Thursday, September 30, 2010

watch Gaslight Live in Germany

check THIS out, The Gaslight Anthem live in Germany

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Unoffical Brian Fallon Acoustic album for free download

edit: 12.4.2010 that album is gone, but there is a ton of stuff here:http://thegaslightanthem.bigforumpro.com/audio-f6/audio-rips-master-list-revised-t2784.htm

or go here: http://besidesasides.blogspot.com/2010/06/bootleg-gaslight-anthem-59-sound.html



Hey, check this out. Someone finally took all of the acoustic/cover Brian Fallon songs out there and put together an album worth of music.

I have been doing this for a year or more, finding youtube videos, live recordings other people have made etc and downloading them or using dvdvideosoft and audacity to make copies for my listening pleasure.

Well, now you don't have to. Because you can get them here

don't forget to check out Gaslight's other things, as well as This Charming Man and Lanemeyer which are Brian's previous bands:American Slang [+Digital Booklet]The '59 SoundSeƱor And The Queen [Ep]Sink Or Swim

Every Little Secret...

If There's a Will: There's Still Nothing

Thursday, September 23, 2010

AV Club is Hosting a Free Gaslight Anthem cover song

head on over to the AV CLUB and listen to/download The Gaslight Anthem covering a Fake Problems song. Gaslight is on tour with Fake Problems right now and I just saw them over the weekend. So, yeah, go read the article

DO IT NOW

if you are really lazy and don't want to read, you can right click this line and "save as"

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Free Sainte Catherines song

We Used To Be In Love by The Sainte Catherines

The Sainte Catherines are a band that I sometimes forget about. Not that they are forgettable, but more than I forgot the band. Then, I hear the name or I hear a song and BOOM! it all comes back to me.

Anchorless Records
are putting out the next Sainte Catherines album and it is going to be great. This is actually something I am going to be looking forward to. This band is what you would call "up my alley" they have a gritty, jangly guitar sound. But none of the pretense or awkward mixing tricks to make it sound like some kind of indie band shit.

So yeah, enjoy the song.

Friday, September 17, 2010

maybe I could rent out my bathroom as a recording studio

Make Do and Mend are a good band. They are kind of Hot Water Music-ish and have a fairly unique sound. Apparently they have some new music coming out and as a little teaser we have the below video for "Night's The Only Time Of Day" from their october 12th release "end measured mile."

Honestly, The sound is pretty amazing considering the venue. Plus, they did not do the hilariously-cliche thing and sit on the toilet


Make Do And Mend - "Night's The Only Time Of Day" from TCSG on Vimeo.



make do and mend have some things you can buy today, check them out

Bodies Of WaterWe're All Just Living

Thursday, September 16, 2010

love me some Rise Against

Alternative Press is hosting the trailer to Rise Against's upcoming DVD "Another Station:Another Mile"

This guys are consistently one of the best bands you can go see and listen to. Check out the trailer HERE

Jack White is a genious or a madman



I kinda want one just for the hell of it

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

I have no idea what this is, but it I think I like it









UPDATE: not 8 hours after i got the above, I find out that it is to celebrate one of my favorite bands signing to Triple Crown Records. That band is MOVING MOUNTAINS.... check out their amazing work below on AMAZON.COM




ForewordPneuma

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

sadly, sometimes it goes this way

So, i have been thinking about my relative lack of posts lately. It is not that I do not care. Nor do I seem to be overly busy which makes it hard to post. No, it is none of these things. The real reason I have discovered is inspiration. The last few days have been a great example of what and why I have not been posting. Despite being sick all weekend, with nothing to do but lay on the couch and try to breathe without having to blow my nose or cough, I did not have much drive to do much of anything else. Sunday, I felt like looking up some music. I felt like I needed the jolt to my system that I get when something really gets its hooks into me. It adds a little pep to my step. over the last few weeks, the new music coming out has done nothing for me. I don't care for the vocals, or how it is mixed, or the subject of the songs. I dunno, things just have not been filling the gap and I am looking for.

