On October 10th EAR FARM will be turning 3 years old! That’s right, we’ve been harvesting music for your ears for three years now. Come celebrate with us and two of our favorite things… tasty barbecue and awesome music!
Tickets are STILL AVAILABLE for the food/concert combo… as well, you’ll be able to purchase $10 tickets at the door if you just want to come for the music!
More details on the show below…
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Nothing says harvest like the crackle of hot, crispy pig skin, especially when that skin is covering a 200-lb Berkshire hog, roasted whole over an open barbecue pit by Tom Mylan, Brooklyn’s favorite butcher.
Hosted by Brooklyn Based, Sweet Deliverance, EAR FARM, and The Yard, the first annual Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown is a prelude to the following day’s Harvest Festival at The Yard, and a celebration of all the best the season has to offer.
Snuggle up to someone special with a pint of Sixpoint and a plate of pork tacos, roast corn, fresh salsas, greens, warm apple crisp and cinnamon ice cream from Blue Marble. Then turn up your heels to the Americana twang and hillbilly swerve of The Jones Street Boys, Motel Motel, and Bel Air, as the lights sparkle on the Gowanus Canal.
Joshua Applestone of Fleisher’s Grass Fed and Organic Meats will be on hand to talk about why properly raised pigs are so delicious, and a member of the New Farmer Development Project, which the dinner will benefit, will speak about their work with farms. And Not Eating Out in New York blogger Cathy Erway is lending a hand with dessert.
Sixpoint beers $1 from 6-7. Five percent of proceeds benefit New Farmer Development Project. Tickets $32 in advance, available online HERE, or $40 at the door. (Free for kids 10 and under.)
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In order to get the music in before sound curfew, the first band will go on promptly at 6:15. It’s an early start, but with those $1 Sixpoints and Bel Air providing the happy hour entertainment, it’s going to be well worth it to be there right at 6:00. See you there!
Listen:
“Looking Up” by Bel Air
“Coffee” by Motel Motel
“Last Time” (live @ WMSE) by The Jones Street Boys
“Mother and Child” by Nigel Short & Tenebrae which clocks in at 12:39.
The following is Part 4 of a four part 8+ series based upon songs from the film ‘Children of Men’, the film itself, and the writing of Jorge Luis Borges. Read the first chapter HERE, second chapter HERE, third chapter HERE. Read more…
A story on the AP newswire early last week detailed the rash of road sign thefts along the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, which alone probably wouldn’t be worth noting except for the fact that all of the thefts have involved the metal signs at mile marker 66.6.
What does this mean? Most likely, it’s just some metalhead in New Jersey eager to outfit his bedroom with a series of “666″ road signs. NJ Turnpike Authority spokesman Joe Orlando, however, seems to imagine a darker figure behind the swipings, saying, “Given the symbolism of the number and the fact that it is obviously done in the middle of night, and in the middle of nowhere, I can safely say that I’m not eager to meet the rocket scientists doing it.”
Who else thinks Orlando needs to grow a pair? Besides, as Pinback’s Rob Crow pointed out during their show at Music Hall of Williamsburg a few weeks back, 666 isn’t even the technical sign of the beast. After some research (cough cough Wikipedia), it seems Crow is right. In 2005, scholars at Oxford University used advanced imaging techniques to parse through the earliest known version of the Book of Revelation and found the Number of the Beast identified as 616 and not 666. The news must have sent the wheels turning in Crow’s metal-loving mind, for he even wrote a song about it, “Off By 50″, that closes out their latest album Autumn of the Seraphs. Here are the lyrics:
Separate the wall. When the earth is mined.
The water and the seas have all been wiped.
To pave the way. Forced. Primed.
To kick the very seeds from their heights.If i believed I would believe that you’re the one they talk about.
If I believed I would believe that you’re the one they call upon.Mindless. Hateful. There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
No such thing at all.(Is there no end / Are we all in / I must let go…
Why would they go through this again / Is there no other way)
So, with this new info, our advice to the 666 thiefs: you’re off by 50! You’ve got the wrong sign! And our advice to Orlando and the Turnpike Crew: consider looking to see if any of the 616 signs have gone missing. I think Pinback just passed through town after all.
Listen: “Off By 50″ by Pinback
Visit Pinback on MySpace.
