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Rollo & Grady // Blasts From The Not-So-Distant Past

rollogrady — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:01:18 +0000

Helvetia

Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Album: The Acrobats (Buy)
Year: 2008
Label: The Static Cult Label
MP3: Helvetia – Old New Bicycle
Notes: New Album ‘Junk Shop’ coming out September 15th

Studio

Hometown: Gothenburg, Sweden
Album: West Coast (Buy)
Year: 2007
Label: Information
MP3: Studio – Origin

Brightblack Morning Light

Hometown: Northern California via Alabama
Album: Brightblack Morning Light (Buy)
Year: 2006
Label: Matador Records
MP3: Brightblack Morning Light – Friend Of Time
Notes: BML is currently touring with Rodriguez. They are playing the El Rey tonight (6/27) ticket info.

The Mendoza Line

Hometown: Brooklyn, New York via Athens, Georgia
Album: Full of Light and Full of Fire (Buy)
Year: 2005
Label: Misra Records
MP3: The Mendoza Line – Catch A Collapsing Star
Notes: The group broke up shortly after band-mates Tim Bracy and Shannon McArdle announced their divorce in 2007. They are both working on side projects. The Mendoza Line is an informal term used in baseball when a position player’s batting average falls below .200.

Rollo & Grady // Saturday Into Sunday – Voulme #10

rollogrady — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:07:44 +0000

Alabama

MP3: King Khan – Que Lindo Sueno
MP3: Luckyiam.PSC – Fuck Your Mother Fucking Trucker Hats
MP3: Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Black Dominoes Remix)

Remixes That Won’t Make Your Ears Bleed – Volume #6

rollogrady — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:08:25 +0000

MP3: Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (FunkFussion Remix)
MP3: Beck – Dark Star (TV On The Radio Remix)

Related Posts:
Remixes That Won’t Make Your Ears Bleed – Volume #1 (Click Here)
Remixes That Won’t Make Your Ears Bleed – Volume #2 (Click Here)
Remixes That Won’t Make Your Ears Bleed – Volume #3 (Click Here)
Remixes That Won’t Make Your Ears Bleed – Volume #4 (Click Here)
Remixes That Won’t Make Your Ears Bleed – Volume #5 (Click Here)

Rollo & Grady // Voices of Angels

rollogrady — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:13:06 +0000

Liz Harris – Grouper

MP3: Grouper – Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping
MP3: School Of Seven Bells – Half Asleep
MP3: Cat Power – Wild Is The Wind (Live La Cigale Paris 4/11/05)

May 29th – School of Seven Bells @ The Troubadour (More Info)

Rollo & Grady // Sunday into Monday

rollogrady — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:09:02 +0000

Nice Earthquake tonight.

MP3: The Black Angels – Science Killer
MP3: Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer
MP3: Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked (Wicked Devil Remix)

Download:
Cage the Elephant – Cage the Elephant (iTunes)
Blitzen Trapper – Furr (iTunes)
The Black Angels – Passover (iTunes)

Deerhoof // New, Improved, Live – Session 1

rollogrady — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:17:45 +0000

Ed Rodriguez tuning up for the session

New, Improved, Live is a multimedia series launched by TheBayBridged.com and New, Improved Recording. Every month, they invite a popular indie band to their studio in Oakland and record an exclusive live session.

They chose eclectic San Francisco quartet Deerhoof for their first show. The band recorded 4 tracks: ‘Giga Dance’, ‘The Great Car Tomb’, ‘Let’s Dance The Jet’ and ‘Milking.’ You have the option to download the songs (free) @ 160kbps or 320kbps. The sound is terrific. They also have video footage of the session and a Q&A with Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier (click here). New, Improved, Live is off to a great start.

