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The Dad Horse Experience in Cleveland Tonight

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It’s not often the surprising and enchanting Dad Horse gets to tour the United States, but he’s on our soil right now, preaching the kellergospel. Here’s a clip from his recent stop at the Muddy Roots Festival.

 

“Through the Hole” – The Dad Horse Experience

 

He will appearing tonight at Now That’s Class tonight, and it promises to be an interesting experience. There’s no telling how long it will be before he makes it back this way, so don’t miss it.

 

“Kingdom It Will Come” – The Dad Horse Experience

 

Thursday, September 6, 9 PM
The Dad Horse Experience
The Misery Jackals
Johnny and the Applestompers

$5

Now That’s Class

If you’re too far away to catch this gig, Dad has a bunch more American stops coming up with more being added all the time. Keep tabs at the tour page.

Sep.07: THE BRASS RAIL, Fort Wayne, IN
Sep.08: TIP TOP DELUXE, Grand Rapids, MI
Sep.09: WANDER INN, Mishawaka, IN
Sep.10: REGGIES, Chicago, IL
Sep.11: OUTLAW RADIO CHICAGO, living room session
Sep.12: TBA, Le Claire, IA
Sep.13: THE DUSTBOWL, Madison, WI
Sep.14: WISE GUYS, Mason City, IA
Sep.15: WILD TYMES, Saint Paul, MN
Sep.16: FLOWER SHOP, Sauk Rapids, MN
Sep.17: NORTH STAR BAR, Rochester, MN
Sep.18: ROZZ-TOX, Rock Island, IL
Sep.19: NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR, Quincy, IL
Sep.21: THE CRACK FOX, St. Louis, MO
Sep.22: NEW DAISY THEATER, Memphis, TN

 

The Dad Horse Experience Official Website

The Dad Horse Experience @ Facebook

 

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Big Black Delta: Betamax

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Remember how you dug Big Black Delta’s “IFUCKINGLOVEYOU” when we posted it back in June? (Don’t even pretend you didn’t. We saw you.) Here’s a new one called “Betamax”.

 

 

Both “IFUCKINGLOVEYOU” and “Betamax” are part of Big Black Delta’s tour EP which is streaming at Life + Times and can be purchased here.

Big Black Delta has also added dates to their tour schedule.

AUGUST
31st Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver BC w/Jane’s Addiction

SEPTEMBER
4th Keller Auditorium, Portland OR
5th Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Reno NV
6th Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco CA
7th Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles CA

OCTOBER
19TH Hooga, Chelmsford UK
22ND Hoxton, London UK
26TH Soup Kitchen, Manchester UK
27TH The Asylum, Birmingham UK
28TH Haddow Fest, Edinburgh UK

 

Big Black Delta Official Website

 

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A Good Read, a Good Listen, and a Good Drink: Blackwater Jukebox

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It’s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid (or something dark and strong or just some whole milk). You drop the needle on the jazz platter (or pull up a blues album on your mp3 player or dig out that mixtape from college). Ensconcing yourself in the coziest seat in the house, you crack the spine on a classic (or find your place in that sci-fi paperback or pull up a biography on your e-book reader). And then, you go away for a while. Ah, bliss.

In this series, some of NTSIB’s friends share beloved albums, books and drinks to recommend or inspire.

 

We hold a special place in our hearts for Blackwater Jukebox around here. Partially because, while my co-blogger Jennifer and I are often at odds in our musical tastes, we are both enthusiastic about the synthesis of old and new, dance and hip hop churned up with folk and blues, produced by Blackwater Jukebox.

Check out an acoustic version of “Eastside Girls” recorded for this year’s CXCW:

 

“Eastside Girls” – Blackwater Jukebox feat. Sadie & the Blue Eyed Devils

 

Another reason we love Blackwater Jukebox is because mastermind Geordie McElroy is such a nice and interesting fellow. So, we’re pleased to have Geordie share a few fantastic recommendations with us.

 

“Mr. Vain” – Blackwater Jukebox feat. Sadie & the Blue Eyed Devils

 

Good Read:
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole’s absurd tragicomedy about Ignatius J. Reilly: an obese, over-educated, and egomaniacal mama’s boy, forced to balance minimum wage drudgery with the calorie-intensive labors of penning an indictment of the 20th century. This book is for struggling artists, coffee shop philosophers, and anyone who has lashed out at dregs of pop culture. The “Crusade for Moorish Dignity” and The Sodomite Party political convention are high points among Ignatius’ rambling mis-adventures through 1960s New Orleans.

