Do The Reggay

12 string guitar

           really thinking about getting one...

     listening to a lot of James Blackshaw, there are all these albums on spotify that I've never heard, and I thought I had heard most of his stuff. also listening to Robbie Basho, some of the singing and lyrics on "Bashovia" are really far out, but I'm really there for the american primitive raga guitar thing.....

also listening to Ernest Gibson, Loop Haunts, Koen Holtkamp's new album, new one by Actress_____

Teeeeebs

I'm really feeling this. New album by Teebs on Brainfeeder:

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/30/294222543/first-listen-teebs-e-s-t-a-r-a?f=1039&ft=1

NPR first look up now streaming.

dc

Why Wu-Tang Will Release Just One Copy Of Its Secret Album

This is bananas: http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2014/03/26/why-wu-tang-will-release-just-one-copy-of-its-secret-album/ dc

The War on Drugs, "Lost in the Dream"

Just in time for the weather to warm up, going to listen to this hundreds of time by the end of summer

Royal Blood - Out of The Black

I heard these guys on XM radio, but until I saw the video I had no idea it was only bass and drums. Check out another song called Hole. Rock on Broheimsters!

___latest__listening___list

hey dudes, here are a few things I've been listening to.

I've been on a bit of a Nick Cave thing on and off for a while. Some of his stuff I don't dig, but the mellow/dark/brooding stuff works well for me. "Boatman's Call" is something I've liked for a while. Lately I've been listening to "Push the Sky Away" and the Live at KCRW album.

Anyone been checking out the new Beck album? I'm liking it, but still early days. Dude at the New Yorker seems to think it's a "perfect album", or something to that effect, but Pitchfork thought it was bland and something like "a genius radical coloring inside the lines".

Also, early days in terms of checking out, but I like Real Estate and going to have a drive tomorrow and listen to Atlas.

John Coltrane "Soultrane" and lots of Mal Waldron lately.

James Blake's "Overgrown" hits the spot when you want to get that special relax vibe on, dig?

Still listening to Steve Hauschildt's "S/H" long album a whole lot.

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Seasonal Affective Disorder Scoob

 The latest from the infamous Scoobie Brothers.

 Seasonal Affective Disorder, or "SAD", affects millions of people every year. Learn more at "seasonalaffectivedisorders.com/SADScoobie"

The Records

Hi, guys.  Long time.  I picked up a refurbished turntable a couple months ago, and I've been picking up cheap vinyl here and there.  This was something I got for a buck that really grabbed me the other day.  The Records, S/T.  It's power pop on Virgin, 1979.  It sounds like Big Star mixed with Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys, with a little Thin Lizzy guitar harmony thrown in.  They had a strong debut, but they only had the one hit, the track "Starry Eyes."  Pretty nice.  Pretty nice.

This is the shit right here

Dream Theory

Listening to this track a lot.  It gets kind of funky in the middle.

$1.00 Garage Sale record, dddccc

dc

Papercuts

Just a quick post...don't want to let WWALT fall into too big of a drought....

I've been listening to Papercuts' record Fading Parade.

It's psychedelic indy rock from San Francisco, replete with too much reverb on everything and wispy, mopey lyrics. 

It's a beautiful listen; there's no weird or fancy sounds, it's just guitars, vocals, bass and drums...but whoever engineered the recording spent a hell of a lot of time making those instruments sound warm and lush.  Worth a listen if you're into Belle & Sebastian, The Essex Green, The Shins, Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen, et. al.

Fave Song of 2013

I bet I listened to this 50+ times the last 2 weeks of 2013. dc

"Complete Motown Singles" on Spotify

Stop the presses.  If you are into soul music, check out "The Complete Motown Singles" on Spotify.  It's like 60 CD's worth of amazing remaster mono singles on Motown, sounds amazing, a bunch of rad obscure shit as well as classic hits.

WFMU MEGA POST

What's up bros.  I went to the WFMU Record Fair in NYC a few weeks ago (click above to see the madness).  I just got a new job so I felt it was appropriate to give myself a re-ward and go bonkers.  I just went Friday night for like 2-3 hours.  Some people make a whole weekend out of it.

I'm having such a hard time with Blogger right now but I just don't care... I know this is going to look all fucked up.

All these marketing schemes worked on me:

Here are some of the gems I picked up:

A few sweet solo drum improv out jazz records I spent too much money on, (one is on ESP Disk, tho).  I'll find some samples here.

I spent $20.00 on this Hamza El Din record just to find out it is on Spotify :(  But that's ok, because there was a Jon Appleton record (early electronic musician) on Folkways that I was *this close* to dropping $80.00 on (!), but I came to find out that shit is on Spotify too!  "Jon Appleton – Music for Synclavier and Other Digital Systems: With Jon Appleton, Composer", go check it out, $80.00 worth of music there.

Cecil McBee, Beanie Maupin and co. on Paul Bley's record label from 1977?  Meh, it's pretty good.

A couple Reggae joints. .A couple soul joints.

I went crazy on the electronic/ambient/New Age records, culminating in...

