Charles Mingus, Let My Children Hear Music

The year was 1971, and some might argue jazz had run out of steam. 1959 changed it from its golden years, the 60s solidified the modal and took off running with many different movements. Eight years before, Mingus' had mastered the art of orchestral jazz on The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. This album brought together the stylistic realm of Duke Ellington with new, avant-garde textures. Here, he was crystallizing a sound he began with his big band, Mingus Dynasty on their self titled album.

At the time of the albums release, Mingus had taken grate strides since Black Saint, but still had ways of reaching back into his old catalog and updating for the better. "Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too," for example, interpolates his 1957 sextet recording The Clown. Personnel wise, Mingus tastefully used heavy hitters from his past small groups such as the extremely versatile rhythm section of pianist Jaki Byard and drummer Dannie Richmond. These two, Mingus on bass, a host of brass players; over 20 playing everything from French Horn and Tuba to Trumpet and Trombone, and tasteful clarinet, sax, and flutes could pretty much play any style of arrangement, and better still change in and out of styles on the drop of a hat. Dynamics can be noticed immediately in "Taurus in the Arena of Life," during the swells of brass, flutterings of flute, and piano outro on "Adagio Ma Non Troppo," and the funk-swing of "Hobo Ho" are perhaps the most recognizable.

Mingus seemingly echoes his physical presence on each and every track. There are so many layers to cut through. "The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers" innvocates the listener like Buzzard Song of Porgy and Bess and then enters a section of ups and downs with each weaving an impressive rhythm, or taking a solo, and then switching back and forth. This mesh of sound eventually enters one of the most passioned swing sections ever recorded. "Jive Ass Slippers" is a force to be reckoned with and it is dizzying how much Mingus packed into a swing composition.

"Adagio Ma Non Troppo" departs further into a more Third-Sream sounding piece. It would fit just as easily in with Ennio Morricone or Bernard Herman as it would with Jimmy Guiffre
or Gil Evans. In just over 7 minutes, Mingus dips us in and out of many different moods, not only masterfully using each instrument in the right place, but using each instrument's abilities and limits to their fullest. The track is very cinematic, painting a picture and inciting moods. Another selection is "Taurus in the Arena of Life," which was not added until the albums CD release in 1992. It begins with sophisticated, classical Baroque piano and is quickly bounced out by a melancholy swing piece peppered with a Spanish dance at :40 and a second, this time more frantic at 2:45. The albums two final tracks are noticeably darker, "The Chill of Death" sounds very big and murky. Over the muted trumpet and deep, fierce brass attacks Mingus recites a terrifying poem of fate, perhaps commenting on his own situation...as he had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's and by the mid-1970s would be unable to play the bass. The songs second half is a terrifying march into the unknown with the lowest of brass lining the trail and woodwinds popping out at unknown junctures. Pockets of this song sound a lot like Ornette Coleman's compositions with Howard Shore, likening it further to film. "The I of Hurricane Sue" is a tantalizing free-jazz/swing attack. After a sample of wind and rain, the entire orchestra seemingly comes out of the storm into the "eye" and becomes more structured and rigid. As if only Mingus could rope in an orchestra in such a situation, the piece commonly brings back the wind sound and is freed for a second, but then is re-assured into the swinging melody once again. With the piano keeping the feel of the "storm" coming in and out, our vast array of players take turns soloing, dodging the frantic collapses of rhythm during the interludes. Finally, the orchestra is seemingly sucked back into the passing storm, but manages to conclude the piece as a last gasp before the wind and waves re-enter the stage.

After the Columbia recording sessions in early '71 Mingus thanked Teo Marcero for "his untiring efforts in producing the best album I have ever made"and on his deathbed he sent many letters from his Mexican home to co-arranger and session tuba player Sy Johnson hailing his last Columbia release as his favorite ever. Let My Children Hear Music within Mingus spread, with its many facets and examples of genius, transcends to a level of musical versatility that we may never hear again.
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Best New Music:
  • HEALTH - Get Color
  • Bobby Previte & The new Bump - Set The Alarm for Monday
  • Polvo - In Prism
  • No Age - Losing Feeling
  • Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
Found Sounds:
  • Scott 4
  • The Clean
  • The Vampires
  • Erkin Kroky
Album of the Day: Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melodie Nelson

They have come along way in a year, moving away from the messy lo-fi sounds of and the Perpetual Self-Fulfillment Machine, their 2008 debut.

Local Lowell band, Coalmine Canary, will release The Company We Keep, in November.

