Damn, I think the Okkervil River record is already my 3rd favorite of the year behind the Fleet Foxes EP and LP.

Also, I swear I've listened to the Black Kids' "underestimated my charm" at least 10 times today.

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM. Reason : .]

7/17/2008 12:35:16 PM

^ yeah, I can't get enough of the okkervil river LP... every song is amazing. it's exactly what I needed to come along to rescue me from summer music doldrums

7/17/2008 12:44:07 PM

where the hell is the second gleam?

7/17/2008 5:00:01 PM

I missed out on the Black Kids link

7/17/2008 5:22:12 PM

The Avett Brothers - The Second Gleam
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?m03enweii29

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 5:41 PM. Reason : .]

7/17/2008 5:41:17 PM

dude you rock. thanks for that.

7/17/2008 5:47:50 PM

^ no problem

sensi and Everclear, check your PM's for the Okkervil River and Black Kids.

Links for the Black Kids are flying off the intertwebs like crazy, so I figured I would just send it that way. Not my links, but they were both working when I sent them.

7/17/2008 5:52:12 PM

awesome. thanks for the avett bros

7/17/2008 6:55:30 PM

DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY KOOKS

I REFUSE TO BE IGNORED HERE

Also looking for that Walter Meego album where they used that one song from the Heineken commercial...

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 7:58 PM. Reason : k]

7/17/2008 7:52:20 PM

i have konk, w/o the second disk or itunes bonus tracks.

pm me if you want me to zip it up and upload it.

7/17/2008 8:33:52 PM

Thanks for that Avett link, y0!!!

7/18/2008 11:08:54 AM

Awesome find on the Avett Brothers

I just can't get into this Okkervil River cd at all.

7/18/2008 11:21:47 AM

i'm listening to it right now for the first time

i gotta admit lost coastlines is pretty catchy

7/18/2008 11:27:53 AM

^^The Okkervil River album is up on What if you have an account there.

7/18/2008 11:35:50 AM

no no, I have it, I just can't get in to it

7/18/2008 11:41:52 AM

^i've never really been able to get into them either

7/18/2008 5:06:51 PM

I love the new okkervil river but I just cant stand the Avett brothers. Lots of people seem to like them but I dont get it at all.

opinions opinions opinions

7/19/2008 1:09:00 AM

Their live show is fun, at least from an energy standpoint.

I have no desire to listen to any of their records.

7/19/2008 10:48:40 AM

It took me a few listens but I am totally into that Ovechkin River...especially the one about smokin' a bowl and hangin' out with Zydeco.

7/19/2008 11:05:31 AM

^^ehh makes sense

Never seen them live so I'll give them a chance

7/19/2008 1:24:32 PM

I honestly have no opinion on the Avett Brothers. I have seen them live, and it was okay, and I think they have some good songs, but nothing that really grabs me and makes me want to listen to more of their albums.

On a completely different subject, "Starry Stairs" off the Okkervil River album is one of my favorite tracks of the year.

7/19/2008 1:34:29 PM

http://www.rhapsody.com/theavettbrothers/thesecondgleam

has the 2 bonus tracks up for the Second Gleam

7/19/2008 1:38:58 PM

so after reading this thread a few pages back I had to go dig up my "Your Majesty" disc (the anniversary) <33

7/19/2008 3:00:51 PM

^your majesty was alright, but designing a nervous breakdown has been a consistent force in my rotation for close to ten years now

7/19/2008 6:24:57 PM

Quote :

"* On Tuesday, January 01, 2008 Christian Jankowski posted this message on The Anniversary's Myspace blog in reference to a 2008 release: "2008 NEW ALBUM Happy New Year to you all! Hope that 2008 is great one for ya! As far as The Anniversary is concerned, 2008 will be a doozie. We are releasing a NEW ALBUM this year that will include our un-released songs. We are also releasing a DVD featuring "live" performances and behind-the-scenes of us just hanging out. If you guys could help out and send any photos that you might have including who took the picture to theanniversary@hotmail.com We are gathering up as many as we can for the insert of the DVD and the CD artwork. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Forward this on to your friends. And let's get the word out! Perhaps a re-union show, too? Who knows. Peace out, Janko""

i'll never forget seeing them at Kings in 2003 (i think). also saw broken social scene there which was incredible.

