Podcasts about gram rabbit

Jesika Von Rabbit is a legend in the High Desert. Although not a native of the area, she found her dream place after first moving to LA from Wisconsin at the end of the 1990s. She first worked as a stylist for the likes of Debbie Harry and Gwen Stefani in Los Angeles, but this wasn't fulfilling enough; she wanted to be the one behind the microphone. About that time, she first visited Joshua Tree and found there the artistic freedom that would enable her to become the avant-garde, genre-bending, electro - rock n' roll queen she has become since. « Joshua Tree was a good place. It was still close enough to Los Angeles, where I'd still be able to perform there and make my mark there. But I didn't have to live right in Los Angeles, when which can be a little, you know, treacherous. » In Joshua Tree, she and Todd Rutherford Johnson formed Gram Rabbit. They released five albums together before she branched out and released her first solo album in 2015. With Dessert Rock, Jesika Von Rabbit confirmed her status as « Queen of the High Desert » in 2018. At the center of her work is her continuous exploration of musical research. One track is country, the next is techno: « I can't really stick to one sound, I guess. I mean, it all kind of sounds like me, because it's my voice. But yeah, I don't know, I kind of bend genres you could say. » She is back this year with a cover song by the 80's English band Boys Don't Cry. The song dates back to her early days with Gram Rabbit. « Todd Rutherford Johnson, the co-founder of Gram Rabbit, he was part of the original production of this I want to be a cowboy track. But I kind of dug it out of the archives because it had been like on some old ProTools hard drive for years and just maybe like a year and a half ago, I was looking at looking up old sessions and I'm like « oh yeah, this » and I listen to it. I'm like « this has to come out ». So, I put Jessie Hughes (Eagles Of Death Metal) vocals on it cuz him and I are friends and we always talked about doing a duet. » The universes of Jesika and Jesse complement each other. Both goofy and a little menacing, they embrace total artistic freedom, regardless of good manners. We like them for that particular reason. Even with the recent gentrification of the area, local fans can rest assured Jesika won't be moving anytime soon from Joshua Tree: « If I drove around the country looking for new places to live, I'd probably be seeking out something similar to where I'm at. » - Vincent Walter Jacob https://www.hangingonsunset.com Jesika Von Rabbit: I wanna be a Cowboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dupnpjtkLkM --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hangingonsunset/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hangingonsunset/support

Purchase our album picks on Bandcamp https://manybirthdays.bandcamp.com/album/black-mountain-blue-sea    https://13yearcicadas.bandcamp.com/   or eMusic https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_3624495/13-Year-Cicada    Structure:  The first album pick is an EP and the second is more of a comparison of two albums.  (1:10) Robert's discovery of & history appreciating Many Birthdays & IUMA music hosting site (5:20) turning Japanese and then less so over their discography (12:24) RIYLs (w/ whom would we “lump” MB?)  (17:20) “Black Mountain Blue Sea” EP thoughts (20:42) Robert's thoughts on Austin, TX  (23:40) alternative explanations for MB's obscurity:  the importance of record label support & full albums  (30:35) MB's many genres and individual songs from the EP, comparisons to Mitchell Froom (35:37) MB's music videos in comparison to 13 Year Cicada  (41:20) Album ratings for “Black Mountain Blue Sea” & Robert's thoughts on music reviews and “interesting failures”  (48:38) transitioning to 13 Year Cicada with similarities between the groups  (50:50) 13 Year Cicada's “00YES” introduction & Robert's introduction of the band (53:17) RIYLs & reaching for similar sounds to 13 Year Cicada, Robert compares to previous album “Totem Tongue” (57:05) Critics didn't get the album, “Ride” compared to The Shaggs, other individual tracks from “00YES” (1:01:26) Who is the audience for this audience?  Lyrics to “Squirrel”, video for the new track “What Will You Be Wearing?”, thoughts on individual songs with that song as a bridge between the quiet and loud of their two albums. (1:11:06) Why DJ Poseur prefers “Totem Tongue” & Robert's preference for “00YES” friendly disagreement, their other music videos (1:13:52) Rating the two albums by 13 Year Cicada   Many Birthdays RIYL:  The Kills, Asobi Seksu, Deerhoof, Trans Am, Sonic Youth, Parts & Labor, IQU, the soundtrack to "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" for SNES, Love Psychedelico, Takako Minekawa & J-Rock generally   13 Year Cicada RIYL:  Pharmakon, Shilpa Ray, The Low Budgets, experimental punk w/ fem. vocals, Animal Collective   My favorite MB music video (for “Days Like Turtles”):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxrhFljxF0    and one I call lo-fi Cyriak, “Minnawa”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlt5CEZ9J8     A great, new music video for 13 Year Cicada's “What Will You Be Wearing”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HCuzpYB7-E    Media on MB:  https://www.sonicbids.com/band/manybirthdays/  ;   https://www.facebook.com/manybirthdays    Media reviews of “00Yes”:  Fuze Magazine (Germany)  https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/13-year-cicada-00yes-117164 ;  https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/13-year-cicada-00yes-117164   Other media we mention:  IUMA https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive   http://www.theoctopusproject.com/   Mitchell Froom -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Froom   Gram Rabbit     https://gramrabbit.bandcamp.com/ (ok, maybe this connection is tenuous is best, but Gram Rabbit straddles country and electronica and occasionally punk, such as in this album)   https://gramrabbit.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-start-a-cult-to   Takako Minekawa  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takako_Minekawa

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A trip to Pappy & Harriet's to see the band Gram Rabbit was Barbie's first visit to the desert. From then, she would travel back and forth between the desert and a corporate job in Long Beach - that's a long ride for the love of the desert.   After a medical diagnosis in 2008, Barbie Sommars sought alternative methods of healing and pain management and came to cannabis. She's moved from patient to activist to educator on her journey and currently leads the Orange County Chapter of Women Grow and produces cannabis infused Moonlight Movable Feasts through her High Dining brand. Barbie also founded Fairie Jane, a cannabis lifestyle brand, celebrating cannabis awareness and activism through the art of adornment.   In this episode, Barbie helps the uninitiated understand a bit about hemp and marijuana, the differences between the two and the biological reasons it's helping so many people with or without ailments. She also shares a bit about some of the products she promotes and the jewel-like blown-glass pieces she offers as an homage to the underground glass makers - the full story on that is in a film called Degenerate Art.