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Over the Rhine on Good Day LA (KTTV) on 11/11
So, within one week, I’ll get to see Over the Rhine two times… it’s been since Sept 2007 since I’ve gotten a chance to see them. Yesterday, they stopped by Los Angeles’ KTTV (a Fox affiliate), chatted and sang “The King Knows How” on Good Day LA. Photos posted to Facebook by a fellow Orchard Apple/friend, Bill Ivester. Video link after some of Bill’s shots…
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Three days until their Eugene show… woot! Oh, and for pre-orderers, the download links for The Long Surrender should be in your inbox from the band with the super secret URL and password. If you miss it, the album will be out on 1/11/11.
~Dan – np: Synapse – Raw 
Sigur Rós – homage or fromage?
Reposted from the sigur-ros.co.uk site… Sigur Rós doesn’t allow for their music to be used in advertisements. So some advertising companies have gotten “creative” (*cough*) and pretty much ripped them off. Listen for yourself:
Svefn-g-englar
the original
Hoppípolla
the original
Olsen Olsen
the original
Jónsi’s Go Do
the original
They seem like outright theft to me. Sigh. I guess at least the thieves have good taste.
~Dan – np: Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
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Bill & Ted’s 3?
In the “really? is that necessary?” column…
Keanu Reeves is in talks to reprise his role as a dopey teen for another installment in the Bill & Ted movie series, according to his co-star Alex Winter. (The Guardian)
It won’t be the same without our beloved Rufus (George Carlin).
~Dan – np: Andy McKee – One World
Captain Hammer is coming to Eugene
So, Captain Hammer aka Captain Tightpants aka Nathan Fillion is coming to Eugene Oregon to drive the electric vehicle, the Pulse by Arcimoto – which is made in Eugene. Pretty crazy!
Eugene, Oregon? Can you hear me? I’m coming to drive your Pulse!
about 2 hours ago via Captain’s Blog
https://twitter.com/nathanfillion/status/21430376862
No details on when, or if he’ll do any sight seeing…
~Dan – np: Electric Masada – At the Mountain of Madness
Jonesin’ for some Buffy soda
Buffy the Vampire Slayer limited edition soda collection from Seattle-based Jones Soda Company… available now, while supplies last:
http://www.myjones.com/limited/buffy
We don’t even drink much soda, but I just had to get some of these for my wife…
~Dan – np: Masada – Gimel
Bad Veins featured on ABC’s Amplified
Cincinnati rock duo Bad Veins has been a favorite on this blog since their inception… they’ve been growing in audience, and just had a nice little feature on ABC‘s Amplified…
Excellent exposure for Ben & Sebastien. They’re heading out on a West Coast tour with Frightened Rabbit in October after a few Midwest dates with We Are Scientists in August…
August 12 2010 – Record Bar, Kansas City, MO – w/ We Are Scientists
August 13 2010 – The Old Rock House, St. Louis, MO – w/ We Are Scientists
August 14 2010 – The Basement, Columbus, OH – w/ We Are Scientists
August 15 2010 – Brillobox, Pittsburgh, PA – w/ We Are Scientists
August 20 2010 – Fountain Square, Cincinnati, OH – Indie Summer
October 07 2010 – Shadowbox at the Market, Seattle, WA – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 08 2010 – Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 09 2010 – Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 10 2010 – The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 13 2010 – Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles, CA – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 14 2010 – House of Blues, San Diego, CA – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 15 2010 – House of Blues, Anaheim, CA – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 16 2010 – Beauty Bar, Las Vegas, NV – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 17 2010 – The Clubhouse, Tempe, AZ – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 19 2010 – Loft @ Palladium, Dallas, TX – w/ Frightened Rabbit
October 20 2010 – Stubbs, Austin, TX – w/ Frightened Rabbit
Keep up with news at badveins.com or their twitter page…
~Dan – np: Bad Veins – Outliers EP
At-At Day Afternoon
Clever use of the Kenner Star Wars At-At toy…
~Dan – np: Damien Jurado – Saint Bartlett
Blood Into Wine (poster)
I’m really, really, really looking forward to this movie…
~Dan – np: Miho Hatori – Ecdysis
RECIPE: Simple Apple Pie (from Scratch)
I love this recipe…
For those not in the know… watch/listen to this…
If you like it, you can buy it on vinyl…
Or download the mp3 for free…
filled with 400 billion suns…
~Dan – np: Nina Gordon – Bleeding Heart Graffitti
PDX Jazz Fest // Nellie McKay
Two unrelated news items…
PDX Jazz Fest is just over 6 weeks away… if you like live music and live anywhere near Portland, Oregon, you need to check this out. It’s a great festival. This year’s line-up is pretty darn excellent, if you ask me. I’m hitting three of them (Holland, Sanders & Douglas)…
Headliners
Thursday, February 25 – Luciana Souza
Friday, February 26 – Mingus Big Band
Saturday, February 27 (3pm) – Trygve Seim & Frode Haltli
Saturday, February 27 (7:30) – Dave Holland Quintet *
Sunday, February 28 (3pm) – Pharoah Sanders *
Sunday, February 28 (7:30) – Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy *
The whole week of Feb 21-28 (2010) is full of other great local and national jazz artists as well… all over town. For tickets and more information: http://www.pdxjazz.com/
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Nellie McKay has released a few 2010 tour dates on her webpage (very scattered so far). The Seattle date is with Garrison Keillor‘s A Prairie Home Companion… fuuuun. I’m planning to make the trek up to that show.
