Wall of Mouths

New Black Francis album

He also released a soundtrack for The Golem which is already sold out.

new albums by:
The Unwinding Hours (already album of the year)
Leatherface
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists

The Unwinding Hours - The Unwinding Hours

It’s former Aereogramme members sounding like Aereogramme, i.e. absolutely awesome.

The new Soulsavers album is streaming on their myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/soulsavers

chr1s wrote:

I’ve seen the gutter twins a couple of times. Their acoustic tour was nowhere near as good as the full band tour, and the album is superb.

I was speaking to a guy last night that books bands for Oran Mor in Glasgow, and Soulsavers are touring in August. Don’t know if tour dates have been announced yet, but anything that Mark Lanegan is involved with is usually quite good, so think i’ll be checking them out too.

Soulsavers will play three shows in the UK in august:
Manchester Ruby Lounge (August 24)
Glasgow Oran Mor (25)
London Garage (27)

I preferred the Gutter Twins’ acoustic tour to the full band shows but you’re absolutely right: Mark Lanegan is always ace.

Yep, they’re great. But you’d expect nothing less to come from the remains of Mclusky.

Muxtape is still there but now it’s a platform for band to present their music while spotify is…urrm…a kind of platform to present music.
As far as I understand spotify it’s an online music library you can freely access as music is only streamed and not for download.
So nobody needs muxtape as there are already music platforms like last.fm or even myspace.

2009 so far:

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Superchunk - Leaves In The Gutter (it’s only an EP, but…)
Ben Lee - The Rebirth Of Venus
Vaginasore Jr - This Here Peninsula
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H.
Mike Hale - Lives Like Mine
Manchester Otchestra- Mean Everything To Nothing
Fake Problems - It’s Great To Be Alive
Therapy? - Crooked Timber

Favourite bands at the moment are
The Riot Before
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Manchester Orchestra

But with three T? gigs coming up in the next seven days this is likely to change.

An evening with Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan

New dates this summer:
7/1 BRAZIL SAO PAULO Bourbon Street
7/4 CHILE SANTIAGO Teatro Oriente
7/7 ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES La Trastienda
7/11 BELGIUM BRUGES Cactus Festival
7/12 HOLLAND AMSTERDAM Paradiso
7/13 HOLLAND NIJMEGEN Doornroosje
7/15 GERMANY DUSSELDORF Savoy Theatre
7/16 GERMANY HAMBURG Stage Club
7/17 DENMARK COPENHAGEN Vega
7/19 ENGLAND LONDON Royal Festival Hall
7/23 AUSTRALIA SYDNEY York Theatre
7/24 AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE Athenaeum
7/26 AUSTRALIA BYRON BAY Splendour in the Grass Festival

Just bought tickets for Düsseldorf

A ticket for Morrissey in Cologne

Divers wrote:

Now that you have mentioned the FB word then i will certainly be buying it :) to be honest didn’t know he was doing anything with her.

Well, they’re married so he’s supposed to be doing her, isn’t he? :->

Back on topic, the Grand Duchy album is ok, I’d call it an average FB release.

Better albums to listen to:
Ben Lee - The Rebirth Of Venus
Titus Andronicus - The Airing Of Grievances
Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self
New Rhodes - Everybody Loves A Scene

The whole album is boring, their worst in this century.

Very old-fashioned album.

Unfortunately, it’s as bad as one could expect.

Parts & Labor - Receivers & Escapers Two: Grind Pop (sounds like Guided By Voices playing Hüsker Dü stuff, absolutely brilliant)
Plus/Minus - Xs On Your Eyes (if you like The Postal Service, check them out)
The Gutter Twins - various bootlegs from their current acoustic tour

You can find the Numb cd on amazon.

