New Track From Fiona Apple: "Every SIngle Night"

The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do.

Yes, that's the title of Fiona Apple's long awaited (7 years, folks) follow-up to the deliciously extraordinary Extraordinary Machine. Look for it on June 19th.

Yes, that preciously WTF? title is the essence of her quirk, but it's part and parcel of why we love her. Just deal with it.

Lady Fiona made many a music lover's wet dream come true when she played SXSW this year with three of her new songs in tow and then announcing a subsequent tour. Sample the track "Every Single Night" to know that she's lost not a tremulous step in her musically cerebral game.

TRACKLIST:01 “Every Single Night”
02 “Daredevil”
03 “Valentine”
04 “Jonathan”
05 “Left Alone”
06 “Werewolf”
07 “Periphery”
08 “Regret”
09 “Anything We Want”
10 “Hot Knife”

Signed,
@dharma69

BUILT TO SPILL Hit The Road In 2012- TOUR DATES

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on, Built To Spill?

Apparently it is now. Let's just work under the assumption that there's new BTS material on the way/in the works since 2009's There Is No Enemy as the guys are stepping out on a little bit of a tour. No news on any forthcoming new tunes yet, but keep an ear out. In the meantime here's the schedule of their upcoming mini-tour: 

• 2/23- The Fillmore San Francisco, CA 
• 2/24- Visalia Fox Theater Visalia, CA 
• 2/25- Uptown Theatre Napa, CA 
• 3/8-   Spanish Moon Baton Rough, LA 
• 3/9-   One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, LA 
• 3/11- Denton 35 Festival Denton, TX 
• 3/12- Fitzgerald's Houston, TX

Dig what Built To Spill consider to be "Conventional Wisdom":

Exclusive Vinyl Releases For Black Friday, Record Store Day-Style

Well hello Record Store Day, Black Friday Edition!

So Warner Bros. Records (along with its affiliated labels) has announced that it has prepared a platter of musical deliciousness for you this holiday. After you’ve gorged yourself on pie, gotten into a fistfight with your brother-in-law on the front lawn, and fallen asleep in front of the TV, wake up Friday morning knowing that there’s more to life than three weeks of leftover turkey sandwiches.

So on Black Friday, November 25th a sweet bunch of exclusive and limited editions will go on sale at over 700 independent record stores across the country and right HERE. The lovely people at Record Store Day have compiled a handy little “wish list” of all of the goods but here are some High Voltage picks for you:

Soundgarden: Live on I-5- Before the Doors Soundcheck EP

Oooh baby. A 10” colored vinyl of the rare soundcheck performances from Soundgarden's 1996 tour. Includes a freaked out version of The Doors' "Waiting For The Sun"

TRACK LISTING:
"No Attention" live in Oakland 12/5/1996
"Never The Machine Forever" live in Oakland 12/5/1996

"Waiting For The Sun" live in Oakland 12/5/1996
"Room A Thousand Years Wide" live in Vancouver 12/7/1996
"Somewhere" live in Sacramento 12/4/1996

Nirvana: Nevermind -The Singles

Holy sweetness, a vinyl box set of all of the 10" official singles from Nevermind collected together for the first time, housed in an individually numbered slipcase.

TRACK LISTING: 

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT single: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"/"Drain You"/"Even in His Youth"/"Aneurysm"

COME AS YOU ARE SINGLE: "Come As You Are"/"Endless, Nameless"/"School (live)"/"Drain You (live)" 

LITHIUM SINGLE: "Lithium"/"Been A Son (live)"/"Curmudgeon"/"D-7" (taken from a John Peel Session)
IN BLOOM SINGLE: "In Bloom"/"Silver (live)"/"Polly (live)"

The Black Keys: Lonely Boy

Their latest album, El Camino, hits all stores on December 6^th but they advance us this RSD treat: a 12” vinyl single with “Lonely Boy” b/w “Run Right Now”.

The Kings of Leon: The Early Vinyl

A box set bringing together the band’s early (and best) albums: Youth & Young Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak, Because of The Times, and a 4th LP made up of unreleased studio and live tracks picked by the band themselves. Also includes a 20-page booklet and a collectible poster. [feel free to purchase this one for me]







Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Kiss My Amps Live

A limited edition LP featuring six live tracks from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 2010 tour supporting their album Mojo, which was Petty's first album with the Heartbreakers in eight years. Includes "Sweet William", a B-side recorded live during the 2008 tour and referred to at the time by Rolling Stone as their "new favorite Petty song."

Brendan Benson: Upstairs at United, Vol 1

Four cover songs recorded live on August 16th, 2011 direct to quarter inch tape upstairs in the historic United Record Pressing party room.  All analog and cut at 45RPM for the ultimate listening experience. 12" vinyl EP with custom jacket, stickered and enclosed in a polybag.

