View the newest project by photographer Daniel Shea who I’ve posted in the past entitled Plume. Plume is a photographic exploration of Southeast Ohio. These are some really beautiful photos. (via Eyes of Artists)
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I’ve been enjoying this Seamonster’s Two Birds EP about a week now. I think the video above is a good visual of the music. My friend Hunter over at Gold Robot is releasing the vinyl and you can pre-order it now (and get the digital version instantly.)
Two Birds was written and recorded by Adrian Todd Webb and friends in various tucked-away places across Virginia (laundry rooms, sewing rooms) over the course of three years.
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MP3 >> Seamonster – Oh Appalachia
(Part of The Weekly Check In series)
Alex Prager is a wonderfully nice talented artist living in Los Angeles California. I remember discovering her photography a few years ago and just always coming back to look at it. I was pretty excited that our photos were next to each other at the THIS gallery show that happened a few weeks ago (photo.) It looks like she’s up to a lot of amazing things, so keep up with her work.
Name: Alex Prager
Location: Los Angeles, California
Age: 30
Occupation: Artist/Photographer
Website: http://www.alexprager.com
Rubin: What are you currently working on or just finished that you’re excited about?
Prager: Right now I’m working on a secret project. Hopefully I will be finished with it before June so I can exhibit it in London for my June 8th show. Another thing I’m excited about is my photography series called Week-end that opened in New York and Los Angeles a couple weeks ago.. It’s opening in Japan in April so I’m definitely going there for that.
Rubin: Where have you traveled this month or recently?
Prager: The last place I went was Florida for Christmas to visit my Dad. I’m trying not to travel right now because I’m going to be doing so much of that starting in April. It’s nice to be home right now for a bit.
Rubin: What’s your favorite music right now?
Prager: I’m listening to Pheonix, Pavement, Charlie Wadhams, and that song Blue Steel by Bot’Ox.
Rubin: Best food you’ve had in your neighborhood lately or while you were traveling?
Prager: I love Local in Los Angeles…the veggie reuben sandwich. It’s right down the street from me. They get their fresh produce from local farms and if you ride your bike there instead of a car, they give you a free smoothie.
Rubin: Anything else you want to mention?
Prager: My sister Vanessa Prager is a bad ass. She paints with oils which is something I cannot do but wish I could.
If you’d like to get caught in a magical trance at any time of the day, throw on City Center’s new EP Spring St out now on Quite Scientific Records.
Thanks to Kevin at What’s Your Rupture? for reminding me about them.
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MP3 >> City Center – Sky Flowers
Purchase at Quiet Scientific (with beautiful packaging) Amazon MP3 or iTunes.
City Center Website.
City Center Myspace.
Here are 2 recent music recommendations I made over at We Love You So in the last few weeks.
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read the post at We Love You So.
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MP3 >> White Hinterland – Icarus
read the post at We Love You So.
Travis Millard has launched his long awaited new site for Fudge Factory Comics. Check it out at http://fudgefactorycomics.com.
(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)
For all your MP3 needs purchase from iTunes or Amazon.
Alkaline Trio: This Addiction (deluxe CD & DVD edition)
Balmorhea: Constellations
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Who Killed Sgt Pepper (vinyl)
Clem Snide: The Meat of Life
Editors: You Don’t Know Love EP
Efterklang: Magic Chairs (vinyl)
Electric President: Violent Blue (vinyl)
Eluvium: Similies
Fang Island: Fang Island
Fela Kuti: Black Man’s Cry (reissue)
High on Fire: Snakes for the Divine (vinyl)
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me (vinyl) *
Nick Thune: Thick Noon (CD & DVD)
Past Lives: Tapestry of Webs (vinyl)
Pelican: What We All Come to Need (vinyl reissue) *
Phantogram: Eyelid Movies (vinyl)
Rocky Votolato: True Devotion *
Shearwater: The Golden Archipeligo
Shout Out Louds: Work (vinyl)
Tune-Yards: Real Live Flesh (vinyl)
Tunng: Hustle (vinyl)
We Are Wolves: Invisible Violence (vinyl)
Wolf People: Tidings
Xiu Xiu: Dear God, I Hate Myself (vinyl)
It just seemed like now is the right time to flash back to Cap’n Jazz with talks of reissuing discographies, reunion shows, and pretty much talking about them everyday of my life.
