Turtles All The Way Down

Well, this is refreshingly different. . . 

Rocktober 2014 - Second Announcement

Sharon Van Etten

A new song by SVE, brilliant as always, but one of the oddest videos I've seen in a while.

Rocktober 2014 - First Announcement

And so it starts . . . 

Hilang Child

I didn't make it to the Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park yesterday, even though I really wanted to hear Bill Frissell and Ahmad Jamal.  The only rain of the weekend, and a thunderstorm at that, blew through Georgia just as I was about to leave home for the park, and it was enough to discourage me.

Instead, after spending the morning downloading Hundred Waters, I spent the time I would otherwise have been at the Jazz Festival with Lotus Plaza's Spooky Action At A Distance, listening to a few KEXP podcasts, and exploring the Dead Can Dance box set, 1981-1998. 

Hundred Waters

LA-by-way-of-Gainesville, Florida's Hundred Waters, who we last saw opening for Alt-J at the godforsaken Tabernacle Masquerade, will be returning to East Atlanta Village, where they previously performed at 529 during Rocktober 2012, this time to play the estimable Earl on July 1 to promote their forthcoming album The Moon Rang Like A Bell.   Meanwhile, you can enjoy Down From the Rafters from the new album, above, and be sure to stream the follow-up suggestions that appear after you play the song, as well.

But wait, there's more!  For a limited time (I think just this Memorial Day Weekend), Hundred Waters are releasing their first, self-titled LP, a couple of their remix EPs, and six songs from other artists, including Majical Cloudz and Suno Deko (who'll be opening for them at The Earl), as a free Torrents download at http://bundles.bittorrent.com/#!/bundles/hundredwaters, and a half-dozen songs from their forthcoming LP at http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/05/22/hundred-waters-x-bittorrent-the-moon-rang-like-a-bell/.  

Need I say more?  Go get 'em!

Prodigy

As good a review of To Be Kind as any I've seen, and this 14-year-old kid does it in one take without reading from a script, and discusses the album both in the context of the band's previous output as well as its own merits.  I'm impressed. 

"Genius 'Round the World Stands Hand in Hand, and One Shock of Recognition Runs the Whole Circle 'Round" - Michael Gira