In anticipation, it is everything you could have dreamed up from them. There is so much love in these songs. The melodies are absolutely gorgeous, the imagery, crystal clear. Everyone has been there.

"The only difference between today and tomorrow is a calender and I wont let that stand in my way."

The music itself has become exponentially cleaner. They have left their electronic aspects behind and turned discretely towards acoustic folk roots. Expect to hear the addition of the mandolin and the accordion, on top of their previously characteristic twinkly-guitar riffs.

Coalmine has always had a unique situation with their vocals. They have two singers, Jane Wisheheart and Shawn Massak, who sing together, usually in unison. They are on their way to perfecting this dynamic in The Company We Keep. Both singers have certainly come into their own.

Coalmine Canary is:

Justin Demers plays the guitar, mandoline, tambourine, and accordion.
Nick Stockwell- bass
Jane Wiseheart, and Shawn Massak- vocals

Stayed tuned for a release show sometime in November. For a sneak peak track, click here

Coalmine Canary – The Company We Keep
1. At Least for Last Night
2. 127 Fourth Avenue
3. Make it Rain
4. Entitlement

The instruments were recorded at CDIA in Waltham in May by Jake Letizia and Nick Stockwell. The vocals were recorded at Neverweb Studio in Allston by Tom Henry. Tom Henry and Nick Stockwell mixed the songs at Neverweb in Allston and Flyrock in Dover, NH.

Tune into 91.5 WUML, Lowell or stream from www.wuml.org to hear more!

Tonight on Live from the Fallout Shelter
8-11 PM
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Sunny Day Real Estate
House of Blues
9/28/09
7:00 PM
The pinch and clutch hitters from the Bad Seeds have been collaborating on film soundtracks for several years, and Mute has decided to package the best tracks in a two CD anthology called White Lunar. Cave and Ellis, polymaths of post-punk, could probably play just about anything put in front of them. Having done film soundtracks together since 2005. Their body of work includes The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Proposition, a neo-western outlaw flick; The Road, an adaption of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel; The Girls of Phnom Penh, about Cambodian prostitution; The Vaults, about a museum heist; and The English Surgeon, a documentary on the psyche of a Ukrainian neurosurgeon. Needless to say the two seem to flock to their usual dark backwater style.

The first few tracks, written for Jesse James, contrast high pitched organ with strings which bounce along, seeming to echo the large western backdrops of the film. This also happens in the tracks for The Proposition. Selections for The Road have Cave and Ellis at their best. Scary enough, these two seem at home in a modern day apocalypse. The Road spins you around and has you contemplate the destructive, vacant setting and seemingly helpless walk to death. The Mother is funeral-like for obvious reasons and The Father has a long ambient brass whisper over the whole track. The Boy takes a more gospel and hopeful tone, brandishing warm background sounds and upward swells of trombone. Selections from The Girls of Phnom Penh and The Vaults, their most frantic electro movements, might prick the senses of Brian Eno buffs. Along the same idea, songs from The English Surgeon melds the two feels together and rounds out the end of the second CD.

Mute drops a release that explores a different side of Cave and Ellis, whom have collaborated for a long time in groups like Grinderman, th
e Bad Seeds, and the Dirty Three. White Lunar shows us a sort of Neo-ambience, perhaps more mature side of two musicians who have been hardened by experience since the dawn of post-punk.

Give it a second and let it pick up, it gets better I promise. Despite starting off the album with a weak track, local band Quixote manages to redeem themselves quickly in their self-titled release.

Brace yourself, because you don't know what you're gonna get from track to track. Be prepared for waltzes (God Damn), for bone crushing mellow-drama (To the Bottom and Back Again), oh bluesy guitar riffs (Don't Hurt)! There is really something for everyone on here.

In all seriousness, there is a lot of potential for Quixote. And isn't the artwork beautiful?

listen and check them out!
My Latest Novel is another one of those melancholy Scotish bands. However they offset this with distinct changes in the middle of their songs and atypical arrangements often including xylophone and violin. They have two full length albums out now. "Wolves" (released 2006) and a new album "Deaths & Entrances" (May 2009) which are both worth checking out. Four tracks are available on their Myspace (www.myspace.com/mylatestnovel) but I highly recommend picking up one of these albums if you get the chance.

My Latest Novel - Sister Sneaker Sister Soul


Here is some more Chicago indie-rock. If you're sick of hearing about it, you're not alone. The guys here in VACATIONS, have completely departed from the "Chicago-sound"....or maybe they are just done with guitars. Featuring members from Chin up Chin up, Joan of Arc, Make Believe, and Guys, they are upbeat, fun (maybe its the uke?), and, well beautiful.







