Whatcha listening to?

And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Yo La Tengo. I got it for 3 quid in Fopp today, it's nice enough but I prefer it when they're a bit more energetic.
And Gyrate Plus, Pylon, which is really a polar opposite of And Nothing.., I suppose.

R.E.M., Monster
After catching that little bit of "Kenneth" on a late-night TV rerun of an olden Friends sequence. Monsters's good. And so was Friends.

Don Cherry, Symphony For Improvisors
Some passages here me loves mad crazy. With some others, must try more. (Four spins today obviously weren't enough)

Bruckner Mass In E Minor/Motets

today:

Radiohead - Kid A - forgot how good this was - sorry In Rainbows doesn't touch this or OKC ...
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
XTC - Beeswax-Some B-sides 77-82
The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
Baroness - Red Album
Q and Not U - Different Damage
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Six Organs of Admittance - dark noontide
Neil Young - Everyone Knows this Is nowhere
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
German Oak - jeez these guys were on something

Thanks for the Friedlander info, is there any definitive CD I should pick up?

His new one, Block Ice & Propane is really, really good.

A Proper Introduction to Johnny Guitar Watson (has "Space Guitar", does travel)
Joni Mitchell, Miles of Aisles
Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light

Battles - Mirrored
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (London) 1985

Braxton family values.

Hmm, yeah, I just noticed that too. That was purely coincidence, I think.

In any case, they don't sound anything alike.

About as similar as a Peter Brotzmann joint and Caspar Brotzmann's Massaker, I guess.

In any case, they don't sound anything alike.

I haven't heard the Braxton album, but I would imagine not.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14564305

i've been listening to this animal collective live on NPR podcast. you can hear two new songs that pwn at

18:00, "House"
59:00, "Daily Routine"

also, the version of "Leaf House" that starts at 1:24:30 is, like, the best thing ever. well, it was when i saw them live last week. acoustics here don't do it justice.

1:32:45 is nice version of "#1" aka the best song on strawberry jam.

Alvin Lee Saguitar (Rainman, 2007)
Bill Nelson The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything (Enigma, 1989; rec. 1980-1984)
Amanda Shaw Pretty Runs Out (Rounder, 2008*)
Xasthur Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head, 2007)
Zs Arms (Planaria, 2007)

* - This is true! I already have a favorite album of next year!

A 16-track Nazareth comp. (has t'cover of "This Flight Tonight", does fly)

sorcery - till death do we part
ainigma - diluvium
maeror tri - the singles
sword heaven - entrance
ash ra tempel - schwingungen/seven up
birchville cat motel - lion of eight thousand generations
simply saucer - cyborgs revisited

oh, and the infest bootleg cd with their 12" and 7"s, demos, etc.

Miles Davis, The Cmplete On the Corner Sessions

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Working For a Nuclear Free City - Business Men & Ghosts
!!! - Myth Takes
Jesu - Conqueror

- New Miles On The Corner box
- Thrillpillow, "Buffalo." I wish I could get it out of my head, but I just can't.

nothing 'cause i'm in class, w00t.

most recently: Tori Amos - To Venus and Back

Astrobotnia - Pt. 1
Trelldom - Til Minne...

Wolf. Am. Mozart --Clarinet Concerto in A major (KV 622) & Serenade in B flat major (Gran Partita) (KV 361), performed by Toomas Vavilov & ERSO

& Bruce Haack; Savina Yannatou; Emily Haines

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children just now.

Ween - Pure Guava
Ween - Shinola, Vol. 1
Field Music - Tones of Town

Henrik Schwarz Live

Robert Plant / Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

How's that album? It was on display in every recordstore I visited yesterday evening (well, except for the 'world-music'store).

Sounds great so far--I'm a little more than half-way through it!

Check out this thread if you're interested:

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand

Thanks, will investigate. Never cared much for Krauss but the sheer enthousiasm of that thread really makes me want to check this album.

Talk Talk - London 1986

b.w. stevenson - lead free

http://lonestarmusic.com/artist_images/bwpic.jpg

beck - "the information". i can't make my mind up. i really like 'elevator music', 'cellphone's dead' etc, but then he just drops in things like "strange apparition" and it's just really really... bad.

http://www.oldhandbills.com/images/060915-Albert/Robert_Hunter-Tales_of_the_Great_Rum_Runners-Card.jpg

scott, i need everything you've got on b.w. stevenson.

i only own lead free. i dig it. he had a nice voice. you can buy twofer CDs of his stuff:

http://www.oldies.com/i/boxart/large/28/090431286623.jpg

he had great hats.

is it like raw, stripped-down stuff or lots of strings/orchestration?

it's pretty plush. no strings (i don't think), but pretty singer-songwritery. and then some of it is more straight up country pop stuff. larry carlton on acoustic guitar! red rhodes is on there. it's not ultra-slick, but it's a pro band. i wouldn't think it would be your kind of thing? but maybe it is.

this is my fave find of the week so far:

http://popsike.com/pix/20060131/4829292847.jpg

curt newbury on verve forecast. some awesome psych/folk numbers on there.

Various Artists - I'm Not There Original Soundtrack
Britney Spears - Blackout
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

James Blood Ulmer's (guitar, flute)
&
Kevin Breit's (gtr, banjo, mandolin) half-hour solo slots on TV.
With a few comments from the musicians themselves in between playing. Very fine. Cyro Baptista's and particularly Lee Konitz's little gigs in the same series were rgeat also.

Paul Bley - Barrage

Paul Bley's Barrage -from what time is it?

1964. Features Milford Graves, Eddie Gomez, Dewey Johnson, Marshall Allen. Great album.

Uh-uh: judging by that line-up, should be greatness to it alright.

Also it has "Ida Lupino" on it.

"The interplay with Gomez is really the key to the set, and on "Ictus" and "Walking Woman" - the two best tracks - a trio performance would have been preferred" -- sayeth the late Richard Cook and/or Brian Morton in their Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings.

Haven't heard anything from it myself, alas. Actually the only Paul Bley I have is 1970's Paul Bley with Gary Peacock.

Yeah, I kind of agree that the horns are not as enjoyable as the piano/bass/drums.

I have a trio record from several years ago with Peacock and Motian called "Not Two, Not One." It's on ECM. The sound quality is incredible, and a few of the tracks are stellar. None of it is bad.

I also have Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall, which I find kind of hard to listen to.