The Weird Weeds

I like The Weird Weeds, i think some of y'all might like them too.

They have some stuff on Spotify.  They have a bandcamp, some live shows on soundcloud, a facebook page, all that shit, so do some digging.

dc

Stunna

One of my favorite drum+bass artists Stunna (aka J. Cappo) out of Chicago. He has a regular show on BassDrive.com His stuff is very melodic. He has live track on SoundCloud that has a 5-6 minute piano solo. I'd say he has taken the LTJ Bukem downtempo/dnb vibe to a new level. Check out his set at the United DnB Battle in Brooklyn last month if you like more of the live MC/Jungle based vibe.

Blues Control, Chris Forsyth

Still getting used to the new Blues Control, Valley Tangents.  There's a lot of sound on here that kicks me the wrong way (hence some of the "classic rock" references in reviews, as well as references to different genre exercises), but it's starting to grow on me.

I just found out that I will be opening for Chris Forsyth here in Louisville on July 8.  I've seen his stuff on the Family Vineyard site before, but I'm just now getting around to checking it out.  Both FV records are very nice; I am especially fond of Dreams.  You can listen to both of them at his SoundCloud page.

Two little gems to help you beat the heat!

Fly Lo

Funny how things come around in cycles.  I've been listening to Flying Lotus' "Los Angeles" on back-to-back-to-back repeat, perfect thing to work to lately.  That's my personal fave of his output.

Thought this was somewhat post-worthy as it was the topic of the very first WWALT BLOG post from almost 4 years ago.  Time flies, no?

Hope you guys are having a good summer. Later.

dc

Burial/Boduf Songs/Lower Dens/Coltrane

Lately I've just been loading up stuff on my iPod, hitting shuffle, and zooming off here and there.
If something pops up that I like, I will take a look at the Pod and see who it is.
I finally got around to checking out Burial (I know, about 6 years after the fact) and it's pretty amazing if you're into that sort of thing.  Really dark, sparse, washed-out dubstep with heavy garage (UK garage, not garage rock!) and 2-step influences. 

Also Boduf Songs is killing me.  Is nobody else into this guy???  It's pretty fucking amazing.  Reallllly dark stuff....and sad.  But not "boo hoo woe is me" kind of sad, more like "the world can be dark and sad, and that's pretty beautiful too."  Anyway, the mood of all the albums is perfect for late night mellow listening with a darker edge.  Plus there's song titles like That Angel Was Pretty Lame and I Have Decided To Pass Through Matter.

Also killing it is the new Lower Dens record, I think it's called Nootropics.  Solid indy rock, but with a noise/creative aspect a la Deerhunter or Sonic Youth but not as aggressive.  Really interesting rhythmic ideas, which is usually what makes my ears perk up before other things.  Interesting sonic textures, too.

This afternoon I pulled out some of the Sunday jazz stacks, despite the fact that it's Saturday.  I know enough has been said about this group to last until the end of time, but fuck man, the John Coltrane Quartet is just genius.  A lot of jazz to me feels very confined by it's predetermined rules about what's "right" and "wrong" and what makes jazz "sohpisticated," but the Quartet just sounds like pure liberation.

Genius Mixes on iTunes

What does yours look like? Here's mine. Anyone know how "Genius" compiles mixes? I added a few Stevie Wonders and my Classic Funk mix turned into Classic R&B mix. I want my Funk mix back!

Continuing the Discourse.....

Take a couple minutes to read this thoughtful, well-written article on downloading/generation "free"/Spotify, etc, etc.

Here's another post praising Jahtari. They just keep getting better. This is a heavyweight straight outta Leipzig!!

MMM

I'm not a big turntablism guy really but Mix Master Mike is killing it on this little promo thing:



dc

Julia Holter, "Ekstasis"

I've been feeling this album, has a lot of interesting elements: classical, eastern modalties, ambient sound flourishes, pop. Definitely worth checking out.

Also, saw a band called Monogold at a rooftop party in Bushwick recently. They had a real buzz going, jaded hipsters suddenly stopped posing and grouped around to check it all out. They sound a little like Modest Mouse meets Wild Beasts, if you dig that. Their album "The Softest Glow" is on Spotify.

New Peaking Lights Joint!

