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Shout out to friend of the pod Sarah for this week's movie choice! Plus Peach pitches his next horror film... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The return of Space Heater features new music from Cincinnati's Wussy, a new tune from Okkervil River, the new king of broken hearts, Joshua Hedley, Chris Crofton gets some help from Jim James and underneath it all is Brokeback. Enjoy, y'all.
Grant introduces the listeners to new music by Jons and Forth Wanderers, plus live reports, including one from NYC contributor David.
Death and rebirth are at the center of what may be Okkervil River's most heartfelt and touching record since "Black Sheep Boy." It's called "Away," and we discuss it in-depth in this episode of "For the Record."
Death and rebirth are at the center of what may be Okkervil River's most heartfelt and touching record since "Black Sheep Boy." It's called "Away," and we discuss it in-depth in this episode of "For the Record."
In this episode we discuss Morrissey and his recent show cancellation, 50 Cent's reason for his NOT so "handy" pitching debut, and much more! We also introduce an amazing band from Philly called "Like Crazy".
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1987. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Okkervil River, Beachwood Sparks and Midlake. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Brian: Birth of the cassingle - Inexpensive way to buy singles, B-sides - Brian: Collecting 45s for a jukebox - Jay: 1987 was big for female pop artists - Madonna, Bangles, Belinda Carlisle, Lisa Lisa, Heart - Older songs like "Stand By Me" were re-released - Young Brian bought his first album in '87: The Monkees' Greatest Hits - New Monkees TV show came and went - Jay: Made two top 5 album lists, Then and Now - Jay: Then list (#5 to #1): Def Leppard's Hysteria, INXS's Kick, Cult's Electric, Whitesnake's s/t and U2's Joshua Tree - Whitesnake was the hard rock version of Ringo Starr's All Starr Band - Brian's #5: George Harrison's Cloud Nine, despite Jeff Lynne's heavy handed production - Jay's #5: Husker Du's Warehouse, not their best but still pretty great - Incredible run of albums over a short period - Brian's #4: Prince's Sign o' the Times, maybe his last great album - Jay's #4: Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me; Westerberg's focuses on songwriting and less on aggression - Brian's #4: Tom Waits' Franks Wild Years; did Izzy Stradlin play on this album? - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Music: Okkervil River - Stay Young Beachwood Sparks - Make It Together Midlake - Antiphon Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Okkervil River song is on the album The Silver Gymnasium on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) on Goodbye Summer: ATO Records 2013 Fall Sampler at ATORecords.com. The Beachwood Sparks song is on the album Desert Skies on Alive Naturalsounds Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Midlake song is on the album Antiphon on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) on Goodbye Summer: ATO Records 2013 Fall Sampler at ATORecords.com. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
It's a collaboration borne of Austin, Texas-based musicians -- Roky Erickson, a pioneer of psychedelic rock, and Okkervil River, critical darlings of the indie-rock set who have performed with The Decemberists, the New Pornographers, The National and others. The result? Listen up.
The Weather Underground: "Neal Cassidy" Joanna Newsom: "The Book of Right On" & "Bridges And Balloons" Orson Welles: "I Know What It Is To Be Young" with background Dosh: "If You Want To, You Have To" Contrastate: "Breaking the Strawmen" Paul Bowles: "IV" Okkervil River: "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transpondency.com myspace: transpondency
It is the 2007 Great Music Round-up! Viktor counts down his top 5 records of 2007. We will be featuring music by Radiohead, Spoon, Of Montreal and Iron & Wine! We also discuss The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Panda Bear, The Shins, Gogol Bordello, Okkervil River, Josh Ritter, Elliott Smith and more! Special thanks to Sub Pop, Merge, TBD and Polyvinyl Records.
Okkervil River: "The President Is Dead" & "For Real" Lou Reed: "Safety Zone" (Nanking, the film) The Ravonettes: "Dead Sound" Black Mountain: "Tyrants" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv email: suburban@transpondency.com myspace: transpondency
We had a chance to rerecord with Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater and this podcast is our first to include live musical elements. It was lovely to enter Jonathan's space and mindset, if only for a few minutes.