Hey prog-heads, in case you missed my interview with Derek Shulman of Gentle Giant on East Village Radio last week, here’s the isolated audio from it.
And be sure to listen to the rest of the show with guest Jess Rotter, right here!
Mike and Derek Shulman
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Click the player that lies below for the Psychedubic Mix that Chippy B and I created one fine night…
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Here’s the playllist. Dig…
“Curious Electric” – Jon & Vangelis
“The Four Horsemen” – Aphrodite’s Child
“Waterhouse Rock (Groove Corporation Mix)” – Big Youth
“Hot Smoke & Sassafrass” – Bubble Puppy
“Ragga Muffin Style Dub” – King Tubby
“Madman” – Klaatu
“Cocaine in my Brain” – Dillinger
“NYCNY” – Daryl Hall
“Tam Tam” – Gregory Isaacs
“Sombre Reptiles” – 801
“Draw Your Brakes” – Scotty
“Hole In My Shoe” – Traffic
“Atmospheric Dub” – Mad Professor
“Journey to the Center of the Mind” – Amboy Dukes
“Blood on His Lips” – Scientist
“Long Piece No.3 (Part 4)” – Egg
“Dub Dat” – the Upsetters
“China Cat Sunflower” – Grateful Dead
“Law” – Andy Capp
Thanks for allowing us to spike your bar mitzvah punch…
…I was riding my bike through Prospect Park today and heard Animal Collective sound-checking for a show tonight. Here’s what my iPhone and I overheard>>>
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Hay…
In case you missed the first edition of my new radio show, Beyond Beyond is Beyond, you can download an mp3 of the stream here. The sound quality isn’t perfect as it was a rendering of a stream and there were a couple mic anomalies, but still definitely listenable.
And, the second edition will be airing live on East Village Radio’s “On the Fly” spot on Thursday, February 12th from 2pm to 4pm. After that, a stream will be available there for a week too. The second BBiB show, aka Lovepsych, will have all kinds of lovey Valentine’s-related stuff and emails and requests from you, your loved one, or perhaps someone you know.
And then after that, I’m hoping that my show will become a permanent fixture on East Village Radio and you’ll be able to hear me there whenever you want! Fingers crossed.
You can also email requests, rants, stories, mp3′s of your own recorded voice for use on future shows to beyondbeyondisbeyond(at)gmail(dot)com.
Thanks for listening…and participating!
Mike
* lynx sys by Macho Mel
Oh yeah…and check out my first photography assignment for the Flavorwire
You’ve probably heard me singing the praises of Dungen’s brand of Swedish psych-folk rock before, and I’m still singing…especially after the recent release of the 4 album and the Kemado Records CMJ showcase that they headlined on Friday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. If you have any kind of ear for beautiful throwback psychedelic rock they way that I do, you are already a big fan. And if you’ve never heard them and you’re still reading this, listen up below! This is “Satt Att Se” from their new album, 4 (which is indeed their 4th album)….
Dungen – ‘Satt Att Se’: [audio="http://kemado.com/_files/audio/dungen/SATT_ATT_SE.mp3"]
See! I told you so. Dungen is one of the newer bands out there now on the rock fringe, proving that rock music can still be adventurous and even sound pretty…and still rock hard. They are part of the new batch of neo psych-rockers (along with bands such as Black Mountain, Wooden Shjips, Howlin Rain, and Earthless) that are keeping that vibe alive in what may just be a reawakening era of rock music.
Dungen are a band who jam, but aren’t a jam band (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). Their live show is pretty true to the music on their albums, and when you hear their albums, it makes you want to hear them live. It’s beautifully-composed pastoral soundscapes with bursts of raw guitar feedback freak-outs and real old-school groove from a rhythm section that knows how to sit right outside of the pocket. All that AND Swedish lyrics.
Definitely go see them on tour if they come to your town. It’s the best kind of music out there…at a value price, because they don’t quite have the mediocre appeal of bands like Coldplay (sorry, Coldplay fans…no I’m not).
