David D feels kind of down after dumping a few dead bodies in Greenfield Lake
Wilmington, NC man David Dondero is not your average singer/songwriter. He has a magi-like gift for intertwining great storytelling with super catchy melodies that are not bo-ring. The following songs make me think Mark Oliver Everett (E) or Will Sheff. New album, Simple Love is out today on Team Love.
Yahoo: Uncle Kracker arrested for sex crime; could Drift Away into the slammer for an ass pounding.
NME: Speaking of slammers, Dirty Pretty Things and The Enemy will be playing a prison gig next week.
Aversion.com: New Beck song, “Time Bomb” will be available on iTunes tomorrow.
Rolling Stone is real into lists these days. The latest is “Songs that make you want to commit violent acts and/or blow your brains out”.
New Farrelly Bros./Ben Stiller movie looks more promising than Night at the Museum. The soundtrack features new Flaming Lips and old David Bowie.
Rating: 6.9
We Are The Night, the sixth studio album from English electronica giants, The Chemical Brothers, begins with a one-minute track that sounds like a terrestrial whale sniffing for a buried bone. The disc shows the duo loosening up, painting wide brushstrokes of sound over a soundscape that has plenty of room for bizarre creatures and wild tributaries. Electronica music is built on layering. Essentially, architects Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are trying to build something living and breathing out of hundreds of individual sampling components. The question becomes, will the product be a beautiful butterfly out of the chrysalis, or something with nineteen legs, no eyes, and genitals for wings?
The members of Octoberman hold a secret meeting after burying a few dead bodies in Stanley Park
Vancouver’s Octoberman (Marc Morrissette) will release their second album, Run From Safety, tomorrow the 21st of Augustman. Recommended if you like melodramatic popular song. Check it:
HBO have resigned Conchords for another season!
Rating: 7.8
After Swans disbanded in 1997 and it’s two primary members, Michael Gira and Jarboe, separated both personally and professionally, Gira’s Angels of Light took off and made two great albums, New Mother (1998) and How I Loved You (2001). They were both wonderful recordings in their own right, but they were also just enough of a departure that the results were inevitably less immediate than Swans, even if this departure seemed minor at the time. The Angels of Light then seemed to stagnate a little bit when they released a pretty good album entitled Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home in 2003. At this point something ineffable seemed to be slightly lacking until disappointingly in 2005, Gira managed to release both the worst and most boring record of his career, the inessential Sing Other People with Akron/Faimly as his backing group. The good news is that after two lackluster if not entirely perfunctory releases, the second of which being a split CD with his current backing band, The Angels of Light have finally returned with an album that restores vitality and confidence in their music.
Aversion.com: Wilco cancels shows due to guitarist Nels Cline (not to be confused with Nell Carter) coming down with The Pox. Apparently Tiny Mix Tapes don’t realize there is nothing funny about adult pox (see pic).
Drowned in Sound: Also Connor Oberst has the runs resulting in 4 August show cancellations.
BBC: Amy Winehouse pulls out of Stones gigs after last week’s OD.