Same. I'm not that well versed in Stereolab though. Super Furry Animals were my gateway into Sean O'Hagan's talents.
The 2011 Albums Thread
Nouvelle Vague - The Singers
"The Singers" project originally started to be planned in 2007, but at the time most of the singers who worked with the band didn't had songs of their own so it was not possible to do it at that time. During the past three years more new singers joined the band and the compilation gained form and the final result for 2011 is a high quality selection of music with exclusive and unreleased songs.
I don't know if the Knife or Fever Ray will be releasing anything this year, but this new FR song 'The Wolf' is just killer. Love it.
Thrill Jockey has a pretty sweet Japan benefit downloadable album. $15, 64 tracks. Details at this blog.
Warning: TJ's server is getting crushed.
Warning: TJ's server is getting crushed.
And now iTunes has Songs for Japan featuring the complete opposite of the Thrill Jockey comp, e.g. Lady GaGa, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, and the anti-Elvis, Michael Bublé. $9.99, 38 tracks, all proceeds to the Japanese Red Cross.
Wow that is a stacked artist roster.
beetsnotbeats wrote:
Thrill Jockey has a pretty sweet Japan benefit downloadable album. $15, 64 tracks. Details at this blog.
Warning: TJ's server is getting crushed.
Patetico Recordings is putting out a 6 volume set for the Japan Disaster Relief Fund called Rock Back For Japan. The series is named after an article that I wrote about the project. Lots and lots of good submissions including SPC ECO (Dean Garcia of Curve's band), Deep Cut (Mat Flint of Revolver's latest band), Screen Vinyl Image, Ceremony, Black Swan Lane (Mark Burgess from The Chameleones latest band), Spotlight Kid (former members of Six.By.Seven, Bent and Spiritualized), Thrushes, One Unique Signal (backs up Stephen Lawrie as The Telescopes), and lots and lots of bands from all over the planet.
Rock Back For The Japan Disaster Relief Fund
Update: Complete List Of Bands & Tracks For ?Rock Back For Japan?
Will be available digitally and in CD form.
Rock Back For The Japan Disaster Relief Fund
Update: Complete List Of Bands & Tracks For ?Rock Back For Japan?
Will be available digitally and in CD form.
Yeah that is definitely awesome, Tom and everyone involved rock!
New TV on the Radio leaked. Listened to it on my lunch run. Its pretty good but didn't grab me like Cookie Mountain and Dear Science did.
In addition to the 6 Volume series for Rock Back For Japan I mentioned above, a 7th release is being added.
From Tom Lugo, the man behind the collection:
"Based on the overwhelming response from artists from all over the globe, we are adding an additional volumen to the compilation series to help the animals in need. This one will be called: "Rock Back for Japan: Animal Rescue""
From Tom Lugo, the man behind the collection:
"Based on the overwhelming response from artists from all over the globe, we are adding an additional volumen to the compilation series to help the animals in need. This one will be called: "Rock Back for Japan: Animal Rescue""
I was unable to find the reissue thread so I will post this in here.
"Chalk Circle existed in the Washington, DC metro area punk/hardcore scene between 1981 and 1983. They were the first all-female rock or punk band to ever
record and perform in DC, and their recorded output will finally be available in one place: on the Reflection LP, released by both Mississippi Records
and Post Present Medium. The twelve songs on this release are from compilations on Outside Records and WGNS, live shows, and unreleased recordings. It
also comes with a sixteen page booklet compiled by guitarist/vocalist Sharon Cheslow that tells the Chalk Circle story in its entirety for the first time.
The booklet features photographs, press clippings, and extensive liner notes by renowned musician and producer Don Fleming, whose band Velvet Monkeys headlined
Chalk Circle's first shows.
Chalk Circle, although personally part of the birth of hardcore as friends and fans of the Dischord scene, musically never fit in to the stringent rules
of that scene. They sound like they were from a time where experimentation was rewarded, where new ideas were examined and transformed by people who were
curious and excited to fit with the moment. The ideas were then transformed again, when the moment changed. In an interview by Alex Guiness in 1982, in
response to a question about how to label Chalk Circle, vocalist/guitarist Mary Green answered, "We'll create our own tag." For those who want a tag, well,
think about the raw experimental U.S. punk of Flipper, Bush Tetras, and The Minutemen, or the innovative post-punk of Delta 5, The Swell Maps, Liliput,
and The Slits. Think about the youthful energy of DC Hardcore and the enthusiasm of teenagers making music that comes from the heart and not from copying
riffs from rock records. Think about the straight-laced nature of the nation's capital and the joy of creating your own culture in a stifling straight
world. Think about the promise of punk to teenage women. Chalk Circle expresses all this through music that is spirited, unique, creative, powerful, and
fun." –Mississippi/PPM
"Chalk Circle existed in the Washington, DC metro area punk/hardcore scene between 1981 and 1983. They were the first all-female rock or punk band to ever
record and perform in DC, and their recorded output will finally be available in one place: on the Reflection LP, released by both Mississippi Records
and Post Present Medium. The twelve songs on this release are from compilations on Outside Records and WGNS, live shows, and unreleased recordings. It
also comes with a sixteen page booklet compiled by guitarist/vocalist Sharon Cheslow that tells the Chalk Circle story in its entirety for the first time.
