This just in from Drowned In Sound

Drowned In Sound posted its top 50 albums of 2007. Read and compare to your own list (if you've been keeping up with it all.)
Enjoy!
Zelo

SOURCE: DrownedinSound.com

Radiohead Celebrate New Year With Webcast

Al Gore brings the rock to your television set

Although there are already plenty of nice musical options to entertain you on New Year's Eve this year, here's a last-minute surprise: Today on Dead Air Space, after wishing us all a "peaceful Christmas", Thom Yorke announced that Radiohead will be "broadcasting a pre-recording of some songs and other bits on New Years Eve.." over at Radiohead.tv. It starts at midnight GMT on December 31, which is in the early evening here in America, leaving plenty of time to go get ready to see Spoon or the Black Lips or R. Kelly or whoever. "this is a wee celebration of the release of the physical manifestation of 'in rainbows'," Thom continues, referring to the fact that the new Radiohead album is finally due in stores. It's out today in Japan (via Hostess Entertainment), the UK December 31 (via XL), and the U.S. and Canada January 1 (via ATO/TBD and MapleMusic, respectively). Apparently the webcast is going to consist of a performance of In Rainbows in full, taped at the band's Oxford studio, a place we are already intimately familiar with. In America, the live show will be aired commercial-free on Al Gore's television station, Current TV. It premieres at 12 a.m. EST/9 p.m. PST. Current's website will also archive the show, so you can watch it again New Year's Day while writing your resolutions. (Resolution #1: Watch less television.) [MORE...]

Link-arrowVideo: Radiohead: New Year's Webcast Teaser #1
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SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia.com

Marshall Arisman: The Ayahuasca Series

Mr. Arisman is the subject of a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Silver titled 'Facing the Audience: The Arts of Marshall Arisman.'

SOURCE: MarshallArisman.com

M. Night is trying to tell us something…

After months of rumors, cast updates, and hints about the film's content, we finally have our first official look at M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, in the form of a teaser poster.
The poster, first made available by ComingSoon.net, shows a city skyline in the distance, with a number of abandoned cars scattered over a long stretch of highway. At the top, it contains the following tagline: "We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening."

SOURCE: MNight.com

The Death of High Fidelity

In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever

David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he's not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who work on his CDs to crank up the sound levels so high that even the soft parts sound loud.
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SOURCE: RollingStone.com

It's not even on itunes yet!

From the fabulous Reax mag crew:

Summerbirds In The Cellar

Summerbirds in the Cellar’s Druids is as haunting as it is healing. Similar to the band’s previous release With the Hands of the Hunter It All Becomes Dead, Brad Register’s lyrics continue to mine dark caves and offer bleak, apocalyptic perspectives about our existence. The words are true, expressing beliefs and fears that have deep, universal resonance.

Druids surpasses its predecessor in intention and execution. The songwriting here is more focused and confident, with melodies that weave in and around the band’s trademark thick layers of guitars and keyboards. None of the nine tracks exist in isolation, but rather build upon one another, providing a powerful unity to the whole record. Rooted in rhythm, the sound is dense and muggy with a dream-like quality unlike anything the southeast music scene has produced. The patience precision of Druids further confirms Summerbirds in the Cellar as the Southeastern region’s most important and talented band.


SOURCE: reaxmusic.com/

Presenting Fader's Listmania!

Once again, The FADER and its extended family present their version of the Best of the Year list type things.
Click more for the real talk. more...

SOURCE: TheFader/Listmania

Getting Evens

The Evens are a band from Washington, D.C. Ian MacKaye plays baritone guitar and Amy Farina plays drums. They both sing. Their debut album was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in the summer of 2004 and released in March 2005. "The Evens, Get Evens", the band's second full-length release, was entirely self recorded in the basement of the Dischord House in the summer of 2006. The album was then mixed at Inner Ear Studios by The Evens and Don Zientara. The Evens have toured parts of the U.S. and Europe and have traveled extensively in the first half of 2007, including dates in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Eastern Canada and the United States.

