From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #346 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, December 4 2001 Volume 07 : Number 346 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: heather nova, _south_ [Andrew Fries ] Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] "alias" music [meredith ] Susan McKeown news... [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:52:07 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: heather nova, _south_ On Sat, 01 Dec 2001 18:36:51 -0500 meredith wrote: > It pains me to have to say that a Heather Nova disc sucks, but this > one does. Ah, I held back buying "South" until I heard some Ecto comments, and now I'm really glad. Since I'm definitely one of those who love her for "Glowstars" and above all, "Blow", it's a safe bet I'd be very disappointed with this one. But I must say I'm a bit suprised because last I heard (and admittedly, it was a while ago) this record was supposed to be a kind of return-to-roots effort for her. I wonder what changed, and whether it has anything to do with her record company... Anyway, thanks for the warning. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Directed denial of service attacks. Computer security averted and disabled. Files deleted from hard drives. Is this the work of malicious hackers breaking into a computer system? No. This is what the RIAA envisions is fair play in their crusade to control the distribution of copyrighted material." - arstechnica.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 04:16:14 -0800 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 02 December 2001 New Guide entries added for: * Lori Lieberman Changes made to the entries for: * Innocence Mission (new album) * Gabriel Yacoub (new album) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:27:12 EST From: Dracovixen@aol.com Subject: Tapping the Vein I just took a drive up to Rochester for the weekend. Why? To see two shows: Tapping the Vein in Buffalo and Tapping the Vein in Ithaca. (A friend of mine lives in Rochester, and I stayed at their place. And all I have to say is WOW. Amazing. I first discovered Tapping the Vein for myself when three months in advance I was told what the track listing for the _Songs of a Goddess: A Tribute to Tori Amos_ album was. I went and checked out each of the bands, and when I got to Tapping the Vein, (who covered Cornflake Girl btw), I was blown away, in love, all that. You can find their music at mp3.com. They call it goth rock - it's dark, kind of heavy, with lush electronics, and surprising vocals. The vocalist, Heather, is a tiny girl who can somehow produce a thunderous roar when she's not singing sweetly or seductively in an almost child-like voice. It's like whats-her-face from Sneaker Pimps meets a lion. The music is like (old) Garbage meets Stabbing Westward. I downloaded all the music from their two EPs last spring, and my boy and I listened to them almost obsessively. We watched for when a show came near us that we could see, but never got the chance until this past weekend. And it was well-worth the 6 hour drive to Rochester on Saturday, and the 3 hours of driving Saturday night to and from, and the 3 hours Sunday night to and from, and the 6 hour drive back home today (Monday). Well, I'm also e-mailing this to say that their debut album, _The Damage_, is coming out next February. Heather is sending me a promo radio copy (I work at a radio station), so all of you in the Danbury area of CT and surrounding the Danbury area, I'll be playing it in heavy rotation on WXCI 91.7 FM. I am so excited! She may even send me the full album! Yeah, so check them out on MP3.com! Black Dove ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:07:10 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Fwd: Outloud Dreamer on WKZE >Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 17:51:57 EST >From: Outlouddreamer@aol.com >Subject: WKZE > >For those of you who are unable to attend the show at the Rhinecliff Hotel on >December 7th, Outloud Dreamer will be on the air at WKZE 98.1 at 2:30pm on >Saturday, December 8th. WKZE is out of Sharon, CT and can be heard throughout >the Hudson Valley and Berkshire counties. So,if you can, dial in your >radios... I have fond memories of woj and I sitting in the parking lot of WKZE taping a Happy Rhodes live in-studio appearance, because we were literally passing through Sharon just at the time she was scheduled to go on. We felt like such stalkers ... hee! ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:39:41 -0500 From: meredith Subject: "alias" music Hi, In case I'm not the only one out there wondering what some of the wonderful music is on _Alias_, the immensely entertaining new show on ABC that is fulfilling my need for kickass female action heroes in the post-_Xena_ world: http://www.have-dog.com/alias/surveillance_audio.html Whoever runs this site is really on the ball -- they already have the listing up from last night's episode, which is good because when that Ivy song was playing I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was, and it was driving me nuts. The show has featured an array of ectophilic artists, not least of which would be KaTe Bush ("This Woman's Work", natch -- not an incredibly original choice, but very well used). ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 23:28:57 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Susan McKeown news... So, with the possible exception of Hillary Jackson (is she still on the list?) I seem to have been the only ectophile at Susan McKeown's show this evening at the American Museum of Folk Art. News: Susan was the one behind organizing the postponed benefit for the Great Jones Firehouse at Fez, which she started putting together after her Sept. 25th show. Suffice it to say that she didn't forget to notify or confirm with Fez. (Also, ironically, it seems that Amy Correia hurt her arm and her show tomorrow night at Fez is canceled.) Looks like we won't be seeing that show until January or February. More news: Susan and Johnny Cunningham are playing in New York next Wednesday, December 12 at 9pm at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St. (212) 539-8777. I can't tell how much tickets are because it wasn't mentioned this evening, Susan doesn't have it up on her website, and Joe's Pub doesn't have it on its recording yet. The show was even greater than usual. It was two sets of a bit under an hour separated by a twenty minute intermission. Each set started with Susan, Johnny and Aidan and then about half way through Johnny and Aidan were replaced by John Spurney, Lindsey Horner, Michele Kinney, and the drummer whose name I can't remember (Joe Bombadio?). Then finally Johnny and Aidan came back out and joined the band for a rousing version of "River." Johnny's funniest story was about having written a four-part jig after having gone out drinking with a friend who, after having consumed 18 pints of beer and nine small whiskeys, decided he wanted to draw a snow angel on the ground outside the bar--only there wasn't any snow. Hence the jig's title, "The Unfortunate Snow Incident." ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #346 **************************