From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Benham Jones’ last dispatch from the Roo…

06.13.2009

Via text messages (Manchester time): Friday 8 pm: ‘Too much’ followed by ‘King Sunny was the best’ Friday 10:17 pm: ‘Watching Beasties from a distance.’ Saturday 10:52 am: Alive That’s all we’ve got for now from the wild and wooly Bonnaroo frontier. Stay tuned…

Benham Jones at the Roo, pt 4: Mud and Animal Collective

06.12.2009

Friday, June 12, 2009 4:20 pm CDT I really wasn’t feeling too sure of this whole thing, was feeling weak and out of my element, half hostile. But then Animal Collective spoke and reminded me why I came here. A band like Animal Collective on film really means nothing, and I was so far from [...]

Benham Jones Reports from Bonnaroo, pt 3: New Dirty Projectors, Portugal. The Man, Alberta Cross, Gomez

06.12.2009

Friday, June 12, 2009 2:20 pm CDT Press orientation got over around high noon, so I grabbed some water and headed back into the big bad body of the festival. I caught the last little bit of a stripped down acoustic set from Portugal. The Man over at the Sonic Village stage. Separated from their [...]

Benham Jones on the ground (barely) and reporting: Fear and Loathing at Bonaroo….pt.2

06.12.2009

Friday, June 12, 2009 11:00 am CDT Keith woke me up this morning around 7 am. I really had no idea who he was at first. We met up last night at the airport after I realized how fucked I was re: the press check-in and he realized how fucked he was re: a ride [...]

Benham Jones Reports: Fear and Loathing from Bonaroo…pt. 1

06.12.2009

Friday, June 12, 2009 3:40 am CDT I got in to Nashville International at about 10pm on Thursday night and had already stepped in some bullshit. The flight from LaGuardia was delayed again and again and I was overdue to pick up my ticket and press credentials at a radio station in Manchester; suddenly, I [...]

The Antlers on Frenchkiss: Hospice Re-release; Two (Mp3)

06.11.2009

Freshly signed to Frenchkiss Records and traveling with a rider which ensures them hot meals, healthy snacks and ample beer plus Jameson whiskey, The Antlers, led by Peter Silberman, are on the road. Traveling with Au Revoir Simone and Cotton Jones, they’re gushing shimmering, dark-underlined, liquid space ambrosia everywhere they go. We’re excited for their [...]

These United States: Honor Amongst Thieves (mp3) + Video

06.11.2009

These United States (Lexington/DC) are serving up country fried musical entertainment and camaraderie, hijinx style, via songs as discourse through their loquacious mouthpiece backed by playful bass, pedal steel and jovial vocal choruses. Honor Amongst Thieves [mp3] from Crimes (Sept. 2008) These United States “Honor Amongst Thieves” from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo.

Summer Coolness from Sup Pop: Cybersex and Scholarship

06.10.2009

Subpop Cybersex Digital Sampler [14 satisfying mp3s] from Vetiver, Handsome Furs, Mark Sultan, Red Red Meat, Obits, The Vaselines, Fleet Foxes, Iron and Wine, Tiny Vipers, Zak Sally, Fruit Bats, Pissed Jeans, Grand Archives and Flight of the Conchords. It’s a free download. Sweet. The Sub Pop “Loser” Scholarship: 2009  Sub Pop Records in Seattle, [...]

Tiny Vipers sucked me in, now I’m changed. Life on Earth (Subpop, 7/7/09): Dreamer and On This Side Mp3s

06.10.2009

Where did time disappear to all morning? I became immersed in the vortex of Tiny Vipers. Jesy Fortino is Tiny Vipers, a stage name she created for herself years ago to “…create a sort of fiction for me to be a part of, rather than me taking myself apart in front of a bunch of [...]

Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca out today; Stillness is the Move (mp3)

06.10.2009

Brookyln’s Dirty Projectors‘ new record, Bitte Orca (Domino), is out now! I suggest you run like the wind and purchase this wholly tantalizing album. Beautiful pop at every turn, from the opening hook – the first reverberating guitar notes dotted by talking bass the likes of a long legged bird in Cannibal Resource – to [...]

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