Silver Jews

'Random Rules' just came on at the coffee shop

man, i want random rules to come on when i'm at the coffee shop

totes!

i would go there, but only if they named it after a moby dick character

It's so very cold in the mansion after sunset

http://i.imgur.com/40OIw4A.jpg

Well that explains a few things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTVcnaWMlI

Malkmus said in a recent interview that some new SJ demos had been made recently

Last I heard DCB moved to Cali and is writing screenplays. That’s been going on for a year or so.

He wrote about head to southern cali a long while back and a friend of mine called him recently begging him to collaborate on a song with him but DCB was all no I’m writing screen stuff now.

Screenplays?

I wish him a lotta luck...

I've never heard a good Silver Jews cover, and today is no exception, xp

Pavement did a great cover of “Secret Knowledge of Backroads,” if that counts!

My vote is no, not really, since sm played on the original afaik

just learned this week that the "laughed when I left, but in the end you only hurt yourself" line from How to Rent a Room was from a Sam Cooke song.

xp the Dean & Britta cover of "Random Rules" was good iirc

From Drag City News(adjust your shades accordingly):

TRAVELING 20 YEARS AT HALF SPEED
American Water by Silver Jews was first released two decades ago. Observing the time between then and now, the album has been half-speed mastered at Abbey Road to provide depth and nuance for all future vinyl listeners - and current ones! Additionally, a cassette version of this timeless album makes its debut, to provide an alternative aural timestamp for intrepid audio voyagers who weren't there the first time around. You can pre-order both versions NOW for the 9/28 release date. American Water - here's to the next 20 years!

Like like the the the POLL: SILVER JEWS = American Water

https://pitchfork.com/news/silver-jews-david-berman-to-release-new-album-in-2019-says-bob-nastanovich/

Excellent !

https://noncommusic.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/12/Bob-Nastanovich-L-and-David-Berman-R-in-1989.png

pic from:

https://noncommusic.org/stories/wtjus-diy-spirit-inspired-some-of-indie-rocks-greatest-bands/

with some tangential jews content.

pic.twitter.com/nLx1DfRtia

— prplmtns (@prplmtns) January 1, 2019

Nice. How’d you hear that he re opened his twtr account?

Or more accurately, started a new one

Detective work. also Bob Nastonovich retweeted the account.

https://www.stereogum.com/2043245/silver-jews-david-berman-purple-mountains-debut-single/news/

Anybody finds a leak please share...

Found it on slsk
“Lately I tend to make strangers everywhere I go”

So we've got Purple Mountains now.

Walked to a record store today and bought a copy despite not owning a record player or having any friends that do. But I heard it on Downhill Swing. So, the song's about getting old, losing friends, and struggling with depression. References to long cross-country drives alone which seem to match up with some of the photos DCB's posted to his twitter recently. Not a theme I can personally get too excited about, but I trust the guy knows what he's doing and I suspect he's putting those feelings out there as a way offer a connection with anyone who might be dealing with the same stuff.

The music itself didn't do a whole lot for me, but I'm drifting away from indie rock these days anyway.

Purple Mountains