If only every city had a Hopscotch. Raleigh, NC’s big-big music festival has gotten even bigger this year, with the addition of historical (and possibly haunted!!!) sounding venues like the Long View Center, Memorial Auditorium and the Contemporary Art Museum to its 15 venues strong festival map. There are 175 artists playing this thing, people, with everyone from the likes of Class Actress and Baroness to Liars and Wagner">Mirel Wagner. This year is only Hopscotch’s third go-around, and already they’ve got swell headliners like Built to Spill, The Roots, and The Jesus and Mary Chain keyed ...

My brain was heavily serotonin deficient from desert parties and what not but I finally mustered the energy to share some tracks. First off is an Italo boogie track from 1983 by High Resolution! As usual the vocals leave more to be desired but the bass line is fresh! This was composed by Paolo del Prete and Marco Fatali and was released on SPQR. High Resolution-Sweepin' Off Next up are my two favorite tracks from Glenn Jones' 1984 LP called "Finesse" which came out on RCA Records. Both tracks have pretty dreamy synthesizers and Glenn's voice is spot on ...

Brooklyn Vegan : HOPSCOTCH 2012 LINEUP Airstrip (Carrboro, N.C.) Altar of Plagues (Cork, Ireland) Altos (Milwaukee, Wis.) Alvarius B. (Seattle, Wash.) Amen Dunes (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun (Berlin, Germany / Durham, N.C.) Balam Acab (Mechanicsburg, P.A.) Baroness (Savannah, Ga.) Beat Report (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Big Troubles (Ridgewood, N.J.) Bill Orcutt (San Francisco, Calif.) Ritmo">Bio Ritmo (Richmond, Va.) BIrds of Avalon (Raleigh, N.C.) Black Skies (Carrboro, N.C.) Boy Friend (Austin, Texas) Built to Spill (Boise, I.D.) Burglar Fucker (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Calico Haunts (Durham, N.C.) Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan (Durham, N ...

(Detailed playlist , with listening links.) 1. drunk dude in back of cop car - "Bohemian Rhapsody" 2. China Blue - "Eiffel Tower recordings" (archive.org) 3. Glenn Jones - "Of Its Own Kind" - The Wanting (Thrill Jockey) 4. Amps For Christ - "Roto Koto In C Major" - split 12-inch with Woods (Shrimper) 5. Hornorkesteret - "Baal" - Fjaer Og Jern (Panot) 6. Lambchop - "Mr. Met" - Mr. M (Merge) 7. Grateful Dead - "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" - Reckoning (Arista) 8. Insect Factory + Public Speaking - "(live set)" [with Delia Derbyshire, Grupo Experimental Electroacoustico, The Harlemans, Flip the Switch! excerpts] 9. Weird Paul Petrosky - "Geraldo Made Me ...

Thrill Jockey is very pleased to announce this year's line-up for Record Store Day in the form of two new releases and two older reissues that haven't been available since the early '90s! Following last year's instantly sold out split LP with Glenn Jones, THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS return with two...

With a lot of solo acoustic guitarists, you can pretty much predict what they will deliver, and almost all of it a slurry of Fahey, Kottke and Basho-Junghans. Yair Yona, while fully in the tradition of variations on American Primitive, is hard to pin down. That's what makes his new "World Behind Curtains" another triumph. Yona's style is both deep and whimsical; whereas other guitarists might offer songs that echo their predecessors, Yona builds off the past as he coaxes out his own haunting, memorable echoes. Yona breaks from the mold by using his solo guitar-six and twelve ...

ihn hatte ich Euch bereits versucht näherzubringen , blieb bis dato aber ohne rückmeldung, vielleicht gelingt es mit einem neuen song der kleinen truppe aus stockholm rund um ihren leader markus hulthén : die wiaiwya -7777777 reihe hatte ich Euch neulich bereits einmal vorgestellt, der singles club bringt 2012 an jedem siebten eine 7inch heraus, sieben monate lang, nach the wave pictures im januar nun eine etwas anderer gangart: the werewandas : leah rosen und david chandler schicken sich an, mit "we are not the same" ihr erstes album auf den weg zu bringen, am 03. april wird der selfrelease auf sich aufmerksam ...

Jones' most recent album, The Wanting , is a compelling work of American folk music that tells stories without a single word. Watch the masterful guitarist perform a lovely set at the NPR Music offices.

Suffocating drones, feverish out jazz, bucolic fingerpicking, audacious shredding, gothic soundscapes, transcendent guitar armadas, and at least one dead salamander. In short, the best of the rest. SPIN's Best of 2011: • One Fucked Up Year: SPIN's Best of 2011 Issue • SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2011 • SPIN's 20 Best Songs of 2011 • SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011 • SPIN's 10 Best Reissues of 2011 • SPIN's 25 Best Live Photos of 2011 • Endless Bummer: 30 Ways 2011 Was a Drag 20. The Necks Mindset The Australian ambient-jazz legends etch deep into their first ...

by Elliott Sharp • November 2011 Exemplifying robust cosmopolitan values, Chris Corsano makes himself at home across multiple scenes and sound-worlds, from rock to noise to free-jazz to ________. He’s played with a massive range of musicians, including Thurston Moore, Björk, Nels Cline, and C. Spencer Yeh. He’s also in a little trio called Rangda with Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny, and works frequently with Mick Flower in the Flower-Corsano Duo. When he’s found the time, Corsano’s dropped some astounding and gonzo solo albums — 2006’s The Young Cricketer and 2009’s Another Dull Dawn — and ...

Battles @ ATP NJ (more by Dana (Distortion) Yavin) today in NYC * comedy * Todd Barry @ the Pit * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Glenn Jones, P.G. Six @ Zebulon * Wim, Aaron Roche @ Mercury Lounge...

Tweet There’s guitar music, and then there’s guitar music.  Glenn Jones’s new album, “The Wanting”, falls into the latter category.  The album is Jones’s fourth solo, though he collaborates with Chris Corsano for the album’s epic seventeen minute sign off, “The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville”. Glenn Jones alternates between a six string guitar, [...]

WHAT: Deluna Fest WHEN: October 14-16 WHERE: Pensacola Beach, FL WHO: Girl Talk, Big Boi, the Shins, Cut Copy, Diplo, Weezer, the New Pornographers, the War on Drugs, Stars, A-Trak, Wanda Jackson, Bettye LaVette, Jane's Addiction, Matt & Kim, Ladytron, Ra Ra Riot, the Hood Internet, more WHAT: Homegrown Fest III WHEN: October 14-16 WHERE: Boston and Medford, MA WHO: White Fence, Dope Body, Grass Widow, Blues Control, the Men, Bobb Trimble, Royal Baths, Glenn Jones, Truman Peyote, Bleached, Major Stars, more WHAT: UTOPiAfest WHEN: October 14-15 WHERE: Utopia, TX WHO: Blitzen Trapper, Dawes, Avi Buffalo, more WHAT: Kontraste WHEN ...

"the flying spire don't have no mercy" habe ich mir mittlerweile ein dutzend mal angehört. chuck johnson entwirft eine poetische miniatur, die sich über die saiten seiner steel string guitar ausbreitet wie schützender vlies, der vor angriffen von außen bewahrt. man fühlt sich wie unter einer dunstglocke, in der die töne leicht widerhallen. anfang der neunziger begann johnson in der tradition der american primitive, stellvertretend seien elizabeth cotten, etta baker genannt, seine gitarre als soloinstrument zu verstehen und gab erste konzerte. doch bis zum ersten soloalbum sollte es noch etwas dauern. zunächst spielte er in verschiedenen formationen, in denen ...

It's been more than 10 years since the death of John Fahey, the mythical artist who helped invent the "American primitive" school of solo acoustic guitar. That tradition is alive and well thanks to a host of younger guitarists, a group that includes one of Fahey's close friends: Glenn Jones.