- 1/7/2010 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant
- 2/18/2010 New York, NY The Allen Room at Lincoln Center
- 4/3/2010 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater – A Prairie Home Companion
- 4/10/2010 Delaware Water Gap, PA Deerhead Inn
- 6/1/2010 New York, NY Feinstein’s at The Regency
- 9/17/2010 Monterey, California, United States Monterey Jazz Festival
I’m sure more dates will trickle in throughout the year. Go to her tour page for more info.
~Dan – np: Miles Davis – Porgy & Bess
Fanfarlo Winter Tour // Symphony of Science
So, I missed the last Fanfarlo U.S. tour… but that’s OK, they coming through again… yippie…
U.S. Winter 2010 Tour
February 20 – El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, CA
February 22 – Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA
February 23 – Doug Fir Portland, OR
February 24 – Crocodile Café Seattle, WA
February 25 – Knitting Factory Spokane, WA
February 27 – Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
February 28 – Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
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In other news, there’s a new Symphony of Science song / video out. It is “The Unbroken Thread,” featuring Carl Sagan (yet again), along with David Attenborough and Jane Goodall, and it is biology themed. The clips used in this installment come from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, David Attenborough’s Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, The Life of Mammals, The Living Planet, BBC Life, XVIVO Scientific Animations, IMAX Cosmic Voyage, Jane Goodall’s TED Talk, and a clever Guinness Commercial. The themes present in this song attempt to explore the wild diversity of life on our planet, the intricacy and origin of its mechanisms, and its close relation to all other life forms.
If you don’t know what Symphony of Science is… it started with “A Glorious Dawn” with Carl Sagan (from Cosmos). It’s a brilliant auto-tuned mashup, and they also released it on vinyl (best of the year for me in 2009). You can download the mp3s of the various songs over at the SOS site.
~Dan – np: Good for Cows – Bebop Fantasy
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Maynard’s BLOOD INTO WINE
Two new trailers for Maynard James Keenan‘s forthcoming documentary Blood Into Wine…
(the serious trailer)
(the silly trailer)
I heard about this during the wine tasting portion of the Portland Puscifer show… now seeing the trailers – I’m stoked to see the movie. It looks great… they need to find a way to package a 2-DVD with a 375 mL of the 2007 Judith. :)
Or, heck, even the recent Chupacabra / DVD combo would be nice, as the Judith is rarer than rare (20 cases).
Note: Maynard is the singer in Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer… and he makes great wines.
~Dan – np: Madeleine Peyroux – Bare Bones
Andy Barker, D.V.D.
More than a year ago, I asked if there was going to be a DVD release of the great Andy Barker, P.I. show. Well, today I got an email and… yay, it’s up for a November 17th release…
~Dan – np: Floratone – Floratone
Nuno & Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother)
Nuno Bettencourt (of rock band Extreme) is starring in a music video with Jason Segel for the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Known for their love affair with “songs that are awesome,” HIMYM have re-created the famous Extreme video “More Than Words.” Other cast members including Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan and Josh Radnor will also appear in the video.
