From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #149 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, May 30 2004 Volume 10 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- playing catch up [Paul2k@aol.com] Yahoo! News Story - Scholars Lecture on 'Buffy' Show [Yahoo! News ] Re: playing catch up [neal copperman ] Edie Carey in Seattle 5/31 [Scott Andrew LePera ] Vegetable Orchestra Re: & Jessy Delfino & Kristeen Young [Kirstin Hargie ] RE: Edie Carey in Seattle 5/31 ["Southpaw" ] Re: excellent vienna teng article [Paul Schreiber ] Vienna Teng part two [Paul Schreiber ] Re: dresden dolls [Jeff Wasilko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:16:23 EDT From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: playing catch up Snow Patrol with Carina Round was a good show earlier this month. My cousin Matt and I agreed that the PJ Harvey thing was quite apparent with Carina, as were touches of Chrissie Hynde and Siouxsie Sioux. While her music didn't fully ensnare me that night, it left a seed of intrigue that could very well blossom into a garden of appreciation, much like the way I came around on Dalbello. The set was loud and super pumped up on energy, which really got the crowd going. What made it even more vivid was the fact that, while she looked to be dressed up as if she were going out to a nice dinner in heels and a black dress, she stomped and skittered and staggered around the stage like a rockstar fully invested in getting to the primal center of her songs. A lot of fun to just watch. I also saw Erin McKeown again this month, and came away a bit disappointed. She was only with a drummer this time, and the lack of other backing players made for a less energetic show, I thought. Her set with the full band last year was THE best concert of the year for me, and her previous solo shows had a certain intimate intensity, but this one fell well short of both experiences. Part of the problem, I think, was the audience, which didn't seem to be giving enough energy for her to feedback on. There wasn't even an encore set because the final applause petered out too quickly. Ah well. If you are at all a fan of traditional scottish/irish music, you should do yourself a favor and check out my friend from Berklee, Hanneke Cassel. She's an absolutely amazing fiddler who does the usual mix of scottish, irish, and cape breton jigs and reels as well as some swedish fiddle tunes. She has quite a number of original compositions, too, that have flavorings from jazz, blues, bluegrass, and rock in them, and she even does a cover of U2's "Mothers of the Disappeared". Now usually, I can only take so much trad celtic music before I have to switch to something else, but I've been listening to her new CD "Some Melodious Sonnet" nonstop for 4 days now, it's that good. She's finishing up a West Coast tour (I saw her last week down in San Juan Capistrano...freaking brilliant) to support the album this weekend in Washington before heading back to Boston. www.hannekecassel.com Her cds are available through CDbaby. Go check them out. Oh, at a show this week where Sylvie Lewis was on the bill (hey Paul, i hope the house concert turned out good this weekend), one of the acts was a Warner act named Caleb Kane. His girlfriend from whom I bought an EP was Sarah Thompson. You Buffy/Angel fans would recognize her as the actress who played Eve this past season on Angel. And finally, I just wanted to say that I can not get enough of Leona Naess' "I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll" (what took me so long to buy this album?!) and Sam Phillips' "A Boot and a Shoe". Previous to Hanneke's CD, those two have been duking it out to see who spends more time in my CD player the past 3 weeks. Paul Kim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:10:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Yahoo! News Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Scholars Lecture on 'Buffy' Show (cdavis@tir.com) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.) - ------------------------------------------------------------ Personal message: Interesting article on Buffy Scholars Lecture on 'Buffy' Show http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040528/ap_on_en_tv/tv_buffy_scholars ============================================================ Yahoo! News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 00:25:34 +1000 From: heidi maier Subject: Re: Worst Jewel concert ever? neal wrote: > This one kind of cracked me up. Anyone hear about this? > > Some of the complaints include things like Jewel was making fun of people and > > for her encore she didn't do any hit songs, just came out and yodeled. > > http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/hampton/05232004/news/17773.htm yes -- someone posted this story to the sarah mclachlan mailing list. didn't sound like she was going to win herself any new fans! as somebody said: she better hope she still has access to that old van because she may need to live in it if that's the way she intends to carry on when performing live ;) heidi. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 09:46:09 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: playing catch up Hmmm, catching up seems like a good idea to me. I've seen a bunch of interesting shows in the last few weeks and may as well give some quick reviews. We hosted THE KENNEDYS, which was a lot of fun. It was actually the first time I'd seen Pete & Maura do a completely accoustic set and it didn't work as well as I'd expected. There's a real trick to getting a balance between both guitars and both voices when you don't have amplification to pull up the soft parts. But once we re-adjusted how we listened, we had a wonderful time. They have so much energy and put on a very fun live show. Vamping and goofing and jumping around, as well as some of their trademark guitar workouts. Their first two albums have been re-released with a half dozen extra songs on each disc. Different versions of songs on the albums as well as a few new tracks. I hadn't actually seen the Kennedys for several years, so they had a lot of new and different songs for me. During the big guitar duel in Sirens, Maura jumped up on an empty chair and did her slap guitar solo from up there, which was a hoot. Thank god she picked a solid 4-legged chair and not a folding chair! Several nice covers, including Dave Carter's "When You Go" and a pair of Richard Thompson songs. As an encore, they led everyone through a nice sing along of "Eight Days A Week". A few nights later, I saw another house concert with queer folky JEN LINDSEY. I wasn't familiar with her, but new the people putting on the show. It was a hodgepodge affair, as they had distributed two different start times and Jen was actually confused about the date. She called from San Diego the morning of the show hoping the show was the next day. She arrived at the airport at the later of the two start times. After some decent acoustic tunes by a few locals and a lot of slam poetry, Jen came on to do her thing. She's a good guitarist with a fine voice. Got kind of a smart ass brash sort of thing going on. Humorously political, with an ode to ani difranco and songs about how life has been better since she was fired. Strong niche appeal but enough going on to cross boundaries. I thought it was fun, especially in the environment, but don't know how much I'd seek her out. A few days after that, SARAH HARMER & ABRA MOORE dropped into the very nice bar/club in Santa Fe called the Paramount. We actually go head-to-head with the Paramount for shows like this and I wish we could have hosted Sarah. It was a pretty small crowd. Felt like she'd been on the road for a while, as she seemed a bit tired and wasn't as chatty as she's been in the past. She had a full band and they did a nice mix of songs from her last two albums, with one Weeping Tile song from Eepee for good measure. ABRA MOORE was a bit of a disappointment for me. I have her first CD but can't remember a thing about it. But I thought her singing style was kind of one dimensional, and I guess it wasn't a dimension that I needed a half hour of. She had some vocal affects that kind of rubbed me and my friends the wrong way, and a way of working an annoying "oooooohhhhh oooooooohhhhhh" into most of her songs. I'll have to listen to her sampler a bit to see if it works better for me. On the plus side, she had a quirky sense of humor and was kind of goofy, so we all mostly liked her, despite not being all that into her music. Then, for a change of pace, I saw OZOMATLI and DE LA SOUL at the world's smallest amphitheater, Paolo Solari in Santa Fe. This is a wonderful place to see a show. I swear there are only about 50 rows to the amphitheater proper, and then a few small bleachers up behind that. Good views from everywhere and you are always close. De La Soul re-confirmed that I still have not seen a single rap/hip-hop show that doesn't include a live band that is particularly interesting. The sound was clean enough that I could actually understand a good 60% of the lyrics (a rarity from what I can tell), but we still were subjected to at least 15 minutes of "Is the party over here?" or "Is the party over here?" Ozomatli are definitely local favorites. I'd never seen or heard them before, but they took the stage in a storm and owned the place from the first notes of the show. They are a 10-piece band with horns, multiple percussions, turntables and a lot of singers. Amusingly enough, old school rappers De La Soul used digital turntables, while next generation Latin hip-hop, jazz, funk fusioners Ozomatli had traditional ones. The vocalist who played trumpet had the sweetest, most beautiful voice. Everyone could play and the music was insistent and fun. 80% of the tunes were in Spanish, but to further demonstrate the value of a good band, it