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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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Yes, basing songs upon classic literary works and-or their creators at first always seems pretentious, even ColinMeloyian, but hey, if it was good enough for the likes of Iron Maiden and David Axelrod who are we to disagree. Enter Bloomsbury, the new 4-song EP from Eagle Rock, CA’s own shaggy academes turned shaggy indie rockers, Princeton. All glib - borderline sarcastic introductions aside, Bloomsbury is well put together and accessible, surprisingly so when you consider the lyrical focus on early 20th century London intellectuals and the long list of instrumentation. Read more »
If you’ve already given up on the week at this early juncture as I have, and you’re weighing your options for this Friday night, heading out to Spaceland for The Parson Red Heads’ EP Release show should be at the top of the list. Not only are you in store for an assuredly impressive performance by the local carrot-topped clerics, but also playing are Austinites by-way-of San Francisco, Monahans. Mixing everything you (should) like about Springsteen, Stone Roses, and Jesus & Mary Chain, Monahans are able to remind us that qualitative adjectives like ‘ambient’ and ‘tranquil’ are not antithetical to rock & roll. To learn that their 2007 release, Low Pining, was almost an entirely instrumental endeavor is not surprising, as most songs have a very bottom-up structural feel to them, and while I’m glad that lyrics were ultimately included, the process clearly served them well. Make sure to catch their set this Friday.
You can hear the whole album HERE and buy it too!
Scott’s got a great review of The Heavy’s new album, Great Vengeance Furious Fire, here and I just wanted to drop a little reminder that they are in town tonight and tomorrow. Scott and I plan on venturing out to Cinespace (a chill just went up my spine as I typed that, god I hate that place) tonight to check out their Curtis Mayfield come Spencer Davis Group funk. If you’re busy tonight there is always Wednesday at Bordello, though it is some Playboy thing that you got to rsvp to.
Judging from the photos, it looks as though The Heavy put on a great show, though the lack of a live horn section is a bit suspect. We shall see.
MP3: The Heavy - Colleen
If you’ve a got a little time, watch/listen to these three panels from the recent EcomSM Conference, especially the dull Music panel followed by the highly engaging Newspaper panel. Both industries are struggling to find their place in the digital world where they are surrounded by smarter faster start ups that are redistributing and monetizing their original content, all the while these start ups are not spending any money themselves to produce any content of their own. Don’t believe anyone who tells you that the cost of producing music or news with the advent of new technology is close to null. Time and expertise (both of which more times than not equate quality) will always cost something. The question is how do you monetize that content while distributing it digitally for free.
For those of you who used your old porn Yahoo email address (I know you still got one) to get your NIN The Slip downoad link, you might experience a real lag in getting your email with the download link (I signed up at theslip.nin.com around 10am this morning and at the time of writing this, 6:30pm I have yet to receive my email). It’s not Trent’s fault, it’s Yahoo’s. Yahoo’s mail servers regularly deny incoming mail requests multiple times “in an effort to fight spam” before eventually accepting an incoming mail request, sometimes hours or days later. Yahoo also states that their mail servers may deferral mail if they are “seeing unusual traffic” from a server…hmm, like when a huge band gives away it’s new album for free in an email with a download link.
So the moral here is use a non-Yahoo email account to get your Slip on.
