Steady Burn » indie rock http://www.steadyburn.net Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:24:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Give WOXY’s Best of SXSW 2009 Lounge a listen http://www.steadyburn.net/2009/12/give-woxys-best-of-sxsw-2009-lounge-a-listen/ http://www.steadyburn.net/2009/12/give-woxys-best-of-sxsw-2009-lounge-a-listen/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:45:04 +0000 Mike http://www.steadyburn.net/?p=1993 True nerd alert: I love streaming internet radio. I really do. I’ll even go as far to keep a post-it on my desk so I can note the names of bands who I’d like to check out further on their Myspace page. It’s sort of the 2.0 version of listening to the radio on a tape deck boombox and recording the songs that you like on a Memorex (born in the 1980s alert).

No online station gave me as much streaming enjoyment in 2009 as WOXY. Primarily, because it streams the best on my questionable internet connection at work. Most people however who rep online radio stations put WOXY, based out of Austin, TX in the upper echelon of those living online that play independent bands too (KEXP, KCRW).

Yesterday on WOXY’s blog The Futurist they announced the availability of their Best of SXSW 2009 Lounge CD, a collection of tracks recorded at last year’s festival at James Stevens at EAR studios in Austin, Texas.

2009 was another great year for music in the WOXY Lounge. And it was another great year for our lounge recordings during SXSW 2009 as well. We were back at EAR studios again this year for a new record 27 live sessions.

The CD will be available later in the week, but you can download 12 tracks from the WOXY Lounge on The Futurist now, including tunes from the Mother Mother, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, and the reigning kings of coming up with song titles, the Future of the Left – get ‘Arming Eritrea’ on Futurist; see also ‘You Need Satan More than he Needs You’ ‘adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood’ and ‘I am Civil Service’  by FOTL on their MySpace.

The music portion of this year’s SXSW runs from March 17-22, and I’m sure the WOXY folks are hard at work going through this ever-growing list of showcase bands at the 2010 festival, which is already 466 names deep.

If I was in Zun Zun Egui, I’d immediately change the name of the band to Aardvarks.

]]> http://www.steadyburn.net/2009/12/give-woxys-best-of-sxsw-2009-lounge-a-listen/feed/ 1 Sports blogger’s house burned to the ground! http://www.steadyburn.net/2009/08/sports-bloggers-house-burned-to-the-ground/ http://www.steadyburn.net/2009/08/sports-bloggers-house-burned-to-the-ground/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:09:38 +0000 Mike http://www.steadyburn.net/?p=1602 I actually saw this first on Pitchfork, and it happened to catch my eye because I happen to be reading the book Our Band Could Be Your Life at this time.

Thoughts and condolences go out to Gerard Cosloy, whose Austin, TX house burned down early this morning.

Gerard is indeed a sports blogger who runs Can’t Stop The Bleeding. He posted a photo of the rubble of his former home on his site today, along with the quote: “This was a hell of a way to get out of hoovering the living room.”

Gerard told the Austin American-Statesmen, “There are a lot of people who have a lot less than I do who deal with a lot worse, but this is pretty bad.”

More so than an establish sports blogger, Cosloy is an indie rock legend. He’s worked with such influential bands as Sonic Youth, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, and Yo La Tengo. He started the rock label Homestead Records, putting out early work by Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and is the co-owner of Matador Records.

I just got done reading about how he got F’d over by Dinosaur Jr in the mid-80s in Our Band Could Be Your Life. Plus, I think he’s a Mets fan. Wow, I feel bad for this dude.

Shoot Gerard some encouragement (he’s @cstbtweet or @gerardcosloy on twitter) if you have a minute.

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Fronted by the daughter of North America’s first female alligator wrestler. Backed by Montreal’s skinniest drummer and fattest bass player.



The daughter of North America’s first female alligator wrestler is 27-year old Ontario-native Elizabeth Powell. Her mom hung it up – presumably, before she got did like Chubbs – in favor of becoming a psycho-geriatric consultant (kids, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t follow your dreams). Here’s Powell on her mom:

“She just had this placating technique with alligators that turned into a bit of a sideshow,” explains Powell. “She just tickled its belly and it went to sleep. It wasn’t like she was in the ring in a bikini, wrestling it to the floor!” ( The Independent )

Placating? Tickling an alligator to sleep seems downright puttying.

In terms of the music, you might think it sucks, but I think they’re great. Check out Land of Talk here: http://www.myspace.com/landoftalk

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A guy whose probably best known for albums titled Wowee, Zowee and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, is an unexpected Fantasy BBALL fanatic.

Just two hoops leagues that I’ve been in for about five years or so. The first year we played just five categories – and Allen Iverson was the king of five-cat!!! I also remember Brevin Knight being quite the stud in five-cat as well. As for fantasy, I play all three sports. It’s a tossup between baseball and B-ball for me. Different fish. Baseball is all about the roto, basketball is all about head-to-head match ups…

That’s knowledge from the dude who wrote the lyrics it took a giant ramrod to raise the demon settlement.

Recently, Stephen Malkmus, Indie-Rock hero and former bandleader of Pavement, sat down with Steve Alexander from Rotoworld (who he evidently plays in a fantasy league with) to talk fantasy basketball. We learned that Malkmus’ team is named Widespread Perkins. Sadly, he’s not so much a fan of Perk as much as he’s making fun of a dude in the league whose got man-love towards him. Alas.

Malkmus also apparently once spelled “chutzpahs” for a double-double word bingo (“that was deep”) in a game of Scrabble. I wonder if you have to agree to ask him the obligatory “Favorite Scrabble Moment” question before you get to interview him? I know I’d have that in my contract if I pulled off that word, for like what? 178 points?

Check out the video for Pavement’s ‘Cut Your Hair’…

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Kings of Leon rocked Webster Hall last night. And Rolling Stone has deemed their newly released album Epic.

NAME THAT FALL TV STAR (The World or Isaac)
The Office: Sports Edition (NE Patriots Draft)
Rising NHLer KO’d By Evil Golf Cart (Sports By Brooks)
Keith Olbermann: The Goof That Changed The Game (via The Big Lead)
Diagnosing Chuck Klosterman (via Pop Candy)

…and here’s KOL at Webster Hall back in 2005.

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The Ting Tings were fantastic opening for MGMT on Sunday, and I think I’m in love with their Dublin lass lead vocalist.

…the other band that opened – Black Moth Super Rainbow – was a super waste of my time. See more Tings Tings after the links:

NBC’s Music Lineup For The Olympics (Awful Announcing)
WARREN SAPP ON DANCING WITH THE STARS? (The World of Isaac)
I Hate It When People Say Things (Fire Joe Morgan)
Border Patrol (And One)
Deco: The Definition Of A Dog (Deuce of Davenport)

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MGMT at McCarren Park Pool this coming Sunday is the Rock ‘n Roll social event of the week. (it’s free too!)

Check out a video after the linking gold…

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