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Elmore James - Shake Your Moneymaker (1961) Elmore James from: “Look on Yonder Wall” / “Shake Your Moneymaker”

Blues | Chicago Blues | Slide Guitar

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Personnel: Elmore James: Vocals / Slide Guitar Johnny “Big Moose” Walker: Piano Sammy Lee Bully: Bass "King" Mose Taylor: Drums

Produced by Bobby Robinson

Recorded: @ The J&M Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana USA during June - September 1961

Released: December, 1961 Fire Records

Enjoy Records (Reissue) October, 1965

#Elmore James #Blues #Shake Your Moneymaker #1960's #Slide Guitar #Bobby Robinson #Fire Records

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3/23/23.

The Dream Syndicate have been a growing favorite over the past decades. My friend Rick was always pushing them, and while I never resisted, I never really embraced the band. However, I can state unequivocally that "That's What You Always Say" was an immediate favorite. "Halloween" soon followed. Then my friend Eric played "The Days of Wine and Roses" at one of our many listening parties.

Then I bought "The Complete Live at Raji's" and got the chance to see the band live. Wow.

I'm probably not telling anyone anything they don't already know. But this reissue of The Day of Wine and Roses by UK-based Fire Records is special. The extras are just incredible. People often list other "Paisley Underground" bands like The Three O'Clock, The Bangles, Green on Red and Rain Parade when discussing The Dream Syndicate. And while I have no doubt those bands were part of a scene, they don't necessarily sound like one another.

To me, The Dream Syndicate recalls the work of True West, The Wipers and Television. Steve Wynn started bands here in Davis, California (with Kendra Smith and later Scott Miller), but he formed The Dream Syndicate in Los Angeles.

#The Dream Syndicate #Davis #California #Los Angeles #Paisley Underground #Steve Wynn #Kendra Smith #Scott Miller #Eric #Rick #The Three O'Clock #Fire Records #The Bangles #Green on Red #Rain Parade #The Wipers #True West #Television #Bandcamp

[dustedmagazine]

Bardo Pond — Volume 9 (Fire Records)

As its title indicates, Volume 9 is the ninth in a series of releases, dating back to 2000, of outtakes, jams and Bardo Pond-related sonic ephemera. But while most of the earlier Volumes were originally made and distributed independently by the band (on CDr, in small batches), Volume 9 has been released by Bardo Pond’s current label Fire Records on vinyl and as a digital download. The new (sorta) record makes visible Fire’s ongoing reissue campaign of the Volumes, including a number on vinyl of various splashy shades. That enterprise may principally be a collector’s fixation, and one might wonder about the relative value of the music, beyond the layers of insider hipness, the fluorescent orange records and the many, many 15-minute-plus explorations of deep and dark psychic terrain.

The relatively higher profile of its release implies that something is different about Volume 9, and the record makes good on that gesture. To be sure, if one listens to some of the earlier Volumes, there’s a charm to their shaggy-dog quality; see Volume 3, which wanders elliptically from informal studio jams like “Sifaka” to intensely stoned improv meditations like “Lomand” — sounds, one imagines, of a typical weekend at Lemur House in the early Aughts. Volume 9, on the other hand,feels like a more sonically focused affair, and the record makes more sense as a record, rather than just a collection of moments, however winning or blissed out.

Tracks on the first side — the long-ish (by Bardo standards, anyway, for whom songs don’t get really long until you top 20 minutes) “Conjunctio” and “The Nine Doubts” — were both recorded with Philly percussionist Michael Zanghi, likely best known as the drummer in the Violators, Kurt Vile’s live and frequent backing band. On these recordings, Zanghi leans into Eastern textures and flavors. There are suggestions of tabla in “Conjunctio,” along with tambourine and other hand-held percussive instruments. The Gibbons brothers’ fuzzed and fucked-with guitars dominate, as ever, but Bardo listeners who dig it when Isobel Sollenberger picks up her flute (and if you don’t, what are you doing listening to the band in the first place?) will want to tune into her playing, which hangs at the edge of the mix, spectral and mournful.

