Is there any better love than a messy messy love? Just put down a towel first! Veronica Charnley (who we interviewed waaaay back in ’09) and her lovely Plumes band & their brand new video and song.
*swoon*
Is there any better love than a messy messy love? Just put down a towel first! Veronica Charnley (who we interviewed waaaay back in ’09) and her lovely Plumes band & their brand new video and song.
*swoon*
love love love this album, love love love this video.
<3
Never EVER follow a girl on a bike into the woods!!!
- Thanks Paul for the link!
Handsome Furs – What About Us (uncensored) from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.
New Handsome Furs video for “What About Us” the uncensored version, of course. If you want the censored version, go fart around on youtube.
HA!
Cheers,
Aaron
The computer graphics during the chorus blew my mind. Michael Bay ain’t go nuffin’ on this shit!
Completely reminds me of our Vagina Word Search from tsurufoto nudiezine Issue No. 2!
Heads up from Baby aka TsuruBride via Pajiba.
Cheers,
Aaron
COMING THIS WEEK…………….
Photography by tsurufoto. aka ME! HOORAY!.
Are you ready to go play outside with me? Mixtape “drops” this week (I’m thinking tomorrow), so keep an eye! One song that will most certainly (I’m thinking track no. 7) to be featured is “FREAK OUT” by Tapes n’ Tapes!
Fuck, I love this song! It’s been my jam, baby pants! My peanut butter n’ jam! Spread that shit thick! Oh wait, what are we talking about??? Oh yeah:
LURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRVE!
Over-acted, over-enunciated, yet…. oddly enjoyable! Oh Peter, you still got it you old goth bastard. (via a heart is a spade)
Cheers,
Aaron
A crappy song (sorry Weird Al, you know I grew up worshiping you, but this kinda sucks), a rather ho-hum video except for one thing and the reason I’m re-blogging this now. The superimposing Al’s face on the body of a woman on this video is oddly & freakishly awesome…..
But really, Weird Al, Lady Gaga? Meh.
Even still…… the kid in me who grew up in the 80s singing along to every song on all his albums can’t wait to hear the rest of the album! Bring on the leakage!
Peanut’s Playground is my bi-weekly verbal diarrhea. Every other Wednesday I plan to ramble about stuff I like (in my typically screwed up version of English) and hope you will like too. And in case you don’t… mweh.
In typical Peanut-style I’ve messed up my timeschedule and made (work related) appointments for about every single day in April and May. And what that means is….a quicky for today’s post and it’s about:
[Info stolen from wikipedia] The Nippon Budokan a.k.a. as The Budokan is an arena in the middle of Tokyo, Japan. I have no clue whatsoever what goes inside this arena besides the fact that a shitload of great live performances have been recorded there.
I’ve collected a few clips of the most memorable of those performances for your enjoyment. (Translation: these were the best ones I could find on Youtube while writing this article at the office) Yeah I’m a lazy basterd. Sue me.
You might have to turn up the volume a bit for some of these videos…
Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me (1978)
Skid Row – Monkey Business (1992)
Ozzy Osbourne – Paranoid (2002)
Rainbow – Stranded (1984)
Muse – Plug In Baby (2010)
The Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music (1993)
Oasis – Live Forever (1998)
The Beatles – NoWhere Man (1966)
See you in two weeks!
- Martin
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Ah prog. My beloved and maligned genre… so near and dear to my hearticles. Oh how the critics of the world hate you so, with your mixy-mashy time changes, your whimsical & fantastical lyrics about space & trees & rainbows & unicorns & shit…
Add in your tendency to write 20 minute movements instead 3 minute verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus songs…. OH how I love thee so. You come in so many shapes & sizes, from jazz to classical to metal to psychedelic to math to, occasional, borderline pop. Sometimes, you are easy to spot in a crowd with your moog-flag flying loud and high, other times you sneak in with just a few flavour crystals here and there, peppered around & in a seemingly simple song. I think that’s one thing I love so much about you. You are at once, easily defined & undefinable! Maybe it’s because we relate so well to each other…. whatever the reason, though the hey days of King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, & ELP may be long gone, you are still alive & well today.
