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Brother AliThe Undisputed TruthRhymesayers Entertainment 2007-05-03 16:33:39
By Blake Gillespie
One of the few records to put a lasting smile on my face is Brother
Ali’s The Undisputed
Truth. It opens strong with “Whatcha’ Got,” asserting its intended gospel with black church organs, before some quick scratches flip the switch into a rocked-out banger that Ali proudly gets vicious on. It is Rock Box-esque in its sound, even when ANT drops a change-up for Ali to kick the “yes yes ya’ll” routine.
If the album has one downfall, it is that it opens with that loud abrasive sound that Def Jam built its early line up around, then backs off for seven straight songs. It is not that these songs are weak offerings, but the drums get softer, reggae vibes get incorporated, and Ali tones his delivery down to soft spoken. It is a baffling digression from a sound that makes me want to RAWR like a dungeon dragon.
Granted he is adapting to ANT’s production, which he does rather well, especially on songs like “Letter from the Read more:Entertainment
Apostles of Hustle full tour listing 2007-05-03 16:16:09
I thought I was unwittingly stretching too hard when I heard bits of mariachi in their last LP, National Anthem of Nowhere, but turns out I’m not alone. Here’s a list of all the show’s they’ve announced this summer, piece-mail style:
Apostle of Hustle
MAY
04 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom !
05 Seattle, WA @ Showbox Theater !
and into the Canadian breach…
06 Vancouver, British Columbia - Zulu Records
06 Vancouver, British Columbia - Red Room !
08 Victoria, British Columbia - The Lucky Bar !
09 Kelowna, British Columbia - Habitat !
10 Edmonton, Alberta - Velvet Underground !
11 Canmore, Alberta - Canmore Hotel !
12 Calgary, Alberta - The Hi Fi Club !
13 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Amigo’s !
14 Regina, Saskatchewan - The Exchange !
15 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Collective Cabaret !
18 Toronto, Ontario - Lula Lounge !!
JUNE
11 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
12 Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig
13 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s
15 Philadelphia, PA @ World Café
16 Bosto
Ralph “Soul” Jackson on the up, played Ponderosa 2007-05-03 16:16:00 Technorati Profile
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hit up the Ponderosa Stomp, a New Orleans-based festival that “pays tribute to the unsung heroes of rock ‘n roll. Appropriately, Roky Erickson headlined the sixth annual festival, playing with the Explosives, the backing band he played with in the 1980s.
Ralph “Soul” Jackson was a crate digger’s delight after his 1977 45 “Set Me Free” failed to sell, thanks largely to shady distribution deals. Now reissued under the Rabbit Factory label, Jackson has another hack at the credit he deserves.
The lineup offered up some important clues as to what it takes to become an unsung hero of rock’n roll and soul. It’s good to insert an ambiguously important quotable between your first and last name (i.e., “Mr Big Stuff”), or to introduce yourself with lots of details, like ” Duo of Hill Country Guitarist” or “Chitlin Circuit Showman”. It also helps to be
Silber Hearts Mom - full album 2007-05-02 16:48:32
Amazing. Sometimes you just gotta quote:
“Here at Silber, mothers have always had a special place in our heart. So we’re happy to finally get a compilation together to pay a little bit of the tribute mothers are so dearly due.
Everyone has a different style of song to show their love from heavy metal (Wrong Brothers) to post-rock (Glissade, Electric Bird Noise) to noise (Moral Crayfish) to simply acoustic guitar (Remora). While most went the instrumental route, the songs with vocals by Plumerai & Miss Massive Snowflake show the tongue-in-cheek comedy that we all use to tell our moms we love them.
So maybe you should stop reading this & call your mom & tell her you appreciate her.”
Download the full album HERE. Read more:Hearts
DJ Tiësto adds touring dates 2007-05-02 16:31:16
He ruled 30,000 of his minion this week at Coachella. His new album Elements of Life remains lodged firmly in the #1 position on Billboard’s Electronic Album chart. Now’s Tiësto’s tacked on some new North American dates
. The summer of Tiësto has arrived.
