Archive for August, 2007
Courtesy of our friends at Fanatic Promotion i received not only an emailed press release regarding the new Pash CD, but i also received the disc, entitled The Best Gun in my mailbox yesterday. Does that seem weird to anyone else? Maybe not. But it just seemed to strange to check my mail after work and have a new CD to hear, and then check my email and coincidentally have a press release regarding the same band. Best of all? After listening to it in the car today to and from work, i can say that i’m digging it. Indie pop with female vocals will undoubtedly draw hasty Rilo Kiley comparisons, but there’s more to it than that. Kinda sounds like Kelly Clarkson being in an indie band, instead of just wanting to be in an indie band, and then taking songwriting lessons from Old Bob Pollard. Seriously. For a less absurd comparison, please refer to the Eames Era. Either way, you know what to do:
Pash - The Best Gun
Pash - ABCD
Pash - Kill the Rich Boys I
Dates:
09/02 New London, CT The Oasis
09/04 New York, NY Lit Lounge
09/12 Columbus, OH Carabar
09/13 Pekin, IL Bricks
09/14 Peoria, IL Peoria Pizza Works
09/20 Philadelphia, PA Fuel
09/22 Lunenberg, MA Andrew Hall
09/23 Somerville, MA P.A.’s Lounge
10/18 Brooklyn, NY Matchless Bar (CMJ)
-todd.
For those unfamiliar with her, Roisin Murphy was one half of electronic duo Moloko. Moloko were part of the Bristol scene that gave birth to Trip-hop alongside Portishead, Massive Attack & Morcheeba. After splitting with bandmate/boyfriend Mark Brydon, Murphy decided to go solo and release her album, Baby Blue, back in 2005. She’s now ready for album #2, titled Overpowered, which will see release in October.
If the background isn’t explicit enough, I’ll spell it out for you - this is club music, first and foremost. Gorgeous, almost ethereal female vocals over pulsating dance beats (think mid-career Kylie). It’s the sort of thing that usually makes the straight boys run for the hills whilst making the gay boys all atwitter. Trust me on this, I’ve DJ’d many a gay club in my day.
Still, there’s no reason why we straights can’t get down to a good Euro beat, and Roisin’s got plenty of those at her disposal. That plus those aforementioned lovely vocals and you’ve got a recipe for dance delight. I think there’s a subconcious fear in all straight men that if this kind of music becomes too popular we’ll re-enter the glory days of disco and be forced to get into shape to wear all those shiny shirts.
Murphy is releasing her second single off the new album - ‘Let Me Know’ - which includes remixes from the likes of Oscar the Punk, Joey Negro & Andy Cato (Groove Armada). All the mixes are available for your streaming enjoyment below, alongside downloads for another track from the album called ‘Modern Timing’ and a few Moloko songs thrown in for good measure.
Listen:
Roisin Murphy - Modern Timing
Moloko - Familiar Feelings
Moloko - Statues
[All streams in WMV format]
Let Me Know (Oscar The Punk Remix)
Let Me Know (Andy Cato Vedra Mix)
Let Me Know (Joey Negro Original Vibe Mix)
Let Me Know (Joey Negro Destination Boogie Mix)
Let Me Know (Joey Negro Destination Boogie Dub)
Watch:
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
- Sean
Let’s face it, the blogosphere introduces the majority of us to more new bands than any other source of media these days. Whenever I stumble upon a new band (or in this case, when Mark stumbles upon one), I generally do a Hype Machine search and see who else is hip to them. I created the “Introducing” category this evening to document the bands that Rock Sellout has had the pleasure of introducing folks to before anyone else.
Newcastle’s Hungover Stuntmen are the first band were going to proudly proclaim “discovering” before anyone else.
The lads had been gigging for two years when producer Mark Wallis (U2, Morrisey and Travis), heard the band’s home recordings and invited them to his studio.
Show with The Subways and The Kooks followed. Then, after hearing the demo Wallis recorded at a party, Paul Weller invited the band to open for him at Newcastle Arena.
