Tough guys with perms

Lucky Dragons show the other night

Here's a Post-It note flier I made for the Lucky Dragons show earlier this week at Zebulon:


I had to leave early and didn't catch their set. Were you there? How was it??

Great shows this month

There are a few extremely fun parties happening in the next few weeks:

This Thursday, CDM is celebrating its 5th anniversary with a free-beer EVENT on MacDougal Street. There will be live music. There will be a dance contest. The winner will get a new laptop. (UPDATE with new info)

Then, on Friday, friend-of-The-Shamblers Jordan S. (late of 349 St. John's St. Radio) is bringing his new noise act "Family" to the BlackWave (John Ryan Theater) basement in DUMBO, 25 Jay Street, 9pm. FREE!!

The following evening, at the Lakeside Lounge, WFMU is celebrating the launch of their new webshow, Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban (with Debbie D). There'll be DJ sets from all of your (well, all of Jess and I's) favorite station DJs and the usual good-time-shenanigans of a WFMU party. Plus, it's free.

A week later, the In/Out Computer Music Festival is happening at The Tank. Performances, workshops, hobnobbing with your favorite micro-celebrities... I'm really looking forward to this one.

Following that, the Lollapalooza-of-Chiptune Blip Festival will be returning to the Bellhouse, December 17-19. I've yet to see this kind of thing done live, but have been jazzed about what I've heard (yeah, I went there). Three days might be a little extreme, but I'm willing to give it a go.

(Coincident to Blip Fest on 12/17, Richard Lainhart-- he of the 200e/Continuum fame-- will be putting on an audio/visual performance IN QUAD on Centre Street in money making Manhattan.)

THEN, on the 18th, Bardo Pond and White Out (w/ Thurston) are playing at the fanciest place in town, Le Poisson Rouge. 7pm, $10. You're going, right?

What a month! Hope to see you all out and about!!

"Look At Them Beans!"

Heard this on the Tennessee Border show yesterday, while Jess was fixing beans for lunch:

Shamblers Halloween party mix

Sounds best loud.

Happy Halloween!!

Hey Scott NM

There's a new 71-disc Miles Davis box set coming out?


Whaaaaaaaaaaat?

Music I heard on WFMU this afternoon that I think Jess will like

I couldn't find videos for "Peanut" (from our favorite Sonny Sharrock LP, "Black Woman") and "Endlessly Fascinated" (brand new!!) by the unstoppably good Psychedelic Horseshit.

"Peanut" was on Mayor McDowell's "Long Rally." The rest were on "Three Chord Monty" and Brian Turner's Show.

If it works...

(I'd hoped to add a video for "Starry Eyes" to this post, but apparently there isn't a good one to be found. If you can point me in that direction, though, please do).

Meg Baird this past Saturday

Here's a song from Meg Baird's set at this past Saturday's Hanging Tender concert in Bovina, NY, along with some bonfire footage from the same event.

Marc Orleans on pedal steel. Dictaphone audio.

The Mummies at Maxwells

This was a dream show for Jess and I--so much so that we almost bowed out of our participation in the new Iran-Contras record to attend the gig--which we missed by doing the right thing and flying out to Portland:




Yes, we made the right decision-- any Contras recording session is amazing, the new record(s) is/are great, etc., but were you there? Can we talk to you and relive the night through your stories?

Charlie Slick hijacking parties

Charlie toured with our friend Patrick Elkins a few months back and put on what was probably the highest production value show the free stage at Pianos has ever seen. You should catch him live if you get the chance and, even if you're a hermit, get his records-- they're good.

RIP Sky Saxon

Sky Saxon was my favorite singer. He died today in Texas.

Here are two clips of him on American Bandstand:




...his only big hit, "Pushin' Too Hard":



...and Jess mixing drinks to the tune of "Travel With Your Mind":

Rest in peace, Sky Saxon.

Have you heard Thee Oh Sees record?

...because apparently eBay really wants me to buy it:


Here they are, in roadside action:

Spacemen 3 -- live, 1989

Happy Valentines Day!

Grouper show: TONIGHT!

Jess had gotten us tickets for the Grouper/High Places show tonight at the New Museum, but because I'm (to borrow a phrase) too sick to move, we have opted for Plan B: listening to Grouper and High Places LPs at home.


Unfortunately, we don't have the High Places record, but what we've heard reminds us a bit of the Tomutonttu platter from a couple years back. No, they're not exact matches, but you get the idea and we've got to get this non-dance party started!


If you're in New York, there's still time to get to the gig. It "starts" at 7, but these things never happen on time. Make haste, music fans!

Lux Interior RIP

E-V PL77B spotted!

The WFMU blog has a post up about the movie "Ex Drummer," which I am excited to see, and part of the reason has to do with the song playing during the trailer-- Millionaire's cover of "Mongoloid." In the same way that "Daddy Never Understood" made me want to see Kids, or at least pick up the soundtrack (see comments), "Mongoloid" has me hooked.

After minimal YouTube searching, I found the song's scene from the movie and wouldn't you know it-- there's an Electro-Voice PL77B in the shot!


The PL77B is a hand-held electret condenser that Electro-Voice released in the 1980. We've got a couple of them here and they get used a lot-- they were the vocal mics on the "That's We Rapping," "Chinese Sex," "Y'all I'm Impregnated" and "New Visions of Pure Sanity" albums (there's even one on the cover of the cassette edition of "New Visions"), among other odds and ends work in the Colonial catalog. If you find a PL77B for cheap (I think we paid $80 for our pair) I recommend grabbing it. Not the best mic in the world, and its signal breaks up if you hit it too hard, but the top end is brittle in a real trashy way and it takes to distortion better than most. Happy to see one on the big screen!

Very OOP Siltbreeze stuff for sale

Head over to the Siltbreeze blog for prices and ordering info.

Hands off that Shadow Ring 7", though. That joint's mine.

Is this what Walter Steding used?

Not this exact one, but this model?