[Edited on July 19, 2008 at 6:37 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2008 6:33:56 PM

whoa

7/20/2008 10:14:44 AM

^^ so, the new album is just the CD of unreleased material... they aren't actually technically releasing a NEW album, right?

7/20/2008 11:13:40 AM

i think that he is referring to this:

Quote :

"The Anniversary Compile B-Sides and Rarities Whoa, who saw this coming? Vagrant-signed emotive synth-poppers reborn as classic rock-worshipping emotive hippie kids the Anniversary threw in the towel back in 2004. And yes, in case the mention of Vagrant and the multiple instances of the word "emotive" didn't tip you off, they were emo. Deal with it. Anyway, here we are in 2008 and the Anniversary have a "new" Vagrant release due tomorrow, June 24! Devil on Our Side: B-Sides & Rarities collects two discs worth of Anniversary tracks that fall into the titular categories. A number of them are unsung high points of the emo genre culled from early splits and singles-- including an awesome Sub Pop 7"-- while quite a few have never graced the ears of non-Anniversary-associated human beings before. An Anniversary MySpace blog post from New Year's Day even brings up the possibility of a "re-union show," so consider our breath bated. In the meantime, the spirit of the Anniversary lives on-- to varying degrees of potency-- in such current projects as the Only Children, Art in Manila, White Flight, Saints & Sinners, and Dri. Devil on Our Side: B-Sides & Rarities: Disc 1: 01 Fletcher Durbin 02 Alright for Now 03 Alone in Debtford 04 Those Eyes 05 Hold Me Tonight 06 Lowtide and Hospital Bed 07 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 08 I Haven't Slept 09 Diamonds and Daisies 10 Kids in Carolina 11 100 Ships 12 Till We Earned a Holiday Disc 2: 01 Vasil & Bluey 02 To Never Die Young 03 What's My Name? My Name Is...What?! What?! 04 I Believe That the End of the Reign of Terror Is Soon Near 05 O' Lady Butterfly 06 Che 07 Ain't That Bad 08 Kali 09 I Know What's Best 10 Lover 11 Let It Slip 12 Lodi 13 Strings Break 14 High School Talent Show"

7/20/2008 3:05:09 PM

Quote :

"I honestly have no opinion on the Avett Brothers. I have seen them live, and it was okay, and I think they have some good songs, but nothing that really grabs me and makes me want to listen to more of their albums."

That's pretty much how I feel...

7/20/2008 7:38:33 PM

Also,

Quote :

"12 Lodi "

Hell yeah, I was rocking out to some Creedence tapes last night.

7/20/2008 7:40:53 PM

Connor Oberst -- s/t- 2008 solo record
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/130999770/Conor_Oberst_-_Conor_Oberst__2008_.zip.html

7/20/2008 8:29:48 PM

This Okkervil River album is pretty stellar. I could take longer instrumental tracks. The third one and Bruce Wayne Campbell are excellent tracks.

7/21/2008 1:07:19 AM

^^ sweet-- thanks!

7/21/2008 1:25:01 AM

as far as the Avett brothers go, while I was still in college and my friends from back home were still in Raleigh it was the only decent music I could get them to listen to, so they sort of became a backdrop to boozing. Probly wouldn't have gotten as into them if this weren't the case.

7/21/2008 10:26:04 AM

That Connor Oberst record is mediocre at best. I mean, there are about 3 "great" songs, but the rest were boring.

I'll give it another listen.

The Okkervil River is spectacular, though.

