There is a nice review of Bosque Brown Plays Mara Lee Miller on Delusions of Adequacy (thanks for spotting it, Ken) and a really favorable one in the current issue of Bust magazine that I retrieved from the P.O. Box last night. There’s something nice in the current issue of Sonic about Bosque Brown, but it’s in Swedish. Krister needs to help us out with some translating. Insound is throwing around some hefty amounts of love for The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore, listing it as one of the best records yet to come in 2005. They’re selling Starflyer 59 Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice LPs over at Insound soon, along with most other btv releases, in stock now. Dave, Nicole, their son Vincent, and I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Saturday. Willie Wonka seemed to scare Vince, but I thought this was a very solid remake, the darker Tim Burton world was very fitting to the somewhat dark style of the Road Dahl storyline. Sunday, I saw Ben’s display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and wandered around the modern wing a bit after. It had been a while since I’d met up with Cy…
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Last night, a bunch of us watch Fearless Freaks, the Flaming Lips documentary, at the building where Ben’s studio is. He managed to score a projector, so it was almost like we were watching at the movies. This documentary really delivered, from lots of footage of Wayne growing up and interviews with his family, to the history of the band from their fuzzed out psychedelic punk rock days until now. It was funny seeing little parts of Tarbox Road Studios in the documentary and Dave Fridmann briefly on screen. I’m inspired to re-listen to a lot of their records today. The first Flaming Lips album I heard was In a Priest Driven Ambulance as a cassette in 1994. Later that year, when my friend dragged me with her and a bunch of other people to Lollapalooza, I was insistent on seeing them play the side stage and was completely blown away. I bought the 4cd Zaireeka the week it came out and then attempted to figure out how I was going to synchronize all 4 discs to play at once on separate systems. I saw them when they came to Philadelphia on the boom box experiment tour that was more…
Saxon Shore : Luck Will Not Save Us from a Jackpot of Nothing is #146 on the CMJ top 200 this week, the 6th week on the charts. Bosque Brown : Plays Mara Lee Miller is #145 this week, the 4th week on the charts. Thanks to everyone playing these btv releases. Johnathon is in Bloomington with Dan Burton finishing up the new Unwed Sailor album The White Ox. Phillip from Questions in Dialect is playing on the album as well. I’m not sure who all else will be playing. I just added a few more Unwed Sailor dates to the touring page, be sure to check out the dates and see both Saxon Shore and Unwed Sailor when they’re in your area. I finally got the audio for June Panic’s one-sided LP that will be called Raising the Canopy Wire. It should be out in the next few months or sooner. :::scott:::