Category Archives: Tunes

KEXP at SXSW: Drive by Truckers (4/6)

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I have been wondering about this band for a while since I saw them recommended on Que Sera Sera once and I’ve gotten some good albums from her recommendations (Bishop Allen, for one).

They’re like a crazy combination of CSNY, the Allman Brothers and the Eagles. This isn’t music I could listen to every day, but boy is there ever a time and a place for it…Midsummer rain storm, sitting on the porch with some spiked lemonade…This would be PERFECT.

Hilariously, the emcee really started to slip into a Southern accent while interviewing these guys.

You should talk southern around me when I’m drunk; I can really turn it on!

KEXP: The Stills (5/5)

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Live performances are always hit or miss. I thought they sounded like crap here although the emcee (I think her name is Nancy something?) kept telling them they sounded fantastic. I’ve heard alot about how their new album is like a completely different band. Hearing this, I would tend to believe it.

I didn’t love their entire first album, but I did outright LOVE the song “Love and Death” (…love and death are always on my mind…). I probably won’t buy the new one.

Live Tunes for Summer…

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June 9 Boy Least Likely To @ Schubas
June 10 Bodeans @ Ravinia
June 11 Canasta ?
June 23 Corinne Bailey Rae @ Schuba’s
July 10 Bob Schneider @ Schuba’s
July 13 Damien Rice / Fiona Apple @ Northerly Island
July 16 Tom Jones / Etta James @ Ravinia
August 4-6 Lollapalooza @ Grant Park
August 29 Beethoven @ Ravinia
September 8 Lye Lovett @ Ravinia
September 18 Kasey Chambers @ Park West.

Mystery Music.

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“Communicate” by the Strive Roots from Bio Resonance Therapy. HUH???

Never heard of the song, the group or the album. Yet here it is, playing on my iPod. It’s a fun song, but where the fuck did it come from?

Now that takes me back a decade. Seriously.

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Maceo Parker is playing Chicago’s House of Blues in June. Last time I saw Maceo Parker was New Year’s Eve of either 1995 or 1996, tickets bought “sight unseen”* on the recommendation of a friend who loved loved loved Maceo. Nanders, do you remember Sean’s obsession with MP?

Too funny.

It was a GREAT show, by the way. I just don’t listen to jazz that frequently.

*”Sound unheard” doesn’t really have the same resonance, does it.

DangerMouse Does It Again

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The mixmastered Grey Album was magnificent. Much better than the Black Album (Jay-Z). (Altho, of course, not QUITE as good as the White Album (do I need to tell you whose album the White Album is? If so, this may not be the blog for you…).)

I am in the midst of my first listen to the latest DangerMouse work: Gnarls Barkley “St Elsewhere”…and I love it. So much fun!!

New Singles Recommendations.

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  • “All My Life” DJ Harry (from Wallace/Jackie’s makeout scene on Veronica Mars)
  • “We All Lose One Another” Jason Collett (from the worst show I watch which I am too ashamed to admit to either here or here)
  • “Waiting for You” Ben Harper
  • “Reason to Mourn” Ben Harper (looooooove)
  • “Hands” Mrs. John Soda
  • “Shuffle Your Feet” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (hmmm, seem to like every song of theirs I try…)
  • “I Love a Man in Uniform” Gang of Four
  • “Bom Bom Bom” Living Things
  • “Speeding Car” Imogen Heap