Blogzine

Came across a solid blog today: One Base on an Overthrow. It's not just local hoopla being covered, but plenty of mp3 vinyl tastings and diggings into the past. Closest thing I've seen online to a 'zine. Looking through the blog, I saw a few 7"s that I used to have but sold for way less than I should have when I never should have sold them in the first place. Thanks for reminding me about how stupid I am. Up yours, man.

JD

John Prine

If you haven't heard of John Prine, then shame on you. Prine is absolutely brilliant, a true musical force. His music is about as Americana as it gets: a blend of country, folk, and bluegrass. I've been spinning his self-titled 1971 LP since I dug it up at a garage sale a couple of years ago, and never looked back. He's got a ton of material, and everything I've heard has been fantastic.

Playing with him is the excellent guitar player Jason Wilber, who is actually giving away a free CD (just pay shipping) right now on his website. It features a duet with John Prine, so head over there to check it out. It should be a really great show, so don't miss this one. It's a long ways away, but tickets go on sale this week. It might sell out, Prine is popular. You've been warned.

JOHN PRINE

with special guest
JASON WILBER

Friday May 8
8PM

SHUBERT THEATER
247 College Street , New Haven

TICKETS $50 & $40

Tickets are on sale Friday March 13 at 10AM. Tickets at shubert.com, call 800-228-6622 or visit the Shubert Box Office.

JH

This Sunday, March the 8th, get down to The Space to get your face melted by These Arms Are Snakes. If you don't know, These Arms Are Snakes are a great hardcore band from Seattle. Really asskicking stuff, so get down there. Also joining them is Cali-based Darker My Love - a wild 60s-inspired psych band, the fantastic mind-bending All The Saints from Alabama, and local rockers The Lows, who I know relatively little about, but have some great songs on Myspace.

These Arms Are Snakes
Darker My Love
All The Saints
The Lows

The Space
295 Treadwell Street
Hamden CT

$10 - 7:00PM - All Ages

Coordinated by the ever fantastic Manic Productions.

Here's a video clip for Darker My Love:

JH

Live Recording Series

WNPR's The Needle Drop to Premier Monthly Live Recording Series


WNPR’s weekly independent music program, The Needle Drop, will hold its first monthly live session on Monday, March 23rd at The Space in Hamden, CT.

The Needle Drop begins its live session series with the breakout indie band The Screaming Females. Their performance will be recorded in front of a live audience for air on the show.

Launching a monthly live series is "just another way to expose people to new music," says the show’s host, Anthony Fantano. Along with The Screaming Females, two Connecticut bands, Eula and Birth of Flower, will be performing. The Screaming Females will play first and take questions from Fantano in the midst of their set.

Fantano describes the Screaming Females as a return to the form of rock music: “[The] Screaming Females were never a band who looked to reinvent the wheel, but they're definitely a reminder of how awesome the wheel really is--especially when it's crushing everything in its post-punk path!”

Featured in the February edition of Connecticut Magazine, The Needle Drop is not just a Connecticut radio program. It’s now syndicated in Colorado, Montana, and Nebraska, reaching an audience far outside the boarders of the Constitution State.

The Needle Drop is produced by Anthony Fantano with support from WNPR in Hartford, CT. The show is supplemented by Fantano’s regularly updated blog at http://theneedledrop.blogspot.com.

The event takes place Monday March 23rd. Doors open at 6:30pm with the show starting at 7pm. Remember: The Screaming Females are on first. Tickets are eight dollars and can be purchased through The Space’s website at: http://www.thespace.tk/.
~Maria Carullo

JD

Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Unless you've gone into a coma of depression from this year's winter, you already know The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are coming to the Wallingford American Legion on April 24th. But what no one knows is who the opening bands will be. This great unknown has frustrated many in CT. Local bands have now taken to the streets across the state with switchblades, chains and baseball bats to settle the turf wars that will decide once and for all who gets to share the bill with POBPAH. Michael Jackson has been called in to mediate. True story.


In the meantime, you can check out this video The Needle Drop posted:





Friday, April 24 2009
Wallingford American Legion
190 Ward Street
Wallingford CT

$8 - 7:00PM - All Ages

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JD

Monday Punk

Monday, March 9th, 2009



Suzy Wong And The Honkeys smarmily stomped through Hartford not long ago, and I thought, awesome, punk's not dead. Then I got a message this morning about this show, and guess what, punk can still kill.

Masshysteri (Sweden, members of the Vicious/Regulations, Dangerhouse-influenced 70's punk, Feral Ward Records)

Whitework (Hartford/New Haven/Brooklyn, 1st show. Ex. Guilty Faces, Dustheads, Tombstone Minds, River City Rebels. Melodic punk/rock and roll/garage). No website yet, but their self description is "Fourth-rate 70's punk riffs primarily written by some douchebag who used to play in screamo bands."

Al Gore and the Alcoholics (Suburban CT young skate punks).

$4
8pm
Whitney House Hartford

JD

Flowery

MySpace is pure rubbish. It was such a chore today to update a few minor things, and there's getting to be more and more trouble it seems. Now that I have that off of my chest...

One of the friend requests that came in was from a band called Birth of Flower. And of course their MySpace page is "undergoing routine maintenance." But being the Sherlockian mystery solver that I am, I discovered Birth of Flower is the new moniker for Post-Modern Sounds.

So, you see Dr. Watson, Birth of Flower is likely to be quite good.

JD