drink the dust practice: Archive

Oct 31st

ROAR

Last night’s show at the Danger Danger Gallery was moved to Elena’s. It’s a soul food bar/restaurant with a very nice second floor venue area. I really liked two bands that played: ROAR and Carol Cleveland Sings. They had a really similiar sound but that might have been due to the fact that the same members were in both bands. Anyway, I liked ROAR better. CHECK THEM OUT! LISTEN...

Oct 7th

Burberry Possums

I’m booking shows for my new pop band BURBERRY POSSUMS, with myself on guitar and vocals and Dave Hanyok on the drums. I made a facebook page for us, so search for us! Also, we have a bandcamp, which is just demos from earlier this summer currently. New songs will be on the way. http://burberrypossums.bandcamp.com

Sep 3rd

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Future Islands Is Flesh Epic

Last night was my 5th show working at the Danger Gallery. I got to see Sam Herring, the lead singer of synth-pop band Future Islands, perform in his rap side project Flesh Epic. Sam Herring was bad-ass, confident, and good - very unlike what I would have expected being accustomed to his Future Islands work, in which he exudes a completely different persona and does completely different music!...

Aug 26th

Record Journals and Music Curating

What if record labels operated more like scientific journals? Instead of a band getting signed for a length of time, these “record journals” would just release one important release from a band at a time. Everyone would have to compete for a spot in the prestigious record journals (perhaps titled Music or Sound…) so obsolete bands that subsist on long contracts would die out or...

Aug 17th

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"Cold Spurts of Lucidity" and "Swaddling Clothes"

It happens in cycles. My faith in music - not my faith in the state of “Music” itself, I think music is doing just fine for itself - is often not with me. This consists of me believing, or not believing, that I will find a band that will specifically appeal to me. Because as I get older, I find that I’m looking for certain things in music, so it’s less easy to be satisfied....

Aug 12th

Aug 11th

Philadelphia's Post Post

I really like Post Post. Their lead singer, and I think lead songwriter, Michelle Zauner writes beautiful, complex melodies - she’s so good at writing them she barely reuses them within a song, she just goes from one catchy line to another one. Check them out!

Aug 9th

How Do You Know When It's Over...?

I read a nice Leonard Cohen interview yesterday. Here are a couple excerpts: DO YOUR SONGS COME EASILY TO YOU? No they don’t come easily at all. DO YOU FEEL THERE’S A TIME WHEN YOU WILL CEASE WRITING? I think you always feel that, I think you feel it if songs are longer coming and it has happened to better writers than me. If the gift dries up I think the best thing is to turn...

Aug 6th

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Last night was my second night volunteering at Danger Danger Gallery. The bands were not that great, very abrasive, but not abrasive in an innovative way, just plain abrasive, or maybe they were just poor musicians. What kind of kills me though is that, at least for the most abrasive sounding band, they had such nice equipment! One had a ~ $1500 guitar and a ~ $1500 amp! That’s a lot of...

Aug 4th

I just started volunteering at Danger Danger Gallery last night. It was an interesting night - it really revitalized my interest in underground music; I don’t usually see the same kind of passion at larger venues compared to what I saw last night. The musicians all had the supernova energy of two year olds and the fans danced earnestly and without restraint. It was very compelling and really...

Aug 1st

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Jul 29th

Watch

I have come to love Creepoid, who are home to Philadelphia! Their drummer is awesome, their lead singer writes great songs, their other members are good as well. This song is beautiful and catchy and applicable “Yeah you make me feel…see through” - I just wish it was longer! But they do have longer songs…which you can listen to at their myspace:...

Jul 27th

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Jul 23rd

I like the new lo-fi

Low-fi is something right now; the word “movement” would be too serious, the big word “genre” wouldn’t fit tightly around the small group of artists who are riding this wave, and I don’t think the word “trend” describes it right, because it implies a sort of monkey-see monkey-do phenonemon. But it certainly is exciting because I don’t think...