You can stream the new Peaking Lights CD on this website:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jun/13/peaking-lights-lucifer-album-stream?cat=music&type=article

Their last one made my top three of 2011.  Haven't check this new one yet, assuming it is money.

dc

Here is a new 7" I got a few weeks ago on the Peckings label. I don't have much from them but what I've heard is top shelf reggae. Kind of a blending of old school and new school - this 45 uses the rhythm from the Maytal's 54-46. The Macka B track is great. It was released this year - proof that vital reggae is still being made.

Been listing to new and old hardcore/punk lately as well. Agnostic Front's "Victim in Pain" and "United Blood EP", Classics of Love, a weird German punk 7", strange Canadian grindcore. Also hit the public library the other day and checked out the 2010 reissue of the first 4 Off! EPs.

The library also had some Numero Group CDs. I'm way late to that party but I'm really digging the three CDs I've heard so far - Capsoul, Deep City and Prix. The CDs covers are pictures of 45s so I was instantly drawn to them.

LET'S GOOOOOOO

No posts in like 2 weeks??!?!?1

I've been listening to a a lot of Black Sabbath, got my 4 and 6 year olds on the wagon.  It's cute as hell when my 4 year old is singing the riff to N.I.B.

If you do Netflix check out the VHI "Greatest Albums" documentaries (i think that's what they are called).  The Sabbath "Paranoid" one is sweet.  I have Def Leppard "Hysteria" documentary queued up.

I'm also on a Boards of Canada jag.  I love that band so much I want to eat them.

Somebody hit me with some new new new shit, please.

dc

Solaris

UBUWEB tweeted the link to a rip of the vinyl recording of the soundtrack to Tarkovsky's Solaris last night.  I haven't really tried to navigate UBUWEB's  apparently vast pataphysical archive, but the occasional Twitter update makes for some good passive scores like this one.

You can also look at visuals and listen to a stream of the whole thing at the bottom of this page from the Archive of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Apparently this was recorded in 1972, but the site authors can't find any evidence it was actually ever put out in the USSR.  This, despite the fact that the Japanese releases' cover art claims the music is remastered from the original Russian vinyl.  I originally went after this link because I wanted to see the original Russian artwork, but alas.  The English language art is pretty badass, though.

NEW SCOOB

 

Your day just got a little bit better. The long overdue video for the lead off hit single from the "Funkiest Brothers In the Universe" LP by the infamous SCOOBIE BROTHERS. 

Feel it.

www.thescoobiebrothers.com

dc

NEXT LEVEL

A couple bands stepping things up to the next level with new albums. Beach House have been really good for a while, but their new album "Bloom" shows them continuing to get better. Honestly, I would've guessed that they would plateau by now, it was hard for me to envision them growing within the confines of how they were set up, Victoria Legrand's smoky vocals and organ and Alex Scally playing pretty much everything else. But they continue to write great songs and the hooks get stronger on each album. "Bloom" is their best one yet, the most immediately catchy one too, and the best produced, rich and vibrant. Favorite track so far: "other people".

Stepping it up even higher is Bear in Heaven on their new album "I love you, it's cool". I've listened to and liked the other albums by these guys but the new album is a huge leap forward, much better produced and overall stronger song-writing and clearer in its vision. Sounds at times to me like the first Verve album (before they were The Verve), or a more aggressive Sigur Ros. Actually it's a weird album in that I've talked to people about it and I've had friends say that they put it on to chill out to, but I like it when I'm driving or walking around, it's got a kind of vibrancy and energy, but it's not overwhelming. Maybe like the caffeine buzz from tea versus coffee. That analogy work? 

Also, not on the stepping it up tip, but check out Forma, another Brooklyn band. I think it's 3 guys on keyboards, all instrumental, kind of the Boards of Canada tip, very cool, on Spotify.

Missives from Club Med

What's up, guys?  My current project finished a single and put it up on Bandcamp.  Now we're just waiting for the Maseratis to get ferried in to our football field sized sunbathing platform in the Mediterranean, Duran Duran style. Excelsior!