didn't matter at all. They end their shows by taking a subset of their gear and heading out into the audience. They set up for an acoustic jam a few rows in front of me, which was pretty cool. And finally, a few days ago, I saw DARDEN SMITH and VIENNA TENG, once again in an even more sparsely attended show at the Paramount. I didn't know Darden at all but enjoyed his singing, guitar playing and songwriting. He seemed like a warm, talented guy. Vienna had a violin player with her (Adam/Alan Lin?). It mostly gave a nice dimension to her sound, though sometimes the interplay got a bit muddy. I think that was how the show was mixed, as I thought her vocals weren't as distinct as the last time I saw her, and a bit harder to understand. It was a short set, since it was a split bill, but as usual, she told a lot of great stories as background to her songs and played a lot of thematically connected songs. My girlfriend was really impressed with the range and variety of her piano playing, which included a jazz inflected number and a rumba. She gamely tried to set up the sing along for Soon Love Soon, but in a large room with 30 people in it, it didn't totally work. A very fun evening though. Tonight I'm torn between trying to get into the sold out Rory Block show (where I'm free if I can get in) or joining all the wimin at Wiminfest where I can see amela Means, Marga Gomez and bitch & animal. I think I'm leaning towards the latter. Future house concerts: Peter Mulvey, Wailin' Jennies, Rachel Sage & Stephanie Winters, Tim Harrison. :) neal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:08:46 -0700 From: Scott Andrew LePera Subject: Edie Carey in Seattle 5/31 Attention Pac. NW dwellers: Edie Carey will be at the Conor Byrne in Ballard (Seattle) next Monday, May 31. Not to be missed. I caught her last November with Kym Tuvim and Holly Figueroa, and it was pretty fantastic. Details here: http://www.upcoming.org/event/6033/ - -- Scott - -- Scott Andrew LePera Lo-fi DIY acoustic pop http://www.scottandrew.com scott@scottandrew.com My new record "Where I've Been" is now available at CD Baby! http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/walkingbirds3 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:35:05 -0400 From: Kirstin Hargie Subject: Vegetable Orchestra Re: & Jessy Delfino & Kristeen Young Hey all - back on the list at last, and unlurking, Thanks for the Vegetable Orchestra link. Wow! So cool. Love it. For those in the NYC area I highly recommend checking out a performance by former Maine-ite Jessy Delfino. She is an extremely hilarious performer, and has a CD of dirty folk songs (emphasis on dirty) that you can check out at http://www.garageband.com/artist/dirtyfolkrock She has a naughty Jewel-esque quality, and puts on a damn fine show. Her snark equals and possibly exceeds Happys. She also has a blog here if you're into that kind of thing http://jessydelfino.blogspot.com/ Also, Did I miss the last Kristeen Young show in the area - I stupidly forgot to put the shows on my calendar. Grr. kIrI wraith@emortal.org http://www.noncestrealite.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 23:04:24 -0500 From: "Southpaw" Subject: RE: Edie Carey in Seattle 5/31 I'll seconded that Edie Carey is not to be missed! Great show! Great music! Wade - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Scott Andrew LePera Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 2:09 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Edie Carey in Seattle 5/31 Attention Pac. NW dwellers: Edie Carey will be at the Conor Byrne in Ballard (Seattle) next Monday, May 31. Not to be missed. I caught her last November with Kym Tuvim and Holly Figueroa, and it was pretty fantastic. Details here: http://www.upcoming.org/event/6033/ - -- Scott - -- Scott Andrew LePera Lo-fi DIY acoustic pop http://www.scottandrew.com scott@scottandrew.com My new record "Where I've Been" is now available at CD Baby! http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/walkingbirds3 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 21:44:54 -0700 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Re: excellent vienna teng article Remember our favourite headline? > Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:10:34 -0700 > From: Ethan Straffin > Subject: Re: ouch! > > On Wednesday, April 7, 2004, at 04:56 AM, fingerpuppets wrote: > >> > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/07/ >> vienna_calling/ > >> >> Vienna calling > > Okay, look, I dig Falco as much as the next child of the eighties. > However, should I *ever* wax preciously obscure enough to use the > phrase "Vienna calling" as a headline in any way, shape or form not > directly related to Falco, could you all do me a favor and euthanize me > immediately? Thanks. Well, it's back: > Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:16:56 -0400 > From: fingerpuppets > Subject: excellent vienna teng article > > > > i