Last week, we bad a lot of fun exploring the “prog” tag down in bandcamp, so many wonderful unknown gems floating around on this great intertube of super info highways…. I left that post inspired. As I’m usually want to do after a bite of prog, it was time to let my prog flag fly high and proud! And what better way to do that than a brand-spanking new prog mixtape??
None.
There is literally no better way.
Seriously.
So I did but here’s the problem. Prog songs, as we all know, are notoriously long, which makes making mixtapes that fit within “society’s definition” of a normal mixtape length…. challenging. I remember back in my youngin’ mixtaperin’ years, building that epic comp for a friends or someone cutie I had a crush on, wanting to put in at least 1 prog song, but finding that in an hour long mixtape, devoting one third of it to one song, well, it can limit you.
Well THANK THE LARDY LARD FOR DEM INTERNETS!!!
Yep, the digital age & shit. Mixtapes can be as long as you have a gigabyte to stick it in. The possibilities are……. prog-a-licious!
So, with that being said and with this being done and a mixtape to be listenerined to, we built ourselves one DOOZY of a mammer jammer. Epic & insanely ridiculous. Prog. And, in true prog fashion, we drop this bad boy in one 2-hour long single MASSIVE mp3.
BLAMO. In yer proggy face!
Now, you may be excited or cringing, that’s up to you, but if you can make it through it — if you dare, that is — I’ve got a reward for you. The first person who can list the track listing in the comments will win, not only Nudiezine Issue No. 5 but also the newest edition to our nudiezine family, the 99 cent MINI!
Honestly. I don’t think anyone will do it. 2 hours of prog, a couple songs that may require a little “previous tsuru post” research, yeah, it’ll take a brave brave soul to get that tracklisting done.
You think you got the skillset, my friend? Let’s find out as…
Have a wonderful weekend everyone. Go ride yer bikes, go take lots of pictures, and we’ll see you before long…
Cheers,
REM. It’s all I’m listening to!!! Mmmm………………..
Photography by herki
Kaloo-kalay, the new Rural Albert Advantage is finally FINALLY here. Sweet. Jesus. What took it so long? It was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in 2008 (which is 21.4 blog years, by the way) that we first heard of these lovely Canadians.
Back then they were unsigned and, for the most part, unheard of… But oh what a difference 21.4 blog years make, eh? They were eventually signed to Saddle Creek where they then re-released the album and started touring and video making and stuff and stuff.
Which is great and all that, but it also meant we music geeks in freaks down here bloggerin’ land had to wait, sit on our 30+ minutes of Hometowns, barely above the length of your favourite EPs, for what? Forever maybe? yeah… Forever for a new collection of songs.
And, my friends, Departing was oh so worth the wait.
In one sense, RAA picks up where they left off. Same awesomely whiny voice, same haunting female back-up vocals, same noise-acoustic guitar effect, and same balance of frenetic & folk/roots/whatever. That’s kinda their sound, so it all makes since. I think a half-hearted listen may get them the “Hometowns II” tag from a music cricket or two.
Who knows. Don’t care.
In the vacuum of it’s own existence, we have ourselves a beautiful & often woefully sad break-up album. There’s depth to the sound, depth in the lyrics… Like our friends from the great north not only got their collective hearts broke, but also saw it coming and didn’t or couldn’t do anything about it.
It’s wonderful. My only complaint is the same as before. It is so fucking short! God, I want more. So…. me being me, here’s what I think you should do. Make a playlist/CD (it fits)/whatever of Hometowns & Departing played back-to-back. You know what you get? 1.1 hours of Rural Alberta Advantage and one happy mother fucker…….
Have a wonderful weekend everyone! We’ll be doing some arts & crafts (and my first boudoir photo shoot for some awesome & beautiful friends), riding my bike, and (of course) hanging out with Baby.