While “Conjunctio” suggests a bare melody and spends the rest of its time floating in the general area of that suggestion, “War is Over” is far more grounded in harmonic statement and something approaching song form. Two versions of the song appear on Volume 9: a three-minute statement and a twenty-one minute exploration of the statement’s potential. Both are evocative, yearning, a little melancholy. But the long version is the real deal, and for listeners attracted to the band’s sludgy psychedelia, it’s a terrific experience. Few bands are able to combine deliberation and slow accumulation with ecstatic abandon like Bardo Pond, and “War is Over” works that dynamic masterfully. While the song does not achieve the transcendent chaos of some of the band’s most sublime performances (see their cover of “Maggot Brain,” for instance, but buckle up), its fealty to its basic melodic structure makes it special and beautiful in different ways.

Volume 9 might not be the best way in to Bardo Pond’s particular powers and pleasures for the novice, but for anyone already familiar with the band’s remarkable music, the record is more than just a number for the completist. You’ll play it. And it will fill you with the peculiar, sometimes magnificent, sometimes terrifying joy that only Bardo Pond can create.

Jonathan Shaw

#bardo pond #volume 9 #fire records #dusted magazine #albumreview #jonathan shaw #Michael Zanghi #flute #guitar #psychedelia #jams

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New Audio: Sleaford Mods Give RVG's "Nothing Really Changes" a Dance Floor Friendly Remix Treatment

New Audio: Sleaford Mods Give RVG's "Nothing Really Changes" a Dance Floor Friendly Remix Treatment @rvgband @firerecordings @ourgoldenfriend @ivyleagues @sleafordmods

Acclaimed and rising Aussie outfit and JOVM mainstays  RVG — currently Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Gregor’s and Hearing’s Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Rayon Moon‘s Marc Nolte (drums), and Isabelle Wallace (bass) — have released three critically applauded albums: 2017’s A Quality of Mercy, which was recorded live off the floor at Melbourne’s iconic rock ‘n’ roll pub, The Tote Hotel. Initially…

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#electro pop #Fire Records #indie electro pop #indie rock #New Audio #New Single #Our Golden Friend #post punk #remixes #RVG #RVG A Quality of Mercy #RVG Brain Worms #RVG Common Ground #RVG Nothing Really Changes #RVG Nothing Really Changes (Sleaford Mods Remix) #RVG Squid #Single Review #Single Review: Nothing Really Changes (Sleaford Mods Remix) #Single Review: RVG Nothing Really Changes (Slaeford Mods Remix) #Sleaford Mods #women who kick ass

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Can't Stay Away - Part 2 - Tarheel Slim and Little Ann (Can't Stay Away - Part 1, Can't Stay Away - Part 2, 1960)

#Soul #Soul Music #Soul Music Songs #Music #Music Songs #Fire Records #Tarheel Slim and Little Ann #Youtube

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Bas Jan - Back To The Swamp - that's an enticing list of influences below...

Bas Jan return with a polished and poignant collection of perfectly-crafted pop songs that retains their authentic indie edginess. ‘Back To The Swamp’ is a heady tussle between their incorrigible DIY ethics and new responsibilities. Serafina Steer, Charlotte Stock, Emma Smith and Rachel Horwood cast an examining eye over modern times, lost love, Tarot intuition and long days in an everyday swamp. Awash with lush chorale effects, orchestral hewn loops, pin sharp electronic beats and sublime harmonies. Back To The Swamp is filled with thought-provoking stories, it’s a reflective worldview. It’s a polished and poignant collection of perfectly-crafted pop songs that retains their authentic indie edginess. These new studio recordings feature more accomplished pop production; filled with cerebral one-liners that pluck at the senses. And, there’s a nod to an eclectic mix of influences; The Pet Shop Boys, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Kate Bush, Heaven 17 and Jon Hassell by way of Brian Eno. Witches, Tarot readings, road signs, Salt-N-Pepa namechecks and a river all cried out, welcome to the swamp…

#Bas Jan #female vocal #uk #pop #alternative #2023 #fire records #Bandcamp

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Death And Vanilla reveal new single ‘Looking Glass’ from upcoming album ‘Flicker’

Presenting their unique pop music that defies categorization, Death And Vanilla today release new single ‘Looking Glass’ from their new album Flicker set for release on 17th March on Fire Records.

