10-16 - Nobodys Baby, Baby!

Carla Bozulich
"Lazy Crossbones"

From Boy
Out 04 March 2014 on Constellation
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Carla Bozulich • "Lazy Crossbones"

Sunday Candy-Chance The Rapper Feat. The Social Experiment

Uncle Sam's A DICK

Paloma walks home at night from the maquiladora
8 days later, no one has saw her
sometimes she worked late
don't that tell you just whats at stake?

we can't stop fighting 

at home, my sister- she told me a story
at the end, there's no Grace or glory
just the trial of a man
with no motive for where he stands

all my life i've felt the eye of the catcall
we're striking back baby, and you can find me in the vanguard
you say you don't understand
i can see the blood, it's on your hands

written by Sheer Mag
recorded by Sheer Mag
mixed by Hunter Davidsohn at the Business District


Can't Stop Fighting

J Mascis covers "Waltz No. 2" for "Say Yes! A Tribute To Elliott Smith" out now on CD, LP, Cassette, and Digitally. Order today from Amazon, iTunes and everywhere fine records are sold.

Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith

Waltz #2 (Elliott Smith Cover) by J Mascis

Taken from " 2" out Sept. 23rd 2016
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Skeleton Dance

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Alien Ensemble:Skeleton Dance

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In the interest of brevity, Tony Molina speaks a plain truth rarely considered by modern musicians. He's not going to waste your time pontificating on sentimentality when he knows the very sentiments that power his music will stay with you long after the songs end. The West Bay guitarist's background in hardcore, metal, and punk lends itself to this concept -- imagine if Crossed Out or No Le$$ were on some Lennon-McCartney or George Harrison or early Bee Gees shit, inventing a mode of sincere, world-beating pop expression and concentrating it into a span of seconds. That's what's happening here -- a resourcefulness that is typically at odds with the kind of guitar mastery you'll hear within. 

You could fit the contents of Tony's previous releases on Slumberland and Matador onto one side of a 90-minute cassette and still have room left over for the eight offerings on Confront the Truth, but would you want it any other way? When Tony sings about "trying to move on but I just don't know how," no extension of the time it takes for him to bring that feeling across is going to solve the problem at hand. You're immediately thrust into the orbit of these songs; you know how he feels, and now you can relate. Transference is complete. You've got plenty of time left over to dwell upon them.

The eight offerings on Confront the Truth notch a significant advancement in his style and approach. Almost completely absent from these new songs are the overloaded guitar crunch of Dissed and Dismissed, or his earlier work with Ovens; it's replaced by gentle acoustic balladry, tasteful Mellotron and piano backing, the kind of musicianship that often takes a lifetime to master. The sadness of this music has precedents in pop's past; Tony's revelatory turn into specific traditions of pop music speak directly to the reasons why we love music in general, and what keeps our finest players driven to create. The repertoire from which he draws may be narrow, but in these songs, you hear exactly what Tony found in those influences that shaped his experience; years upon years of focus and isolation in developing his guitar skills to speak to these truths. The main difference here is that where Tony's previous works felt casual and easy to digest, here we feel the full weight of his emotional needs pressed against the gentlest and most careful music of his career.

I'll paraphrase myself here, from something I wrote about Tony's old band, Ovens, which applies here as well: the music is at once what I believe to be the quintessential encapsulation of the turmoil of West Coast youth. Hang out by the ocean on a beautiful day, land that trick you’ve been practicing on your skateboard for months, but you’re still bummed; the struggle to achieve balance without means in a place where you’re told you’re lucky to be informs every second of these songs. That the pain turns inwards -- lamentations on relationships that are over for good -- proves to be as much a condition of the environment as it is the mindset with which it aligns. The record's coda, a highlight reel of Thin Lizzy's "Banshee," indicates that the Tony you knew is still in there, but the game has changed, and the rules are entirely his own. Tony Molina is in complete control of his own destiny, and we should all care about where he's going.

Doug Mosurock, a fan first and a friend forever
August 2016


Confront The Truth

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Tony Molina - Hung Up On The Dream

Coast To Coast:
I originally made this song to be an interlude for the J5 album after Power In Numbers. Unlike the other interludes, Contact and React, Coast 2 Coast was a journey into the Ethiopian sound. When I took a hiatus from J5, I thought the song would end up on The Audiences Listening. It later got pulled as the sound didn't quite fit the context of the album. I ended up releasing it on a compilation  in 2006 called Sound Of LA.

THE AUDIENCE'S FOLLOWING will be released on July 11th, 2016 on the ten year anniversary of Cut's debut album, THE AUDIENCE'S LISTENING. This follow-up is filled with never before heard music, alternate versions, instrumentals and outtakes from the original 2006 (and earlier)session reels.

"It's the follow up and the audience is still following and listening and ... whatever else"

Audience's Following

Coming Soon

Coast 2 Coast

Text & Musik: DIE LORE (Erol Dizdar)
Aufgenommen von Tobias Laemmert in den Westendstudios München.

pre-Master / unofficial release – für FANS von DIE LORE!

DIE LORE: "Mickeymouseohren"

From The Notwist live album (release date 10/14/16) Superheroes, Ghost-villians & Stuff
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This new album documents the latest live incarnation of this very band, which also features Andi Haberl, Max Punktezahl, Karl Ivar Refseth, and Cico Beck. Recorded on December 16, 2015 on the second of three consecutive, sold-out nights at UT Connewitz in Leipzig, Germany, "Superheroes, Ghost-Villains & Stuff" indeed feels like a first-hand live experience caught on triple vinyl. That’s why it’s the definitive album of The Notwist’s career.

Superheroes, Ghost-Villains + Stuff

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The Notwist: Pick Up The Phone (Live)



Out on Morr Music 2016-11-11
With his latest record, Notwist singer & guitar player, film soundtracker and label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating LP of instrumentals.
As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves – arpeggios spiralling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures.
An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmuration, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole.
Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl.
This melancholy but weirdly uplifting arrangement surfaces throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon’s work, “A Beat of Silence” beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen.

Closing tracks “To the Quiet”, a tentative, almost impossibly fragile ballad, and “Kona”, a stretched and mangled wash of orchestral drone akin to Plinth or Edmund Finnis, leave the listener fully enveloped, as this incredibly sensitive work draws to a close.

Richard Greenan (Kit Records, Devon Loch)


A Beat of Silence

A beat of silence

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Rayon: A Beat Of Silence

Ramones - 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Remastered)

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (40th Anniversary Mono Mix)

Warngauer Strasse

Fred Raspail - All your love swing

THE WORLD IS FULL OF SONGS

Hochzeitskapelle -  Things I Done

Wacky Tobacky

G.Rag y los Hermanos Patchekos - Paris Paris

Alien Transistor and Tokyo-based label Afterhours release a vinyl-version of tenniscoats' masterpiece "music exists", which consists of 4 LPs in total.
"Music exists" Disc 2 functions as a complement and extension of Disc 1. Even more incredibly beautiful melodies, more subtle and psychedelic orchestration (spanish guitar, casio-keyboards, trombone, drumcomputer), and more heartfelt singing and playing.

"It may even be their greatest ever music, essential plus" Monorail Music, Glasgow

"Whatever's ailing you, Tokyo's Tenniscoats have got something for that" Boomkat, Manchester

Music Exists Disc 2

Tenniscoats: Kyoku Wa Mirai

Wendy Rene - Bar-B-Q (Dunwich edit)

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Wendy Rene - Bar-B-Q (Dunwich edit)

DIY-Label from Munich, Germany releasing on Vinyl, CD & digital. 

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