Veggies and meat

Plants and Animals
Parc Avenue
(Secret City; 2008)

Plants and Animals’ For/Avec EP has at least one surefire moment where one’s eyebrows find their hairline: when the listener realizes that three white dudes are covering a Nina Simone civil rights narrative.
Parc Avenue often strays too far into excess and departure for departure’s sake to enjoy the brand of a songwriter’s tour-de-force. “Faerie Dance,” “New Kind of Love,” and “Guru” all stray close to or north of seven minutes, often crashing through multiple songwriting ideas before settling on a coda. But as a fully realized and lovingly sculpted aesthetic, there may be few stronger full-length debuts waiting in this year’s wings.

SOURCE: CokeMachineGlow

Recommended: These New Puritans

My Bloody Valentine to headline Bestival 2008

My Bloody Valentine are the first headline act to be announced for this year’s Bestival.

The returning band will play the Isle of Wight event on the Friday night as a UK festival exclusive, as will Aphex Twin who head the Big Top on one of the nights.

The dates for the fifth Bestival, again at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight, are Friday 5th until Sunday 7th September 2008.

SOURCE: DrownedInSound, Efestivals

Harp will be no longer

Seven-year-old Harp, the "sophisticated rock and pop magazine," is no more. In a statement written by editor-at-large Fred Mills and published on Pop Matters, Glenn Sabin, CEO of Guthrie Inc., the company that purchased the magazine in 2003, says "Harp's critical acclaim never translated into sustaining commercial success. Harp's lifecycle was ill timed with the precipitous decline of the music software industry, coupled with the consolidation of the consumer magazine newsstand business and rising paper and postage costs."

SOURCES: MediaBistro/Fishbowl NY, HarpMagazine.com

Dexter meets GGVegas

Hide the valuables and stash the liquor!

The legendary Dexter Romweber is greeted by
bon vivant and semi-retired guitar-orrist, GGVegas at a recent Dexter Romweber Duo show at a local club.

The pair exchanged pleasantries then proceded to handle snakes, speak in tongues and scare the locals.

PHOTO BY CARRIE WAITE
SOURCE: Hexbreaker

Happy St. Patrick's day!

[A MESSAGE FOR MY WIFE]

FOR TRANSLATION GO HERE

Because Mr. Nolan says!

Introducing…

Mr. Nolan (Jeff Nolan), guitar hero and all-around rock king, has gone to the mountain of rock, drank from the eternal fountain and made it back alive! From time to time we hope he'll share some insights, tall tales and stories that'll make a trucker blush.
Who knows? We'll see.
In the meantime, he's put together a list of cover songs that you may not have realized were cover songs.
Take that Cat Power!
Discuss…

• All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix (originally written by Bob Dylan)

• Summertime Blues — Blue Cheer (originally written by Eddie Cochran)

• Hallelujah — Jeff Buckley (originally written by Leonard Cohen)

• Hey Jude — Wilson Pickett (originally written by The Beatles)

• Respect — Aretha Franklin (originally written by Otis Redding)

• With a Little Help From My Friends — Joe Cocker (originally written by The Beatles)

• Love Hurts — Nazareth (originally written by Everly Brothers)

• My Back Pages — The Byrds (originally written by Bob Dylan)

• Crossroads — Cream (originally written by Robert Johnson)

• Black Magic Woman — Santana (originally written by Fleetwood Mac)

• Jersey Girl — Bruce Springsteen (originally written by Tom Waits)

• Black Diamond — The Replacements (originally written by Kiss)

• Because the Night — Patti Smith (originally written by Bruce Springsteen)

• Black Betty — Nick Cave (originally written by Ram Jam)

• Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers — Motorhead (originally written by ZZ Top)

What a fool believes…

YACHT ROCK

J.D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair devised the series after noticing similarities among bands such as Steely Dan, Toto, and The Doobie Brothers. In particular, members of those bands often collaborated with each other and with singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. For example, Loggins and Michael McDonald co-wrote several songs, including Loggins' "This Is It" and The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes." McDonald himself sang backing vocals for several yacht rock artists, including Steely Dan and Christopher Cross.

Instead of choking on its vomit in a Paris bathtub or overdosing on a Hollywood sidewalk, Yacht Rock simply told one last story about Steely Dan, then hoisted its sails and drifted away while a satisfied crowd waved goodbye from the docks, exactly one incredible year after its historical debut. Bye, Yacht Rock. We loved you.

[READ MORE]

SOURCE: YachtRock.com

Single-handedly…

…setting the Women's Liberation
movement back at least 40-to-50 years.

Wow!

SOURCES: From a game called Crayon Physics.
[via Jackson Fish Market via Amit Gupta's Blog]

Highly recommended!

SOURCE : The Ruby Suns

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

"When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence. When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation."

SOURCE: Osho Zen Tarot

Zelo's Word-of-the-Week is: Bollocks!

"Bollocks" is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in English, as a noun to mean "nonsense" or conversely to mean "top quality" or "perfection", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, and an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". The common phrases "Bollocks to that!" or "That's a load of old bollocks" expresses a distaste for a certain task, subject or opinion; "the dog's bollocks" expresses the opposite, namely admiration, pleasure or approval.

Perhaps the best-known use of the term is in the title of the 1977 punk rock album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Testimony in a resulting prosecution over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense".

SOURCE: Wikipedia

New kid on the block

Read a review here.

Does this album cover make me look fat?

While at SXSW, take a moment…

…to reflect about the recent passing of famed drummer and Austin resident, Buddy Miles.

George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 – February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 until Hendrix's death in 1970.

As a teen he gigged with his father’s band, the Bebops, and with Preston Love, Sr. and Lester Abrams. He first made it in New York, hooking up with Wilson Pickett. He jammed in the Village with Eric Clapton. His big break came when Michael Bloomfield plucked him for the Electric Flag, a blues-rock band Miles still considers the best he ever played in.

Asked how he would like to be remembered by the American music magazine Seconds in in 1995, Miles simply said: "The baddest of the bad. People say I'm the baddest drummer. If that's true, thank you world."^[6]

A memorial concert will take place on March 30 at Threadgill’s on Riverside Drive, South Austin.

SOURCES: Wikipedia, The Reader, news reports

File this under funny

PHOTO: Goldtoe

SOURCE: GoldToe.net

SXSW Interactive

Jemina Kiss
taps into
SXSW
and the
future.




SOURCES: SXSW2008, The Guardian

Idaho spells relief

Perhaps one can trace the proliferation of what's been dubbed sadcore to the imminence of the millennium, the bleak consensus that the twentysomething generation is destined to be worse off than its predecessors or the technology-accelerated breakdown in interpersonal communication. More likely, this oh-so-Caucasian progeny of the blues has found its niche because the only thing that feels better than complaining about your lot in life is hearing someone else grieve about the things that make his or her existence even worse than that. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: The Trouser Press,
IdahoMusic.com

Say hello to artist Joe Concra

Joe Concra
Inside the Kingdom
74" x 82" oil on canvas

From an article on the artist that ran in Chronogram magazine:

One Fine Day

…You never start with a good idea. You just start with working. The idea comes later. There's never a finished painting that doesn't have four or five paintings underneath it that were complete failures. If I hit one out of 75, I'm really happy.

SOURCES: JoeConcra.com, Chronogram