MP3: Deerhoof – Let’s Dance The Jet (New, Improved, Live – Session 1)

Related Posts: Rollo & Grady Interview with John Dieterich (Click Here)

Austin City Limits Festival Lineup Announced

rollogrady — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:55:32 +0000

The Dead Weather

The lineup for the eighth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival was just announced. The headliners include Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon and Sonic Youth. The event will take place in Zilker Park on October 2nd-4th. Three-day passes are available for $185. Tickets and VIP packages are available at www.aclfestival.com,

Rollo & Grady // First Glance Highlights
The Dead Weather
The Levon Helm Band
Sonic Youth
Mos Def
Andrew Bird
Bon Iver
The Avett Brothers
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Heartless Bastards
Dan Auerbach
Devotchka
Blitzen Trapper
Here We Go Magic
Eek-A-Mouse
Dr. Dog
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
The Felice Brothers
Rodriguez
School of Seven Bells
Alberta Cross
Deer Tick
Alela Diane
The Wood Brothers
The Low Anthem
Cotton Jones
The Henry Clay People
Dexateens

Medeski, Martin and Wood

MP3: The Dexateens – Devoted to Lonesome
MP3: Cotton Jones – Gotta Cheer Up
MP3: School of Seven Bells – Face to Face On High Places
MP3: The Wood Brothers – Glad

FOR COMPLETE LINEUP (CLICK HERE)

Jayhawks // Reunite For Summer Tour

rollogrady — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:14:45 +0000

The Jayhawks are reuniting for a summer tour. While Gary Louris and Mark Olson have been touring together since 2006 and recorded an album in 2007, they’ve done it only as a duo. Not as the Jayhawks. Original members Karen Grotberg, Tim O’Reagan and Marc Perlman will join Louris and Olson for the reunion tour. Expect an album in late 2009.

Mark Olson & Gary Louris are playing April 11th @ Largo (More Info)

MP3: Gary Louris and Mark Olson – Blue (Live – Chicago 7/9/03)
MP3: Gary Louris and Mark Olson – Waiting For The Sun (Live – Chicago 7/9/03)
*Tracks found on Addicted To Vinyl

Download:
Mark Olson & Gary Louris – Ready for the Flood (iTunes)
The Jayhawks – Hollywood Town Hall (iTunes)

New Album Releases For Tuesday (11/18/2008)

rollogrady — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:50:57 +0000

Fab Moretti

“I tell you this, I don’t know what’s going to happen man, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.” Jim Morrison on astrology

It’s a pretty good week for new releases. The debut album from Strokes’ drummer Fab Moretti’s side project Little Joy is the best of the bunch. Moretti is joined by Los Angeles native Binki Shapiro and Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos). The band is playing December 7th @ The Troubadour. Tickets are still available (Buy Tix $15). I assume this show will sell out soon; hipsters paradise. That said, I just bought tickets.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan’s album Sunday At Devil Dirt is great.

Anathallo has created quite a buzz. Some bloggers are calling Canopy Glow one of the best albums of the year. I wouldn’t go that far. The musical arrangements are nice, but I still need to give it a few more listens.

I haven’t heard The Doors album, safe bet it’s good. Ditto with Belle & Sebastian.

Download:
Little Joy – Little Joy (iTunes)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Sunday At Devil Dirt (iTunes)
The Doors – Live At the Matrix, 1967(iTunes)
Anathallo – Canopy Glow (iTunes)
Belle & Sebastian – The BBC Sessions (iTunes)

Download
MP3: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Black Mountain
MP3: Little Joy – Unattainable
MP3: Anathallo – Cafetorium

Sacha Baron Cohen // Respect

rollogrady — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:06:24 +0000

From The CBC:
British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has returned to gate-crashing in the U.S., this time bringing his flamboyant gay fashion reporter character Bruno to a California rally calling for a ban on same-sex marriage.

Cohen, disguised as Bruno, joined marching demonstrators outside Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday and mingled with the crowd. The march was in support of Proposition 8, which seeks to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling that allows gay and lesbians to wed.

Photographers and reporters covering the rally eventually recognized Cohen, the star of the blockbuster faux documentary film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Though they tried to approach the star, members of his film crew attempted to shield him. He was later ushered away in a van.

Cohen has been filming a new mockumentary film starring Bruno, who along with Borat was first introduced in his cable comedy program Da Ali G Show.

In the past few months, the British star has crashed several fashion show catwalks in France and in Italy, dressed as Bruno. In Milan, his stunt briefly landed him in police detention, before a colleague could vouch for him.

In December, the Los Angeles-based Cohen told a U.K. newspaper that he was retiring Ali G (the dim-witted hip-hop interviewer) and Borat (the uncouth reporter from Kazakhstan) because they have become too well-known and he was increasingly unable to dupe new interviewees.