I’ve been quiet as life intervenes as it can do. Here is something classic and chill for your Sunday evening. The radio show is tonight. 9pm on WRCT, 88.3FM Pittsburgh. Or stream at wrct.org.
Here’s an easy way to burn an hour. Sonic Youth playing at London’s Brixton Academy in the early 90’s. They actually shared a bill with Pavement that night. The audio and video quality here are pretty good by bootleg standards, so feel free to enjoy the whole thing. And if you don’t have an hour to kill, “Kool Thing” starts around 10:30.
Man, I like everything about this, but that lovely sax part about halfway through is especially fantastic.
Kelly Stoltz is a bit of a garage-rock svengali for the SF scene that’s popped up the last few years. That’s why it’s been strange that he’s been silent since he put out Double Exposure on Jack White’s Third Man label in 2013. Now we know why: Stoltz has three(!) releases planned for the upcoming months. Of the three, the 4 New Cuts EP is the most classically Stoltzian. “Redirected” is off that release, due out October 30th on Stroll On.
It’d be fairly easy for the vocal sample that rings in “Stockholm” to veer into corny territory, but Youngblood quickly tempers things with a lovely harp sample, and I’m already won over by the time the bass kick comes in just after a minute into the song.
I assume all of you want to keep up on what all of the ex-members of Orchid and Ampere are up to today, so I present to you “Tarnished” by Longings.
Yeah, i’m really liking this sort of screamo emo post-rock from Fist Benders. They had a new release out in May as well, but this song from a 2013 release was all over my brain this morning.
We’ve all been there, Hearts of Animals, but thank you for embracing it.
What? New Bikini Kill? Well, yeah basically. Bikini Kill is re-releasing their album Revolution Girl Style Now! and it will include a couple of previously unreleased songs. Ocean Song being one of them. So watch the re-release teaser and listen to Ocean Song and then pre-order the record at bikinikill.com.
Some laid back electronic stuff for your labor day, care of The Horrors’ Tom Furse.