Hurray for the Riff Raff

Time & Temperature

Time & Temperature

Hurray for the Riff Raff w/ the Tumbleweeds

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While the excellent Cream of the Low Tide is on Bandcamp, most of the releases by Val Glenn aka Time & Temperature have been under the radar and hard to find (The Intimate VI EP, Trust Apples, a split with Jordan O’Jordan, etc.) unless you happen to know her personally or have friends in common. But recently she’s been putting a lot of her old stuff up on SoundCloud. So good.

T&T will be at Skully’s on July 29 with Blueprint and Nick Tolford & Company. Now that’s a lineup.

Phantods

Ghost Shirt

Time and Temperature

The Town Monster

Kirk Loko

Staffers

Full set

Our eighth anniversary show, Donew8ing, is a week from tomorrow at Kobo (formerly Oldfield’s on High). We’ve got a sweet Reno poster coming soon, but, till then, here’s a few more things to get excited about:

- The first 50 people through the door will receive a free vodka or gin drink, compliments of Watershed Distillery, based right here in Columbus. So come early.

- Ghost Shirt will be playing through their album Daniel, from front to back. If you haven’t heard it yet, stream it or buy it for a buck on Bandcamp. Really looking forward to hearing the whole thing live.

We’ll also be recording all the sets to pick out some gems for you guys to have as a Donew8ing keepsake. We’ll keep you posted on that.

See you next Friday, Feb. 4, at 9pm at Kobo for Funky D, Time and Temperature, Ghost Shirt, Phantods and the Town Monster.

Two-thousand and ten was quite a whirlwind year for me. I became part of this brilliant music blog, had a crash course in promoting shows and met some pretty special people along the way. It’s safe to say the music released this year all served as an applicable soundtrack as it felt like new albums came out faster than I could digest them.

If you’ve read most of my posts, it’s apparent that I enjoy reporting on international acts that I feel deserve American attention (and also since the rest of the Donewaiting staff do such a stellar job of keeping up on everything).

On top of national and international releases, Columbus’s scene has also kept quite busy this year. Without further ado, here’s my 2010 list:

1. Efterklang, Magic Chairs
Watch: Modern Drift

Reasons why Denmark rules: 1. Efterklang 2.Christiania 3. Legoland

2. Finders Keepers Compilation – Pomegranates
MP3:Zia: “Helelyos”

Who can resist some 60′s Persian Pop/Funk/Psych?

3. Cate Le Bon, Me Oh My
Watch: Shoeing the Bones

Honestly didn’t know much about Cate before interviewing her earlier this year, now I can’t stop listening to her. (Oh, and this video is really wonderfully weird.)

4. Jonsi, Go
Watch:Time Lapse of Entire Show

Hands down, top TWO shows I saw this year.

5. The Black Keys, Brothers
Watch: Your Touch

“Doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it well..” If you subtract the sexual innuendo and replace it with how good Brothers is, LL was DEFINITELY talking about The Black Keys.

6. Male Bonding, Nothing Hurts
Watch: Pirate Key

Best possible way to kill 29 minutes.

7. Beach House, Teen Dream
MP3: Norway

Victoria Legrand: All I see is hair. All I hear is magic.

8. Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me
MP3: Good Intentions Paving Co.

Wasn’t sure what to think of this epic release initially, but it made my list. And my favorite track is 7 minutes and 01 second long and has 27 letters in it’s title.

9. Wild Nothing, Gemini
Watch: Live In Dreams

Makes me feel like taking a Summer Holiday everyday.

10. The Morning Benders – Big Echo
Watch: All Day Day Light

I’m glad they grew up too fast.

Local Columbus, OH Favorites:
1. The Alwood Sisters – The Black Falcon and The Forest Spirit
2. Nick Toldford and Company – Extraordinary Love
3. Andrew Graham and The Swarming Branch – Andrew Graham’s Good Word
4. Old Hundred – Old Hundred
5. Phantods – Creature
6. The Black Swans – Words Are Stupid
7. Time and Temperature – Cream of the Low Tide
8. Way Yes – Herringbone
9. The Super Desserts – Twee As Folk
10. Saintseneca – Grey Cloud EP

But in terms of new stuff, here’s what I liked this year, starting with national releases and ending with Cowtown LPs.

1. Strand of Oaks – Pope Killdragon
I didn’t immediately hit repeat when I heard this album, but once I came back to it, I never stopped. Who knew a record with songs about John Belushi (from the perspective of Dan Akroyd), a 12-foot man and JFK could be so engrossing. Devastating, too. If you think Tim Showalter is just another pretty-voiced folkie, the layers of synth and Sabbath-like riffs on “Giant’s Despair” prove otherwise. The best way to get Killdragon digitally or on vinyl is through Strand of Oaks’ Kickstarter page.

