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popular culture, lasted all weekend
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Also, Delorean sighted in handicap spot in Carrboro, NC
More than a coincidence?
posted Friday, September 26, 2003
Review: Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra
This is Our Punk Rock...
Con Stella Tion, 2003
Cryptic pseudo-religious packaging with bizarre remarks about "Kanada". Weird samples in the background of fifteen-minute noise-orchestral epics...is this actually?...Yes, it is a Godspeed You Black Emperor side project. The big difference here is that some of the songs are vocal- with lyrics and verses, even. This is mostly instrumental- the "song" parts are broken up by seven minute interludes. My advice, though: don't sing. It ends up deflating the somber epicness- I just see some hipster in black glasses and a gas station shirt gurgling into a mic. The Polyphonic Spree "fa so la" choral which drives "So Some Lonesome Corner" is both cheesy and stunning. And I think that's what they were going for. I like it.
posted Thursday, September 18, 2003
I don't remember anything
posted Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Review: The Dagons
Teeth for Pearls
Dead Sea Captain Records, 2003
The little promo sticker compares them to Gun Club and Blondie (Hey, those are MY band's comparisons) but I know better. These guys are goths. In the best sense. I mean, they're named after a Phonecian demigod of wine or something.
On paper, they're a stripped down guitar-drums duo. And there is a garage rock feel in places. But it's not as pronounced as a death rock romanticism, and the lumbering Zep grind of the song "Done" proves it. Goths can't resist a Kashmir rewrite. And that's a good thing.
Karie Jacobson has a screechily dreamy high voice which floats over the densely reverbed proceedings. The biggest type on the face of the CD is reserved for "AAD", so these guys are proud of their murkiness. Not lo-fi, just low. Some of the songs are dreamy and echoey. Others are clangy and dreary. Others are bouncy in a minor key way. The best are clangy and dreamy and minor-key all at the same time.
posted Tuesday, September 16, 2003
My little Carolina kid gets a taste of Yankee Hospitality on her first visit to Boston...
...it was on the sidewalk when we parked the car. The Red Sox were in their final Yankees series of the season.
posted Thursday, September 11, 2003
Review: The Atomiks
Motordeath
Slovenly Records, 2003
I can't figure out much about this Reno, Nevada band's past. The website doesn't say much and is bogged down with useless flash. Press shots have them in flamey shirts and pompadours, and there's some stand up bass on this. But even though they gig at rockabilly weekender fests, this transcends that genre. Hell, it don't even fit that genre. This is fantastic Ziggy Stardust hard rock, kinda like the Snitches record last year, more glitter than fuzzy dice. There's garage rock beats (Pin Ups?) but the freaker lyrics and George Pickard's throaty, dramatic singing make this really stand out. He's somewhere between Bowie and the Richard Butler, confident in his strained delivery of skewed lyrics.
"Miss World Goodbye" has been stuck in my head all week- sweet harmonies backing power chords and drag-queen-on-the-streets lyrics. "Dance of Fools" has a nice awkward synth riff on top of a Rocky Horror chorus and go-go cage guitars, not unlike my hometown fave's Jett Rink. You left me with a brand new heart attack! "Death in Cars" "Officer 23" "Motordeath" and "Motorbride", they've got a ton of good songs on here working around that "wrap your hands accross my engines" mid-seventies vibe. They even get a bit hippy-dreamy on "Carrie", and it works. Charismatic stuff from greasers gone all frizzy.
posted Sunday, September 07, 2003
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