In many ways, Creem - self-proclaimed as “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” - set the template for current music blogs and new media sites. The outsider perspective, personal and subjective approach to stories and content, willingness to champion relatively unknown bands, and ability to spot trends early (Creem allegedly coined the term “punk rock”) are just some of the ways this Detroit-based publication helped revolutionize music journalism for future generations.
Of course, while Creem may share these characteristics with contemporary blogs, it also did all of these things about a hundred times better than anything out there right now. Where else could you read a live review of a Rolling Stones show written by Charles Bukowski (framed entirely around the venue’s coincidental proximity to a racetrack he enjoyed visiting)? Or enjoy a glossy cover hand-drawn by R. Crumb? Or have Lester Bangs, Cameron Crowe, Robert Christgau and Nick Tosches all on the same masthead? Exactly. From 1969 to 1989, Creem dared to elevate music journalism as a form of artistic expression in its own right.
I highly recommend checking out the recent hardcover Creem retrospective for an absolute assault on the senses. From this collection, we’ve culled some of our favorite cover shots over the years that we feel capture the spirit and energy of their particular era as well as of Creem’s own reckless bravado.
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On October 10th EAR FARM will be turning 3 years old! That’s right, we’ve been harvesting music for your ears for three years now. Come celebrate with us and two of our favorite things… tasty barbecue and awesome music!
But wait! What’s this about a “ticket giveaway”??
Well… if the $32 ticket price is a bit steep for you, you’re in luck. We’re giving away TWO sets of TWO tickets each to TWO lucky people. All you have to do is send us an email (mail -at- earfarm -dot- com) telling us your VERY MOST FAVORITE BBQ SPOT and we’ll pick TWO people at random. Yay? More details on the show below…
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Nothing says harvest like the crackle of hot, crispy pig skin, especially when that skin is covering a 200-lb Berkshire hog, roasted whole over an open barbecue pit by Tom Mylan, Brooklyn’s favorite butcher.
Hosted by Brooklyn Based, Sweet Deliverance, EAR FARM, and The Yard, the first annual Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown is a prelude to the following day’s Harvest Festival at The Yard, and a celebration of all the best the season has to offer.
Snuggle up to someone special with a pint of Sixpoint and a plate of pork tacos, roast corn, fresh salsas, greens, warm apple crisp and cinnamon ice cream from Blue Marble. Then turn up your heels to the Americana twang and hillbilly swerve of The Jones Street Boys, Motel Motel, and Bel Air, as the lights sparkle on the Gowanus Canal.
Joshua Applestone of Fleisher’s Grass Fed and Organic Meats will be on hand to talk about why properly raised pigs are so delicious, and a member of the New Farmer Development Project, which the dinner will benefit, will speak about their work with farms. And Not Eating Out in New York blogger Cathy Erway is lending a hand with dessert.
Sixpoint beers $1 from 6-7. Five percent of proceeds benefit New Farmer Development Project. Tickets $32 in advance, available online HERE, or $40 at the door. (Free for kids 10 and under.)
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In order to get the music in before sound curfew, the first band will go on promptly at 6:15. It’s an early start, but with those $1 Sixpoints and Bel Air providing the happy hour entertainment, it’s going to be well worth it to be there right at 6:00. See you there!
Listen:
“Looking Up” by Bel Air
“Coffee” by Motel Motel
“Last Time” (live @ WMSE) by The Jones Street Boys
The Academy-Award nominated, Emmy-winning, ever-brilliant entity known as South Park returns this Wednesday following a brief hiatus. Over the last dozen years, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s brainchild has evolved from a simple gross-out cartoon intent on pushing the boundaries of basic cable to a whipsmart satire of contemporary American politics and culture (intent on pushing the boundaries of basic cable). At times, the turnaround from current event to grist for the South Park mill has been staggering; many episodes have gone from conception to broadcast within as little as two weeks.
As such, it’s fairly likely that if a story is making waves in society, you’ll be treated to Parker and Stone’s refreshingly simplified and hilarious take before the ink has had time to fully dry. And when we’re really lucky, we get treated to an episode inspired by some inane aspect of the music industry that the duo just can’t resist picking apart, because let’s face it, there’s lots to make fun of here. So here we present our top 10 favorite South Park music-related episodes, realizing fully of course that there are many more we left out (including, for the obvious reason that it’s not an episode, the Academy-Award nominated South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut). Honestly, you wouldn’t even believe how many times we got Rickrolled while foraging for clips on YouTube, and yet we persevered to bring you the crème de la crème: Read more…
Loyal EF readers may remember Pale Young Gentlemen as one of our very first Band of the Week subjects almost a year ago. For that particular piece, I tried my hardest to listen to their stellar self-titled debut album without interference or persuasion from outside sources, i.e. no thumbing through others’ reviews in the vain hopes of instead arriving at a “pure” opinion. I failed, but not for lack of trying; I mean, just look at the gushing reviews that greeted this allegedly “unknown” band from Madison, WI.
