Photos: Boris at the Triple Rock
Local photographer Adam Bubolz captured this gorgeous shot at Friday’s Boris show at the Triple Rock. Click on the photo to see Adam’s entire set.
Action vs. Action
Their new disc Sentimental City is at the Electric Fetus, Cheapo and Treehouse right now – but their CD Release is December 5th at the 400 Bar… I am so in love with this cover art right now. Can’t wait to give the new record a complete listen. I’m pretty sure I had a Film History class with the lead singer years ago…
Regardless, they are also playing tonight (Saturday, November 28th) in the headlining spot at the Uptown Bar if you make it out.
No, the other band named Everest…
A MySpace search brought it to my attention that there are a lot of bands named Everest out there…
Oh, the things you find on the internet when you’re looking for something else. I was looking for some tender vittles from the American band Everest that I saw open for Neil Young back in October and was introduced to these German kids. The production value is next to none, yes – however, there is something so catchy about this song and the drummer drumming away without a kit made me smile, so – check ‘er out.
Their crudely assembled website HERE…
les vers sont dans le pomme
Roughly translated: the worms are in apple. I call it, awwww-inducing preciousness, by Florian Guzek, Helene Giraud and Nicolas Gallet – from a French series from 2006 called Miniscule
As seen on Cute Overload
The Bicycles: Oh No, It’s Love
Many thanks to You Ain’t No Picasso for bringing this video into my life. It’s absolutely precious.
Q & A: Switchblade Comb Staff
REMINDER: Tomorrow night (Friday) is the Switchblade Comb Anniversary Party over at the Nomad and since their site is one of my favorite local blogs, I really wanted to get to know them as a group a little better…
tigerbeatpoet: What do you feel you have accomplished in the past year?
Mojo Marshall: Switchblade Comb was started for me as a way to stave off the impending winter depression. Idle hands, blah blah. I’m also one of those people that when I hear a new record I fall in love with I want to shout it from the rooftops and spread the good word door to door like a Bible salesman. So the site has been cathartic in a way knowing that I may be turning people onto new music and films and helping out local artists get some attention. We’re starting to get better about plugging the Twin Cities scene now that we’ve gotten our sea legs and hope to focus more on it this upcoming year. Lastly, I’ve gotten a chance to meet a lot of local bloggers, writers, bands, promoters, etc. which has been a true treat of our first year online.
RichmanVA: I think we have done a really excellent job of setting ourselves apart from the other local music blogs. Not to take anything away from them but I feel that we have managed to be more than just a “Minneapolis-based Indie Rock blog” with the extent of stories we post. We have given space to an otherwise (mostly) overlooked local film scene and a national stand up comedy scene that for the most part gets little to no press locally. Also, I think we have introduced our readers to some really kickass local bands that have otherwise gone ignored by other local blogs/papers.
The Joe: Providing people with far more music videos than they ever needed to see in any given year. I’d like to say I drummed up some interest for local film, but I don’t think anyone cares much about that around here. I suppose I can always pretend though, as it’s nice to feel important.
Kat: I was the last person brought in to write for the site, and I don’t post nearly as much as the rest of the guys, but I did a fantastic job keeping all the editors drunk on a fairly regular basis.
The Rock Bible: Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes
The music and literature blog Largehearted Boy has this really cool feature, Book Notes, where they chat with the authors of a book and ask them to compile a playlist for it. In this one from a couple weeks back, they talked to Henry Owings and Billy Carter about their compilation of inspired rock prose from the likes of Henry Rollins and Patton Oswalt and many others, The Rock Bible .
I don’t know what makes me want to read this book more, the fact that it has entries in it with titles like “The Parable Of The Girl Who Misheard Lyrics But Still Insisted On Giving Voice To Song,” or this excerpt from the guys’ playlist for the book…
CHEAP TRICK – “Southern Girls”
The Trick have penned a bucketful of pure dreck, but “Southern Girls” is so good it might actually be brilliant. Defined by the FM radio smash “I Want You To Want Me” – 1975′s In Color is an album that every self-respecting music dork in the world should end up memorizing at some point. Once you get past “the hit,” you will discover a glistening shimmer of amped pop majesty. An album so perfect that even years later Steve Albini couldn’t f*ck it up.
BRILLIANT. Considering I hadn’t actually heard this song until this Monday.
Read the whole piece on Largehearted Boy HERE…
Owings and Carter are behind the music mag Chunklet, which comes out intermittently, whenever they want it to, but you can check out the website HERE…