Jim Ward "of Sparta, Ex-At The Drive-In" fame is in a solid relationship with his new band, Sleepercar. I would describe listening to the 2008 album "West Texas" like "sipping Maker's Mark out of a spotty glass in a rundown bar while watching the sun go down over the shoulder of a bartender that calls you sweetheart and asks how your grandma's doing in between crooked teeth and Marlboro reds". A sweet and content experience, with just the right hint of pain and loneliness.
Austinites can checkout Sleepercar this Monday, November 17th at Mohawk with Morekestra (outside, starting @ 8:00pm).
Has Jim Ward abandoned punk and gone country? No, he's West Texas, which is a little country and a little bit rock and roll...
Stacie: Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Jim: usually wear slip ons, so when i have shoes with laces i almost never untie them-
Stacie: Would you consider yourself more of an introvert or an extrovert?
Jim: both- usually an extrovert, but i hate being in crowds so that makes me with draw a lot
Stacie: How stoked where you when your number one MySpace friend, Barack, won the election?
Jim: very stoked
Stacie: Does the song "A Broken Promise" refer to any broken promises in particular?
Jim: no-
Stacie: What's one trait that you dislike about yourself at the moment?
Jim: i am passive/aggressive- and it sometimes makes personal relationships difficult, i try to control it
Stacie: Your musical endeavors progressed from hardcore, to a little less hardcore, to alt-country. Have you found a genre that fits well with Sleepercar?
Jim: i think sleepercar is pretty flexible in the genre department- we have been on quite a few different tours, it makes me happy...
Music video from Marnie Stern for the song "Transformer." Off the album This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It is It and That Is That, released in 2008 by Kill Rock Stars.
Marnie Stern plays Mohawk on Tuesday, November 18. Get your tickets here!
Video for Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's "The White Corolla" from the Town Topic EP.
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for Nick Courtright’s
weekly first glance at music discovered in the last seven days, whether
it be just-released, just-leaked, or some long-lost gem that has
remained under the radar. Click here for other recent editions of Hot Off the Press, featuring acts such as
Deerhunter, TV on the Radio, Deerhoof, Cold War Kids, of Montreal,
Juana Molina, Crystal Stilts, Final Fantasy, Peter Bjorn & John,
White Denim, and Grizzly Bear.
DJ/Rupture – Uproot
released October 7 on Agriculture
Report Card: B+
Pasting together swatches of 23 diverse, seemingly random, and
very-much-someone-else’s songs could make it seem like DJ/rupture,
known to his mother as Jace Clayton, is a plain thief or merely yet
another mashupologist who captures the familiar and repackages it in
smile-worthy fashion. But despite the fact that he’s utilizing the
source material of others, a technique prone to aping and
obnoxiousness, there’s a simple kindness to Uproot, as if Clayton’s
working to amplify the gorgeousness of the originals in a tributary
tapestry, rather than simply trying to make a buck off of stolen beats
and the electronic excitement that is the fade-out and fade-in.
Music video for Of Montreal's song "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethen Curse" off the album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?. Released in 2007 by Polyvinyl Records.
Of Montreal plays Fiesta Gardens this Thursday, November 13. Get your tickets here!
Link to map for Fiesta Gardens
Of Montreal Fun Facts:
*Of Montreal has recorded nine studio albums, from Cherry Peel (1997)
to Skeletal Lamping (October, 2008).
*Of Montreal likes to combine happy upbeat melodies with sad, gloomy,
somebody shoot me now, depressing lyrics. They're awesome!
*Kevin Barnes's love of theatre and comedy is reflected in his live
shows. That coupled with the amazing music makes it very special.
*Since the release of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007,
which is fabulous by the way), Barnes performs as his on-stage glam
rock alter ego, Georgie Fruit (which is fabulous, by the way).
*Of Montreal gained a lot of popularity with the MTV clip for "Wraith
Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)", which can also be heard as that
damn Outback steakhouse jingle...we still love you.
*If you haven't seen a live show then,...hahaha, you haven't? What?
Now that's just silly.
Video for The Explorers Club "Do You Love Me" from the Dead Oceans release "Freedom Wind".
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