won't reprint here (since it's so long), but it's well worth a read! Vienna Calling In 2002, Vienna Teng had a Stanford degree and a job at Cisco. She chucked it all to pursue a music career. Her gamble is finally paying off. By Todd Inoue [snip] Paul shad 96c / uw cs 2001 / mac activist / fumbler / eda / headliner / navy-souper fan of / sophie b. / steve poltz / habs / bills / 49ers / "They will admit to you that they have over a 90 percent failure rate in this industry. It is the only industry I know of that operates this way with 90 percent plus failure rate. They say that's okay. What that says to me is that they don't know what the hell they're doing." -- Don Henley, on the music industry [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:16:07 -0700 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Vienna Teng part two So I was reading the article woj mentioned: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.26.04/teng-0422.html And came across this: > It's hard to imagine petite and soft-spoken Vienna Teng cursing a red > streak along the highway, but there's a little slice about Vienna > that's intentionally deceiving. The fictional songs are one thing. > Then there's her name. Vienna Teng is not on her birth certificate. At > age 11, she dreamed up different pen names or stage names, and settled > on Vienna after the Austrian capital and added Teng to honor her > Chinese roots. > > She still goes by her birth name to friends, family, Uncle Sam and > the DMV, but she won't divulge it to the public. "It's gotten to the > point it's silly," she says. "I have a group of friends who know me as > one name and another group who knows me as the other. I would take it > back if I could, but it's gone too far to take back." > > Splitting her everyday and musical identities affords her dual senses > of privacy, security and sanity, as if the success, autograph > requests, television appearances and adulation is happening to someone > else. > > "People ask me if its weird to see my name in the newspaper or on the > marquee, and it helps that it's a name that I made up," she says. > "Then it's not so weird. Like it's some other entity that I work on > but that's not really me and I get to keep [the real] me a little more > private." I had no idea Vienna wasn't her real name. I feel so deceived! Fortunately, Google knows all: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2003/ 2003_02_14.vienna14.html > When she was 10, she adopted the name Vienna Teng, in homage to the > Austrian city that had been the center of classical music. But her > real name is Cynthia Shih, which is what her family and friends call > her. > > "I like to keep my real name hidden," she said. "At the end of the > day, I can leave behind my career and all the obligations that go with > it." Was I the only one here not clued in to this fact? Random: hey, she gave $50 to Arianna Huffington for governor: http://recallmoneywatch.com/recallwatch/detail/recalldetail.html? type=contributor&id=21508 Someone else shares my opinion: http://hansol.pitas.com/02_2004.html > Saturday, February 7, 2004 > - warm strangers - > Vienna Teng's real name is Cynthia Shih? Not since finding out that > Snowcat is a girl have I felt so duped. Paul shad 96c / uw cs 2001 / mac activist / fumbler / eda / headliner / navy-souper fan of / sophie b. / steve poltz / habs / bills / 49ers / "OK, I'm having a Grateful Dead moment here. Bootleg the puppy." -- Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," commenting on Buffy fans' tape trading, after The WB decided not to air the season finale of Buffy in the US. (The show aired in Canada.) USA TODAY, June 3, 1999 [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:25:57 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: dresden dolls On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:38:14PM -0700, karen hester wrote: > http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dresdendolls2 > > This might be my favourite album of the year. The sounds are much what I > expected - fun theatrical cabaret-ish punkish - but the album is also more > catchy and emotional than I expected. The Dolls are probably my favorite discovery of recent years. I'm blessed to live in Boston, so I've had a chance to see them play live a bunch of times. Here's some photos I took at a recent show: http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/gallery/149 They're a hugely fun band to see live, since they're very animated, and also amazingly talented... > Anyone have the live album 'A is for accident'? > (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dresdendolls1). The cover image on their website > is different. It was originally released as a limited edition (in the digipak format) and then re-released just recently with new artwork. AFAIK, it's the same CD otherwise... - -j ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #149 ***************************