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Grinderman – Nick Cave, Bad Seeds Members
From Pitchfork – Nick Cave and three members of his Bad Seeds– Warren Ellis (also of Dirty Three), Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos– will release their as-yet-untitled debut album as Grinderman on March 5 via Mute in the UK.
Grinderman’s music is “an instinctual yawlp that…resurrects the demons of each musician’s past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick; Jim Sclavunos’ late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey’s ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis’ avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath,” according to a press release.
“No Pussy Blues”– the song streaming from the band’s MySpace page– could be mistaken for a track from the Stooges’ reunion album, or at least what we hope that record will sound like. It’s noisy, funny, raw, and totally cathartic.
As previously reported, Dirty Three’s ATP in April will include sets from Grinderman and Nick Cave solo. Cave also has some European solo dates scheduled for the rest of November.
Finally, Cave has re-teamed with John Hillcoat, director of 2005’s Cave-written film The Proposition, for the next installment in Cave’s screenwriting career: Death of a Ladies’ Man. According to various reports, The Proposition‘s Ray Winstone plays the film’s protagonist, a sex-addicted traveling salesman who takes his son on a road trip after his wife commits suicide. Cheery! Production began in September.
Nick Cave dates:
11-09 Nurnberg, Germany – Meister
11-10 Stuttgart, Germany – Liederhalle
11-11 Mainz, Germany – Phoenixhalle
11-13 Vienna, Austria – Konzerthaus
11-14 Bonn, Germany – Beethovenhalle
11-17 Zurich, Switzerland – Kongresshaus
11-19 Helsinki, Finland – Finlandia Hall
11-20 Riga, Latvia – Arena
11-22 Dresden, Germany – Kulturplast
Stream: Grinderman: No Pussy Blues [MySpace]
Kenny Rogers – Jackass
Johnny Cash At San Quentin (Legacy Edition) – Pitchfork Review
The fine folks at Pitchfork have posted a really nice review of the Legacy 2-CD 1-DVD release of Johnny Cash’s performance at California’s oldest state prison, San Quentin.
An excerpt: Cash’s decision to strum up a jail probably had as much to do with his own burgeoning mythology– the Man in Black, the cold-blooded killer, the anti-Nashville rebel– than any desire to remedy the U.S. prison system (although Cash did eventually actively advocate prison reform, meeting with President Richard Nixon in July 1972). All the ethical snafus inherent to the deed– it’s easy to argue that Cash exploited the convicts’ plight to buoy his own rep, or to sympathize with the families of the prisoners’ victims, who might not want to see their loved ones’ killer clapping his hands to “A Boy Named Sue”– are hard to dismiss, but At San Quentin is still a spectacular musical performance, one of the most mesmerizing live records in American history.
Spady Brannan – “The Long Way Around and Other Short Stories” (Postscript)
The Long Way Around and Other Short Stories
For all that time working for Nashville acts Brannan’s first release isn’t typical Music Row product but reflects a roots-rock sensibility that’s more John Hiatt or Tom Petty than Chesney or Toby.
The themes are typical barroom crooner fodder, love gained, love lost, but does done with a freshness, authenticity and warmth that far surpasses most of what comes out of Nashville these days. Twang (Some Days) is mixed with Boz Skaggs-like blue-eyed soul (Long Way Round) and swamp-groove (Smilin Eyes) to round out this great forst release from a seasoned veteran who is able to separate the wheat from the chafe resulting in a satisfying helping. Here’s hoping for seconds.
Shack Shakers’ Trailer & Gear Recovered
This has been posted elsewhere but I wanted to put a close to an earlier alert.
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SHACK SHAKERS’ TRAILER & GEAR RECOVERED!
Unbelievable.
At 10am this morning, Officer Rob Eggers with the Nashville Police Dept. awakened the sleeping giant Mark Robertson with the awesome news that the Shack Shakers’ trailer, gear and merch had all been FOUND!
Dumped at a nearby airstrip by the river, the trailer sat idle with 95% of the contents still in tact. Only David’s orange Gretsch (NOT the White falcon! whew.) and Mark’s P-Bass were missing.