The episode airs tonight (Oct 12th) on CBS at 8/7c. Here’s the behind the scenes video:
Official video from the show:
~Dan – np: Explosions in the Sky – All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (Remixes)
PES – Western Spaghetti
Brilliance defined…
~Dan – np: Explosions in the Sky – How Strange, Innocence
Porcupine Tree / Larry David & Woody Allen
UK progrockers Porcupine Tree have a new album coming out in September, and it now has a name: The Incident. It’s out September 21st on Roadrunner Records in the United States. It’ll be a double-album: first CD being the (cough) 55-minute title track. The 2nd CD being an EP-lengthed featuring these four songs: “Flicker,” “Bonnie The Cat,” “Black Dahlia,” and “Remember Me Lover.”
My fandom of Steven Wilson’s songwriting (examples: Stupid Dream & Lightbulb Sun) will probably lead me to gravitate to the 2nd CD, but we shall see. Their counterpart in the prog world, Dream Theater, can’t write their way out of a wet paper bag (when it comes to a “song”)… so at least Steven tends to do that every once in a while…
As previously reported, Porcupine Tree hits the road with King’s X and That1Guy this fall (two favorite artists of mine). I’ll be at the That1Guy-opened show in Portland, OR.
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Larry David is a busy man. As previously reported, the 7th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is underway (and will host all major members of the Seinfeld cast). Larry’s feature movie from writer/director Woody Allen is hitting the streets this June/July. Here’s a trailer for Whatever Works:
~Dan – np: Celldweller – The Last Firstborn Remixes
tons of news
Nine Stories!
In this episode: The new Masada Quintet with special guest Joe Lovano, the Jenny Owen Youngs‘ video that I somehow missed, Nellie McKay‘s Election musical, Fanfarlo for $1, the deaths of JazzTimes & Jeff Hanson, the resurrection of Futurama, a new Wussy video, and Asthmatic Kitty’s most excellent Library Catalog Music Series…
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The new Masada Quintet with special guest Joe Lovano just came out for June on Tzadik Records. It’s the original Masada Quartet (John Zorn on alto sax, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Greg Cohen on bass & Joey Baron on drums) plus pianist Uri Caine… plus special guest tenor sax Joe Lovano. Holy cow!!! It’s the first official studio release from the Masada Quartet since 1999’s י [Yod] (or 2005 if you count the unreleased/rarities compilation Sanhedrin). This album is bound to be at the top of my “best of” list for 2009.
This video from Jenny Owen Youngs came out in September 2007. How did I miss it? It’s a brilliant singer-songwriter cover of rapper Nelly‘s “Hot in Herre” (so take off all your clothes). I bought the iTunes single… great stuff:
Nellie McKay is writing a musical based on the book/movie Election. Read more about it over on Brooklyn Vegan blog.
Fanfarlo just put on their debut album, Reservoir, for $1. Fanfarlo is a London-based band founded by Swedish musician Simon Balthazar. Nice textured indie pop… think Sigur Rós meets Sufjan Stevens. The album, in full, is available for only $1.00 until July 4th, 2009 at http://www.fanfarlo.com/.
The economy took another print-media victim. This time it’s the death (or “temporary suspension”) of JazzTimes magazine. The 38 year old magazine couldn’t maintain readership in the new era of online content. It’s a sad day, as it was a great magazine. I hope it’s able to come back later in some form or another under new ownership, as mentioned in the Howard Mandel article.
Whispy singer-songwriter Jeff Hanson died last Saturday (6/5) after an accidental fall on his cement-floored apartment in St. Paul, MN. Jeff was known for his feminine vocal style and songwriting/sound similar to late indie rocker Elliott Smith (who also died young). He had three great albums out on Kill Rock Stars. I hate to sound selfish, but I’m bummed I missed him when he recently came through Portland. We lost another one, far too young…
In “Oh Sweet, Futurama’s On” News, the resurrection of Futurama is eminent. Much like Family Guy, the popularity soared even after being originally canceled. Futurama had some straight-to-DVD movies recently, and it will return with new 26 episodes on Comedy Central in the winter 2010.
A favorite band of mine from Cincinnati, Wussy, has a new “acoustic from an RV” video of “Maglite.” They recently put out their 3rd full length album, and it lives up to the quality and momentum in their prior two albums (plus 1 EP). Check out the video and then check out the album at Shake It Records:
Asthmatic Kitty’s most excellent Library Catalog Music Series just came out. The naming of the series sounds… boring. However, it’s really great instrumental music. There are three issues thus far: 900X: Music for Lubbock 1980, Law of the Least Effort: Music for Measurements, and Casey Foubert/James McAlister: Music for Drums. My favorite is the 900X one. Really, really good electronic, post-rockiness. If you liked a more “sane” version of Sufjan Steven’s Enjoy Your Rabbit, I bet you’d like the LCMS. Check it out at Asthmatic Kitty Records.
