Albums in 2005

Well I had hopes for a Driveblind CD, but am beginning to worry about what if anything will appear. Hailing from Aberbeen Scotland, the band caused a bit of a stir in LA at Viper Room showcases and were signed to Interscope. I've been spinning the song "The Fool Rides Again" since early last year a song which was a live in the studio demo. Driveblind decided to go straight for the same sort of Geezer rock the Charlatans are doing these days.

Why am I worried? They have been recording forever and have worked with two producers, both of which are never good for a new band. So we'll see…

Journey will hit the studio to work on their thirteenth album due this summer. Tour to follow.

Journey without Steve Perry is like the Smiths without Morrissey.

Originally posted by vansmack:
Journey will hit the studio to work on their thirteenth album due this summer. Tour to follow.

Journey without Steve Perry is like the Smiths without Morrissey.

Thats a statement you don't hear very often. :mad:

Originally posted by vansmack:
Journey will hit the studio to work on their thirteenth album due this summer. Tour to follow.

and on a very unrelated note.. most the guys in journey shop at my parents health food store.. and apparently they really like my parents because they keep giving them all sorts of pics, etc. :D now if i were really smart, id try and get my parents to hook me up with free tickets or something.

Moose is currently in the studio recording material. This is a band that is made up of perfectionists and they usually take a bit of time to do things. There's no set release date for anything yet, but I think it's exciting they're in the studio working on something. I know, I know, there's only about 2 of you that have even heard of Moose, let alone heard them, but hey, thought i'd post about it anyway…

eels new single (trouble with dreams) can be heard here http://www.myspace.com/eelstheband

too bad Guiny doesnt seem to be around to say how much the eels suck, just pretend he did say it

Originally posted by ratioci nation:
eels new single (trouble with dreams) can be heard here http://www.myspace.com/eelstheband

too bad Guiny doesnt seem to be around to say how much the eels suck, just pretend he did say it

Nice!! I really like "Old Shit New Shit" E almost always sounds good to these ears.

Review of new British Sea Power album

looks like Robot Ate Me got signed to a label (5RC) and their album from last year is more widely available after last week

free mp3 here
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seems that Chris whitley is releasing a new album this year - soft dangerous shores

http://www.chriswhitley.net/

Coldplay have announced the tracklisting for their eagerly-awaited third album 'X&Y'.

The album will be preceded by the single 'Speed of Sound' on Monday 23 May.

NME.com reports that the full tracklisting for the album is as follows:
Square One
What If
White Shadows
Fix You
Talk
X&Y
Speed of Sound
A Message
Low
The Hardest Part
Swallowed in the Sea
Twisted Logic

From the Warlocks: Hallelujah! The Warlocks new album tentatively called Surgery was mastered today! The release date is set for some time around July or August. We are sorry about some of these delays, but making records on this scale (something The Warlocks aren't used to) can be quite complex. Speaking of complex, plans are in the works for a possible DVD, and a limited edition vinyl version of Surgery with some different songs, song order and layout.

Do Me Bad Things out in the UK, I certainly hope it doesn't take forever to reach these parts. Here's a label for ya, Ace, But maybe not for everyone…. the fact this nine piece rock/pop/soul outfit started as a Stoner rock trio could scare some off.

http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml

Originally posted by ratioci nation:
New Okkervil River album in April

track here http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/forreal.mp3

I think it is great, then of course, I would

It is a shame they arent staying on the Decemberists tour long enough to be here

Originally posted by brennser:
http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml

I just ordered mine today, but I wouldnt buy it on the strength of that review if you have not already heard them, it mentions every hype touchstone of the last few years. It also says the last album was great, when the album before that is clearly better. Good to see them getting such a positive review though. Hopefully it doesnt mean their show will be hard to get in to, although earlimart may make it that way anyway.

thanks for posting the link

Originally posted by ratioci nation:
Mountain Goats Plan Expanded LP,

Darnielle on the Edge of Town

The Mountain Goats and Bruce Springsteen will both release records on April 26. Guess which one these lyrics are found on:

I broke free on a Saturday morning
I put the pedal to the floor
Headed north on Mills Avenue
And listened to the engine roar

My broken house behind me and good things ahead
A girl named Cathy wants a little of my time
Six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking
Uh-huh, listen to the engine whine