New track ‘Looking Glass’ unzips with a slow paced intro, it’s organic, a grower that goes modal and multi-layered behind Marleen Nilsson’s evocative vocals; like a fevered Fleetwood Mac dream, lingering in the sub conscious with luscious melodies from the post-future.

Housed in a beautifully austere post-ironic de-constructed sleeve, ‘Flicker’ is a modern reflection on these difficult times. World crises and lockdowns notwithstanding, Death And Vanilla return reborn, re-arranged and revitalised after assimilating dub reggae, the motorik spirals of Can, the modal meander of Philip Glass and The Cure’s dreamier pop sounds; plus the twice removed symphonic ambience of Spiritualized and Talking Heads under heavy manners from Brian Eno. By osmosis their period of transition since 2019’s much darker ‘Are You A Dreamer?’ has hatched new eclectic electronica anthems riddled with melody lines, and layered for lush love.

It’s been ten years since Death And Vanilla formed in Malmö, Sweden, Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magnus Bodin – fashioned by the city’s austere

#death and vanilla #looking glass #flicker #pop #fire records #affas #affaires a suivre #affairesasuivre #2023 #Youtube

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It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to musician and artist Jad Fair. Originally from Coldwater, Michigan, Jad began playing music with his brother David in 1974 as the band Half Japanese. As an art rock group that charted its own path, Half Japanese soon began to be celebrated by tastemakers, and this led to their first record contract. Over the next fifty years, they released over two dozen albums and EPs, and as a solo artist, Jad has a discography as numerous as the stars in the sky. He's collaborated with everyone from Thurston Moore to Daniel Johnston to Teenage Fanclub to Yo La Tengo, and his latest album Jump Into Love just came out at the end of July on Fire Records!

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#beginnings #jad fair #half japanese #art rock #yo la tengo #teenage fanclub #fire records

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Virginia Wing – Private Life. 2021 : Fire Records.

#rock music #pop rock #indie rock #virginia wing #2021 #fire records #female performer #2020s #2020s rock

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Listen | Swedish trio DEATH AND VANILLA release new single 'Find Another Illusion'

Listen | Swedish trio DEATH AND VANILLA release new single ‘Find Another Illusion’

DEATH AND VANILLA return with news of their new album “Flicker” and their latest dream pop track ‘Find Another Illusion’. More than ten years since Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magnus Bodin founded the band in Malmö, Sweden, they have accumulated elements and inspiration from the city’s fierce industrial history and austere present. ‘Find Another Illusion’ is a melancholic dream-pop…

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#Anders Hansson #band #blog #Death and Vanilla #Fire Records #hype machine #indie music #indie rock #London #Magnus Bodin #Marleen Nilsson #music #Music Blog #music news #music player #musicblog #New Music #new music blog #new music discovery #Paris #robmoro

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The Chills in Austin a few days ago

#music #the chills band #live music video #Antones nightclub #austin music #new zealand music #flying nun #Fire records #rock music

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Elmore James - Look on Yonder Wall

Elmore James - Look on Yonder Wall (1961) James "Beale Street" Clark from: "Shake Your Moneymaker" / "Look on Yonder Wall" (Single) "Elmore James: The Sky is Crying, The Ultimate Collection" (CD2) (2019 3-CD Box Set)

Blues

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Personnel: Elmore James: Vocals / Guitar Sammy Myers: Harmonica Johnny "Big Moose" Walker: Piano Sammy Lee Bully: Guitar / Bass King Mose: Drums

Arranged by Elmore James Produced by Bobby Robinson

Recorded: @ J&M Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana USA August, 1961

Single Released: December, 1961 Fire Records

Compilation CD Released: on September 27, 2019 Sunset Blvd. Records

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Look on Yonder Wall (Song): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_on_Yonder_Wall

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#Look on Yonder Wall #Elmore James #Blues #Fire Records #1960's #Bobby Robinson #J&M Studios #James ''Beale Street'' Clark

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5/12/23.

I have such fond memories of Black Lips "Good Bad Not Evil". I can recall several road trips singing along with "O Katrina!" or "Veni Vidi Vici". Micah and I saw them play at the Great American Music Hall, and while it wasn't quite the debauched bacchanalia I was expecting, it was still pretty gritty.

Fire Records (UK) is reissuing their catalogue. And as hoped/expected you get a full LP worth of unreleased gems. A very cool version of "Buried Alive" is here (I'd only heard that on the blistering live set "Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo").

