Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
They've recenly acquired the In The Fishtank series, too, of which the Low/Dirty Three combo is excellent and the Isis/Aerogramme is lovely and heavy.
You should get the Tortoise/Ex one if you haven't already, Corwood.
Decemberists were adorable in Boston as well. They played the Orpheum, a theater that holds maybe... err... 1500(?), but they made it feel much more intimate.
Oh yeah -- any harmonica players in the house? You'll never have to fumble for the right one ever again: [link]
Because everyone knows there hasn't been enough atonal classical music written for the harmonica.
History's Mysteries did a very cool piece on Ben Franklin's armonica -- that's the hummy instrument that uses moistened glass bells. In a certain sense, the predecessor to the theremin and the synthesizer....
You should get the Tortoise/Ex one if you haven't already, Corwood.
It's in my queue for this month. I do love Tortoise so, and I appreciate The Ex, too.
In a certain sense, the predecessor to the theremin and the synthesizer....
Except for the part where the theremin and synth won't kill you from repeated playing...
(the glass in the glass armonica, that you touched directly, was usually leaded)
Back in the old days, when 'suffering for your art' wasn't a euphemism....
Gonna go see Chris Thile play tonight at the Sugar Club, and Neko Case tomorrow night. I really kind of want to go up to Chris and explain how I grew up with him and his bandmates, growing as they did while listening to their albums. But I probably won't.
Ellen Willis, RIP.
That breaks my heart. Her essay on the Velvet Underground in Stranded is one of my favorite pieces of rock and roll writing ever. There was a time in the early to mid seventies when she was a far more important music critic than Christgau or Marcus.