Spiritualized

She is playing the Barbican on January 19th with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Six years ago I had quite the night out at the old Metro (sadly no longer exists) in DC that consisted of Asteroid #4, Dead Meadow, and BJM. Ahhh, the memories.

It was a fu manchu, not a handlebar. And yes America and Colorado at that where we are still stuck in 1977 wathcing Mork and Mindy and wondering if aliens really do exist in Boulder and where we have bands called Your Father's Moustache Band http://www.mustacheband.com/about.html and where we vote t...

I in fact had a handlebar for my last year of grad school a couple of years ago. It is immortialized in the graduation picture hanging on the wall of the school. But, if you want evidence of the moustache revival, just read my post in the Brightblack Morning Light thread.

This album is stoned immaculate. I saw them a couple of months ago on their Crystal Totem tour. Bring along a crystal to give and receive light. Daniel Higgs of Lungfish fame opened up with his psych folk raga drone and jewharp and everyone, including Brightblack Morning Light sat down on the floor ...

I love Cowboy In Sweden. Pray Them Bars Away, Hey Cowboy and No Train To Stockholm are all brillant. Has anyone ever seen the film?

A couple of weeks ago I went to the CSNY show at Red Rocks with my dad. Fathers and sons passing spliffs amongst each other. Beautiful version of Only Love Can Break Your Heart. Frankly, I have been listening to the Stills' Manassas album non-stop lately and dreaming of 1970s Colorado. You can add D...

I like a Tall-Tale Storyline. It reminds me of living in DC. Great for driving in the mountains in the sun whilst under sedation. Quentin Stolfus was the drummer in the Azuza Plane if you like late 90s Philadelphia psych in the mode of Windy and Carl.

The Sun Awakens--Six Organs of Admittance
s/t--Brightblack Morning Light
Passover--Black Angels
Dins--Psychic Ills
Riot City Blues--Primal Scream
Freeze-Die-Come to Life--Michael Talbott and the Wolfkings
The Corner of Miles and Gil--Shack
II--Espers
Alienoid Starmonica--The Aliens

Actually, it was released on cd as I have a copy and I agree with you, I love this album. After seeing Air with an Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl in 2004, a friend and I whilst under sedation drove up Laurel Canyon and west down Mullholland while listing to this album. It is gorgeous. I like how in...

A couple of springs ago I was in Portland, OR for a night on my way to an environmental law conference. I ended up at Berbati's Pan to check out Sean O'Hagan and The High Llamas. When I walked in there were about twenty people in there staring at this woman in an old school dress playing the harp wi...

Is that Ebbot from the Soundtrack of Our Lives on the bongos?

The Vanishing Point soundtrack is brillant, especially when you are driving west from Denver into the mountains and the sun. http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/vanishingpoint.htm I love the scene through 1970 Glenwood Canyon when it was just a two lane highway. That was before they built the $500 mill...

That Scream/Spz show was on Valentine's Day '98 and was fantastic. It also featured Alabama 3, Asian Dub Foundation, and a Spring Heel Jack dj set.

That would be John Prine from his song Sam Stone. He is most famous for writing Angel From Montgomery. I was once at a festival in which Johnny Cash and John Prine were both there. On Friday, Mr. Cash sang Angel From Montgomery with Rosanne. On Saturday, Mr. Prine sang it himself. He also sang Sam S...

Anyone going to SXSW? I will being seeing the Earlies there. I don't know if they have played over here yet but seeing as two are from Texas, I guess Austin makes sense for their first U.S show. The tough part is trying to decide who to see among the 1300 bands in five days.

J covers Sad Days Lonely Nights on the new Junior Kimbrough tribute album. http://www.fatpossum.com/albums/juniortribute.html

hell yes! good call, mr. english. have you heard the brand new one, 'dandelion wine'? much more laid back on the whole, lots of acoustic guitar, but still unmistakably the volta sound. good stuff. & 'my all-american girl' is a great fuzzed-out mess of a record i am a bit biased, though, as the ...

Hey Mr. Smiley, seeing that you are from Cleveland how about a little bit of The Volta Sound's This Is The Yin and The Yang.

I would have to say that one of my favorite gigs ever was Air during the Moon Safari tour in Boston in October of '98. I was completely out of my head, I felt like I was floating, they were wearing all white and would only talk to the crowd through their keyboards. Also, there were models all over t...

I'm going to see BJM tonight. It can be hit or miss with them but I've enjoyed them everytime I have seen them. In fact, I saw Dead Meadow open for BJM three or four years ago in DC with Asteroid #4 as well. I only have Howls From The Hills which I think is their first or second album. It is very he...

I don't know if you saw The Onion this week, http://www.theonion.com, but there was a headline blurb in the In The News section: "Ramones Reunion Almost Complete" Sad, but I laughed. For an even bigger laugh read the Matchbox 20 article: "The release has been eagerly awaited by Matchb...

Try Voyager One. After all, they took there name from the Verve bootleg.

http://www.radio1190.org Great college station from the University of Colorado. They have a great shoegaze/space rock show on Wednesday nights. In fact, Blue Cathedral was their album of the month for August.

Speaking of Dead Man, that is one of Jarmusch's finest moments. It also ends on my old boss' reservation, the Makah Reservation in Neah Bay, WA which is the most western point in the continental US. I camped "on the beach" there during Makah Days.

Steve Mason of the Beta Band will be playing acoustic in between the sets of the Scream and Spiritualized. Don't know if this means Beta Band songs or King Biscuit Time songs but should be interesting nonetheless.

Whoops, that was me.

Try Psycha-Soula-Funkadelic by The Politicians for some serious mid-70s Detroit funk. They were the house band for the Hot Wax and Invictus labels. Big bad Bob G and company sampled the descending horn riff from Loaded from the track The World We Live In. Also on a more laid back tip try the two dis...

I don't know if anyone has seen the documentary about The Weathermen, the late 60s radical group that became the Weather Underground in the 70s, called The Weather Underground. It is pretty good and it features some interesting music. Everything from the Aphex Twin, Tarantel, Sonic Youth, Gil Scott-...

I will be at this show. I think I paid $31 to be somewhere in the middle. Last time I drove out to LA to see Air was when they were doing a one off show playing the full Virgin Suicides soundtrack. I ended up not getting in but meeting them in a sushi resteraunt down the road from the venue. They we...

I quite liked the Spree show I saw in Boulder about a year and a half ago. But I will tell you what they really are: subliminal spliff Christianity. After all, Tim Delaughter is on a quest to find his Christian Soldier Girl. There is an acapella group at Brandeis University called The Hebrew-Phonic ...

I have been enjoying Daylight Til Dawn by All Night Radio and of course, the always appropriate Wake Up Boo! by the Boo Radleys.

I just heard Medication off of Fucked Up Inside played on my local radio station. http://www.radio1190.org. The Starlight Motel show is quite good. You know that there are copies floating around these college radio stations that never get dusted off.