Unlike Liars' last two albums, this new self-titled collection drops an overriding concept, unless it's love, youth, the ocean, and summertime nostalgia. More immediate and emotionally raw than past work, Liars' trim, submerged, clattering tracks aren't Drum's Not Dead epic... Liars'">more »
Includes Andrew W.K., David Grubbs, Alan Licht, plus people from Modest Mouse, Man Man, Lightning Bolt, Hot Snakes, Oneida, Excepter, Unwound, Enon, Gang Gang Dance, White Magic
There seems to be loads of excitement brewing over this weekend's 77-drum circle put on by the Boredoms at Brooklyn Bridge Park (going down 07/07/07, naturally). Is it the numeric synergy? A show of support for Japan's premier noise-rockers? Either way, expect the opposite of boredom at what's being billed as 77BOADRUM.
Sure, Boredoms could've chosen any djembe-dragging Joe off the street to fill in their 74 vacant spots (we presume the other three-- and the mysterious "0" spot-- are going to Boredoms members). But no; they had to get members and friends of Modest Mouse, Lightning Bolt, Man Man, Gang Gang Dance, Soft Circle, Oneida, Excepter, Aa, Blood on the Wall, Pit Er Pat, Unwound, Enon, Arbouretum, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sightings, White Magic, No Neck Blues Band, Panthers, Celebration, Negative Approach, Tall Firs, and others, turning this into a veritable Traveling Wilburys of avant-garde percussion.
Something tells me, despite the 76 other maniacs pounding around him, Andrew W.K. will come through loud and clear. From note one. Something also tells me an enterprising production company could turn this into one of the cooler live albums/DVDs we'll see in a while.
In other Boredoms news, they've got quite a few regular tour dates after the drum thing. Scope those and the complete enumerated list of drummers below.
Drum leaders:
01 Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle / Pixeltan) 02 Tim Dewit (Gang Gang Dance) 03 Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) 04 Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band / Under Satans Sun) 05 Jaiko Suzuki (Electro Putas) 06 Jesse Lee (White Magic) 07 Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs / Stars Like Fleas) 08 Kid Millions (Oneida) 09 Andy McLeod (Howling Hex / Modest Mouse) 10 Aaron Moore 11 Robin Easton
Other drummers:
12 Sara Lund (Unwound) 13 Jim Black 14 Andrew W.K. 15 Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat) 16 Miggie (Blood on the Wall) 17 Brian Tamborello (Psychic Ills) 18 Andee Connors (A Minor Forest / Lumen) 19 John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man) 20 Taylor Richardson (Sunburned Hand of the Man) 21 Chris Millstein 22 Abby Portner (First Nation) 23 Aviram Cohen (Soiled Mattress and the Springs) 24 Allison Busch (Awesome Color) 25 Warren Huegel (Tussle) 26 Nathan Corbin (Excepter) 27 Clare Amory 28 Jonathan Lockie (Sightings) 29 Josh Bonati (Aa) 30 Nadav Havusha (Aa) 31 Aron Wahl (Aa) 32 Jeffrey Salane (Panthers) 33 Jim Sykes 34 David Aron (Koi Pond) 35 Michael Catano 36 Spencer Herbst (Matta Lama) 37 Jim Siegel (Cul De Sac and Damo Suzuki) 38 Mike Pride (MDC, FUSHITSUSHA, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide) 39 Nick DeCarmine 40 Marianne Kozlowski (The Punks) 41 Than Luu (M. Ward) 42 Dave Bergander (Celebration) 43 Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot) 44 Andrya Ambro 45 Justin DeRosa 46 Hart Mingus (Negative Approach) 47 Matthias Schulz (Enon / Holy Fuck) 48 Josh Madell (Antietam, Other Music) 49 Matt (No Neck Blues Band) 50 Jim Abramson (Dymaxion) 51 Oran Canfield (Child Abuse) 52 Adriana Magaña (Crash Worship) 53 Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band) 54 Travis Harrison 55 Jared Barron 56 Jason Kourkounis (Delta 72 / Hot Snakes) 57 Eric Cohen (Caroliner) 58 Daniel Franz (Arbouretum) 59 Christopher Brokaw (Codeine) 60 Jared Burak (Wet Cement) 61 Christopher Powell (Icy Demons / Man Man) 62 Sadie Laska (I.U.D.) 63 Pete Vogl (Koi Pond) 64 Barbara Schauwecker 65 AJ Edminson (Favourite Sons) 66 David Grubbs 67 John McSwain (VICE) 68 Dave Abramson (Climax Golden Twins) 69 Alan Licht 70 Rick Prior 71 Kayrock 72 Dave LeBleu (Prefuse 73 / Mercury Program) 73 Lizzy Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) 74 Alianna Kalaba (We Ragazzi)
Boredoms:
07-07 Brooklyn, NY - Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (Brooklyn Bridge Park) 08-04 Helsinki, Finland - Nosturi 08-05 Tampere, Finland - Klubi 08-08 Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival 08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival 08-12 Copenhagen, Denmark - Radio Concert Hall 10-18 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera 10-19 Hasslet, Belgium - KC Belgie 10-20 Kortrijk, Belgium - Sonic City Festival 10-22 Manchester, England - Academy 10-13 Glasgow, Scotland - Arches 10-24 Aberdeen, England - Moshulu 10-26 London, England - The Wire/Electra Festival 10-28 Dublin, Ireland - Deaf Festival 10-30 Cardiff, Wales - The Point
A Fourth of July shot fired by Animal Collective: the new video for ‘Fireworks,’ from the highly anticipated Strawberry Jam. The video, directed by Jon Leone, beautifully captures the chem-free psychedelia of fireworks displays, the way the lights turn into colorful geometric shapes when you squint your eyes just so. The song's got a little of everything Animal Collective does best — a bit of Spacemen 3 guitar, a few subdued chants, and some trademark vocal whoops-- but the lyrics are unusually direct and concrete. And then it ends, as it should, with a grand finale that combines bombs bursting in air that look a bit like a joyous bunch of people creating an earth-bound version with sparklers. Ooooh. Ahhhhhh. Awwww. Happy Independence Day!