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Episode #010

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Quartz City Podcast Episode #010

  1. The Muffs – “Take A Take A Me” – http://themuffsband.blogspot.com
  2. Graham Day & The Forefathers – “Get Off My Track” – http://www.gdandtheforefathers.co.uk
  3. The Love Me Nots – “Don’t Let Him” – http://www.thelovemenots.com
  4. The Maples – “Big City” – http://site.douban.com/themaples/
  5. Tom Vek – “Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)” – http://www.tomvek.tv
  6. The Raveonettes – “Killer In The Streets” – http://www.theraveonettes.com
  7. Hedgehog – “Aspirin” – http://hedgehogrock.com
  8. Ulaan Markhor – “Last Leaf Of The Season” – https://worstward.bandcamp.com
  9. Sophie Cooper – “The Moon Hit Me In The Face” – http://sophiecoopermusic.com
  10. Flavor Crystals – “Mirror In My Mind” – http://www.flavorcrystalsounds.com/
  11. Gate To Otherside – “Don’t Get Emotional” – http://site.douban.com/unexpecteddoore/
  12. The Asteroid #4 – “Going Down” – http://www.asteroid4.com
  13. Superfjord – “The Chandrasekhar Limit” – http://superfjord.tumblr.com

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Episode #009 – Moody drive to The Apple Pan

Wanted a hickory burger, pie, and a coffee from The Apple Pan tonight. Needed a soundtrack.

  1. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – “Sand”
  2. My Bloody Valentine – “Sueisfine”
  3. ZZ Top – “Ten Dollar Man”
  4. Don Fardon – “I’m Alive”
  5. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Memory Camp”
  6. Stars Of The Lid – “Gasfarming”
  7. Lhasa – “Anywhere On This Road”
  8. The Lovetones – “Please Don’t Break My Heart Tonight”
  9. Zoviet France – “Pearroc”
  10. Steven R. Smith – “Distance And Passing”
  11. Orchestre Tzigane du Restaurant du Rat Mort – “Les Mains de Femmes”
  12. Scenic – “Angelica”
  13. Carsick Cars – “Silence”
  14. Lee Hazlewood – “My Autumn’s Done Come”
  15. Elliott Smith – “Cupid’s Trick”

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Episode #008

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Quartz City Podcast – Episode #008

And we’re back! No excuses for the delay other than “stuff happened.”

  1. Woodsman – “Loose Leaf” – bandcamp
  2. Venera 4 – “Haunted Summer” – bandcamp
  3. White Noise Sound – “There Is No Tomorrow” – website
  4. The Chocolate Watch Band – “In The Past” – website
  5. No Silver Bird – “Gone” – facebook
  6. Suzy Blu – “Won’t Be The Girl (Grimiss Mix)” – website
  7. Freelovebabies vs Goat Eye Van Kriedt – “When I First Came To Town” – youtube
  8. Peaking Lights – “Beautiful Son” – website
  9. The Mighty Lemon Drops – “No Bounds” – facebook
  10. Larry Williams & Johnny Watson – “Nobody” – discogs
  11. Carsick Cars – “Reaching The Light” – bandcamp
  12. Mike Heron – “Feast Of Stephen” – website
  13. Björn Olsson – “1995” – website

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Austin Psych Fest 2014 – What we saw

The Warlocks at the Thursday kickoff party.

La Femme. Had vaguely heard of them before, but didn’t know just how great they are live. I loved that they stayed in character throughout the weekend.

The Zombies

Barn Owl. Puny human phones can’t capture just how huge their sound was

Zombie Zombie. Total highlight of the fest.

Bardo Pond

Moon Duo

Mono. They don’t play the US frequently, but worth all effort to see.

Medicine

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Kikagaku Moyo. We were just looking to sit down by the river and take a break. I had no clue who they were, but mid-way through their set you could just feel it: these guys are, well, kicking ass. Standing ovation at the end completely spontaneous and well-deserved. So intense, they play the sitar standing up.

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete

Joel Gion & The Primary Colours

Loop. Pretty much the reason for going to Psych Fest this year.

Weekly Links: March 16 – March 22

White+ at Los Globos last week:

  • A 26-Story History of San Francisco: a psychosocial history of the former Pacific Bell building at 140 New Montgomery in San Francisco
  • A short history of the Public Storage building on Beverly & Virgil. I’ve been mildly obsessed with this building on the Silver Lake/Hollywood border for a long time. Never suspected that it was designed out here, it always felt as if it was a east coast-styled building transplanted over here
  • A New York Times profile of surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky.
  • Nick McCabe talks about his favorite albums.
  • 360 degree view of the Milky Way as seen via the Spitzer Space Telescope.
  • The Next America – The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. Everyone who makes a living from futurism needs to get hip to what the demographic landscape is going to look like.

