Jimmy Gnecco - The Heart (2010)

Well here's a live video from The Mercury Lounge last Wednesday in NYC. The song "These Are My Hands" which I believe is the 1st single from this record.

More information about this record I gotta believe isn't far away as February was the original projection date. I don't think we're going to have a Mercy/Dancing For the Death... situation again given the label status.

bumpings will occur of course when info is available.

Apparatjik - We Are Here (2010)

1. "Deadbeat" 2:52
2. "Datascroller" 2:58
3. "Snow Crystals" 4:32
4. "Supersonic Sound" 3:24
5. "Arrow and Bow" 4:20
6. "In a Quiet Corner" 3:35
7. "Josie" 3:30
8. "Antlers" 3:20
9. "Electric Eye" 6:02
10. "Look Kids" 4:52
11. "Quiz Show" 2:33
41:58

Here's just the review I put up on rateyourmusic. I hardly am clear on how I feel about this album, but given how little talk about it I've noticed on the boards, I'm kind of surprised.

Gone through it twice. Seems to fall into the category a lot of records I've been checking out of late. The best moments or tracks I really dig. The rest may grow on me, but for now sort of falls into the albums "sound" which in a nutshell is like if Mew were doing more heavily electronic or even industrial driven music, and also with somewhat of an 80's new wave flare. Given this has members of Coldplay and A-Ha, that is almost too predictable.

But while this doesn't seem to be as great as a Mew record (yet), the songwriting and experiments I am liking no matter.

It'll be interesting to know how I feel about this by the end of the year. But in the mean time, especially the Mew crowd, I'd highly endorse this (while not expecting Mew at the same time).

I really like the chorus/bridge on this track, although it sounds much worse from a youtube stream of course.

Water & Bodies - The Rain City Sessions Part 2 (2/16/10)

2/8/10

artwork


bumped 2/3/10 6:50AM

New EP comes out Feb 16th.

A release date has been set for our second EP titled The Rain City Sessions part 2. You can purchase it digitally through Rain City Records on Feb 16, 2010. Please help us out and pick up a copy!
www.raincityrecords.net
Track Listing for Rain City Sessions Part 2:

Life is Education

Hard to Pin

…To the Sun

Moments in a Life

Bizarre

Over Grown Cloud

Love,

Beau, Christopher, Kelsey, and Aaron


original 12/13/09
7-song ep is being released on January 13th? at a show in Portland, Oregon.

If only I could afford to go out there...



blog posting

Album Release show Jan 13th @ Doug Fir

Wait…. what…. we have a new album done? Yes yes this is the big SURPRISE we’ve been talking about!! Some of you knew it or just plain figured it out, but YES we have 7 brand new songs freshly recorded over the past few months that we will release locally here in Portland on Jan 13th 2010.

Jan 13 2010 @ Doug Fir (Portland, OR)

We won’t have it pressed yet but we will be doing a special limited edition hand screen printed poster and if you purchase one of those you will get a password to download the new album for free or we’ll just give you a burned copy!! We are so pumped for you to hear all the great music we’ve been working on! We need ALL YOUR SUPPORT at this show, so come out and tell a friend or three. We are also very excited to be playing with our great friends Empty Space Orchestra and Symmetry/Symmetry. The show is 21+ Doors at 9 and its only $6. So cheap! This will be our only show in January so we’ll see you all there and lets make it a party! Visit www.dougfirlounge.com and purchase your tickets today!

Love,

Beau, Christopher, Kelsey, and Aaron

Daniel Gildenlow interview

bump 2/7/10 12:58PM

It's been pulled?..uhh..I'm watching it RIGHT NOW on yewtewb, lol. is there some way they can pull it as an embed, yet still allow it to be viewed on the site itself?

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not a bad song. Annoying that the picture isn't sync-ed up with the music. It's just a ballad, although I guess for "Eurovision" it would make sense to play that type of track.


original 2/3/10 5:51AM
for those unaware, Gildenlow is the mastermind behind Pain of Salvation.





Road Salt's release schedule?

