Unsubstantiated Ramblings: June 3rd, 2009

- The next great American indie rock band, Sunshower Orphans, has filled out their lineup.

- Ghost Mall is playing a killer 4th of July show. I'm pretty sure it is benefiting the good people at Showpaper. Japanther, Ninjasonik, The Death Set and Muhammad Ali are also playing.

- Holy shit, Muhammad Ali is such a good band. (More on this in the future.)

- I just started listening to the New Bad Things, J Church and Bent Outta Shape. All great bands I'll never get to see live. I hate being late to the party.

Ghost Mall Update.

I needed to write something so I decided on this.

We finally had practice today. It went pretty well. My throat is a little sore but that's all part of it. We rerecorded the vox on "40 Nugs" and "Young Liars." We also came to the stunning realization that, while we did name our song after the comic book Young Liars, it is very possible that David Lapham named his comic book after the TV on the Radio song. So it has come full circle. aybe I'll change the name to "Danny & Sadie" or "Getting Your Junk Cut Off By A Midget Sucks."

We have our first summer show booked! It's at Retox with Apeshit! They're a hardcore band. I really want to play with Cerebral Ballzy. They are a great hardcore band. We also are probably playing with Japanther on July 4th. It's becoming a tradition.

Oh, and we sort of wrote a new song. More on that on June 11th.

This is a super lame post but whatevs.

Local Bands To Love: Pizzza Time

Steven Barry, the drummer of my old band Hidden Power, is an extremely talented individual. This is his secretive little new project, Pizzza Time. It has the same name as a Ducktails song and I guess that's fitting because it does sound a bit like Ducktails. But on "Hope You'll Be Home" he isn't afraid to be on the much noisier end of the spectrum of this kind of tropical psychedelia. It's melded with a Black Moth Super Rainbow kind of sound too. It leaves me a little speechless. I like it because it is good. And I think I might be in the background of "Let's Just Be Friends."

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Pizzza Time - "Hope You'll Be Home"
Pizzza Time - "Let's Just Be Friends"

Unsubstantiated Ramblings: May 21st, 2009

A few things to address in this edition concerning last night's St. Vincent show.

- St. Vincent was fantastic. Never change.

- Pattern Is Movement, don't play any songs without your drummer. He was my favorite part of your set besides that killer cover you did and your beards.

- When you go to a show, don't sit on the floor while you're waiting. It is very rude. Especially when you get up and then come back to find people standing where you were once sitting so you just plop yourself down on their feet. I'm looking at you guy who was actually a girl. But seriously, don't go to the show early if you're not prepared to stand for a while before a band comes on. GO SOMEWHERE WITH CHAIRS! Webster Hall has no chairs on the main floor for a REASON! This isn't a picnic. This is indie rock. Kay Booboo?

- Clapping guy. Give it up. You shouldn't clap along to every song. I will give you credit for clapping in time on every song and being a little creative but dude, once it gets so quiet that your claps are drowning out the singing, you should just stop.

- If you're going to stand against the barrier, I would hope that it's because you are a huge, huge fan of whatever band is playing. So you should probably be up there singing along, watching the band and making them feel good about their career choice. You should not be fucking around with your camera settings. You are not in the photo pit. Let the people getting paid to take the pictures, take the pictures. Your job is to watch the show and not have your camera tell you what the rule of thirds is. You want something to remember the show by? Then actually watch it! And buy a t-shirt.

- Webster Hall, turn the bass down. What's your deal? The bass is always really high at every show I go to inside of you. Chill out.

- Move over Jenny Lewis. I have a new indie rock crush. Annie Clark you have my heart. Seriously, nothing more attractive than a girl shredding on guitar.

That is all. Most of this has been a gross exaggeration.

Unsubstantiated Ramblings: May 18th, 2009

-Sunshower Orphans have rereleased their first EP, Thing We're Supposed To Forget, as a free download. You can get it HERE. It's a bit different from their more recent output but still pretty solid stuff.

-The new Sonic Youth album, The Eternal, is pretty good. It took me a while to get to it but I'm glad I did.

-I saw The Soloist last night. I was told it was awful. I thought it was okay. I wasn't feeling all the long classical music over birds flying or random colors scenes though.

-I saw Japanther on Saturday. They played for an hour and a half. I'm pretty sure I heard "Not A War" about three times. But I did get to hear a bunch of songs for the first time and THEY COVERED MY FAVORITE RAMONES SONG!