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CAT POWER - DARK END OF THE STREET: ARTWORK/TRACKLISTING |
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2.OCTOBER.2008 [updated: 3.OCTOBER.2008]
The artwork of the Dark End of The Street EP is as shown on the right and track listing is as follows
(with original artists in brackets):
01. Auld Triangle (The Pogues)
02. Dark End of the Street (James Carr)
03. Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Sandy Denny/Fairport Convention)
04. Fortune Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
05. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (Otis Redding)
06. It Ain't Fair (Aretha Franklin) |
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Dark End of The Street is due to be released as a download and double 10" set
on 9th December using the image from the rear of
Jukebox by Mark Segal. The EP includes
Fortunate Son and Dark End of The Street from the originally announced
running order of
Jukebox but does not
feature Space Oddity from the Lincoln Advert (VIEW ADVERT HERE).
Update: A bulletin from the Cat Power MySpace Page included the above information along
with the following news regarding "Space
Oddity, the David Bowie song Chan / Gregg / Erik covered for the Lincoln
commercial will not be available any time soon. "Any time soon" meaning, like, a
year or something. It has something to do with some legal mumbo jumbo as well as
an increase in sunspot activity and other astronomical anomalies."
...so, it won't be out for a while and does not feature Judah anyway.
links:
myspace.com/catpower / imeem.com/gorillavsbear.../bowie_cat_power... /
pitchforkmedia.com
Track listing/artwork from Pitchforkmedia.com article: pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146116-cat-power-covers-creedence-pogues-redding-on-ep |
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CAT POWER - DARK END OF THE STREET EP |
added: 1.OCTOBER.2008
The forthcoming EP by Cat Power will be issued as
a double 10" set and as a download on 9th December 2008. The title track, Dark
End of The Street, was included on the original running order of Jukebox
but never made the final cut
Hopefully the EP will also include Fortunate Son also from the original
running order and maybe Space Oddity from the Lincoln Advert (VIEW ADVERT HERE) but right now no other details about the record are confirmed.
links:
myspace.com/catpower /
imeem.com/gorillavsbear/video/qD9lgdle/bowie_cat_power... |
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PAVEMENT - BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS: EXPANDED REISSUE |
added: 29.SEPTEMBER.2008
On 18th November Matador Records will be releasing
Brighten The Corners:
Nicene Creedence Ed. by Pavement which will
feature the original album, B-sides, compilation tracks and radio session tracks
which includes a previously unreleased song titled 'Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencers
in a Non-Alcoholic Bar'.
links:
matadorrecords.com /
matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=2546
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HEAVY TRASH: RECENT PHOTOS/VIDEO |
added: 28.SEPTEMBER.2008
There are two short videos from the Dingwalls show on
Nick Hider's Flickr.com page (VIEW HERE)
and Mr Kav appears to have documented every
Heavy Trash
show in London over the last few years (VIEW HERE).
However some particularly nice
Heavy Trash photos can be found on the
Orgasmatron Flickr.com page (VIEW HERE)
and on the
Nina Kolle MySpace page which were taken on the "Sailing
Out With Heavy Trash" boat trip (VIEW HERE).
links:
myspace.com/ninakolle
/ flickr.com: Nick Hider /
flickr.com: Mr Kav / flickr.com: Orgasmatron |
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HEAVY TRASH/POWERSOLO @ DINGWALLS |
added: 24.SEPTEMBER.2008
“Hello Ladies” yes, Tuesday 23rd September, 8.46pm and
it's time to welcome Powersolo onto the stage of Camden Dingwalls. Although I’m
familiar with the band on record there’s no simple way to describe the sound, any
Powersolo review will try and give a nice neat one word title will fall well short
of the mark; rockabilly, country, soul, punk, psychedelia, psychobilly and rock
‘n’ roll. There’s a lot of titles, a lot of references thrown around and attempts
to class them as this and that but it’s all nearly pointless. You could say ‘well,
yeah, sort of’ to every one of them but it’s more than that, Powersolo? They’re
just Powersolo, on record they sound like they move through genres like they never
set out to do anything other than what they feel like at that moment in time.
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Baby You Ain’t Lookin’ Right
has country sounding riff over the top of a heavy rock stomp of the bass drum accompanied
with ‘Ohh, Ahhs’ and before you hit the chorus there’s probably another two or three
genres thrown into the mix. I guess that’s why you have to invent a new genre, ‘Donkey
Punk’, it fits perfectly because it’s got no commonly known meaning, it’s just a
short way of saying ‘not like anything else’.
