[Severian]

Originally Posted by _slavo_

found it on Soulseek.

Fuck, that's still a thing?

[The Soup Nazi]

 

Triplicate — Bob Dylan (March 31)

[The Soup Nazi]

August By Cake — Guided By Voices (April 7). Robert Pollard's 100th album!

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

August By Cake — Guided By Voices (April 7). Robert Pollard's 100th album!

I wonder what it will sound like!!!!!



That's cool though. Can't imagine I'll feel moved to buy it, but that's a nifty milestone. Steve Malkmus recently congratulated Pollard on it, and I wondered briefly if all the shit Rob Pollard's talked about Pavement has just been part of his schpeal.

All of this stuff -- Pollard, Pavement, Pixies -- is so classic rocky at this point that it's kind of a trip for me.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

 

Triplicate — Bob Dylan (March 31)

This is sort of exciting. I wouldn't mind hearing some new Dylan songs at some point though. Can't help but feel that he's resting on his laurels a bit of late, what with the $500 archival releases and cover albums.

[_slavo_]

Originally Posted by Severian

Fuck, that's still a thing?

oh, most definitely! it's alive and blooming. I usually search for new stuff there and when I like it, I then go ahead and purchase the thing. It's like demo-versions of PC game, y'know.

[Bytor Peltor]

This March, Don & Camille Dietrich release, Dietrich's on Pica Disk......it's a father and daughter saxaphone / cello collaboration.

 

[Severian]

Originally Posted by _slavo_

oh, most definitely! it's alive and blooming. I usually search for new stuff there and when I like it, I then go ahead and purchase the thing. It's like demo-versions of PC game, y'know.

Wait... back when I used it last (like... 10 years ago?) it was like Napster, I think. Just an outright file-sharing site. Is there something different about it now that makes it, like, not illegal to download music pre-release?

Up until about a year ago, I still engaged in torrenting and whatnot from time to time (like for the last Kanye album, which I desperately wanted to give someone money for, but nobody would let me). I didn't do it often, but for releases that were by my definition major, or that I just "couldn't live without" (didn't want to live without, and also wanted to have before anyone else) I'm afraid I did sneak a download from time to time. But I started getting letters from my internet provider, and link-hosting sites started to emphasize the severity of the punishments for being caught/charged. So I stopped completely.

But if Soulseek has adapted to the times to offer a legal alternative to leeching leaked pre-release albums, then I need to investigate. Please tell me about your experience there.

ETA: Also, I will Google it because I'm not completely helpless.
But anything you'd care to share would be much appreciated.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Severian

This is sort of exciting. I wouldn't mind hearing some new Dylan songs at some point though. Can't help but feel that he's resting on his laurels a bit of late, what with the $500 archival releases and cover albums.

Can you blame him? He's 75, had a life that is pretty much unparalleled by anyone in the modern day, seen and done things most of us can only dream about. Give him a break. He's not gonna be releasing another Blonde on Blonde or anytime soon.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Severian

This is sort of exciting. I wouldn't mind hearing some new Dylan songs at some point though. Can't help but feel that he's resting on his laurels a bit of late, what with the $500 archival releases and cover albums.

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Can you blame him? He's 75, had a life that is pretty much unparalleled by anyone in the modern day, seen and done things most of us can only dream about. Give him a break. He's not gonna be releasing another Blonde on Blonde or anytime soon.

To a degree, and this is an absolutely preliminar thought since Triplicate has just been announced, I think this triple record could be Dylan's way of accelerating the release of all the "great American songbook" covers he has done recently and deems worthy of being out, instead of keeping this "project" as one album per year — by the fifth one critics and part of his audience might go, "God, another one...". Not that he may give a flying fuck, come to think of it. Also, even though these are covers I don't think he's going through the motions, as plenty of them are real reinventions.

In any case, the guy certainly does have original material pent-up. When Tempest came out, according to Rolling freakin' Stone he described it:

"[...] as a record where "anything goes and you just gotta believe it will make sense." But it isn't the record he set out to make. "I wanted to make something more religious," he says. "I just didn't have enough [religious songs]. Intentionally, specifically religious songs is what I wanted to do. That takes a lot more concentration to pull that off 10 times with the same thread — than it does with a record like I ended up with."

By "religious songs" I very much doubt he meant the Slow Train Coming/Saved/Shot Of Love type; I'm thinking serious carnage!

[The Soup Nazi]

Robyn Hitchcock — Robyn Hitchcock (April 21)

[Severian]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Robyn Hitchcock — Robyn Hitchcock (April 21)

NUH-UH!!!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
(He chortled in his joy)

Excellent news.

[Kuhb]

Craig Taborn "Daylight Ghosts" featuring Chris Speed and Dave King.

Pretty excited for this one, particularly to hear how Dave King works in this sort of setting. I love his work with The Bad Plus, but this sounds like it might be much more open.

https://youtu.be/lo-_IFPcH-A

[bloodcrystallisetosand]

Originally Posted by Severian

Is there something different about it now that makes it, like, not illegal to download music pre-release?

Nope, still the same as it ever was - even the interface is the same, so old now that it's gone straight through out-of-date and now has a sort of nostalgic/retro charm. I don't use torrent, so no dime etc, soulseek still has more or less anything I want. As a general rule, I only download stuff that is out of print or boots or I have on vinyl and can't be arsed to rip rather than new/pre-releases. It's a gold mine for OOP stuff.

[evollove]

http://www.residents.com/historical/?page=ghostofhope

Following their long tradition of projects based on narrative themes, The Residents are pleased to announce the release of The Ghost of Hope, an historically accurate album based on train wrecks.

[Blood_Promise]

Kassel Jaeger and Jim O’Rourke:

https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/...ions-mego-2014

[selkcip]

http://www.everycontactleavesatrace....clayton-mills/

"The starting point for The Process was a portable recorder full of fragments – personal recollections, works-in-process, songs, thoughts about life in general – that Tate, a word-shaper who crosses the freewheeling wordplay of The Last Poets with the gimlet-eyed shuffle of Tom Waits [beh], had been carrying about his person for several years. He handed it over to Mills, who arranged slivers of muted, evocative sound around Tate’s words, his syllables fading in and out of hearing, borne on warm currents of static, blank-eyed sine tones or ghostly echo. Other sounds – environmental recordings, keening bursts of clarinet and cello, an elementary school choir – bleed in and out"

- https://weneednoswords.wordpress.com...s-the-process/

[greenlight]

Originally Posted by Blood_Promise

Kassel Jaeger and Jim O’Rourke:

https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/...ions-mego-2014

thx

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Blood_Promise

Kassel Jaeger and Jim O’Rourke:

https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/...ions-mego-2014

Fuckin' right!

[The Soup Nazi]

From the archival department:

 

Purple Rain reissue (original album + two albums of unreleased stuff + two concert films) — Prince (June 9)