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Senescent Spectacle #55 [MP3]
Available here (192kbps MP3, 176 MB, 2:06) is the Senescent Spectacle #55, featuring music from Sub Pop’s Death Vessel, as well as the new releases from Dungen, Secret Machines, and AIDS Wolf. Here’s the complete playlist:
| Track | Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death Vessel | Block My Eye | Nothing is Precious Enough For Us | Sub Pop | *new arrival | |
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| 5 | Calexico | Writer’s Minor Holiday | Carried to Dust | Quarterstick Records | *new arrival | |
| 2 | Death Vessel | Jitterakadie | Nothing is Precious Enough For Us | Sub Pop | *new arrival | |
| 4 | Pram | The City Surveyor | The Moving Frontier | Domino | *new arrival | |
| 3 | Northern Valentine | Dimanche | The Distance Brings Us Closer | Silber | *new arrival | |
| 2 | Pram | Salt & Sand | The Moving Frontier | Domino | *new arrival | |
| 2 | Bird Show | Clouds and their Shadows | s/t | Kranky | *new arrival | |
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| 2 | Crystal Stilts | Crystal Stilts | Alight of Night | Slumberland | Excellent album, played in the background | *new arrival |
| 1 | The Organ | Even in the night | Thieves | Mint Records | mintrecs.com, 604records.com | *new arrival |
| 2 | Department of Eagles | No One Does It Like You | In Ear Park | 4AD | *new arrival | |
| 4 | The Slow Beings | myfriendkoolkiller | We Know Why the Earth Moves | Hidden Shoal Recordings | ||
| 4 | Department of Eagles | Teenagers | In Ear Park | 4AD | *new arrival | |
| 2 | Deerhunter | Agoraphobia | Microcastle | Kranky | *new arrival | |
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| 1 | Dungen | Sätt Att Se | “4″ | Kemado Records | *new arrival | |
| 1 | All Girl Summer Fun Band | Not The One For Me | Looking Into It | agsfb music | *new arrival | |
| 3 | Deerhunter | Never Stops | Microcastle | Kranky | *new arrival | |
| 4 | Dungen | Samtidigt 1 | “4″ | Kemado Records | *new arrival | |
| 2 | All Girl Summer Fun Band | Something New | Looking Into It | agsfb music | *new arrival | |
| 1 | Sebastien Grainger | American Names | American Names EP | Saddle Creek | *new arrival | |
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| 1 | Love Is All | New Beginnings | A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night | What’s Your Rupture? | *new arrival | |
| 1 | CAW! CAW! | Escape The Red Giant | Wait Outside | Slanty Shanty Records | *new arrival | |
| 3 | Lineland | Am-Trak | Logos For Love | Audio Dregs | *new arrival | |
| 4 | Love Is All | Last Choice | A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night | What’s Your Rupture? | *new arrival | |
| 1 | Daedelus | Fair Weather Friends | Love To Make Music To | Ninja Tune | ||
| 2 | Secret Machines | last believer, drop dead | Secret Machines | TSM | *new arrival | |
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| 3 | Lykke Li | I’m Good. I’m Gone | Youth Novels | Atlantic | *new arrival | |
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| 2 | The Low Lows | Raining in Eva | Shining Violence | Monotreme | *new arrival | |
| 1 | Portastatic | Starter | Some Small History | Merge | *new arrival | |
| 4 | Planes Mistaken for Stars | the past two | We Ride to Fight! | No Idea | *new arrival | |
| 1 | AIDS Wolf | M.T.I. | Cities of Glass | Skin Graft | *new arrival | |
| 2 | AIDS Wolf | Tied Up in Paper | Cities of Glass | Skin Graft | *new arrival | |
My Bloody Valentine, Live at the Concourse in San Francisco
I saw independent music giants My Bloody Valentine Tuesday night at the Concourse at the San Francisco Design Center in San Francisco. I didn’t get any good photos but I’ve included some I’ve found on the Internet of the show, as well as a copy of the bootleg zipped in MP3 format. It was amazing!
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- Kevin Shields & Bilinda Butcher playing their Fender Jazzmasters
Download bootleg (.zip file containing MP3s, 150MB) (taken from Waves & Wires)
My Bloody Valentine [bootleg] First 2008 show, 5/5 quality
MBV to remaster shoegaze classics Loveless, Isn’t Anything
Weekend Fun + Buildings Breeding EP Release
Inna, Gonzalo & I 
The Standard Tribesmen opening
Buildings Breeding released their new EP “Colors Bent to Seasons” and my band, The Standard Tribesmen, opened for them at their release party. Check out their Myspace and buy that EP!
"Digital Vinyl": Free Music Downloads with Vinyl Purchase
I bought some new music on vinyl and to my surprise, some of the albums came with one of these:
Art for Eyes & Ears
A new issue of ANTI is out. “ANTI Magazine aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world.” They are open for submission into their next issue under the theme, “69.”
The Standard Tribesmen Play the Delta of Venus
Our band, The Standard Tribesmen, played a show at the Delta of Venus in Davis, CA last Sunday. Here’s a C- quality recording I made on a handheld cassette recorder of one song:
I’m enamored with this short tale of Beatles fandom: Brian Wilson of Beach Boys fame was driving down the road with a campanion in his car in the late 1960s when he heard a new Beatles song come on the radio. Wilson had been in the studio working on the legendary, unfinished Beach Boys “Smile” album. As his radio whined out the tune to the new song, Strawberry Fields Forever, Wilson pulled his car over and turned up the radio. He looked over to his companion and said “they’ve beat me to it.” The Smile album was shelved shortly thereafter and Wilson couldn’t bring himself to complete it for the next fourty years.
And subsequently, the entirety of the Smile album isn’t as good as the Strawberry Fields Forever double-single.
New My Bloody Valentine Record???
“Their CDs are round and their cassettes are rectangular, but that’s about all My Bloody Valentine has in common with anyone else making records these days. Together since 1984, this Irish-British quartet has been steadily reshaping the contours of contemporary music” - mybloodyvalentine.net
“Kevin Shields, the mercurial and elusive leader of My Bloody Valentine, confirmed that the legendary band has reunited in the studio for the first time since 1995, recorded new material, and that an album release is forthcoming, possibly as soon as this year.” - velvetmorning’s last.fm journal, citing thedailyswarm.com. Also reported on billboard.com.
I’m not sure if it’s true but it would make an amazing end-of-year record, my entire winter soundtrack. Here’s a track my friend Wes pointed out of Kevin Shields playing what could possibly be a new My Bloody Valentine song.
Please, please, please.