No title will leave you expecting the guttural spoken-word and vocal sound-effects
thrown at you from Kat Nazer. Holy crap, they were awesome live,
they came on stage and rocked almost non-stop for a solid half-hour barely leaving
any time for audience appreciation to be shown. The show was very tight, solid,
right down to the way Kim Kix and Atomic Child brace themselves as they lean into
the microphones. With JC Benz on the drums this makes for one seriously well drilled,
lean, rock ‘n’ roll unit. There was a broken string very early on but even this
doesn’t create a break. The music just changes pace for a couple of minutes as Atomic
Child changes the string. The operation is done pretty swiftly and the band are
back and running at full throttle.
During the last song Kim Kix gets down onto the dance-floor and began physically
moving people closer to the stage, accidentally causing one girl to topple off her
shoes (they we’re pretty high). After this he began leaning into people whilst playing,
it’s not often a show will unite audience and performer in this way. The live show
was definitely more easy to define than the records…the sound of the band seems
to vary a lot less but this maybe due to the fact they’re performing a relatively
short set. For tonight I think it’s safe to go with the ‘rock’ tag, it doesn’t really
describe them but it won't through you off-course like some of the others.
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The set ends and it’s safe to say everyone
had a pretty good time especially the bloke wearing the New York Dolls t-shirt who
probably enjoyed Powersolo more than the headliners for one simple reason, there
was more room to dance.
According to the show times there’s a 15 minute break as the bands change over,
Matt Verta-Ray appears from behind the curtain and starts setting up after a couple
of minutes, then there’s a double bass and lap steel brought out and the members
of Powersolo have transformed into three fifths of the headliners simply by changing
shirts. At 9.30pm to great applause the immaculately dressed and effortlessly cool
band kick the Heavy Trash set into life.
Second song in “You better lay of my S, H, I, R, T, J, A, Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeee”, oh
yes, it hasn’t changed at all, right down to the last few notes and closing ‘Shirt
Jac’. This sets the pace for the entire show, everything is delivered
with an unrelenting energy and passion, performing as if preaching to the audience,
addressing people individually.
A while ago the NME described the Heavy Trash
live show as “'50s rockabilly as if it was created by
MC5 and James Brown in the 1960s.” which is just about as far as any comparison
is as close as you’re going to get to describing the sound.
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Again, early on,
a string is broken but the music doesn't stop, this time Matt Verta-Ray makes the
necessary change while the band fill-in. And a little while later on Powersolo play
an instrumental track by themselves while Jon and Matt tune their guitars to a different
key. They play a selection of tried and tested songs from the
Heavy Trash back catalogue. Right from Justine Alright,
The Loveless to the Going Way Out...
songs and some new ones that I'm not too that familiar with absolutely everything
is brilliant, maintaining the same pace throughout. One of the stand-out new tracks
for me was Trouble, it works brilliantly live as it's made up of a relatively quiet part before every chorus just explodes.
In my mind right now (I'm very tired) the show was just one continuous hulking beast
of a performance, in the best possible way, I'd change nothing about it at all.
As the show went on, Jon Spencer spends more time at the front of the stage, leaning
into the audience and he appears to get more and more into it. Right near the end
of the first part of leaves the acoustic guitar behind and starts moving about the
stage. At one point he spots someone on the right of the stage posing for a photograph
with Heavy Trash live as the backdrop so leans
over midway through the song to pose for the photo as well. A bit later on there's
still time for the microphone to be held against an amplifier and why not?
And we stopped to sing Happy Birthday, sort of, I'm not sure how
much a success that was but it definitely existed as a song in some form part-way
through the show.
All in all there’s something about Heavy Trash
live that most bands can’t even get close to,
when you’re a few feet away from this type of band playing live you wonder why anyone
would want to go to a bigger show, it's a combination of the performer and venue.
As much as I’d love to see the band playing to bigger audiences I think an important
element of the show would be lost to most of the audience, there's a connection
you get here which probably doesn't feel the same if you're standing at the back
of a stadium watching, say, Coldplay. In that situation you're just listening to
music. Here the boundries cross-over a little bit, sometimes quite a lot. It's a
situation that never happens elsewhere.
