Brass Bed – “Begs Me Not to Beg”, “Pop Mission”
The Extra Lens (Franklin Bruno & John Darnielle) – “Only Existing Footage”
Scraping For Change – “My Darkest Hour”
The New Czars – “Brush with the Devil”
Karnivool – “Set Fire to the Hive”
Devotionals – “Chest Like Expansive Wings”
Fox in the Henhouse – “Fears”
Super Wild Horses – “Golden Town”
Y La Bamba – “Juniper”
Woven Bones – “I’ve Gotta Get”
Author: chip midnight
In My Ear – Week of July 25
1. The Graviators
Sweden rules! It’s as if the only reading material available in the country are back issues of Hit Parader magazine circa 1981 – 1991 and all the upstart bands think that metal from that decade is still cool around the world. There are as many sleaze/glam bands coming from Sweden today as there were from the Sunset Strip in LA 20 years ago. There are also tons of Sabbath-inspired bands, like The Graviators whose sludgy, doomy metal would make Ozzy and Tony Iommi proud.
2. Gamble House
In anticipation of an interview I’ll be doing with Ben Becker, Gamble House’s self-titled debut was in constant rotation on my iPod. Comparisons to Grizzly Bear appear in every review I’ve read though I don’t know Grizzly Bear well enough to know if the comparisons are accurate. I love the ’60s/’70s paisley-pop sound, the unexpected instruments, the languid, breezy choruses. “Central Park” is one of the best opening cuts I’ve heard on any album in 2010.
3. Ministry – “Filth Pig”
I think I probably stopped buying new Ministry albums just before Filth Pig came out in 1996. I caught the title song from this album on the Liquid Metal station on XM last week and the guitar riff sounds like Helmet’s Page Hamilton covering Faith No More’s “Last Cup of Sorrow”. BROOTAL!!!!
4. Judge Jackson – “Radio”
Kaytea at XO Publicity sent me a link to download this song so I figured I’d check it out. Nothing wrong with a free MP3, right? Knowing nothing about Judge Jackson, it takes all of 3 seconds of “Radio” to figure out that these guys would be great on a tour opening for everybody from Buckcherry to The Black Crowes to Velvet Revolver. Straight up rawk n’ drinking music roll.
DOWNLOAD: Judge Jackson – “Radio”
5. Dead Confederate – “Giving it All Away”
At first listen, it sounds like these grungy southern rockers may have found a shower and washed away the mid-90s Seattle influences found on their last album. Still, this song grew on me the more and more I listened to it this week. The new Dead Confederate CD comes out at the end of the month.
The Frames gearing up for a U.S. tour?
Over on The Frames MySpace page, the following note was posted:
“New York City is the first locale to go onsale for The Frames Twentieth Anniversary Tour. Stay tuned for info on Washington DC, Philadelphia, and other select cities across the United States to be revealed over the following days and weeks… These shows are not to be missed!”
Sounds encouraging but it also sounds like a limited-run tour. I can’t complain – I was fortunate enough to catch a number of performances by The Frames during SXSW back in 2005 – but I’ll be disappointed if there isn’t an Ohio date this fall.
Listen to a new track from The Damnwells
The new Damnwells CD should be out before the end of the year (hopefully before the end of the summer). Here’s a track from the CD, “She Goes Around”.
Tour: Jimmy Eat World
Anybody heard any buzz about the new Jimmy Eat World CD? Invented is due in stores September 28 with a single (“My Best Theory”) showing up sometime in August. Mark Trombino, who produced Clarity and Bleed American, is back on-board and it’ll be interesting to see if the band can capture the magic of those two CDs on their latest.
I’ve been listening to the Jimmy Eat World catalog a lot this week and my current go-to song is “Pain” from 2004’s Futures.
The first leg of the band’s tour starts just a week before Invented is released. Here are the dates:
9/21 – Atlanta, GA / Center Stage
9/22 – Asheville, NC / The Orange Peel
9/24 – Sayreville, NJ / Starland Ballroom
9/25 – Virgin Mobile FreeFest Merriweather Post Pavilion
9/29 – Los Angeles, CA / The Wiltern
9/30 – San Francisco, CA / Warfield Theatre
10/1 – San Luis Obispo, CA / SLO Veterans’ Auditorium
10/3 – Denver, CO / Ogden Theatre
10/4 – Omaha, NE / Sokol Auditorium
10/5 – Milwaukee, WI / Pabst Theatre
10/7 – Chicago, IL / Riviera Theatre
10/8 – Royal Oak, MI / Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/9 – Columbus, OH / Newport Music Hall
10/11 – Philadelphia, PA / Electric Factory
10/14 – New York, NY / Terminal 5
10/15 – Boston, MA / House Of Blues
10/17 – Toronto, CAN / Kool Haus
Support:
– Civil Twilight 9/21-9/22.
– We Were Promised Jetpacks 9/29-10/17.