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Without A SoundI discovered BTS in reverse by first listening to You in Reverse (aka UOY). It is a great album. Keep It Like a Secret and Perfect from Now On are also outstanding – – Randy Described Eternity, Untrustable, Cortez the Killer(!), Broken Chairs (another cover), Carry the Zero – – good stuff!
My 9-yr-old daughter can’t get enough of that cork-pop at the start of the song.
Your drinking theory works for me, creeper.October 9, 2007
In Which Seattlest Only Tells You the Ending:
Built To Spill @ The ShowboxTime, having surrendered to the whims of sound, had fallen away to some dark corner of the hall and in its place was a band on a mission to go out in style. We had no idea how long the final encore had gone on. We knew only that we didn’t care. This wasn’t some finale we wished would come to an end, so we could finally walk to our car, pausing for a moment to rest our tired legs before driving home, mind swimming, ears buzzing. This wasn’t even a song in the traditional sense — more like a supernatural joyride for the senses. Doug Martsch and and the rest of Built To Spill seemed to each be animated by something hardwired in the pit of their souls. Martsch, in particular, looked to us like a vessel or a channel through which these songs poured. His eyes, in fact, were closed most of the night while his voice, his hands and his fingers took care of business. A friend of Seattlest commented that Martsch’s playing was "like butter on a hot dinner roll," and as strange as that comment was, we think we know what he meant.
And then Martsch, after letting a particular note ring out to its conclusion, simply stopped playing. He squatted and listened to his bandmates play and he smiled. Moments later, another guitar was set down. Then the stage hands began taking things away. They took instruments offstage. They unplugged things. They rolled up cables. But the drummer kept going and the bass guitar and another guitar, making strange pops and whines that made mouths drop and ears tingle. Stage hands began unscrewing and removing hi-hat, splash and crash symbols. Another guitar lies down but the beat is persistent and stronger than ever. Instruments and amplifiers are carried from the stage, left and right. The meandrous bass guitar grows still and then it’s just the drums. Only a bass drum and the toms now, stubbornly thundering away until we can all feel it coming — the final beat, a period at the end of a new favorite story. The crowd exhales and a roar of applause competes with the unearthly volume of everything we’ve just heard.
…Elvis Costello opening for Dylan.
Just Elvis and his guitar(s)…he carried it off quite nicely.
Bobster’s voice may be "blown out on the trail," but he can still bring it when he wants to.
Positively 4th St, Visions of Johanna & Ballad of a Thin Man worked just fine for me.
My Giants are 2-2…somebody pinch me! Going to see them play the Niners on 10/21…we’ll try to beat them for your Hawks, tonas!
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/09/23/modern_punk/”>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazi … dern_punk/
FIRST PERSON
Modern Punk
To critics of his Starbucks CD deal, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore says: Get real.
By Mark Shanahan | September 23, 2007How long have you and your wife [Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon] lived in Northampton?
Since 1999. I’d been in New York since 1977, but when our daughter was getting into those preteen years, our apartment wasn’t big enough.
Why Northampton? What’s the appeal?
We knew some people there, people like [Dinosaur Jr.’s] J Mascis and Byron Coley, the music writer. I also like the music community. There’s a lot of experimental and avant-garde stuff going on, and that’s been a salvation for me. I have no interest in living in a community where there’s no interaction with like-minded artists.
It’s been almost 20 years since the release of Sonic Youth’s seminal LP Daydream Nation, and you’ve been performing it, in its entirety, in concert. Ever imagine you’d last this long?
I never had a clear ambition. I just always wanted to have a record label and a band that I could write songs with, and maybe have my own publishing imprint so I could put out books and fanzines. No one gets rich off this stuff, man.
Starbucks has announced it’s putting out a Sonic Youth record. Have some of your fans cried foul?
The Starbucks thing was our idea. It was born of frustration, trying to get our label to sell our records. When you’re in a band like Sonic Youth that’s not on the radio or on TV, you want to try to get your record out there. I saw Beck’s record [in Starbucks] and other adult-contemporary CDs that aren’t, like, No. 1 pop records, and I just thought there’s a large part of our catalog that would be accessible to people. I thought, "Why don’t we get some of the people in the media who name-check Sonic Youth to choose their favorite songs, and then put them on a CD?"
Yeah, so what’s Dave Eggers’s favorite Sonic Youth song?
I forget.
What do you say to people who think you’ve sold out by dealing with Starbucks?
There’s no difference between working with Starbucks and working with record labels like Universal and Geffen. It’s a knee-jerk reaction from PC watchdogs. I mean, really, which long-distance company do you use for your cellphone? Are you on the grid? If you’re off the grid, I’ll listen to you.
What’s the state of the music business these days?
Actually, there’s a great independent underground scene that exists as an underpinning for whatever mainstream exists. The model of a band living large is a distortion of the reality. You go and record some music, put it out, and then play live. You become a traveling salesman of a sort. You have to be devoted, or not do it at all. If you’re ambition is to make millions, you’re in the wrong game.
Thanks for posting, King T. "Bolts" has become one of my albums of the year. The Swervedriver compilation is on my wish list.
Adam Franklin live dates:
10.02.07 The Boot, Norfolk (VA)
10.03.07 Local 506, Chapel Hill (NC)
10.04.07 Village Tavern, Mt. Pleasant (SC)
10.05.07 The Earl, Atlanta (GA)
10.06.07 The Bottletree, Birmingham (AL)
10.08.07 Proletariat, Houston (TX)
10.09.07 The Mohawk, Austin (TX)
10.10.07 The Cavern, Dallas (TX)
10.11.07 Hi-Tone, Memphis (TN)
10.12.07 The Basement, Nashville (TN)
10.13.07 Bluebird, St. Louis (MO)
10.15.07 The Record Bar, Kansas City (MO)
10.16.07 The Waiting Room, Omaha (NE)
10.17.07 400 Bar, Minneapolis (MN)
10.18.07 Empty Bottle, Chicago (IL)
10.19.07 Cactus Club, Milwaukee (WI)
10.20.07 Elbow Room, Ypsilanti (MI)
10.21.07 Andyman’s Treehouse, Columbus (OH)
10.22.07 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland (OH)
10.23.07 Club Café, Pittsburgh (PA)
10.24.07 Mohawk Place, Buffalo (NY)
10.25.07 Drake Hotel, Toronto (ON)
10.26.07 Zaphods, Ottawa (ON)
10.27.07 Le National, Montreal (PQ)Excerpt:
"Hey, speaking of Mascis, it’s been a great year for the guy, hasn’t it? Five years ago, he could have died in his apartment and been eaten by stray cats and even his biggest fans wouldn’t have found out until years later. This year, though, he’s made a bid to restore his God-like status through an insanely well-received new Dinosaur Jr. record (what are the odds?) and appearances on Moore’s album and Kevin Drew’s new album. It’s good to have him back."
REALLY?
