HOPE TO LIVE
Mill member Luc Rioual has begun a personal endeavor to listen to a new album every day for an entire year and is updating his progress on the project at hopetolive.tumblr.com.
Here’s my recommendation for Luc.
Raw Sienna, my favorite album from the prolific British Blues outfit Savoy Brown.
If you have any recommendations for him, be sure to let him know on the website’s recommendation form. Hopefully this will make for a really good transition into his proposed Mill mix-exchange.
The above video is how I spent five weeks of my summer, tour managing and selling merch for my good friends in Hostage Calm. They recently released their Self Titled record on Run For Cover Records. Earlier this year, I tried to figure out how to describe it to people who were unfamiliar with them or only familiar with their previous albums and bands - “You know that movie, Three Men and a Baby, right? Well, imagine if those three men were Brian Wilson, Joe Strummer and Morrissey, and the baby they had wrote an album.” Give ‘em a spin. Word is bond.
And then listen to this.
Tumblr won’t let me put a lot of videos here for you to play, so here’s a lot of links to things you should be listening to.
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey - 1985
Hum - Live on Howard Stern Part 1
Hum - Live on Howard Stern Part 2
Walter Schreifels - Arthur Lee’s Lullaby
Spacemen 3 - Live 1989
The Smiths - Still Ill Live 1986
Fugazi - Waiting Room Live
Nirvana Covering The Wipers - D7 Live at The Moon 1991
Wu-Tang Clan - Shame… Live 93
Big L - Live at The Tramps
Knapsack - Thursday Side of the Street Live 1998
P.S. Eliot - Pink Couch Session
Mika Miko - Turkey Sandwich Live
John Fahey - Poor Boys Long Way From Home
“Most of the time its just going to happen. You can’t do anything about it. Just be a good sport. Take the bad the same way you take the good. With a smile on your face. If a girl puts on Psychocandy and turns out the lights, it’s a wrap, you’re doing good Boss. When’s the last time you broke the law? Still got it? I have to get high before I talk to my parents. Hang out with your Grandparents before they die. Cmon be cool. Cool and Nice are two totally different things. Be tough, not angry. Heartbreakers will have women crying at their funeral. Nobody gives a shit about a snitch. Not even cops. What you like better drugs or girls? Thought so.”
I’ll post more some day or not.
Calico Grounds is a small press from Houston, TX that has released stuff from Jaimie Stewart (of Xiu Xiu) along with a number of Houston writers and artists. They asked me last autumn if I’d like to release something, and that promise has finally come to fruition. It’s eighteen new poems/prose pieces from this past fall and I’m pretty psyched on it.
It’s available here and only $5 plus S&H. I’ll only have a few copies to sell, so grab them from their site if you’re interested.
Peace.
Saturday, March 6th @ the Warehouse
18+ / $5 / 9pm
Tanlines
Washed Out
Small Black
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I don’t think I’ve ever sat down to listen to Camera Obscura, although I’ve known about them for years, until my friend Alan texted me saying “one of the better pop songs ever penned” and I wholeheartedly agreed with him. On that note, check out the new album from Charlotte Gainsbourg, called “IRM.” Beck did most of the music on it. One of the songs reminds me of his song composure on “Sea Change” which is one of my favorite albums of all time and the soundtrack to the day I drive into a tree or walk into the ocean. Haha. Charlotte is also the daughter of one of the most beautiful women in the world, Jane Birkin, and French pop mastermind Serge Gainsbourg. Charlotte is not as gorgeous as her mother, but I would still marry her. I’m going to return to listening to this single, well, this one song. I was going to buy the 7” at Newberry Comics when I was in Boston for a few hours yesterday but they wanted $8 and I’m a cheapskate. That shit don’t cost more than like… $2 at cost for how many they’re making. Fuckouttahere. Enjoy this track. Oh and if you buy records, go pick up the new Medication LP on HoZac. I’ve only listened to the A side, but it’s fantastic. That’s all.
I was going to compile a list of music and things I liked about this past year, but this even is better than whatever I have to say. See you there or not.
Cold Cave - Theme From Tomorrowland
Literally, one of the only songs I care about right now.
tonight
i just got back from one of the best shows i’ve been too in a long time. it was a friend of mine’s recording studio up in greenfield mass and the bands were the warblers, mv & ee, and witch. the warblers i know nothing about other than that they’re from amherst and i missed most of their set. pretty sure there’s nothing about them on the internet either. mv & ee is matt valentine and erika elder from vermont and they play very psyched out … i don’t know what you want to call it. it’s just psych to me. and it’s awesome. they are definitely worth checking out. witch is from mass and vermont and j mascis who is the singer/guitarist for dinosaur jr, plays drums for them. they play fast stoner rock and j has the largest bass drum i’ve ever seen. they were really good. here’s videos of them.
thats all i got for right now. i should be asleep.
