CITY SICKNESS. Pere Ubu, Captain Beefhart, Serengeti, Tindersticks, &c. Tune in from now until 9pm EST https://wybc.com/listen/
Bleak stuff on the radio with me until 9pm, starting now
Anonymous asked: Thoughts on the new Weezer LP?
It’s honestly terrific
David Remnick profiles the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, and speaks with Barack Obama about the breadth of her enduring influence:
“Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R.&B., rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope,” Obama tells Remnick. “American history wells up when Aretha sings.”
Photograph by Richard Avedon
We are proud to announce that the long awaited second album from Told Slant, “Going By,” will be released into this world on June 17th by our good chums over at Double Double Whammy!
NPR has the premiere of the fresh new single, “Low Hymnal,” over on their website – just CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE NEW TOLD SLANT!!
Stereogum has a writeup from James Rettig:
The best Told Slant moments are when their songs build to these gutting, cathartic twists of phrase that compel you to sing along and mimic Walworth’s every inflection — “I’m living horribly so I don’t want to know how you’re doing,” “You look like algae bloom when you’re down,” “I am not what I want to be.” Luckily for us, Going By’s lead single “Low Hymnal” has two such peaks, equally powerful: “Why don’t you comfort me?” and “Felix, you can battering ram this life.”
You can pre-order this doggie on the Double Double Whammy website! There are
fourFIVE options to choose from: gold vinyl, silver vinyl, bronze vinyl, & the tasteful CD & straight digital downloads! CHECK IT OUT HERE:http://www.dbldblwhmmy.com/products/570213-told-slant-going-by-lp-cd-mp3-pre-order
Anonymous asked: Are you a fan of bjork?
Yea! Love Debut, Post, and Homogenic.
our SXSW showcase with @brokenworldmedia is a week away!! i’m freaking out! featuring bands such as Nouns, Atlas At Last, Sorority Noise, Woozy, Donovan Wolfington, Prawn, JANK, Weatherbox, Ratboys, Two Inch Astronaut, Pope, Loner Chic, Sioux Falls, Great Grandpa and a lot more! plus free vegan/gluten-free food (for the first 25 to each date, the rest will be for sale), a photobooth and a Donald Trump pinata! come hang out! please! i need this! i’ve spent so much money!
RSVP to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1521980701435257/
Free digital sampler: https://funeralsounds.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-sounds-broken-world-media-sxsw-sampler-2016
Anonymous asked: What do you think of the new Pinegrove album?
I reviewed it for The Yale Herald here.
Anonymous asked: Yo whoever asked that last question was shitty but uh, could you recommend me movies? I watched Before Sunrise a few months ago at your behest and really enjoyed it, lol
I get a lot of messages like that unfortunately. Umm I recently watched The Conversation, which is a Francis Ford Coppola movie from 1974. A media theorist/writer I like named Tung-Hui Hu had this to say about it:
Commentators have often focused on the madness and on the camera that pans back and forth, like a surveillance camera, as some sort of morality tale: the coldness of technology, or the emotional deadness of the main character. But I’m most drawn to a minor detail, to the question of why Hackman plays a saxophone solo for the surveillance camera. I’m resistant to any claims about the ontology of jazz, but I do think that the contingency of Hackman’s alto sax offers a poignant way out of the double-bind of networks and paranoia. To be clear, the music doesn’t suggest a way of opting out of the network—indeed, he plays for the camera, and, by implication, for the people watching him. On the soundtrack, there is a simple chord sequence, which Hackman hears as a sort of delusion. And we hear the sequence, too, a sign that we are also impli- cated in his web of paranoia. Hackman improvises to the chord sequence on the soundtrack, and as improv, there isn’t a score; there isn’t even a profes- sional musician as such, since Hackman himself is playing the music as an amateur: a strange intrusion of live performance into a canned soundtrack. Hackman’s character is still clearly mad; the piece he plays is a deviation, a nonlinear path. Yet he no longer follows that path to make meaning.