Jul 17th

THE BOOTS - FLUTE

DOWNLOAD ALBUM BY CLICKING THIS LINK 1. Harmony (2:10) 2. Billy Walker Met Me In Vegas (2:54) 3. Billy Didn’t Love Me (2:21) 4. Hey, I Did Pay To Be Here (2:01) 5. Living Alone (3:14) 6. So Much Fun (3:30)

Jun 24th

the specks - the portable faulkner

1. Harriet, I’m Morphing (3:47) 2. But I Don’t Know How To Begin (1:57)

May 29th

Wasted Visage - Wasted Visage

DOWNLOAD HERE 1. Master Kong 2. Tethers 3. Twice 4. Scum 5. Someone 6. Wondering 7. History 8. Early (I Wake Up In Another City)

Mar 19th

THE MEALS - THE MEALS EP

DOWNLOAD HERE - 10.7 minutes 1. In Defense of Entertainment 2. Ever 3. Even If This War Died 4. Nu Ol’ Sole Recorded by Nicole Snyder. Mastered by Lane Schneier. Written by Kevin Taylor. www.myspace.com/themeals

Feb 6th

STARTOOTH MAGNIFICENT - THE DELUGE FROM THE NORTH

DOWNLOAD HERE 1. Now We’re Over 2. Keep My Name 3. Voices In My Prayers 4. Culture Device 5. Buried In A Mine Shaft 6. Do You Wanna Go? 7. To Sit In Bars 8. Everything Nothing http://www.twinkleblink.com/starcd-demo.html

Jan 19th

SLOVEN SNAILER B-SIDE

Hotels A song about trying to find somewhere to start a life with a girlfriend. Then realizing you can only afford a hotel, and that your relationship has translated into prostitution.

Aug 14th

SLOVEN SNAILER - DEADOS

DOWNLOAD HERE - 15.8 MIN - 22 MB 1. Save For 2. Hold My Rope (Bring Me Back) 3. See Something? 4. Sulking Soul King 5. Left From Right 6. Normal These are studies and old songs. Can’t open .rar files? RAR EXPANDER

Aug 11th

R.S. - THE BETTER PART OF 2008

1. You Were Waiting 2. Groups this is an ep containing every song i wrote during “the better part of 2008”.

Mar 15th

SEVRAN TAYLOR - NOTHING BETWEEN FRIENDS DEMO

DOWNLOAD LINK 15 MB 1. Flurries 2. Manascara (written by a.c. & k.t.*) 3. She Found What She Got 4. Thought Disease 5. I Swear 6. I’m So Vain (cover)

Feb 14th

SEVRAN TAYLOR: VERY REAL DEMO

DOWNLOAD HERE 13 MB 1. Pilgrim Pride Made My Night 2. Zooey 3. I know Right 4. What We Are Planning 5. Sewn Together quick ep for the on the go student

Feb 13th

PLEGGANT: RITE BROS. COLLECTION

DOWNLOAD HERE (55 MB, 192-320 KBS) 1. Razdajetsja 2. Was 3. Transcontinental Railroad System 4. Blue Tarp 5. Tree Weeps 6. Ben Dropped Out + 7. HBr (Live) 8. Manascara (Live) 9. Clove (Live) 10. Ben Dropped Out (Live) 11. Now My Pencil’s Sharpened (Live) the plague ant ep was released in september, 2007. live tracks recorded 2007.

Oct 27th

PREF. ONE: IT'S OLD AND OLD IT'S SAD AND OLD IT'S...

DOWNLOAD HERE (3.9 MB @ 80 kbps) 1. in the afternoon 0:26 2. completely derouted by drains 1:00 3. blue tarp 2:11 4. try to make change 0:30 5. they were something at me 0:14 6. those 1:15 7. i’d missed 1:25 total time 6:57 this was a short 7 song experimental noise/easy-listening demo recorded as the solo “preference one” at 17. the album artwork by emily...

Oct 22nd