A-ha! You think. Thatâ??s clearly Springsteenâ??it sounds just like an outtake from 1978â??s Darkness on the Edge of Town. But these verses come from â??This Year,â? one of many standout tracks written by head Mountain Goat John Darnielle for The Sunset Tree, which I was able to hear an advance copy of thanks to the kind folks at The Compact Disc Store (clever name there, guys. What do you sell?). A lot of these songs recall vintage Springsteen in terms of lyrics and in terms of production; the album often sounds like Darkness-era songs re-conceived for the later stops of the Tom Joad tour, when Bruce added some occasional and understated drums and strings to what had been a one-man show, producing revelatory new interpretations of his back catalogâ??all weary and contemplative, empty space punctuated by sparse instrumentation that sounded lush anyway. Had Springsteen had spent his mid-to-late-twenties reading Sophocles and Virgil and smoking a flippinâ?? joint or two instead of watching John Ford movies, reading Steinbeck and heroically abstaining for his art, Darkness might have sounded a little like The Sunset Tree. Both albums chronicle the conflicts between intense poet-rockers in the making and emotionally wrecked, physically shattered father-figures, and both albums hold out the power and promise of rock nâ?? roll as salvation from the desperation and brutality of life.

(If Darnielle spent most of his til-now career writing songs about people who were absolutely not himâ??the Alpha Couple, Grendelâ??s motherâ??and gradually turned towards autobiography with this album and its immediate predecessor, Springsteen has been walking the other direction on that road, gradually paring the autobiographical songs from his albums in favor of third-person narratives about very non-Springsteenly peopleâ??Mexican immigrants and meth-makers. Itâ??d be interesting to see how The Ghost of Tom Joad and We Shall All Be Healed overlap and inform each otherâ??one set of songs about illegal immigrants ruining their lives running drugs and cooking meth and another set about speed-freaks ruining their lives taking meth and running from the damage theyâ??ve caused).

But Iâ??ve probably tortured that comparison long enough; there are no doubt some of you who would not see comparisons to Springsteen as a compliment. I see you there: youâ??re easily identifiable by your stooped posture, the consequence of a lifetime shouldering the back-bending burden of your impeccable indie cred. Regardless, The Sunset Tree is a great album, if sometimes hard to take. These are some of the best songs Darnielle has written, but theyâ??re at times so brutal, so raw, that they often make for uncomfortable listening. Itâ??s hard to imagine a sloshed concert-goer shouting out requests for a narrative of abuse like â??Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?â?â??and not just because itâ??s really hard to say with beer-tongue.

And speaking of saying: one of the most effective weapons in The Mountain Goatsâ?? arsenal is Darnielleâ??s voice; thereâ??s not a performer this side of late-era Dylan who uses his voiceâ??s limitations more effectively than Darnielle, and this record indicates that heâ??s still honing that particular blade. It would be easy for him to rely on the soul-in-tatters yelp that lends such force to such past fan-faves as â??Home Again Garden Groveâ? or â??Family Happinessâ?â??and it does claw its way free here, at the end of â??Dilaudidâ? and most effectively on â??Up the Wolvesâ? and â??The Magpieâ?â??but elsewhere he sings in a haunting, whispery falsetto. It makes sense. Too many cold-eyed rave-ups would have seemed weird and out of place on an album that is in large part about a protagonist struggling with the desire to be invisible, about wanting to act but fearing the terror and pain that are sure to follow.

In lesser hands, this album could have been a disasterâ??a song-cycle about a teenagerâ??s bad relationship with his abusive stepfather, one that name-checks Kurt Cobain. But then again, it also name-checks pianist Dinu Lipatti, reggae legend Dennis Brown, and the she-wolf who nursed the legendary founders of Rome in their infancy and abandonment, so that Cobain reference is well earned. Itâ??s that sense of perspective and context that helps these songs transcend the limitations of autobiographical, confessional, heart-sleeve tedium. In fact, I think itâ??s a mark of the albumâ??s success that I went back and forth on the question of whether it did indeed achieve that transcendence until the final track, â??Pale Green Things,â? which throws a strange and bright new light on everything that comes before it. Not only one of the best songs in the Mountain Goatsâ?? catalog on its own, it also rearranges the rest of the album into a whole thatâ??s more complicated, more rewarding, and ultimately more satisfying than the one I might have been expecting.

http://prettyfakes.com/?p=303

Is this buried in here somewhere?

Lucero

Alright ya'll… I know it's been awhile since this thing was updated, but we've been busy working on a new site and a new record and it'll all come together real soon. It looks like the new record, which will be called Nobody's Darlings, is set for release May 24th… if everything goes according to plan. We'll start a two month nation-wide tour that day too. That's the plan.

From the Dandy Warhols site (yeah its now in 3-D for those interested in checking it out)

April 08, 2005

It's No Joke, Jack

And the winners are:

Colder Than The Coldest Winter Was Cold
Love Is The New Feel Awful
Easy
All The Money
Movin' Out
Holding Me Up
Jamaica
Totally Insane
Smoke It
Down Like Disco
This Time
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