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    Tweedy and Marr Song "Too Blue"

    in Just A Fan

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    Oh my!

     

    per Marr website

     

    Johnny Marr in New Zealand to work on Seven Worlds Collide project

     

    Johnny was in New Zealand in December and January to work on the Seven Worlds Collide project with Neil Finn and members of Radiohead and Wilco, amongst others.

     

    Johnny : "I contributed a couple of new songs at Roundhead Studios in Aukland, one is called "Run In The Dust" that I recorded with Phil Selway of Radiohead on drums and Sebastian Steinberg from Soul Coughing playing bass. Lisa Germano sings backing vocals and Jeff Tweedy and Ed O'Brien played on it too.

     

    The other song I wrote with Jeff Tweedy and is called "Too Blue". I came up with the music out at the beach on Christmas Eve and Jeff provided the words. We cut that song like an old Spector session with two Drummers and two Basses, five Guitars (three acoustic and two electric), Piano, Organ, Strings...the whole works."

     

    Johnny also contributed guitar and vocals to songs by Liam Finn, Ed O'Brien and Don MacLeash.

    New Portastatic Sept 9

    in Someone Else's Song

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    opened for wilco awhile back

    been waiting for this comp a long time

     

     

     

    Portastatic compiles Some Small History for September 9

     

    After years of badgering by fans, Mac McCaughan, aka Portastatic, is clearing out the vaults with Some Small History, a 2-disc collection of rarities (view track listing). Some Small History compiles material including b-sides, compilation tracks, EPs, fanzine vinyl and previously unreleased material recorded between 1990 and 2007. Recorded in bedrooms, living rooms and sometimes even real studios, the tracks are sequenced for your maximum listening pleasure (rather than chronologically).

     

    Some Small History will be available in the Merge store, record stores and digital music providers on September 9.

    Best of 2007

    in Someone Else's Song

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    9 of my top 10 released in the first half of 2007

    The fall release schedule was one of the weakest in recent memory (thank goodness for in rainbows)

     

     

    1. National -Boxer (and I picked up alligator too)

    2. Interpol

    Apollo Heights

    in Someone Else's Song

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    really loved the Veldt and to my surprise the chavis brother's new band Apollo Heights has a debut CD

     

    really excited about this and better yet had no idea it was coming, gotta love it when that happens

     

    http://www.manimalvinyl.com/index.php?apollo

     

    http://www.myspace.com/apolloheights

     

    Rising from the ashes of the seminal rock group The Veldt (Chapel Hill/Raleigh, N.C.) Danny and twin brother Daniel Chavis formed Apollo Heights in New York City's Lower East Side in 2002. With nothing more than couple of guitars and a drum machine, they took their sonic alchemy assault to New York's nightclub scene. After numerous line up changes, the band recruited bassist and programmer Hayato Nakao straight from Japan, and well-known Afro-Punk guitarist Honeychild Coleman and former electro fetus (also brother earth) guitarist Monk Washington. Apollo Heights is loud, exploring color, space, sensuality, and beat driven melodies with rhythmic and dynamic tension. Daniel's falsetto vocals cast a contrast upon the wall of sound created by Danny's heavy rock dream scape guitar and Hayato's pounding and licentious beats. Fans of Bloc Party, Coldplay, My Bloody Valentine and The Secret Machines, take note.

    Far from predictable, Apollo Heights flips hip hop programming on its head to make use of the guitar driven feed-back, adding a down south flavor all its own. Influences range from Curtis Mayfield to The Cocteau Twins, Jimi Hendrix to Massive Attack, and pretty much all in between. Apollo Heights have appeared on stage with Oasis, The Pixies, The Cocteau Twins, The Manic Street Preachers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and most recently completed a U.S. tour with TV on the Radio. After a short tour of Europe the group have still been honing their song craft with guitarist Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins in France. Look for the debute CD/LP on Manimal Vinyl Records this October 2007 titled "White Music for Black People". It will be distributed worldwide through Red Eye USA.

    Charlotte, 6/20/2007

    in After The Show

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    he was lost in the woods, which happend to be a disc golf course as well

     

    not sure if golfers did not give him directions or just threw frisbees in his direction he did not say, but was not happy with them

     

    reedy creek is a fun course to play BTW

     

    thought he was going to say something nice about disc golf, but it quickly took a turn for the worse....

     

    oh well

    Charlotte, 6/20/2007

    in After The Show

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    fun show

    great crowd

    good banter

     

    love "hate it here"

     

    wish they had used the colorful lights on the sides of the theater like they did last time, was waiting for that in the encore, but no luck

     

    perhaps that would clash with their new simple approach to things?

    Golden Smog Podcast

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    found this on itunes

     

    lost highway has a series now (there is also a 3 part Johnny Cash)

     

    the podcast is 30min long of which 5min is interview, an acoustic performance of listen joe and then 20+min of "another fine day"

     

    seems like 1 big commercial, but the interview stuff is great (recording process in Spain, origins of corvette)

     

    the Cash one is the same way, nothing really new there for me

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