~Dan – np: Fanfarlo – Reservoir
Another Mike Patton Soundtrack
Mike Patton [Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Ipecac, etc] & Justin Broadrick [Godflesh] will contribute to the soundtrack for an upcoming Alan Moore photographic novel on Lex. This comes hot off the heals of Patton’s Crank 2 soundtrack…
Lex founder Tom Brown says that the deluxe release will include the book – which Brown describes as a “photographic novel” rather than a graphic novel like Moore’s “Watchmen” or “V for Vendetta” – as well as art prints, a two-hour audiobook recorded by Moore (possibly on a memory stick) and the soundtrack on vinyl. It is not yet clear if the soundtrack will get a separate release on CD or as a download, but Brown says he wants this to be a special release and was partly inspired by Radiohead’s deluxe version of “In Rainbows.”
~Dan – np: Death – Symbolic
REVIEW: Flight of the Conchords @ the Schnitzer (Portland, OR – 5/14/09)
Well, let’s just say… this show was mutha’uckin’ AWESOME!!!
Before the show, there was a spot-on Murray look-a-like in the crowd. A little bit younger looking, but definitely pretty damn close. At around 7:45pm, the lights dimmed and what sounded like Jemaine (from FOTC) announced the opener. 
Arj Barker, who plays Dave on HBO’s Flight of the Conchords show, came out and did a hilarious 30-minute stand-up routine. Very witty humor. He’s got a Comedy Central special coming soon, plus he’ll be doing his own solo tour later in the year. Should be fun… I’d definitely recommend Arj, and if he comes near me again (Eugene, please?), I’ll be there.
Arj introduced Flight of the Conchords Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie immediately after his set, and they came out swinging right away in their robot costumes. To which they immediately broke into a song from their 2nd season, “Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor.” They never got back into their robot costumes again, which was… well… unfortunate. Great show though. They also had a cellist, Nigel, who was “New Zealand’s symphony orchestra.” Due to budget cuts, Nigel is the entire NZ symphony orchestra. :) Here’s what they played…
Setlist: (YT: YouTube video from the HBO show)
- Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor (YT)
- Hurt Feelings (YT) (*a fave of the night*)
- The Ballad of Stana
- The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room) (YT) (*a fave of the night*)
- Carol Brown (Stick Around)
- Jenny
- Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros (YT) (*a fave of the night*)
- I’m Not Crying (YT)
- Freebird (upon request, but we think it was a planted request… Bret moved over to drums)
- Mutha’uckas (YT) (Bret continuing on drums – *a fave of the night*)
- Business Time (YT) (*a fave of the night*)
- Think About It (Think, Think About It) (YT)
- Lazy Eye
- Sugalumps (YT)
- Encore: Albi the Racist Dragon (YT)
- Bus Driver’s Song
- Bowie (YT)
The only real disappointment was the obvious lack of “Robot Song (The Humans Are Dead)” (YT). “Foux Da Fa Fa” (YT), “If You’re Into It” (YT), and “Ladies of the World” (YT) would have been fun, too. They show was really great, though. They played and talked and talked and played for an hour and 45 minutes. Really funny, and I liked most of the new songs… I’m looking forward to the 2nd season when it comes out on DVD (as I don’t have HBO). I wasn’t able to take any photos due to the venue’s rules. Here is one from SPIN‘s Miami review (more further down in the links):
The Appropriate Linkage:
- Flight of the Conchords webpage
- Flight of the Conchords on MySpace
- Arj Barker webpage
- Arj Barker on MySpace
- SPIN Review from Miami
- SPIN Photos from Miami
- Arlene Schnitzer Hall in Portland, OR
~Dan – np: Wynton Marsalis – He and She
Sufjan’s Sofia’s Song / Strong Bad Game
Unrelated…
Sufjan Stevens has posted a new essay and song, “Sofia’s Song,” to the sidebar blog on Asthmatic Kitty. Read it HERE. The song can be downloaded from HERE.
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And Telltale Games has just announced pre-order for the DVD of their previously download-only game Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. You can read more about the pre-order combo pack specials HERE.
~Dan – np: Pissuk Rachav – Eretz Hakodesh
-Eyvind Kang
-Frank Zappa
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