The Trucks Interview

| Shrie Bradford

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Photo courtesy of The Trucks

Ladies and Gentlemen, fresh out of Bellingham, Washington.…. we have THE TRUCKS!

No, The Trucks aren’t a group of man-bears out for revenge against your mom because she caught your little sister humpty humpin’ in the back of their skanky, and sickeningly smoky, VW Bus. They’re four luscious ladies who will win you over with their boisterous fishnet electro-pop. Touted as the bastard love children of Peaches, Debbie Harry and The Bangles (with a little Kate Bush thrown in for good measure), The Trucks are sassing their way into our hearts, our pants and certainly our dancing shoes.

Shrie Bradford: So how did you decide on the name The Trucks? It wouldn’t happen to be because you all drive Cummins Turbo Diesel 4×4 Dodge Ram extended cab pickups complete with Superwinchs and KC lights, would it?

The Trucks: Marissa, our keyboard and xylophone player, just blurted out that name when we were first asked what our name was. She’s so clever.

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Sparklehorse – Live in Seattle, WA

| Andrew Boe

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Showbox
Seattle, WA
February 14, 2007

Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse has taken five years of hermetic exile from music since 2001’s incredible It’s a Wonderful Life. In that half-decade, he rarely updated his website and only released one or two tracks on compilation albums. The recently released Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain is pretty good, but contains the god awful single, “Don’t Take my Sunshine Away.” The new album also sees Linkous in a bit of a dry spell. That is to say he seems to be suffering from writer’s block because four of the twelve tracks are outtakes, either previously released songs or re-recorded ones, from his last album. Incidentally, those songs are also the best ones on his new record.

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Aqueduct Or Give Me Death [Barsuk]

| Andrew Boe

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Rating: 2.0

David Terry is Aqueduct or Aqueduct is David Terry, an Oklahoma transplant who now resides in Seattle and has generated a following by opening up for bands such as Modest Mouse and the Flaming Lips. His last album, I Sold Gold was released in 2005 on Barsuk Records and helped to establish Terry in the independent music community with it’s subtle electronic arrangements and retro drum machine led rhythms. That record has possibly the worst cover that I have ever laid eyes on, which in itself signaled an obvious attempt to display, before even hearing a single note, that this was going to be derivative throwback rock. Musically, there were some intriguing things going on, but the listener has to get past the almost unbearable Ben Folds-like vocals and elementary lyrics.

Album stream: Or Give Me Death

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Seattle Ticket Giveaway – Alexi Murdoch & Midnight Movies

| USOUNDS

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Photo taken by Sweet James Iha

Even your mom knows who Alexi Murdoch is. Midnight Movies, however, are like a little slice of psychedelia right here on Earth combining haunting melodies and sexy female vocals that may remind you of Laetitia Sadier and Nell Carter. Here’s a link to their Patient Eye mp3.

If you are gonna be in the Seattle area this Saturday February 24th (21+!) and would like to catch Alexi Murdoch and Midnight Movies at the Croc, be our first emailer to usounds AT gmail DOT com and we’ll make it happen.

mp3 of the Day – Bright Eyes

| USOUNDS

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Teenage girls wanna rock this

Cassadaga, the new full-length from Bright Eyes, will be released on April 10. The first single from the album, Four Winds, is set to be released as the Four Winds CD/12″ on March 6 and will include 5 exclusive b-sides that are all various covers of “Winds of Change”. Touring for Cassadaga and Four Winds will begin on February 25 in Chicago.

Four Winds mp3
Bright Eyes MySpace