Call Florence Pow - Preparation for Battle

very funny video, and nice use of a classic song by a gone-but-hopefully-never-forgotten band, in Call Florence Pow (who became/morphed-into Apes and Androids).

Upcoming topics:

Concerts: Jonsi, Tony Levin and someone else, The Apples in Stereo

Albums: Orphaned Land, Pat Metheny, Shaolin Death Squad, Appartjik, non-2010: Distrails, Clor, We Are the City, Dikta

Dark Tranquillity soon as well.

Water & Bodies s/t ep2 is released in 2 weeks finally.

I can mention, I count now 19 drafts are put together for the tv blog. Which is certainly more than half. Doing 1-2 per day has helped gradual progress for that long tv-addicts novel-length write-up.

Coheed and Cambria's new album "Year of the Black Rainbow" comes out April 13th.

the New Hampshire band Graph signed with Bear Minnimum records in Michigan. They may at some point end up in Minneapolis or St.Paul with a Midwest connection. I'd love to go see them. In the mean time, I shall be purchasing a copy of "Graph EP2"

lots more releases being announced that I've included in my 2010 Anticipation Calendar

2010 Oscar nominations were pretty much as bad if not worse than the 2010 SAG's and Globes. Save for The Messenger getting 1 or 2 extra nominations. And with 10 Best Picture nominees, seeing 'Up" in there was nice, for what it's worth. It won't win. Avatar will.

But Where the Wile Things Are not only wasn't nominated for any of the big awards, but was ignored for the soundtrack and technical awards as well.

I think there is something to be said for how poor a year for movies 2009 was. Go figure. 2010 ought to be better, it won't take a whole lot anyway.

Lost: In the Final Leg of it's story

I'd love to blurb out some stream of consciousness analysis right now about any and all things involving last evening (Final) Season premiere 2-hour episode. But will I? no, primarily due to time.

Watercooler show 101.

It's a mindfuck, and pretty much just gives more confusing plot points every few seconds.

The theme of death and rebooting/resetting and saving someone was more or less on the premiere. The timelines, realities, where characters are, continuity.

Actually Bryan K Vaughan has done similar storytelling in "Ex Machina" which I recently completed the 3rd issue of. So all the multiple scenes from characters in different timeframes shouldn't be too weird for me to take-in right now.

I guess 1 question that I have to think about is all these questions coming up with continuity and mystery, will we see the payoff by the finale of them being answered. Will it avoid the Alias guilt of never really explaining everything? I fear it will.

The black smoke monster entity being revealed, while hardly shocking, still was a highlight.

Broken Social Scene - TBA (due 5/4/2010)

original 2/1/2010 11:51PM



Pukefork Media interview with Kevin Drew (not my former classmate)

same day as "Together" from The New Pornographers, lol. BSS and The New Porno's release new albums the same day. The 2 (primarily-based) Canadian quasi indie supergroups. And frankly, the 2 proggy indie bands I associate with eachother (maybe along with The Decemberists).

When more info is available, this posting of course will be bumped.

Distrails - Dry Flies?

I love this promising duo/sideproject from NC. Virginia Creeper is an inspiring and gorgeous sounding ep from 2008.

I don't have the time now, but I'll just add that given these new songs were put up in DECEMBER, myspazz is soh not reliable anymore for news.

I found a 4-track zip on a blog, but 1 of the files was corrupted. But no matter, most if not all of them can be streamed on their

Facebook Page

this site

myspace

The full-length they have worked-on and sadly lost due to pc issues I guess from what Bitsy told me, I imagine is in the works. But lack of web-communication has left me in the dark somewhat. But I hope 2010 will end up being a big year for this band. In the mean time, these new songs are definitely going to be enjoyed by myself and others I'm sure (as they already have been I imagine).

New PsychFans Podcast: You Can't Handle...

"You Can't Handle This Episode"
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the people saying this episode sucked, really need to ask themselves what they want or expect from a Psych episode. It was hilarious and we got Rachel Leigh Cook in a skimpy nigthtee, lol.