Director and animator Mark Wiitanen created this new video for Beaten Awake, Thunder$troke, which is the same name of their new album on Fat Possum. Buy it on Amazon.
The band is in New York this week, playing Trophy tonight and Monkeytown in Brooklyn tomorrow.
Columbus emcee Zerostar’s video featuring cameos by Envelope, DJ Detox, Jeff Fernagel, myself, Steve Hamilton, Zack Smoozyiak, Magnolia Thunderpussy, Used Kids, Carabar, the Columbus Police, and Skullys.
Songs off his new ep. Download it below.
MP3:Zerostar:Are We There Yet? EP
Early in the show on Wednesday night (Nov.18), I tweeted: New Megadeth sounds like old Megadeth sounds like good Megadeth.
Mustaine and co. turned in a great 1.5 hours (20 songs) worth of classic Megadeth hits plus a handful of new ones.
Read the full show review and see more pictures over on AtomicNed.com.
Paul’s kid is making pops proud with his solo debut at the ripe old age of 37. Harper Simon’s self-titled CD (which he put out on his label, Tulsi Records) was a pleasant surprise in the batch of 20+ CDs I reviewed for the new issue of The Big Takeover (in stores in the next couple of weeks).
Not a big surprise is that Harper sounds quite a bit like his dad but he’s got a certain contemporary feel/sound not unlike the late, great Elliott Smith. Harper used a number of old-time Nashville session musicians on the album and asked friends like Joan Wasser, Petra Haden, Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart), and Sean Lennon to lend their talents as well.
Harper Simon and Woody Pines will play the Rumba Cafe, November 21. Tickets are $10.
Columbus rap group Greenhouse Effect is putting out a new ep next week called “Electric Purgatory”. They have a release party next Saturday, November 28th at Skullys.
Greenhouse Effect’s new line-up is Blueprint and Illogic.
Print’s been video blogging about the process building towards the release.
This shows Blueprint scoping out spots for a video shoot. He visits Used Kids, the Dube, the Fairgrounds, the traintracks and the Daymon Day Wall.
previous video blog after the jump.
As we mentioned previously, Donewaiting.com and BenCo are presenting Sloan at Skully’s on 11/29. ( Fellow Canadians Magneta Lane open.)
And we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away. To enter the contest, send a blank e-mail to contestdonewaiting@gmail.com with the subject SLOAN. Winners will be randomly chosen next Friday. You can also purchase tickets here.
Don’t forget to download that new single, “Take it Upon Yourself,” at Sloanmusic.com.
WOSU, Columbus’s PBS affiliate, isn’t airing Pearl Jam’s Austin City Limits performance on Saturday night. PJ fans are upset.
MP3: Jay Reatard – It Ain’t Gonna Save Me
MP3: The Black Hollies – Gloomy Monday Morning
MP3: Bryan Scary and the ShreddingTears – (It’s A) Gambler’s Whirl
Pels ikke bjørnen før den er skudt. Or, don’t skin the bear before it’s been shot. That seems to be exactly what Jay Reatard’s old band members tried to do when they walked out on him in October. (But then again, that’s punk music, right?) Inconvenient timing (due to them being on tour at the time) seems to be the only downside from this situation as Danish band Cola Freaks are now officially on board the lo-fi garage punk project and have been trucking through Europe with him since. This seems to be a win-win situation, as he is finally visiting Columbus again (Sunday night at the Summit), now with a kick-ass European punch and seemingly quite happy about the new additions. He spent 10 days in October recording in the Freaks’ hometown of Aarhus and has gone on the record about it, saying, “It sounds exactly the way I wanted these songs to sound like live when I wrote them.” (Cue proverbial twisting of knife.) It’s a good time to be Danish, as Jay and the band will also be opening for The Pixies on their Doolittle tour that kicks off this weekend in Chicago. Oh, and now Reatard’s former rhythm section is apparently joining up with Wavves.
Reatard video and info on the Columbus openers after the jump. More →
MP3: Blakroc ft. Mos Def – On The Vista
This is the Mos Def - Blakroc jump-off.
Hype is building on this album set to drop November 27th.
Blakroc even got a MSK endorsement
Direct from the SXSW site:
SXSW Music is excited to announce our first round of bands who will be performing at SXSW 2010!
* Giulia y los Tellarini; Barcelona, Spain
* The Hong Kong Blood Opera; Hermosillo, Mexico
* Archie Bronson Outfit; London, England
*The Temper Trap; Melbourne, Australia
* Japandroids; Vancouver, Canada
* CHEW LiPS; London, England
SXSW says all acts will be notified by January 29, 2010 of their status for the 2010 festival.
