Where there’s a new Liars single, there’s sure to be an unnerving video to follow. (Not that it was always this way. Their video for “Houseclouds” is the most adorable I’ve ever seen.) Check out the disjointed CGI for the heavy-electro dance track “Brats”.
Bonus: Here’s Liars recent KEXP session.
Remember when Beck’s Record Club – Annie Clark and Vincent Hart from St. Vincent, Sergio Dias from Os Mutantes, Liars, etc. – got together to cover INXS’s Kick album in its entirety? Here’s video of all the songs from the session.
It doesn’t all work, but then, not all of the original album worked, either. And the Record Club definitely did interesting things. The final track is completely unrecognizable as an INXS song outside of the lyrics, and it’s rather compelling.
Challenge!
I couldn’t let my co-blogger’s post about the Sisters of Mercy’s cover of “Jolene” pass without throwing in another great cover of Dolly Parton’s tortured plea. The White Stripes released their version as a B-side in 2000, and Jack White’s strained vocals and angular guitar work add a note of desperation not found in the original.
This video comes from the White Stripes Under Blackpool Lights DVD.
“Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” – Crash Test Dummies
I still like the song, but I know haters are gonna hate. I wouldn’t have brought it up here, though, if it hadn’t led me to this “Weird Al” Yankovic parody. Those of you who were cognizant in the ’90s might want to brace yourselves for the time warp.
“Headline News” – “Weird Al” Yankovic
Then, confluence as Al joins the Crash Test Dummies for a performance at the 1994 Canadian Music Video Awards.
“Headline News” (snippet) – “Weird Al” Yankovic with Crash Test Dummies
Now step outside for a moment and appreciate the fact that it is no longer the ’90s.
It’s coming back! They showed ’em it could still be done, last summer in Cleveland, spawning the Year of Deep Blues this year with the return of the original DBF in Minnesota last month and DBF Northwest coming up early next month. And Cleveland will be doing it again this year, with another great line-up.
Favorites will return from last year, like Scissormen, Ten Foot Polecats, and the incomparable Molly Gene One Whoaman Band. And new don’t-miss acts are on the slate for this year, like Husky Burnette, the uniquely entertaining Bob Log III, and the great Robert Belfour. Damn!
Here’s the info:
Saturday September 22 2012
THE BEACHLAND BALLROOM
15711 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, Ohio
$20/all ages/5pm EST start/4pm EST doors
Scheduled bands:
BOB LOG III
ROBERT BELFOUR
SCISSORMEN
TEN FOOT POLECATS
HUSKY BURNETTE
MOLLY GENE ONE WHOAMAN BAND
THE BLUE TREADS
THE MISERY JACKALS
SHANE SPEAL
If you’re outside of Cleveland, you can purchase your tickets through Ticketweb. Though I recommend locals purchase tickets from one of your friendly local establishments.
This year’s DBF Cleveland will be dedicated to late musician Jeff Norwood, who passed away this spring.
Deep Blues Festival Cleveland Official Website
Through the blog, I have the immense fortune to listen to fantastic musicians I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. Few have been finer than Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Follow the link to pre-order their new album, which is sure to be a gem, and help them raise funds for the album’s release. They have 30 days to raise $6,000. The more of Doc Dailey’s music there is in the world, the better the world is.
Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil @ indiegogo
Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil Official Website
Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil @ Facebook
The new phonebook’s here! The new phonebook’s here!
What’s that you say? No one uses phonebooks anymore, yet the things keep piling up on your doorstep every year? Well, how about something you can use that takes up absolutely no space on your doorstep. The new FBFY mix is here! The new FBFY mix is here! Contributed to by your friendly internet-neighborhood bloggers, musicians, tweeters, etc., and brought to you by the good people at Feel Bad For You, it is, as always, an eclectic mix.
1. Title: The Crease
Artist: Arliss Nancy
Album (year): Simple Machines (2012)
Submitted By: Captainsdead
Comments: great rock record, nothing more, nothing less
2. Title: I Love Lucy
Artist: The Producers
Album (year): The Producers/You Make The Heat (2000, CD Reissue of the band’s first two albums)
Submitted By: BoogieStudio22
Comments: I make no apologies for my love of all things ‘power pop’. The Producers put out a couple of albums in the early 80s and seemed to fly under the radar of most people, which is too bad because these guys crafted some great songs.
