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Music Shit / Re: upcoming mississippi releases

« on: August 19, 2008, 01:35:32 PM »

I thought Mississippi only dealt in 50+ year old obscurities and international sounds? I guess not.

They reissued a Dog Faced Hermans album, too.

Does anyone know if they've gotten permission for any of these, or are all they bootlegs?

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Music Shit / Re: Crystal Stilts review on Dusted

« on: August 19, 2008, 01:33:34 PM »

Anyone who intentionally juxtaposes bands on his influences list like that ("Coil, The Beach Boys, Swans, The Beatles, Nurse with Wound") is probably a douchebag. What's way grosser is his personal page--Who I want to meet: "Klaus Kinski and Karen Carpenter. At an orgy." Ugh.

Anyway, I saw about half of Crystal Stilts' set when they opened for VG, and I have to admit I started doing the Ian Curtis dance within seconds of hearing them. Didn't get a Flying Nun vibe at all, but I wasn't really paying attention.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Sacred Bones PRE-ORDERS Blank Dogs, Zola Jesus, Dead Luke, HEBV

« on: August 18, 2008, 02:26:44 PM »

Been waiting for these!

LOVE Zola Jesus!

HEBV is really cool, too.

So is Dead Luke.

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: August 13, 2008, 04:24:49 PM »

Railroad Jerk - first album (not that bad, actually)

Why did you think it would be bad? That first album is my shit. They quickly went down the shitter, but that first album is a masterpiece. I have it on vinyl AND cassette!!!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: New Hozac 7"s

« on: August 12, 2008, 06:04:15 PM »

I can't believe Black Orphan has a song called Mass Effect, how delightfully nerdy.  Great game!

You know what's nerdy? Using the adverb "delightfully."

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Music Shit / Re: Shoegaze thread.

« on: August 11, 2008, 01:51:42 PM »

If Spacemen 3 can be shoegaze (I wouldn't call them that), then it's not a huge stretch to say F/i is shoegaze, I guess. But, I basically think of bands that sound like MVB, and in the early 90's, there were a lot of bands that fit that description.

As for American shoegaze, there was stuff like Drop Nineteens or the Swirlies (both of whom I kinda liked at the time--high school), but it doesn't stand up too good. Medicine's "Shot Forth Self Living" might just be the great lost American shoegaze classic. Or not.

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Music Shit / Re: Proto Loft Pop

« on: August 11, 2008, 01:47:00 PM »

And the thread comes full circle. Actually, some of the recent Circle stuff is kinda like Loft Machine.

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Music Shit / Re: Proto Loft Pop

« on: August 11, 2008, 11:56:29 AM »

Eddie Henderson had some good fusion albums with a lot of the same dudes as Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band.

Coming kind of from the other direction, Soft Machine had some good fusion albums through 4 or 5, and some offshoots like Elton Dean's band had good records.

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Music Shit / Re: Robert Quine

« on: August 11, 2008, 08:54:52 AM »

Never been a big Voidoids fan, but I really love that Lou Reed album The Blue Mask that he plays on. 

Then you and I have opposite tastes! I'm a huge Voidoids fan and tried to track down everything else Quine played on, and that "Blue Mask" album is almost unlistenable to me, as is most Lou Reed solo.

The "Basic" album he did with Fred Maher is an interesting listen.

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Music Shit / Re: Proto Loft Pop

« on: August 11, 2008, 08:49:08 AM »

Categorizing stuff as "free jazz" is tricky because a lot of people automatically think of skronky saxophones or Cecil-style keyboard destruction when they hear the term. It's really more about improvising that is not tied to the chords of the head arrangement. A lot of Mingus's stuff was proto-free, and a lot of modal jazz was, too, in that it was looking for other things to improv off of, rather than the chords. "Kind of Blue" was the big modal breakthrough, I don't see how "Bitches Brew" would be. I mean, all of Miles's 60s stuff was pretty modal. That quintet with Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Tony Williams made some amazing music. And sure, some of those principles carried over to his fusion stuff, as well.

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Music Shit / Re: Proto Loft Pop

« on: August 10, 2008, 02:43:14 PM »

There have always been a lot of underground rock dudes into free jazz. Lester Bangs used to write about free jazz some, and Richard Meltzer basically stopped listening to rock and only listened to free jazz and pre-war blues some time in the 80's. Meltzer was never really accepted as jazz critic by other jazzbos, though.

Francis Davis's "In the Moment" is a good read if you want a look at jazz, free and otherwise, in the 80's. A lot of jazz critics seemed to think Anthony Davis was the best shit going in the early 80's, but his career hasn't really lived up to his early potential.

Any of you jazz dudes like Vijay Iyer? He's an Indian-American jazz pianist, pretty much the most exciting guy in jazz right now from what I can tell. I don't know if people consider it free jazz, but it can get pretty "out." He does a lot of interesting stuff with rhythm and never gets cheesy like a lot of M-Base shit did.

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: August 08, 2008, 01:35:51 PM »

Thanks, DJ Rick. I thought it might be the kind of thing that sinks in after repeated listenings, but I'm broke right now, so I think I'm gonna have to pass on the LP. Would be interested in checking her out live, especially since you said she was hot!!!

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: August 08, 2008, 12:50:46 PM »

U.S. Girls LP
My first impression is that this is terrible.  Not just terrible, actually, but kind of decadent in its terribleness.  How did we get here?  This shit just isn't serious or fun or thoughtful or kick-ass or even particularly weird.  And I really hoped it would be at least one of those things.  Bullshit?  Anybody? 

Bold. I'm kinda glad you said this, I haven't picked up the LP yet, but was going to on the strength of the Siltbreeze "brand." Despite living in Chicago, I've never seen U.S. Girls live, but their MySpace tracks left me feeling about like you do about the record. I'd be really interested in anyone else's feelings on this. I know Kevin's a fan, but it seems kinda tailor-made for him in a way.

Family of God 2lp, found today for 99 cents.  A self-released, all-over-the-map psych-pop record by two dudes in NYC.  Kinda terrible, but also old (recorded in 1996) and therefore slightly interesting.  At least it seems to have been made by adults.  And the cover is pretty.

That was something of a cult classic at my college radio station. I never tried to track it down, but would love to come across it for 99 cents, for sure. A total mid-90's oddity record.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Columbus Discount Records Singles Club Year One

« on: August 06, 2008, 10:44:14 AM »

My only decision was whether I could wait to have them shipped quarterly or whether I needed them as soon as they come out. In these tough times, I decided I could wait and save the 10 bucks. That's two gallons of gas!

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody listening to? Part III

« on: August 01, 2008, 09:31:26 AM »

I agree. Hate it.