In honor of the free show at Amoeba on Haight Street, SF, I am posting this video--from site newmusicformundays. Don't forget their upcoming show at the Rickshaw Stop,155 Fell St., March 23rd! --Ed
Hey-
Hope you had a good week. Before the weekend commences, I'd like to share with another new track from the latest from Panther. Their new record "14kt God" comes out on Kill Rock Stars on February 22nd. Previously just one person, Charlie (Panther) enlisted the ferocious of Joe Kelly (31 Knots) and HE became a THEY. The album offers contagious hooks and loops over crushing drums ushering PANTHER into new and lucid songwriting territory, even hinting at the political with songs like "Violence, Diamonds" and "Beautiful Condo." But just when things seem to be making sense the fever kicks in and everything suddenly unglues and before you know it you're dancing to full blown anthems about sexual obsessiveness and airplane paranoia.
"Violence, Diamonds"
http://terrorbird.alphapupserver.com/music/05Violence,Diamonds.mp3
link to press materials: http://www.killrockstars.com/press/krs490/
Enjoy! Feel free to post. Have a great weekend:)
-Tim J.
Tim Jones <timjones@terrorbird.com> wrote:
FEBRUARY 6, 2008 Crest Theatre 7:30 p.m.
An evening withGERALDINE BROOKS
Tickets $25
California Lectures
(916) 737-1300
www.californialectures.org
For Corporate and Individual Sponsorships, please call (916) 737-1300
People of the Book (January 2008), March, Year of Wonders, Nine Parts of Desire--
“[Brooks’] depiction of the Haggadah bringing together Jews, Christians, and Muslims could not bemore timely. Her gift for storytelling, happily, is timeless.” - Publishers Weekly
Lecture Preview 6:30 p.m.
A biographical discussion presented by CSUS Professor Nancy Sweet.
WORLD LITERATURE AT THE CROSSROADS
Translation Happy Hour and Reading
The Center for the Art of Translation invites you to a celebration of global
voices in Times Square with acclaimed authors and translators from 15 years
of TWO LINES: World Writing in Translation, including:
Suzanne Jill Levine reading JORGE VOLPI (from Spanish)
Geoffrey Brock reading GUIDO GOZZANO (from Italian)
Alexis Levitin reading ASTRID CABRAL (from Portuguese)
Susan Bernofsky reading YOKO TAWADA (from German)
Trudy Balch reading MATILDA KOEN-SARANO (from Ladino)
Douglas Basford reading JEAN SENAC (from French)
as well as Luisa Igloria reading from Tagalog and Erica Weitzman reading
from Albanian
and C.M. Mayo with a tribute to special guest GREGORY RABASSA
Gregory Rabassa will be signing copies of our latest anthology, New
World/New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas.
Refreshments will be served.
Join us to toast world literature and translation in the
beautifully-restored landmark Embassy Movie Theatre on 7th Avenue!
Quincy not only regularly sells out local Los Angeles venues such as the Temple Bar, The Mint, and the influential Hotel Cafe, her buzz is expanding beyond Southern California and into the national and international spotlight. "(Quincy has)...all the goods, a beautiful voice, such sweet emotion and tenderness...very talented." -Dolly Parton Quincy’s track "Give it Away", from her release Also Known as Mary is prominently featured in the sleeper indie film, Waitress. Click here to download this track now! (just released on DVD!) Her track "Afraid" from the same release is featured on the soundtrack for the academy award winning film Crash. |
GAIL FORD
SUNSET POETRY BY THE BAY
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
7 - 9 p.m.
1250 Bridgeway, in downtown Sausalito
at the
Northpoint Coffee House
Open Mic with Featured Poet
Tuesday, January 22, 7pm
SUE MILLER
The Senator’s Wife
"Tonight Sue Miller, author of the iconic The Good Mother will discuss and sign her new novel, The Senator’s Wife, which is a powerful story of two unconventional women, at opposite stages of life, who face parallel dilemmas and unexpectedly change each other’s lives. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear best-selling author Sue Miller discuss what will, no doubt, become a classic."
from an email:
Copperfield's Books
Tele.: 707-578-8938
Ghostland Observatory Announce Tour Dates; Ready Their New Release, Robotique Majestique
This duo, an X pick of the year, will be touring in support of their latest LP
LISTEN
MP3: Heavy Heart from Robotique Majestique:
http://terrorbird.alphapupserver.com/music/02HeavyHeart.mp3
"A landmark year for the Ghostland camp, 2007 found the group gaining notoriety for both their electrifying live shows and their acclaimed albums delete.delete.i.eat.meat. and Paparazzi Lightning, both self-released on their Trashy Moped imprint. What began as a challenge between two friends has developed into the duo wowing audiences from LA to London, creating 3 excellent LPs over the course of 2 years, and appearing on TV on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and PBS' Austin City Limits (in which they just released a DVD Live from Austin, TX). Robotique Majestique, due February 26th, continues hammering loudly away at the safe and the soft and the easily defined.