And….. if the good lard’s a-willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, maybe doing a little zinin’ for Issue No. 4?
;)
Until then… Enjoy!
1. Two Lovers
2. The Breakup
3. Under the Knife
4. Muscle Relaxants
5. North Star
6. Stamp
7. Tornado ’87
8. Barnes’ Yard
9. Coldest Days
10. Good Night
Previously from Hometowns…
Don’t Haunt This Place
Frank, AB
RAA Love: Official | Label | Twitter
Cheers,
Aaron
Okay… I’m obsessed… like obsessed-obsessed over this new PJ Harvey album called Let England Shake.
I’ve had a crush on PJ Harvey ever since I could kinda see her nipples on the back cover of Dry.
Yep. That’s the one. She’s bold, brash, difficult, challenging, & strong. I love songs, I hate songs, it’s everything that comfort food isn’t to music.
I don’t always like her albums. But then Let England Shake shows up. I was already in love with “The Words That Maketh Murder”, but a song does not an album make.
Oh my. Oh man. This is so good.
It’s odd, weird — like “Revellie” during “The Glorious Land” — and it’s beautiful… Beautiful in that odd yet strong way Harvey herself is. It’s poetry (literally, from what I hear) meets quirk-rock music.
I’ve listened to it 10, maybe 15 times? And I can’t seem to stop. So, I’m going to shut up and listen some more…
Enjoy!
“Take me back to England & the grey, damp filthiness of ages, fog rolling down behind the mountains & on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.” – PJ Harvey, The Last Living Rose
PRE-ORDER LET ENGLAND SHAKE NOW! & STREAM FULL ALBUM AT NPR!
01. Let England Shake
02. The Last Living Rose
03. The Glorious Land
04. The Words That Maketh Murder
05. All And Everyone
06. On Battleship Hill
07. England
08. In The Dark Places
09. Bitter Branches
10. Hanging In The Wire
11. Written On The Forehead
Written On The Forehead by pjharvey
12. The Colour Of The Earth
Cheers,
T.
Photography by emememily…
I’m kinda obsessed over three albums right now. It’s making it quite hard to do this whole bloggerin’ thing, you know? Three albums are dividing my heart and time right now. So which shall we write about?
Hmm…
You know, you gotta go with who got there first. It’s only fair, donchathink? Besides, with all the break-ups going on in music with the White Stripes & LCD Soundsystems and stuff, it’s kinda nice to see all the old-timers making a go of it this year, take charge, kick ass, take a few names and such. We saw Cake, Ron Sexsmith, and Social Distortion already light up our eyes and we know REM and PJ Harvey are in the pipeline, but today it’s Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker leadman’s solo debut that’s swooning our ears & brainicles.
Yep, David Lowery’s The Palace Guards is out and it’s fantastic. I find it interesting when people have multiple bands for multiple styles or sounds. Cracker was always his roots rock band — oh man, I need to hear “Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)” like stat…
One sec.
Ah… That’s better. Where were we? Oh yeah, Lowery’s got his original gig with Camper Van Beethoven as his quirkball band (Key Lime Pie is and will always be one of my favourite albums ever).
Considering that, as far as I know, both bands are still intact, Lowery doing “David Lowery” must mean these songs, on some level, just don’t fit with the C&CvB thing.
From an outsiders perspective, some songs like “All Those Girls Mean Nothing To Me” do sound like they could’ve fit elsewhere, but maybe it’s similar to the old axiom, “you can take the boy out of Florida, but you can’t take Florida out the boy” ’cause lard knows I tried… Lowery is Lowery so you could make a case for this whole solo thing being kinda silly. Hell, you could probably make a case that Cracker is Camper van Beethoven is David Lowery and vicey-vicey-versy.
I disagree though. I don’t have to understand the difference between the projects to understand the desire and need to keep them separate. People wonder why I’m spread out more than a 5 dollar whore on two-fer-one night.
snaps!