2. The Black Keys – Brothers
Ditto Duffy.


3. Anais Mitchell – Hadestown
A folk-rock opera about Orpheus sounds like a terrible idea. Thanks to Mitchell’s clever arrangements & talents like Greg Brown, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Low Anthem’s Ben Knox Miller, it’s a tour de force.

4. Sam Amidon – I See the Sign
Sam Amidon takes old songs and makes them new. Oh, and R. Kelly songs, too. Fans of Nick Drake and Sufjan will dig this. Feb. 18 show at the Wex with Brian Harnetty is icing.

5. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
No new ground broken, but I’ll take these songs any day over a lot of the big-name, anthemic indies who released albums this year.

6. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
People seem to either love or discard Bradford Cox. I love him. Album cover disturbs me.

7. Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz
I went from disappointed to intrigued to enraptured with this album.

8. Spoon – Transference
I’m still waiting for Spoon to release a bad album.

9. Lost in the Trees – All Alone in an Empty House
Prediction: By this time next year many more people will know the name Ari Picker. He can strip a song down to its bones on one song, then compose a rich orchestral piece the next. Wex show Jan. 30 (more icing).

10. Patty Griffin – Downtown Church
I don’t imagine many Donewaiting readers are into country gospel. (I’ll echo Duffy’s preamble about what makes DW great.) When it’s done this well, I’m a fan. Guests include Buddy Miller and Emmylou Harris.

Mention-worthy:
Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues (underrated b/c of daddy)
Surfer Blood – Astro Coast (kids are all right)
Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago (Meiburg the magnificent)
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (It’s in my most-played, so I must like it)
Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises (underrated guitarist)
Love Language – Libraries (underrated b/c of …)
Vampire Weekend – Contra (Better than the first)
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (“That’s why your Winslow”)
Mavis Staples – You are Not Alone (Legend made even better by Tweedy)
Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement (Jana Hunter > Devendra Banhart. Much greater.)
Mountain Man – Made the Harbor (Who needs instruments?)

Columbus albums
Like I said, Gibson Bros., but I’d remiss not to mention Columbus Discount Records‘ two other reissues I loved: Ron House’s Blind Boy in the Back Seat and Nudge Squidfish’s 20,000 Leagues Under Nashville. I liked some EPs, too (Way Yes, Spruce Campbells’ 1st) and a 7″ (TNV’s “No Room to Live”) or two, but I’m sticking with albums here. As usual, I’ll also clarify that I’m not separating these lists because these are somehow inferior or can’t compete with national releases. I just like doing it this way.

1. Super Desserts – Twee as Folk
Can’t say much more about this band and album that I haven’t already said. This is the Desserts at the top of their game.

2. The Black Swans – Words are Stupid
One way the Black Swans have honored the memory of violinist Noel Sayre is to still include him on this album, a meditation of sorts on how language fails us. It’s light, it’s dark, it’s great.

3. Time and Temperature – Cream of the Low Tide
I don’t know if this is an EP or an album, so I’ll say it’s an album. At long last. More from Val Glenn, please.

4. Ghost Shirt – Daniel
I don’t think you want to hear me talk about this band anymore, either. This record was a pleasant, late-fall surprise.

5. Micah Schnabel – When the Stage Lights Go Dim
It makes sense that the songs of the Two Cow Garage front man hold up with just an acoustic guitar.

6. Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch – Andrew Graham’s Good Word
I’m still surprised by how little press this Mexican Summer release got. “Take it Easy on Kathy, at Least she Can Dance” is one of my favorite Columbus songs released this year.

7. Nick Tolford & Company – Extraordinary Love
Soul! At least go download “End of the Night.”

8. The Kyle Sowashes – Nobody
“I threw up at Tee-Jaye’s on Wednesday night/ Pale-faced and clammy I was something of a sight/ We played a show at some basement bar/ And while they couldn’t pay us/ They gave us PBR/ So I took it as a challenge/ I tried to drink them all/ Each one went down better than the last as I recall/ And I’d forgotten to eat dinner/ I realized too late/ I got double dragon before the waitress brought my plate.” Long live Kyle Sowash.

9. Deathly Fighter – Completely Dusted
I remember seeing Deathly Fighter awhile back and being bored. It’s not usually my thing. But this album keeps me coming back. I think I like it for the same reasons I like the XX and Burial. Not that DF sounds anything like those two, but there’s something about a record that’s simultaneously chill and pulsing…

10. Earwig – Gibson Under Mountain
Didn’t get to this one for awhile, but now find myself humming these songs all the time.