Check please:
JUNE
19 New York, NY at Hammerstein Ballroom
20 New York, NY at Hammerstein Ballroom
21 Denver, CO at Red Rocks
23 San Antonio, TX at Cowboys
24 St Louis, MO at Dante’s
26 Park City, UT at Harry O’s
27 Dallas, TX at The Palladium
28 San Francisco at Bill Graham Civic Center
AUGUST
11 Los Angeles, CA at LA Sports Arena
22 Minneapolis, MN at Myth
23 Winnipeg, Canada at Real 10 Sports Center
24 Edmonton, Canada at Shaw Conference Center
25 Vancouver, Canada at GM Place
SEPTEMBER
02 Las Vegas, NV at Jet
03 Las Vegas, NV at Jet
08 Chicago, IL at The Congress Theater
13 Detroit, MI at The State Theater
14 Atlanta, GA at The Trade Center
15 Washington, DC at Love (outdoors)
Blonde Redhead Webster Hall, New York, NY 5.8.07 2007-05-09 15:04:48
Kazu Makino of BlondeRedhead
Fifteen years. This is when most bands start muttering to themselves about reunion tours. Formed since 1993, their first album released in 1995, (when they still had another female Japanese art student in the band to balance symmetrically against the Italian Pace twins), it took six more full lengths and more than twice those years, but last night they played to a sold out, fully engaged audience at Webster
Hall.
I was worried that the softer pop material from their new album, 23, would be boring live, but they managed to turn everything they played up to a head-nodable levels. That coupled with the enormous (and fully utilized) bass / subwoofers at Webster Hall ensured a high ceiling of intensity.
Ah, married couples in bands. I was handed some numbers that may or may not be true, but Simone Pace and Kazu Makino have apparently been conjugally joined for seven years? And they’re in their fourties? I guess that’s possible. Anyway, if o Read more:Blonde Redhead
, New York
I’m From Barcelona announce North American cultural exchange program 2007-05-08 15:30:48
No, let’s not call this a tour. Not even a series of dates. This stopover in August is like an extended field trip for this 29-strong school (If only Beirut could conjure up 6 more volunteers, we could have a real clash of the nations). Think of it as, “Hey! We’re from Sweden, and these are our customary Swedish Indie Pop songs. What do you American
s think?” “Well, hm-” “Ok bye!”
AUGUST
04 Lollapalooza, Chicago IL
05 McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY
Thankfully, the band’s playing a JellyNYC Pool Party at McCarren Park, not a pricey Live Nation gig. Read more:Barcelona
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Oxide and Neutrino back with independent release 2007-05-08 15:18:47 Oxide
and Neutrino, two members of So Solid Crew, the UK Garage outfit most infamously remembered for the murder charges laid on Megaman (Dwayne Vincent), its founding member, have started a new record label and have a new album slated for June. While the crew earned its infamy three years ago, Oxide and Neutrino have, it seems, not put out anything new with Eastwest, their former album. 2nd Chance marks their first release (digital only) on their own independent
label, Kemistree and Fizzicks, due out June 12, but with digital releases, who know how soon more tracks will be floating around. These two former stalwarts of the pirate radio scene in London have already released streams of the first single, “What R U”, a track reminiscent of that era that also carries some inflections of grime and electronica. Their myspace page has some tracks that could’ve slipped into J. Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSounds too.
What R U:
The American Black Lung announce sophomore album 2007-05-08 15:17:48
Tucson-based The AmericanBlack
Lung have been compared to 80s hardcore and 70s hard rock/metal, which makes them pretty comfortable bed fellows with contemporaries like Panthers or Das Oath, or any number of more mainstream acts on the Warped circuit, which they’ll be playing for a time during their summer tour.
Sudden Departure of Vultures it out July 10th on Uprising Records.
TRACK LIST
01 Behold The Mighty Galactus
02 Cufflinks
03 The Skyline Itself Is Alive
04 Call Me Animal
05 They Wept As They Drowned
06 At His Best
07 Doc Bollywood
08 Werewolves By Night
09 Born Of A Broken Man
Black Lips, Deerhunter, Manchester Orchestra, Snowden in heelarious/awesome MTV News sequence 2007-05-07 15:46:40 “Raising Hell in the ATL!”
Bradford Cox: “There’s not an Atlanta sound, if it was, it’d just be dirty”
Ignore John Norris’ CNN newsspeak voice and the frequent comments about Atlanta’s “cultural mash ups” and “mish-mashes” coupled with images of black and white people standing next to each other at shows, and this news piece is sort of a service to MTV’s regular landscape.
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, Black
, Deerhunter
, Orchestra
, Snowden
MoFo back and older than ever! 2007-05-11 19:17:25
Start practicing your scenester death stare in the mirror, cuz you and hundreds of other Downtown costumes will be under the heat of the flash come May 27th, Motherfucker’s seventh anniversary party.
While we’ve known The Faint would be headlining the event at Webster Hall, now we’ve got the juicy details to boot. Goth rooms (gasp!), disco rooms (no!), AND of course the gang: Michael T, Justine D, Johnny T, Georgie Seville, late night performance by Peppermint Gummybear (and Michael T)… It’s nice to see the same names at the helm after seven years of unflinchingly flamboyant party-making, but one’s gotta wonder how long the party can keep going til everyone and everything about it is a leetle bit OLD.