"Their 3rd full-length following up their breakout album Paparazzi Lightning, Robotique Majestique finds Ghostland Observatory staying on course of their electro-rock/soul mission: sweaty, raw-boned and direct from the future; committed to electronics, stuck on big beats, yet unmistakably powered by rock roll. Robotique Majestique is a stellar example of what makes Ghostland Observatory a stand out from the rest of the pack--electronic and fiercely dance friendly, but with the soul and personality of some of rock music's most classic groups. Frontman Aaron Behrens plays guitar, sings and commands the stage. Producer Thomas Turner, plays drums and synths. They share a love for Vince Young and Daft Punk, Los Tigres del Norte and the Animals. They mostly prefer to let their music speak for itself. It's not subtle.
"They are gearing up for a spring tour kicking off in their hometown of Austin, TX. Ghostland Observatory will be touring heavily throughout 2008, bringing their legendary live show to perspiring, dancing audiences worldwide. More tour dates to be announced soon."
Ghostland Observatory Tour Dates
02/29/08 Austin Music Hall Austin, Texas
03/08/08 Langerado Music Festival Everglades Nat. Park, Florida
03/13/08 House of Blues New Orleans, Louisiana
03/28/08 Webster Hall New York, New York
03/29/08 Nightclub 9:30 Washington, D.C.
04/03/08 Crystal Ballroom Portland, Oregon
04/04/08 Showbox at The Market Seattle, Washington
04/05/08 Showbox at The Market Seattle, Washington
04/17/08 The Mezzanine San Francisco, California
04/18/08 Henry Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, California
from Terrorbird Media
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"These nymphs I would perpetuate. So clear
Their light carnation, that it floats in the air
Heavy with tufted slumbers.
Was it a dream I loved?"
--Mallarme
Translation from French by Roger Fry
APPEARING AT
"Carl, I'd like you to expand on your review of the new Fleshtones recording, "Take a Good Look" as it seems you neglected to mention the other co producer, Jim Diamond. In fact, I recorded and produced the tracks you mention in your review, "Jet Set Fleshtones" and "Never Grew Up' here at my studio, Ghetto Recorders in Detroit last July. It's the second record by the Fleshtones I've split with another producer/engineer and I'm very proud of these recordings and would like credit where credit is due."
Thanks,
Jim Diamond
www.ghettorecorders.com
This was posted by Jeff Triano on Facebook.
Tom Hodgkinson The Guardian, Monday January 14 2008
+44 (0)20 7278 2332
"This article appeared in the Guardian on Monday January 14 2008 on p6 of the G2 comment & features section.
It was last updated at 09:36 on January 16 2008. The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008.
"The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.
"I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?
more. . .
Paul Arnusch - vocals, percussion
Dave Swanson - guitar, vocals
Clint Frazier - drums
Lyle Bell - bass, vocals
Doug Organ - keyboards
Sunset Poetry By The Bay, featuring Charlie Getter,
Wednesday, January 16 at 7 p.m.
1250 Bridgeway, in downtown Sausalito at the
Northpoint Coffee House
Open Mic with Featured Poet
No Cover
"Organizer extraordinaire, Charlie puts poets with the people in the strangest places, including San Francisco's City Hall, Golden Gate Park and the 16th & Mission Bart Station. He lives South of Market and is pursuing an MFA in Poetics at the New College of California. A performance poet and playwright. It will be wild."
for the 10th Anniversary of Red Devil Records
Saturday, February 16th @ 9:30pm
Stork Club
2330 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
Steve E. Nix & the Cute Lepers
Modern Action (first show ever, members of Shifters, Bodies, Briefs)
Nervous Tics
and while we're at it -- The Hives and The Donnas at the Fillmore, February 20th
A Selected offering:
We Owe You Nothing
Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews
Expanded Edition
edited by Daniel Sinker
402 pages $17.95
Also by Akashic
Hairstyles of the Damned
by Joe Meno
Fiction Trade Paperback
ISBN 1-888451-70-X 290 pages $13.95
(Meno is prolific. Among the other works by him --
How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails.)
