Best Dressed
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra at Neumo’s, Thursday June 21
I’ve noticed that in terms of big underground music scenes in the northwest, afrobeat doesn’t exactly take the cake. Nevertheless, whenever and wherever the Brooklyn-based Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra rolls through, I’ll make it my business to be there, and so will you if you know what’s good for you.
Brand new Interpol stream for Pioneer to the Falls with incredible Windows Media light show!
Janet Reno has her own 3-disc compilation called, Songs for America featuring Devendra and Andrew Bird.
These fists were made for rockin’.
Aversion.com: Test Icicles guy goes country.
Catch The National live tonight on NPR around 10:00pm. Here’s the first video off their fifth album (Boxer) for “Mistaken for Strangers”:
Hood Internet: TV on the Radio vs UGK – “I was an International Player” [mp3]
Rating: 6.0
The artwork on David Bazan’s EP Fewer Moving Parts depicts Bazan-as-lumberjack, walking through the woods. He approaches a tree, and in the span of six pages he chops it down. Upon closer inspection, there is a little heart visible on a close-up of the tree, with the initials DB and TW inside of it. It doesn’t take a detective’s training to deduce what is going on here, and I quickly surmise that the DB is Bazan himself, and that the TW is TW Walsh, friend and former conspirator in Pedro the Lion. Without Googling a word I realize that Bazan has created a breakup album, and that the breakup is between him and his old band (which was pretty much just him anyways), and that his new sound is going to be totally unprecedented. Though I feel pretty confident about my assertion and even begin writing this review, I decide to give the album a listen, which is a pretty advanced protocol as far as usounds is concerned. The results of my investigation will horrify you.
Cold Beer and Cigarettes [mp3]
This week’s new releases: Art Brut – It’s a Bit Complicated, The White Stripes – Icky Thump, Maps – We Can Create, The Polyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army, The Mooney Suzuki – Have Mercy, and Bon Jovi – Lost Highway (?).
According to an Amazon.com editorial review, “The moods are many, but the core feeling is pure Bon Jovi.”
NME: Ryan Adams admits to snorting heroin with coke and taking the occasional speedball (and by occasional, I mean every day); Instead of dying, cranks out an assload of records.
Vince Neil’s Motley Cruise vs. The Ben Folds Experience.
What could be more relaxing than 4 days of ROCK on the high seas of Miami/Key West/Mexico with Vince Neil, Skid Row and Slaughter?
Stream new Spoon album on Merge before the July 10th release date.
Wolf Parade add west coast tour dates.
Preview new Caribou song “Melody Day” on MySpace. Because it’s good.
NME: The Fratellis said, “No fucking way” to recording the official song for David Beckham’s first game as an LA Galaxy player. Jon Fratelli added, “If we don’t get successful on our own terms then we won’t do it at all.” Okay, so what about that ipod commercial?
Seattle, WA – A Long, Long Time Ago @ Neumo’s (June 1st)
Unfortunately we were really late for All Smiles due to shows starting early and on time these days in Seattle. Also, I felt trapped at the dive bar across the street listing to some mangled-looking, old-man-river guy talk to me about the history of plumbing. He started the timeline over 2800 years ago when King Minos of Crete created the first flushing water closet complete with a wooden seat and everything. I was like, fuck, how are we gonna cover 2800 years of plumbing in ten minutes? But not wanting to be rude and perhaps needing a “safety” piece of ass sometime in the future, we powered though it.
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