October 2010
Run From the City
Purling Hiss
Purling Hiss - Run from the City
More great stuff coming out of Philly these days, especially this Mike Polizze of Birds of Maya side-project. He’s got a new album, Public Service Announcement, which came out last week on Woodsist. The thing sounds as though it were recorded in a garage in 1977. I love what Arthur Magazine says about this track, “it’s so submerged you feel like you’ve already got your earplugs in.” Rock n’ roll at its purest.
Catch him currently on tour with Kurt Vile and The Soft Pack ’round the US of A. Order up the record right here.
“Choosing what would enter this zone was no light task. The main Walkman-specific memories I have are of the long minutes spent staring at banks of cassette spines trying to decide what to take with me. This intensity of choice is what divides the Walkman era from our more casual one: The device could soundtrack anything, but only if you got your picks right. Strand yourself on a long journey with tapes you’d tired of, and your own taste became your enemy.”
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Tom Ewing’s Pitchfork: Poptimist #34: “RIP Walkman”
I’m old enough to remember this, too. However, I find myself doing the same thing with my iPhone - one of the most important things before long road trips is, say, an hour of sorting through the 100GB+ of my MP3s and crossing my fingers that I pick the 5GB of music I’m not dreadfully tired of. Certainly different than the tangible world of tapes, but kinda the same conundrum.
Listen
Wheels on Fire - Black Wave
Check the radical raw rock sounds of these boys from Athens, Ohio. Straight-forward no bullshit makes me happy. They’ve got a brand new 7” on Madison-based label Kind Turkey Records.
emery blagdon saves your mortal soul
brendan codey
Brendan Codey - Emery Blagdon Saves Your Mortal Soul
Finding artists like Brendan is what I love about blogging. He just moved to Philly from Chicago and was poking around to find out what the music scene was all about here, so he emailed me. Naturally, I clicked through to give his stuff the litmus test and WOW. You’ve got to hear this record of his, A Bottle House Vernacular. Gorgeous, complex and heartbreaking work.
I convinced him to let folks download this, the lead single on that record, but you should really go give the whole thing a listen. This is the kind of album you should have headphones on for - and let it wash over you like laying in pillowy fresh snowbank during a snowstorm - so cozy and soft, but fall asleep and you could be dead.