MP3: Surfer Blood – Swim
CMJ breakout band Surfer Blood will play the Summit on Wednesday night. It’s good timing — see ‘em before you’re sick of hearing about ‘em. The Florida band’s debut, Astro Coast, is out on Kanine January 19. It’s good.
Detroit’s Terrible Twos open. $5, 18+. Under 21 pay $2 surcharge at the door.
The last time I had the chance to see The Magnetic Fields, I went and got married instead. OOPST.
The band has a new album out January 26 on Nonesuch Records. Complete tour dates after the jump. More →
RJD2 is headlining Donewaiting’s 7 Year Anniversary February 5th in Columbus and we couldn’t be more delighted.
In the past our anniversary’s line-ups weren’t slouchs. Last year’s event was the start of a pretty good year for quite a few of the performers:
- Envelope became CD101’s favorite rapper.
- Adulture moved to Chicago and formed a disco- house group Le Principle which promplty signed to Tommy Sunshine’s Brooklyn Arts label and will be on comps with Felix da House cats.
- And of course DW bloggers Two Cow Garage jumped on tour with The Hold Steady. That’s just one year.
What about Blueprint and Brainbow? The various Fat Possum groups. Sinkane? DW has been quite blessed with the artists that fuck with our site
While we are real proud and honored to have such good talent willing to play our showcases, obviously RJD2 is our biggest show yet. RJ bounced to Philly from Columbus a good while ago. Since then he became the “next DJ Shadow” to the point you could argue that Josh Davis is in RJ’s shadow. Doods done Hip Hop classics. RJ’s remixed Radiohead.
In addition to his released catalog , the Clintonville kid’s music has provided licensed sound scapes for everything from a Rodney Mullen skate video to the Emmy-award winning TV show Mad Men.
Of course y’all know the name.
RJ has sold out the Wexner and Skully’s every time he has played since moving. Despite being one of the most critically acclaimed and musically successful people ever to graduate from Fort Hayes, RJ has made it a point to never lose contact with his friends and family in Columbus.
He eats at Surly Girl with his BFF Liz Lessner.
Dood still plays music with old roommate Derek Dicenzo
Rj organized a benefit for his father when his pops was injured in a bike accident. And the superproducer marched in the Daymon Day Parade a few years. Irregular Dood still stays grounded doing regular people things.
Just last week he recommend “Global Brain” by Howard Bloom to me. Book is blowing my mind.
The Donewaiting showcase at Skully’s will double as the release party for RJ’s new album The Colossus which hits stores January 19th. Is that MLK Day?
More details about this album and the Donewaiting showcase will be revealed as we near the February 5th show.
Why are we talking this early about it? Well Pitchfork leaked RJ’s tourdates yesterday. Even misspelled Skully’s(shucks). So we figured the cat was gonna get out of the backpack anyway. Lock-in to DW and RJ’s website.
PS: Brooklyn anniversary show to be announced soon, too.
This is a time-lapse of Pearl Jam performing KLRU’s “Austin City Limits” (ACL) PBS concert series taping on October 3rd, 2009. This time-lapse was created from photographs taken every 6 seconds from 9:09AM – 11:29PM. Over 10,000 images we’re taken. (more)
Pearl Jam are on Austin City Limits this weekend.
Picture this. You’re a musician. You’re in a local band that’s created a steady fan base. You want to test the waters of your talent, so you accept a challenge that matches you randomly with four other people to form a band. You then have 8 hours to come up with two original songs and one cover with these people whose musical limitations are potentially a mystery. Following the minimal time spent conjuring up and practicing these songs, you must perform them in front of a full audience of your Columbus peers. Oh, and on top of all that, this year you get filmed every step of the way. Nervousness ensues, the pressure’s on. Welcome to the Rock Potluck of ’09.
In its 5th year of existence, the Potluck continues its raw artistic event, boasting a roster of 41 musicians from 41 Columbus bands. Though both the challenge and combination of personalities thrown together seem like an equation for an explosive reality TV show, there is an underlying positivity. The Potluck’s coordinator, Bobby Miller, feels that the event “helps bring the entire Columbus music community together in a very unique and supportive way. Each band creates a bond and ultimately the experience they go through and the music they make together is something really exciting to hear and watch and something they can all be proud of.” More than one band created within the event has continued to play out after the fact. Sandwitch, born in the ’03 Potluck (made up of Ron House, John Olexovitch, Brett Burleson, Bobby Silver and Zac Szymusiak) has put out a 7”, played at last year’s SXSW and will soon be releasing a full-length record on Columbus Discount Records. More →
