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omen i listen to are amazing but too young to be president vice president waxahatchee s katie crutchfield seems awesome and has a nice redemption story but she s only 31 angel olsen was another musician who came to mind but she s only 33 then i had to consider older indie rockers this is fraught with complications musicians tend to have bouts with drug addiction or other less presidential behaviors i don t personally think this should exclude them from consideration but it will be a non starter for many voters for example i considered kim deal one of my all time favorite people not just artists however she s had her bouts with addiction and seems to be recovering and producing some great music but i can t let her opponents tear her down for past transgressions i considered liz phair but she ll be unfairly accused of karen ism i don t think liz phair is a karen becky or susan but her social status might pigeon hole her into such a box after reading most of phair s memoir horror stories i realized she has led a pretty upper middle class life that s fairly conventional is she cool yes is she one of the most gifted song writers of her generation oh yeah but is she a good fit for the current political and cultural climate i don t know let me be clear i love kim deal and liz phair but we need a female bernie sanders on this ticket that s why we need kim gordon kim gordon at 67 kim gordon s at the perfect age for the office she is a working mother who has strong ties to the east coast nyc western mass and california where she grew up and currently resides gordon was a strong supporter of bernie sanders and appears to support all his positions politically yes she is divorced but who isn t plus she came out of that marriage stronger than ever i don t think kim gordon will take shit from anyone and her presence will command respect in a room of world leaders since we have not had a female president and she is the senior of the two candidates i would nominate kim gordon for president and garrett oliver as the vp there s no way the queen of indie rock and the king of fine craft beer could lose to a giant douche or a turd sandwich no way convince me otherwise rate this tagged with 2020 election garrett oliver kim gordon politic potus 2 comments for the love of live shows wear a mask posted in live massachusetts by sm on july 6 2020 the last live show i saw half of sonic youth and some other people this spring was going to be epic in terms of live shows for me and i never use the word epic i was set to see archers of loaf waxahatchee liz phair parquet courts and big thief in august there were even several other shows to consider i was really excited to get out and see some bands then well you know at first i figured everyone would just postpone their shows and i would make do with instagram live performances kevin morby and katie crutchfield the indie rock couple du jour was ridiculously cute in their la or maybe kc bungalow performing mixes from each other s catalogs or fan requests of course all anyone wanted to hear was their cover of jason molina s farewell transmission when it was all going down i was debating going to see archers of loaf in boston first i rarely go to boston for shows i really don t like navigating that city and prefer seeing shows here in western mass but i hadn t seen loaf in like 20 years i really wanted to see this show however as the date approached the number of cases in massachusetts increased particularly around boston i finally decided i couldn t risk my family s health and chose not to go of course the show was eventually canceled anyway so at least i wasn t out the money for the tickets a week later everything shut down one by one shows were postponed or canceled waxahatchee moved to the fall parquet courts is supposedly still happening in a few days but i doubt it i m not going anyway liz phair canceled which means i ve held tickets for three liz phair shows that were all canceled and big thief canceled unfortunately the coronavirus pandemic shut down the live music industry and it will likely continue into the fall unless folks meaning americans start wearing masks washing hands and practicing social distancing as other parts of the world go back to normal we all sit at home or ignore the evidence and go out to bars in the meantime live music ceases and it s not like musicians and bands are giving up i mentioned the instagram shows put on by crutchfield and morby but instagram live is busy all the time now some are scheduling live shows fans can purchase access but a lot of these shows are happening at reasonable hours meaning parents who have to get kids to bed can t typically attend of course would i even want to kevin morby on instagram live i live for live music i don t go to nearly as many shows as i used to but i ve been attending rock shows religiously since my first i was late to rock concerts but my first one was during my senior year of high school on st patrick s day of 1993 i saw vic chestnut goo goo dolls in their punk rock phase and soul asylum supporting their breakout album grave dancers union all the way up to last december s thurston moore gig in holyoke and that s 26 5 years of concert going i wish i knew the actual count but it s a bunch for longtime readers are there really that many of you them you may remember that this blog s biggest post was the one i wrote inspired by a strange night at a show the post itself wondered if i was too old for music that was almost ten years ago i still wonder if maybe i m getting too old for live shows anyway maybe this pandemic is the good lord s way of saying that it s time to cut out the rock shows so here i sit on my back deck worrying about the assholes who tore down a bunch of trees next door to build a house i m sitting out here because we actually have people cleaning our house there are no shows on the horizon i say all this now and am resigned to shutting down that part of me that still longs for live rock music if the pandemic has killed anything well aside from 130k in this country mr president it has somewhat injured that longing although it was novel to watch bands play stripped down versions of their songs in their living rooms i m pretty over it now and as i eye that parquet courts show i wonder whether it will just be cancelled anyway i mean i ve already seen pavement jk you re great pc sorry for the whoa is me post i don t mean to be a downer but if people don t start staying home and wearing masks live music is doomed if you have a second and some money please consider donating to a shining light in live music venues here in the valley gateway city arts in holyoke has injected some energy into the scene over the past couple of years they like many other small businesses are struggling a lot of those shows i missed this spring were set to be at gca help them out even if i m too bummed to go out that shouldn t mean a great little venue has to shut down rate this tagged with boston gateway city arts holyoke instagram kevin morby pandemic waxahatchee 4 comments the matador 100 project superchunk come olé 026 027 posted in matador 100 records review by sm on july 2 2020 new logo i m not dead and neither is this series i have however slowed on collecting the first 100 matador releases because they are hard to come by and often times expensive i mean there s a toiling midgets release i ve been chasing for a while and it s cheap but there isn t a copy for sale