DEDICATED TO: SIMON CERIGO, MUSIC MAVEN WAY BEYOND THE CROWD, AND NOW .. WAY BEYOND THE BEYOND.
and, YEAH .. PLAY IT LOUD !!
SO:
the WALL STREET JOURNAL . . . just posted a sweet interview with DEVENDRA.
subtitled: ‘Devendra Banhart Returns With a New Record’ . . .
see: ‘A Quiet Place in the City’ – ANDY BETA .. INTERVIEWS DEVENDRA BANHART, WALL STREET JOURNAL/MARCH 14, 2013
it’s very interesting, with lots of good info.
apparently Devendra, with make-over .. and looking good, I mean who wants to be labelled a Hairy Fairy folk freak forever, esp when you are just 31 (?!!) . . . has returned to New York City from the West Coast, and no not LA, San Francisco.
turns out he has finally found his balance, after that mad NATALIE PORTMAN thing, and is seeing, make that .. is engaged to, seriously .. “the photographer and furniture designer ANA KRAS.”
the new album is titled: ‘MALA’ and is put out by Devendra’s new label: NONESUCH, and damn . . . if it doesn’t look and feel like a .. winner !!
rhythm, and back beat .. is everything. esp when you’ve already got a lock on the melody, brains & lyrics.
check out: DEVENDRA BARNHART – ‘Fur Hildegard von Binger’ .. from MALA, from NONESUCH
ok. first thing I wanna say, is also DAMN .. doesn’t that cover art look just the twin sister to the FRENCH KICKS ALBUM .. SWIMMING – which we just feature posted ?!!!
see: FRENCH KICKS, ‘SAID SO WHAT’, SWIMMING
am I right, or what ?
ok. second.
SIMON REVIEWED DEVENDRA BANHART’S early album, CRIPPLE CROW … for artloversnewyork in DEC 2005.
SIMON didn’t say a lot .. but what he did say was point perfect.
it was his 4th music review for this site.
he sure could call ’em.
see: SIMON CERIGO reviews DEVENDRA BANHART, CRIPPLE CROW – DEC 2005.
from the artlovers vault:
DEVENDRA BANHART . . . at OTHER MUSIC, NYC. APRIL 25, 2004.
PHOTO BY & COPYRIGHT OF: NANCY SMITH
BROOKLYN HIPSTERS .. KEEP YOUR PAWS – OFF THE PIX. more on that later.
P.S.
HEY SIMON, you ghost. and look at that .. you are the new ‘it’ KEYWORD. so chic after all.
so, what’s the music like up there, I mean it is .. up there, right ?
as opposed to you know, Simon loved DANTE !!
what ? cloudy, stormy, freaky ? serene ?
one big jam that never stops ? I believe it.
after I read the WALL STREET JOURNAL interview at 6 this morning, I promptly fell back asleep, and there I was .. transported through time, reality (?) at a DEVENDRA BANHART gig, at some smokey funky ghostly venue. and they, the band !! were all .. turning me onto some real funky psychedelic weed !!
but .. of course. you gotta walk like an Egyptian. afterlife, dudes, tell me about it.
just not the same dimension, is all.
~DEVENDRA BANHART resurfaces .. |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 14th, 2013, 9:17am
“There’s my heart,
there’s my soul.
there must be somebody up above . . .
you got to .. hold on.”
check out: ALABAMA SHAKES – ‘HOLD ON’ (official video)
as Simon would say, PLAY IT LOUD !!
~ALABAMA SHAKES … HOLD ON |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 26th, 2013, 11:17am
check out: WYE OAK – IF CHILDREN WERE WISHES . . .
the soundtrack of our days . . .
“I just . . . watch you get weaker and weaker till you finally die.”
see: lyrics
~IF CHILDREN WERE WISHES . . . WYE OAK |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 1st, 2013, 4:35am
YOUR WORLD . . . IS JUST BEGINNING . . .
TIME . . . IT AIN’T GOT NOTHING on YOU.
CAT POWER’S new album, ‘SUN’ – was in the works to be Simon Cerigo’s next Music review . . .
SIMON could call the music . . . just as well as he could call the art.
just one look at the artlovers Indie Music page archives – will tell you that.
he was way ahead of the curve – in terms of calling the trends . . . and waves and feelings.
People liked to read his reviews because, although short and very to the point, and ON POINT – he could throw in a relevant reference to times past, the 70s & the 80s mostly. he knew the obscure of history of underground labels like the back of his hand.
his music reviews often garnered a bigger following – then the concurrent art pages, believe it.
in fact . . . I think honestly, for real, the one main reason I married Simon was for his record collection. if you know me at all . . . yes, you could believe it.
when we first started ‘seeing’ each other . . . back in the late 80s – one of the very first bands he turned me onto was JOY DIVISION – and yep, that sealed the deal.
for his part – he never got over that BOB MARLEY’S – NO WOMAN DON’T CRY . . . was the soundtrack to my twenty-something life.
yeah, I turned him onto Reggae, and he turned me onto Indie. 30 year+ relationship – in a nutshell.
