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"The Irish Times placed Bell X1 at number nine in a list of "The 50 Best Irish Acts Right Now" published in April 2009. Aside from U2, they are the Irish band with the most airplay in their native country and, according to Billboard, also the second biggest live performers."
I cite the above Wikifact to point out how fortunate then that the boys of Bell X1 play a special acoustic show this coming Sunday night (10/17) at Jammin Java—a show for which, doubly lucky, we've got a pair of tickets to put in your hands courtesy of our friends at Yep Roc Records.
You know the drill: let us know why you should be chosen for the pair of tickets to Sunday's show in the comments to this post and the most convincing of the bunch will take home the tickets.
Submit your plea for the two tickets by Friday (10/15) at noon—and remember to leave us a contact email address with your entry!
Remember, we've teamed up with ReadysetDC for all of our ticket giveaways so you can enter to win either here at TVD or at ReadysetDC.
On paper it shouldn't work—the unlikely pairing of Scottish indie-pop darling Isobel Campbell and the gruff and gritty former Screaming Trees frontman, Mark Lanegan—but it does. So well, in fact that last summer's Vanguard Records release 'Hawk' is the second pairing of the two.
Ms. Campbell and Mr. Lanegan play the Rock and Roll Hotel this coming Friday (10/15) and not only do we have the LP to put in your hands, we've got a pair of tickets to the show—both for one winner.
Let us know why you should be chosen for the pair of tickets and the vinyl copy of 'Hawk' in the comments to this post and the most convincing of the bunch will take home the tickets.
You need to act fast though—we need to close this one out on Thursday (10/14) by 5PM—and remember to leave us a contact email address with your entry. I can't tell you how many "winning" entries we get with no way of letting that person know. So—now you know—go!
Remember, we've teamed up with ReadysetDC for all of our ticket giveaways so you can enter to win either here at TVD or at ReadysetDC.
Day #2 of our Yep Roc Records Spotlight Week kicks off with one of our favorites—Peter Case, he of both The Nerves and The Plimsouls. Peter's new LP, Wig! is out now on—right, Yep Roc.
In the summer of 1976 a UPS truck pulled up in front of a tenement on the 400 block of Folsom street in SF, and the driver loaded boxes containing 5000 Nerves 45's into our basement. They made a small mountain down there, and at the time there were maybe... 25 people in the world who would even possibly be interested in the music on the record.
'How the fuck are we gonna get rid of things?' was the question of the day. There was no indie records scene, commercial radio wasn't interested at all, the advent of college radio was still several years off, punk rock had just been named in the UK, but hadn't spread beyond a handful of fans stateside... The Nerves 'EP' containing 'Hanging On The Telephone' and three other 'hits' was an albatross, a white elephant, a figment of the imagination. A pile in a basement.
They say the copies are worth 100 dollars a piece now... if you can find one. I have one left. It was sitting on a shelf for a long time, in the living room of my pad.
I'd tried playing The Nerves music for my kids, putting on a CD version someone in Europe had put out, a bootleg. My kids were in 4th and 6th grade at the time, and they could give. Everybody smiled, yawned, started talking about something else, and I took it off.
A few years ago: I'd fired up the record player again, driving out 40 miles to the end of the San Fernando Valley, the only place I could find that still carried the cartridges it needed to work. That night my girlfriend Denise put on the Nerves EP 45, and everyone was up and dancing, totally into it. It was like they'd never heard it before.
Stereolab return with their twelfth album and it's released during the band's self-imposed hiatus from recording and touring. The album will be released via Stereolab's own imprint Duophonic UHF Disks.
Over the summer of 2007 Stereolab reconvened at Instant Zero, their studio in Bordeaux to record 32 luminous new songs which would become two distinct albums - 2008's Chemical Chords and their new release, Not Music.
