Archive for May 2013

Song For Today: Steamroller, Bruce Peninsula (2009)



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Song For Today: How Soon Is Now, The Smiths (1984)


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Streaming: Noctuary, The Holydrug Couple (2013)


Hailing from Santiago, Chile via Sacred Bones, The Holydrug Couple released Noctuary, a bluesy trip through summer sunsets.


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Review: On The Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)


















On The Road is a novel published in 1957 written by Jack Kerouac in which youth meets adult life’s restraints, a novel about travels, a novel about the relentless search for the meaning of life.
In a postwar America these young men in their early twenties refuse to go along with the ride, they are eager to make their own discoveries, their own revolution. And yet they end up founding themselves penniless and most of the times drunk. The insistent pounding of Bebop records echoing throughout.
The writing is fast, sometimes even lunatic. It gets your heart racing. You dream of freeing yourself from whatever is holding you up. But On The Road is not about dreaming, On The Road is a mad river of reckless activity.
Jack Kerouac is Sal Paradise. And it wall begins when he heads to San Francisco with 50 dollars in his pocket.
Neal Cassidy is Dean Moriarty. And that’s when the two meet that the adventure kicks off.
Along the way there is also Old Bull Lee (William Burroughs) and Carlo Marx (Allen Ginsberg). The four columns of the Beat Generation altogether.

However, Truman Capote said: “That’s not writing, that’s typing” and he may have a point. On The Road shines as a biographic narrative but it lacks the grandeur of the great novels of the 20th century.
If you are into the whole Beat Generation thing it is a must read. If not, well, it is up to you to read or not to read.

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Song For Today: The Diamond Sea, Sonic Youth (1995)


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New Video: Giant Tortoise, Pond


Pond’s Hobo Rocket comes out on August 2nd in Australia, August 5th in Europe and August 6th in USA.
And to celebrate this good news you can download Giant Tortoise for free at http://pondband.com/.







Tracklist

01. Whatever Happened To The Million Head Collide
02. Xanman
03. O Dharma
04. Aloneaflameaflower
05. Giant Tortoise
06. Hobo Rocket

07. Midnight Mass (At The Market Street Payphone)




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Song For Today: What's In The Ground Belongs To You, If These Trees Could Talk


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News: Tomorrow's Harvest, Boards Of Canada (2013)























After all, the cryptic rumors on a new Boards Of Canada album proved true: Tomorrow’s Harvest is due to be released on June 10 in the UK and the following day in the USA by Warp.


Track list:

01 Gemini
02 Reach for the Dead
03 White Cyclosa
04 Jacquard Causeway
05 Telepath
06 Cold Earth
07 Transmisiones Ferox
08 Sick Times
09 Collapse
10 Palace Posy
11 Split Your Infinites
12 Uritual
13 Nothing Is Real
14 Sundown
15 New Seeds
16 Come to Dust
17 Semena Mertvykh




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