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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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August Video Challenge: Didier Wampas, Eternellement

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Here is Didier Wampas singing Eternellement, one of my favorites from Taisez Moi, while dressed as a vampire and playing a very special guitar.
 

 

PS/ETA: If you listen very carefully to the chorus, you can also hear Ryan Ross (The Young Veins, Panic[!] at the Disco] singing back-up!!

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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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August Video Challenge: Marianne Faithfull, Ballad of Lucy Jordan

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The Ballad of Lucy Jordan, by Marianne Faithfull, brought to you, in a roundabout way, by a labeled but track-list-less mixtape I found in my tape box this weekend. I had to listen to it to find out what was on it, and this song was both the end of Side A and, then, because it got cut off, the start of Side B.

The mixtape was made in the fall of 1996 by one of my professors, as part of a class project. The first time I listened to it was probably the first time I heard this song. I was 21, and 37 seemed very far away. I read it as a cautionary tale. A warning, left by others: watch out, danger, here be quicksand.

Now I am 37, and, while Lucy Jordan’s despair is definitely not mine, the weight of it feels different. Heavier, I think; more real. When the path diverged in the yellow wood, I took a different one, but I can see hers through the trees.
 

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August Video Challenge: Rose’s Pawn Shop, Dancing on the Gallows

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Because I always enjoy bluegrass fused to rock and roll and played at punk speed, and most especially so when the fiddle is good. And Tim Weed, who is playing the fiddle for Rose’s Pawn Shop, is very good.

The rest of the band is Paul Givant (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo), John Kraus (banjo, electric guitar, vocals), Stephen Andrews (upright bass) and Christian Hogan (drums), they are from Los Angeles, CA, and this is a video for Dancing on the Gallows, the title song for their second record.

 

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Firewater: The Story So Far…

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Let me get this out of the way first: Cop Shoot Cop was a fucking rad band. When I was introduced to their music, via their album Ask Questions Later, I had the experience that music lovers rummage through record shops, plunder blogs, and scan magazines seeking to replicate again and again: I found a band who was making exactly the kind of music I wanted to hear. Dual basses, steel wool vocals, no guitar, and a lot of anger: it was heavenly.

The hard truth of the matter, though, was that CSC had ended before I discovered them. In fact, lead man Tod A was already two albums deep in Firewater… though I wouldn’t learn about Firewater for a few more years when I was stopped in my tracks by “This Is My Life”.

 

“This Is My Life” – Firewater

 

Tod A was once again giving me exactly what I wanted, and it’s impossible to sit still during this song, which came from the sixth Firewater album (and first one released on the Bloodshot label) The Golden Hour. If you, too, missed the beginning of the Firewater train, Bloodshot has given you a hand up by reissuing four of the first five Firewater albums: Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire, Psychopharmacology, The Man on the Burning Tightrope, and covers album Songs We Should Have Written (1998’s The Ponzi Scheme remains a creature of the wild).

Within the breadth of the first Firewater album, Get Off the Cross…, you hear a hint of transition from the hard-edged attack of CSC to a warmer – though no less angry – sound heavily influenced by eastern and old European styles. Romani fiddles, klezmer, Russian folk, even shades of sea shanties and cabaret… all injected into groove-heavy, fiery rock, embroidered with Tod A’s life-worn and knowing vocals.

 

“Bourbon and Division” – Firewater

 

But even on albums where the folk styles of the larger world takes a backseat, like 2001’s Psychopharmacology, Tod A’s sustained fire keeps things compelling.

 

“Get Out of My Head” – Firewater

 

And the covers of Songs We Should Have Written read like a sinister and sexy lounge act for those about to make their best worst mistake.

 

“Is That All There Is?” – Firewater

 

So much time has passed since Firewater’s last album that you’d be forgiven for thinking Tod A had abandoned ship just as it had set off into international waters. Is that all there is? Oh, no. Take this break to familiarize yourself with Firewater’s story so far, then keep your eyes and ears ready, for this story is… to be continued.

 

Firewater @ Bloodshot Records

Firewater @ Facebook

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August Video Challenge: JJAMZ, Heartbeat

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And now, JJAMZ‘s homage to both The Police and ’80s horror movies, or, the creepiest video I have watched this summer.

Seriously, I love this song but this video totally gives me the howling fantods.

Naturally I must therefore share it with y’all so we can all watch it from behind our fingers together, preferably in the middle of the day with all of the lights on.

Even more seriously, I’m intrigued by how this song, and in particular this video for this song, combine to interact, if you will, with Don’t Stand So Close To Me, which is ALSO a pretty creepy song.

The video, is, like JJAMZ’s version, also set in a school, but has a distinctly playful feel.

All three of The Police are clowning around as the song plays. Sting, as himself, inexplicably wears puffy golden wings for the first minute or so, spends the last 30 seconds dancing with a lacrosse stick (was it Let Us Use All The Props Day?), and at one point, as the harried teacher, takes off his shirt Superman-style.

In stark contrast, what JJAMZ and director Eddie O’Keefe ask the viewer of their video to contemplate is: What if that teacher struggling with inappropriate desires was a killer?

All I can say is, I hope there’s a follow-up soon.