[The Soup Nazi]

http://matablog.matadorrecords.com/2...ter-this-year/

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

http://matablog.matadorrecords.com/2...ter-this-year/

Kurt and Courtney. Lolz

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Severian

Lolz

What does the "z" stand for?

[noisereductions]

zatsfunny

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

What does the "z" stand for?

No idea. I think it's short for lolzorz. And again, no clue.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Severian

No idea. I think it's short for lolzorz. And again, no clue.

I think it's just an affectation. People (read: mooks) spell the plural of "friends" with a z as well. Death To Our Friendz!

[noisereductions]

on topic

did we know about this Big Star & Friends "Third Live" 2CD/DVD set?!?!

Soup, you might wanna go over the guest list w/ a closeeye:

 

[Severian]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

on topic

did we know about this Big Star & Friends "Third Live" 2CD/DVD set?!?!

Soup, you might wanna go over the guest list w/ a closeeye:

 

My eyes aren't good enough to read this.
I can make out the song titles, but that's probably because I know the song titles (top-down visual processing, yo! Perception psych for the win! )
But I can't read the notes (shit vision, yo! Legally blind by age 60 for the lose )

Can you tell me what you're referring to?

[noisereductions]

it's kind of a bad scan, yeah. I was specifically referring to the numerous "featuring Jeff Tweedy"s.

But there's other awesome guests like Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer, Mike Mills, Ira Kaplan, etc

[Severian]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

it's kind of a bad scan, yeah. I was specifically referring to the numerous "featuring Jeff Tweedy"s.

But there's other awesome guests like Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer, Mike Mills, Ira Kaplan, etc

Hey hey hey! Sweet deal!

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

did we know about this Big Star & Friends "Third Live" 2CD/DVD set?!?!

Soup, you might wanna go over the guest list w/ a closeeye:

Yessir, I've read the details and a couple of reviews. Some "Third Live" shows have made it to Dime. I'll see whether I can squeeze this bad boy into my next batch of goodies, which is already financially suicidal...

[gogologogolo]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have made an album together! "It'll be released world-wide later this year by Matador Records, Marathon Artists and Milk! Records. Keep your ears open for more info coming soon..." Not only that; in October and November they will tour the U.S. with Jen Cloher and an ad-hoc band called The Sea Lice, which at least on some dates will include Janet Weiss and Katie Harkin (the fourth Sleater-Kinneyer).

 

http://mailchi.mp/courtneybarnett/co...-going-on-tour

What a great combination

[The Soup Nazi]

From Uncut:

 

Alan Vega's posthumous album due in July; hear new song, "DTM"
Nine tracks include "Screamin Jesus" and "Motorcycle Explodes"

Alan Vega's posthumous album, IT, is due for release in July.

According to Rolling Stone, Vega had been working on the album alongside his wife and collaborator Liz Lamere from 2010 until his death in July 2016.
You can hear the track "DTM" (short for "Dead To Me") below:

 

IT is Vega's first solo studio album since 2007's Station. It is released on vinyl and digitally on July 14. The vinyl features unpublished drawings, writings and photos by Vega. A special limited edition will be released on transparent orange vinyl.

IT Track List:

"DTM"
"Dukes God Bar"
"Vision"
"IT"
"Screamin Jesus"
"Motorcycle Explodes"
"Prayer"
"Prophecy"
"Stars"

[The Soup Nazi]

 

New Housewives album! From Bandcamp:

FF061116
by HOUSEWIVES

Despite almost all bands being prone to painting themselves as frontier-hurdling mavericks who provoke extreme reactions in their audience, the fact is that the vast majority of them won't produce little more than bland indifference or benign acceptance in whichever audience they come into contact with. Not so Housewives, the London-based outfit whose psychic charge —equal parts brittle rhythmic drive, angular contortions and monochrome minimalism— is as punishing in approach as the band are enigmatic in aspect.

FF061116, which follows in the wake of their debut Work (released on Hands in The Dark) and previous tapes and 7" releases (on Faux Discs and Blank Editions), the band shows no sign of compromise whatsoever, being as stark, harsh and stubbornly inhospitable as the strobe-haunted, feverishly kinetic live shows that have earned them a fearsome reputation beyond the rumoured West country of their origins or the urban environs of their adopted home. Split into seven excerpts and built on powerful repetition, it's a mind-melding travail into abstraction and abjection which draws on post-punk, jazz, drone, electronic and avant-garde tropes to create an unclassifiable assault that feels oddly timeless — innovative, invigorating and bare-boned yet tapping into a uniquely English lineage that extends back to the 1970s and forward, into the unknown.

Nonetheless, whilst some may be able to detect influences like This Heat (whose Charles Hayward approvingly described their sound as redolent of "a barely controlled anger, hypnotic and building from the simplest elements") or Einstürzende Neubauten, Housewives are carving out their own unique place in the darker quarters of the underground, motivated by a fearsome intensity of conviction and a fearlessly experimental approach. FF061116 is the latest in a series of transmissions from a collective mindset whose manifestations are as richly rewarding as they are relentlessly intense. Wherever they go from this aural outpost, all intrepid avant adventurers would do well to buckle in for the ride.

Releases August 18, 2017

The physical album is a "Limited Edition Transparent Blue Vinyl with Die Cut Sleeve". Mmmmmm...

