Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
I cannot avoid the hypenatation thing on this band. It's Goth-power-pop-chamber-pop. Very melodic, lots of cello, mopey subject matter, "hollow" echoey production that I associate with chamber-goth groups, harmonies galore.
So in other words, Jilli must own it?
So in other words, Jilli must own it?
Yeah, I think you'd like it a lot. It's not quite as wicked as Rasputina. It's more like gothier Eliott Smith. But they're well aware of their contrasts. The title is 'Til Summer Ends and their inner picture is staged like goth Beatles.
It's consistently very pretty though.
Oh! He is also the subject of Kelly Hogan's great "Sugarbowl," on her recent Because It Feel Good -- they were co-workers, and good friends, back in her Jody Grind days. Is the CD good? Because I love the song -- it's one of the few in which Kelly really lets it rip vocally on the record, and it's quite moving as well.
Misha, I like it. The one I got (Another Reason To Fast) sounds way more like Nick Cave than Tom Waits. Except, the southern transvestite drug abuser is doing the singing, rather than being a Cave character. Several Jody Grind alum played with Smoke, and also in Benjamin's drag band The Opal Foxx Quartet.
VAST's new album (Nude) is brilliant. That is all.
Vic Chesnutt re-issues coming June 15th
Sweet! Dinosaur Jr is forthcoming with reissues of Bug & You're Living All Over Me, too.
Have you seen this: >[link]Nope. Or at least I hadn't before you linked to it. Part of me wants to reread GR and V, but a bigger part of me is a) lazy and b) thinks, "Why would I want to reread 1500 pages of dense, arcane, willfully obscure literature that I didn't get much pleasure from when I read it before?" That said, I absolutely love the line (can't find the exact quotation) that goes something like, "When Profane walked to work every morning he would glance at the news kiosk and if the New York Times did not have a two-inch banner headline he knew that everything was okay." I'll keep working on it.
David, no luck at the record show, but I did think of another major Bay Area music figure: David Murray of the World Saxophone Quartet and other projects, for whom one could make a strong case of being the most significant jazzman to emerge in the last thirty years. Just picked up the new WSQ Hendrix tribute Experience, and I wish I could say I liked it more. Maybe it will grow on me. Too much Craig Harris and not enough Hamiet Bluiett for my taste. I like the Oliver Lake arrangements of "If 6 Was 9" and "Little Wing". There is a rhythm section. It's been a while since they recorded with just horns. I've never heard Gil Evans' Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix, but I'd like to hear his interpretation. The Evans/Miles transmutation of "The Wind Cries Mary" into "Mademoiselle Mabry" on Filles de Kilimanjaro is way better than anything on the WSQ disc, and I'd guess better than anything on the Evans album, but that may be an unfair comparison as it's one of Miles' greatest.
Dinosaur Jr is forthcoming with reissues of Bug & You're Living All Over Me, too.
Is this where I mention that J. Mascis often comes into the store where I work and is a total creep?
He's one of those people who's very close with a few people, but shy around everyone else and that often comes across as rude or creepy. YJMV.
Hmm. I suppose I could give him the benefit of the doubt. But he still creeps me out. (Edit: which is not really giving him the benefit of the doubt, now is it?)
He was quite a bit intimidating when I talked to him at SXSW (at the Consonant show). It may have been shyness, but it came across as assholitry. 'Course, that was exactly what I expected of the man, and I was not disappointed.
Joe: one of us, one of us, one of us. V. is calling your name.