The booklet features photographs, press clippings, and extensive liner notes by renowned musician and producer Don Fleming, whose band Velvet Monkeys headlined
Chalk Circle's first shows.
Chalk Circle, although personally part of the birth of hardcore as friends and fans of the Dischord scene, musically never fit in to the stringent rules
of that scene. They sound like they were from a time where experimentation was rewarded, where new ideas were examined and transformed by people who were
curious and excited to fit with the moment. The ideas were then transformed again, when the moment changed. In an interview by Alex Guiness in 1982, in
response to a question about how to label Chalk Circle, vocalist/guitarist Mary Green answered, "We'll create our own tag." For those who want a tag, well,
think about the raw experimental U.S. punk of Flipper, Bush Tetras, and The Minutemen, or the innovative post-punk of Delta 5, The Swell Maps, Liliput,
and The Slits. Think about the youthful energy of DC Hardcore and the enthusiasm of teenagers making music that comes from the heart and not from copying
riffs from rock records. Think about the straight-laced nature of the nation's capital and the joy of creating your own culture in a stifling straight
world. Think about the promise of punk to teenage women. Chalk Circle expresses all this through music that is spirited, unique, creative, powerful, and
fun." –Mississippi/PPM
Really really wish I had the spare $100
lettered A-Z edition of Ecstatic Peace art/tape boxes
Offered for sale only here on Flowers & Cream is a limited to 26 copies box set of 10 new cassette releases (one of them a double cassette). Each box has hand drawn/painted/applied art as created by Kim Gordon, Bill Nace, Thurston Moore, Elaine Kahn, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, and John Moloney. All four sides of the box are utilized with the bottom featuring each artists signature w/ designated letter. These one of a kind objects will be shipped in 14" X 19" protective bubble-mailers. The images below only hint at the distinction between each set.
More pics and content info at the link
lettered A-Z edition of Ecstatic Peace art/tape boxes
Offered for sale only here on Flowers & Cream is a limited to 26 copies box set of 10 new cassette releases (one of them a double cassette). Each box has hand drawn/painted/applied art as created by Kim Gordon, Bill Nace, Thurston Moore, Elaine Kahn, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, and John Moloney. All four sides of the box are utilized with the bottom featuring each artists signature w/ designated letter. These one of a kind objects will be shipped in 14" X 19" protective bubble-mailers. The images below only hint at the distinction between each set.
More pics and content info at the link
just copped this today. amazing album.
IKEBE SHAKEDOWN - S/T in June on Ubiquity
Preview of first single, it's smokin'
http://soundcloud.com/ubiquityrecords/ikebe-shakedown-tujunga
Preview of first single, it's smokin'
http://soundcloud.com/ubiquityrecords/ikebe-shakedown-tujunga
Stumbled upon this on eMusic and it's been in heavy rotation the pass couple days.
New Street Adventurer - Just The Kind Of People EP.
It's great to find a up and coming soul outfit, that while still a little rough around the edges don't sound like they were created by committee. Blue Eyed Soul in the vein of early Style Council, that still has a bit of the snap of The Jam to them.
http://soundcloud.com/new-street-adventure
New Street Adventurer - Just The Kind Of People EP.
It's great to find a up and coming soul outfit, that while still a little rough around the edges don't sound like they were created by committee. Blue Eyed Soul in the vein of early Style Council, that still has a bit of the snap of The Jam to them.
http://soundcloud.com/new-street-adventure
New Feelies LP is actually quite good.
I really like one of the new Grouper albums (Alien Observer) but not the other one (Dream something).
New one from Battles is surprisingly good too.
New one from Battles is surprisingly good too.
http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Back-Japan-Vol-1/dp/B004W5HKSO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302628748&sr=8-1
parts 1-6 available on amazon.
parts 1-6 available on amazon.
killsaly wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Back-Japan-Vol-1/dp/B004W5HKSO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302628748&sr=8-1
parts 1-6 available on amazon.
Just came in here to post this. Glad you have it going! The more the merrier.
Be aware that right now it's only the digital versions available. Actual hard copy CDs will soon follow. Between Killsaly and I, one of us will post once available.
