22
Mar
2005
• Rounder Records has just re-issued a lost gem from 1972, Mountain Moving Day, by the Chicago & New
Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands. Now re-mastered under the title Papa Don't Lay That **** on Me, the CD features six previously unreleased tracks and two bonus songs by modern rockers Le Tigre. Featuring homespun musical styles that include folk rock, blues, ragtime, and show tunes, the feminist stance of these songs was politically radical stuff 33 years ago and was the precursor to the foxcore and riot grrrl bands of today. Songs about abortion and the raw defiance of patriarchy might offend some, but the homegrown power of this sisterhood is catchy and intriguing. One must-hear track is Naomi Weisstein's "Defending Yourself with Karate," a spoken-word rant on a blunt proposition she received on the street; she comes off like a female Lenny Bruce. Featuring expanded liner notes, complete with lyrics and chords to play along with, this one's a time trip worth taking.
• The Chrome Dreams Records imprint is debuting its "enlightenment series" this Tuesday with seven CDs warning listeners that exposure to these discs "may cause a rift in your reality matrix." As audio documentaries, the series is extremely well-done and perfect for mind-expansion, educational pursuits, or creative sound-bite capture for DJs. Collecting great speeches from the first century of recorded sound is Talking Heads, featuring Malcolm X, Winston Churchill, and the televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Cult poet and author Charles Bukowski gets his life story told in Neither Bought for Gold, Nor to the Devil Sold, and "the rise and reckless fall" of comedian Lenny Bruce is related in Shut Your Mouth & Open Your Mind. More tales to peel back the counterculture for a closer look are found in Diggin' the New Breed: The Beat Generation & Postwar America, featuring Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Terry Southern, and more. X-Files fans can space out with A Saucer Full of Secrets and its revelations about Roswell, alien abductions, the Greys, and all things UFO. The voices of L. Ron Hubbard, David Koresh, Charles Manson, and Jim Jones are featured in The Black Flower Bus Leaves at Dawn: Sects, Drugs, & Rock 'n' Roll, exposing the power these cult leaders had on the impressionable. My favorite of the stack is Newspaper Taxis and the down-the-rabbit-hole adventures of the LSD wizard of Sandoz, Dr. Albert Hoffman, and those chemical crusaders who took his discovery to heart - Ken Kesey, Phillip K. Dick, and Timothy Leary, found here over a dinner conversation with his nemesis G. Gordon Liddy.
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes the return of Billy Idol on Thursday, Lifehouse on Friday, and Kings of Leon on Tuesday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts the John Butler Trio on Tuesday; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson features Interpol on Friday overnight, Lisa Loeb on Monday overnight, and k-os on Tuesday overnight; Late Night with Conan O'Brien boasts Queens of the Stone Age on Friday overnight and Fatboy Slim on Monday overnight; and Last Call with Carson Daly sits down with Kelly Clarkson on Friday overnight and Aqualung on Tuesday overnight.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, March 29:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
Alien Sex Fiend - Fiend Club: The Very Best of (Cleopatra) also available in a limited-edition leather-like digi-pak
GG Allin - Savage South (Music Video Distributors) DVD featuring a previously unreleased interview and three complete shows from 1992
Aslyn - Lemon Love (Capitol)
Aztec Two-Step - Days of Horses (Red Engine) named for a line in a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem, this is the duo's ninth album of twin acoustic-guitar work
Beck - Guero (Interscope) with guest Jack White, and available as a single CD or a double-CD set featuring a 5.1-channel audio mix, videos, and re-mixes
Bloodsimple - A Cruel World (Bullygoat/Warner Bros.)
