Magnolia Electric Co: Live! (or dead)

Oh yes, the bus-ferry-bus-show-loitering-bus-ferry-bus 24 hour whirlwind excursion that seems to grab me by the neck and throw me across the water every time certain bands say they're playing Vancouver.

Yesterday, this connect-the-dots public transit commute was in the name of Magnolia Electric Co: the current multi-member manifestation of Jason Molina. Already misled once by an 'unofficial' Vancouver date posted back in March, I was convinced that on this July 30th, the show would be mine.

Unless of course, unless - Richard's started flooding from some sort of mainfloor plumbing issue that caused it to forfeit itself as a venue right after The Silver Sun Pick-Ups opened (may I credit the fucking math of this drummer). That is to say before Ladyhawk, and yes, before: Magnolia Electric Co. Conclusively, in this very off-the-map kind of case, our date was dead.

In my raging discouragement, I passed off attending the Six Organs of Admittance show nearby, and instead went to drink coffee (replay) at Denny's. When the show was 'over', I rendezvoused with a friend back at the beloved venue. We then waded in our shoes all the way to East Van, and I reconciled while we sat on the porch smoking beedies.

Humph.

As the dust settles, I still have the heart to disclose this: Magnolia's guitarist, Jason Groth, has been keeping a most interesting online journal of their tour, fully armed with revitalizing premonitions of touring and travelling in general. It is posted on the blog Marathon Packs, and I suggest starting right in Omaha, all the way until...tomorrow's post on the Vancouver show.

As for my hand in promoting Secretly Canadian:

The new Jason Molina album Let Go, Let Go, Let Go is to be released August 22, and you can stream the first single Get Out, Get Out, Get Out here. If Honey, Watch Your Ass (from 2003's Pyramid Electric Co) glued itself onto your skin in all its accusations, then Jason's tactics of placing an abyss between every sound will take you again. It is worth being mentioned however, that you're never getting out of this black hole.

Also, the new Magnolia Electric Co. album Fading Trails is due out September 12. Judging by the single Lonesome Valley, it has all the scraping heartfelt crutches of the mid-west that were lost in the overproduced What Comes After the Blues (2005). Take your wagon and shove it.

-Tara

Bowston, its bowston

Oh this is nice...bikes i enjoy...they got vocals in the sewer coming out of a fuzzy stereo...and mr.sing screams with a little more yelp than dude from the walkmen...i give it a listen...listen to
"Beginners" all the way through please oui oui

ps: i think this is just about 5 month old news but this is written on an island...think about it!

Faces on Film! Myspace Account!

--jeff the house

Bondage Fairies avoid Pink Eye

"Stockholm sucked one day in '06 (and then turned out not to)":

[postulating a day in the life of the Bondage Fairies]

Staying home from school at their parents discretion, two young lads were sent to the basement to avoid Pink Eye while their parents drank tea and shared stories of hypochondria. After 39 Nintendo sessions of Mario/Luigi/POW, the boys decided to record a song that ferociously explored their grasp of power chord progressions discovered during their new affection for 'musical instruments'.

The result was an overly astute jaunt in basement-nu-wave, spearheaded by a rambunctious approach to their Nintendo. The kids proceeded to make killer insect masks out of their headgears and rename themselves "Elvis Creep" and "Deus Deceptor", vowing never to call long division their favourite hobby again.

Yes, my story was only a hypothetical vision! But the Bondage Fairies song Pink-Eye Paranoia really exists, and you can hear it here:

Bondage Fairies My Space

***Notice the spaceship bullet samples lacing the track like hair lice, and try to visualize the Nintendo cartridges filing in and out of the game system before it hurdles through another 'reset'. Now, that's music.

Bondage Fairies Website
(Buy: Things You Didn't Know When You Hired Me at Amazon)

-Tara

Adam green is clever!

I like Adam green alot! i think hes funny...i have three of his cds! thats a lot of cds! my dad likes him aswell, he thinks hes clever...that made me like adam green more because my dad is clever and that makes him right...he declared his love after adam said

"On a country road I swerved to the side,
Trying to avoid...a country bumpkin "

Everytime i listen to adam i try and get people to listen carefully to what hes saying, he plays tricks on the mind! sometimes i think hes gonna rhyme and he dosnt!