And rightfully so, for that album was a breath of fresh air, an incredibly inspired way to introduce themselves to the broader world. The question on my mind was pretty simple then: what would they do next, and if it trumped their debut, would we even be able to tolerate the sheer mass of critical adulation that might trail in its wake?
Well, it’s now a year later, and we’ve gotten our hands on the sophomore album, Black Forest (Tra La La) (out tomorrow) and…. Read more…
Just because I didn’t like the first mix I had going, I scrapped it to go for a more well-formed mix. One that presents a clear mood throughout. Just because this year has been so full of good music I limited the selections to songs that have come out in 2008. And, because this year has seen major advances for women in American politics, I decided to limit the selections even further to music performed by female artists. To recap: gotta fit the intended mood, released in ‘08, women artists only. This one turned out pretty well…
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EAR FARM’s Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted whenever the mood strikes us. This time: three from Jagjaguwar Records, selected from their impressive spate of upcoming and current autumn releases. Click on the song name to listen to the song.
Nagisa Ni Te - “Premonition” from “Yosuga”, out now
Women - “Black Rice” from S/T album out 10/7/08
Parts & Labor - “Nowheres Nigh” from “Receivers”, out 10/21/08
“Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” by Krzysztof Penderecki & National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra which clocks in at 10:00.
The following is Part 3 of a four part 8+ series based upon songs from the film ‘Children of Men’, the film itself, and the writing of Jorge Luis Borges. Read the first chapter HERE, second chapter HERE. Read more…
On October 10th EAR FARM will be turning 3 years old! That’s right, we’ve been harvesting music for your ears for three years now. Come celebrate with us and two of our favorite things… tasty barbecue and awesome music!
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Nothing says harvest like the crackle of hot, crispy pig skin, especially when that skin is covering a 200-lb Berkshire hog, roasted whole over an open barbecue pit by Tom Mylan, Brooklyn’s favorite butcher.
Hosted by Brooklyn Based, Sweet Deliverance, EAR FARM, and The Yard, the first annual Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown is a prelude to the following day’s Harvest Festival at The Yard, and a celebration of all the best the season has to offer.
Snuggle up to someone special with a pint of Sixpoint and a plate of pork tacos, roast corn, fresh salsas, greens, warm apple crisp and cinnamon ice cream from Blue Marble. Then turn up your heels to the Americana twang and hillbilly swerve of The Jones Street Boys, Motel Motel, and Bel Air, as the lights sparkle on the Gowanus Canal.
Joshua Applestone of Fleisher’s Grass Fed and Organic Meats will be on hand to talk about why properly raised pigs are so delicious, and a member of the New Farmer Development Project, which the dinner will benefit, will speak about their work with farms. And Not Eating Out in New York blogger Cathy Erway is lending a hand with dessert.
Sixpoint beers $1 from 6-7. Five percent of proceeds benefit New Farmer Development Project. Tickets $32 in advance, available online HERE, or $40 at the door. (Free for kids 10 and under.)
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In order to get the music in before sound curfew, the first band will go on promptly at 6:15. It’s an early start, but with those $1 Sixpoints and Bel Air providing the happy hour entertainment, it’s going to be well worth it to be there right at 6:00. See you there!
From the Inside Looking Out is our opportunity to have those involved within the music world tell us a bit about things from their point of view. This time around, we have Daniel Neely
At some point during the summer of 2002, my mother-in-law sat my wife, her sister and I down to tell us how she “just loved that Ozzy Osmond and his wife Sharon,” because they took such good care of their kids. It was around the time the Osbournes reality show was getting popular and I think it was her way of being hip with the kids. It was probably the lounge-y version of “Crazy Train” they used for the theme that drew her in. Anyhow, two weeks later, we had finally stopped laughing about “Ozzy Osmond” and it began to dawn on us that Ozzy and his music had become more mainstream than we had realized.