Pick up 'i was bikini / but rain afraid,' available on 7" from polyvinyl. Or name your own price


highlights: I was Bikini, Ewoks in Domes, Sea Scenes for Sale
9/25

THANKS RUDY!



Led Bib, Sensible Shoes

Thank god for Led Bib. Vaulting the fine line between new jazz and old throwbacks, the London-based quintet sounds morelike John Zorn without all that klezmer stuff going on. On thier past albums and at past shows they have played standards mixed in with Bowie and Talking heads covers, no strange thing considering they were started by Mark Holub, the bands drummer. Thier rock sound maybe what makes them so accessible, and so Cunieform, a label they share with Upsilon Crux, Beat Circus, and the punk-jazz group Gutbucket.

Armed with double alto saxaphone, the group can create wall-of-sound harmonies by adding the interjections of Rhodes keyboard. Sensible Shoes, a heavily rock influenced group with subtly rock influenced tracks, can jump in and out of genres at the drop of a hat. Squirrel Carnage takes us in and out of hard bop, into free jazz, and back again. Water Shortage is an electro-charged ballad departing from thier harder album openers.

On Sensible Shoes, Led Bib finds thier hard-hitting sound and defines themselves as well-versed players. They would fit just as well Downtown at Tonic in the mid-90s as they would with Joe McPhee on the soul-charged Nation Time. At times, the shifts in and out of genre and rhythm may seem even frustrating, but Led Bib has created a masterful look at their abilities in just 9 tracks. Sensible Shoes is available from Cuneiform Records.
Though they have yet to release a full album; they currently have five tracks up on their Myspace (www.myspace.com/postpanda). The song "The Place" contrasts fast paced dance rhythms with slow intensely introspective phrases. "Weekend" has the same characteristic introspective lyrical quality but to a much greater extent. The other two tracks, "Motion Sickness", and "TD-3" are also worth checking out along with a remix of the track "TD-3" done by Eddie Mars (www.myspace.com/eddiemarsdisco). This is a band definitely worth checking out. For now we are left with these five tracks and their quasi-regular trips up to the Boston area and greater New England, but if you like what you hear stay tuned for more information on an album coming out soon.

Post Panda at Piano's (Pacific Ocean and Motion Sickness)
Get it in!

10-05 Bellingham, WA - The Nightlight
10-06 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
10-10 Seattle, WA - Pyramid Breweries
10-15 New York, NY - The Gramercy Theatre
10-30 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
10-31 Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk
11-01 San Luis Obispo, CA - Downtown Brewing Co
11-02 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up
11-03 Pomona, CA - Glass House
11-04 Flagstaff, AZ - Orpheum Theater
11-06 Ft. Worth, TX - The Door
11-07 Pharr, TX - Jagz
11-08 San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
11-10 Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theater
11-11 Orlando, FL - Club Firestone
11-12 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
11-13 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
11-14 West Chester, PA - The Note
11-15 Farmingdale, NY - The Crazy Donkey
11-17 Syracuse, NY - The Westcott Theater
11-18 Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall
11-19 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street
11-20 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Small's Theatre
11-21 DeKalb, IL - Otto's Niteclub
11-22 Des Moines, IA - The House of Bricks
11-23 Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre
11-25 Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep
11-27 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue
11-28 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory Concert House


the Twilight Sad, Scotland's resident quasi-shoegaze depressive, isn't necessarily music that is created to tell a story. Rather, songwriter/vocalist James Graham aims for the heart with the most heartbreaking songs- possibly ever. Even if you don't agree with that statement, there's no denying the power in the sheer loudness and distortion of their music. Upcoming album, "Forget The Night Ahead", focuses those same emotional appeals, but stronger than ever. Songs like the single "I Became A Prostitute" will make you really wish you got to catch My Bloody Valentine just about every time they've played, while songs like "That Room" will break your heart over and over again. In happier news, the leaves are starting to fall, and winter is approaching... it's alright, everyone- we're all entitled to be miserable every once in a while.

To stream some of their tunes, go to: http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND PICK UP "GET COLOR" AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
I refuse to review this, just enjoy the noise and freak out a little bit, okay?

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The Black Lips + King Khan x Berlin = Garbage party rock of the century?
You decide.