Get their new album, 4, here at Amazon, or the other highly-recommended Ta Det Lugnt from 2005. Oh yeah, and it’s pronounced Doon-yen!
More pics after the jump…
All righty, we’ve had a lot of Seger-hatred show up at our ‘Non-Classic Rock’ poll party. And I’ll admit, I would’ve joined right in five years ago, as I fancied myself one of the premier Seger-haters in the country. That is, until I discovered Bob’s early Motor City rock-scene days with the Bob Seger System. So, it’s been a very long time since I did one of these Cases For (Phil) Collins, but this seems like the perfect opportunity to shed some light on an artist who may get a bad rap for a lot of the work he did later in his career (get it, like Phil Collins). So here’s my Case for Seger…
Seger started playing in bands as early as 1961, but it was in 1968 when he put together the Bob Seger System, which became a major live band on the Detroit music scene in the late-60′s and early 70′s…a dirty garage-rock scene that would later inspire the punk rock movement. The Detroit music scene in those days was one that was set completely apart from any other rock scene in the country…it was rough, gritty, and full of soul. With bands like the Stooges, the MC5, The Frost, SRC, Alice Cooper, and The Amboy Dukes, the scene was in stark contrast to the San Francisco hippie scene or the sexy L.A. music scene or even the NYC post-folkie scene. Detroit’s Grande Ballroom became one of the most important rock dungeons in the country.
But, to get to the point, Seger toiled for 10 good years, from 1966 to 1976, to very limited local success before he put out the Night Moves album with his newly-formed Silver Bullet Band and began his rise to super-stardom…and for many of ya’ll, his rise to super-suckdom. But if you hear some of the records made during that 10 years leading up to that, you just may be surprised. I certainly was when I started hearing this stuff over the past year or two. Let’s see…
Here’s the Bob Seger System’s “Noah” from their second album, which was released in 1969…
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And you’ve gotta love the early performance and lack of facial here on “Ramblin Gamblin Man”…
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And here’s an mp3 of the Thin-Lizzy covered “Rosalie” from Seger’s Back In ’72 album (from ’73)…
[audio="http://www.frannysilverman.com/NewmRadio/04%20Rosalie.mp3"]
So, has my Case for (Bob) Seger convinced anyone or swayed anyne’s opinion of Seger? See, he’s not all bad. In fact, he quite rocked for a quite a long time! Let me know if you wanna test drive a full early Seger album, and perhaps I can dub a cassette for you.
One more smokin’ Tube after the jump…
As the major record companies are dying off, unable to adapt to the changing times, we just may be seeing the rise again of music that is more real, as bands and smaller labels have less to lose. There’s a couple albums that you really should here that may just be great signs of the times! Check ‘em out…
First I’ll give you a tried and true band (or solo artist with a band name, at least) who has made their (her) best album perhaps since Learning To Crawl! It’s the Pretenders. The album’s called Break Up The Concrete and it is super raw rock & roll which was recorded in just 10 days! Chrissie is still the shit and her voice sounds better than ever and her songwriting is top-notch. If you need more convincing to pick up this album, then watch and listen…
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And the second album I need to tell you about that’s out today on Tee Pee Records (a fantastic rock label) is by a new heavy psych-rock trio called Earthless. Think Sabbath meets Hawkwind meets Blue Cheer. The album is Live at Roadburn and it obviously was recorded live at the annual Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland.
The story’s pretty amazing that Earthless wound up on the main stage at the festival in front of 2,000 psych-rock fans when the headlining band did not use their two hour time slot. The festival organizers scrambled to find a replacement and Earthless stepped right in and just straight-up jammed for the next hour and a half. Their songs have names but there are no vocals and you should probably stay clear of this album unless you really dig space-rock type jams…like I do! If you do, get it now, and be proud to hear that such a band can exist in today’s musical landscape of actual signed bands!