The band spent four weeks this summer in Ibiza recording their debut album. The effort was produced by Andy Taylor (ex Duran Duran guitarist). The as-yet untitled debut is due to be released this fall on the band’s own label One Bounce.
MP3: Hungover Stuntmen - “She Knows”
Joel Gion has a new project called The Dilettantes. Who’s Joel Gion, some of you are asking?! Well, Joel was the really annoying guy in the documentary about The Dandy Warhols & Brian Jonestown Massacre (Dig!). If you haven’t had the pleasure, definitely make the effort…it’s pretty entertaining.
The band is currently hosting a video contest. The person who creates the best video for their song “Subterranean Bazaar” wins a handsome reward, love & respect.
Performance footage of the song is available for downloading on their HappyParts page.
MP3: The Dilettantes - “Subterranean Bazaar”
The Tipitina’s Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the cultural legacy of New Orleans through music education for the youth and providing programs that support working musicians of New Orleans and the Gulf Region. It conceived and executive produced Goin’ Home.
The funds raised from the sales of the album will also go toward the rebuilding of Fats Domino’s home and to create a community center in the Crescent City’s still ravaged Lower 9th Ward. Proceeds of Goin’ Home will also fund additional community related programs.
The roster of music royalty contributing their interpretations of classic Fats Domino songs include: Sir Elton John (”Blueberry Hill”), Sir Paul McCartney (”I Want To Walk You Home”), Tom Petty (”I’m Walkin’”), Robert Plant (”It Keeps Rainin’”), Willie Nelson (”I Hear You Knockin’”), B.B. King (”Goin’ Home”) and Neil Young (”Walkin’ To New Orleans”).
Goin’ Home is slated for a September 25th release.
I apologize in advance that I wasn’t cleared to share the good stuff, but here’s a few I was permitted to share…
MP3: Randy Newman - “Blue Monday”
MP3: Marc Broussard - “Rising Sun”
First thing’s first…it seems a little strange for me to be posting about an east coast american band. Here goes…
In The Fur formed in 2003. Consisting of Randy Goodman, Chris Norris and James Billington, they deliver a style of no nonsense indie rock. They have just recorded their first full length album to compliment the already released Magnificent Designs. The new album will be distributed by Glasstone Records.
The boys have an upcoming UK tour. Listing influences such as Bowie, The Beatles and The Stones as influences I think you get a general idea of where they are coming from.
In The Fur - “Smoke”
- Mark
Per the Associated Press:
CBGB founder Kristal dies
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75.
Kristal, who lost a bitter fight last year to stop the club’s eviction from its home of 33 years, died Tuesday at Cabrini Hospital after a battle with lung cancer, his son Mark Dana Kristal said Wednesday.
Last October, as the club headed toward its final show with Patti Smith, Kristal was using a cane to get around and showing the effects of his cancer treatment. He was hoping to open a Las Vegas incarnation of the infamous venue that opened in 1973.
“He created a club that started on a small, out-of-the-way skid row, and saw it go around the world,” said Lenny Kaye, a longtime member of the Patti Smith Group. “Everywhere you travel around the world, you saw somebody wearing a CBGB T-shirt.”
While the club’s glory days were long past when it shut down, its name transcended the venue and become synonymous with the three-chord thrash of punk and its influence on generations of musicians worldwide.
The club also became a brand name for a line of clothing and accessories, even guitar straps; its store, CBGB Fashions, was moved a few blocks away from the original club, but remained open.
“I’m thinking about tomorrow and the next day and the next day, and going on to do more with CBGB’s,” Kristal told The Associated Press last October.
Kristal started the club in 1973 with the hope of making it a mecca of country, bluegrass and blues - called CBGB & OMFUG, for “Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandisers” - but found few bands to book. It instead became the epicenter of the mid-1970s punk movement.
“There was never gourmet food, and there was never country bluegrass,” his son said Wednesday.
Besides the Ramones and the Talking Heads, many of the other sonically defiant bands that found frenzied crowds at CBGB during those years became legendary - including Smith, Blondie and Television.
Smith said at the venue’s last show that Kristal “was our champion and in those days, there were very few.”
