all night long

I really like just about everything NNF has put out recently, and I really like Sun Araw. In my review of The Phynx, which went up on TMT today, I tried not to be a rabid fan-boy. I think the album is great, but I don't like it as much as Beach Head, "Hey Mandala," or the Boat Trip 3". It's still great, forrealforreal. Heavy Deeds started surfacing last week and that one is equally dope.

For the Magic Treason show I did last weekend, I pretty much just ripped Sun Araw off. For those who didn't make the show, it looked and sounded a lot like this--I even play the same fracking guitar:

news FLASH

1. New releases this week that I think are cool: Bowerbirds Upper Air, Oneida Rated O, Tiny Vipers Life on Earth, Wilco The Album, Zs Music of the Modern White.

2. The Magic Treason show this past weekend went well. A live recording will be coming soon.

3. Magic Treason songs will be on the radio tomorrow night between 9 and 12 here.

4. Rad avant-jazz tonight in Columbia. Josh Berman’s Old Idea are playing tonight at the Columbia Museum of Art. Afterwards, they’ll be playing a late night show at Hunter-Gatherer. Live vid:


5. I’m moving to Philadelphia in August. Hopefully, this blog will get more interesting as I’ll be attempting to cover the much doper selection of live shows and local music that I’ll be madly absorbing. I pretty much moved to Amherst because of a Pixies song, to South Carolina because of a Gram Parsons song, and now to Philly because of a Kurt Vile song, so ain’t nuthin new:


6. I’m really stoked about Transfigurations. My parents are even going.

MT 1-12

Here are the covers of the first 12 of 20 Magic Treason CDRs that I've made from cardboard from twelvers of brew, tape and crayons. I'll be selling them for $3 at my show tomorrow night (10PM, Art Bar, Columbia SC). If any readers--do I have any readers?--who aren't in the area want a copy, let me know and we'll work some sort of trade out.

ZELDA BRAINS

TMT put up my review of Millipede's Death Mountain. I wrote this one back in January. It's strange to read something that was written so long ago. Have I changed since then? Has the album changed? Read it here. If you dig, you can download the recent, free Millipede 7", Sand and Surf, here. It's a good soundtrack for a cruel summer.

magic

New Music Releases 6/23

Sonic Roof

Stoned At The Taj Again

Read my review of

Grails' Acid Rain DVD

here.

V

TMT published my review of
Gregg Kowalsky's
Tape Chants this morning.
It's an out-review.
Read it here.

Lighter Side of Hippies

A new video from MM's Balf Quarry.
The crystal-worship + skins shots go along well together.

Transfigurations: August 13-15

Harvest Records in Asheville, NC is having a five year b-day party from August 13-15. They're calling it Transfigurations. Three day passes are on sale now, and individual day tickets will be on sale next Monday. I've got a freeway mind and I'm there.

The line-up:

Akron/Family
Brightblack Morning Light
Kurt Vile
The Coathangers
Steve Gunn
Mount Eerie
War on Drugs
Espers
Budos Band
Villages
Jonathan Kane
The Books
Circulatory System
Ice Cream