Here’s a great sample of their song “Godspeed”: [audio http://teepeerecords.com/media/Earthless_-_Godspeed.mp3]
And here’s a great vid of the band, but not from Roadburn…
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If I was gonna be in town on August 31st, I would go see this show. I highly recommend this show if you’re in NYC on Sunday, August 31st. Burning Spear’s Winston Rodney is a true roots-reggae classic originator, who’s been doing his thing since the late 60′s.
Listen to “Slavery Days”: [audio http://www.frannysilverman.com/NewmRadio/01%20Slavery%20Days.mp3]
I had recently caught wind that Manuel Gottsching, of Ash Ra Temple and Ashra fame (or semi-underground type fame), would be performing at some sort of minimalist festival in NYC on Friday night along with someone called Rhys Chatham (who I’m sure I’m a douchebag for not knowing) who would be playing with 200 local guitarists (doesn’t seem all that minimal an idea, but okay). Manuel Gottsching was going to perform an electronic trance piece called “E2-E4″ that I recently found out is considered ground-breaking in the electronica world. I’ve had the hour-long piece in my collection for a couple years and dig it on occassion, but I totally praise Gottsching more for his 70′s era Ashra-monikered guitar-heavy, almost new-age projects, which I can listen to endlessly, like the albums Correlations or New Age of Earth. His psych/space/Kraut rock Ash Ra Temple work with Klaus Schulz in the late 60′s is also very different and quite amazing and ground-breaking.
I didn’t plan to go to Friday’s show, as I heard about it a bit too late and the weather was looking awful anyway. Well, I guess a bunch of dickheads went out to the show to see Rhys Chatham, since perhaps Bowie approved of him or he collaborated with Deerhunter or something, and Chatham’s set was cancelled, but only after the crowd had to ‘sit through’ Gottsching’s hour-long “E2-E4″ piece, which couldn’t have possibly been as bad as the way that these Brooklyn Vegan commenters describe it!
Here’s an example: Rhys Chatham can eat me for making me sit through that Gottsching stupidity. You’re never gonna live this one down. You should’ve have done it in the church. You KNEW it was gonna rain, yet you exercised poor judgement and made everyone else pay for it. Nice going.
What this mainly means is that I need to stop reading Brooklyn Vegan’s comments sections and just read the stories. But I’m just drawn to them and can’t help but see what so many (unfortunately) fellow New York music lovers think about certain local shows and events. Unfettered negativity with the occassional nice and/or logical comment.
Anyway, the BV commenters who were so mad at what their ears had to put up with before they found out about Chatham’s cancellation have no idea of the beauty and talent of Manuel Gottsching’s music, and it will be their loss…but it won’t be yours. Here’s a Muxtape mix of some great Gottsching material from his Ashra period of the 70′s. And you won’t get rained on as you listen…and be surrounded by dickhead music snobs. Dig…
Since Muxtape is experiencing RIAA legal difficulties, your best bet is to listen to some of Manuel Gottsching’s music over at his MySpace page. There’s some great stuff there, including edits of “E2-E4″ and “Echo Waves”.
I’ve got an offer that you can’t refuse right here! I found this over at Gorilla v Bear (indie people like animals) and it’s the music deal of the year so far. It’s The Walkmen‘s new album, You & Me, which is supposedly their best yet and one of the best albums of the year for a measley 5 bones. Not only is it only $5, but that $5 will go towards helping kids with cancer. Really, you almost can’t not do this, unless you’re a true grouch who doesn’t like music or kids. This from the press release:
“All donations go to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in honor of Luca Vasallo, a friend to the band and a current patient who is seven months old and doing a great job fighting a very difficult disease,” said Peter Bauer of The Walkmen. “This is a very good organization that certainly deserves the attention.”
So, it would behoove you to head on over to Amie St. and make your donation, and receive a fine musical album at 320 kbps DRM-free mp3′s! Oh yeah, and it doesn’t officially drop until August 19th. I haven’t heard it yet, but I’m going there now to get mine.