The Bravery - The Bravery (Island) CD and limited-edition vinyl LP
Chab - Dub Edits & Whiskey-Coke (Saw Recordings) ice-cold chirpy European house beats from this Global Underground producer
The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives (Astralwerks) featuring Daniel Johns of Silverchair
The Dix - The Art of Picking Up Women (Smacks) fresh from the humorous advice he lays down in his Handsome Boy Modeling School, Prince Paul offers up this mock-documentary seven-track CD and DVD set of "lost" soul tracks from the 1960s, with guest Rowdy Roddy Piper
Face - original motion picture soundtrack (Hi-Rise) starring Treach from Naughty by Nature, the CD features Tre Hardson of The Pharcyde and a score by Leonard Nelson Hubbard of The Roots
Keith Fullerton & Greg Davis - Yearlong (Carpark) experimental computer blips and beats
Andrew Hill - Hommage (Test of Time) solo piano recordings from 1975
Peter Himmelman - Imperfect World (Majestic) my pick of the week is the wickedly slick return of this slippery and cool singer-songwriter, slinging some of the tastiest lyrical wit and tone-perfect guitar work like an Americana pop Santana meets the Rolling Stones' Some Girls
Ben Jackson Group - All Over You (Screaming Ferret/Escapi) new from the Crimson Glory guitarist
Man on Earth - Disposable Sounds for the Fickle Mind (Forward Thinking) recently performing on the Brit-Bus tour, traveling in a red double-decker bus
Metropolitan - The Lines They Get Broken (Crank Automotive) produced by Archie Moore of Velocity Girl
Morrissey - Live from the Earl's Court (Attack/Sanctuary)
Morrissey - Who Put the "M" in Manchester (Attack/Sanctuary) live DVD filmed in his hometown last May, featuring three music videos from his latest album
New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call (London) import-only new album featuring the Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic on "Jetsteam"; released stateside next month
Oslo - Oslo (FKE/Majestic) recently touring with the re-formed Bow Wow Wow
Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer (Back Porch) long-awaited return with this new album recorded in the group's living room, tackling the married couple's personal relationship
Glen Phillips - Winter Pays for Summer (Lost Highway) new solo album from the Toad the Wet Sprocket founder, with three songs co-written with Semisonic's Dan Wilson, and guests Ben Folds and Jellyfish's Andy Sturmer
Please Mr. Gravedigger - Throw a Beat (Pluto) CD EP
Will Smith - Lost & Found (Interscope) with guests Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, and former partner DJ Jazzy Jeff
Spike Priggen - Stars After Stars After Stars (Volare) featuring Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos on six tracks, this all-covers solo debut from the Dumptruck bassist features his spin on Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen," Big Star's "Nighttime," and The Zombies' "How We Were Before"
Solly - Get It Wrong It's Alright (Zounds Sounds) perky, smart pop from Marc Solomon, formerly of The Clowns, Clumsy, and Perfect
Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other? (V2) the group's fifth album, kicking out the acoustic guitars and bringing in a new drummer
Summer at Shatter Creek - All the Answers (Badman) second album from Craig Gurwich
Theory of a Deadman - Gasoline (Roadrunner) on tour now with Breaking Benjamin
Thrice - If We Could Only See Us Now (Island) CD or DVD featuring live tracks, videos, and an acoustic take on "Stare at the Sun"
Triestearcana - IV (Osirus) fourth album from these Dayton, Ohio, rockers swimming in the swirl of Jane's Addiction and Led Zeppelin
Townes Van Zandt - Legend (Snapper) new two-CD collection of solo material recorded between 1968 and 1978, with six bonus duets with Emmylou Harris, Freddy Fender, and Doug Sahm
• The Chrome Dreams Records imprint is debuting its "enlightenment series" this Tuesday with seven CDs warning listeners that exposure to these discs "may cause a rift in your reality matrix." As audio documentaries, the series is extremely well-done and perfect for mind-expansion, educational pursuits, or creative sound-bite capture for DJs. Collecting great speeches from the first century of recorded sound is Talking Heads, featuring Malcolm X, Winston Churchill, and the televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Cult poet and author Charles Bukowski gets his life story told in Neither Bought for Gold, Nor to the Devil Sold, and "the rise and reckless fall" of comedian Lenny Bruce is related in Shut Your Mouth & Open Your Mind. More tales to peel back the counterculture for a closer look are found in Diggin' the New Breed: The Beat Generation & Postwar America, featuring Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Terry Southern, and more. X-Files fans can space out with A Saucer Full of Secrets and its revelations about Roswell, alien abductions, the Greys, and all things UFO. The voices of L. Ron Hubbard, David Koresh, Charles Manson, and Jim Jones are featured in The Black Flower Bus Leaves at Dawn: Sects, Drugs, & Rock 'n' Roll, exposing the power these cult leaders had on the impressionable. My favorite of the stack is Newspaper Taxis and the down-the-rabbit-hole adventures of the LSD wizard of Sandoz, Dr. Albert Hoffman, and those chemical crusaders who took his discovery to heart - Ken Kesey, Phillip K. Dick, and Timothy Leary, found here over a dinner conversation with his nemesis G. Gordon Liddy.
