Diamond Nights - Destination Diamonds [2006]

was up at The Cactus Club

out there Milwaukee way last nite.

saw a rather fantastic band

(Zorch)

brilliant young band

made me think of

all sorts of things

with my feet

fucking love the Cactus. what a treasure.

we dined around the corner at The Palomino.

incredible. deep-fried vegan goodness.

but plenty of actual animal fare, too.

talk about having your cake.

Again,

you Motherfucking Milwaukeeans,

(especially you Badass Bayview Bitches)

must know how fucking good you have it

(which is why you all keep it so quiet)

forgive this FIB for saying so

but can I move there?

Anyway,

at the bar with tall (-0-) Pete

after and this song comes on

and we both say Thin Lizzy?

the bartender laughs

and says yeah almost

he shows us the album

a conversation about the best ways to be derivative ensues.

this is the golden sample of that, the proverbial case-in-point

the ultimate crosstalk consensus: don't argue against groove

you will only sound small and lose. bartender pauses:

man, when those guys played here...

they floored the fucking place.

the kids went cray-cray.

band ended up hanging the whole wknd here in town

going to BBQs, backyard parties, record shopping

playing with the kids, playing for the kids

playing kids playing to kids
kicking some

rocky says:

i could listen to aeons of albums by folks working this vein

KEXP - Live Performance Podcasts

in case you haven't heard

the stuff here is just fine:

Thee Oh Sees, Surfer Blood, Stanton Moore Trio

The Raveonettes, Cinematic Orchestra, Battles

Femi Kuti, Death from Above 1979, Wire

Gang of Four, Caribou, Of Montreal, MIA

Thurston Moore, and much much more.

did I mention Thee Oh Sees set?

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Spiritualized - various TV appearances

BTW: "you know i've been thinking about not coming down."

Steve Reich - South Bank Show [2006]

this was for his 70th birthday

excited to see eighth blackbird

and third coast percussion

at Millenium Park this Mon

celebrating his 75th

Eric Clapton - Drunk Onstage Racist Rant [1976]

"I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man"

Enoch Powell

Ibliss - Supernova [1972]

rocky says:

fuck me harder satan.

melt my foetid brain.

piss out my third eye.

Progarchives.com: With a line-up that included Basil HAMMOUDI (an ORGANISATION alumni) and Andreas HOHMANN (who played in the first KRAFTWERK album), IBLISS is closely associated to one of the most important cornerstones of krautrock. Overall, the band's style is heavily based on jams impregnated with the flavors of jazz-rock and fusion,: the psychedelic sounds serving more as adornments than as an essential element. The line-up is completed with saxophonist Rainer BÜCHEL, guitarist Wolfgang and bassist Norbert BUELLMEYER. The band's repertoire gives predominant room to percussive inputs, while the guitar and sax solos are more focused on completing the momentums or stating laid-back nuances. The band's tribal and fusion aspects are undeniably linked to ORGANISATION, but the most obvious family resemblances in style are connected to EMBRYO, XHOL and ANNEXUS QUAM (first album): there is more jazz than rock in IBLISS. The band was short-lived, with the "Supernova" album (sound engineer: Conny PLANK) being barely noticed by music critics and audiences. IBLISS is a collector's item for all krautrock lovers, as well as an impressive example of the sort of jazz-oriented trend that was developed in German's underground musical scene in the early 70s.

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Cults - Go Outside

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