My old No Consensus bandmate Jon Grim lives up in St. Paul and he’s a band called Ten Arms Of The Squid. He’s also quite talented with video. Here’s a Ten Arms Of The Squid music video:
For more Jon Grim awesomeness, including a classic Sno-Mans video, check out his YouTube channel.
My old chum and former bandmate Stacy rocks the drums in Seattle-area duo Pony Time and they just made this way sweet video:
pony time final edit from Emily Denton on Vimeo.
Pony Time’s album Pony Time Can Drink 100 Wine Coolers is available on cassette + digital download from Don’t Stop Believin’ Records.
More spaced-out electronic sounds from RIADB. I see some bills with Blutiger Fluss in their future.
Des Moines psychedelic noisemakers Rhonda Is A Dead Bitch recently put this video on the net for this new song “Laos,” title track from an upcoming EP. It’s a keyboardy pseudo-orchestral instrumental rather than the phasered guitar freakout you might have been expecting. Could make good horror movie theme music. Plus, kittens!
Rhonda Is A Dead Bitch have a release party for the (vinyl) Laos EP on Saturday, November 20 9:30 at Vaudeville Mews with Golden Veins and some yet-to-be-specified version of Distant Trains.
Hyper-prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and all around awesome guy Samuel Locke Ward is branching out online beyond MySpace: he’s got a bloggy-blog over here where you will be able to keep up on his doings.
He also has this really great new album out called “Barely Regal Beagles” which I’ve been working on an article about, and he posted about said album on said new website here. It includes this video of the song “Will Be Heaven,” which I really like:
I like this band, even with the doofy sunglasses. They’re from Lincoln, NE, and they have an album called Teen Challenge that I’ve only ever seen CD-R copies of with simple homestyle screen-printed sleeves, but I’ve listened to it a bunch of times and I like it a lot, and I think I heard that you can get it on vinyl now. Then again, they also said on twitter that they’re a 12-piece now, and I’m having a difficult time picturing that.
Just out today the latest video, number 8 in the weekly Coolzey and the Search for Hip-hop Hearts series, is drop-dead hilarious. A must-see.
Glam-Racket has this really cool post about Gonn, the 1960s garage-rock band from Keokuk, IA that wrote and recorded “Blackout of Gretely,” rediscovered by punk rockers in the ’80s and now considered a proto-punk touchstone, and which can be found on the Nuggets box set (as well as the posthumous compilation The Loudest Band In Town). Also check out the follow-up post with the video of The Fuzztones covering “Blackout of Gretely.”
Lou Barlow is kind of one of my personal heroes. I love his songwriting, his voice, his distinctive bass playing in Dinosaur Jr., and just his general approach to his various musical projects, whether it be Sebadoh or Sentridoh or Folk Implosion or solo stuff or whatever. Dude keeps it real.
I’m pretty sure I drove right past him, walking down the street, crossing a bridge in Minneapolis, just after the Dinosaur Jr. show I went to up there a couple years ago, a block or two down the street from the venue. It sure looked like him. To this day one of my biggest regrets is that I didn’t stop the car and offer him a ride. If it was indeed him. I should have at least checked.
Anyway Lou’s got a new record out on Merge called “= Sentridoh III” that I’m really interested in, wherein he’s teamed up with The Missingmen, the same group of guys who have lately backed up another personal musical hero of mine, Mike Watt. I’m not sure if Watt is himself in involved with the project, how bad-ass would that be?
But in any case, what I’ve heard/seen of this sounds great. And what that is, is this free mp3 from Merge of the new EP’s re-make of the classic Sentridoh song “Losercore,” and this video for “On The Face”:
Lou Barlow + the missingmen – On The Face from Merge Records on Vimeo.