SOURCE: Dischord Records

Introducing: Antelope

Antelope was formed in Washington, DC in 2001 by ex-members of the Vertebrates, Bee Elvy and Mike Andre, and El Guapo's Justin Moyer. In March of 2002 the band recorded six songs with Phil Manley (of Trans Am) at National Recording Studios. The self-titled EP was released in February 2003 as a split venture between Dischord and the band's own Bug Records. Antelope played its first regional shows in eastern and mid-western US cities and the band accompanied Q and not U and Black Eyes on an extensive tour of the United States in September of 2003. The two song EP "Crowns" b/w "The Flock" was recorded in July of 2003 with Ian Mackaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios and was released in February of 2004. In November 2006 the band recorded it's first full-length, "Reflector," at the Dischord House with Ian MacKaye. Antelope continued regional touring with Joe Lally and Soccer Team and embarked on a full-US tour in March 2007. European dates are scheduled for October and November and more US dates will follow into December.

Antelope:
Mike Andre - drums/bass/vocals
Bee Elvy - drums/bass/vocals
Justin Moyer - guitar/vocals

SOURCE: Dischord Records

This just in from NoRipcord

Angels Of Light
"We Are Him"
(Young God Records / Revolver)

Like some wicked fusion of preacher and devil; like a lost soul leading a band of nine-foot tall Frankensteins, Michael Gira's Angels Of Light return with their new We Are Him. Once again, Gira is backed by Akron/Family; together they chart a determined, frightening descent through personal hells and bleak travails. Opening track Black River Song begins the album like a waking nightmare: haunted piano, ghostly bells, and a guitar figure that sounds like it was run through an electric chair. Gira himself sounds positively possessed, howling, "Black river runs / beneath this ground / black river flows forever / but it makes no sound." The mission of the Angels Of Light may be to find that river and put it to music, and from start to finish, the instrumentation and production on We Are Him is immaculate; notes Michael Gira on the Young God Records website, "Despite Akron's valorous efforts and fine performances, things sounded thin and tentative to me, so I started calling my friends to help me flesh things out." All rise to perfect and glorious occasion throughout the album, never overpowering but pumping each song full of angry, yearning blood.

SOURCE: NoRipcord.com

"What's the point of this interaction?"

…The thing is, we still live in a world that's filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity -- we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.

— SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of five (no, it's six! [no it's SEVEN Free Prize Inside was published in early May, 2004] and All Marketers Are Liars was published in 2005) books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list.

Mind-blowing music

Between the Buried and Me

'Foam Born (a+b)'

From the new release 'Colors,'
Victory Records (2007)

Heavy Rotation

Why, that's iRonic

SOURCE: iRonic Productions Presents, 2007

My Bloody Valentine reunion confirmed*

Kevin Shields, the mercurial and elusive leader of My Bloody Valentine, confirmed that the legendary band has reunited in the studio for the first time since 1995, recorded new material, and that an album release is forthcoming, possibly as soon as this year. In an exclusive interview set to air Monday, Nov. 12 on VBS.tv, Shields speaks at length with Ian Svenonious on Soft Focus about his career and art, including some tantalizing hints about the next phase of My Bloody Valentine.

When The Daily Swarm first reported on the upcoming My Bloody Valentine reunion in August, their sources insisted on remaining anonymous, and Kevin Shields’ own statements came only in the form of fans’ personal encounters culled from a variety of message boards. Some accused TDS of rumormongering, but were confident in their work and that after years of false starts and dashed hopes, one of the most innovative guitar bands (second only to SY) of all time was truly gearing up for a return to action.

Watch Part One of the interview here

November 06, 2007
SOURCE: The Daily Swarm*

The Gardener

SOURCE: iwantsomecouch

StarWarz: In One Act

SOURCE: iRonic Productions Presents, 2007

Twenty-Three Minutes Over Brussels

How do you introduce Alan Vega?

One half of the seminal electronic duo Suicide, Alan Vega was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career as a visual artist, gaining notoriety in the early 70s for his radical light sculptures and through the mid-80s had numerous one-man art exhibitions at OK Harris and the Barbara Gladstone galleries in Manhattan. Also in the early 70s, Vega co-founded a lower Manhattan art & music forum, ‘the Project of Living Artists’ in a large warehouse space in SoHo. It was there he met Martin Rev and together they formed Suicide, whose minimalist music, a fusion of Rev's ominous, repetitive keyboards and Vega's rockabilly snarl, helped paved the way for the electronic artists of the future.