" she woke up in the highway,
with arrows pointing at her face.
later that day in gym class,
she ate a mouth full of anthrax,
go to sleep"


THATS ONE OF MY FAVORITE!

He always talks about drugs and jews and canoes...i know hes jewish and i wouldnt be suprised if he does lots of drugs...PsYcHaDeLic! canoe

"when they told me that her body was found.
an astronaut drowned in the long island sound
i tripped down the stairs in my basketball shoes.
and paddled down stream in my father's canoe"

Adam knows his melodies!

Heres some samples of some quotes from his upcoming cd "JACKET FULL OF DANGER"

"bye didladie never gonna chew the outline of a pie...pie that i owe, and i owe and god knows i hold em to you so"

"I like drugs
I like to hold them for a friend
And ev'rything's gone and
My finger is longer
I never want to come down again"


this little write up was hard for my brain cause every song has great word combos...his newer cd's arent as obviously funny, i think his jokes are just getting better and more complex! so loosen up your brain and give him a listen if you havnt yet!

heres a fabolous video off his last compact disc:

Adam Green - Carolina (video)

- -- Jeff the house

Imminent Downfall in the Musical Economy

Hypothesis: The (next) Stock Market Crash is a resultant of Power, Corruption and Lies.

Observations:

• Geography (2006), the only full-length album by The Stock Market Crash, appears to have almost the same cover as the second New Order album, Power, Corruption and Lies (1983). The noteable difference is that in the 23 year span between them, the aperture setting on the photo lens increased.
• Shortly after Ian Curtis fell victim to his self-perpetuated black abyss, the remaining members of Joy Division started New Order. Also, shortly after John Bonham drowned in his surrounding moat of everclear, Led Zeppelin disbanded. Both of these resolutions came in relatively close proximity to the turn of the eighties decade, which in comparison to the decades surrounding it; was musically vain.
• New Order released an array of albums, and in '02 they released a compilation album entitled International, proving from the artwork that the most worthy thing they had to say for themselves after 20 years was that their floral cover art got digital.
• The Stock Market Crash appears to be usurping from their list of inspirations, a residue of Morrissey and Bono that is collecting in a sink drain.
• It has been awhile since The Killers made it.
  

Conclusion:

New Order made a fatal decision to their previously reputable musical stature by existing at all. The Stock Market Crash, who alludes to New Order in their cover art and mentions them in their inspirations, also smoke cigarettes in their press photos outfitted with oversized sunglasses and jean jackets, walking like they are going somewhere. To counteract the media-blitz when they break the charts in a few months:

"With the banality of She Wants Revenge, they blend together a stadium-sized vacuum motored by the face of their underground facade. Candidly disposing of the qualitative factors of Interpol and The Smiths to which they will undoubtedly be compared, they cauterwaul bombastically like the user-friendly rock of Coldplay and Athlete."

Stock Market Crash MySpace

Damn the things you accidentally step on.

-Tara

taratat

Read the sign! whats that say there... "raaa...raaatata...ratatatat...taratat??? NOOOO it be: RATATAT "CLASSICS" 08/15/06!...can you not see that? top left corner behind the big blade of grass...geez louise...
So remember!
Oh yeah and the music, from what i have heard through my ears...well this one sounds like an old weezer cover/crickets! ratatated up! it all works for me as long as no ones singing...

Ratatat - tacobel canon


love
Jeffthehouse

Eat a popsicle; master lick:melt ratio

The sun generally doesn't appear the colour of rubies, (evidently a greedy infatuation of musicians as of late), but rather a blazing yellow colour. The 'ruby-ness' comes out in the most supreme of circumstances, i.e (just one):

a) Building a sand castle in the late afternoon after a morning of ill-planning, plagued by extreme 'high-tide' risk.

The Ruby Suns themselves claim they sound like 'trees', but in New Zealand that's an understandable comparison.

Perhaps while I am sitting on my patio starring at the baseball field across the street, Birthday on Mars will help me find solace, instead of being plagued by the unintentional memorization of all citywide little league players; their names, numbers, and positions.

Ryan McPhun and the Ruby Suns - Birthday on Mars [MySpace]

And you can read all about 'em Auckland-ites (American passports) at Lil' Chief Records.

-Tara