TRACK LISTING:
1. "Candidate" (David Bowie)
2. "Strangers" (Kinks)
Side B:
1. "Beyond Belief" (Elvis Costello)
2. "Love Story"(Randy Newman)

John Lennon: Imagine 40th Anniversary Box Set

Nostalgia and peace on Earth with this 2010 remastered LP which includes a 6-track 12” white vinyl and a poster.

Yardbirds: Ha Ha Said The Clown

A 7-inch 45 of the 1967 US single that was never released in the UK. The B-side marks Jimmy Page's first use of a bow on a recording. 

Silversun Pickups: Seasick

Three unreleased tracks from the Swoon sessions from these indie LA locals. It'll do until a new album comes along

TRACK LISTING

"Seasick"/"Broken Bottles"/"Ribbons & Detours"

The Civil Wars: Tracks in the Snow

Two harmonious holiday tracks, and two live tracks on 10” white vinyl.

So there. Now go forth, shop, and show love to the music and your favorite record stores.

Vanaprasta Go For The Soul With "Nine Equals Nine"

Silverlake's indie rockers Vanaprasta have rolled out a new track, "Nine Equals Nine", from their forthcoming album, Healthy Geometry due out on 11/1/11.  The album is a keeper, and no you can't have a copy yet, but in the meantime let's talk about this new track.

The first time that I heard this thing called "Nine Equals Nine", I was sitting on a stool at Bootleg Theater.

Just like consuming alcohol, sitting during a rock show is one of the last things that I'm prone to do; music moves, makes the mind and body do the same, and sitting down is just not conducive to connecting my mind and body to the music.  But this night was odd; I felt mellower than usual, intentionally hadn't left home all day, and literally got in my car at 11:50pm in order to catch Vanaprasta's midnight set at Bootleg. Their set began and it was good, so very good but when the first 60 seconds of "Nine Equals Nine" flowed out, perhaps it was best that I was sitting down.

As a sound "Nine Equals Nine" made me cock my head to the left (the thinking, rational side), then to the right (the intuitive, feeling side): I was so confused. Barely taking my eyes off of the five guys onstage Steven Wilkin- vox/keys, Collin Desha- guitar/vox/keys, Taylor Brown- bass/vox, Cameron Dmytryk- guitar, Ben Smiley- drums), I leaned over to my musicphile friend, Kevin, and asked him what the hell this song was. He didn't know. He walked away and returned less than a minute later with the answer: "Nine Equals Nine".

As is, Vanaprasta is a tad musically schizophrenic and my linear head knows this- accepts this-, as it's just one of their assets, but my emotional heart was still surprised by the old soul presence in this song. Due to its overwhelmingly shitty nature, current day R&B has little place in my life anymore, but the warmth and echoey groove of "Nine Equals Nine" underneath Steven Wilkin's truly reverent vocals had cut into the flesh of my psyche and made it bleed want. Simultaneously soothing and energizing, here was a rock song tapping into many fluid dynamics of my past (Teddy Pendergrass, Jeffrey Osborne) laced with an inward/outward mystical trip ("Make sure to thank the sky for being blue, yeah.").  My heart and body were moving and, dammit, I was sitting down. 

Vanaprasta gives you "Nine Equals Nine".

William Elliott Whitmore On Tour...Finally

The last time that I saw him live was in 2009, but no matter how many times I hear the man sing, he never fails to emotionally manhandle me. He's William Elliott Whitmore: an Iowan son and a man born of the roots and rich soil of his Iowa. With a voice of pure and unadulterated blues and folk, wrapped with rugged rasp and soul that one might think was honed half a decade at the foot of Ray Charles and the temple of Jim Beam, Whitmore shines a warm level of beauty, sincerity and depth on music that's far more aged than he actually is.

His songs are natural and speak to and of the land that he obviously loves so much; it's his most fertile source of inspiration. Basically, Whitmore sings of life as he knows it, sees it, feels it; there's pain, joy, and the complexity of the human condition simply spoken not only with words, but with every pick of his banjo or strum of his guitar, and whether you live in New York City or Phenix City, AL the pictures that he paints are crop fields to wander through just waiting for the listener to harvest.

Are you in love yet?

His latest album "Field Songs" hit stores on July 12th and the man is on tour to support it. Dates are below and you, my NYC lovelies, are first in line so get on it. 

WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE - 2011 TOUR DATES
07.18.2011 Bowery Electric New York, NY
07.19.2011 Mercury Lounge, New York, NY
07.20.2011 Bar, New Haven, CT
07.22.2011 Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA
07.23.2011 Great Scott, Allston, MA
07.24.2011 Red Palace, Washington DC,
07.26.2011 Club Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA
07.27.2011 Trampled by Turtles Southgate House, Newport, KY
07.28.2011 Off Broadway, St. Louis, MO
07.29.2011 Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
07.30.2011 Riversong Music Fest, Hutchinson, MN
08.09.2011 North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
08.19.2011 Rollin' on the River Music Fest, Keokuk, IA
09.10.2011 Blues Fest, Columbia, MO
09.23.2011 Slim's, San Francisco, CA USA
09.24.2011 Bootleg Theatre, L.A., CA