7/21/2008 11:44:01 AM

if someone could let me know the millisecond that the new Department of Eagles comes out that would be like super super super awesome

7/21/2008 8:19:07 PM

yeah, that conor oberst is pretty forgettable

just listened to the okkervil river, didn't like it at all, but i've never liked them so nothing has changed

7/21/2008 8:53:55 PM

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/beat/smashing-pumpkins-belatedly-coming-to-raleigh

Quote :

"Smashing Pumpkins (belatedly) coming to Raleigh After repeatedly bypassing the Triangle last year, Billy Corgan's latterday version of Smashing Pumpkins will finally play in Raleigh next month -- Aug. 17 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the usual places. "

7/21/2008 10:42:42 PM

DUDE.

I know what I'm doing saturday morning

7/22/2008 8:50:19 AM

pitchfork eviscerated the black kids album. now i see why people hate them so much.

7/22/2008 10:56:16 AM

i can't see that review but the album did get old for me pretty fast.

7/22/2008 11:01:40 AM

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic

that's it, that's the whole review.

considering p4k were the first ones to hype up the black kids, you'd think they at least deserve an actual review to qualify the 3.3 score.

7/22/2008 11:05:57 AM

oh lol. I saw that and thought they took it down maybe.

7/22/2008 11:10:37 AM

Well, this is why folks are starting to almost laugh at Pitchfork. They were the ones who built up The Black Kids and hyped the ever living shit out of them after they played the Pitchfork Festival last year, then they don't have the courtesy to even review their full length debut. Snarky, I understand, but this isn't even funny. (at least the Jet review w/ the youtube clip was hilarious... and deserving, but I digress).

The writers of Pitchfork came back and blew them up after their Festival --- The Black Kids released the 4 track Wizard of Ahhhhs EP (which, btw, was originally an 8 track sold at their early shows.. all 8 of those songs are on their new record, including all 4 tracks on the formally released Wizard of Ahhhhs EP that Pitchfork hyped the shit out of).

So, now is when I question: Was Pitchfork just fucking around and seeing if they could hype the shit out of a band only to pull the rug out from under them, playing God with an indie band and testing their increasing commercial power OR was the writer pissed off, as I was, that the Black Kids took a year to release a 10 song record, 4 of which were on a released EP? (8 of them, if you count folks like me who had the 8 track early release they did)

Unfortunately, we'll never know because the lazy fucks failed to even write a review for it. I would like to assume that it was because they basically just re-released the old tracks with new production and the writer found it uninspired, but... who knows.... we have a picture of 2 dogs. So, now I'll have to go to CokeMachineGlow for a real review.

I, personally, like the new record because I did my best to listen to it as if I had never heard the EP. I have several friends who's taste I appreciate who had also never heard the EP, and they love it.

I like Pitchfork, but I hate the direction they're taking, partly reflected in this review.




[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 11:47 AM. Reason : .]

7/22/2008 11:39:28 AM

Pitchfork was better before they saw themselves as tastemakers.

7/22/2008 12:22:20 PM

Starting to laugh at Pitchfork?

7/22/2008 12:31:28 PM

The review has about as much substance as the album

7/22/2008 1:34:51 PM

^ 4 of the 10 tracks were part of the same EP they praised as the second coming, so I would assume that substance isn't the issue.

Again, they didn't bother to write a review, so we'll never know whether it was because they essentially re-released better produced tracks or whether they deemed the record bad because of the other 6 songs.

7/22/2008 2:20:53 PM

Pitchfork is a joke and has been for a long time. They rarely ever spend time talking about the music itself, it's always some failed writer's unfunny/unclever rant/anecdote.

7/22/2008 2:33:35 PM

hey thanks for the Avett Brothers - Second Gleam link. That is mad crucial. I'm downloading it now. what exactly is a .rar file?


Nevermind, i figured it out. Got it playing now. Thanks again guys, definitely gonna be keeping tabs on this thread from here on out!



[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 8:27 PM. Reason : add]

7/22/2008 8:18:48 PM