Today, we have a little song from Thank You Music's "Otter King Of The Animals" EP:
Thank You Music is also known as Louie, from A Brief Smile. He was sitting on the couch listening to his own tunes (what an ego he must have!) and listening from the next room over, I was floored at how great they were. The entire EP is a built-in-Macbook-mic + Garageband recording but due to Louie's seeming ingenuity, they sound great. Really fucking great. I pretty much decided on the spot that I needed to get the stuff out on this website. So we'll be putting up the rest of "Otter King Of The Animals" in the next week but until then:
kc quilty needs your help. The truth of the matter is that being in a band that's not currently getting full release massages from Pitchfork on the daily costs a lot of dough. It's also not glamorous like people seem to think. We basically sink a shitload of money into doing what we like and see very little monetary return. Of course, we wouldn't keep doing it if we didn't love it (why the fuck else would we run a label in an industry that's completely fucked?!).
As it is, we're in a bit of a tough position. We don't have the money to properly record and print up their debut album "Clover/Coriander". Some tracks are done, others are not, and we are at the point where we have to give up Ollie's scallion pancakes for Ramen noodles. If any of you have had Ollie's scallion pancakes, this is a big deal. Ramen noodles suck. We are looking to raise one thousand dollars ($1000) to get this puppy off the ground. If you donate now through kickstarter, you can OWN a piece of this project. Check this out:
You donate and based on the level of your donation, you are promised a certain package of rewards. If we don't reach $1000, nobody pays. If we do, well then you get to see the project through with us. Here are the rewards we're offering:
PLEDGE $1 OR MORE The satisfaction of doing good in the world, plus a personalized thank you email.
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Help us make Clover/Coriander a reality! Help us eat scallion pancakes once again!
Fuck man, what's the point of having a lil record label if you can't put your own pet projects out?! Marduke is me, Julian Fader.
According to me a few hours ago:
"These days, there's really no such thing as a "demo" for the home recordist. "Sketches" become "demos" become "actual songs" and one hardly realizes that one has arrived. As it were, all of these are songs that started out as sketches for me. Some of them never got past that, some of them are much more "finished", whatever that means. I'll leave it up to you to figure out which are which; I like them all the same. Calling this a "solo album" would infer that I'm in some sort of popular band that garners enough attention that I would have the oppurtunity to "go solo". I'm not, although I am in kc quilty (www.myspace.com/kcquilty) and we are liable to melt your face off. These are just some songs that I made for myself because recording for me is like yoga or mediation for others. I zoned out, I made these songs, I think some other people might like them. If not, it's okay. They've already served their purpose."
There you have it. I'd love to hear what you have to say. The download is free but if you wanna throw a few dollars my way to keep this site/this music going, I'd be much appreciative.
The Jesus & Mary Chain (with Hope Sandoval): "Sometimes Always" (Live on MTV)
I remember absentmindedly telling this girl I once dated that the thing I loved most about The Jesus & Mary Chain was their consistency. Thinking back to that time, I really have no idea what the fuck I was talking about.
I do love this song, though.
Blur: Chemical World (Live on TV)
Coxon is God. He also stops the song wayyyyyy early because he's wasted or something.
Teenage Fanclub: "The Concept" (Music Video)
This song, when I first heard it a few months ago, instantly transported me to 1992-3. That's a trip I like to take.
The La's: "There She Goes" (Live on Letterman)
Paul Schaffer plays some tambo on this shit. I once saw that dude perform at Carnegie Hall for this jazz piano series sponsored by, like, the 1,000th anniversary of Steinway & Sons or something. Dude is McLAME!
Stone Roses: "Elephant Stone"
This is far and away my favorite song on the Stone Roses eponymous debut. I enjoy how obsessed with themselves they are on this record. The first track is called "I Wanna Be Adored." If memory serves, there are at least two songs that mention the word "Stone" (this one and "Made of Stone"), and the final track is called "I Am the Resurrection."