So, yeah, the comparisons will come in all the reviews, for sure. Hell, I think I just spent a couple paragraphs on it. And for that, Lowery, I’m sorry.
This album is really wonderful. The wonderfully odd (see: “The Palace Guards”). It’s unabashedly kuntry (see: “Raise ‘em Up on Honey”). And dear jeebus on a stick it can be absolutely beautiful (see: “Deep Oblivion”).
Okay, enough with the “see: Song” crap, just get it, play it over and over again. We old timers still gots it mother fuckers!!
Track Listing:
1 – Raise ‘em Up on Honey
2 – The Palace Guards
3 – Deep Oblivion
4 – Ah You Left Me
5 – All Those Girls Meant Nothing to Me
6 – I Sold the Arabs the Moon
7 – Marigold
8 – Big Life
9 – Submarine
Ah…. and a little old school Cracker for you with “Low”:
yeah, that’s the stuff.
Click here for David Lowery love… He’s on the twitters too!
Cheers,
T.
Seems rather fitting as I’ve been listening to this album all weekend to pop over to DBF and see New Pornographers made a viddy of one of my favourite songs off the album, “Moves”.
“I hear music in my head, and I need to get it out…”
By the way… the cameos in this? Classic.
The New Pornographers – Moves by k7fm
Click on the screen capture to download Together, one of the best albums of 2010.
Good morning, my friends! Got your Cocoa Puffs all swimming in milk? Got you PJ butt-flaps buttoned up tight? Got you favourite pillow fluffed and ready for vegetating?
Good…
‘Cause it’s time for Saturday Morning Music Videos with The TSURURADIO Community!
*insert super action noise here*
PEW PEW!
Yes, the fine folks in our beloved little community of music freaks and geeks have been scouring the intertubals of cyber love canals to bring you some pretty sweet musical videos.
First up… From grafista, the latest from bloggerin’ fave PJ Harvey and “The Words The Maketh Murder”:
Very cool… Next up, we have “Nightwatch” by the Acrylics found by Fulltext!
Now we step back a couple years, thanks to Isa and her classic find, “Frank Sinatra” by Cake…
Fulltext dropped in on vimeo and found us “Las Palmas” by Mia Riddle
Las Palmas from Mia Riddle on Vimeo.
And then “No Room To Live” by Times New Viking.
The High Wire sent me a little email about their new video for “Pump Your Little Heart”, here it is!
Next up, “Yer Spring” by Hey Rosetta! via grafista..
FT brought us Young Galaxy’s “We Have Everything”…
Here’s DeVotchKa’s “100 Other Lovers”..
And finally, grafista found this video called “Mixtape Homemade Video”, which is just kinda awesome…
That’s it! Good times… until next time!
Cheers,
T.
PR shots from the internet…
A long time ago it was once said there are two kinds of music fans, either the Beatles or Elvis?
“My theory is that when it comes to important subjects, there’s only two ways a person can answer. For example, there’s two kinds of people in this world, Elvis people and Beatles people. Now Beatles people can like Elvis. And Elvis people can like the Beatles. But nobody likes them both equally. Somewhere you have to make a choice. And that choice tells me who you are.” – Mia Wallace
Some people have said that it’s actually Beatles and Rolling Stones… But whatever it is, you get the gist. Personally, I feel like either way you look at it, it’s rather dated, something meant for old baby boomers and what not. So, I updated it for “my generation”, that you either love REM or U2 more. As Stylus once wrote in greater depth than I could imagine, both followed very similar career paths, but where U2 was hell bent on taking over the world as loud & obnoxiously as they can..
REM did it with a more, well, wallflower approach… Quietly doing their own thing, popping up here and there, saying what they have to say, but not grabbing you by the face to make sure you hear it.
But as I trickle ever closer to my middle-ages (dear jeebus, help me) even the REM v. U2 thing seemed out-of-sync in today’s indie-eat-indie world we are living it. Last July I started to wonder who the new torch-bearers are, what two bands kinda represent you modern music persuasions??? My conclusion? Arcade Fire & The Decemberists.
