Danielson Alive!!

there is a free danielson ep you get get at emusic.  6 live tracks.  hint: click on each individual download link for each track.  if you click "download album" and you're not a member, they try to get you to sign up.  but they don't bother you about it if you do each track individually.  also: 2008 is The Year Free Music Broke Out i believe.  there's been free music forever, but this year there is a lot.  i like it.

Hey guys, it's tuesday!  i hope you got these albums last week:

TV on the Radio

Dr Dooom.

Dr Dooom is actually very very awesome.  if you hated the return of dr octagon, like most people did, you will love Dr Dooom 2.  Basically he's like, "i killed dr octagon, and y'all are bringin him back?  fuck that.  he's dead.  i'll kill him again."  

and of course tv on the radio is album of the year material.

anyway, this week.  lots of stuff:

*Mercury Rev

*Murs

*People Under The Stairs

*Madlib (but the vinyl is out on oct 14)

*Ani DiFranco

*Ben Folds

*Polysics (but shoot, i already got that on vinyl a long time ago!)

*Roots Manuva

*Jennifer Hudson (yeah i dunno.  she's a great singer but it could have annoying production or songwriting and it might end up not being great.  i'll hold off for now.)

and reissues of

Creedence Clearwater Revival (basically all of their albums now with bonus tracks!)

The Jesus And Mary Chain (box set of b sides & rarities)

oh and IRON MAN on dvd!

and THE BEACH BOYS AND THE SATAN on dvd!

oh guys, i never told you so you might not know: there is a charity digital EP from Ted Leo & the Pharmacists available at touch & go records.  it's called Rapid Response and it is awesome.  it's a response to what happened at the Republican National Convention.  very quick, dirty recordings made in like a day or so.  like punk rock is supposed to be.  you should get it.

yes, let's remake rashomon.

yes, that's a great idea.  let's take one of the most important films in the history of the medium and put it in modern day america.  why not?  

seriously, they're calling it rashomon 2010.  this is really happening.  it's come to this.  60 years later, have we made NO progress?  we should be wayyyyy beyond rashomon.  it was important and forward-thinking in 1950, but that was 1950.  can't we make new forward-thinking, important movies ourselves instead of stealing from the dead?  

this shouldn't surprise me.  and it doesn't.  it does upset me though.

by the way, you can get criterion-quality dvd of rashomon for cheap.  if you didn't know, criterion has launched a series called Essential Art House, and it's basically cheaper versions of their dvds (same high quality transfer, just no fancy special features).  also out in this first release are grand illusion, beauty and the beast, lord of the flies, wild strawberries, and knife in the water.

source: dark horizons

quickies

the internet is working! a little bit.  here's what's up.

*i've missed the last few tuesday tomorrows, but if you didn't know, CALEXICO and OKKERVIL RIVER both released amazing albums last week.  this week there was DRESSY BESSY but i didn't get that one.  

*very sad news that Norman Whitfield passed away.  some of my favorite whitfield compositions were:

--Can't Get Next To You

--I Heard it Through The Grapevine

--War

--He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'

What about you?  It seems he was one of the proponents of the best parts of Motown in the late 60s/early 70s (psychedelia and funk) as opposed to the annoying disco-esque stuff that they put out in that era.  So basically I have him to thank for Motown not being too annoying in that era.

*i'll probably miss this coming tuesday tomorrow, but just know that TV ON THE RADIO is releasing dear science, this tuesday.  so stoked.  also, JONKATBAND (featuring jon from the mekons and kat from the ex) released their debut album together.  i saw them together at the touch & go fest thing a couple years ago and it was lovely.  so i'm anticipating it to be one of those sleeper hits for me (due to it being released the same day as TVOTR) and something that totally misses the indie radar.  that's too bad.  so i'm suggesting right now that you check that one out.  also dr dooom 2 comes out next week.  huh.  i hope it's not as annoying as the return of dr octagon.