Dead Weather ~ Treat Me Like Your Mother

Jack White's latest band (does this guy take a shit sitting down?) Dead Weather release their auspicious vinyl beginnings tomorrow. Spinner's got a preview in the Listening Party section. Altogether it's pretty damned derivative stuff but sits very nicely in a spilled inkwell sorta way - dark, bleary-eyed, punch drunk blues. Skip straight to Treat Me Like Your Mother, a heavy-handed organ romp with a sexy backbeat (ride cymbals, sigh) and Alison Mossheart's taunting rasp. If you like dirty blues, the smell of gasoline and bump and grind... You might just love this.

The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother

A Long Dream ~ Tyler Ramsey

One of the multitude of magical things music can do is pluck a string right on the soul, sometimes a part of the soul that you'd forgotten existed or maybe even tried to ignore...This is what Tyler Ramsey's music accomplishes, reawakening a part of me where the expanses of canola, wheat and corn fields of my childhood rest. My girlchild ears perking with the sounds of chirping birds, rustling deer, barking dogs and chicken squawks as my father lifts me up, the smell of leather and gunpowder on his calloused hands. Eyes full of wonder, heart bursting with love.

Tyler Ramsey is now a member of Band of Horses.

Percussion Gun

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In the the long run, we hit only what we aim at.

- Henry David Thoreau
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So, take aim and slug that motherfucker.

King Without A Crown ~ Matisyahu

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What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole through the ceiling
I give myself to you from the essence of my being
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Experiencing the genius that is Matisyahu, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jew cum reggae/dub revivalist, it is tempting to shout out MatisYAHOO but if you've listened at all to the man himself speaketh his name you would know that it's pronounced more like MatisYOW rhymes with wow. Mr. Wow's latest album Light is scheduled for release this summer and includes the single One Day, click for a listen. He's full of the God spirit and rocks it with a tight rhythm section and a killer guitarist (yeah, he's the one often masquerading as the geeky teenage shop student ).

Check it out and put 'em up!

Middle Cyclone ~ Neko Case

I admit it, I just discovered Neko Case. After all of these years, 5 albums and a successful career, she has only recently entered the realm of my tender, sensitive and discerning eardrums. What bliss.

Q:What the hell does she sound like?
A:Little House on the Prairie after a quart of moonshine

I haven't loved a vocalist this much since Patsy Cline. It doesn't hurt that she can also write incredibly good music and perform flawlessly with her super tight band. She is the whole package. Whip smart, no bullshit, lyrically poetic and biting...

Did I mention she is also G O R G E O U S?

I'm in love.

Buy Middle Cyclone now and watch this great performance of I Wish I Was the Moon. A song I can definitely relate to right now.

Tell me about your purple past...

I love the latest Deerhoof video for My Purple Past save for one thing: the sound. Even though I realize this video was created as a living, retrospective photo album showcasing stereo gadgetry spanning decades ago to now and that, in the spirit of doing so, sound quality is inevitably sacrificed...I still contend that this song deserves to be played on a mighty motherfucker of a stereo system. You know, one with a gigantic set of balls and a swinging dick. When you have a drummer like Greg Saunier, the closest living approximation to John Bonham (send me exceptions to this statement as I'm sure they exist), sound quality is PARAMOUNT people. Whether or not you are a fan of Deerhoof currently, or have never heard a goddamn thing they've recorded (for shame!) you really ought to pleasure your sweet lobe (that's the left one) with this tune. It's a crackerjack Led Zep spinoff drenched in Malibu sunshine.

Olé!