Five years in the making, Vega's tenth solo release, Station, is a blistering statement of intent from a rock'n'roll shaman whose work has always stretched parameters, managing to defy expectations at every turn.

As Vega himself says, “Station represents a kind of culmination point for me. It gathers up many of the elements that have been in my previous work and takes them all the way. In many ways, it's my most truthful record in that I'm now at the age where it’s easier for me to listen to my own heart-beat and act on it creatively.”

'Station' is out now on Mute.

SOURCE: AlanVega.com

Perpetuum Mobile

Einstürzende Neubauten is the first and only band which successfully uses the Internet productively to gather and concentrate activities of their fans from around the world. Einstürzende Neubauten launched their official website www.neubauten.org in 2002, and made it the center of their musical activities. Entire albums are financed by registered Supporters via subscription. The principle is simple: their Supporters buy the next Einstürzende Neubauten album before it’s recorded. With this funding in hand the band has time to work in peace rather than wasting time and energy in endless discussions with record companies about marketing and “brand identity” – irksome intrusions into the artistic process! In return Supporters world-wide have exclusive access to Einstürzende Neubauten’s internal working processes.

New release, Alles Wieder Offen (pronounced: ah-llus vee-der off-en), out now.

Find out more here.

Straight trippin', Boo…

East Village Radio (from 10/19)

Stream the "The Let out" Click here

Download the mp3 for free! Click here

Add the show to your favorite podcasts by pointing your preferred podcast software to:
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/podcasts/2008/68.xml
SOURCE: TheFader.com

Super Dave versus the Vampire

The Ultimate Larry Craig Interview

Last week, Super Dave Osborne conducted the ultimate interview with nosferatu Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and his wife for the Jimmy Kimmel show. In the best John Stossel manque fashion, Osborne "cuts the crap" and asks the questions American voters want to hear answered, especially the one about whether Craig hawked his wife's body parts on eBay.

SOURCE: Reasontv.com

Tangled up in blue

Police in Orlando Friday (10/19) arrested three employees of the Orlando Weekly on charges of aiding and abetting prostitution. The three worked in the paper's classified section. Police say they were helping the city's escorts and massages parlors write coded ads to attract johns while escaping detection from police.

SOURCE: Reason.com via Orlandoweekly.com

lifeisbeautifulbabe

This made me smile!

SOURCE: Junoswift on Flickr via
YoungLiars blog

Do you belive in GodTube?

It's here!
GodTube.com

Last week the upstart Christian video site, GodTube became the first religious website to offer the hot-ticket social media trinity: user-generated video (à la YouTube), social networking (à la MySpace and Facebook) and live webcasting (à la Stickam.com). GodTube's claim that it has become the most trafficked Christian website on the Internet is trumped only by a second boast: that by the sheer volume of video watched by its users — 1.5 million hours last month — it is now the world's largest broadcaster of Christian video.

SOURCE: LATimes.com via MediaBistro.com

Monster sticker font generator

I-Mockery will generate 1970's monster sticker
versions of any word you care to enter.

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Blonde Redhead '23'

Blonde Redhead '23' from the release '23'. Out now on 4AD records.

David Byrne's 2007 Nonesuch Records reissue of the Knee Plays

SLIDE SHOW WITH MUSIC

David Byrne's 2007 Nonesuch Records reissue of the Knee Plays — from its original conception, as part of Robert Wilson's epic play the CIVIL warS.

Robert Wilson’s the CIVIL warS — “a theatrical production concerning human myths, conflict and brotherhood over the ages” — began as a commission for an arts festival in conjunction with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Originally conceived as a day-long performance in five parts, the work called for writers, composers and performers from many different countries to assemble in Los Angeles to present their comprehensive work of art. Although no performance of the full work took place then, and devotees of new music continue to await an integral staging, its component parts have fared better in numerous international performances.