3. Title: Travel On
Artist: Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Album (year): Americana (2012)
Submitted By: @mikeorren
Comments: This song IS summer in America. Drive fast on a long highway and put it on repeat.
4. Title: I Wanna Be Your Marianne
Artist: Amy Cook
Album (year): Let The Light In (2010)
Submitted By: Hoosier Buddy
Comments: The most summer-soaked tune from an album produced by Alejandro Escovedo. A tasty confection: swirl cupcake in which relaxed rhythm guitar mixes with strangled cat lead tones, topped with Amy’s buttercream vocal track. You can never eat just one.
5. Title: Gotta Go Out West
Artist: The Woolly Bushmen
Album (year): The Woolly Bushmen (2012)
Submitted By: Autopsy IV (ninebullets.net)
Comments: Retro rock and roll from a group of kids from Orlando. I caught them live at Tropical Heatwave this year and they were a complete and total blast. Album came out last week and is available on Bandcamp.
6. Title: There Won’t Always Be an England
Artist: The Wind-up Birds
Album (year): The Land (2012)
Submitted By: April @ Now This Sound Is Brave
Comments: This song cemented my love for this fantastic band out of Leeds, England. Even though it’s specifically about rabid nationalism in the UK, it’s an almost effortless exercise to translate it to the jingoistic patriotism that has been promoted in the U.S. over the past decade. The feeling of mounting frustration and anger in this song is a thing of beauty.
7. Title: Wasting Away
Artist: The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Album (year): Strung Out in Heaven (1998)
Submitted By: Ryan (Verbow @ altcountrytab.ca)
Comments: Can anyone take the essential elements of 60′s music (garage, pop, psycheldelia, country rock) and blend them as seamlessly as Antone Newcombe? I think not. Great, mellow track from these freaky weirdos. Love the harmonica.
8. Title: You Ain’t Going Nowhere
Artist: Counting Crows (Bob Dylan)
Album (year): Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) (2012)
Submitted By: @philnorman
Comments: Get your mind off winter time. You ain’t going nowhere.
9. Title: Joe Friday
Artist: Alvin Youngblood Hart
Album (Year): Big Mama’s Door (1996)
Submitted By: Adam Sheets
10. Title: Little Black Star
Artist: Hurray For The Riff Raff
Album (year): Look Out Mama (2012)
Submitted By: TheOtherBrit
Comments: Saw these gals & guy out of Louisiana in Waverly a couple months ago and they blew me away.
11. Title: Here They Come
Artist: The Doc Marshalls
Album (Year): Look Out Compadres (2012)
Submitted By: toomuchcountry
Comments: I’ve been playing this track repeatedly after first hearing it during one of Bill Frater’s Freight Train Boogie podcasts (a great source of new Americana music). In this month we celebrate our independence and are reminded of the costs paid to defend it, many of the lyrics from this song resonated with me.
12.Title: Like
Artist: We Run
Album (Year): We Run EP (2012)
Submitted By: @popa2unes
13. Title: Fall Skull
Artist: Little Wings
Album (year): Black Grass (2011)
Submitted By: Lord Summerisle
Comments: I didn’t hear this album until early 2012 but it has swiftly become my favourite album of 2011. Brilliant stuff, a touch of Will Oldham, a dash of Bill Callahan and some sweet electronics burbling in the background. Perfect.
14. Title: Give Back My Heart
Artist: Lyle Lovett
Album (year): Pontiac (1988)
Submitted By: Rockstar Aimz
Comments: In spring, 1993, I was in college in Chicago at a coffee shop listening to these two other students jam away on their acoustic guitars, really killing it. They were playing some song that I didn’t know, but it stuck in my head all of these years because it was so good. Thanks to the miracle of satellite radio, I finally figure out nearly two decades later on my commute to work that they were covering this Lyle Lovett song, only adding a few curse words and massive blues guitar riffs.
15. Title: Worry About Your Health
Artist: The District Attorneys
Album (Year): Slowburner (2012)
Submitted by: Corey Flegel (This Is American Music)
Comments: this was the song that reminded me to send in a submission…so, it then became my submission.
