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The stark beauty of a Mountain Man performance is shown with compelling detail in this video by Site & Sound. Watch the three women as they prepare for, and then deliver, a stellar performance on the roof of the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Andrew Gauthier asked MME to premiere this long-time coming mini documentary about one night with the band, and of course, we were more than happy to do so.
Site & Sound is a web-based documentary music series dedicated to telling the individual stories of unique live performances in and around New York City. Each episode of Site & Sound covers one specific performance by one musician or band.
The goal of Site & Sound is to create compelling mini-documentaries about singularly talented musicians. Shot in an intimate, verite style, the series captures the small, specific details of a musical performance as well as the personal happenings surrounding that performance.
Mountain Man performed as the musical guest at one of the summers’ Rooftop Films.
Double Dylan today… Here’s one of his best songs, more often and better performed by The Band, this time covered by the main man Jerry Garcia himself, in 1986 in Passaic, N.J. Awesome jams, Jer…
“Someday everything is gonna sound like a rhapsody…When I Paint My Masterpiece.”
Good songwriters flock to each other. One generation inspires the next. While many of today’s musicians can claim Bob Dylan as an influence, only Dave Longstreth and the other members of Dirty Projectors are wearing that loving allegiance so proudly and boldly on their sleeves. The band has covered Dylan multiple times– and not just in raucous live settings but in studios, too. (And once for Levi’s.)
On the new Bitte Orca extended release the somewhat obscure Dylan tune “As I Went Out One Morning,” which Dylan only performed live once, is featured. It’s a perfect DP’s cover because they truly make it their own, which actually isn’t too hard at this point because the vocals from the sirens in the band are so firmly entrenched in any indie fans head as typical Dirty Projectors. Those voices are unmistakeable.
This coupling of contemporary and ancient genius is, for many, a match made in heaven. Bob Projectors. Dirty Dylan.
Dirty Projectors: As I Went Out One Morning (Bob Dylan cover) (STREAMING ONLY, I SAW ONE SITE HAD TO TAKE IT DOWN PER DOMINO’S REQUEST)
Dirty Projectors: Dark Eyes (Bob Dylan cover)
TONIGHT
Tangents and the Times throwdown at Bruar Falls with Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, La Big Vic, Sweet Bulbs, 8
The Babies (sans Cassie), Grass Widow, Ovens, Web Dating, Red Romans at Monster Island Basement, 8ish
Teenage Fanclub, The Clean, Radar Brothers at Bowery Ballroom, 8
Forgetters, Shellshag at Death by Audio, 8ish
El Guincho, Lemonade at Mercury Lounge, 8ish
WEDNESDAY
Juliana & Evan (Hatfield & Dando), The Shining Twins at Mercury Lounge, 9:30 (also Thursday with Candles)
The Great Valley, Procedure Club, DDIILLIIAANN, In Buenos Aires, Philip Seymour Hoffman at Shea Stadium, 8ish
THURSDAY
Autre Ne Veut, Zambri at Cameo Gallery, 8ish
Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub at Williamsburg Waterfront, 7ish
FRIDAY
Human Resources, Gunfight, I’m Turning Into, Slow Animal, Easter Vomit at Don Pedro, 8ish
SATURDAY
Mirah ( all-star band), Tami Hart, “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot-Grrl Revolution” Book Release Party at Bruar Falls, 8ish
SUNDAY
Casiokids, Brahms, Bikini, VonChina at Glasslands, 8ish
MONDAY
GAYNGS, Glasser at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 8
Lately the Not Not Fun catalog has really been creating a buzz in my head. See Eternal Tapestry and Pocahaunted (RIP). And I don’t mean hype, though I am certainly talking about some of these bands more regularly than ever before, but the buzz these bands are making in my head is palpable and actually feels like a vigorous head shaking. Take, for example, Topaz Rags. The band just recently released a new 7″, The Crown Center, and the A-side of the same name is a righteous night-romper of a song. You’ll want to stay up all night! You’ll have to because of how your head feels! Oohing and scary aaahing make this a track of epic- Michael Jackson Thriller like proportions.
Topaz Rags: The Crown Center
(via NFOP)
This is really beautiful. There are times when the voices crack, too, just like they would if this were happening in your Living Room. With the rain outside your window today, it may feel like that.
And here’s The Low Anthem doing the same song solo, at Tiny Desk Concerts. Check out Boilen’s office!!
I’ve been jamming with Swimsuit in my periphery for some time now, thanks to Tom at The Great Pumpkin (see here and here). Finally though, I need to post about the band myself.
Hailing from Michigan, Swimsuit make clean and minimal pop with low-fashion gloss, which is just the way I like guitar pop- unpolished and ragged. The band is the project of Fred Thomas of City Center and features some of the best harmonies not in a folk song i’ve heard in some time. On this rainy day, the first of many this week, and at the end of a very hot summer, why not try and get sunny one more time. This is easy breezy.
Check out the posts over at TGP and the newest song to leak online, “Sunlight” below.
Swimsuit: Sunlight
Also, I just got a gingham bikini delivered from J. Crew (great sales now y’all), so this post is more than timely.
Purling Hiss make some pretty catchy and shaky tunes. Take “Don’t Even Try It” for example: starting with tape shake, and then unfurling with lo-fi vibrato and classiness, the new project of Mike from Birds of Maya shines. The muffled drums and the sing-along, be happy, ride-along bass are particularly atmospheric. The band has a record due out soon on Woodsist.
Purling Hiss: Don’t Even Try It
(via)
Um, how good is this?? Emeralds breaks my mind into many little pieces.
Off Does It Look Like I’m Here? on Editions Mego.
Listening to extremely loud, abrasive noise music is an exhilarating experience because while you’re in it, there’s nothing you can do but give in, and endure–just ask the more than 50 people crowded into Issue Project Room last night for the first of a two-set night with Merzbow, Japan’s preeminent sonic terrorist. When it’s over, you’re just a little bit stronger. (Though our eardrums may beg to disagree. The music was so loud even the most die-hard fans were sporting earplugs, which the venue was handing out like candy.)
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