British Sea Power: "Carrion" (Live on Jools Holland)
My mind was just blown when I saw this on dead air space:
hi in the past couple of weeks i've been getting a band together for fun to play the eraser stuff live and the new songs etc.. to see if it could work! here's a photo.. its me, joey waronker, mauro refosco, flea and nigel godrich.
at the beginning of october the 4th and 5th we are going to do a couple of shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. we don't really have a name and the set will not be very long cuz ..well ...we haven't got that much material yet! but come and check it out if you are in the area. we've also got locals Lucky Dragons playing. all the best
"Dateline 2026. "To what can we attribute the current state of popular music?" ask the dyspeptic masses. Drivel-spewing automatons that have handily replaced music critics contend, "Van Gumby, circa 2009". To which the blithering morons might reply, "Who(m)(z)?"
Truly, little is known about this lyrical outfit. Its origins are vaguely understood, if at all. Its disappearance at the apex of fame is absolutely inexplicable. Top scientists have divined that the so-called "troupe" employed between three hundred and fifteen hundred people at any given time, each tasked with toggling a specific switch on a massive mainframe affectionately known as "GORLAC". Theories abounded as to how this behemoth machine produced a warbling humanoid voice and emulated the dulcet tones of feedback-bloated guitar work and sharp, cutting percussion. The last of these theorists was put to death in 2017, and theories have since ceased to abound.
Yet the all-encompassing legacy of Van Gumby is indelible, if not singularly stupefying. Not a single new artist or band distributes a shred of music without giving "mechaprops" to Van Gumby in the liner notes of their latest Compact HyperCube Holo-vessel. Not a single musical performance begins without the now-cliched primal scream of "all glory to Van Gumby and his army of lobotomized minions!" So can you really blame the modern-day "layfan" for not knowing Van Gumby the band from Van Gumby the ancient mythical creature? Local idiot Dr. Julian Fader IX told me, through his feeding tube, "Van Gumby is a band? WTF (sic)! Considering the number of small rodents and wildfowl that have been sacrificed in his name before shows, who would have thought that he was anything other than some sort of gargantuan manifestation of death itself?" Truer words have never been spoken by a full-bore mongoloid.
So it is that Van Gumby, at some point in its opaque history, transitioned from an actual musical production system into a post-pop-cultural faux-reference. How and when this transition occurred is currently being processed on a large machine purportedly capable of calculating the meaning of life (that question is second in queue). I am apprehensive of the result of this procedure, as perhaps it is best for future generations if we were to remain shrouded. A Unified Van Gumby Theory (UVGT) has long been assumed to portend the immediate destruction of the universe. I shall perish this thought and leave you instead with another gem from the famous inbred barbarian Dr. Julian Fader IX, who, upon my egress from his feces-laden steel cage, exclaimed without provocation, "You call these bagels?""
Pocketknife's got a video for their song Feels and it's beautiful. You might remember them from our Crust Never Sleeps compilation. Check the video below...it made my night.
Are you guys aware of Casiorossi yet? My friends, I present to you one of the three best unknownish bands in the Tri-State Area (the other two being Pocketknife and kc quilty of course). Casiorossi is a power trio in the best rock and roll sense of that word...Alex plays really loud guitars, Carlos plays un-drummerly drums, and Ethan the bassists last name is supposedly Bassford. Is it true? Is it part of the lore? What the fuck is going on here? How are these guys not famous? They're like Times New Viking or Dinosaur Jr, but better. Stream the album below.
The inspiration for the ep was the 4 PIL-like seconds of an hour-long semi-cogent jam we had while recording the comp track. I was thinking about how to go about the structure of ode to restraint at the moment I got into a bike accident on the brooklyn bridge. This actually made the song much worse I think, as opposed to more "impassioned" or something. This was the first time we used multiple tracks.
If you're in the know, you've already gotten Ava Luna's new album at one of their blistering live shows. For the rest of us, CPR is proud to present the pretty-much-official release of 3RD AVENUE ISLAND.
We did all of the instrumental tracks in one day. The ladies' vocals were done in two days and the lead vocals were completed in one sitting. Everything was recorded at the Trinity Korean Methodist Church in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
Ava Luna also has some handmade CDs for sale. Buy a nice hard copy one for seven bucks!
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