CHECK OUT: CAT POWER – Nothin But Time (Featuring IGGY POP)
“I WANNA LIVE – I WANNA GIVE and NOT – BE FORGOTTEN.”
amen. SIMON.
~CAT POWER . . . SUN |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 27th, 2013, 1:19pm
MOLLY HAMILTON, front-woman and super talented vocalist – of the Brooklyn band – WIDOWSPEAK.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, NYC. AUG 17, 2012
me and Kate caught MOLLY HAMILTON, haunting lead singer of WIDOWSPEAK when we went to check out the PRADA/SCHIAPARELLI exhibit – just before it closed, that’s a whole other story !! for another time.
MOLLY was doing a guest DJ gig on the roof of the MET !!
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, ROOF of the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM of ART, NYC. AUG 17, 2012
there’s an interesting early interview with MOLLY HAMILTON online.
check out: ‘5 Questions With . . . Molly Hamilton of Widowspeak’/Turntable Kitchen/Aug 2, 2011
listen to: WIDOWSPEAK – ‘Nightcrawler’ – on SoundCloud !!
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this is the cover of their first, self-named album: ‘WIDOWSPEAK’, released AUG 2011 – from which the above track ‘Nightcrawler’ – comes from.
ALBUM COVER ART – by JOHN STORTZ.
you can find more of their music & more info about the band, at: WIDOWSPEAK on bandcamp.
~WIDOWSPEAK . . . |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 31st, 2012, 10:47am
FILE UNDER: what’s that I hear . . about the summer being over, and the bands be coming back ?!!!
TAKE TWO: ON QUILTS !! GET IT ? – HA !! A LITTLE EXTREME – BUT WAY !! TOTALLY !!! RELEVANT !!!!
“I DON’T WANT TO BE DESTROYED . . .
I JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ON THE FUCK ALL NIGHT” – THEE OH SEES
BRIGID DAWSON – of THEE OH SEES – OPENS A SHOW of her ARTWORK – TO-NITE !!
FRI AUG 10, 2012 / 7 – 9 PM
with Special Guest musical performance !!
NEEDLES & PENS – 3253 16th ST – SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
BRIGID DAWSON – ‘DEDICATED TO DEAR EARHOLES’ – will run thru SEPT 2, 2012
BRIGID will be displaying a “collection of portraits done in guache, acrylic, pencil, markers, and carvings on wood and paper. They reflect upon childhood, family history, the grotesques and the beautiful. Images to scare and to please.”
WHEN not making artwork BRIGID performs in the San Francisco band: Thee Oh Sees !!
YES !! YES !! YES !! CHECK OUT: THEE OH SEES – BLOCK Of ICE – on YouTube !!
ARTWORK BY – BRIGID DAWSON
~BRIGID DAWSON … Dedicated to Dear Earholes … opening tonite in SF |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 10th, 2012, 9:10am
DEDICATED TO: YOU KNOW WHO !!!
THE PIGGIES WILL PLAY LIVE – at the RELEASE PARTY for – HUMAN BEING LAWNMOWER #3
THIS SAT – AUG 4, 2012 / 10 PM – 2 AM / THIS EVENT IS FREE
THE FLAT – 308 HOOPER ST – BTWN 55th & BROADWAY, BROOKLYN, NY
0 MINS WALK FROM THE HEWES J TRAIN
4 MINS WALK FROM THE BROADWAY G TRAIN
7 MINS WALK FROM THE LORIMER L TRAIN
WITH DJs JOSH STYLES & BILLY MILLER & SPECIAL GUESTS
LISTEN TO: THE PIGGIES on BANDCAMP . . .
~THE PIGGIES . . . THROW A PARTY – SATURDAY !! |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 2nd, 2012, 10:26pm
progressive, Indie & hardcore !!
THE MEN, MILK MUSIC & JAPANDROIDS – REVIEWED by SIMON CERIGO, JULY 31, 2012
After ODing on swoon-pop home recordings for the last few years, I recently returned to some new thrashing guitar bands. Foremost amongst these new groups is a Brooklyn band – THE MEN, whose new album, ‘Open Your Heart’ is buzzing.
Next comes JAPANDROIDS a two piece band out of VANCOUVER, B.C. that has been banging for a couple of years.
And finally newcomers MILK MUSIC slowly roaring out of OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON – the Williamsburg of the West Coast, home to BUILT TO SPILL.
THE MEN – the cover of their new album, ‘OPEN YOUR HEART’ – courtesy of PITCHFORK.
watch: THE MEN – Freaky (live on KEXP) – YouTube
watch: MILK MUSIC – I’ve Got a Wild Feeling – live at WMFU – YouTube
watch: JAPANDROIDS – The House That Heaven Built – YouTube
~3 NEW BANDS . . . THE MEN, MILK MUSIC & JAPANDROIDS |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 31st, 2012, 7:36am