Makes sense, right? Musically, Canada’s Arcade Fire & Ireland’s (which is kinda the Canada of the UK, Iceland is their Greenland) U2 like to ram their messages down your throat with megaphones, coming off as subtle as a vegetable-induced dutch oven fart.
Decemberists & REM, on the other hand, tend to be more folk-rock, super-literates (often to the point of a periodic head-scratching “huh” mid-lyric) living a quiet life out in Portland & Athens, respectively.
Okay. At this point you are either with me or think I’m an idiot (or both), right? Well…. for all you naysayers out there, I’ve got more proof. As if the bands felt compelled to literally pass the torch-bearering responsibilities on check this.
First, as if “O Valencia” from The Crane Wife wasn’t enough…
..the new album by The Decemberists is Colin’s “REM album”, AND even features Peter Buck playing Colin’s knock-offs of REM! — Mmm…. so meta. Not only does it show even further that The Decemberists were pretty much designed for me – seriously… proggy concept albums, countrified REM albums? Oh my! – But all “those kinds” of music fans out there, let’s call them geeks aka me, have a relatively new band to call their own.
HOORAY!
Then there is Arcade Fire. Not only have we seen the passion they wear on their sleeves tweek out Wayne Coyan and more recently that Vincent Moon guy shown here in extra deep artist mode:
Photo by Brantley Gutierrez
..but now they are going to do a concert with U2!
Game. Set. Match.
Can Decemberists fans like Arcade Fire and vicy-versy? Of course, lard knows I do. But, as Mia said.. you can’t like them both equally.
Photography by Evie
We here at TSURURADIO are hard at work preparing for the launch of our next zine. It’s going to be beyond epic… One might even say “super epic”. On top of that, we are working on a special little presentation for you here but be on the lookout on Friday, Februrary 4th at http://tsurufoto.etsy.com — STAY VIGILANT!!!
WOOT!
It’s going to be our biggest and baddest zine yet! It’s a lot of work but fortunately I’ve got a sweet new gem of an album by long, long, LONG time TSURURADIO fave Ron Sexsmith and his latest LP Long Player Late Bloomer to keep me on task!
There is only one word for a Ron Sexsmith album you need to know, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”…… It’s like soaking weary feet in small tub of hot water and Epsom salt.
You know what you are going to get… Chill-tempoed (yeah, “chill-tempoed”, it’s a word.. I just created it) pop/rock. Like sweet AM radio tunes from the olden days of my youth that just fill the room with expertly crafted songs about love & life.
SIDE NOTE: The new Edie Brickell showed up on the internettals recently as well. Someone should really get these two together for a sweet little duet, amirite??
Anywhosals….. Enjoy!
1. Get In Line
2. The Reason Why
3. Believe It When I See It
4. Miracles
5. No Help At All
6. Late Bloomer
7. Heavenly
8. Michael And His Dad
9. Middle Of Love
10. Everytime I Follow
11. Eye Candy
12. Love Shines + the viddy…. Looks so familiar, eh? Fuck who?
13. Nowadays
Ron Sexsmith love: Official
Cheers,
T.
Just got this in ye ol’ inbox and it kinda caught my eye. Band called Lohio. Even got a Bandcamp page?
Nice! Looks like they be coming our way soon…. Date night, Baby???
2/3 Buffalo, NY 136 Loft
2/4 Morgantown, WV 123 Pleasant Street
2/5 Elkins, WV Davis & Elkins College
2/7 New York City Union Hall
2/8 New York City Lit Lounge
2/10 Elon, NC The Fat Frogg
2/12 Chapel Hill, NC The Cave
2/14 Lexington, KY Cosmic Charlies
2/15 Bloomington, IN The Bishop
2/16 Louisville, KY Rudyard Kipling
2/17 Indianapolis, IN Vollrath
2/18 Columbus, OH KOBO
2/19 Pittsburgh, PA Thunderbird
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