SOURCE: DavidByrne.com

McSquiddly McBurger McSeaCreature

Metal Machine Music

Dragons of Zynth
Coronation Thieves
Release date: September 25, 2007
Label: Gigantic Music


This disc is out of the known universe of current independent music. It is rich, textured and an amazing lift from the crop-o-crap of new releases. Imagine Radiohead, at their most eccentric and blip-heavy. Add a large portion of confidence, swagger and grow the idea in Cincinatti and Brooklyn instead of Oxford, England. Dragons of Zynth start off like Sun Ra channeling proggy pop and it just gets better with every listen. David Sitek, Tunde Adibempe, Kyp Malone, Jeleel Bunton and Gerard Smith of TV on The Radio contribute their amazing talents throughout the 45-minute disc.

• Standout tracks: Who Rize Above, Take It To Ride, Rockin Star

DOZ made more than heads turn at 2007 SXSW Festival, Gigantic Music showcase. The response the band received has a direct-connect to their debut disc, 'Coronation of Thieves,' becoming the most anticipated new release of the year.

'Coronation Thieves' is a pleasure, a wonder and a marvel of rhythmic and psychedelic proportions.

DayTrotter.com has some early tracks available for free download here.

SOURCE: Zelo

This just in from Pitchfork…

Radiohead's In Rainbows Premieres on Xfm Radio

Consider this a chance to try before you buy: tomorrow (October 10), London-based radio station Xfm will broadcast Radiohead's seventh and latest opus, the much-chattered-about In Rainbows, in its entirety. The on-air unveiling begins at noon UK-time, which translates to sometime in the wee hours of the morning for Radiohead's fans in North and South America.

SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia

This just in from Pitchfork…

Black Kids
Wizard of Ahhhs EP
[Self-released; 2007]

"[I'm] struggling, really, to be honest," Reggie Youngblood said on a 102-degree day in Georgia this summer. It was between songs during Black Kids' set at Athens Popfest, and the singer/guitarist's onstage banter wasn't sounding quite as sharp as his songwriting. The guitar-jangling, Jacksonville-based five-piece were hardly "struggling" musically, though: Eyewitness raves about the performance spread faster than you can say "Technorati," and positive notices soon followed from the NME, Vice, The Guardian, and, yes, Pitchfork. All this for a band with no announced label, or even much touring history.

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SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia.com

Short, Sharp, Schrapnel

Vicious Intent: The Rock 'N' Roll Art and Exploitation of Stainboy Reinel

In December 2007 Dark Horse will publish Stainboy Reinel's first book of collected works, Vicious Intent: The Rock 'N' Roll Art and Exploitation of Stainboy Reinel. Unschooled, undisciplined and unstoppable, Stainboy now carries out his deadly assignments and other secret services in sunny Orlando Florida while indulging his tastes in beautiful women, fast cars, expensive restaurants, and sharp, stylish clothing.

SOURCE: StainboyReinel.com

Local promoter pays it forward

Gamble Records organizes 2 shows to benefit local non-profit groups*.

Here's a look at Friday night's set opener at Dandelion Communitea, in downtown Orlando. The Token Gamblers rock the house with some foot-stomping bluegrass goodness, including special guest Big Jef on fiddle.


*The proceeds to benefit:
Florida School of Herbal Studies
Simple Living Institute
Solilla Center 4 Creative Kids

Check them out!

SOURCE: Zelo

E.L.L.A. Music Festival next weekend

October 5 and 6, 2007


As part of the Orlando-based Gamble Records Presents series, Orlando audiences can hear a different voice for Florida female singer-songwriters. Put together mainly through the valiant efforts of Robert Johnson (I know what yr thinking) and Jonathan Andrews, this recent press release sums up the goal:

For Immediate Release!
Gamble Records is setting the stage for a cultural renaissance of the Floridian feminine spirit. Ten amazing musicians will be linked together by one of the most righteous music festivals to ever grace the presence of our city beautiful. The E.L.L.A. Music Festival, on October 5th & 6th at the Rogers’ Building Theater (37 S. Magnolia Ave, Orlando, FL, 32801) in downtown Orlando, will be one of the only festivals in our city that stays true to its purpose; to bring the finest female singer/songwriters that Florida has to offer to the attention of the Central Florida listening audience.

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR 1 OR 2 DAYS @ DANDELION COMMUNITEA

Produced by Gamble Records

SOURCE: Zelo