| Thursday, February 8, 2001 11:25 p.m. PST |
| they said it couldn't happen. they said it wouldn't happen. but it is happening. i'm referring to the weblog crossover event of 2k1: wolf 359 and saturn.org. yes folks, tomorrow morning/afternoon, i'll be lunching with the web's most saturnine indie rocker. (please tell me that wasn't as lame as it sounded.) he's got an idea for a musical project, and i was the first guy he thought of to ask for conceptual/instrumental assistance. so we'll be sizing each other up and testing each other's musical expertise, as well as planning what we want out of the partnership. should be interesting. keep it here to find out. |
| Wednesday, February 7, 2001 01:05 p.m. PST |
| hey, i really hate just posting links like this, but my schedule's fucking insane this week. i'll have something more substantial thursday night, i hope. in the meantime, enjoy some down-home quality chapel hill rawk, courtesy of a new archers of loaf website and a pair of fresh spankin' acoustic demo songs from superchunk. |
| Saturday, February 3, 2001 01:26 p.m. PST |
| and the juicy items just keep comin' down the line. this one comes from the desk of the "please, please tell me you're shitting me" department. and for those of you not interested in the machinations of the pop music machine, here's a weezer interview. |
| Friday, February 2, 2001 11:53 a.m. PST |
| well,
the redesign is finally finished. everything
looks fine on my machine, though i'd be surprised if there weren't
a few cross-platform bugs to work out. so if anything looks
misaligned or otherwise shoddily arranged, please help me out
by emailing me a detailed description of the indelicacy. getting
all those individual tables to align like that took much mental
effort on my part, and while that may just go to show what an
inexperienced web designer i am, i'm still proud of the fact
that i did it.
so, onto
the cds. let's see, on Sunday, i bought the snatch
soundtrack, modest mouse (building nothing out of something),
hot snakes (automatic midnight), unwound (the future
of what), blues explosion (now i got worry), helmet
(meantime), and polvo (this eclipse). all of
'em are at least decent, but i had higher expectations for
the snatch soundtrack, which simply doesn't work well
without the film's visual bombast to give it purpose and immediacy.
building something is a somewhat contemplative affair
from mm which in retrospect presaged their transition to spacy
death-obsessed quietcore. as a huge fan of the lonesome
crowded west, i was hoping for more rawk, but the slow
stuff is starting to grow on me. automatic midnight--
what can i say, the hot snakes are the best band outta san
diego right now. the chorus of "mystery boy" is
stuck on my temporal lobe like pretentious on tim kinsella.
and like the pitchfork review said, it makes you wanna drive
faster.
haven't
much listened to the unwound record yet. the first unwound
cd i bought was a single history, which was distinctly
underwhelming, as has been noted elsewhere on the web. for
some reason, those guys (and girl) sound like death-rock to
me, their music is so dirgy and depressing. but whatever;
the disc was $7 used. now i got worry is quite entertaining.
unlike some people, i find jon spencer's pseudo-elvis/link
wray shit knee-slappingly hilarious, even though i think "the
king" is nothing more than an asshole thief-ass plagiarist.
plus russell simins is one of my favorite indie-rock drummers,
even though his solo album sucked. i'm surprised they could
get rufus thomas to guest on the record; he's gotta be pushing
90 by now. xtra points for that. meantime is a bonafide
classic of frustration against human nature. the music is
phenomenal and influential and all, but no one ever talks
about page hamilton's profoundly misanthropic lyrics. the
guy had a way of summarizing all the ugliness of male jackassery
in an alternately bland and acidic vocal delivery. the music
spoke powerfully to me in high school, and the ravages of
musical progress since 1992 have barely attenuated its power.
if you
like polvo, buy this eclipse. if you haven't heard
them, it's not the best place to start. that would be today's
active lifestyles, one of the blueprints of math-rock
today along with spiderland and daydream nation. abrasive, but loads of fun for the patient listener. |
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