[The Soup Nazi]

 

New Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band album. From Bandcamp:

Dreaming In The Non-Dream
by Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band

The idea that rock music ever pretended to promise "transcendence" is ridiculous, or at least it seems so under present conditions. Leaving aside the obvious question even ("transcendence" of what?), the idea seems archaic, optimistic in a way that's hard to access in the Trump/Brexit era. Chris Forsyth's music is too kinetically aware, too intelligent, and frankly too goddamn punk to make any such outsized promises, but also nearly impossible to hear without considering the idea. Because as sure as Dreaming In The Non-Dream is subject to all the dread pressures that have contorted us all of late —it would be a drab mistake to call this a "political record", but also straight-up lazy to miss its subtle cues— it offers ...one won't say a "way out", exactly (hardly), but something along the lines of a way through. It's a record that conveys ecstasy as surely as Pharoah Sanders does, or the Velvet Underground did.

In this respect, it's hard to imagine who Forsyth's contemporaries might be. But then it's always been this way: the greats tend to feel a little out-of-plumb with their moment (only hindsight lets us see it otherwise), and Forsyth's music has been sparring with some large forces from the beginning. He's always united the homely with the astral, the abstract with the visceral in his Solar Motels and Intensity Ghosts. There's something different about Dreaming In The Non-Dream, though. There's a fresh economy involved here, a sense, strange as this is to say about a record with two songs longer than eleven minutes, of not a note wasted. Despite psychedelic leanings, Forsyth's records have always trained toward concision —plenty of space, yet never slack— but these tunes erupt with startling swiftness, then spend the rest of their quick-burning lives teasing multiple moods and patterns out of relatively simple materials. "History & Science Fiction" pads in on the back of a slinky, almost shy, bass line, then —after a little blast of glassy percussion— hurls us about a mile into the air before arriving, startlingly, at a saxophone arrangement (!) that evokes early Roxy Music. The title track seems to gene-splice two of the great minimalist themes, Pere Ubu's "Heart of Darkness" and Neu!'s "Hallogallo", into one surging, winding, pulsing ride: Music For Speeding Tickets. Even the pensive, aqueous "Two Minutes Love", which sounds a bit like something Ry Cooder could've written for the Paris, Texas soundtrack troubled by ghosts both placid and deranged, does a lot —really, a lot— with barely more than a whisper.

Those titles, though. It's hard not to notice that "History & Science Fiction" might refer to the intersection we're all standing at now, pinned by the consequences of the former and living, abruptly, within the latter; "Two Minutes Love" inverts Orwell's "Two Minutes Hate" from 1984; as for the title track, well, that utilitarian "non-dream" could just as well be a euphemism for nightmare. But it's "Have We Mistaken The Bottle For The Whiskey Inside?" that's most explicit. Over a prowling, stabbing, Stones-ish backdrop —one that, naturally, will accelerate itself into something different— Forsyth sings about, well, transcendence: about "los(ing) my senses" and the suspension of self-judgment, about the gaps between ideation and execution, and, of course, between container and content. Perhaps the most canny thing about Forsyth's music is how little explanation he's willing to attach to it. Not out of coyness, or any need to gin up a little mystery: there just isn't any need for it. When the whiskey's this strong, who needs a bottle at all?

—Matthew Specktor

Releases August 25, 2017

Chris Forsyth: High Strings, Vocal
Peter Kerlin: Low Strings
Shawn Edward Hansen: Prophet 12, Wurlitzer, Alto Saxophone
Ray Kubian: Drums & Percussion
Jeff Zeigler: Sonics

Order now and get the "Live At Solar Motel cassette (limited to 300 copies) — features rare and raging live sets from Philadelphia & Nashville and comes with a download card".

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

From Uncut:

Holy fucking balls!

[The Soup Nazi]

From Joyful Noise:

 

The legendary Jad Fair has teamed up with Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Japanese mainstays Tenniscoats to create some of the most endearing content you're likely to experience outside of an internet cat video.

Raindrops is fiercely adorable. Containing 85 minutes of music on a limited edition double LP, this is simple, charming, acoustic pop at its most feral. Tenniscoats' playful melodies and vocal coos have seemingly harnessed Jad Fair's uninhibited style, resulting in some distinctively special songs that are fragile, but oozing with positivity. Outsider art has never sounded so cute.

This release is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies on mint and orange vinyl and includes an instant download of the full album.

Also, don't miss out on the Qui & Trevor Dunn LP details right below the Raindrops info!

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Severian

Holy fucking balls!

Yah very cool BUT what about THIS goddammit.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Yah very cool BUT what about THIS goddammit.

Yeah, am I TINY? I don't get it. I should be the one you'd expect to reply to a post about Batman logos. So fuck you if I'm not "TINY." Also fuck you if I am "TINY" because I'm sensitive about my size dude.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Severian

Yeah, am I TINY? I don't get it. I should be the one you'd expect to reply to a post about Batman logos. So fuck you if I'm not "TINY." Also fuck you if I am "TINY" because I'm sensitive about my size dude.

Dude, I am most likely "tinier" than the majority of Sonic Lifers here, just on the basis that most of them are Unitedstatesians and it just happens that a good chunk of Unitedstatesians are large sumbitches with their grande cups (read: buckets) of latte and their supersized buckets (read: industrial containers) of KFC. So don't fly off the handle over the handle (heh) that I've given you. Shit, I've zero idea of what you look like (and let's keep it that way ) — for all I know you could be a 14-year-old girl trolling us all up the kalamazoo.