From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #10 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, January 16 2007 Volume 07 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] LF Mention ["Steve Holtebeck" ] [loud-fans] geography confusion ["Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] LF Mention On 1/13/07, Chris Prew wrote: > I was listening to "Sound Opinions" today on our local NPR indie > music station, and they were interviewing a guy who owned an indie > record shop in Juneau, Alaska. They were asking about how his > business was holding up as the industry shifted to downloads, etc. > Anyways, they asked him what stuff he was enjoying lately, and he > quickly mentioned "What if it Works", calling it "nice sunny > california power pop". Which I guess goes over well in Juneau Alaska > in the winter. > > > Interested parties should be able to listen to a stream later in the > week: http://www.soundopinions.com/. They also had an interview > with Robyn Hitchcock & Pete Buck. It's now available both as a listenable stream and a downloadable podcast (SO#59) Has anyone mentioned that "Mavis of Maybelline Towers" is included on the bonus CD in the recent issue of Pop Culture Press (Sufjan Stevens on the cover) ? - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:22:18 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: [loud-fans] geography confusion According to Mapquest, St. Augustine is 41.05 miles outside of Jacksonville. Remember Mark, you can use Mapquest and other web guides. Happy trails, Andy "I wanna be a star...I don't wanna be a cleaning lady!" - --Stevie Nicks, with a giggle, at the start of a demo version of Fleetwood Mac's "Sara," available on the double-disc TUSK reissue ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:34:27 -0500 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [loud-fans] mix CD review: doug mayo-wells (and a bit of Amy)'s non-punk 2006 mix doug and Amy very kindly sent an early draft of their best-of-2006 mix, punk and hardcore excepted. As doug knows, that's not a great loss for me by and large. This is a quick review based on a few half- attentive listens. 1. Caridee - Intro. Something about North Dakota, 9 seconds long. 2. Cat Scientist - "I Saved An Airplane." If I'm not mistaken, this is in the voice of an actual cat, who's an actual scientist, who saves airplanes with his powers. In that sense it reminds me of TMBG's "Doctor Worm" ("I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm"). 3. Chumbawumba - "Laughter in a Time of War." Very classy folk-pop song. I've liked the odd Chumbawumba track - "eBay" - but this is very nice. 4. David Bazan - "Fewer Broken Pieces." I put a Bazan solo track on my own mix this year, and I saw him in concert this year, but I still prefer the material under the Pedro the Lion name. 5. Elf Power - "Rolling Black Water". I like this ok - melodramatic, sweeping, spooky. More song-oriented than a lot of E6 stuff. 6. Anushka Pop - "Akathena" Crunchy hard-pop, energetic and catchy. 7. Centro-matic - "Calling Thermatico". I saw Will Johnson play at the same show as Bazan, Mark Eitzel, and Vic Chesnutt, and I think Johnson actually overshadowed all the other talent on the stage, but I'm not really sure where to start with Centro-matic since they release so much material. I've heard other Centro-matic stuff on podcasts recently too and it all seems pretty good. 8. Thermals - "Pillar of Salt". Intense stuff. I saw the Thermals when I lived in Portland. I don't have their new album yet (supposedly very political) although it got great reviews. I do have a Thermals track on my own mix, although it's an Elliott Smith cover. 9. The Brother Kite - "Get On, Me" I don't think of heard of them, but I like this. Reminds me of a mix between Buffalo Tom and the Cure, which is probably not a bad mix to make. 10. Portastatic - "You Blanks" - This could be a prototypical solid indie-rock song - vocals a bit scratchy, but a catchy chorus, some self-aware introspective lyrics about boys and girls, and then a random flute solo to keep things interesting. The bit about "politics was foreign, sex for when you're older / That got better, the rest got worse / now every horse I dream about is pulling a hearse" is one of those extremely vivid bits that really jumps out. 11. New Grenada - "Meat is Murder Mobile." Now this is a bit goofy, but there is some profundity beyond the chorus "Whatever happened to the Meat is Murder mobile?" 12. Prototypes - "Un Brin de Fierte." Herky-jerky dance-punk en francais, reminds me a bit of what Les Rita Mitsouko would have been two decades later. 13. Sprites - "George Romero". OK, this is BRILLIANT. Snappy power- pop anthem about how to confront the zombies and mutants at the end of the world, because the singer has learned everything he knows from George Romero. Hilarious. Funnier because I know that doug is a big b- movie fan. 14. Gothic Archies - "Crows". This is as creepy in subject matter as the previous song, but since it's Stephin Merritt singing in his croak, it's actually frightening. 15. Heartless Bastards - "Searching for the Ghost." Not sure who this is but it nicely balances the churning, anthemic, sing-along chorus elements with the verses. Unfortunately the singing reminds me a bit of Linda Perry (4 Non-Blondes). 16. Bettie Serveert, "Hell = Other People". I like Bettie Serveert a lot and I saw them on tour for Attagirl, but I don't have anything from this new acoustic record, which sounds REALLY good. I immediately put it on my want list. I like Carol van Dijk's singing - pretty, but wounded at the same time. They also clearly have read their Sartre. 