photo courtesy of Midlake
Midlake have been nominated for about one million PLUG independent music awards including: indie rock album of the year, song of the year (Roscoe), and music vid of the year for Young Bride, which might be more appropriately titled, Weird Young Bride.
Check out some good times with our sea-faring friends, White Whale, in the What’s an Ocean For? video. (Be sure to keep an eye on the beer-swilling/dancing keyboardist.) Also, stay tuned for an amazing USOUNDS full album reveiw soon!
Mac feels a little uneasy after stuffing a few dead bodies in the furnace.
The new Portastatic album, Be Still Please, is the best one yet. Check out the video to Song For A Clock.
Dear Reader,
Have you ever read a CD review and thought to yourself: “Man, I gotta take a dump.”? And then after that, have you thought to yourself: “Shit, that music review I read 10 minutes ago was terrible and I can do better.”? Well, even if you haven’t, you can still apply to be a new member of the Happy Cool Fashion Usounds Writing Family. Here’s how:
1. write a CD review of something we haven’t reviewed already
2. write down a list of your 10 favorite albums from last year
3. send to (usounds@gmail.com)
That’s it! We’re looking for hip funny smart folks who want to share their creativity with the world wide web. The job is unpaid, so please don’t drop out of Community College. Instead of cash money, here are some of the perks that come along with the job:
1. Free stuff, like CDs and show tickets
2. The ability to write about whatever you’d like
3. Eternal Life
Sound good? Good. To be included on the soon-to-be-posted staff page, you’re gonna need to write at least 3 articles per month. This isn’t a ballpark figure….you really need to send stuff in. Otherwise the pages would be blank and the sun would have a huge frown face.
To be a contributing writer you need to send in at least one article per century.
If you’d like to find out more info, or if you’d like to apply, or if you’d like send us a cool forward that we have to send to 20 more people or we’ll die, make those emails out to usounds@gmail.com and hit send. You probably won’t regret it!
Sincerely,
Brandi H and Scott R
The Usounds Editing Team
You have to hand it to The Who for staying true to form, twenty-four years after their last release. Endless Wire finds the oldest punks in rock right were they should be, cranking out songs that do no less than pleasantly surprise—for the most part. Okay okay, I’ll cut’em some slack: they’re OLD.
And who’s to blame some old guys for making music? Especially if they’re a seminal singer and songwriting duo that has broken more ground than the Public Works Administration. Sure, Endless Wire conspicuously lacks memorable, anthemic numbers, but that’s not so bad. That’s already been done. Where the composer Townsend does recover some of that fleeting panache is on the pared down songs, the ones without looming, trademarked drum and bass: “God Speaks of Marty Robbins” is a pure and pretty acoustic guitar song, with songwriter singing; “Man In a Purple Dress” is equally pretty, if not for it’s acerbic subject matter, and Roger Daltrey on vocals.
In the LA area? The Prix (pronounced “pree” not like a band of assholes) have three shows left for the year, and we are giving away tickets to each show. Here are the dates:
11/18 – The Echo, Echo Park CA
11/23 – The Prospector, Long Beach, CA
11/25 – The Key Club, West Hollywood, CA (KRQQ Party)
We have one pair of tix for each show, so first come/first serve and please specify show date. Also, check out “It’s All The Way That You Trip” on The Prix Myspace page.