Throughout the years, CBGB had rented its space from the building’s owner, the Bowery Residents’ Committee, an agency that houses homeless people.
In the early 2000s, a feud broke out when the committee went to court to collect more than $300,000 in back rent from the club, then later successfully sought to evict it. By the time it closed, CBGB had become part museum and part barroom.
At the club’s boarded-up storefront Wednesday morning, fans left a dozen candles, two bunches of flowers and a foam rubber baseball bat - an apparent tribute to the Ramones’ classic “Beat on the Brat.” A spray-painted message read: “RIP Hilly, we’ll miss you, thank you.”
Other survivors include his ex-wife, Karen, and daughter, Lisa.
Hilly, we’ll miss ya buddy.
Listen:
The Ramones - Beat on the Brat
The Ramones - We’re A Happy Family
Talking Heads - Pyscho Killer
Talking Heads - Love –>Building on Fire
Blondie - Call Me
Blondie - Atomic
Television - See No Evil
Television - Prove It
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - Night Time
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - Toilet Love
- Sean
Voxtrot will be joining Arctic Monkeys on their US Tour. As a result, the band had to cancel the remainder of their European tours dates as well as some west coast dates in the States.
Most of the cancelled dates will be rescheduled before the end of the year.
Photo: Kathryn Yu
SEPTEMBER
Wed 5 - New York, NY @ Central Park Summerstage AA ¢ SOLD OUT
Thu 6 - Providence, RI @ Lupos Heartbreak Hotel AA ¢
Tue 11 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall AA ¢
Wed 12 - Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom AA ¢
Thu 13 - Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theatre AA ¢
Sun 16 - Dallas, TX @ Palladium Ballroom AA ¢
Mon 17 - Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theatre AA ¢¥
Tue 18 - New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues 18+ ¢
Fri 21 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre AA ¢
Sat 22 - Tuscon, AZ @ Rialto Theatre AA ¢
Tue 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium AA ¢
Thu 27 - San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium AA ¢
Fri 28 - Eugene, OR @ Mcdonald Theatre AA ¢
Sat 29 - Seattle, WA @ Wamu Theatre AA ¢
Sun 30 - PNE Forum @ Vancouver, BC AA ¢
AA = All Ages
¢ = w/ Arctic Monkeys
¥ = w/ Queens of the Stone Age
MP3: Voxtrot - “Trouble”
MP3: Voxtrot - “The Start of Something”
MP3: Arctic Monkeys - “Dancing Shoes”
MP3: Arctic Monkeys - “Fake Tales Of San Francisco”
Fellow Wisconsinites, The Wildbirds, recently released their debut opus on August 14th. The appropriately titled Golden Daze is an inebriating blend of years passed rolled up into one tight package.
The effort was produced by Greg Fidelman (U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond) and engineered by Greg Gordon (Hot Hot Heat, Oasis, JET). Click here to buy it on iTunes.
“Golden Daze is…the sound of beer, groupies, and roadhouses that serve sloppy, BBQ-sauce covered ribs.”- Spin.com
“It’s a fabulous mix of music echoing of the past, but more importantly The Wildbirds evokes the swagger of yore. Their songs are wildly contagious, plumped up with exultant melodies, sing-along choruses, bruising rhythms, and the kind of splendid musicianship that will send thousands of listeners into an air-guitar frenzy. All told this is an album for the ages.” – Billboard.com
“Their stock in trade is straight-ahead, no frills rock of the sort you probably don’t even realize you dig until you’re there are you realize that, yes, that is your hair whipping around. Even if you’re bald.” – Chromewaves.net
I just had to keep hitting repeat on my player.” - Rockislife.com
MP3: The Wildbirds - “421 (Everybody Loves You)”
MP3: The Wildbirds - “Way Down Low”
The first song from the forthcoming Band of Horses album, Cease to Begin, is now avaiable for download. The song is called “Is There a Ghost”. The Sub Pop release comes out on Oct. 9th, but you can pre-ordered by clicking here.
MP3: Band of Horses - “Is There a Ghost”
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