Mention-worthy:
Phantods – Creature (need to spend more time with this)
Bookmobile – The New Patriot (bittersweet)
Two Cow Garage – Sweet Saint Me (consistency)

MP3: Time and Temperature – I Know the Caves are Deep

Val Glenn, aka Time and Temperature, quietly released an EP/mini-album called Cream of the Low Tide last week, and it’s aptly titled — Glenn’s creamy guitar tones accompanying her gorgeous, lilting voice. David Fowler of Moon High recorded the songs, and he kept things nice and simple even as Glenn got a little help from her friends on strings, percussion, lap steel, glockenspiel, flute, etc. Highly recommended, especially on a gray day like today.

As far as I know, this is Time and Temperature’s first digital release after several cassette-only or limited-edition 7″ releases. Download it at her Bandcamp site. She left yesterday for a tour overseas. Dates in France, Belgium, Austria and Germany after the jump.

Oct 26 2010 Le Klub Paris, FRANCE
Oct 27 2010 La Rumeur Lille, Nord-Pas-d, FRANCE
Oct 28 2010 TBA Brussels, BELGIUM
Oct 29 2010 Pony Bar Hamburg, GERMANY
Oct 30 2010 Ä Berlin, GERMANY
Nov 2 2010 Dubliner Offenburg, Baden-Würt, GERMANY
Nov 3 2010 Cafe Galao Stuttgart, GERMANY
Nov 5 2010 Verein 08 Wien Vienna, AUSTRIA
Nov 6 2010 Bukowski’s Homburg, Saarland, GERMANY
Nov 10 2010 GlaZart (All Day Festival) Paris, FRANCE

James “Jimi” Payne

For the past three years I have lived in the Monster House, a DIY punk house in Columbus, Ohio. I co-founded the Monster House with Pat Crann, Austin Eilbeck, Ryan Eilbeck, Jeff Love, Kristina Markey, Matt O’Conke, Joe Scarbro, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, and Nick Wong. A few weeks ago the last three original roommates – besides me – left. And, as of this week, I’m moving out as well. A group of our friends still living at the Monster plan to continue hosting shows and events. On October 8th, Apache Dropout, Landlord, Reverse The Curse, and Cody Troyan are performing there.

After “the jump” is a list of every performer who occasioned the “stage” at the Monster House in the last three years. 400 different performers have played over 150 shows booked by over 20 promoters. The list is representative of the Columbus punk scene as well as the national DIY touring circuit from 2007-10.

More than 30 people paid rent at the house during this time span.

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A Drum And An Open Window
Absolute Magnitude
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Alex And The Imaginary Friends
Algernon Cadwallader
Amazing Hawkline Band, The
Amelia
American War
Andrew Graham And Swarming Branch

Andrew Jackson Jihad

Andy Gardner
Anna Ranger
Annabel
Antilles
Arkansas?
Arlo And The Otter
Arrah And The Ferns
Artillery Breath
Asinine
August Moon

Bail Bondsmen
Band Name
Banditas
Banner Pilot
Batrider (New Zealand)
Ben Bennett
Ben Bennett And Ryan Jewell
Best Friends
Best Friends Forever
Beyond Dark Hills
Biff Boff Barf
Bird And Flower
Birth Screams
Black Love
Black Phantom Thousands
Black Wine
Blake Skidmore
Bob Carlton
Body Rot
Bohemian Grove
Bomb The Music Industry
Bong Ripper
Boogdish
Brainworms
Branta
Bridge And Tunnel
Broke As A Joke
Busman’s Holiday
Bust!
Butt Bats, The
By The Horns

Call It Radar
Canadian Rifle
Casey Rochateau
Cati (Argentina)
Cedar Fist
Cerebral Bore
Chad Channing (Nirvana cover band)
Cheap Girls
Cheap Time
Cheater Slicks, The
Chin Up Meriwether
Chris’s Puppet Show (Performance)
Chris Yang
Christ
Christians And Lions
Chromakid
Churches Burn
Closet Fairies
Cola Freaks (Denmark)
Cold White North
Completely Smitten
Constance Taylor
Cop Hugger
Copyrights, The
Couch Forts
Creatures, The
Credentials, The
Cringe
Cult Ritual
Cytosis Ingestion