Details:
“Emcees: Mistress Formika & Chi Chi Valenti
Late-Nite Performance by: Michael T & it’s Glamorous Follies +
Peppermint Gummybear @ 2:30!
DJ’s
Main Floor Dj’s:
Michael T & Justine D
with Special Guests: The Ba Read more:older
Fishbone Agora Theater, Cleveland OH 5.9.07 2007-05-11 15:27:32 In general, Angelo Moore doesn’t visually fit into his surroundings. But Fishbone playing in-front of a white suburbanite crowd in the middle of Cleveland
had an especially disjointed effect.
Moore and the newly assemble Fishbone, save for original bassist Norwood Fisher, ripped into a jazz track, run ostensibly by Fisher’s walking bass line. During the introductory song, Moore began a somewhat disjointed poem about racism. When the track ended after each player took a solo, the band included an additional two horns on-top of Moore’s sax playing, the seven piece band diving directly into “Party at Ground Zero”. Almost twenty-two years after the songs initial release, it still lasts a bit too long, but also, without question, is able to make a crowd move. During the initial section of the song, as the dancers warmed up, Moore stalked back and forth looking for audience members to help with the chorus. He found some help, but also scared a rather young looking mall-punk girl i
Aesop throws another one on the table in August 2007-05-10 20:22:13
After nearly three years of film scores and workout tracks, it’s time for an LP. Enter None Shall Pass (or maybe don’t), out August
28th on Def Jux. Blockhead handles production again, with appearances from Cage, Breeze Brewin, El-P, Rob Sonic and… what’s that plaintive bah-ing?
Sure high brow culture might label John Darnielle “America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist,” but Aesop
’s ready to toss the Mountain Goats crooner on the last track of his album? Curious for the folk hop mash-up that will presumably occur.
TRACKLIST
01 Keep Off the Lawn
02 None Shall Pass
03 Catacomb Kids
04 Bring Back Pluto
05 Fumes
06 Getaway Car (ft. Cage and Breeze Brewin)
07 39 Thieves
08 The Harbor is Yours
09 Citronella
10 Gun for the Whole Family (ft. El-P)
11 Five Fingers
12 No City
13 Dark Heart News (ft. Rob Sonic)
14 Coffee (ft. John Darnielle) Read more:throws
Har Mar Tillman’s Sean Na Na releasing album, getting vomity? 2007-05-10 20:03:04
Sean Na Na is the ongoing “indie-rock” branch of the Sean Tillman
empire that also includes his Har Mar Superstar persona and the accompanying vodka endorsements.
The album, Family Tree -or- Must CoPe We, out on Dim Mak on June 5th, references both the tight-knit nature of Sean Na Na’s members, and drugs: Must CoPe We of course referring to “Coke-Peppered Weed Mustache.” Well, duh.
Their myspace page is streaming a number of catchy and clean little pop tracks that fail in my estimation to be quite as messy and wretched as the release hopes:
“When pressed to find a likeness to their sound the band would probably say they sound like early Elvis Costello and The Replacements throwing up on tape the morning after an all-night bender.”
Maybe some people’s vomit has a poppier sheen than others… And besides, who needs the rough edges anyway. This stuff is as shiny as Tillman via Har Mar’s freshly waxed back, and that&rsqu
New Page France album 2007-05-10 19:40:43
Maryland’s Page France
will release …And The Family Telephone on Suicide Squeeze Records on June 5th.
Frontman and primary songwriter Michael Nau admits to the organic growth of the “band” from a songwriting project into its current manifestation as a full band collaboration. From Suicide Squeeze:
“For the first time, it really feels like we’re a band,” Michael said of Page France. “…and the Family Telephone is definitely the most collaborative album that I’ve ever done. Everybody had their input and there are a lot of fingerprints on it.”
The full album is available on AOL Spinner. The tracks are definitely more lush, gushing with the comfortable shared space that the band’s learned to inhabit.
TRACK LIST
01 The Ruby Ring Man
02 Wet Dog Afternoon
03 Mr. Violin And Dancing Bear
04 Be My Pianist
05 Pigeons
06 Hat And Rabbit
07 A Belly To The Sea
08 The Belly In The Fish
09 Rooster And Its Crow
10 The Joker&rsq
Impose is not on tour, we just drive an RV 2008-03-10 13:22:54 [Above: The Impose trailer outside our southern mansion.]
For those who haven’t noticed the many posts by the same writers and a single photographer in different cities in our scene and heard section, allow us to explain. This is not a tour but we’re acting like it is. We’re driving down to Austin and back (yes, [...] Read more:drive
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