Once again, Ryan Adams over at goodhodgkins, breaks it down. This time, Visceral Song Moments – when does that Destroyer song make you feel something? Well, if it’s European Oils, right around the 2 minute mark.
Just a quick note to check some of the great live music posts over at Rbally. The recent Andrew Bird “Sovay” track with My Morning Jacket, especially.
Since I’ve lived in Southern Ohio for only 10 months, I’ve been holding off on writing about a Cincinnati band. But I can’t resist any longer. I’m no longer a Queen City greenhorne, so on one of my recent trips to Shake It Records, I succumbed and finally picked up a copy of Wussy’s 2005 release Funeral Dress.
Released this past December on the Shake It label, Funeral Dress isn’t an enormous departure from Chuck Cleaver’s other band, the Ass Ponys, it’s still off-kilter roots rock, but just a little less off-kilter. Maybe it’s the addition of drummer Dawn Burman or jack-of-all- intruments Mark Messerly, or maybe it’s splitting the vocal and songwriting duties with newcomer Lisa Walker, but whatever it is, it works just fine.
Drewls’ recent post on Mates of State and Bagheera, got me thinking about other couple bands and The Submarines immediately came to mind. I first read about The Submarines on Music (for Robots) last September when they featured a track from their debut album, Declare A New State! The album is available for download now on iTunes (and will be in stores June 20th) and it’s the perfect music for longer, warmer, sunnier days. Spending your weekend lying in the hammock with The Submarines cranked seems just about right.
However, to say that Jack Dragoneeti and Blake Hazard are a couple is probably a bit duplicitous. They were a couple. But so were Sonny and Cher, Burt and Loni, and Barbie and Ken. It’s almost impossible to think about one without the other.
I’ve long been a fan of Dragonetti, aka Jack Drag, his lo-fi approach to psych-pop just seems to work with his Mark Oliver Everett-like delivery. Hazard, who was in Star Hustler with Jason Hatfield before releasing a solo album in 2002, has a voice that falls somewhere between Tanya Donnelly and Liz Phair.
- Listen to Peace & Hate
- Listen to Hope
- Listen to Brighter Discontent
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