Dan Webb And The Spiders
Dane Terry
Dangerous Ponies
Dark Circles
Dave House (United Kingdom)
Dead Friends
Dead North
Dead Uncles
Deadwood Floats
Dean Dirg (Germany)
Dear Landlord
Defective Males
Diet Coke Heads, The
Delay
Demon Horse
Diamond Mines
Diente Perro
Disnihl
DJ Detox
DJ Ethan Frederick
Domino Theory
Drums Like Machine Guns
Doomhawk
Dopamines, The
Dustin And The Furniture

Emma N. Young (Poetry)
Envelope
Environmental Youth Crunch
Ergs!, The
Eric Ayotte
Erin Tobey
Exploding Hearts (Exploding Hearts cover band)

Failures Union
Fellow Project
Fifey
Fighting Tarantula
Fischer
Floating Verses
Fops And Dandys
For Science
For Serious This Time
Forever
Free Clinic
Friendly Fire
Frozen Teens
Future Kings Of Nowhere

Gadabout Film Festival (Film)
Gateway District, The
Gay Lazer
Gerd Dembowski
Ghost Mice
Ghost Town Trio
Gigantopithecus
Ginger Fetus
Girlfriends
Gnarwhale And The Rose’s Thorn
Goat Bucket
Golden Tuxedo
Good Luck
Gordon Gano’s Army (United Kingdom)
Grass Widow
Greg Mullen
Griffin
Gut Bugs, The

Halo Fauna
Heath Deadger
Heathers
Hellbath
Hello Shark
Hello Shitty People
Helper T-cells
Henry Boy
Hip Cops
Homostupids
Hooker Spit Windex
Hop Along Queen Ansleis
Horrible Creeps
Hot Graves
Hot Iron
Human Boys
Human Host
Hunchback

I Am The Sky
I Woke Up, I Did The Same Thing
Ian MacChrist (Fugazi, Minor Threat, and Embrace cover band)
Ignorant Motherfucker
Imperial Cans
Infernal Stronghold

Jail
James Payne (Poetry)
Jason
Jason Clackley and The Exquisites
Jazmine Wolff
Jelly Hearts, The
Jeremy Ruggles
Jetty Boys, The
Joe Camerlengo
Joe Mangum
Johnny Bodacious And The Bad Seeds
Jordan Castro (Poetry)
Jordan O’Jordan
Josh Kleinberg (Poetry)
Josh Walden
Julie Karr

KBrutal
Kepi Ghoulie
Kingsli
Kitten Forever
Klessa
Knifey Spoony
Knockdowns, The
Kurt Russell
Kyle Sowashes, The

La Armada
Laserhead
Laura Stevenson And The Cans
Le Vansona
Leftovers, The
Lemming
Lemuria
Leslie Perrine (Reading)
Letters
Letters To The Moon

Levi Funk
Lightningyingyang
Like Bats
Liturgy
Lose The Tude
Lovely Eggs, The (United Kingdom)
Lydia Loveless

Mad Ones, The
Madeline Ava
Make It Fit
Manix
Manners
Manson Family Picnic
Maps And Atlases
March Of The Carpenter Ants
Mark C. And The Aqueous Three
Maryn Jones
Maska Blaska
Mat At some Musk
Matt Horseshit
Mattress
Mayday
Max Levine Ensemble, The
Measure [SA], The
Meneguar
Merkurs, The
Michael From Skylab
Missoula Oblongata
MMP
Monikers
Moondrones, The
Motovirus
Mouthbreather
Movers And Shakers
My Bicycle Emergency

Native
Nautical Hyperblast
Ned (France)
Needy Visions
Nervous Sex
New Creases
Nick Tolford And Company
Night Beat
No Target Audience
Noise Noise Noise
Nordic Waste
North Highlands
North Lincoln
Northwest Ordinance
Nothing Is Over
Nuclear Dawn

Off With Their Heads
Ohio
Ok Ikumi
One Hundred
Openboat
Operation America
Our Cat Phillip
Outclassed
Outerspacists
Over Sea Under Stone
Over The Cardboard Sea
Overground
Overground Percussion Group
Overrated

P.S. Eliot
Pancreatectomie
Panty Hearst
Pat Bond
Paul Baribeau
Pencil Dive
Pharmacy
Pheramones
Pink Houses
Pink Razors
Pirate
Plates
Point Break
Polka Dot Dot Dot
Project: Citizen
Prosantcus Inferi
Punk-O-Matic All-Stars