This didn’t strike me as a bad thing. I grew up playing guitar and on occasion–like every adolescent boy with six strings and a dream–my friends and I would get together on Sabbath tunes. In fact, every kid in every band I knew growing up played Sabbath tunes. It was a kind of rite-of-passage that everyone went through. In my work Directing the New York State Musicians Index and Archive (NYMIA), I’ve come to notice that this hasn’t changed, so I started up a little project I call the “New York Black Sabbath Covers Project”. Here’s how it came about.
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….or, at least most of it is. It seems Deerhoof - Satomi, Greg, John and Edward - wanted to give us all an early taste of their forthcoming album Offend Maggie (out Oct 7 on Kill Rock Stars) via MySpace stream. And yet, technology has just not been cooperating with the gang; a recent blog posting on the band’s MySpace reveals the following:
“Due to the brand new Myspace players we have having problems uploading our new album “Offend Maggie” that is supposed to be streaming all weekend. Hopefully it will be fixed soon - in the meantime there are a few tracks that made it up.”
All in all, 10 of Maggie’s 14 cuts are up for your listening pleasure at the moment: “Jagged Fruit”, “Numina O”, “Eaguru Guru”, “Fresh Born”, “This Is God Speaking”, “Family Of Others”, “My Purple Past”, “Basketball Get Your Groove Back”, “Don’t Get Born”, and “The Tears And Music Of Love”. Add the MP3 for the title track offered below and we’re up to 11 tracks total, in other words, a hell of a lot of Deerhoof to tide you over until October 7th. Still, there’s the chance the rest of the album could be up and streaming at any point, so be sure to stay vigilant with your Deerhoof-watching. Try practicing by staring intently at the following video of the band in the studio during the sessions for Offend Maggie…
Listen: “Offend Maggie”
See Deerhoof Live:
Oct 03 Avalon, Los Angeles, California
Oct 04 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California
Oct 06 Wonder Ballroom, Portland, Oregon
Oct 07 Neumos, Seattle, Washington
Oct 09 Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, Utah
Oct 11 Bluebird, Denver, Colorado
Oct 13 The Slowdown, Omaha, Nebraska
Oct 14 First Avenue, Minnapolis, Minnesota
Oct 15 Turner Hall, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Oct 16 Buskirk Chumley Theater, Bloomington, Indiana
Oct 17 Cabaret Metro, Chicago, Illinois
Oct 18 Crofoot Ballroom, Pontiac, Michigan
Oct 21 The Spiegeltent, New York, New York
Oct 22 Irving Plaza, New York, New York
Oct 23 Middle East, Cambridge, Massechusetts
Oct 24 Pearl Street, Northampton, Massachusetts
Oct 25 Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 26 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
Oct 28 Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, North Carolina
Oct 29 Grey Eagle, Asheville, North Carolina
Oct 30 Mercy Lounge, Nashville, Tennessee
Oct 31 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia
Nov 01 The Social, Orlando, Florida
Nov 02 Crowbar, Tampa, Florida
Nov 05 House of Blues, New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 06 Numbers, Houston, Texas
Nov 07 Granada, Dallas, Texas
Nov 08 Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin, Texas
Nov 10 Club 101, El Paso, Texas
Nov 12 Club Congress, Tucson, Arizona
Nov 13 The Clubhouse, Tempe, Arizona
Dec 02 London, ULU (University of London Union), UK
Dec 03 Berlin, Lido, Germany
Dec 05 Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
Dec 06 Melkweg, Amsterdam, Holland
Dec 08 Cabaret Electrique, Le Havre, France
Dec 09 Antipode, Rennes, France
Dec 10 Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France
Dec 11 Sonic Protest Festival at Trabendo, Paris, France
Dec 12 Barcelona, Primavera Sound Winter Edition, Spain
Dec 13 Madrid, Primavera Sound Winter Edition, Spain
Visit Deerhoof on MySpace.
Over the past week, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been taking a lot of heat for the answers she gave in an interview with Katie Couric on CBS News. The portion that’s getting the most critical attention is that bit about Palin’s foreign policy credentials… Read more…
New York City musicians are showing their support of Barack Obama in a variety of ways; McCain, notsomuch. Perhaps because ‘John’ doesn’t rhyme as well with ‘rock’ as ‘Barack’ does?? Too simple? Regardless, there are two items worth noting that make use of the Barack-Rock rhyme scheme. First up, a live show/benefit happening next week in Brooklyn… Read more…