blogging about music part deux
My brother's friends are all begging me to blog more about the music I listen to. They lie awake at night, trembling, waiting for the next installment of this series. I hear their cries in my mind and am here to help. I am here to stop your trembling, sirs. In no order:
1) Festival. This has got to be the hardest band to google and find, but once you do, you'll find two sisters with incredible voices (the kind to die for) and a scrawny dude and some trully unusual songwriting to boot. I saw them live when they opened for Bowerbirds and though I love the Bowerbirds and I toured with 2/3 of these Bowerbirds as Ticonderoga before Ticonderoga broke up, while on tour, in Baton Rouge, in a big scene at a gas station, and while Bowerbirds are great for these and other reasons, Festival pretty much overshadowed them and I always love an opening band I've never heard of being able to do that. They sing sort of folky, psychedelic Renaissance tunes. Though they were quite intense live, they seemed like funny ladies when not singing, and here's some video proof that they are possibly even funnier than I got glimpses of. Incidentally, I talked to the scrawny dude outside after their set, and we talked about how it is to play in bands with girls and how they were grossing him out talking about having their periods in the tour van.
http://www.myspace.com/linzyandlexi (listen to the bind us all LIVE version - they really sound like this LIVE! it's amazing)
FESTIVAL - Valentine from moxpox on Vimeo.
2) Wes Phillips. Speaking of Ticonderoga, whatever happened to the sweetest and most tragic one of the bunch, the one that doesn't play in Bowerbirds? The one with the best songs, don't tell Mark or Phil? He's playing in a band called Wes Phillps and is interestingly also named this. He lives in a house in carrboro with his fiancee and four cats, and I park every day at their house for free. He is one of the most original songwriters I know. He also is one of those tragic souls who plays every instrument better than you will ever, a killer bass player (he majored in double bass), a really inventive drummer, guitars, keyboards, he can sing, it's just sickening. Sadly, no viral or bacterial video of Wes Phillips exists, and only some bigfoot watchers have ever seen him play live and caught photographs of the beast, but here's the listening station to visit:
http://www.myspace.com/wesleydongeroga Listen to Iron Man. At 2:22, he works in a Wizard of Oz song, at 3:00, three different vocal melodies are happening at the same time. Jesus H. Particular Christ.
3) me. ha. No really, mark your calendars: January 23, 2009 at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, Felix Obelix finally debuts with a debut show, EP release and time-capsule-stuffing party. Start thinking now what you want to put in the sucker.
You heard me.
Basilwomack.
1) Festival. This has got to be the hardest band to google and find, but once you do, you'll find two sisters with incredible voices (the kind to die for) and a scrawny dude and some trully unusual songwriting to boot. I saw them live when they opened for Bowerbirds and though I love the Bowerbirds and I toured with 2/3 of these Bowerbirds as Ticonderoga before Ticonderoga broke up, while on tour, in Baton Rouge, in a big scene at a gas station, and while Bowerbirds are great for these and other reasons, Festival pretty much overshadowed them and I always love an opening band I've never heard of being able to do that. They sing sort of folky, psychedelic Renaissance tunes. Though they were quite intense live, they seemed like funny ladies when not singing, and here's some video proof that they are possibly even funnier than I got glimpses of. Incidentally, I talked to the scrawny dude outside after their set, and we talked about how it is to play in bands with girls and how they were grossing him out talking about having their periods in the tour van.
http://www.myspace.com/linzyandlexi (listen to the bind us all LIVE version - they really sound like this LIVE! it's amazing)
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
FESTIVAL - Valentine from moxpox on Vimeo.
2) Wes Phillips. Speaking of Ticonderoga, whatever happened to the sweetest and most tragic one of the bunch, the one that doesn't play in Bowerbirds? The one with the best songs, don't tell Mark or Phil? He's playing in a band called Wes Phillps and is interestingly also named this. He lives in a house in carrboro with his fiancee and four cats, and I park every day at their house for free. He is one of the most original songwriters I know. He also is one of those tragic souls who plays every instrument better than you will ever, a killer bass player (he majored in double bass), a really inventive drummer, guitars, keyboards, he can sing, it's just sickening. Sadly, no viral or bacterial video of Wes Phillips exists, and only some bigfoot watchers have ever seen him play live and caught photographs of the beast, but here's the listening station to visit:
http://www.myspace.com/wesleydongeroga Listen to Iron Man. At 2:22, he works in a Wizard of Oz song, at 3:00, three different vocal melodies are happening at the same time. Jesus H. Particular Christ.
3) me. ha. No really, mark your calendars: January 23, 2009 at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, Felix Obelix finally debuts with a debut show, EP release and time-capsule-stuffing party. Start thinking now what you want to put in the sucker.
You heard me.
Basilwomack.