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Jun
28
Upcoming Justin Townes Earle record announced: Harlem River Blues
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Found this in the ol’ inbox this morning:
Greetings!
We are pleased to announce the details of the next Justin Townes Earle record. Harlem River Blues will hit stores on September 14th.
Compared to the much-lauded Midnight at the Movies, Harlem River Blues is more mature and increasingly nuanced, while still embracing the raw voice and clean sound of previous standout tracks like “Mama’s Eyes.” Featuring guest appearances from Jason Isbell, Bryn Davies, Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show and Calexico’s Paul Niehaus, it’s rockin’ and reelin’ at times, sweet and slow at others – and it’s great….and it was produced by JTE and his old friend Skylar Wilson.
We’re counting the days till September 14th.
Justin Townes Earle: I Don’t Care (from the Yuma EP)
May
19
The Stones: Ventilator Blues
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Exile on Main Street was released in remastered form yesterday. There’s a song on it called Ventilator Blues, which by the three-second mark is already one of the raunchiest, sleaziest, scariest things I’ve ever heard. One of Keith’s most visceral, physical, venal riffs.
No one does hedonism like the Stones, and no one gets at the sheer exhaustion and the come-down like them, either. It’s a pointless way to live. But what a song. What a song.
brendan o’donnell could generally care less about non-American music. he makes occasional exceptions.
Apr
23
Initial thoughts on High Violet
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In anticipation of its May 11 release and to counter the murky-sounding leak now dribbling ’round internet, the National is streaming their upcoming LP High Violet on the New York Times website until April 27th. Accompanying the higher-quality stream is a pretty fine article by one Nicholas Dawidoff, who follows the tumult the band goes through in Read more
Feb
23
John Gleason of the Roadside Graves: “Above all I admire and consume because I am a fan.”
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The Stereopathic Interview
If I could find the time to write more, Stereopathic’s readership would have, by this time, been subjected to a lot more semi-literate posts on Metuchen, New Jersey’s Roadside Graves. The band released my favorite record of 2009, My Son’s Home, a sprawling and ambitious 18-song record dense with beautifully-detailed characters and stories related via singer John Gleason’s bourbon-throated rasp. Since I still don’t really have the time to write, I’ll spare you any further rock-critic-journalist hoo-hah. “Writing about music…” goes the oft-quoted (and rarely attributed) aphorism, really “…is like dancing about architecture.” Read more
Jan
14
Shearwater’s Coming to Pullman
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Stereopathic is pleased to announce totally blown away that Shearwater is playing at the Bell Tower in Pullman on Tuesday, April 20th Friday, April 30th. The show starts at 8 PM. We’re lining up a local act to kick things off; Lawrence, Kansas’ Hospital Ships opens, followed by Shearwater’s thrilling and epic live show.
Shearwater, of course, will be touring in support of their Read more
Dec
21
This song just slugs you in the gut.
Get the rest of the Roadside Graves’ great session at HearYa, and while you’re at it, take a listen to the version of Wooden Walls here.
Jul
29
New College, Oxford, is of rather late foundations, hence the name. It was founded around the late 14th century. It has, like other colleges, a great dining hall with big oak beams across the top, yes? These might be two feet square, forty-five feet long.
A century ago, so I am told, some busy entomologist, went up into the roof of the dining Read more
May
25
Veckatimest
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It’s streaming (sorry, not no more as of 6/1) on Grizzly Bear’s myspace. After you listen, go buy it.
As with Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavillion, it is absolutely exhilarating to hear a creative and ambitious band tether its experimental tendencies to the concise demands of the four-minute pop song.
Grizzly Bear – Cheerleader (from 2009′s Veckatimest)
May
11
Magnolia Electric Co’s “In the Human World” engages by evoking, its sounds recalling that peculiar American combination of open spaces and rust-streaked, decrepit industrial ruins, its lyrics stirring and opaque:
Apr
28
Stereopathic: Entertaining Moscow-Pullman
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It’s Stereopathic’s busiest week yet. All told, we’re bringing in six out-of-town artists to entertain Moscow with various forms of folk music, countrified and otherwise. Check out our Birds on a Wire page for links to everyone’s respective myspaces, and for a big fat pic of David Dalbey’s beautiful poster. And, of course, there’s more after the jump . . . Read more