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The debut album is alsways an interesting way of looking at a band, sometimes they are seasoned and get signed after they have found their sound (Moving Units, New Order), other times they are an instant phenomenon and fade into obscurity (Jesus and Mary Chain), and further still some bands fall into the ever-lovable "Their old stuff is better" category (Mission of Burma, Wire). Here is a list of artists who came out of the gate swinging between 1970 and 2009...some are forgotten by time and others can be dug up and still sound timeless...this is also mostly why I am the way I am.
by Luke:
  1. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  2. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
  3. Wire - Pink Flag
  4. Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
  5. Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Talk About
  6. No Age - Nouns
  7. The Sound - Jeopardy
  8. New Order - Movement
  9. Xui Xui - Knife Play
  10. Cap'n Jazz - Schmap'n Schmazz, or, Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over
  11. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
  12. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
  13. The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
  14. The Electric Masada - 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. 4
  15. The Smiths - The Smiths
  16. Cass McCombs - A
  17. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
  18. Galaxie 500 - Today
  19. Big Black - Atomizer
  20. The Field - From Here We Go to Sublime
  21. The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out The Trash
  22. Lightning Bolt - Lightning Bolt (The Yellow Album)
  23. De La Soul - 3 Feel High and Rising
  24. Moving Units - Dangerous Dreams
  25. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
  26. El Guincho - Alegranza!
  27. ESG - Come Away With ESG
  28. Quasimoto - The Unseen
  29. The Chinese Stars - A Rare Sensation
  30. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances

BELIEVE THE HYPE.
Or don't, but let's look at the facts- 3rd and 4th quarter 2009 saw a huge explosion in the revitalized flower power, sunny, garage scene. I understand it can get to be a little bit too much, but believe in Girls. Bringing some wonderful flowery garage to all of us from San Francisco, Girls are definitely a band to keep your eyes on. Whether it be the musings on sadness (and wanting to laugh and dance), or other teenage issues we all find ourselves pondering throughout our years... well, enough yapping, more listening.




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Harpers Ferry
Allston MA
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8:00 PM


Long Live Portland!!!!

Some of you may already with familiar with Alan Palomo's other work with VEGA; if not, do not worry. We're here to turn you on to his new pet project, Neon Indian. With more solo work, Palomo's new album sounds like some favorite lo-fi party jams coming from a warped cassette- or, that same situation, but with more drugs. (trust me, that description is fairly apt)

Nevermind the hype behind the album, or what other blogs have deemed the movement ("glo fi"); songs like "Deadbeat Summer" are a great way to close out the season, while "Should Have Taken Acid With You" makes great late night chill music. Regardless of when you listen to it, WUML highly suggests this tape eating, lo-fi dance party on LSD... yep, you get the drift. Remember, if you download, make sure to delete 24 hours after and make the purchase!

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A 75th in Spain






Listen to local folk-trio, the Bella Birds, on Live From the Fallout Shelter
9/25
8-11 PM
91.5 FM or stream live at www.wuml.org
Local Lowell post-hardcore legends Short Fuse Burning threw in the towel on Saturday night after a year and a half and one, 8 song EP.






The show itself was extremely emotional as everyone bid them good luck in their new endeavors.

The Scream as You Burn EP is full of melodic hardcore riffs and punk-rock vocals. It comes with the highest recommendation from us here at WUML, Lowell.




We were driving south on the interstate just a day ago when we spotted fall beginning to happen all around us. New red and orange leaves on previously green trees. Its September, and the air is getting colder, everyone begins to bustle about busily in their endeavors, starting anew after the summer.

That is exactly what Mike Kinsella is doing with Owen's new album New Leaves. This release was highly awaited after his acclaimed 2006 full-length, At Home With... and I must say, it does not disappoint.

He has moved away from down tempo, twinkly guitar riffs into something a bit more optimistic, although he never fails to write a track that hits you where it hurts. On this album, it is Ugly on the Inside: "I don't care how you do or don't your hair, you're still ugly on the inside."

Overall the album is more heavily orchestrated then his other releases. His guitar, which in all his projects has taken center stage, takes a back seat on New Leaves, letting the production value take over.

For example, Good Friends, Bad Habits, a track off of his split with The City on Film (Bob Nana), has received quite the makeover, with interesting synth lines over what was a really neat guitar riff. Although I absolutley adored the song before all the fluff, by the time it gets to the bridge, its just like turning At Home With... on for the first time again.

I'll just say, he has come a long way from recording his albums in his mother's bedroom!

Check out Owen's New Leaves

On 91.5 FM WUML, Lowell. www.wuml.org, and Sunday October 11th at the Great Scott in Allston, MA
  1. "New Leaves" - 4:12
  2. "Good Friends, Bad Habits" - 3:54
  3. "A Trenchant Critique" - 2:48
  4. "Never Been Born" - 4:43
  5. "Amnesia and Me"- 3:41
  6. "Brown Hair in a Bird's Nest" - 4:30
  7. "Too Scared to Move" - 3:35
  8. "The Only Child of Aergia" - 4:06
  9. "Ugly on the Inside" - 2:56
  10. "Curtain Call" - 4:13



HIGHLIGHTS: 'Good Friends, Bad Habits,' 'Amnesia and Me," "Ugly on the Inside."




Check Out New - Die Slow
More New - We are Water

vs. This?

HEALTH - Harpers Ferry - Sept. 22
King Khan and Black Lips = Almighty Defenders.

Every song on this album fades in, but each time into some new variation on jangle pop guitars and a clean, up front overall sound. The Feelies' debut album had its fair share of critical success in 1980, still managing to shine in music magazines up against the likes of
Boys Don't Cry by the Cure, Closer by Joy Divison, The Specials, The Buzzcocks, and a slew of other big names. Crazy Rhythms seems to be drastically unappreciated in the popular realm. The album is very feel-good and is rather straight forward indie-twee, but it really follows a model more like REM and helps to define "college rock" of the 1980s. They even cover a Beatles song, speeding it up and peppering an underground feel to it. Crazy Rhythms feels as though its being played intimately, the live sound of them in basement seems to be captured well in their studio sound. The title track feels like early Talking Heads, with vocalists Glenn Mercier and Bil Million belting:
You remind me of a TV show
That's alright, I watch it anyway
I don't talk much cause it gets in the way
Don't let it get in the way

We'll do our job, we'll get things done
Work real hard and get things done
It's time to sail but not now
Can't relax when there's things to do
On many of their songs, they jam over the quick back beat creating drawn out dance interludes which seem to launch back into choruses and verses with quick, clean enthusiastic abandon. The quirky Fa-Ce La is a good culmination of minimal keyboard work, crisp drumming, and fast-paced, washed guitar. Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness seems to define their hip-nerd style of post punk. Raised Eyebrows, after a choppy start, hits a wall of party chanting at the 2:13 mark, shouts of "he said oh" and a distorted guitar sounding larger than their native New Jersey.

Fans of Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, or Cake: tuck in your shirt and put on your glasses.
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We wont actually be smashing the pillars of centralized government or mechanizing, standardizing, or brainwashing...well... never mind. But have you ever tried being on the radio? Have you ever wanted to voice opinions, air music, read news, and much, much more over the airwaves of the Merrimack valley?

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Although it doesn't drop until the 6th of October, you can listen to it here, and it is worth the listen. The Smell scene seems to embrace the writhing under current of a rhythm section with pretty, washed out guitar lines above (think Abe Vigoda, Captain Ahab, new HEALTH, or Mae Shi). You need look no further than the title track on the EP which in usual No Age fashion begins pretty and reserved, and then opens up into a second section of riding along, constantly layering itself. "Genie" begins with a up and down guitar ballad, full of fuzz and Randy Randall's chunking, and soon invites us to sit and listen to Dean Spundt sing, it fades in and fades back out into "Aim at the Airport." Beginning with an erie sample and ambient interludes, No Age sounds more like Books than new age punk revival. So far, the album is a perfect cut-out from last years incredible Nouns and then we run into October's punk anthem "You're a Target." With characteristically huge guitar, loud cymbals filling all four, and Spunt matching the top-to-bottom melody, No Age isn't changing for the worse, but adding for the better. 2007s Wierdo Rippers coagulated their first 5 EPs onto one album, Nouns gave us a strung together version of No Age which crystallized their sound, and Losing Feeling seems to just give us a piece of something we've been wanting since last May. 7 No Age Partying Jams:
1. Teen Creeps from Nouns
2. Everybody's Down
from Weirdo Rippers
3. Brain Burner from
Nouns
4. Sleeper Hold from
Nouns
5. Dead Plane from Weirdo Rippers

6. Eraser from Nouns
and now

7. You're a Target from the upcoming
Losing Feeling
TODAY:
  • The Cult - House of Blues
TOMMOROW:
COMING UP:

The Middle East -
  • Sept. 14 - Deerhoof
  • Sept. 20 - Youth Brigade
  • Sept. 30 - Mono
  • Oct. 9 - Built to Spill
  • Oct. 16 - Art Brut
The Paradise -
  • Sept. 21 - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
  • Sept. 30 - Butthole Surfers
Harper's Ferry -
  • Sept. 21 - Chain & the Gang (ex-Nation of Ulysses), Bodega Girls, Lindsey Starr and the Chemical Smiles
  • Sept. 22 - HEALTH, Big Digits, Pictureplane, Bearstronaut
  • Oct. 2 - Jay Reatard
  • Dec. 3 - Pelican
Great Scott -
  • Sept. 27 - Wavves
  • Oct. 5 - Japandroids
House of Blues -
  • Sept. 28 - Sunny Day Real Estate
  • Oct. 10 - HAPPY MONDAYS / PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Wilbur -
  • Sept. 16 - Yo La Tengo
Somerville Theater -
  • Oct. 4 - Os Mutantes
TODAY:
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Depreciation Guild, & Cymbals Eat Guitars - The Middle East
  • Dan Webb and the Spiders, Movers and Shakers, & Mikey French Fries - O'Briens
  • Pet Shop Boys - House of Blues
  • Death and Taxes, Jason Bennett and the Resistance, Lenny Lashley, & Brunt of It - Harper's Ferry
TOMMOROW:
  • The Love Me Nots, Anabolics, Jeddo
  • Stars - The Middle East Upstairs
  • Timothy Cushing, Four Squares, Wells Fargo, & The Wagons - TT the Bear's Place
  • Finisher, & Whitey - O'Briens
  • Motorhead!!!!, Rev. Horton Heat, & Nashville Pussy - House of Blues, 8PM all ages
COMING UP:

The Middle East -
  • Sept. 11 - Angry Samoans
  • Sept. 14 - Deerhoof
  • Sept. 20 - Youth Brigade
  • Sept. 30 - Mono
  • Oct. 9 - Built to Spill
The Paradise -
  • Sept. 21 - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
  • Sept. 30 - Butthole Surfers
Harper's Ferry -
  • Sept. 21 - Chain & the Gang (ex-Nation of Ulysses), Bodega Girls, Lindsey Starr and the Chemical Smiles
  • Sept. 22 - HEALTH, Big Digits, Pictureplane, Bearstronaut
  • Oct. 2 - Jay Reatard
  • Dec. 3 - Pelican
Great Scott -
  • Sept. 11 - Anderson Comedy Group with Chris Fleming
  • Sept. 27 - Wavves
  • Oct. 5 - Japandroids
House of Blues -
  • Sept. 28 - Sunny Day Real Estate
  • Oct. 10 - HAPPY MONDAYS / PSYCHEDELIC FURS

Although it doesn't drop until the 6th of October, you can listen to it
here, and worth the listen it is. Thank fucking god for No Age. The Smell scene seems to embrace the under current of a rhythm section with pretty, washed out guitar lines above (think Abe Vigoda, Captain Ahab, HEALTH, or Mae Shi). You need look no further than the title track on the EP which in usual No Age fashion begins pretty and reserved, and then opens up into a second section of riding along, constantly layering itself. "Genie" begins with a up and down guitar ballad, full of fuzz and Randy Randall's chunking, and soon invites us to sit and listen to Dean Spundt sing, it fades in and fades back out into "Aim at the Airport." Beginning with an erie sample and ambient interludes, No Age sounds more like Books than new age punk revival. So far, the album is a perfect cut-out from last years incredible Nouns and then we run into October's punk anthem "You're a Target." With characteristically huge guitar, loud cymbals filling all four, and Spunt matching the top-to-bottom melody, No Age isn't changing for the worse, but adding for the better. 2007s Wierdo Rippers coagulated their first 5 EPs onto one album, Nouns gave us a strung together version of No Age which crystallized their sound, and Losing Feeling seems to just give us a piece of something we've been wanting since last May.
7 No Age Party Jams:

1. Teen Creeps from
Nouns
2. Everybody's Down
from Weirdo Rippers
3. Brain Burner from
Nouns
4. Sleeper Hold from Nouns
5. Dead Plane from Weirdo Rippers
6. Eraser from Nouns and now
7. You're a Target from the upcoming
Losing Feeling
Here is a new addition to WUML...which has existed for some time, but we'll be revamping it finally. Is WUML in need of a blog? We could weigh in on this but why not just write one. Our own directors will be publishing various posts related to the station, events, and underground music.
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