin relics such as The Spacemen, who herald from my home town of Wausau, WI. Their tune “Same Old Grind” perfectly captures the essence of the oppressive teenage years of growing up in central WI. Also from La Crosse, WI comes Joey Gee and the Come-Ons, with their hip shaking groove “She’s Mean.” Also notable are Spiders with their words-to-live-by anthem “No Price Tag,” so sit up and take notice!
And also if you’re interested as to what I’ve been up to lately, poke around the other tracks on the Soundcloud and take a listen to some upcoming material from Dead Luke and the Non-Travellin’ Band as we’ve been hard at work on our next record “The Gospel According To Luke.” Enjoy the mix!
“The Diamond Mine” – Dave Diamond and the Higher Elevation
“I Love To See You Strut” – David John and the Mood
“Talk About Her” – The Sevens
“Born Loser” – Murphy and the Mob
“Gone and Passes By” – The Chocolate Watch Band
“She Lied” – The Rockin’ Ramrods
“Same Old Grind” – The Spacemen
“Writing On The Wall” – The 5 Canadians
“Sometimes I Think About” – Blues Magoos
“Lotta Lovin’” – Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps
“No Price Tag” – Spiders
“Wailin’” – The Wailers
“She’s Mean” – Joey Gee and the Come-Ons
“Goin’ To The River” – Bill & Will
“Come See Me” – The Pretty Things
“Ain’t It Hard” – Gypsy Trips
“Don’t Ha Ha” – Casey Jones and the Governors
“What’d I Say” – Jerry Lee Lewis
“I Saw A Girl” – The Shouts
“Danger One Way Love Ahead” – Ray Vernon
“Please Don’t Go” – The Strings
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The Myonics are a band from San Francisco California. They have been around for many years with many different incarnations. Their most recent release Pagans is their first foray into vinyl. This record zig-zags back and forth between noisy psychotic freak outs interlaced with very catchy and pleasant but sometimes uncomfortably poignant hooks. The end result is an album with a lot of dissident and chaotic sounds packed tightly into ten surprisingly tight and well structured compositions.
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Ty Segall Band - Great American Music Hall - 3.2.2012
Friday March the 2nd was a good night for rock and roll in the city of San Francisco. Ty Segall headlined a sold out show at the historic Great American Music Hall with support from White Fence, Mikal Cronin, and The Feeling of Love. This show marked a milestone in Ty’s career and served as a showcase for San Francisco’s burgeoning garage rock scene.
Posted in Guest Posts, Shows
Tagged Feeling of Love, garage rock, Great American Music Hall, live, Live Review, Mikal Cronin, Ty Segall, White Fence
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