For more information, visit www.akashicbooks.com
Also from from Akashic--I have still yet to read -- --hard to take but I accept it is worth it:
Godlike, by Richard Hell (150 pages, $13.95), a novel about poet's fascination
with sex and his own insanity.
While Hell's reputation as a writer has perhaps been eclipsed by his musical contributions,
It is important to note that his acclaim as a writer is steadily rising. It has always been so.
Since he basically stopped playing in bands like the Neon Boys/Television, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids, and Dim Star, he has been more active in New York's literary scene and beyond. His website is comprehensive.
Hell's first novel Go Now was published in 1996, and Hot and Cold, a mix of poetry, art and other writings, came out in 2001. Godlikewas first released by Akashic in 2006.
Other books of note that may or may not have crossed my desk in 2007:
Three from Plexus Publishing:
BLONDIE: Unseen 1976-1980
by Roberta Bayley
THE CRAMPS: A Brief History of Rock 'n' Roll Psychosis
by Dick Porter
PUNK ON 45:Revolutions On Vinyl -- 1976-79
by Gavin Walsh
The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting
by Jim Walsh
Voyageur Press
From Venerable Last Gasp Books --
ART OF MODERN ROCK MINI #1: A-Z
by Dennis King
192 pages. Color. $18.95
Chronicle Books
The co-author of Chronicle Books' Art of Modern Rock presents this delectable collection of rock posters.
Coming Soon
THROUGH PREHENSILE EYES:
SEEING THE ART OF ROBERT WILLIAMS
(DELUXE EDITION)
by Robert Williams
200 pages, $125.00
Last Gasp
Limited Deluxe Edition (700 of these unsigned editions, and 300 signed and numbered editions) of reproductions of paintings by the famed underground cartoonist-artist and founder of Juxtapoz Magazine.
"Seeing what Robert Williams and S. Clay Wilson had done just gave me the last little push I needed to let open the floodgates." -- R. Crumb.
Received
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
by Neon Park
Last Gasp/La Luz de Jesus Press
144 pages, $29.95. Out of Stock.
The late Neon Park (born Martin Muller), whose album covers for Little Feat, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Dr. John, and the Beach Boys. earned him cliche-clinching honors as the consummate rock art psychedelic pop surrealist of the 70s and 80s, is ably represented in this fine volume
For an astonishingly different look at some of his art, visit his La Luz de Jesus Gallery show site.
This is old news--passe, maybe overlooked. I certainly did. This list is worth a gaze perhaps. CM
01: Panda Bear
Person Pitch
[Paw Tracks]
When it came out this spring, Person Pitch seemed like a soundtrack to the thaw. . . .--Mark Richardson . . .read more at: pitchfork
Thursday Jan 17, 7:30 PM
MARIN POETRY CENTER
presents a reading by
Kathleen Fraser with Steve Dickison
Kathleen Fraser's books include essays Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, Stilts, Somersaults & Headstands and 20 poem collections.
Fraser's recent poetry titles include: "hi dde violeth i dde violet (Nomados, 2003);" "Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling" and "W I T N E S S (CHAX, 2007)." Her "il cuore:the heart: Selected Poems 1970-1995," is available from Wesleyan.
Steve Dickison, director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, is a poet, writer, and publisher.
In addition, he edits the small poetry press Listening Chamber, with offshoots Rumor Books and Parrhesia Press; co-editor, Shuffle Boil; author of Disposed (Post-Apollo 2007), a book of poetry.
Upcoming MPC Events Thursday Feb 21:
Panel Discussion: The Professionalization of Poetry
Thursday Mar 20:
Parallel Verses Poets
Thursday April 17:
Performance Poets: Claire Blotter & Carla Shawanee Heins
Thursday May 15:
Thomas Centolella and Ellery A
San Francisco
Main Library
Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St. (at Grove) 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Library Sponsored Public Program
January 27th
1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with Friends of the Library, this annual event has gathered increasing notice, as former colleagues and devoted friends join noted authors to eulogize some of the 'creative literary minds' who departed in 2007.
"This is more a celebration than a requiem," said Byron Spooner, the producer of the event. "Many participants simply get up and tell embarrassing stories about those who are no longer around to refute them."
Those remembered include Phil Frank, David Halberstam, Philomene Long, Norman Mailer, Diane Middlebrook, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Fred Pietarinen, Allen Wheelis, and several others.
