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The Black Lips

The Black Lips seem like an odd choice to become a hipster chic band, releasing their latest live album on hipper than thou label Vice records. With their insane sloppiness, rudimentary playing and loads of feedback, i wouldn't assume they'd be one of the more accesible or listener friendly rocknroll bands out there. But through it all, they have a great melodic sense, and I suppose thats what the kids are latching on to. Songs like "Boomerang" were meant for campfire singalongs. On Los Valientes Del Mondo Nuevo, the self proclaimed flower punks recorded themselves live in the city of sin itself, Tijauana. Just from listening to the crowd's reaction, you could tell that the show must have been a crazy party. The band is smokin also, in all of their sloppy, gritty glory. From the drunken introduction in Spanish to the psuedo spaghetti western outro, this album is a lot of fun. These guys are also touring this summer, they're playing at Maxwells next month, just before taking the stage as part of this summer's Siren Fest on Coney Island. Check it.

Los Straitjackets

Instrumental rock heavyweights Los Straitjackets released their first album of songs sung in Spanish a few months ago. They usually team up with a stellar list of guest musicians to handle the vocal duties for them. For Rock En Espanol Volume 1, they worked with Big Sandy, Little Willie G (from LA legends Thee Midniters) and Cesar Rosas (of Los Lobos). The album is filled with covers of rock/r&b covers sung in Spanish like: De Dia y de Noche (All Day and All of the Night), Loco Te Patina el Loco (Wild Thing), and Dame Una Seña (Gimme Little Sign). The band is as tight as ever, and each of the guest vocalists compliment the band nicely. The slower paced songs (which sometimes bore me, but not these ones) work just as well as their rave-ups. They're touring the country and Europe this summer, so make sure to check them out when they come by you. I've never seen them live, but I'm sure they are really fun.

Here's a tune for you: Calor
Here's their website

Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses

Mark Sultan has done it again. Over the last year and a half or so, Sultan (aka BBQ) has steadily risen up the charts of my favorite musicians. I had long been a fan of The Spaceshits/Les Sexareenos, but his work as BBQ, King Khan and BBQ Show , Mind Controls, etc. has also blown me away. This new record (officially his "solo" debut??), The Sultanic Verses on In The Red Records certainly does not break the mold that Sultan has created for himself. It has more of the simple, trashy three chord rocknroll that fans of his have found on his other releases. It seems effortless for his to come up with insanely catchy songs at an alarming rate. I honestly feel that he has one of the better voices in rocknroll right now. He can croon with the best when he wants to. No news of another east coast tour at the moment, but I'll be there wherever he plays around NY.
Here's a tune from the record : Two Left Feet
Here's his official website

Philadelphia

Fancypants just forwarded me an article from the New York Times about the Philadelphia Phillies. Apparently, the team is about to achieve a milestone that no one would want to reach. They are 14 games away from losing their 10,000th game as a franchise. They have already officially lost more games than any other professional sports team. Philly fans have gotten accustomed to losing. Can you make a case for another team to be considered among the most pathetic in all of sports?

New Releases

Out Tuesday:

Sandra Bernhard - Everything Bad and Beautiful
Eli Cook - Miss Blues'es Child
Richie Furay - The Heartbeat of Love
The Ladybug Transistor - Can't Wait Another Day
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home (prod. by Steve Mackay)
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
Glenn Mercer (of the Feelies) - Wheels in Motion
Poison - Poison'd (Pick of the week as this is a covers album featuring Poison taking on Bowie, The Cars, The Romantics and The Stones).
Serena Ryder - If Your Memory Serves You Well
Sean Na Na - Family Trees: Or Cope We Must
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Bruce Springsteen w- The Seeger Sessions Band - Live in Dublin (CD/DVD)
Tesla - Reel to Reel (Pick of the week #2 - This is a covers album of 70's hits. How many times do we get washed up hair bands releasing covers albums? Let alone in the same week!)
VA - Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash (feat. Elvis Costello, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris)
VA - We All Love Ella: Celebrating The First Lady of Song
Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster

Reissues
The Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable: A Retrospective (Pick of the week: This is more of a mix tape of Whigs tracks than a greatest hits)
The Avalanches - Ski Surfin'
Chet Baker - Chet
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Caravan
David Bowie - Young Americans (CD/DVD Special Edition)
The Clash - The Singles
Stewart Copeland - The Rhythmatist
Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Ella Fitzgerals - Lullabies of Birdland; Sweet and Hot; Love, Ella: The Original
Jimmy Heath - Really Big!
The Idle Race - Back to the Story
The Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
The Mugwumps - S/T
Tom Petty Highway Companion (w- demo tracks and unreleased recordings)
The Police - S/T best of
Elvis Presley - Elvis at the Movies
The Pretenders - Learning To Crawl; Get Close
Jimmy Smith - Straight Life
Stanley Turrentine - A Bluish Bag
Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Jersey Beat: The Music of Franki Valli & The 4 Seasons (Rhino Box Set)
VA - Monterey International Pop Festival (2 Disc Set)
VA - New Wave: Gold
Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, James Cotton - Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down (live concert from 1977)

Books
Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown

iPod on Random

How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down - The Silver Jews
I'll Pretend - Dwight Yoakam
Changing Colors - Great Lake Swimmers
The Archetypal Man - Judee Sill
The Call Up - The Clash
Kids - The Pretenders
I Don't Want To Know - Fleetwood Mac
Dub Star - Wackie's
Neptune's Net - M. Ward
I Wish I Was In New Orleans - Tom Waits