Friday, October 20, 2006
blood visions
And this is what she sent me. Disregard Jay Reatard's unfortunate stage name (or unfortunate real name - it's gotta be a stage name), and check out what this guy is throwing down. Kara very wonderfully summed it up as "like the Exploding Hearts meets Wire." To be more specific, the sound of old Wire with the aggression of new Wire. It's simultaneously really catchy and also really, for lack of a better word, evil sounding. Check out this track, that encompasses all the best things about pop-punk (like the Buzzcocks and Undertones, not Blink 182) and Wire's knack for rhythm and brevity, but tops things off with this ridiculous swath of feedback that creeps in at the end that sounds like Slowdive on speed.
download: Jay Reatard - Oh It's Such A Shame
I'm going to attempt to find this somewhere in Vancouver tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow in Vancouver (technically tonight), you should all make sure you go check out the Hold Steady at the Plaza tomorrow.
And entirely unrelated... shows where worse things will happen to you when you jump on stage uninvited than at a Wilco show:
Rolling Stones show:
Who show:
There's actually no footage of the "incident." But it involved Abbie Hoffman coming up to ask why half a million hippies could party while John Sinclair of the White Panther Party was in jail. Pete Townshend - who later admitted that he agreed with Hoffman about Sinclair - promptly knocked Abbie off the stage with his guitar. The above is directly before/after. Hoffman denies that the event happened, and claims that Pete accidentally bumped him (accidentally, but really hard apparently). Although the audio from Woodstock, where you hear Hoffman get cut off, and then hear Pete yell "fuck off my fuckin' stage!" doesn't sound like much of an accident to me. Pete Townshend was punk rock before punk rock even existed.
download: the Who - Abbie Hoffman Incident
OC show:
Even if you're a security guard, and bigger than the dude (who is a rapper, not the personifaction of the crappy television show).
And, as you've probably already read, Juan MacLean will kick the crap out of you if you mess with his equipment... of course, he'll apologize later.
now playing: Jay Reatard - Nightmares
blood visions
So, tonight I was thinking about the Exploding Hearts... about their forthcoming rarities release (out on Halloween - it's awesome and you can grab an mp3 or preorder here), but mostly about how they weren't doing anything new, but were doing it incredibly well. And also how so many bands do such a crappy job at playing older sounding punk rock. Then, lo and behold, my good friend Kara pops on MSN telling me that I've "got to hear this record."
And this is what she sent me. Disregard Jay Reatard's unfortunate stage name (or unfortunate real name - it's gotta be a stage name), and check out what this guy is throwing down. Kara very wonderfully summed it up as "like the Exploding Hearts meets Wire." To be more specific, the sound of old Wire with the aggression of new Wire. It's simultaneously really catchy and also really, for lack of a better word, evil sounding. Check out this track, that encompasses all the best things about pop-punk (like the Buzzcocks and Undertones, not Blink 182) and Wire's knack for rhythm and brevity, but tops things off with this ridiculous swath of feedback that creeps in at the end that sounds like Slowdive on speed.
download: Jay Reatard - Oh It's Such A Shame
I'm going to attempt to find this somewhere in Vancouver tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow in Vancouver (technically tonight), you should all make sure you go check out the Hold Steady at the Plaza tomorrow.
And entirely unrelated... shows where worse things will happen to you when you jump on stage uninvited than at a Wilco show:
Rolling Stones show:
Who show:
There's actually no footage of the "incident." But it involved Abbie Hoffman coming up to ask why half a million hippies could party while John Sinclair of the White Panther Party was in jail. Pete Townshend - who later admitted that he agreed with Hoffman about Sinclair - promptly knocked Abbie off the stage with his guitar. The above is directly before/after. Hoffman denies that the event happened, and claims that Pete accidentally bumped him (accidentally, but really hard apparently). Although the audio from Woodstock, where you hear Hoffman get cut off, and then hear Pete yell "fuck off my fuckin' stage!" doesn't sound like much of an accident to me. Pete Townshend was punk rock before punk rock even existed.
download: the Who - Abbie Hoffman Incident
OC show:
Even if you're a security guard, and bigger than the dude (who is a rapper, not the personifaction of the crappy television show).
And, as you've probably already read, Juan MacLean will kick the crap out of you if you mess with his equipment... of course, he'll apologize later.
now playing: Jay Reatard - Nightmares
2 Comments:
weird weeds dec. 4th at the lamplighter, yeah!
By 
, at
10:32 a.m.
I've got Oh It's Such A Shame stuck in my head.... I didn't download it when I had a chance! Is there any way you could repost that song on yousendit?
(Fantastic blog.)
By 
theseareletters, at
1:15 p.m.