16. Title: Hard Times In America
Artist: Willie Nile
Album (Year): Live From The Streets Of New York (2008)
Submitted By: Truersound
Comments: Now that the 4th is over, back to reality.
17. Title: Piledriver Waltz
Artist: Alex Turner
Album (year): Submarine EP (2011)
Submitted By: Simon
Comments: I treated myself to a few pieces of vinyl on Record Store Day amongst them a Caitlin Rose 7†(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJWiUOIpUS8) featuring a pair of tracks from Arctic Monkeys album Suck It and See and have been ‘spinning’ both regularly over the last month, Piledriver Waltz has got stuck in my head and become a new favourite, I stumbled across another version of the track that appeared on Alex Turner’s film soundtrack for Submarine and thought I’d throw this into this months mix. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/v6cg
18. Title: Prime Mover
Artist: Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction
Album (year):
Submitted By: Gorrck
19. Title: Unk In Funk
Artist: Muddy Waters
Album (year): Unk In Funk (1974)
Submitted By: Bowood
Comments: Muddy Waters just letting us know that funk wasn’t born until he entered the world, presumably 7am on Sunday July 7th, with seven doctors in attendance. Today is July 7, the mojo is still strong..
20. Title: Racing in the Street
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Album (year): Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
Submitted By: tincanman2010
Comments: The bit about the girl sitting on her Daddy’s porch, all her pretty dreams torn is one of the saddest moments in song I know. Bruce’s band doesn’t get enough credit for the way they play this. And it’s not a car song; it just sounds at first like one.
21. Title: Continuous Thunder
Artist: Japandroids
Album (Year): Celebration Rock (2012)
Submitted By: Trailer
22. Title: Too Hot
Artist: The Specials
Album (year): The Specials (1979)
Submitted By: annieTUFF
Comments: It’s full blown summer now, and the crazy heat always makes me think of summers as a teenager, and punk. Driving around in my first car (death trap of a car that I scrimped and saved to buy after working my first fast food job) no AC, windows down, sweating like crazy, and cranking music as loud as I could thru my little battery powered tape player that I brought with me (because the stereo in the car kept blowing out the fuses for the lights…see? death trap). So, in honor of all the record breaking heat and summer tunes and memories I’m picking The Specials. And yeah, I know, it’s not punk, it’s ska, but c’mon it’s toooooo hot.
It’s been a minute since we mentioned the Builders and the Butchers. Let’s change that.
The Builders and The Butchers – Black Dresses from Live & Breathing on Vimeo.
For more great session videos like this, visit the fine people at Live and Breathing. They post something new every Tuesday and have amassed a fine collection of people you already love and people you just may love in the near future.
And then, of course, you should go to the Builders and the Butchers’ website and buy up all their music. You know you want more.
Here’s a good tune to take you into the weekend. And contrary to what you might initially pick out from the name of the group (and from this blog’s proclivities), this is not some bluesy moan. “IFUCKINGLOVEYOU” is a weighty, sharp-edged electro blast with a propelling, industrial beat.
IFUCKINGLOVEYOU from Big Black Delta on Vimeo.
Big Black Delta, a name which refers to a certain type of UFO, is led by former Mellowdrone member and sometimes M83 collaborator Jonathan Bates. The band will be touring this summer with M83 and Jane’s Addiction, and their full-length album is due in the fall.
JULY
4th Milwaukee Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI *
AUGUST
1st Electric Factory, Philadelphia PA ^
2nd Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead, Munhall PA ^
7th State Theater, Portland ME ^
8th Central Park Summerstage, New York NY ^
18th MGM Grand Theatre / Foxwoods, Mashantucket CT #
20th Artpark, Lewiston NY #
22nd Stage AE, Pittsburgh PA #
23rd Old National Centre – Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN #
25th Orpheum Theatre, Omaha NE #
26th Pikes Peak Centre, Colorado Springs CO #
28th The Great SaltAir, Salt Lake City UT #
29th Idaho Botanical Garden, Boise ID #
31st Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver BC #
SEPTEMBER
4th Keller Auditorium, Portland OR
5th Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Reno NV
* With The Joy Formidable
^ With M83
# With Jane’s Addiction
