Ryan Adams, a Reasonable Man, Plans American Tour with Oasis, a Group of Sensible Gentlemen, For a Temperate, Exceedingly Composed Trip Completely Free of Big Egos and Even Bigger Drinking Binges. Honest!

In a recent interview with the tastemakers at Rolling Stone, singer, songwriter, and complainer Ryan Adams lamented about a recent comment from former Replacements frontman and far-better-Minnesota-Senatorial-candidate-than-Al-Franken Paul Westerberg, who said, “Someone should knock [the complainer Ryan Adams’] teeth out.” Mr. Adams, always glad to oblige the media with his incessant bitching, claimed, “I left home because of things like that. I can't listen to his music again, ever."

Well, Ryan, if positive reinforcement and a criticism-free environment is what you so desperately crave, boy oh boy have you made a strange touring decision! In support of his new album Cardinology (TMT Review), Ryan Adams will be opening for those lugubrious lads from Wankchester Oasis, and if they’re known for one thing, it’s intense disagreeability! But here’s the real cosmic question, ya’ll: When two groups of such meteoric assholes collide, will their catastrophic wake leave an unforeseen landscape of gorgeous celestial brilliance Einstein only dared dream of on especially comfortable nights, or will their unholy union surely rain brimstone upon a waiting Earth and bring on the fabled end of days? There’s only one way to find out, and that means you’ll actually have to buy a ticket for an Oasis concert. Or you could do something much cooler with your time instead, like read a book on pressing flowers or get a head start on your tax return. The choice is yours!

* Oasis

RIP: Nathaniel Mayer, Detroit R&B Singer

From YouTube:

From Reuters (via Idolator):

Detroit soul singer Nathaniel Mayer, who embarked on an unlikely comeback four years ago with the help of some young punk musicians [The Black Keys], has died from complications following a series of strokes, his representatives said on Tuesday. He was 64.

Mayer died on Saturday in Detroit, according to a blog posting on his MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/nathanielmayer). Funeral arrangements are pending.

- Nathaniel Mayer MySpace
- Nathaniel Mayer Wikipedia entry
- Fat Possum Records
- Alive Naturalsound Records

Good Morrow, Fair Titus Andronicus, And Forth To Signing With XL And Touring!

To be or not to be -- that is the question;

Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fashion,

...oops, wrong Shakespeare play! It seems New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus (and NOT Spanish metal gods Hamlet) have signed to XL Recordings. Their debut album, The Airing of Grievances, which was originally released on Troubleman Unlimited, has been newly mastered and will see a digital re-release this month and a physical release in January 2009.

Tragedy or comedy?:

& No Age

The iPhone Just Got Cooler; Now Has A Four-Track-Recorder App. Can Someone Tell Me A Nice Quiet Place To Scream And Vent My Frustrations That I Still Don’t Own One Of These?

Well, now they’ve done it. Now there is a Mac App. for the iPhone/iPod Touch I think I cannot live without. According to Wired’s blog, Listening Post, the good people at Sonoma Wire Works have created a four-track recorder for Apple’s touch-based portable technologies. For a measly $10, you can aspire to be just like Guided by Voices circa 1994 or any of your other lo-fi heroes, except, uh, you'd be using an iPod to record your songs. Each track is stored as a 44.1 kHz WAV file that can be sent wi-fi to any computer for further work if desired. The application is rather basic, functioning mainly to arm tracks to record, pan, and skip through the progress of a song, but it will fit in your pocket, so who can complain?

Now, while this product is indeed drool-inducing (or perhaps wet dream-inducing for the likes of, I don't know, Phil Elverum?), there are of course some limits, as this is being pumped out of an MP3 player or phone depending on what you are using. A major cited problem is that the internal speaker of the iPhone/iPod Touch is soft, so without headphones and a microphone that fit the outlet on these devices, there is not much hope of making a meaningful recording. Also, this program will not work for the first-generation iPod Touch.

But it's still a pretty solid application. Each track is stored as a 44.1 kHz WAV file that can be sent wi-fi to any computer for further work if desired, which is pretty sweet. With the holidays a month away, if any of you reading are feeling especially generous this year, feel free to hook me or any other member of the TMT family up with an iPhone and this app. I promise you will be on my “good list” if you do!


Will Oldlham… I Mean, Iron and Wine… I Mean, Phosphorescent to Tour This Fall

Now that’s sarcasm! Umm, anyway, yes it’s true. Just as you were getting a bit tired of that Bonnie “Prince” Billy record from this past summer, yet another bearded man with yet another loosely titled, Appalachian-inspired spiritual folk outfit is hitting the road this fall to keep up the nationwide enthusiasm for the gospel of, well, for vibing-out on ghostly folk tunes and drinking colorful wines with your chi... or something.

This time it just so happens to be the notable Matthew Houck and his roving band of facial hair aficionados, otherwise known as Phosphorescent, who are tagging-in for a few rounds in the southern and eastern U.S., while Will Oldham and Sam Beam rest their fragile fallapart voices.

Originally from Alabama and a longtime resident of Georgia, this will be the rustic Shaman’s first tour of the Dirty Dirty since the release of his band’s last album, the widely-acclaimed Pride (TMT Review). Hell, speaking of south, it even looks like Houck and co. plan on camping out in Florida for some five dates while the weather presumably turns to shit just about everywhere else in the country. You’ve gotta rest that facial hair after a while, don’t you know?

In other hippie folk news, Phosphorescent have announced plans to release new material in very early 2009. No need to wonder what it’ll sound like, though. We might as well just give it a 4/5 or so now.

South by Northeast Tour:

@ Lights

# Virgin Forest

The Kinks Preparing New Material That Probably Won’t Be Good, For a Reunion I Will Undoubtedly Check Out Anyway

So yeah, looks like The Kinks, who according to the BBC "had hits like You Really Got Me, Lola and Waterloo Sunset" are getting back together. Frontman Ray Davies confirmed to the BBC yesterday that they've been writing new material in preparation for a comeback.

That's more or less the entire story, save the fact that Ray is only participating pending the good health of his brother Dave (that's good) and also that Ray is currently working on an album of collaborations that may sound like "a mixture of Snow Patrol and Chuck Berry" (that's bad). He contains multitudes, that Ray Davies.

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