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Our friends over at The Big Takeover are premiering a sample track from Adam Franklin’s upcoming 3rd solo album, ‘I Could Sleep For a Thousand Years’. It has the pace and tone of Adam’s previous work with Swervedriver and is less somber. While you’re over there, sign up for the The Big Takeover’s brilliant twice-a-year magazine for $20 for 4 issues. Check out what you’ve been missing by glancing at the back issues. Here is a brief behind the scenes video of The Catherine Wheel. This was taken in 1996 during the recording of their 4th album, Adam & Eve.
The Big Takeover, New York City’s seminal independent music magazine, is celebrating its 30 year anniversary with a 2 day music festival this summer. The Big Takeover is one of the oldest independently produced music magazines in the history of underground punk, pop, and rock music. Its founder & chief writer/editor, Jack Rabid, has been in the music business for 30 years as both a writer and musician and is a big advocate of “music with heart”. He introduced Interpol’s Sam Fogarino and Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin who then formed Magnetic Morning. It’s sure to be a great live music experience!
FRI 7/30: 6pm / $25 per night / $40 for 2 day pass THE AVENGERS CHANNEL 3 VISQUEEN SPRINGHOUSE LIBERTINES U.S. FLOWER plus special guests EDP (New York’s hard-hitting, Jam-like, mod revival band). For a TWO DAY FESTIVAL PASS click HERE. 
SAT 7/31: 4pm / $25 per night / $40 for 2 day pass MARK BURGESS FOR AGAINST SPRINGHOUSE SLEEPOVER DISASTER DON MCGLASHAN JON AUER plus very special guests THE SHARP THINGS (New York’s orchestral poppers!) PAUL COLLINS (of The Nerves of “Hanging on the Telephone” fame pre-Blondie’s cover, and of Paul Collins’ Beat) THE CURTAIN SOCIETY (veteran Boston shoegazers, also backing Burgess for part of his set). For a TWO DAY FESTIVAL PASS click HERE.
You can subscribe to The Big Takeover here. Seems like Matt is kind of mimicking Rick Astley’s moves from the infamous Rick-Roll video at the 1:18 mark.
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Cody from Jailbox says in our brief chat: “My brother, myself, and Andy have been an unofficial band for about 4 years now. We’d known each other and been very close friends since 2002. It’s actually been very on and off band-wise for quite sometime until just last February when our mutual friend of the same length of time, joined us. We really always knew it’d take a fourth guy to get it going properly, but we were too picky and no one was ever quite good enough. Joe fit the spot perfectly. It helps that he’s always been there with us through the years right under our noses. I guess it just was the right time for it all to come together!” It’s an amazing debut that is quite solid from top to bottom in song writing, hooks, musicianship and production. It’s incredible that this is the quality of work that 4 young guys can produce from a bedroom “studio”. You can hear a lot of influences here and I personally am reminded of Radiohead/Snow Patrol (“My Shell”), Evan Dando (“Clone Me”), Adam Franklin from Swervedriver’s solo work (“Live Peacefully”), Fleet Foxes and Wilco. My only complaint, if you can call it that, is that it’s a bit long at 13 tracks. At first I thought it was a little disjointed but I think that there are very few weak tracks here and it’s impressive that Jailbox is able to showcase their songwriting versatility. You can now buy Jailbox’s new album on iTunes here:
Autolux has finally announced a release date for their upcoming album, Transit Transit. August 3, Def Leppard’s drummer lost an arm and they still managed to release Hysteria faster (4 years) than Autolux has managed to release album #2 (6 years). Surfer Blood is playing a free show this Thursday at Amoeba Records on Haight Street then playing a full sold out gig on Friday at The Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. (if you have an extra ticket, please let me know) Recommended if you like: Girls, Local Natives, The Soft Pack, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Vampire Weekend, Magnetic Fields Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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