Sample the song “In The New Year” from You & Me… [audio http://www.frannysilverman.com/NewmRadio/04-In_The_New_Year.mp3]
You might remember that I wrote a piece about the Welsh band, MAN, a few months ago when I was still a newbie to their music. Since then I have received some mind-blowing MAN albums, bursting with their eclectic blend of West Coast psychedelia, hard rock, blues, progressive rock, funk, Beatlesy harmonies, and top notch jamming. These albums have been beautifully remastered with excellent bonus material and packaging and new liner notes from one of the MAN legends himself, guitarist/singer/songwriter, Deke Leonard. The most recent reissues include the three albums, Back Into The Future, Slow Motion and Maximum Darkness.
I’ve got to say that these MAN reissues have been in very heavy rotation in my iTunes and iPod for the last couple months. I have gone from a complete ignorance of this band, not even having heard of them before 2008, to being converted to an unmitigated MAN fan by mid-2008. Why is MAN such a horribly overlooked band, you might ask? I’m really not sure, but my guesses are a) perhaps mismanagement (a la Moby Grape) and b) lack of radio hits. At least the Grateful Dead had “Truckin’” and “Casey Jones” But this isn’t necessarily mainstream music here either. This is music for music’s sake. Here’s my completely-biased account of the most recent set of MAN albums that have just been re-released on England’s Esoteric Recordings this summer.
Click on through for the juicy details…
…but maybe they represent freedom in some way…especially the Beach Boys song and Mudcrutch song too!
I made a little Bo Diddley Tribute Tape if you wanna honor one of rock’s greatest pioneers by getting down to his grooves. There’s some early Diddley stuff on here that he is best known for and then there’s also some great tracks from his rare 1972 album, Where It All Began. Dig.
Bomp-da-bomp-da-bomp, da-bomp bomp!
Rest In Peace, Bo and thanks for giving Rock music it’s groove!
Here’s some music, if you need something to listen to…
It’s my birthday today and I’ve gotten a lot of well-wishes from friends and family on the phone, text, email, Facebook, and MySpace…thanks to all! I also found this hilarious track about what it means to be a Taurus, from 1967′s The Astrology Album, maaaan.
Here’s the blurb that Audiodrome at the Groovy Fab Forum posted with the album…
THE ASTROLOGY ALBUM (Columbia CS 9489) 1967
This LP, a pet project of producer Gary Usher, featured “Your horoscope and character analysis in music and narration.†Along with the psychedelic instrumental jams, it also featured brief comments on astrologyastrologyastrology is like, ya know… so far out. It’s just there… yeah.” It should be pointed out that the Libra, Virgo and Pisces tracks were used as B-sides for the first three Usher-produced Sagittarius singles. without being high as a kite, unlike virtually everyone else interviewed on this record, who essentially all say, “Yeah, man… from various stoned-out hippies and stoned-out Columbia recording artists, including David Crosby and John Merrill (of the Peanut Butter Conspiracy). Chad & Jeremy manage to give their comments about astrology without being high as a kite, unlike virtually everyone else interviewed on this record, who essentially all say, “Yeah, man… astrology is like, ya know… so far out. It’s just there… yeah.” It should be pointed out that the Libra, Virgo and Pisces tracks were used as B-sides for the first three Usher-produced Sagittarius singles.
As a supplement to our most recent Best Band You’ve Never Heard In Your Life featuring the band, MAN, here’s a Muxtape MAN mix to get you fully turned on to MAN’s sound. Dig it this weekend, for it will soon expire. And report back on your findings. Happy Weekend!!!
Original Best Band post on NewmRadio
Link from our friends at Hidden Track
Ummm, this is pretty wild, but I just found that hip Brooklyn blog-rag, Brooklyn Vegan, is reporting (in multiple posts) about unhip iconic progressive rock band, Yes, in a non-ironic or negative way! The posts are regarding Yes’ 40th Anniversary tour starting this June. Of course half of the comments are negative and as simple and creative in their negativity as ‘NO!’
Check out the Yes posts here and here.
