New 7″ are now in stock from Damien Jurado, Songs:Ohia, and Scout Niblett. The Jurado 7″ is quite interesting since it has two older unreleased tracks that were recorded by Dave Bazan and feature him on the drums. The songs are lo-fi, much like Damien’s early cassette releases on Casa, but still showcase his brilliant songwriting skills. It’s a definitely interesting choice for a release. The two Songs:Ohia songs were recorded by Steve Albini. Both Jurado and Songs:Ohia will be playing in Philadelphia on Thursday night, 24 October at the Northstar with TW Walsh. I’ll be there, ready for the rock. Denison is #148 on the CMJ top 200 this week. He’s still touring around like a madman. I’ve added a few more dates of shows with Tracy Shedd (Teenbeat) on the East Coast during December. Hopefully there will be Philadelphia and Lancaster shows to add for those in his hometown crowds. Denison was just in Fayetteville, AR last night for a show sponsored by KXUA. James from Ester Drang played with him and the show was apparently packed out on a Monday. Thanks to our good pal Wes for working it there. Unwed Sailor are still wandering around Europe.…
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I just got back from seeing Punch-Drunk Love with a few friends: Jamie, Willis, Scott, Jane, and Colin. People like to see their names listed on websites as important as this one, especially the often experienced, rarely mentioned Dave Spiese, with whom both Tom and I ate lunch on Friday. We typically eat lunch together on Tuesdays and more often than not patronize Dairy Queen for some reason. In any case, Adam Sandler was unexpectedly brilliant in Punch-Drunk Love, playing a terribly off-kilter and unbalanced personally, with the right mix of humor, charm, psychosis, and uncontrollable rage that one likes to have in their leading movie characters. Emily Watson somehow balances him out, and, while her role is brilliant as well, it is not as amazing as Mr. Sandler’s. All in all, P.T. Anderson delivers a quirky, intriguing, dark comedy with enough tension to leave the viewer on the edge of his or her seat waiting for everything to derail. Maybe my opinion will change by morning. I just looked through the autographed copy of Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man. There is some lush irony in seeing “To Scott, Zadie Smith” written on the title page of a book about…
It’s been quite a while since the last update to the site. Things have been quite busy and exciting. I was in Puerto Rico for four days for work, working long hours to finish everything before getting to take some vacation. When I returned from Puerto Rico, Reels of White Softly Flow played at the Fire. My parents were in town for my friend Nathan’s wedding. I was the best man, so there was a lot to do, tuxedo fittings, rehearsals, barbeques. And, in the meantime, I was orchestrating the arrival of several new btv releases. Thanks to both Willis and Jamie, a new batch of btv releases have safely arrived, including Denison Witmer : Philadelphia Songs LP (white vinyl, gatefold jackets), Circle of Birds : s/t cdep and 10″, Denison Witmer : River Bends cdep (new digipak version), Reels’ Live LP (no cds, sorry), and the second repress of the Damien Jurado : Four Songs one-sided LP. Nathan’s wedding was very exciting as he and Norma were arried on Saturday, 29 June. Immediately the next morning, Reels of White Softly Flow left for some midwest shows. We stopped in Indiana to stay at my parents’ house and then went…