Condominium - Carl
“St. Paul’s Condominium churn out three tracks of their trademark blend of hardcore punk and mutated, art-damaged heaviness”
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(via Farmer Dave Scher)
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The combination of this and the downer Phosphorescentsong I posted is a good combo.
Groupe El Azhar - Mazal Nesker Mazal
It’s a Sublime Frequencies morning: a little 1970s Algerian proto-rai underground to get you going.
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Phosphorescent - Wolves
Stunning song from his 2007 record Pride
The Songmeanings thread consensus is that this is a song about addiction.
shared from exfm
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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.
— I’ve read this sentence so many times in my life. It still gives me chills, every time.
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Following on from my previous post, I also did the TV programme’s cover.
It was more than a little daunting drawing Crumb as his self portraits are such impressive things in the first place.
Here are the festival details, from my previous post:
I did this illustration for All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, curated by TV on the Radio, this weekend. A music festival that invites a different band each time to select the other artists that perform. More information here: http://www.atpfestival.com/
There are TVs in all the chalets and the festival+band pick what you watch.
I’m going to be doing some comics/illustration related thing at the next festival in June - http://www.atpfestival.com/events/deerhunter.php
If you’re going let me know and we can arrange to become drunken together.
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Black Sabbath - The Wizard
I have a thing for old songs that sound fresh. Exhibit: The Wizard. Still sounds unique listening to it this morning (I have alot of time on foot today, need something to get me going this morning).
What is it that sounds new, even today 40+ (!) years after the release. In pinpointing it, I think it’s the harmonica. What an odd choice of instrumentation to add in to this song. Yet, it works, big time.
shared from exfm
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Sandy Denny, 1969
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I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do you write about this kind of music, so people were trying absolutely everything with a great sense of freedom and experimentation and success and failure, and a feeling of, “My God, people are actually paying attention to this. Let’s pretend they aren’t because we don’t want to be intimidated by what somebody might think of what we’re saying.
— Greil Marcus (via austinkleon)
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(Source: wordsforyoungmen)