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes the return of Billy Idol on Thursday, Lifehouse on Friday, and Kings of Leon on Tuesday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts the John Butler Trio on Tuesday; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson features Interpol on Friday overnight, Lisa Loeb on Monday overnight, and k-os on Tuesday overnight; Late Night with Conan O'Brien boasts Queens of the Stone Age on Friday overnight and Fatboy Slim on Monday overnight; and Last Call with Carson Daly sits down with Kelly Clarkson on Friday overnight and Aqualung on Tuesday overnight.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, March 29:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
Alien Sex Fiend - Fiend Club: The Very Best of (Cleopatra) also available in a limited-edition leather-like digi-pak
GG Allin - Savage South (Music Video Distributors) DVD featuring a previously unreleased interview and three complete shows from 1992
Aslyn - Lemon Love (Capitol)
Aztec Two-Step - Days of Horses (Red Engine) named for a line in a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem, this is the duo's ninth album of twin acoustic-guitar work
Beck - Guero (Interscope) with guest Jack White, and available as a single CD or a double-CD set featuring a 5.1-channel audio mix, videos, and re-mixes
Bloodsimple - A Cruel World (Bullygoat/Warner Bros.)
The Bravery - The Bravery (Island) CD and limited-edition vinyl LP
Chab - Dub Edits & Whiskey-Coke (Saw Recordings) ice-cold chirpy European house beats from this Global Underground producer
The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives (Astralwerks) featuring Daniel Johns of Silverchair
The Dix - The Art of Picking Up Women (Smacks) fresh from the humorous advice he lays down in his Handsome Boy Modeling School, Prince Paul offers up this mock-documentary seven-track CD and DVD set of "lost" soul tracks from the 1960s, with guest Rowdy Roddy Piper
Face - original motion picture soundtrack (Hi-Rise) starring Treach from Naughty by Nature, the CD features Tre Hardson of The Pharcyde and a score by Leonard Nelson Hubbard of The Roots
Keith Fullerton & Greg Davis - Yearlong (Carpark) experimental computer blips and beats
Andrew Hill - Hommage (Test of Time) solo piano recordings from 1975
Peter Himmelman - Imperfect World (Majestic) my pick of the week is the wickedly slick return of this slippery and cool singer-songwriter, slinging some of the tastiest lyrical wit and tone-perfect guitar work like an Americana pop Santana meets the Rolling Stones' Some Girls
Ben Jackson Group - All Over You (Screaming Ferret/Escapi) new from the Crimson Glory guitarist
Man on Earth - Disposable Sounds for the Fickle Mind (Forward Thinking) recently performing on the Brit-Bus tour, traveling in a red double-decker bus
Metropolitan - The Lines They Get Broken (Crank Automotive) produced by Archie Moore of Velocity Girl
Morrissey - Live from the Earl's Court (Attack/Sanctuary)
Morrissey - Who Put the "M" in Manchester (Attack/Sanctuary) live DVD filmed in his hometown last May, featuring three music videos from his latest album
New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call (London) import-only new album featuring the Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic on "Jetsteam"; released stateside next month
Oslo - Oslo (FKE/Majestic) recently touring with the re-formed Bow Wow Wow
Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer (Back Porch) long-awaited return with this new album recorded in the group's living room, tackling the married couple's personal relationship
Glen Phillips - Winter Pays for Summer (Lost Highway) new solo album from the Toad the Wet Sprocket founder, with three songs co-written with Semisonic's Dan Wilson, and guests Ben Folds and Jellyfish's Andy Sturmer
Please Mr. Gravedigger - Throw a Beat (Pluto) CD EP
Will Smith - Lost & Found (Interscope) with guests Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, and former partner DJ Jazzy Jeff
Spike Priggen - Stars After Stars After Stars (Volare) featuring Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos on six tracks, this all-covers solo debut from the Dumptruck bassist features his spin on Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen," Big Star's "Nighttime," and The Zombies' "How We Were Before"
Solly - Get It Wrong It's Alright (Zounds Sounds) perky, smart pop from Marc Solomon, formerly of The Clowns, Clumsy, and Perfect
Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other? (V2) the group's fifth album, kicking out the acoustic guitars and bringing in a new drummer
Summer at Shatter Creek - All the Answers (Badman) second album from Craig Gurwich
Theory of a Deadman - Gasoline (Roadrunner) on tour now with Breaking Benjamin
Thrice - If We Could Only See Us Now (Island) CD or DVD featuring live tracks, videos, and an acoustic take on "Stare at the Sun"
Triestearcana - IV (Osirus) fourth album from these Dayton, Ohio, rockers swimming in the swirl of Jane's Addiction and Led Zeppelin
Townes Van Zandt - Legend (Snapper) new two-CD collection of solo material recorded between 1968 and 1978, with six bonus duets with Emmylou Harris, Freddy Fender, and Doug Sahm