Literary critic, poet and biographer Gerry Nicosia hosts the event, with appearances by some well-known Bay Area authors, including Richard Boyle, Sharon Doubiago, S.A. Griffen, Adam Hochschild and Wavy Gravy.
This is a free event.
Yep Roc Records, the eponymous American record based in Chapel Hill, NC, founded Glenn Dicker and Tor Hansen, is over ten years old. They manage to put out some of the best, well crafted indie pop around. Just as an example, have a gander at some of their critical acclaim
from their recent releases--
from the YepRoc newsletter
"Critics pick Yep Roc albums for their best of 2007 lists
"Peter Case - Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
Andy Whittman (Paste Magazine) - #7 album of 2007
Sunday Times London - #1 Fringe Album of the Year
Amazon.com - #9 Folk Album of 2007
"The Apples in stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Rolling Stone Magazine (issue #28) - 50 Best Albums of the Year
"Energy" voted one of the Top 20 Videos of 2007 on MTV2 Subterranean
Robert Christgau (Rolling Stone, NY Times) Best Albums of 2007
"Nick Lowe - At My Age
No Depression Magazine - #7, Top 50 Albums of 2007 (Critics Poll)
No Depression Magazine - #41. Top 50 Albums of 2007 (Readers Poll)
Amazon.com - #10 Rock Album of 2007
"Chuck Prophet - Soap and Water
Anthony Decurtis (Rolling Stone, NY Times) Best Albums of 2007
"Southern Culture on the Skids - Countrypolitan Favorites
Twangnation.com - #10, Best Albums of 2007
"Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads
Harp Magazine - #40, 50 Best Albums of 2007
New York Daily News - Best Albums of 2007 by Jim Farber
Cleveland Free Times - Best Music of 2007
News & Observer - Best of 2007
"Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
ABC News - #26, Top 50 Albums of 2007
All Access Music Group - Best of 2007
The Onion A.V. Club (Christopher Bahn) - #2, Best Albums of 2007
The Onion A.V. Club (Gregg Lagambina) - #7, Best Albums of 2007
Disneyfamily.com - Best Albums of 2007
"Heavy Trash - Going Way Out with Heavy Trash
Alarm Magazine - Top Ten Albums of 2007
"Kristin Hersh - Learn to Sing Like a Star
ABC News - #46, Top 50 Albums of 2007
"Robyn Hitchcock - I Wanna Go Backwards
No Depression - #18, Top 20 Reissues of 2007
"The Sadies - New Seasons
HearYa Blog - #36, Best Albums of 2007
"Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers - Swampblood
"What was your favorite Yep Roc album of 2007?
"Click here to place your vote! Poll closes January 16th."
Tickets for the benefit performance party at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25541"There Will Be Blood" opens in general release tomorrow in the US--Ed.
The storied gifts of "There Will Be Blood" flow like a freshly made, life-threatening wound; and there will be Academy Awards for this beautiful, deeply and darkly comic, concise epic by Paul Thomas Anderson; not the least for Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of Daniel Plainview, the avaricious oil man, who is the central figure in the instantly classic depiction of a life devoted to extracting this black essence out of the ground of parched plains of the Southwest at the turn of the 19th Century.
Daniel finds a strike beyond even the most fevered dreams of wealth. He is opposed, both emotionally and spiritually, by young Eli Sunday, played by Paul Dano (previously best known perhaps for his role as the Dwayne, the non-speaking, Nietzsche-reading son in "Little Miss Sunshine") a young evangelist who comes from the family whose land in the Little Boston oil fields Plainview bought is where his great fortune began. Therein lays only the start of a dramatic tension that ends in blood.
Guitarist Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead composed the musical score and it is a stunning minimalist achievement very much in tune with the elegant, untarried lensing by Robert Elswhit, whose work with "Michael Clayton" was also very much appreciated.
Anderson loved Radiohead's music but Jonny Greenwood hesitated at first before turning out his opus. He and Anderson cut back the superfluity until only about thirty minutes were left. It is an impressive largely original (part of his 2005 commissioned work, "Popcorn Superhet Receiver," was also used) debut for Greenwood .
My prediction--There may be blood if Anderson, Lewis and Greenwood don't win Oscars!
Thanks for all your good cheer and continued interest in Ness.
Ness just had a double by-pass heart operation at California Pacific last Thursday.
He may be going home in a few weeks. You can reach him there through the main number 415-600-6000. . . . [or] you can reach him when he comes home.
He has no computer or email.
His home address is 1215 De Haro street SF Ca. 94107.
from Fernando Competente
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