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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: May 20, 2011, 09:29:13 AM »

I've heard that people like the top one better large too.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: peach kelli pop tour

« on: May 20, 2011, 09:25:34 AM »

Kind of surprised you could find that image on line. Now to find one for the Utensils to really bum him out. Personal = #1 Tullycraft fan.

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Music Shit / Re: Creation Records

« on: May 20, 2011, 09:02:19 AM »

To clarify, that 12" was not really just a test pressing. It was made way later and has been repressed multiple times. They had a few at Rough Trade in late 90s (not sure why I didn't buy it). This is blurry heresay but i believe the story goes that McGee pressed these to grab some quick cash, without band's consent, repressing them here and there and leaking them underthe table for cash flow (perhaps during his drug years). I think there might be as many as a few thousand?

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: May 20, 2011, 08:04:23 AM »

Also another favorite thing - Garrett saying, "You would not BELIEVE how many times I've had to explain what City Rock is tonight."

Oh yeah Paul Quattrone was really great - his style on those songs was perfectly City.

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: May 20, 2011, 08:00:48 AM »

I thought Glenn Frey was deemed 'not City'?

I couldn't stop looking at Mitch in that beret.

Seeing Soriano in the wild was one thing - seeing him 'groove' was another. But seeing him dancing with Drew? Surreal.

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Music Shit / Re: Creation Records

« on: May 20, 2011, 07:52:36 AM »

Miller, did that email link work for you?

Really want to try & make it to SF for this. Without going in to the LPs, favorite Creation singles/EPs:

Primal Scream - All Fall Down 7"

Biff Bang Pow - Love's Going Out of Fashion 12"

Revolving Paint Dream - Flowers in the Sky 7"

Jesus & Mary Chain - Upside Down 7"

House of Love - Christine 7"

The Loft - Up the Hill & Down the Slope 12"

Pastels - Million Tears 12"

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: The 13th Floor Elevators vinyl box set

« on: May 20, 2011, 07:47:19 AM »

Fuuuck. I really can't afford this, but it really does seem like they did it right. My copies of the LPs are from various eras and honestly the first LP doesn't sund that great. Though I'm not one to usually care about mono/stereo versions, for some reason it does sound appealing in this situation.
But that would be what 7 pieces of vinyl for $189? That actually makes VOD releases sound more reasonable. Are they doing it only mail-order? Or will people have these over here? If it was $150 total I might be more easily swayed.

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Music Shit / Re: Creation Records

« on: May 20, 2011, 07:37:54 AM »

Loy told me 30 mins of the film is dedicated to the making of "Star" by Teenage Filmstars, color me excited!

Seriously though, I can't wait to see this. I'm trying to rank my favorite Creation records but it's impossible. Meat Whiplash?

Meat Whiplash is def top 5, at least on the singles side of things. Maybe if/when I get super bored today I'll come up with a list.

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Music Shit / Re: Creation Records

« on: May 19, 2011, 06:54:43 PM »

Ok, tried it again from a second email address. No dice. Dulc, any ideas?

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Music Shit / Re: Creation Records

« on: May 19, 2011, 06:22:01 PM »

Been eagerly awating a U.S. showing of this, DVD only available as region 2.

However, my RSVP email was returned as undeliverable. I'll try again.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: S S 1 0 : feedtime A Frames (last show) Liquorball Mantles + 5/20-22 SF

« on: May 19, 2011, 07:09:20 AM »

Thanks Chris!  I'll take you up on that.  Though I have a feeling you might not be alone in the "middle-aged white guy with glasses" department.

Watch it, fucko!

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Music Shit / Re: EMA: The Greatest Music Of Our Time Or Any Time

« on: May 18, 2011, 01:04:23 PM »

i know its been said on here before, probably in the bulls missives thread, to no fault of the artist, this whole thing surrounding certain artists is all these "journalists" trying be the first to anoint the next big thing.  I think people can say they like something and think its new and fresh without it having to be some bullshit "star is born" crap./

So true. The UK music world used to be so different from the US scene because the nature of the weekly NME/MM world was so conducive to a constant hyping and dropping cycle -- one that made for a pretty exciting (albeit manipulative) scene that  is/was alternately also hilarious and/or infuriating.  

But the blog & Pitchfork thing not only evened the score to that end but pushed it way further, now to the point of absurdity. With no press lag time and with information running at a comical pace, the ever-increasing constant need for daily revelation and immediate excitement drives not only the need to break a band within seconds, but even drives the state of the music - if you look at what most people are hyping these days, it's no coincidence that 90% of it is home-recorded and lo-fi, be it blown out Wavves-ish stuff, digital-reverb-maxed dark minimal stuff or fuzzed-out electronics (read 'glo-fi'). If your record takes more than four hours to record & post, you've already missed your chance!  

Sure, record labels and writers have always been driven to break the next big thing, and this effect was already totally apparent five years ago with bands like talent-challenged bands like Clap Your Hands...  who were prematurely signed, immediately everywhere, and just as quickly dropped. But at this point it's just unmanageable! People losing their shit over EMA? I mean on one hand it's absurd (I don't dig it or hate it), but on the other there is absolutely nothing surprising. A noise kid who hears MIA and goes avant-rap? I'd place money on that one going places - and fits perfectly into the new order of things. It's a sure thing... for the next couple of months.

There's a positive side of course, ie the pure excitement of being able to hear about some teenage kids in Denmark from a European guy on Termbo a good six months before it made its way over here and feeling like your actually hearing something new and fresh (and yeah, I do think the iceage record is great), but in general it doesn't make for good music - bedroom projects suddenly thrust into the wild for booking deals they can't refuse, only to be completely unprepared and unable to pull off a decent live show in big venues? I happened across a good example of this when I unknowingly witnessed that Cults band (who I had never heard but I saw a bunch of people I knew there). It was just so plain that it was a written-in-an-hour home-recorded project (another one in the Dum Dums/Best Coast vein) that became a live band way too quick. The girl singer's stage vibe was so awkward and stiff it was painful! Luckily most of us on here probably are actively ignorant of most of that type of shit so it's more or less irrelevant, but here we are, all discussing EMA.

I really hope it's pronounced EE-MUH.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Scrotum Poles 'Revelation' and Art Museums 'S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G.' 7"s now available!

« on: May 18, 2011, 11:34:26 AM »

Hey Harry, your order went out 1st class on Saturday so it should be there any day. All but a few wholesale orders have gone out - wanted to make sure I had enOugh to fill individual orders first, but the rest will go out tomorrow most likely. Stuck in finals week so a little behind on those.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: S S 1 0 : feedtime A Frames (last show) Liquorball Mantles + 5/20-22 SF

« on: May 18, 2011, 08:15:38 AM »

By the way, what outta town Termbos are coming in for the show? Curious.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: S S 1 0 : feedtime A Frames (last show) Liquorball Mantles + 5/20-22 SF

« on: May 18, 2011, 08:12:59 AM »

Check it out! Nar on public access (live footage after a minute or so). Nar at SS10 5/22.
http://www.facebook.com/originalnar

fuckin excited to see these dudes. any Holiday Routine 7''s gonna make an appearance at the merch stand?

 

I dont have any but maybe one will pop up at the record swap.

What you can be sure of is the appearance of some of the last original copies of the 4 song ep, their final single. Wouldn't be surprised if they showed up with discography CD-r's either.