The theory goes that some illegal laborers (i.e.: no traceable fingerprints) had swiped our trailer, thinking it contained construction materials and power tools (the property where it was parked had sustained a theft of similar items months before.) When they got the trailer to the airstrip to peek inside, they found only heavy, heaping boxes of t-shirts and unwieldy amplifiers. Only the two guitars were easy enough to swipe in a flash.
This is great news for the band and all our fans, as we can now seemlessly join up with the Reverend Horton Heat, tour the East Coast with all our old familiar gear, and NOT be set back tens of thousands of dollars.
Thanks to the good folks at Fender in Scotsdale for their kind offer to expediate a shipment of replacement gear. And thanks to all of our fans, friends and family for jumping into action at a moment’s notice.
And thanks to Policeman Robbie Eggers..a hell of a cop, bass-player and daddy o’ twins. You guys are the greatest.
Seeya on the big East Coast Holiday tour with the Rev.!
Yer pal JD
Johnny Cash – “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”
Iggy Pop, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Chris Martin, Kanye West, Flea, Johnny Depp, Brian Wilson,Dennis Hopper, Keith Richards– pay tribute to Cash in the new video for the Man’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”, from his 2006 posthumous release “American V: A Hundred Highways.”
MySpace Showcase Tuesday (Catching Up)
I’m about two weeks behind in the MySpace Showcase feature, yes I know..BAD BAD BAD BLOG MASTER…
but don’t worry your Stetson’s buckaroos I’ve got a couple of treats in store.
First up is O.C. California’s gritty chugg-chuggin “Ditch Diggers” on Sheephucker Records. Now
these songs do sound a bit alike and one is about a pig call, but that ain’t necessarily a bad thing as drunk crackers have trouble with changing up rhythm, and as everyone knows, we do love our swine.
And speaking of white folks, the next band up are homeboys from Austin Texas “Honky.” These boys
cook with Southern rock as hot as Lynard Skynard’s downed plane. A little ZZ Top, a dash of Sabbath, and bottle of something serious.
Gob Iron Brooklyn Show Postponed
I just got his from TicketWeb:
The event has been rescheduled for 8:00 PM on Thursday, January 18.
To obtain a refund, you must:
1) Notify us within 48 hours before the new event date, via our online help desk,
or by telephone at 866.777.8932.
2) For mailed tickets,
your unused tickets must be returned to:
TicketWeb Refunds
P.O. Box 77250
San Francisco, CA 94103
If you did not receive tickets via mail, you must contact
us at our Help Desk (http://www.ticketweb.com/help.html),
and give us your sale confirmation number.
Your tickets or confirmation number must be received
at least 24 hours prior to the event in order for a refund to be issued.
Show has been postponed
Thank you for choosing TicketWeb.
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Crap! Postponed at the last miniute?! I snooped around but can’t find out why this happed. We got crappy weather here in New York so maybe it’s a travel thing.
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WHAT?!
Faith Hill is pissed,and I’m right there with her. On Monday night on the 40th annual CMA show (or as I like to call it the singing dancing parade of crap) during the female vocalist of the year segment they had all the nominees compiled on the screen ready for the money shot. When American Idol county music fem-bot Carrie Underwood was announced as the winner Diva Faith Hill was obviously peeved and mouthed “WHAT!?” into the camera, arms flailing, before walking out of the camera shot.
I’m with you there Faith. Underwood winning female vocalist of the year is like Larry the Cable Guy becoming the head of Mensa.
As much as I sometimes like Gretchen Wilson (one of the nominees) my nominees for this category would be more like Julie Roberts, Allison Moorer, Nico Case, Jenny Lewis (with the Watson Twins) and Rosanne Cash. These woman have more talent in one pedicured fingernail than the manufactured country-pop-drek that these nominees got nominated for. Pipes, looks and hunky singer husbands aren’t enough, where’s the PASSION? Where’s the HEARTACHE? Where’s the AUTHENTICITY?!
Most awards shows for music celebrate the popular and the mediocre. How many of these women will have the staying power of Dolly or Loretta. Not a damn one of ’em.
see the whole thing here: