Seemingly, it’s a real birthday bonanza here at Side
One: Track One with Johnny Boy Laird celebrating the
big 2-5 today and my lovely lady friend bumping her
age up another number. Thus in the massive
preparations for her birthday (that included, but
not limited to: creating a cake - with candles - out
of cardboard) I’ve fallen behind in my usual brain
activity (drunkenly choosing girl jewelry takes a
lot out of someone), so this weeks BRAIN NOTES will
be short, sweet, and pretty much a Saturday EP.
Call me lazy, but when the lady has a birthday, it’s
all or nothing.
As always, thanks for reading!
-
Shamelessly Shilling My Other Job -
As you may or may not know I work for Light In The Attic on
the side, and I’ve been busting my ass lately to put
together a few new weekly columns for their news page. For
the first edition of the weekly "ALBUM OF THE WEEK" I
interviewed English-dance duo The Black Ghosts on their self
titled release that's due out July 8. We dig in to the
state of electronica, the 8-bit revolution, and just how
much these two love creating pop music.
I’m pretty proud of it and would love you guys to check it
out. See it
here.
- A
Saturday EP -
:Black
Moth Super Rainbow - Zodiac Girls:
For some reason I imagine Black Moth Super Rainbow to be the
kind of band that only performs in costume. You know weird,
Buckethead-style masks and skin-tight black outfits. Why
you ask? Because Buckethead masks and skin-tight black
outfits creep me out, and there’s a certain level of
creepiness to the distorted vocals on Zodiac Girls.
I imagine if you were to be mugged by day-glo sporting thugs
on the streets of LA in the 1980s, this would be the
soundtrack.
:Dr
Dog - The Old Days:
I shouldn’t have to give any reasoning behind my choice to
put the brand new Dr. Dog song in to my mid-day mix. These
are one of the bands performing right now and anything new
by them is sure to brighten your day. If the thought of Dr.
Dog’s brand new track (a delightfully piano-y little number)
doesn’t brighten your day, please unplug yourself from the
generator, your days of robotic existence have come to an
end.
:Festival
- Fair And True:
There’s a sort of old-timey, vaudevillian nature to this
track that I just can’t get past. On almost all occasions I
would pretentiously chuckle, but the vocals are, well,
piercing and when the whole band comes together in the final
moments, I just want to curl up next to the campfire and cry
myself to sleep.
Well, three tracks and the shameless promotion of my
own work. I’m telling you, the girlfriend is a
demanding taskmaster. I’m lucky even to eek out
these sparse words.
Next week, I will return with pretentious,
uninformed thoughts on music as a whole.
Noah Sanders is the blog/news editor at Light
In The Attic and a contributor over at Sound On The Sound. If you'd like to contact Noah in regards to
his writings here at Side One: Track One then please do so
here.
- Noah Sanders -
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