The Black Lips are an Atlanta, Georgia based band who can rock like Dead Moon, Love, The Hives or Royal Headache. Really, this list could go on and on...

#Black Lips #Atlanta #Georgia #Micah #Fire Records #Love #The Hives #Royal Headache #Dead Moon #Bandcamp

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The Dream Syndicate Album Review: Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions

(Fire)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

“I’m not trying to play my hand,” Steve Wynn sings on “Trying To Get Over”, a jangly tune from their latest album Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions. It’s a mission statement for the band, one apropos of their tendency to bounce around aesthetics and styles. If in the 80′s they were somewhat pigeonholed into the Paisley Underground scene, ever since the band reunited ten years ago, they’ve remained unpredictable. 2020′s The Universe Inside sported 20-plus-minute run times and songs whose ideas occupied seemingly disparate areas. Two years later, with the same lineup and even a couple of the same outside collaborators, Wynn and company have released an album that still stands to toy with your expectations, but within a strictly pop realm.

From the get-go, Ultraviolet Battle Hymns is adept at capturing feelings that simultaneously exist across the spectrum of emotions and aesthetics. Opener “Where I’ll Stand” juxtaposes looped synthesizers with a slow-burning, fuzzed-out guitar sway, the forward march of krautrock with the skyward melodies of dream pop. “Damian” fits in tremolo guitars with pseudo funk, a strut rife with horns from Marcus Tenney. “Beyond Control”, a co-write with keyboardist Chris Cacavas, begins with clanging, concave percussion, Wynn deadpanning lines like, “Everything must go” as if he’s emptying out a house during an estate sale. It then richly subsumes your ears, its drums adopting a motorik pattern like it’s an arena rock song. These contrasting moods and production choices--from the heavy reverb of “The Chronicles of You” to the unexpected minimalism towards the end of “Every Time You Come Around”--typify the band’s eighth record.

It’s fun to imagine when these songs were written. How Did I Find Myself Here?, The Dream Syndicate’s first album since their reformation, came out in 2017, and they’ve released three more since then, including Ultraviolet Battle Hymns. Despite the stylistic differences between these albums, it’s likely many of the songs were written during sessions for the previous record(s). Or, at least the seeds were planted during jam sessions. Indeed, if there’s one tying thread in The Dream Syndicate’s albums and songs, it’s a sense of looseness that suggests a logical improvisation. You can hear the wooziness of Tenney’s horns start to emulate the haze of the guitars on “Hard To Say Goodbye”, or the rest of the band follow Cacavas’ jaunty, rave-up keyboards on closer “Straight Lines”. Even Wynn’s rhymes and wordplay unfurl naturally. “Parlor tricks and swizzle sticks / The sour mix ain’t gonna fix a thing,” he sings on “Damian”; “A pair of jacks / A paradigm,” he speaks on the clacking, mysterious “My Lazy Mind”. What is he talking about? He’ll never tell.

#album review #the dream syndicate #fire #steve wynn #mark walton #jason victor #chris cacavas #ultraviolet battle hymns and true confessions #fire records #paisley underground #the universe inside #marcus tenney #how did i find myself here?

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Release Rundown - Flesh Creep, Jane Weaver, Joel Harries, Metz and USA Nails

Words: Ben Forrester Flesh Creep – We Need You To Bleed(No Time) This Midlands based crew have been making waves in the underground scene since their blistering debut EP back in the winter of 2021. Having spent the past two years building momentum on both the release and live front, the quintet are ready to kick the door down with this absolutely barnstorming LP. With a dream runtime of 18…

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#Album Review #Birthday cake for breakfast #Feel Worse #Fire Records #Flesh Creep #Jane Weaver #Love in Constant Spectacle #METZ #No Time Records #One Little Independent Records #Sub Pop Records #Up On Gravity Hill #USA Nails #We Need You To Bleed

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Can't Stay Away - Part 1 - Tarheel Slim and Little Ann (Can't Stay Away - Part 1, Can't Stay Away - Part 2, 1960)

#Soul #Soul Music #Soul Music Songs #Music #Music Songs #1960 !Can't Stay Away - Part 1 #Fire Records #Tarheel Slim and Little Ann #Youtube