Posts by Dalvino:
Spring Time is Shapin Up
March 3rd, 2010
The booking folks at the downtown Milwaukee cluster of venues, The Pabst, Riverside and Turner Hall Ballroom, have really stepped it up for the month of April. We have Girls, Joanna Newsom (w/Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes), Beach House AND Passion Pit (incredibly unfortunately on the same night) and just recently announced, The Flaming Lips.
So, if you need something to tide you over until you can sip beers on the patio of your favorite Mke tavern on a gorgeous summer day , Milwaukee gives you April.
Oh yah, and don’t forget about May and SC’s 1 year celebration!!
Joanna Newsom- April 2nd- Pabst Theatre
mp3: Good Intentions Paving Company
Passion Pit- April 3rd-Riverside Theatre
Beach House- April 3rd- Pabst Theatre
Girls- April 11th- Pabst Theatre
The Flaming Lips- April 21st- Riverside Theatre
Broken Social Scene- World Sick
February 19th, 2010
Umm…Broken Social Scene has a new album coming out in May?! I am insanely excited about this. They also just released a new track, which is HUGE. It sounds like classic BSS in which they take about 12 different musicians with their own style, put them in a box, shake them around, and pour out a final product that just works. (See pic to the left for previous mixing)
Here is the track ‘World Sick’. Enjoy!
Broken Social Scene- World Sick
Also, here’s one of my fav BSS songs:
Thursday Retrospect Vol. 10
December 17th, 2009
Well folks, it has been a huge, ginormous, epic break from SC for me, to which I sincerely apologize. However, it is nice to see our site prospering! Soooo many good contributers….Sooo much good music to share…. It was a terrific year in music and I don’t think the SC crew missed even a bit of it.
With that, let me begin this weeks colossally foreign playlist!! These are some of my favorite tracks from bands the reside/formed outside of the YOU ESS of EH.
Possibly one of the most epic opening tracks in the last decade. Justice are, drum-roll please…… FRENCH!! Of course. Give two skinny french dudes some electric equipment and they will give you this. This track could NOT get you any more pumped to dive into the rest of the album, but dive with CAUTION. The disc only gets grungier and more tense.
The Avalanches- Frontier Psychiatrist
This duo resides in the land of diggery-doooooos and dingos and babies that get eaten by said animals. Melbourne, Austrailian dudes know how to sample some muzak.
Radiohead- The Amazing Sound of Orgy
These dudes are pretty good I guess. I thought I should probably include them. They’re from Abingdon, Oxfordshire. This song is off a B-side album which didn’t make the cut of the B-side of another album. Thats right, Amnesiac was the songs that didn’t make it on Kid A. This song didn’t even make it on that b-side. God they make so much good music, they don’t know what to do about it.
Cafe Tacuba- Tengo Todo
The song title means “I Have Everything”. These guys really do. Apparently these guys are the shizz in Mexico, where they are from. Started in Naucalpan, Mexico and blew up. Really fun band who know how to rock. Check em out!
David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
A man who needs no intro. All I’ll tell you is that is he from Brixton, London. One of my favorite tracks from him. Soooo poppy. Sooo good.
Jens Lekman- A Postcard to Nina
First time I heard Jens, who is from Angered, Sweden, I didn’t get him. But then I found myself humming and whistling these tunes. This song captures the feel of Night Falls Over Kortedala. Its playful storytelling which sounds almost as if some of the story is being lost in translation to English because of its simplisity. Really listen to the story Jens is telling about his friend Nina. I dare you not to giggle.
Cornelius- Smoke
Keigo Oyamada from Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, the main dude behind Cornelius, is one of the most fun and entertaining musicians I know. He seems to take normal things from normal life and try to write music about them. Smoke, water, copy machines, etc. Either way, a band you should really check out.
Bjork- Undo
One of the most ridiculously gorgeous songs ever.com. Bjork, from Reykjavík, Iceland, just has sooo many amazing songs, that its tough to pick a favorite, but this one…..this one…. if you listen to it on headphones, and you don’t get chills, you’re just not doing it right.
So, I hope you all enjoyed your trip around the globe. Music is big. Its huge. Its global.
Girls, Album
October 17th, 2009
Elvis Costello. Psychedelic Surf rock. Flaming Lips. Epic buildups. Jarvis Cocker. Sadness. Happiness. And way more than you’d expect.
Girls’ Album has a lot packed into its 44 minutes. The lyrics are simple and direct. The music is not complicated. The vocals channel legends like Elvis Costello and Jarvis Cocker. But all together, the album is a beauty.
It starts with catchy, tap your toes to, Lust for Life. However, the theme of the album is skirted around: Going crazy after a breakup. Trying to figure out what to do with yourself. Rethinking what you really want.
I know it sounds like a drab theme and a bit too emo, but Girls turn it on its head. Most tracks start with a catchy rift, and lead Christopher Owens singing with his unassuming damn-near-goofy voice, but…if you give it some time…they build into an unexpected psychedelic ether. A place where not even a bad break up or troubles at work or whatever problem ails you, can follow. It seems like this is where the troubled Christopher Owens hides from his problems.
Album is a really amazing debut album from a guy who’s story is really quite remarkable. Exerpt from Pitchfork
Girls frontman Christopher Owens grew up in the Children of God cult. His older brother died as a baby because the cult didn’t believe in medical attention. His dad left. He and his mother lived around the world, and the cult sometimes forced his mother to prostitute herself. As a teenager, Owens fled and lived as a Texas gutter-punk for a while. Then a local millionaire took Owens under his wing, and Owens moved to San Francisco. There, he and Chet “JR” White formed Girls, and recorded Album, their debut album, under the influence of just about every kind of pill they could find.
Chris’ story is really quite intense and you can hear his anguish in some of his lyrics, however, the album doesn’t DWELL on these negative aspects. He simply states them in his sing/talk kinda way and moves on. Really, I wish I could do that in my life sometimes. So, pick the album up. Its worth it.
Grizzly Bear Says Church…
October 12th, 2009…Lil Weezy has to sue…..
A pretty awesome series from Pitchfork. Grizzly Bear plays Foreground, I Live With You, and Fix It. Apparently that church they’re playing in is a million degrees. Either way, enjoy some high quality, live GB.