Rad Company
Rage Against The Cage
Rager
Rat Attack
Read, The
Redbear
Rest Assured
Reverse The Curse
Richard Wehrenburg (Poetry)
Richard Wehrenwolf
Ringers, The
River City Rebels, The
Ryan J.
Ryan Newall
Ryan Starinsky
Saintseneca
Sass Dragons
Seascapes
Seditious Libel
Seizure Fist
SevereSexy Crimes
Shannon And The Clams
Shredder Lettuce
Shreds
Sidekicks, The
Signals Midwest
Sinkane
Six Gallery
Slingshot Dakota
Slugging Percentage
Smart Girls
Sok!
Sons Of An Illustrious Father
SpooktoberSpraynard
St. Dad
State Lottery
State School
State Song
Steve Ciolek
Straight As
Stupid Party
Super Bobby
Stymie
Submarine Spaceship
Super Desserts
Super Famicom
Sword Heaven

Tacocat
Tanner Jones
Tax Payers, The
Team Robespierre
Team Smile And Nod
Tenement
The Boy Who Could Fly
The Boy With The Broken Jaw
The Ground Is Lava
This Is My Suitcase
This Is Smoke, This Is Signals
Thread And Butter
Til Plains
Tiny Lungs
Time And Temperature
Times New Viking
Tin Armor
Toby Foster
Totally Michael
Trains Across The Sea
Truthdealer
Two Hand Fools

Uh-Oh
Unarmed
Underdogs Of Nipomo
Undesirables
Unicorn Basement
Universe
Unwelcome Guests

Vacation
Vialka (France)
Vietnam Werewolf
Vikesh Kapoor
Vile Gash
Virgins
Vocal/Vocal
Vug

WabashWarm Hands
Warning Shot
Weedsteeler
Weezer (Weezer cover band)
Welcome Home
Welcome To Concrete
What Gives
What If ?
What’s Wrong With Us?
Wheels On Fire
White York
Whitehaus Family Revue
Wingnut Dishwasher’s Union
Winslows, The
Witches
Woodrow Wilsons, The

Y Lime?
Yea Big And Kid Static
Yikes!
Yoni Gordon And The Goods
You, Me, And The Atom Bomb
You’ll Get Yours
Young Hearts
Young People
You’re A Brace Soul Alaska
You’re So Bossy

First a little disclosure right upfront- I’m an official part of the Columbus Music Co-op volunteer machine, so this is a project which is near to my heart. Looking beyond my obvious lack of objectivity, I think most of you reading this have some shared interest in the Columbus music community and will appreciate both the efforts and the results of this undertaking. Something like a year and half ago, a plan was hatched by Jon Fintel (Relay Recording) and Erin Moore of the CMC to provide a vehicle to showcase the variety and quality of music making in town. Of particular importance to the founders was the notion that equal attention should be given to young (high school age) artists, who would be showcased adjacent to more veteran musicians. Over the past year, Fintel donated over a 100 hours of studio time to record and master eleven original tracks, some of which are the first professional recordings made of the participants. All of them are available only on this compilation, which turns out to be a really strong collection.

On Saturday, February 13th Relay and the CMC will host the first of two CD release shows at Carabar, where copies of the compilation, complete with original album art, will be available for $5. In the spirit of providing a musical experience for young people, a second all ages and family-friendly multi-faceted release show is scheduled for Sunday, February 28th in the North Market Dispatch Test Kitchen from 1-5 pm. All bands are volunteering their time, so should any profits be made from shows or sales, they will go to fund the CMC’s Columbus Music Assistantship Program to provide emergency medical expense grants to working musicians in need. Keep reading below for additional information on bands, a track listing, and set times.

Saturday, February 13th Carabar lineup and set times:
Jinx Palm 10PM
Shin Tower Music 11PM
The Lindsay 12AM
Bookmobile 1AM

Sunday, February 28th North Market (upstairs) lineup and tentative set times:
Jordan Martin 1:30PM
Time & Temperature 2:15PM
Sean & Dan of Bookmobile 3:00PM
Flotation Walls (accoustic set!) 3:45PM

Also special vendors will be in attendance for the North Market , including Clint Reno, What The Rock, AmyD, Sweet Stella Designs and balloon animals for the kids.

Track listing and band links:
1 Bookmobile – Weekends of Our Youth
2 Time and Temperature – Lake of Glass
3 Shin Tower Music – Pine Tree Trails
4 The Lindsay – Laid Back
5 Jinx Palm – Matchstick in a Coal Mine
6 Dolby Fuckers – Escargot
7 Flotation Walls – Earthquake at a Country Club
8 Deadsea – Circles
9 Jordan Martin – Sticks and Stones For Bones
10 Dylan Kappler – And the Earth Moved
11 Ben Schwabe – Crystal Branches