Thursday, January 29, 2009

Heartless Bastards: "The Mountain" live video

Watch a video of the Heartless Bastards performing The Mountain live at Austin City Limits 2008.

HCTF review of The Mountain.

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Pete Doherty: Grace/Wastelands

Pete Doherty

How about England's pet junkie Pete Doherty? Written off as tabloid trash you should alomost forget thst he is pretty good songwriter. Listen to his records with The Libertines and Baby Shambles. He goes solo with his new album Grace/ Wastelands (not confirmed as the actual title), a seminal English album - melodic, looking inward, sad and forlorn. All the drugs have not killed off his ability to come up with really great lyricis - if he ever gets past the crap he might join the ranks of Ray Davies, Elvis Costello, Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn. He is obviously a smart guy who quite rightfully decided that he needed Graham Coxon on acoustic guitar for this one.

Doherty adopts the perspective of a German soldier on the brink of WWII in 1939 Returning with a thirties orchestral intro (no Amy Winehouse who was supposed to add a bit of spice to this tune), writes about heroin in Sheepskin Tearaway and is forever looking fo paradise lost - the album starts off with Arcadie. Following a long standing tradition he also retells the biblical story of Salome - the one in which John The Baptist loses his head. No "Fuck Forever" like stuff then? Maybe on the next one - for now he speaks softly about the opposite sex, declaring that New Love Grows On Trees.

Grace/Wastelands is released on Parlophone. Release date: March 16th. The first single Last Of The English Roses with non-album track I Am The Rain hits the shelves on March 9th.

Pete Doherty: Grace/Wastelands Tracks:
  1. Arcadie
  2. Last of the English Roses
  3. 1939 Returning
  4. A Little Death Around The Eyes
  5. Salome
  6. Through The Looking Glass
  7. Sweet By And By
  8. Palace Of Bone
  9. Sheepskin Tearaway
  10. Broken Love Song
  11. New Love Grows On Trees
  12. Lady, Don't Fall Backwards

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Phish: "The Clifford Ball DVD Box Set" MP3 and Video freebies

Two freebies from the Phish forthcoming The Clifford Ball DVD Set.

MP3: Phish - Harry Hood (8/16/1996)
Video: Phish - It's Ice (8/17/1996)

The 7-DVD box set documenting The Clifford Ball, a landmark concert event that drew more than 70,000 fans to upstate New York in August 1996, drops March 3. Tickets for the band's 2009 Summer tour go on sale this weekend.

More Clifford Ball videos on the official Phish YouTube Channel. Up so far: Fluffhead, Slave to the Traffic Light, Sample In A Jar, Punch You In The Eye, Bathtub Gin, Trey Anastasio talking about The Flatbed Jam and a short called Mike's Bike.

Disc 1 (Day 1 (8/16/1996) – Set One)
  1. Chalk Dust Torture
  2. Bathtub Gin
  3. Ya Mar
  4. AC/DC Bag
  5. Esther
  6. The Divided Sky
  7. Halley’s Comet
  8. David Bowie
 Disc 2 (Day 1 (8/16/1996) – Set Two)
  1. Split Open and Melt
  2. Sparkle
  3. Free
  4. The Squirming Coil
  5. Waste
  6. Talk
  7. Train Song
  8. Strange Design
  9. Hello My Baby
  10. Mike’s Song
  11. Simple
  12. Contact
  13. Weekapaug Groove
Disc 3 (Day 1 (8/16/1996) – Set Three)
  1. Makisupa Policeman
  2. 2001
  3. Down With Disease
  4. NICU
  5. Life on Mars
  6. Harry Hood
  7. E: Amazing Grace
Disc 4 (Day 2 (8/17/1996) – Set One)
  1. Old Home Place
  2. Punch You In The Eye
  3. Reba
  4. Cars Trucks Buses
  5. The Lizards
  6. Sample In A Jar
  7. Taste
  8. Fee
  9. Maze
  10. Suzy Greenberg
Disc 5 (Day 2 (8/17/1996) – Set Two)
  1. The Curtain
  2. Runaway Jim
  3. It’s Ice
  4. Brother
  5. Fluffhead
  6. Run Like An Antelope
  7. Golgi Apparatus
  8. Slave To The Traffic Light
 Disc 6 (Day 2 (8/17/1996) – Set Three)
  1. Wilson
  2. Frankenstein
  3. Scent Of A Mule
  4. Tweezer
  5. A Day In The Life
  6. Possum
  7. Tweezer Reprise
  8. Encore
  9. Harpua
Disc 7 (Bonus)
  1. The Clifford Ball: A Beacon of Light
  2. The Flatbed Jam
  3. Soundcheck (8/15/1996)
  4. An Interview with Jim Pollock
  5. Chris Kuroda Split-Screen
  6. Phish: On Jamming
  7. Phish: The LG

» Pre-order the DVD Set at Phish Dry Goods

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The Educated Guess: West Skyline Drive

The Educated Guess

Composing a rock oratorio is no slight task. Charlie Brumley, leader of St. Louis band The Educated Guess oges all the way on his latest effort dubbed West Skyline Drive. Dividing his musical story in two parts - "The Sunrise" and "Gateway Calling", he tells the story of the pioneers moving west in 19th Century America and the imminent Civil War.

For this album the band teamed with The Emperor Norton Orchestra who provided brass and choral alot and bass. It's a big concept, and they have troubles at times to focus and there are a few transitions that could have been smoother to keep the flow going. It is obviously inspired musically by albums like Quadrophenia and Odessey and Oracle. The arrangements are handled with care and once you get used to Brumley's limited nasal twang you get sucked into the story.

The Educated Guess:
Anthony Baumann: violin
Charlie Brumley: piano, vocals
Brian Pincus: drums
Jordan Rogers: guitar
Jon Venegoni: bass

The Educated Guess: West Skyline Drive

West Skyline Drive is a self-released album. Buy it from the band's website.

Tracks:

I: The Sunrise
  1. 1862 Overture
  2. Bullets
  3. The Ballad of Enough
  4. Into Dust
  5. Hero Complex
  6. Friend From Foe
II: Gateway Calling
  1. Antebellum
  2. Lullaby No. 1 (Sunset)
  3. A Coward's Last Stand
  4. Native Son
  5. Ghosts and Empty Cities
  6. The Ballad of Return

MP3: The Educated Guess - 1862 Overture
MP3: The Educated Guess - The Ballad of Return

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