This record from 1984 called "Beam-Scape", hahaha, so cheezy.  But it's doooope, it sounds like Emeralds or something.  It's bad ass.
This is the #1 pick for me.  I got this Steve Tibbetts joint from my boy Record Mike.  Private Press weirdo random record, Side A is really solid guitar soli vibe solo guitar, but then Side B turns into synth nightmare freakout.  This will be showing up on the next Scoobie Brothers joint.In close, I just want to take this opportunity to shout out Midlake "Antiphon" (candidate for best of 2013) and the new White Denim joint as two things I've been meaning to blog about but too lazy to.
Later,
dc

In current rotation:

Long time since my last update.  Here's some stuff I've been checking out:

Bibio - checked out a bunch of his older recordings.  They're all really cool...folky guitars and singing with weird looping elements and electronics.  Pretty much what you'd expect from Bibio, which is awesomeness. Check out "Vignetting the Compost"

Jack Rose - such an amazing guitar player.  Can listen to his stuff all day long, it's always inspired and never gets old.  Check out "Black Dirt Sessions"

Boduf Songs - got a few of his EPs.  Dark, sparse, mopey British doom folk, amazing, as always.  Check out "There Is Something Hanging Above"

The Liars - "Drum's Not Dead" is such an killer album from start to finish.  Love this band more and more all the time.

Papercuts - more mellow, chilled out indy rock a la late '60s San Francisco on "Fading Parade"

Jonwayne - anybody else check out this guy??  It looks like he should be in a dark basement in the midwest somewhere drinking Diet Coke and playing D&D, but he's a sick beat-maker and rapper. He's on Stones Throw right now.

Daniel Johnston - learned a lot about this guy watching a documentary about his life called "The Devil and Daniel Johnston."  He's an amazing songwriter, not an amazingly skilled musician, but a true artist.

The Velvet Underground - because of Lou

Kwaidan - drones, soundscapes, 20 mintue-long songs, pretentious song titles...everything good post-rock should be!

Blasting "Machine Gun" right now in the living room, sounds so good, you guys_____-------

Elliott Smith

Haven't worked my through this whole thing yet, but if you're a fan worth spending some time with. He died 10 years ago this year, I think the anniversary of his stabbing himself in the chest was recent. One of my all-time favorites, for sure.

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9246-elliott-smith/

Mountains - Choral

Picked up this 2xLP on Sunday for $10. 

Lord Sassafrass - Talking Yardie (Jahtari JTR7-10)

what I've been listening to

Hacker Farm
Ben Vida
Dawn of Midi
Body/Head
Smackos
Steve Hauschildt
M.Geddes Gengras
State River Widening
Oneohtrix Point Never
Darkside

I love Edan...

... and The Poets of Rhythm.

 and this...

 

 FEEL IT! dc

Red, White and Scoob EP

NEW SCOOBIE BROTHERS 



I've been hard at work in the studio with the Scoobie Bros and we have finally wrapped up the new Scoobie Brothers EP.  Check it out.

Red, White and Scoob EP

1:  Tape Sketch 2013
2:  Had a Dream
3:  Cymbaline
4:  Matilda Scoobie
5:  LNA Scoob

Download it at www.thescoobiebrothers.com

I made a video for those guys for the whole 5 song EP, enjoy.

dc

Two Great Mixes

Here are two great mixes by Prefuse 73… one is from last year, collab mix with Zola Jesus (?).  New one is with his boy Teebs a la my last post.

Both are dope and you can download them off the Soundcloud link for your own personal library.

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2013/10/01/needle-exchange-133-an-exclusive-mix-by-prefuse-73-teebs-sons-of-the-morning/

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2011/04/15/download-this-now-a-psych-mixtape-by-prefuse-73-zola-jesus/

Picture above has nothing to do with anything.

Enjoy.

dc

Sons of the Morning

The full, highly anticipated new CD from Sons of the Morning (collab between Prefuse 73 and Teebs) is streaming on this blog.

http://potholesinmyblog.com/stream-sons-of-the-mornings-prefuse-73-teebs-debut-ep-in-its-entirety/

It's good, I like it.

Enjoy, my friends.

dc

New Oneohtrix Point Never

Listened to this a few times, unfortunately missed his record release party in Brooklyn Heights last week. Big fan of Daniel Lopatin and this is one of the rare albums that I plan to buy if it's not Spotify after the release on 10/1.

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/22/224170294/first-listen-oneohtrix-point-never-r-plus-seven?sc=tw&cc=share

JEl

Haven't posted in awhile...sorry y'all.  Been mad busy.
THis is one of my favorite EPs of the month, on heavy rotation lately.
If you like dope beats, you'll like this.

Elvis Costello vs. The Roots

So far so good… Enjoyable, somewhat anonymous songs that I would feel good about putting on when my in-laws are over.  Actually fits the cover perfectly.

I foresee listening to this several times and then never revisiting again, which is not a diss… there is a definite use for "disposable" music like that (see also last Radiohead album, etc.)

It's on Spotify (natch), because this is EXACTLY the kind of thing that Spotify is perfect for.

Enjoy my friends.  

dc

p.s. this is on Blue Note??!

What I'm Listening To RIGHT NOW

Volcano Choir "Repave"

As the resident lame-o/square, I figured it was up to me to listen to this. Well, I'm a sucker for the grandiose (I have a playlist on iTunes named that, featuring such stalwarts as MBV, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, et al) and this record is good and grandiose.

Aside from the vocal effects, it sounds as if it was produced in England circa 1972, took a year and half to make, and cost $1 million ('72 bucks). As if they experimented plugging the amps into different outlets to see if the "correct tone" could be located. The musicianship--and I make no apologies for using that term--is amazing. I've never seen Vernon live, but I did catch an Austin City Limits he was on, you could tell the backing band was just killer. Not sure if these are the same guys, but this is good playing.

The lyrics are silly. I find this appropriate for this type of music. You can't hope to say anything so grandiose, so don't fucking try (one reason most of Mogwai's tunes work). Harkening back to my Kanye rant, this is another reason he sucks.

Anyways... hope everyone had a great summer and is going to rock the fall.