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Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker to Tour, Release Solo Album!

Posted by Miss Ess, July 13, 2010 12:56pm | Post a Comment
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Watching Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss musically kick ass as Sleater-Kinney sleater-kinneythrough the late '90s and early '00s was beyond inspiring! They really stood for a particular moment in Olympia-based, riot grrrl-inspired rawk. In 2006, after the classic-rock-y The Woods, which was perhaps their strongest album ever and most promising, the band broke up, leaving us fans with little more than a vague promise they'd perhaps get back together someday.

Well, that someday still hasn't come. Janet Weiss has continued to drum with the awesome Quasi and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks; Carrie Brownstein (a longtime fashion hero) intellectualizes about music for NPR; and now, at last, Corin Tucker, who played guitar and sang (more like wailed) in S-K and was one of the band's founding members, is finally releasing a solo album!
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Billed as Corin Tucker Band, Corin, along with Sara Lund and Seth Lorinczi, will be releasing an album October 5 on Kill Rock Stars as well as touring! This all just warms my 19-year-old heart of olde to hear! According to the KRS website, the initial tour dates are as follows:

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Matador Turns 21 in Vegas! Starring Pavement, Sonic Youth and more!

Posted by Miss Ess, July 8, 2010 02:54pm | Post a Comment
Why wait for a perfectly round-numbered anniversary when you can bring together a line-up as commanding as only Matador can?

To celebrate the trusty indie rock label's 21st anniversary, a host of cooler than thou, kick ass artists will come together to rock in the glittering lights of Las Vegas this Oct 1-3 at the Palms!

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Heavy stuff, no?

Answers to pretty much every question ringing through your over-stimulated mind, including when tickets go on sale, are available here.

Dylan LeBlanc's "If Time Was For Wasting"

Posted by Miss Ess, July 8, 2010 09:59am | Post a Comment
Maybe all the sweaty, countrified True Blood I've been watching has really seeped into my brain because the Southern sound is really hitting me today. Dylan LeBlanc is a brand new artist on Rough Trade/Beggars, a young Louisiana lad, and the sound of pedal steel guitar weaves through his first single "If Time Was For Wasting" in an appealingly loose, summery way. It's just easy on the ears. Check it out:


Thanks, Alela! 

Chat with Michael Yonkers about Goodby Sunball, His Latest Reissue

Posted by Miss Ess, July 6, 2010 02:01pm | Post a Comment
Michael Yonkers has had one of the strangest careers in the music biz. His creative and lo-fi albums were largely ignored at their release in the late sixties through early eighties, but now they are being reissued slowly and discovered by a whole new audience of rabid psych-folk fans. Since the early sixties, Michael has been a pioneer in the world of recorded sound. Unfortunately, he also suffered a catastrophic back injury in the early 70s that radically changed his life.

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Goodby Sunball is the latest reissue for Yonkers, and it was written back when he was recovering from his spinal injury and subsequent surgery. He says, "I recorded the tracks in the little studio I had in my place. It was all recorded on two-channel, tube type machines (back and forth between machines). The vocals were done in the bathroom, to give an expanded sound." The album came out originally in 1974, and now Secret Seven Records has re-released a special 500 limited run vinyl pressing and it is available at Amoeba now!

To get an idea of what Goodby Sunball sounds like, you can check out a track from the album, called "Swamp of Love," right here. You can also hear a cover of another track off the album right here, "Oh Can You Tell Me" by Grace Cooper of the Sandwitches. This cover reportedly made Yonkers cry when he heard it! Finally, you can watch the premiere of an entrancing video by Jeanne Applegate set to "The Day of Jubilee" for a final glimpse of this beautiful, idiosyncratic record. The interview follows below.

The Employee Interview Part XXV: Cas

Posted by Miss Ess, June 9, 2010 04:31pm | Post a Comment
Cas
Nearly one year employment
Electronica Wizard
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Miss Ess: What's the first music you remember hearing when you were a kid?

Cas: That's tough, mainly because my head is kind of flooded with musical memories, so much so that it's hard to tell where it all started. Both of my parents are music lovers so there was usually some kind of song being played or sung around the house. I've inherited my mom's habit of playing music in the morning to get myself going. She usually played some kind of contemporary R&B music and the occasional gospel album. My dad was in a singing group that performed around New Orleans in the late 70's and early 80's. When the guys in the group weren't having practices at our house, my dad was usually going around singing songs by artists they were influenced by: The Temptations, Luther Vandross, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. I used to think my dad was Teddy Pendergrass. teddy pendergrass teddy

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