Good Listen:
Zulu Jive: Umbaqanga – various artists
A UK import from the early 80s featuring a handful of tracks from apartheid-era South Africa. This may be the most jubilant and effervescent music – ever. Frankly, it would be shocking if Paul Simon hadn’t pumped this prior to making Graceland. If you dig up-tempo, syncopated grooves with shimmering guitar, buoyant bass, and accordion – this album is for you. Good time music.

 

 

Good Drink:
Michelada
Mexican Bloody Mary made with beer, Clamato, and a fistful of flavor. Bursting with b-vitamins (and alcohol), the bright red concoction might be the ultimate hang-over cure, hunger neutralizer, and/or thirst quencher. Extra tasty with a salt and season rim. If you’re ever in LA, try Mario’s at the Silverlake Lounge. Liquid dynamite.

 

Blackwater Jukebox are planning a Dia de los Meurtos (November 1) release and west coasters can check out their upcoming gigs.

September 10 – Los Globos – Los Angeles, CA
October 1 – The Redwood Bar & Grill – Los Angeles, CA
November 8 – Sam Bond’s Garage – Eugene, OR

 

Blackwater Jukebox @ Bandcamp

Blackwater Jukebox @ Facebook

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Shivering Timbers Album Release Show

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If you loved the Shivering Timbers Dan Auerbach-produced debut We All Started in the Same Place, be ready for a little shift. Sing Sing, the Kickstarter-backed album for which they’ll be playing an album-release show at Music in Akron this Friday, diverges from the quirky nursery rhyme tunes of their debut, instead reflecting more accurately the band’s live sound, with Sarah Benn’s strong vocals soaring open wide while Jayson Benn’s gorgeous guitar weaves and fuzzes out back on earth.

As Sarah noted in her interview with Tim Quine over at Rubber City Review, We All Started… was largely an on-the-spot creation. But through all the subsequent gigging, Shivering Timbers have grown confidently and reflect that growth, their stronger self, gloriously on the Brian Olive-produced Sing Sing.

 

Shivering Timbers – Generations from TurnStyle Films on Vimeo.

 

While the album begins on lighter, brighter notes with title track “Sing Sing” and Neil Diamond cover “Holly Holy”, the stream of the album roils with the kind of darkness born from standing resolutely against life’s foes, reflected here in the Chuck Auerback-penned “Annalee”, as Sarah asks, “Who told the Lord I didn’t need her? Who told the Lord I didn’t love her? Who ever said He could take her? When I find Him, I’ll put Him in His grave.”

 

06 Annalee by Shivering Timbers

 

The clouds begin to clear by the end, and the playfulness of the Shivering Timbers’ first album is revisited in the charming blues tune “The Mopping Floor”.

 

12 The Mopping Floor by Shivering Timbers

 

We All Started in the Same Place was Shivering Timbers’ calling card to get your attention. With Sing Sing, they’re ready to show you what they can really do.

Sing Sing will be released to the wide world on September 4, but if you can make it to Akron this Friday, you shouldn’t hesitate.

 

Shivering Timbers album release show
at Musica
Friday, August 31, 8 PM
with
Good Morning Valentine
White Pines
Light of the Loon

$8.00 advance / $10.00 door
Advance tickets available via TicketWeb.

 

Shivering Timbers Official Website

Shivering Timbers @ Facebook

Shivering Timbers @ Daytrotter

 

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A Good Read, a Good Listen, and a Good Drink: JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound

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It’s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid (or something dark and strong or just some whole milk). You drop the needle on the jazz platter (or pull up a blues album on your mp3 player or dig out that mixtape from college). Ensconcing yourself in the coziest seat in the house, you crack the spine on a classic (or find your place in that sci-fi paperback or pull up a biography on your e-book reader). And then, you go away for a while. Ah, bliss.

In this series, some of NTSIB’s friends share beloved albums, books and drinks to recommend or inspire.

 

I’ve effused about JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound’s rump-shaking soul and phenomenal live show more than once. They are just really fucking good, people! And in advance of their return to Cleveland this Sunday, Uptown men Andy Rosenstein (keys) and Kevin Marks (drums) have given us some fine recommendations

 

Andy says: I’d suggest reading Hardboiled Wonderland and The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami while drinking a Manhattan and listening to Charles Mingus’ East Coasting. When Mingus ends, put on Talkie Walkie by Air. (Bonus enjoyment if you do your reading in the bathtub.)

 

“Memories of You” – Charles Mingus

 

“Venus” – Air

 

Kevin says: Anything by Hemingway, a bottle of Jameson and Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and see where that gets ya.

 

“Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” – Miles Davis

 

For a little taste of what you’ll experience Sunday night, here’s a KEXP session recorded not long before JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound’s previous Cleveland appearance back in November.

