Yay, go Jason!
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Congrats to the man!
I'm preeeeetty sure I'm our only bandomy fan who likes LeATHERMØUTH, but this Jersey Beat interview with Frank is fantastic. There is audio to download if you click right above "Deb Draisin"
(Don't worry, no music) [link]
LeATHERMØUTH
Wait, is there really a thing through the O? That's why Frank's so cranky! Obviously a moose bit his sister!
Moosebite explains a LOT.
I've been to five of their shows now (well, one was a launch party in a record store so it was a little less raucous) and it gets real primal in there... lots of good clean rage releasing and I spend the next few days feeling like I've had a massage. [link]
My second favorite part of the interview is when Frank says that if there were no bands he'd make music drumming on a rock.
(My favorite part is that at about 7:56 and 10:45 you hear Toro play and laugh. Because I am that girl.)
For the Venn diagram where Bowie fans intersect with Avatar fans, I'll share Emmett's comment while watching the climactic battle between Azula and Zuko in Sozin's Comet: "Azula was who David Bowie was writing about when he wrote 'Queen Bitch.' He knew what he was talking about - oh yeah."
Sasquatch Festival lineup announced
This year, the festival has: Jane's Addiction (feat. all four original members), Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Erykah Badu, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective, Silversun Pickups, Bon Iver, Santigold, Of Montreal, Explosions In The Sky, Devotchka, Peter Bjorn & John, Gogol Bordello, M. Ward, The Avett Brothers, Doves, Calexico, Grizzly Bear, M83, Girl Talk, The Gaslight Anthem, The Walkmen, Chromeo (dj set), Deadmau5, Mugison, Sun Kil Moon, Airborne Toxic Event, Blitzen Trapper, Shearwater, BLK JKS, The Wrens, Tobacco, Monotonix, King Khan & The Shrines, St. Vincent, Passion Pit, John Vanderslice, Bishop Allen, Blind Pilot, AA Bondy, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, The Dodos, Beach House, Arthur & Yu, The Submarines, Owl City, Viva Voce, James Pants, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, The Builders & The Butchers, The Dutchess & The Duke, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele, Fences, School of Seven Bells, Death Vessel, Horse Feathers, Hockey, Point Juncture, WA, The Pica Beats, Loch Lomond, Vince Mira & more to come.
Sasquatch takes place May 23-25 at the Gorge in George, Washington.
Elizabeth Gilbert's TED talk on genius is freaking amazing...and there's a wonderful Tom Waits anecdote around minute 12. [link]
Elizabeth Gilbert's TED talk on genius is freaking amazing...and there's a wonderful Tom Waits anecdote around minute 12.
When she got to the Tom anecdote, I realized she was the reporter from GQ who interviewed him.
And she's the only reporter that ever got invited to his house to meet Kathleen Brennan, but then she couldn't.
But it was a great interview - they obviously had a strong connection, and it's a very moving piece.
Touch & Go is getting out of the distribution biz. This is a big deal for a bunch of small record labels.