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Goner, Gonerfest, Music

Gonerfest 9 Streaming @ Rocket Science Audio

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Here: http://www.rocketscienceaudio.com/RocketScienceAudioPresents/tabid/64/Default.aspx

And the schedule of bands:

9/28 – Friday Afternoon @ The Buccaneer – 2:00pm
The Hussy (Madison, WI) / No Bails (Kalamazoo, MI) / Toxie (Memphis, TN) / Anomalys (Amsterdam, Holland) / Johnny Lowebow (Memphis, TN)

9/28 – Friday Night @ The Hi-Tone Cafe – 8pm Doors
Nobunny (Rabbithole, USA) / River City Tanlines (Memphis, TN) / Bits Of Shit (Melbourne, Australia) / Gary Wrong Group (Mobile, AL) / Bad Sports (Denton, TX) / Nots (Memphis, TN)

9/29 – Saturday Afternoon @ Murphy’s
Inside 1pm Party Bat (Chicago, IL) / 2pm Native Cats (Tasmania, Australia) / 3pm White Mystery (Chicago, IL) / 4pm Chemicals (Portland, OR) / 5pm Cecilia & The Sauerkrauts (Paris, France / Portland, OR)

Outside 1:30 Dez Vibz (Desert, AZ) / 2:30 Detonations (AZ / New Orleans) / 3:30 AAAA The New Memphis Legs (Memphis, Nashville, Texas) / 4:30 Chicken Snake (Staunton, VA) / 5:30 Lenguas Largas (Tucson, AZ)

9/29 – Saturday Night @ The Hi-Tone – 8pm Doors
Spits (Outer Space) / Mad Macka (Brisbane, Australia) / GG King (Atlanta, GA) / Persuaders (New Orleans, LA) / Ex-Cult (Memphis, TN) / White Wires (Ottawa, Canada)

9/30 – Closing Ceremony @ The Goner Gazebo – 2:00pm
Hamish Kilgour (Dunedin, New Zealand) / Rev. John Wilkins (Memphis, TN)

Music, The Barbaras

That Barbaras Record Might Be Coming Out This Year

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As Stephen Pope tells New Zealand’s The Corner [LINK]:

Are you planning on releasing the Barbara’s album this year?

We’re shooting for that, yeah. Alicia from Lost Sounds and River City Tanlines is handling that. We recorded an LP with Jay Reatard like three years ago and we thought he’d deleted it in a fit of anger, cause that’s what he told us. Then the band kind of dissolved, but Alicia got hold of Jay’s recording machine, and it turned out that the Barbara’s LP was still on there. She’s been mixing it, and it’s been really slow process, but I think Goner’s going to put it out, hopefully this year.

CD Review, Music

CD Review: Memphis [2010]

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Band: The Magic Kids
Release: 5/2010
Label: True Panther Sounds

1. “Phone” – A-
2. “Candy” – A+
3. “Superball” – A+
4. “Hideout” – B+
5. “Summer” – A-
6. “Hey Boy” – A+ [CLICK TO LISTEN!!!]
7. “Good To Be” – A-
8. “Skateland” – A-
9. “Sailin” –  A+
10. “Little Red Radio” – A-
11. “Cry With Me Baby” –  A

Comments: The Magic Kids were rightly called the next evolution of The Barbaras. The Barbaras might just never play again: at least one member is currently in Wavves (Stephen Pope and maybe, just maybe, Billy Hayes) and the other three are in this band, The Magic Kids. Hayes certainly incorporated a bit of the Barbaras surf-pop sound in “Baby Say Goodbye,” which was penned by him and released on Wavves 2010 LP King of the Beach. At any rate, comparisons to the Beach Boys have been a plenty since the release of this record. The initial critical response to this record was that it was pretty average: Memphis is a nice attempt at ’60s surf, but it just doesn’t do anything extra. To an extent, I suppose that that may be true. Let’s not forget, though, that some songs are just 100% pop gems like “Superball” and “Hey Boy” and the rest are not too shabby…maybe even great. Perhaps somebody not too familiar with this kind of music would lump it in the “oh, this all sounds the same category.” Touche, touche! If you are sucker for it, it’s quite like bubblegum — sweet and colorful. Though this is quite a summer record — nobody is going to mistake “Sailin” for “skiing” — it pretty much screams nostalgia. Nostalgia for those warm and sunny days that became no more after October 28 (in the Boston area). So anyway, Memphis is a keeper.

Grade: A- (93)

Art, Drugs, Entertainment, Jay Reatard, Music, News, TV, Video

Jay Reatard Forever…

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Not too focus solely on his death, because he led an incredible life, but here are two videos I just discovered on Jay’s passing. The first being Anthony Fantano of the Needle Drop and the second being Fox News, which I didn’t know his death ever reached the big news stories as it should have, albeit Memphis Fox News.

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Chris