News from the reminders:
New Sepultura album A-Lex out in January:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BlabberMouth.Net/news.aspx?mode= … mID=110181

This is what it sounds like:
http://www.spv.de/SoundsE/30/306352~0001016.mp3
Well, it’s only one song. Two new tracks can be heard on their myspace site:
http://www.myspace.com/sepultura

There are so many bands fitting into that genre:
Sot Baker, Shorebirds, The Don Ramos Players, Banner Pilot, Bridge & Tunnel, Able Baker Fox, LaGrecia, The Tim Version, Off With Their Heads, In The Red, The Sainte Catherines, Fucked Up.

I personally prefer more punked up music in the veins of Leatherface:
Milloy, The Great St. Louis

I just bought my tickets for Berlin.

Summer’s Kiss wrote:

Sub Pop veterans Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan will return to Europe beginning January 15th 2009 for sixteen special intimate performances. Dulli and Lanegan along with guitarist Dave Rosser will perform a ‘Stripped Down In The Gutter’ set. By sheer virtue of the intimacy of the show, it will be unique, as neither Dulli nor Lanegan have toured in this capacity before.

“Since our instrumentation for this tour is going to be radically different, the shows will include many songs neither of us have performed in quite sometime or ever,” Dulli commented.

1/15 UK Glasgow Oran Mor
1/16 IRELAND Dublin Academy
1/17 IRELAND Galway Roisin Dubh
1/19 UK London Union Chapel
1/20 BELGIUM Hasselt Muziekodroom
1/21 BELGIUM Brussels Ancienne Belgique
1/22 HOLLAND Haarlem Patronaat
1/24 GERMANY Berlin Babylon
1/25 AUSTRIA Vienna WuK
1/26 ITALY Milan La Salumeria Della Musica
1/27 ITALY Rome Auditorium Parco Della Musica
1/28 ITALY Florence Auditorium Flog
1/30 SPAIN Barcelona Apolo
1/31 SPAIN Bilbao Kafe Antzokia
2/2 SPAIN Madrid Joy Eslava
2/4 GREECE Athens Gagarin 205

Favourite albums so far:
H2O - Nothing To Prove
Milloy - Creating Problems While Practising Solutions
Portishead - Third
The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Souns
Off with Their Heads - From The Bottom
Shot Baker - Take Control
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
The Loved Ones - Build And Burn
Torche - Meanderthal

Best shows so far:
Robert Forster
I’m From Barcelona
Milloy
Hanson Brothers
The Night Marchers
Blood Red Shoes
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
The Gaslight Anthem

Everything John Reis is involved in (The Night Marchers, RFTC, Sultans, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes)

AC/DC - Black Ice
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Prisonshake - Dirty Moons

Fucked Up
http://www.myspace.com/epicsinminutes

Yep, it sounds like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_po0RTKjsC8

Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (it’s ok)
Portugal The Man - Censored Colors (in my opinion their best album so far)
Glasvegas - s/t (really good)
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night (boring)
Metallica - Death Magnetic (their best album for five years :-D )
Alt-Ctrl-Sleep - s/t (dreamy indie pop, excellent)
The Gutter Twins - Adorata (pure magic)
Bloc Party - Intimacy (it’s good, better than A Weekend In The City)
The Verve - Forth (crap)
Hellsongs - Hymns In The Key Of 666 (that’s how metal songs should sound like)

But my favourites at the moment are:
Off With Their Heads - From the Bottom
The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound
Shot Baker - Take Control
Banner Pilot - Resignation Day

I love ‘em they’re fantastic.

Don’t miss them they’re an excellent live band, too.

You can listen to some songs here:
http://www.myspace.com/thereplacements81

I’d say College Rock wouldn’t exist without The Replacements (though that might be held against them ;-) )

It’s natural to focus on Nirvana, the label’s biggest success.
It was nice that for the SP20 festival some old bands reunited. I have a recording of the Green Show (Mark Arm and Steve Turner from Mudhones, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam) and they really kicked ass.

Erm yes, though everyone should know him for being the singer of The Replacements.