New Neko Case song. New Neko Case album. New Neko Case photo. LOOK AT THAT PHOTO. Same album title. I’d heard they might shorten it. So delighted they did not.
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Screaming Females - Pretty OK [2008]
last night screaming females played a show at ladyfest philadelphia and they played this old song, which is one of my top 3 favorites of theirs, and which i was shocked (shocked!) to hear them play. i largely freaked out and did the vertical dancing thing i do mostly involving my neck and a complete disregard for anything else in the world except the sound and the feeling of the sound. i was standing in the back, on the side, not in a place where the people around me were moving much, but it did not matter. it was a lost-self moment and it is exactly why i go to shows. always searching for that moment. so glad it was discovered there last night.
and look at this picture of marissa paternoster playing a killer guitar solo while crowdsurfing. yup.
(taken by my friend tara)
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Sound it Out # 48: Lightning Dust - “Diamond”
http://boingboing.net/2013/05/30/lightning-dust-diamond.html
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Sleater-Kinney - One Beat [2002]
one of the best protest songs of the era, for sure.
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Allo Darlin’ - Northern Lights [2012]
this band makes me feel alive and this memorial day weekend is feeling like a fresh start, the way that new year’s eve is supposed to but sometimes does not.
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The Sonics - Night Time Is The Right Time [Cover: Nappy Brown] [1965]
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Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All [Cover: George McCrae] [2000]
somewhere along the line i have become a yo la tengo fan. it is mostly because of georgia hubley.
p.s. did you know this song is a cover? here is the original, from 1974:
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Electrelane - I Want To Be President [2005]
somehow, this is an electrelane song that i had never heard until yesterday. and it is definitely one of their best. i can’t stop listening to it. the lyrics are spectacular. my favorite kind of protest song is the kind that explores the emotional/psychological reasons behind war-making. so good. i don’t usually post lyrics here but i just have to right now:
big alliance.
for the fourteenth time.
take you on.
‘cause you’re strong.
bigger love.
it’s the hating kind.
we’re not interested in your difference.
we like to be deflective.
my gun is bigger than yours.
my tank goes faster than yours.
my missile’s turning me on.
my weapon makes me feel strong.
bang bang bang.
do you wanna see my gun?
well come on.
we’ll resist, we’ll resist.
but let you take control.
but if they say that is so,
is that the way you will go?
and if you thought it was wrong,
would you still follow along?
they’re building walls tonight.
they’re building walls tonight.
ain’t it cold,
ain’t it cold,
ain’t it cold,
where you empty your soul?
there’ll be a war tonight.
there’ll be a war tonight.
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i can’t and won’t ever stop talking about what a revelation this film is, and how it shakes out alllllll of my fantasies through the years of what it was like to be alive at this time and clued into this music and going to these shows, and how big and special these musicians were. this film shakes out all of those thoughts and feelings and impressions, and places them right in front of me like a thing that is real, instead of a fantasy or an imagining based on the scattered black & white photos you see in books and stuff. THIS REALLY HAPPENED. life really was getting lived back there, by real people. i know i’m slipping into Stupefying Reverie mode right now, just still, saying.
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Link Wray & His Wray Men - Hang On [Instrumental] [1965]
one of the best moments of my california trip — and there were SO MANY GOOD MOMENTS — was when i drove down the highway and realized my ipod was playing songs in alphabetical order, not shuffle, and i decided to see what would happen. it was fantastic. i completely lost my shit to this link wray song, windows down, seat-dancing, wheel-thumping, and i can’t stop listening to it ever since. i must dance to this someplace loud and free and sweaty. soon.
anyway, i loved how these songs sounded together, so i threw them onto an 8tracks mix. enjoy:
tracklist:
alabama shakes - hang loose
link wray & his wray men - hang on
david bowie - hang onto yourself
chuck willis - hang up my rock ‘n roll shoes
the nerves - hangin’ on the telephone
william bell - happy
quasi - the happy prole
the jesus and mary chain - happy when it rains
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