 

 

Sun, Aug 19 | 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
R.A. Washington & The Family Dollar
DJ Charles McGaw spins before & between sets

$10.00 adv / $12.00 dos
Tavern | All Ages

 

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound

The Beachland Ballroom & Tavern

 

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JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound Return to Cleveland + mp3

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In the time since we lost wrote about JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, you may have seen their name thrown around some more, garnering more fans with their incredible live shows, and being added to this year’s Lollapalooza lineup. And maybe you’ve become curious enough to want to experience the ass-moving power for yourself. Or, at least, you damn well should have.

But do you want more (eh? See what I did there?) to entice you? Check out the video for “Sister Ray Charles” (eh? See what they did there?) below and download the mp3.

 

 

Download: “Sister Ray Charles” – JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound

 

Now that you realize the regret that would dog you all the days of your life if you didn’t experience this fantastic band of entertainers live, mark your calendar for August 19, when JCBUS will return to the Beachland Tavern. R.A. Washington and the Family Dollar will play support (Washington was named among the most interesting people of 2012 by Cleveland Magazine) and DJ Charles McGaw will keep the sounds rolling between sets. I cannot properly express here how worth your time this show is, so go see and hear for yourself.

Sun, Aug 19 | 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
R.A. Washington & The Family Dollar
DJ Charles McGaw spins before & between sets

$10.00 adv / $12.00 dos
Tavern | All Ages

 

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound

The Beachland Ballroom & Tavern

 

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Deep Blues Festival Cleveland 2012

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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

 

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Liars: Cleveland Giveaway

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photo credit: Zen Sekizawa

 

Liars’ Angus Andrew has said, “If we aren’t confusing people, it’s not us. If we aren’t confusing ourselves with what we do, then we’ve failed.” WIXIW (pronounced “wish you”), the new album from Liars, rounds off the sharper edges of their sound and throws a thick blanket of texture over it. That’s not to say they have ditched chaos and gone straight. But instead of bursts of jagged drum, guitar and screams, the chaos is created by layers of found sound (as I listen to the album now, I can hear two or three species of frog chirping and peeping along with hardwood thwacks in a digitized echo chamber and some sort of animal/human cries of panic – that’s what it sounds like to me, at least). The result is a cloud that is soothing and entrancing at times, claustrophobic at others.

 

“No. 1 Against the Rush” – Liars

 

Liars will be bringing this cloud, and more from their 12 years worth of back catalogue, to the Grog Shop in Cleveland on July 27, with Unknown Mortal Orchestra playing support. We have the pleasure of giving away two prize packs, each consisting of two free passes to the July 27 show and a signed Liars poster. To enter, just leave a comment below, with a valid e-mail address (so we can contact you for further information if you win). Two winners will be chosen at random on July 25. Good luck!

Liars
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Friday, July 27
9 p.m. (doors 8 p.m.)
$15
Grog Shop

 

Liars Official Website

Liars @ Tumblr

Liars @ Facebook

 

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Big Black Delta: IFUCKINGLOVEYOU

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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

 

Big Black Delta @ Facebook

Big Black Delta @ iTunes

 

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More from Cold Specks

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We had a very positive response when we posted Cold Specks’ “Holland” back in February. Here’s a new one with that same beautiful voice, called “Blank Maps”.

 

 

And if you follow this link, you can hear Cold Specks covering Swans’ “Reeling the Liars In”. A sophisticated, intriguing, and wonderfully-executed choice.

Cold Specks’ album, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, will be out May 22nd. She hits the road next week, dates below.

May 1st – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
May 2nd – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI
May 3rd – Cedar Cultural Centre – Minneapolis, MN
May 4th – West End Cultural Centre – Winnipeg, MB
May 6th – McDougall United Church – Edmonton, AB
May 7th – Central United Church – Calgary, AB
May 8th – Southminster United Church – Lethbridge, AB
May 9th – The Royal – Nelson, BC
May 11th – The Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, BC
May 12th – Alix Goolden Hall – Victoria, BC
May 13th – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA
May 14th – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR
May 16th – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
May 18th – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA
May 19th – The Compound Grilll – Phoenix, AZ
May 20th – Club Congress – Tucson, AZ
May 22nd – The Prophet Bar – Dallas, TX
May 23rd – Stubb’s BBQ (Indoor) – Austin, TX
May 24th – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA
May 25th – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
May 26th – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC
May 27th – Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, DC
May 28th – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
May 30th – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
May 31st – Middle East Downstairs – Cambridge, MA
June 2nd – The Music Hall, Toronto, ON

 

Cold Specks Official Website

Cold Specks @ Facebook