Episode #007 – 2013

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Quartz City Podcast – Episode #007 – 2013

Twenty-five albums I liked from 2013. No ranking other than I just liked them a lot.

Anna Calvi – “Suddenly” – website
The Knife – “Wrap Your Arms Around Me” – website
The KVB – “I Only See The Lights” – bandcamp
No Joy – “Prodigy” – website
La Luz – “Sure As Spring” – facebook
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – “The In-Between” – bandcamp
The Stargazer Lilies – “Undone” – website
Bardo Pond – “Kali Yuga Blues” – website
My Bloody Valentine – “Only Tomorrow” – website
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Subway” – website
Barn Owl – “Against The Night” – website
Maps and Diagrams – “Tafelstern” – website
Noveller – “Gathering The Elements” – website
Secret Pyramid – “Quiet Sky” – blogspot
Boards Of Canada – “New Seeds” – website
Speck Mountain – “Badwater” – website
Beaches – “Send Them Away” – facebook
Throwing Muses – “Sunray Venus” – website
Bosnian Rainbows – “Red” – bandcamp
Medicine – “Butterfly’s Out Tonight” – facebook
Matthew J Tow – “When I Get To Sydney” – website
Sam Phillips – “Speaking Of Pictures” – website
The Limiñanas – “My Black Sabbath” – bandcamp
Marisa Anderson – “Furnace Creek” – bandcamp
KT Tunstall – “No Better Shoulder” – website

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Episode #006 – Austin Psych Fest 2013

Quartz City Podcast – Episode #006 – Austin Psych Fest 2013

Bass Drum Of Death – “Nerve Jamming” – website
Wall of Death – “Thunder Sky” – Facebook
Young Magic – “Sanctuary” – website
The Soft Moon – “Insides” – website
Spectrum – “Undo The Taboo” – website
Clinic – “Miss You II” – website
The Raveonettes – “Sinking With the Sun” – website
Boris – “Hope” – website
Woodsman – “All Tangled Up” – Tumblr
Dead Skeletons – “Ljósberinn” – website
Silver Apples – “Seagreen Serenades” – website
Gary War – “Grown In Shells” – Facebook
Tamaryn – “While You’re Sleeping, I’m Dreaming” – website
The Laurels – “Manic Saturday” – Facebook
No Joy – “Hare Tarot Lies” – website
The Besnard Lakes – “People Of The Sticks” – website
The Black Ryder – “All That We See” – website
The Black Angels – “Paladin’s Last Stand” – website
Kaleidoscope – “Dive Into Yesterday” – Facebook
The Moving Sidewalks – “Flashback” – website
Goat – “Stonegoat” – Blogspot

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Austin Psych Fest day 2

Catching up…

Wall Of Death – I’d never heard of these guys before and instantly dug the sound.

Woodsman – Some friends said to check them out and was not disappointed. Very very good. Wished I videoed some of it, but was too transfixed by the hypnodrone. Bought their album as soon as I had a chance too.

Woodsman - Austin Psych Fest 2013

Holydrug Couple

Boris – I can’t add anything else other than WAAAARRRGGGHHHH. The possible high-point of the entire festival occurs when Atsuo of Boris stood up through the on-stage smoke – mallet held aloft like a victorious Conan – and then just bashed the hell out a gong as the tripping, high, drunk, tired audience cheered him on.

Boris as Atsuo Shel

Black Mountain

Kaleidoscope [UK]

Man Or Astro-man? – a huge thunderstorm cut loose during Man… Or Astro’man’s set. I was at the very front of the stage looking out for the flaming theremin and had no idea what was happening outside the tent, but it seemed as if the entire festival jammed into the tent during their set and everyone: audience/band/everyone just went bananas. Fantastic set!

Man… Or Astroman? - Austin Psych Fest 2013

The Black Ryder – POURING rain during their set, but they sounded great. Looking forward to their new album quite a bit.

The Warlocks – haven’t seen them in a long time, but they also sounded terrific. George from the much missed Ojos Rojos is playing drums for them now.

Spectrum

Spectrum - Austin Psych Fest 2013