online in this country i will pay more for shipping that i will for the record and that s if i can even get it past customs anyway i ve digressed before i ve begun this series as some may be aware is my attempt to collect and listen to the first 100 releases from my all time favorite label matador records of nyc what follows is a rundown of the next three releases olé 0026 0027 a couple of great 7 inches caveman mac on the left and fig leaf over bits on the right superchunk released its first handful of titles on matador the seven inch the breadman olé 0026 was their second release i believe the guitars are fast and layered laura balance s bass lines are particularly fleshy mac mccaughan cries over the cacophony from what i can tell he s singing about a baker who never realized his dream of playing guitar or i could be way off the b side is the more start and stop cast iron which makes an appearance on the band s second full length release no pocky for kitty i guess it s about yelling at someone from the front porch but that seems likely an oversimplification the cover art is somewhat iconic mac i believe is featured shirtless with a head full of hair reminiscent of a caveman i always found this interesting juxtaposition of superchunk with anything agro they are smart nice funny people from what i can tell however the music can be loud fast and incredibly intense even with mac s high pitched wails still this image of mac as a cavemen always makes me laugh i hope that s how it was intended come er comes in next with their seven inch fast piss blues released in 1992 come featured the legendary thalia zedek and codeine s chris brokaw this was the second release from the band the first on sub pop the previous year fast piss blues is a gnarly modern blues song could it be post blues i don t remember being born zedek growls the guitars soar at times and the bass lines are heavy and thick this is followed by b side i got the blues which is a down tempo blues song of longing and regret these tracks are dirty and uber cool i m sure the band brought a lot of promise with their early 7 inches however blues based music in indie rock can have a finite existence at this point i should address the odd way matador releases are numbered even though the breadman and fast piss blues are consecutive releases number wise 0026 0027 there are about 12 13 other releases between them the breadman came out around 13 months prior to fast piss blues in fact their whole system seems out of whack it starts at the beginning 001 003 002 012 005 004 007 023 it s a mess but understandable it seems and someone who actually knows can correct me that the numbers are based on the order agreements are made to put out records and not the eventual release it also explains when some releases were skipped and never happened i believe i ve addressed these when they come up i will continue to mention them when i can the official discography lists the records in order or release and leaves out those matador never released moving on i ve got the shams quilt olé 0028 and bullet lavolta s the gun didn t know i was loaded olé 0029 coming up but then there s a gap i haven t been able to score the aforementioned toiling midgets son olé 0030 again it s not expensive or anything but it s hard to come by what s frustrating is there s a record store in japan that has this and about 10 other records on my wantlist but they don t ship to the us at some point i ll have to just buy this from a european store pay twice as much for shipping as the record itself and wait as it sits in customs for a few weeks so i ve got two more posts in this series before there s a lull unless i skip toiling midgets for the time being i can get through the 0030 s pretty smoothly after that we ll see if you see toiling midgets son in your local record depot let me know i d likely pay double for it rate this tagged with come matador new logo superchunk toiling midgets leave a comment going dutch posted in records by sm on june 30 2020 my cliched pic of amsterdam the mid 90 s like most of my generation was when my obsession with indie rock started one aspect of the scene that attracted me was how certain labels could lead you down rabbit holes to one cool band after another sort of the way youtube or spotify might do for you today of course in those days information was mostly found in zines or label mailings matador was an especially excellent source for weird or interesting music featuring guitars so many guitars and intellectually curious lyrics sung by college dropouts in thrift store t shirts i remember working in my college s mail room and getting extra excited when one of matador s newsletters would come through i discovered some pretty memorable bands many of which i m still exploring to this day one such band was bettie serveert i read that they featured some guitars and a female singer carol van dijk whom i was convinced was just the dutch version of liz phair there was some backstory about a famous dutch tennis player the name translates to bettie serves or something whatever they were dutch and very exotic to me so as i did in those days i sought a used cd of their excellent 1992 release palomine standouts like the title track and kids allright hooked me right away the band played micro arena anthems akin to label mates guided by voices but the guitar play stood out and challenged like a dinosaur jr lite this was soon followed by lamprey which was full of more anthems guitars and van dijk s familiar slacker drawl i really loved totally freaked out from that sophomore release my copy of lamprey the summer i graduated from college and left for the pacific northwest dust bunnies was released opener geek still floats around in my memory from time to time that summer i was able to catch them opening for matador alum teenage fanclub at the crocodile in seattle but this isn t really a post just about bettie serveert forgotten indie legends that they are i recently discovered that there are a few other bands of interest from the netherlands bands who have put some material out in the last few years unbeknownst to me where are my matador newsletters and zines for these bands i should have known about canshaker pi they play guitars and write smart ass lyrics somehow p4k or someone should have posted something that crossed my feed this blog s patron saint stephen malkmus produced their debut and had the following to say about them canshaker pi will blow the world away with their sound they are loud young and not too snotty they play guitar rock they don t sound like anything in the portland oregon high school system i can tell u that confident frustrated tunes beyond their years get in the way of these lads and sparks will fly for sure http www canshakerpi nl the canshaker boys latest okay decay is a cool steady punch to the face like pavement and malkmus the lyrics and vocals are aloof and disinterested the band is on time but acerbic guitar solos interrupt the pop sensibilities just enough to not trick you into thinking they actually like radiohead more than pavement i m still waiting for my copy of their lp on vinyl as it s been stuck in customs for about a month lucky for you you don t have to keep reading me try to do this band justice watch these three songs off okay and tell me i m wrong about these amsterdammers lewsberg is a different sort of band altogether hailing from rotterdam this foursome sound like the velvet 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