A one point a member of the audience shouts out “Blues
Explosion” followed by “They Were Kings, Baby” but by this point in their
career what becomes apparent is that it seems inappropriate for lazy journalists
to describe Heavy Trash as ‘side-project’ but
they never really stopped using that phrase in relation to
Boss Hog did they?. This is the real deal, this many live shows after this
much time, the audience isn't just made up of people who were into the Blues Explosion, just looking around the audience
you'll see quite a range of people, some young, some old, some smartly dressed persons
and a whole load of people into rock-a-billy whose outfits take a lot of time and
effort to acquire. It's nice to see that there is no typical
Heavy Trash fan.
All I can say now is I had to leave shortly before the end of the show as I had to catch
the last train but it was well worth the six-hour round trip.
The gig leaves us hungry for more, and hopefully we haven't got that long to wait,
after the UK tour Heavy Trash are going into
Toe Rag studios, London to work on their third album which might
include some of the four new songs featured on their MySpace Page.
nb. I'm not much of a writer and at this point I’m having trouble remembering the exact order of songs and what
was played. A lot of friends of this site have done some sterling work as far as
recording set-lists and giving accounts of live shows but right at this very second
I am very tired, last night by the
time I got back I had been on the go nearly 24 hours and hadn't eaten in
36 hours, I took a lot more photos but the internet has enough poorly composed band
photos taken with a point-and-click camera. So, that's it, I loved the show (but
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links: myspace.com/heavytrash
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myspace.com/powersolo /
dingwalls.com / toeragstudios.com |
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CANTEEN MAGAZINE feat. HEAVY TRASH |
added: 23.SEPTEMBER.2008
Issue three of Canteen magazine includes an article
on Heavy Trash by Matthew Porter, it features interview with Jon Spencer
and photographs from the NY Hed studio. The magazine costs $10 and is available
from direct from
canteenmag.com, visit the site to find out
more information, excerpts from this and previous issues.
links:
myspace.com/heavytrash
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canteenmag.com |
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HEAVY TRASH: UK TOUR |
added: 20.SEPTEMBER.2008
Heavy Trash kick off their UK tour dates at Cambridge
Soul Tree
on Sunday 21st September and will then visit Thekla, Bristol (22nd),
Dingwalls, London (23rd), Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
(24th), Manchester Academy (25th), Andrews Lane, Dublin
(26th), The Open House Festival @ The Kings Head, Belfast (27th),
Stereo, Glasgow (28th) The Cluny, Newcastle (29th)
and finally The Bodega Social Club, Nottingham (30th).
Powersolo will be the special
guests on the tour as well as performing as part of Heavy
Trash and the legendary
Rob K will be appearing at Birmingham show.
links:
myspace.com/heavytrash
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myspace.com/powersolo
/ myspace.com/robk... |
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HEAVY TRASH: nnnNERVIS |
added: 19.SEPTEMBER.2008
Heavy Trash have just
uploaded a brand new and previously unreleased track titled nnnNERVIS (view lyrics), get over to their
official MySpace Page to hear it right now.
links:
myspace.com/heavytrash
/
heavytrash.net
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BOSS HOG: LIVE IN 2008! |
added: 16.SEPTEMBER.2008
The return of the Blues Explosion to
the live stage in 2008 just isn't enough for some people, now, the mighty Boss Hog will be performing at
the ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas
on 5/6/7 December at Butlin's Holiday Centre, Minehead.
At the moment there's no information of any other live
shows or activity and the official website doesn't exist anymore but it's time to
keep a look out...and as always if anyone finds out about live shows not listed
here please contact the site.
links: atpfestival.com
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BOMB THE BASS - FUTURE CHAOS: RELEASED IN THE UK ON
MONDAY |
added: 13.SEPTEMBER.2008
Bomb The Bass will be releasing
Future Chaos
in the UK on September 15th (two weeks later in the US) and it features
Mr Jon Spencer on the track Fuzzbox.
Get over to Brainwashed.com
for an extensive review of the album which states that "Jon Spencer—yes, he of Blues
Explosion fame—infuses "Fuzzbox" with the distant
purr of robot phone sex". The review even features a free MP3 download of Fuzzbox. |
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REVIEW: brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7014&Itemid=90
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3shg6y
The album will be available on vinyl,
double CD,
regular CD and as a download.
HMV.co.uk list
the double CD at £8.99 and vinyl at £11.99
and Play.com are selling the double CD for £8.95.
links:
myspace.com/bombthebass / bombthebass.com / future-chaos.com / hmv.co.uk /
brainwashed.com |
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