Minutemen

I have a set list from a Minutemen show from the Hoosier Ballroom in Indianapolis from sometime in '87 (I think) the summer of 85.  It keeps falling off the wall & down behind my amps, which makes it a pain in the ass to dig out.  I keep thinking I need to get it framed, or something, but a framed set list seems really cheesy, especially a framed set list from a punk band, and even more so if that band is a bunch of flannel populists like the Minutemen.  Suppose it's worth it to preserve the thing, though.

So anyway, I've decided to recreate that set.  Here it is, in the order that they wrote it down all those years ago.  Enjoy.

Wood, Wire and Wind

In case you missed this mix on the Iron Leg Blog from a few years ago, go get it STAT because it's one of my fave mixes of all times.

Sincerely,

D-Nice

Will Sessions

OOOOOOOOooooEEEEE sookie sookie now!

I’m really really feeling Will Sessions, this 5-piece out of Detroit.  They are very much in the vein of The Breakestra, The El Michael Affair, etc. if y’all are feeling that.

They did an album that’s on Spotify covering all the tracks from Nas “Illmatic” that I listened to on back to back to back to back repeat today.  They have a newer one out called "Kindred: a Tribute to the Pioneers of Jazz Fusion” that is more elusive online, which I will be on the lookout for on vinyl or even (gasp) getting on iTunes.  Check these YouTube joints out of them live:

  

God damn!  I love how the drummer has a snare, kick, hi hat and ride/crash.  Boom.   Also really feeling the percussionist/sampler role.  I guess there's nothing too revolutionary going on here, but these guys HAVE IT.  I am really feeling this.

Here’s some other stuff:

  

Feel it!

dc

Z-Trip Beastie Boys Mega Mix

This is naaaaaaaasty.

http://ztrip.bandcamp.com/album/z-trip-presents-all-access-a-beastie-boys-megamix

dc

Robert Nesta Marley

Lively up yourself and go see the documentary "Marley"
Sure, it's almost three hours long but it's about BOB MARLEY. Seen?
Enjoy the music, learn stuff about him you never knew...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/marley/

Adam Yauch, RIP

This is really sad...

dc

Belated Record Store Day Post...

I know it's late, but I did indeed find a score on Record Store Day....
That's the first Godspeed You Black Emperor! EP
"Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada"
One of my favorite pieces of recorded music, especially the A-side "Moya"

Jana Hunter - Carrion EP

This is an awesome record I've listened to a lot, super mellow singer / songwriter type stuff.  Just realized it's on Spotify so if you get down like that I recommend adding it to your playlists or checking it out.

DC

Bohren & der Club of Gore

Been feeling this big time, late night drinking/brooding music, doom/ambient/jazz. Heavy, sinister and beautiful.

Have always been a big fan of the Art of Noise.


^^^
Word!!






Got the 7"s this weekend and Let It Bleed today. Records, yay!

Garage Sale Season

Got these LP's for 5/$1.00 at a garage sale, everything for $2.00 even:

Big score was this Steve Reich 4 LP box set that is pretty awesome. Vinyl is clean but the box is pretty chewed up. Literally. Looks like the lady's dog got a hold of it.

Got this Philip Glass box set as well.

TWO copies of this John Hassell "Fourth World" joint! Maybe I can flip one for $10.00 on eBay?

This set off my spidey sense for some reason.

A bunch of other shit that probably sucks but at 20 cents a record you have to gamble. The Steve Reich was the score though, this is a really nice record. Maybe its on Spotify? Stay strong, true believers.

dc

Unholy Crap

From the Glowing Raw site:

"

Farewell to Glowing Raw

Dear friends,

Due to the increasingly hostile online file-sharing landscape, and the recent takedown of nearly all my Mediafire links in the wake of the Megaupload catastrophe, I have decided to cease posting on Glowing Raw.  I have been doing this for nearly five years now, and feel that I have accomplished what I set out to do: share the music I love with thousands of people, and spread the word about many great bands that have been unfairly marginalized in today's musical economy.

It has been great sharing so much music with you over the years, and hearing back from many of you about records that made an impact.  I feel proud of this site, and never imagined that so many people would come to use it as a resource.  Thank you for reading, and listening. 

If you have anything you want to say to me, please email me at glowingrawrecords@gmail.com.  If I begin a new project or website, you'll be sure to hear about it.

Alex"

Holy Crap!

Death Grips is on a major label!  They were signed to Epic by L.A. Reid!

Can't wait to hear this.