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Optical Illusion of the Day: Go ahead and stare / it’s not a screamer, I swear.
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Optical Illusion of the Day: Go ahead and stare / it’s not a screamer, I swear.
[original / deepika_padukone / reddit.]
Sounds on the bus…..
JAYHAWKS
Gram
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Obligatory Overhead Space Shuttle Launch Photo of the Day: The final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis as seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft.
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Obligatory Overhead Space Shuttle Launch Photo of the Day: The final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis as seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft.
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MEGAFAUN: album cover, track list, and first single from Megafaun
The first song you reveal from an album — from a band like Megafaun, from an album like Megafaun — says something. How do you tune the world to Phil Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Brad Cook, to the vastness of their minds, to the sheer nature of time?
Process, songcraft, and toss-and-turn emotion collided when Megafaun’s Joe Westerlund looped together field recordings from his travels in Bali and rural North Carolina: a round-robin of gamelan, ambient sounds, frogs, and cicadas underpin a hauntingly indelible piano melody and a hypnotic beat. Then there are the voices.
This song stopped us dead in our tracks, encapsulating the Megafaun we know and the Megafaun we’ve yet to hear. In between? Well, that’s Megafaun, out September 20, 2011.
The cover art was created by none other than Aaron Draplin.
Check out the premiere on Pitchfork this morning.
And talk about premieres:
We are excited to announce the first child of Megafaun’s Phil Cook and his wife Heather, born last night in Durham, NC!
Megafaun Megafaun
- Real Slow
- These Words
- Get Right
- Hope You Know
- Isadora
- Second Friend
- Resurrection
- Kill The Horns
- Scorned
- Serene Return
- You Are The Light
- State/Meant
- postscript
- Everything
View the album teaser video right here.
Megafaun will be released in Europe in September by Crammed Discs.
For everything there is a word…for everything but this.
geeee.
win
fucking awesome… wish I could have caught one of these shows.
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Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris at Max’s Kansas City by Lilly Hou.
RIP: Gil Scott-Heron
I was just posting some Gil Scott-Heron song titles that came to mind on Facebook and it made me want to say something about the poet/prophet. I’ve never really done anything like this before, so here goes…
It’s honestly hard for me to describe exactly what Gil Scott-Heron’s music and legacy mean to me. He is one of the first artists I truly felt something from. In my opinion, his work is just as important to American music as Bob Dylan or Woody Guthrie’s. He’s been described as “The Godfather of Rap” and “A mixture of politics and poetry”. His music was nothing short of ground-breaking. Since I’ve never really written about someone’s passing, the best I can do now is talk about how I ‘found’ Gil Scott-Heron.
Sometime around 1999 I picked up a reissued copy of Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Midnight Band: First Minute of a New Day. It Killllled me. The song that stands out the most is Winter In America. I was in love with that laid back, jazzy vibe and the lyrics just spoke to me. Even as a 20 year old punk, I immediately empathized with what this man was going through. He was political and proud.. he was enthusiastic about his culture. It was Jazz, Blues, and Soul. A self-named “blusician”
The tracks leading up to WIA: Liberation Song; Must Be Something; SUPERMAN; and the spoken word, We Beg Your Pardon… they were all just setting me up for that song AND teaching me something about life I hadn’t heard before. That album blew me away and it sincerely changed my view of the world. I don’t pretend to know what is was like being alive and a black man in the early 70’s, but I’ll be damned if he didn’t make me understand just a little bit.
I had the pleasure of seeing him preform 2 years ago here in Charlotte and I am so happy that I did. He was a frail, the songs were reworked for a modern sound, and I was high… but I sat in my seat the entire time with my eyes glued to him. Part of me knew that this was probably the only time I would see him preform.
I can only hope his passing will bring people to discover his music and help spread his message. I just want to say something…. God rest his soul.