17. Victory at Sea - "Bored Otherwise". This is a very good piano- based indie rock song, and I like it, but the tempos seem to slide faster and slower in the middle of the song, which distracts me. But the piano/vocal verses and the crunching choruses are all very attractive. According to Lala they have a bunch of material out, surprised I haven't heard of them? 18. Barbara Manning - "Coy Tongue" I think I like Barbara Manning more in principle than in practice. 19. Uzeda - "What I Meant When I Called Your Name" This is darker and murkier than I generally like my indie rock. Lala (from wikipedia) introduces them as "Sicilian math rock group" which would probably put them outside my realm of interests and knowledge. 20. Tokyo Police Club - "Be Good". Eh. The trebly guitar solo is a bit interesting, and the deadline singing too, but I'm not that excited. 21. Quasi- "The Rhino" More Portland. Very "Cracked" piano leading to a pounding chorus. I'm surprised that I never noticed a Bowie influence in Quasi before but I am thinking of one now. 22. +/- - "One Day You'll Be There" Interesting mix of sweet, pleasant, vocal melody and even xylophone with very herky-jerky drumming and guitars. 23. Voxtrot - "Rise Up in the Dirt". This is really good, catchy, cleanly produced power pop - Lyrics are verbose and merit careful listening. Added to the want list. 24. Stereolab - "Excursions into Oh a Oh" I've never been excited by Stereolab in the 15 years since I first heard of them, and this is unlikely to change. Thanks so much to doug and Amy for sending the mix -- I'll have one in the mail back to ya shortly. Michael (who is now glancing at doug's list on Lala for more want ideas) (P.S. Anyone ever seen Asobi Seksu in concert? I'm wondering how they'll be ....) - --------------------- Michael W. Zwirn, michael@zwirn.com (c) 503-887-9800 http://zwirn.com Skype: zwirnm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:36:15 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] geography confusion In a message dated 1/15/2007 2:24:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, andrew.hamlin@gmail.com writes: Remember Mark, you can use Mapquest and other web guides. I thought you had to have a complete addy to use Mapquest, which I've used before in finding job interviews in SC and GA. Fiddling with the site, I see you're right. Other web guides? I was wondering if St. Augustine was like Minneapolis-St. Paul, or if it was St. Augustine in Jacksonville County, or Jacksonville in St. Augustine County, or whatever. I don't know. I figured someone here would know. Someone here ALWAYS knows. - --Mark, who had to bear my older sister constantly playing "Tusk" on her 8-track in her AMC Hornet while being carted around as a kid--that and "Dog and Butterfly" "I look like f**king Stevie Nicks!!!" ("Sid and Nancy") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:47:18 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] geography confusion Andrew Hamlin wrote: > According to Mapquest, St. Augustine is 41.05 miles outside of > Jacksonville. > > Remember Mark, you can use Mapquest and other web guides. > I think Mark is concerned that there may be two shows, one in each town, or that the venue changed, and he wants to make sure he gets tickets to the right one. St. Augustine is about an hour south of Jacksonville. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:04:01 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] geography confusion CertronC90@aol.com wrote: > St. Augustine was like > Minneapolis-St. Paul Nope, too much distance between them. > , or if it was St. Augustine in Jacksonville County, or > Jacksonville in St. Augustine County, or whatever. Nope, not that either. St. Augustine is in St. Johns County. Jacksonville is in Duval County. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:25:46 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] geography confusion In a message dated 1/15/2007 2:49:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sleeveless@zoominternet.net writes: think Mark is concerned that there may be two shows, one in each town, or that the venue changed, and he wants to make sure he gets tickets to the right one. St. Augustine is about an hour south of Jacksonville. Jen No, you give me too much credit! (and thank you for that) I've said before that I score pathetically low when it comes to spatial relationships (I STILL have difficulty reading maps, and have mild dyslexia with them) and have no mechanical ability. I have almost no sense of direction (my mom bought me a compass for the dash of my second Beetle). My electrical engineer brother got all of that, it seems (Mr. Overachiever just sold his Apple stock and made 6K--their new I-Pod phone combo made the stock jump--lucky bastard). I'm like a Southern gay male middle aged boomeranged home version of Mallory from FAMILY TIES it seems at this point, and he's Alex. But, I wanted Jennifer's Duran Duran watch :O) , - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:47:19 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Kevin Barnes hissing at fauna I get Mod Lang's weekly release list, and it is showing the new Of Montreal as being out this week, but on the web, I've read it's supposed to come out next week. If anyone has heard it yet or gets it today if it is available where you live, please share your reactions. It's getting pegged as their masterpiece, and I'm really wanting to know what it's like. Like a penguin dropping cherries from my mouth, - --Mark ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #10 ******************************