You can tell by the number of benefit shows in Columbus this year that it’s been a rough 2010 for a lot of people in the music community. It’s time again to rally around a local who could use some help. Nile Carpenter, faithful show-goer and cellist for Afortiori, recently was in a car accident and broke bones in both arms, including a full elbow replacement. The good news is, he’ll be fine. The bad news is, he has racked up more than $50,000 in medical bills.
Tonight’s benefit show is at the Basement with Six Gallery, St. Moses the Black and Lemia Belus. More details on the poster below. After the jump, check out the poster for another benefit next Thursday (9/9) at KOBO with Phantods. More →
It’s good to see Superchunk kicking around again. The band is releasing their first full length album of new material in a long ass time next Tuesday which you can pre-order here.
Branden: “Bricks and Wires” was written while on tour down south and is the performance at a show in Little Rock the day i wrote it.” 52 Singles in 52 Weeks
…and fired its staff, but the three managers apparently plan to keep the website going. Paste announcement here, AP story here.
Last year, the magazine asked readers to donate money to help it stay afloat, drawing thousands of dollars. The donations helped delay the inevitable, after advertising revenue dropped, Jackson said. “We thought we could make it, but we ran out of fumes,” Jackson told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “We’re an independent publication doing this out of the love of doing it.”
Even if you’re a Paste hater (which I’m not), it’s sad to see another music pub bite the dust. Side note: Rachael Maddux was always an awesome editor to work with. Someone should hire her pronto.
PromoWest Productions, PPE Events & Bud Light Present
KID CUDI
w/ DJ EV
Announce: Now
On Sale Date: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH
WHO: KID CUDI W/ DJ EV
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, 2010
WHERE: THE LC – LIFESTYLE COMMUNITIES PAVILION OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER COLUMBUS, OHIO
DOORS: 7 PM
COST: $35 Advance and Day of Show
Okay. I’m neglected to alert or aid in this show. But Sweatin is bringing Big Freedia to Axis tonight.
Freedia plays bounce music. A New Orleans dance music that is fun as fuck and goes hard. Watch the above Fader Video please.
All Eyes Path will open. George Brazil and DJ Self-Help are on this as well.
Columbus Rapper L.e. For the Uncool drops the Measure. It is produced by Rashad. The guests are the 3rd, Knaledge from Kidz in the Hall, Milk N Syrup’s P. Blackk+ Fabrashay and Detroit’s Truck North(who was on the latest Roots album). The Measure is both—one of the stronger Hip Hop, and Columbus releases this year. More →
Le for the Uncool drops the Measure tomorrow. I dig the above video “First of All”. It has LE going out to Fifth and Cassady to make a pick-up then makes a drop at Sole Classic. Crips, Islam, Harlem Renaissance and Cornel West…fuck with it.
Here is an artist profile on LE. I think Homage’s NBA Jam video game machine in the background is a good touch.
Nice video of a stripped-down Black Swans performing unreleased track “Don’t Blame the Stars” at Spoonful Records, a new record store in downtown Columbus (insert most recent “Vinyl makes a comeback!” newspaper story here).
Frequent Columbus gigger and Black Swans buddy Tim Showalter aka Strand of Oaks released intimate sophomore album Pope Killdragon on emusic recently, and the more spins I give it the more it’s transfixing me. Fans of Bon Iver, Will Oldham and maybe early Neil Young should find some common ground here. Showalter is the rare singer/songwriter who can be emotive without overly emoting.
If you’re not ready to pull the trigger on Killdragon, you can download Strand of Oaks’ Live in Chicago 2008 EP for free here. It features early versions of songs that eventually landed on the new album.
Last week it was the All Delighted People EP, and now news of a Sufjan Stevens full-length, The Age of Adz, (pronounced Odds) which will be out on CD/MP3 Oct. 12, double LP Nov. 9. Preorder it here and get the MP3 download on Sept. 28. The scoop via Asthmatic Kitty:
It’s much too soon to cast descriptive lots, but we can say the new album sounds nothing like the All Delighted EP (although it shares similar themes of love, loss, and the apocalypse). Nor is this new album built around any conceptual underpinning (no odes to states, astrology, or urban expressways).
We can say it shows an extensive use of electronics (banjos and acoustic guitars give way to drum machines and analog synthesizers), and an obsession with cosmic fantasies (space, heaven, aliens, love), to create an explicit pop-song extravaganza, augmented by heavy orchestration, and maybe even a few danceable moments. Enjoy Your Rabbit meets the BQE. But with songs. Verse, chorus, bridge, backbeat. Gated reverb. Space echo. Get your boogey on.
The “Adz” of the title loosely refers to the apocalyptic paintings of outsider artist Royal Robertson (1930-1997), whose work is used for the album cover, interior design, and as general inspiration for the tone of the album.
Megan Palmer has released her third full length album, Old 33, this time with full support from her somewhat regular Columbus backing band, The Hopefulls (John Boerstler (guitar), Jimmy Castoe (drums), Jeff Ciampa (bass), Larry Cook (bass), Jen Miller (vox).). I helped put out her first two albums on Sunken Treasure Records, and Megan has released this one herself.
In a lot of ways, this record is like her “Thank You” gift to Columbus. Megan has been splitting her time a lot this past year and a half between Brooklyn and Columbus, and these songs were the last batch that she really developed in Ohio.
Megan is celebrating the release of the album in Columbus tomorrow @ Rumba between 6-9. She’ll be playing with the Hopefulls and after that there will be a set with The Spikedrivers.
You can purchase the album either digitally or get a copy of the CD with instant mp3s delivered to you too.
Not only will Chicago’s Califone perform a rock set at the Wexner Center this Thursday (8/26), they’ll also provide the live soundtrack to a screening of singer Tim Rutili’s film All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (trailer above). Apparently the film is about a fortune teller named Zel who lives in a house full of ghosts. The band will play a carefully timed, 90-minute set under dim light. I keep coming back to the dense, spooky album of the same name, so I’m pretty excited to see how all this unfolds live alongside the film. And I’m hoping for a rock set heavy on Roots and Crowns material… Tickets $14 here.
Video for “Funeral Singers” after the jump. More →
