Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – This Is Somewhere
subtlety and concision you don't often find with noodle-dancers
Interview on WCAX – Burlington, TV
UPDATE: JamBase interview
Grace laughingly describes the as yet untitled new album, which is slated for a fall release, as “a soul record at its core, like the Velvet Underground backing Aretha Franklin.” Clarifying this improbable set of reference points, she says, “There’s a spirituality — a soulfulness — that’s tapping into the Al Green vibe, but with a youth, a darkness and an edge to it that I wasn’t expecting.”
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here comes a regular : john doe
Could you encompass my 80’s music experience any more neatly? Doubt it. Here Come A Regular. I was having a conversation with a guitar player I know about early 80’s rock. I spoke about X and The Replacements and that musical connection of a live show and, well, here you go.
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garotas suecas - "codinome dinamite"
via Carrie Brownstein “The band is called Garotas Suecas, and I urge you to remember the name. Within two songs, I went from sitting at a table nodding my head to the front row — only about eight Brooklynites were willing to dance — at which point I became that person standing in front of the lead singer basically losing my mind. I am 34 years old. It has literally been a decade since I went up to a stage, closed my eyes, danced like a fool and never wanted the moment to end. All I kept thinking was that I wished everyone I knew could witness this show.”
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alex chilton is gone
Ann Powers at the LA Times blog
I have a tattered souvenir from a Big Star store in Memphis, picked up on a pilgrimage to the South that I made when I was barely 21, when I set forth to find some mineral traces of the blues and early rock heritage I’d only read about in books. What I found on that journey was Alex Chilton. I’d already come to love Big Star’s catalog, introduced to me via the mix tapes my friends and I made for each other as we built our own twisted history of Americana from what the band X once called “the unheard music.” Alex Chilton was a wandering, heretical patriarch of our new religion. Bands like the Replacements and R.E.M. found him inspirational. (Members of one such group, the Posies, would later play with a reformed Big Star.) College radio DJs turned Big Star’s catchy but unkempt songs into the hits they should have been the first time around. The band had been active in the 1970s, but they belonged to us, the kids fighting off the shadow of the Baby Boomers who’d been too dumb to realize how great it was. More...local natives : airplanes
You can stream the entire album at the band’s homepage.
the bangles : hero takes a fall
First chick band that I thought was great. Listen to those harmonies and that lead guitar sound. Before they “sold out” (which they themselves admit) they had a great thing going. In 1985 I hung out pre and post show with them in a bar in Virginia Beach – still a night to remember. Susanna is still doing it with Matthew Sweet – Rain, Different Drum, Cinnamon Girl, You’re So Vain, Maggie May – check out “Under The Covers”.
zooey for the win
“She & Him” video premier of “In The Sun” – Zooey hula hoops! Stick a fork in me.
lissie : little lovin'
Lissie is one of my favorite new voices.
the unofficial sxsw torrent
5.5 Gigabytes!?! of music from bands performing at SXSW here. Also available are past year torrents. Fire up your client!cat power : remember me
This cover of an Otis Redding cover tears me up everytime.
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Awesome … But he needs to learn to shut the hell up and play their answers!
seriously!
i was just going to say that…terrible.
Todd, I know – I like hearing them too . . but it seems to be more news story than interview and he did a pretty good job fitting all that info into such a short clip !
The cuts were a little rough, but he’s obviously a rook.
He’s a really nice guy. He interviewed me at Rock 4 a Cure and I got a major case of diarrhea mouth. Words just came flying out with no rhyme or reason. Words-Words-Words-Talk-Talk-Talk. I was SO nervous. I HATE talking on camera. I never saw the interview, but he assured me it would be cut way down into a tiny snippet. From all accounts that was the case and my diarrhea mouth was at least somewhat camouflaged.
I phoned my mother later that evening and got one of those typical mother gems… “Yeah, it was good. No, it was fine. Yes, it was good. Good job. But…ummm…you were holding your head in that weird way you hold it.” WTF? I hold my head weird? Great! Add that to the list for the therapist .
I’m sure he’s a nice guy. When do We get to see your interview SSteph? 8*) Words words words … You make me thingk of one of my favorite Morning 40 Federation songs Corkscrew … “You got some cocaine I got a straw … Let’s do some cocaine we can talk talk talk talk”
I’ll go before the verbal diarrea starts … I’m just a wee bit excited for tonight
John is Todd right now … btw
I’m just wishing I was with John AND Todd right now . . . sigh . . . June 21 seems very far away.
Considering the razor like precision with which you write, I have a problem believing you had verbal diarrhea. I’m sure you were more eloquent than you thought yourself to be. Now excuse me whilst I wipe off my nose.
LOL, Steph. Once had presentation taped in speech course for later viewing and critiquing by class. Tilted head through entire video, a sign of shyness and insecurity. Working on tilt helped both of those conditions. Acting self-assured is half the battle.
Liked this interview. He did pack a lot into a short space. Grace and Matt looked very nice, and as happy as clams.
Trust me, there was verbal diarrhea. And, according to dear ole ma, a majorly weird head tilt that I “do all the time.” Ha-Ha. Perhaps it is a blessing I’ve never seen the clip. I spend enough money on therapy as it is…;-)