Now, I love a lot of different kinds of music, from punk to rock to ambient stuff to more Americana things like blues, bluegrass, alt-country like Wilco or Lucero, rockabilly/pshychobilly. I really like a lot of things, just basically not into R&B, rap, or whatever that shit is that they play on the radio that is currently called "pop"

My typical way of finding something new, is to start with something old. I take a band I really like and go to their site, liner notes, record label, and even the "people who bought this also bought" page on amazon and itunes. I spent probably close to 3 hours looking around at things. I was in the mood for some older feeling music, like rockabilly/pshycobilly and straight up oldies things. I ended up buying the first recordings of Ritchie Valens. Yes, the guy who wrote "La Bamba" and "Oh, Donna" are you having fun with those in your head right now?

Anyway, there is an inherent problem with liking modern rockabilly and pshychobilly (which I lump together) and those problems are a matter of subject and the general "samey" feel they give off.

Here is a typical physchobilly song: "I see dead girls and they are sexy (thump thump thump bass)."

Rockabilly is the same with hot rods. I love both genres, but I can not listen to most of what they produce. Does that even make sense? I think it does.

Let me do a "for example" here. Tiger Army is great. The Reverend Horton Heat is great. All of the bands that are trying to sound like them do just that, they sound like them. There is nothing that makes any one band better than the other and at the end of the day, it all ends up being the same. And that is uninspiring.

I am running into the same issue with trying to find things like Lucero. Things are either too country-ish for me or they vocals are dumb sounding like it was sung into a mr. microphone first. Gaslight? same deal. No one can come close to the sound they have. Those that do, just do not grab me as much.

All of this has accumulated to me doing what I seem to be doing more and more lately. That is looking back and finding what inspired the bands I love today to see what they were inspired by. Hence, the Ritchie Valens. It all boils down to a lack of interesting new music. The Gaslight Anthem took Chamberlain on the road with them at the beginning of the summer. That is because the guys from Gaslight have a large respect for what Chamberlain created in the past. That experience opened up a lot of time for people who might have missed Chamberlain to realize what a great band they were. This is a good thing. This is what I want.

I fondly remember being 16 and 17 years old. Walking into Record Breakers and buying an album of a band I liked. Then as I bought it, I almost always got "hey, if you like these dudes, this band over here is something you might like." and more often than not, they were right.

I have resorted to lately even finding out what bands are playing together and trying to get live recordings of shows to find new music or different versions of things I already like. This makes me sad in a way. I want something to knock me off my feet with how good it is. I want those chills i got during the very first minutes of "Great Expectations" that lasted all the way until "The Backseat" on the Gaslight Anthem's second full length album "The '59 Sound." That is what is missing from 95% of the music I come across.

So, back to what I was doing on Sunday. NOTHING really grabbed ahold of my "rockabilly" mood that day. Sure, I found some cool things that did not sound like shit nor did they just talk about hot rod zombies, namely The Brains and some OLD music like Carl Perkins.

But I did not buy any music. I want to make sure I am not setting for something to get my fix, when I really do not have the money to even go out to eat. This need to find out and enjoy as much great music I can find has been slipping. It has been falling off. I have no doubt that this has to do with the relatively stale state music is in today. I have blogged over and over about a handful of bands and how they are great. But really, that's it. Sure, I happen to find an old album or something from a band I like. But really, there is a core group that never go away. It is time to keep looking back.

I sense a Carl Perkins purchase coming soon.

Amazon is doing something cool

head on over to amazon's MP3 page and check out this deal they are doing.


Apparently you can get 3 bucks off a new release by entering PICKDEAL

check it out here


yeah, i did not really find anything I want. But if you do, let me know

Thursday, September 9, 2010

this is something new and different

sorry for the lack of posts lately, i have been busy/lazy or something like that.

I read on punknews.org about this band called DAYTRADER and how they have 2 new demos on their facebook page.

Check this out:
Influences:
Further Seems Forever, Sunny Day Real Estate, Saves The Day, Hot Water Music

Biography:
Jams from members of Crime in Stereo, Latterman, The Motorcycle Industry, Bridge & Tunnel, Monikers...

so basically, a bunch of really great bands influenced people from a bunch of great bands and this is the result. To me, I hear more Carraba era Further Seems Forever in the vocals and Hot Water Music well, in the music.

Check them out here and decide for yourself.

And should you have no idea what I am talking about for the vocals or music references, check out their references below.

The Moon is Down
Caution
Stay What You Are