*awesome pic courtesy of Natalie Dee
And in a related story, you absolutely need to hear this new band that’s rockin’ with a progressive bent. They’re Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears and their new Flight of the Knife album is amazing! Here’s a vid for you…
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And as a bonus, here‘s a song from that Flight of the Knife album called “Imitation of the Sky” which will disappear very soon (so listen now…and then support the band and your own good listening habits by picking up the album at Amazon!) Don’t be turned off by the fact that Perez Hilton endorses this band!
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The band, Blodwyn Pig (blawd-win) is definitely one of the Best Bands You’ve Never Heard In Your Life. The band formed after original Jethro Tull guitarist, Mick Abrahams left Tull in 1968. It is said that Abrahams and Ian Anderson did not agree on the musical direction of the band, Abrahams preferring the hard blues-rock style and Anderson starting to write in a more progressive rock style. (Who won that feud, would you say?) Blodwyn Pig released two albums, one in 1969 and one in 1970, and this song is from the second album, titled Getting To This. It’s one of the Best Bands You’ve Never Heard In Your Life, Blodwyn Pig with “See My Way”…
And here’s a bonus for ya…
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So Trout Mask Replica had you as confounded as it had me when I first checked it out from the library in high school? As is the case with most bands, it seems like the most critically heavily-lauded album is usually not my favorite. It’s even the case with the Beatles…I’d rather have the White Album on a desert island than Sgt. Pepper’s (not to take anything away from Pepper’s, though!) What other examples can you think of?
Anyway, I put together this nice Muxtape to share with you the glory of Beefheart’s bluesier, more psychedelic debut album Safe As Milk from 1967. I feel like there’s almost no way to not love this album. If ya dig, the next logical step in my mind would be Spotlight Kid and/or Clear Spot.
So here’s Safe As Milk for your listening pleasure…nice and listenable! Hope this helps all you Star Room folks give Beefheart another chance. Cheers!
Anybody else have any similar examples of critically-acclaimed albums that are not your favorite?
So Saturday is Record Store Day and I guess the reason we’re starting to celebrate it is because of the death of the music industry as we know it. I gotta say I look back on the record store days as pretty sweet. Me and my sister used to go to the local record store (at the Shoppes) and see all these cool records which we weren’t yet familiar, when I was around 9-10 years old. I always remember a Dirty Deeds poster and wondering why all the peoples’ eyes were blacked-out, and a life-size Ringo Starr cardboard cutout in a police uniform. But at that age we were mainly going there to get to the arcade in the back of the store, where I honed my Donkey Kong skills as often as I could.
Fast forward a year or two after Back In Black opened my eyes to rock ‘n roll, and I’m going to the Record Bar at the mall almost religiously and ordering records from the record club…getting 10-12 records at a time in a cardboard box in the mail is about as cool as life gets.
Then a few years later in high school, how many trips did I make to Clifton from the burbs of Cincinnati to visit Wizzards Records to load up on cheap used albums? Then there’s all the stores I’ve loved before… Everybody’s Records, Mole’s, Used Kids, Recycle, and a couple I’ve visited where I live now… Academy Annex in Williamsburg and that joint on Bleecker Street. I’ve gotten the best deals most recently though at NYC street fairs and the last WFMU Record Fair.
So get out there Saturday and find your local record store and grab yourself some tasty vinyl. Or if you don’t have a turntable, seek a cheap one out. Shit, you could even get one of those USB Ion tables, if you don’t have a proper receiver. Anyway, here’s a couple other things…
- Listen to a killer vinyl rip (via Muxtape) , of Neil Young’s Time Fades Away, and then find yourself a vinyl copy of it at your local shop
- Get your free download of the new Gnarls Barkley! The catch…it’s backwards.
- More talk about classic rock live albums at Hidden Track
- Can you think of any other bands that peaked too soon? I’m thinking The Specials.
- You absolutely have to see and hear David Byrne doing his rendition of Paul Simon’s I Know What I Know, which he just performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (where I was married) for the recent Paul Simon Graceland tribute, Under African Skies.
- Central Park Summerstage‘s calendar is up.