“With only one full-length album to their name alongside a handful of singles and compilation tracks, Cap’n Jazz left a longstanding impression and irrefutable influence on the region’s bohemian punk scene and unwittingly spawned a breeding ground for future scene stars such as the Promise Ring and Joan Of Arc. Traces of their sonic fingerprint permeate hundreds of indie records released in their wake.”
They’re playing on 7/17 in Chicago, IL at Bottom Lounge (Sold Out) and reissuing their discography on vinyl via Jadetree June 15th, 2010.
Also check out the Weekly Check In I did with Tim Kinsella last year.
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MP3 >> Cap’n Jazz – Oh Messy Life
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MP3 >> Cap’n Jazz – Que Suerte!
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MP3 >> Cap’n Jazz – Ooh Do I LoveYou
(honestly it was so hard not to just post the entire record)
Watch an entire Cap’n Jazz show from my hometown of Kansas City at the Daily Grind from 7/10/1995 on Youtube.
Disclaimer: I listened to Ska music pretty seriously in 1995 (just being honest) so I wasn’t at this show, but my friend’s were. I think I recorded 100 bootlegs of it when I helped out with Kosher Grimace (yes named after a Man Is The Bastard song) video distro and that’s good enough for me.
Listen to more at Myspace.
Buy the Cap’n Jazz Analphabetapolothology at Amazon.
Learn more at Jadetree.
(Part of The Weekly Check In series)
I first discovered Mark Duplass through the band he was in Volcano, I’m Still Excited!! on Polyvinyl Records. Then I saw he was writing/directing movies and watched every single one of them. You might know of some of them The Puffy Chair, Baghead, Hannah Takes The Stairs, Humpday, and his most recent CYRUS (starring John C Reilly, Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei.) He’s also one of the stars of the show The League which was one of my favorite shows last year.
Name: Mark Duplass
Location: Los Feliz (east side of LA)
Age: 33
Occupation: Filmmaker/Dad
Rubin: What are you currently working on or just finished that you’re excited about?
Duplass: My brother Jay and I are preparing to direct a film we wrote that starts shooting in a few months in New Orleans (our hometown). We’re in that fun phase of dreaming about what the movie will be, picking locations, making friends with the new crew members, etc. It’s like showing up at summer camp on the first day and trying to guess what the next 3 months are gonna be like.
Rubin: Where have you traveled this month or recently?
Duplass: We just got back from Sundance where we showed our latest movie CYRUS. Also went to Ann Arbor to show CYRUS as part of a Sundance outreach thingy. 2 frozen tundras in one month. Geez. But, somehow, I had the best BBQ I’ve had in about 10 years in Michigan. And, I used to live in Austin, so that’s kinda saying something big.
Rubin: What’s your favorite music right now?
Duplass: Midlake. Knocks me out every time. That mood is so timeless. It’s like Steely Dan, but less ironic and more heartfelt. But still has that amazing musicianship. I don’t know. I’m really into the earnest thing right now. All this said, Survivor’s “I Can’t Hold Back” made me cry at the end of Paul Blart: Mall Cop. I’m not kidding.
Rubin: Best food you’ve had in your neighborhood lately or while you were traveling?
Duplass: In my ‘neighborhood, it’s all about the Korean BBQ. Soot Bull Jeep. In Koreatown, in LA. My wife brought me there for Valentine’s Day. I ate so much I pretty much ruined the rest of the date. Totally worth it, though.
Rubin: Anything else you want to mention?
Duplass: My 2 year-old daughter and I are watching “Elmo goes Potty” right now. Life rules.
