You may have noticed a hiatus of updates over the past week. There were some 1400 bands in NYC last week for CMJ and instead of highlighting the what's-what and who's-whatnots while it was going on, I'll use this week to give a rundown of what went down. Yarp.
In the meantime, crunch on these informative PSA's!
And this is my, and will be your, favorite skit by These Flying Circi:
Gilliam is my fav. Take a gander at his stylistic aggressions toward the absurd and brilliance. Top notch.
Throughout the Python cannon, Gilliam's interludes created cohesiveness when there was none to be had. Enter animation and suspension of disbelief. To each and to all's awe.
It's certainly no Judean's Peoples Front contribution... Fuckin' splitters.
It's the People's Front of Judea!!
Since breaking wits with the circi... Gilliam went on to direct quite a few American noticed films ~ oddly enough, as he was the only American of the troupe ~ Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King(1991) and 1995's 12 Monkeys. His latest flick was released Oct. 16th:
You're a Wolf here spent many many minutes on repeat when it came out on Dangerbird Records in their 2007 album Leaves in the River. From the same album... Winter Windows shared those many minutes.
Their September 22, 2009 release White Water, White Bloom doesn't have the same airy-awesome drive that was so damn appealing throughout their previous album. I've read, or more likely, heard, somewhere that their intentions were for a more full-band sound and with the help of producer/multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis (Saddle Creek) I suppose that was achieved. And Alex Church's vocals still resonate and crescendo on cue. Which is nice.
Sea Wolf is on tour with Port O'Brien and will be at Mercury Lounge tonight and at Union Hall in Brooklyn on Friday night. Get it.
From the album, Threadbare ~ Port O'Brien's October 6th release ~ here's a cool song:
The Shackeltons will be playing at Bruar Falls in Brooklyn on Friday night for only eight dollars. Frontman Mark Redding does his darndest to channel Ian Curtis and a live viewing is highly recommended. Your Movement is from their 2007 self-titled album released on KEXP disc jockey John Richards' label, Loveless Records.
The band is named after Earnest Shackleton, an explorer who most notably attempted to cross Antarctica on foot in the early 1900s. Spoiler alert! He died of a heart attack.
Along a similar faulty vein, The Breaks was directed by Sam Jones ~ who also directed the 2002 Wilco-doc I am Trying to Break Your Heart. A must see.
I was a guest host on my buddy's show ~ All Over The Shop ~ on East Village Radio this past Saturday night. Check that archives page to tune in to that episode... OR tune in this Saturday night from 6pm-8pm when I'll be hosting the program all-by- my-damn-self.
There will be upcoming dates in November that I will be covering on the show as well.
The folks at NASA will be blowing chunks out of the moon tomorrow morning.
At 7.30am EST, the LCROSS mission will launch some rockets into the south pole of the moon in attempts to snatch up presumed deposits of frozen water laying below the lunar surface.
I hope Coca-Cola jumps on board and comes out with some awesome lunar-cola by the holidays. I've been hearing about this magical moon now for decades and demand an outer-space additive to my high-fructose corn syrup based consumable beverage. By the holidays.
ApSci is a now Bronx-based duo comprised of Raphael Lamotta and his Filipinio-Australian wife Dana Diaz-Tutaan. They have been performing together since 1998 and signed to the San Francisco-based underground hip-hop label Quannum Projects in 2004.
A classically-trained singer with theater background, Diaz-Tutaan toured Australia with Blackalicious in 2004 and, in 2006, was asked to play the lead role in Here Lies Love, a musical collaboration with David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim. ApSci's new album ~ Best Crisis Ever ~ is out October 13th, 2009.
ApSci plays MonkeyTown on Friday night. Expect a visual-explosion accompaniment on the BIG screens.
The oxford-clad quatro have officially announced their upcoming album ~ Contra ~ will be released state-side January 12th, 2010. These guys had the market cornered on all things kitchy-Columbia University-prep. I see they've widened there nets for all-things-nostalgic for the rest of the white people born in the 1980's. Perhaps an homage to all things sitting-in-front-of-a-television is to be expected.
Is there no stopping them? Let's just see if they get their instruments on that Fraggle Rock movie I keep hearing about.
Click for a free download of their new single Horchata.
Lorne Greene was a Canadian. He was known to fellow Canadians as "The Voice of Doom," an epithet he acquired as the chief radio announcer for CBC radio from 1939 to 1942, the height of Canada's darkest days of WWII. He would later become a Canadian pioneer figure in early Hollywood.
Greene is best known for playing the patriarchal character Ben Cartwright on the long-running western Bonanza (1959-73). Throughout the 70's Greene was also popular as the spokesman for Alpo Beef Chunks dog food commercials. Weeks before this death in 1987, he had signed on for a revival of Bonzana. Bummer... no reprisal.
In 1964, Greene had a #1 single on the charts ~ although which charts is still in question ~ with the western ballad Ringo. Growing up I had this 45 on my jukebox in the basement. I swear I could play the best pool of my life while serenaded by "The Canadian Voice of Doom."
Tune in peoples. Terry Jones' son has produced and filmed a six-part documentary airing along side all of the best-bestest Monty Python skits and full-features on IFC. The cast comprised of these blokes:
The oxford-clad quatro have officially announced their upcoming album ~ Contra ~ will be released state-side January 12th, 2010. These guys had the market cornered on all things kitchy-Columbia University-prep. I see they've widened there nets for all-things-nostalgic for the rest of the white people born in the 1980's. Perhaps an homage to all things sitting-in-front-of-a-television is to be expected.
Lorne Greene was a Canadian. He was known to fellow Canadians as "The Voice of Doom," an epithet he acquired as the chief radio announcer for CBC radio from 1939 to 1942, the height of Canada's darkest days of WWII. He would later become a Canadian pioneer figure in early Hollywood.
