24 posts tagged “music”
Hiram's started writing about music over at erasing clouds. Here's a couple of links:
Roosevelt Franklin was an early, and somewhat forgotten, character on Sesame Street. He loved poetry and spoke in rhyme. He was taken off the show (or so says the internet) because he was thought to portray a negative cultural stereotype or because his wise-cracking classmates were too unruly. We believe it was because of his anti-war, pro-black stance. We could be wrong, though, especially since we are both children of the '70s.
If you're into New Zealand pop/rock music from the '80s and '90s (you know, Flying Nun Records and all that), you have to have to HAVE TO go over to Kiwi Tapes, an amazing repository of odds and ends from the time. Thanks to porn in the woods for pointing it out on Metafilter.
Our pal Victor Scott stealthily put out his album Good Times in November. Either that, or we just weren't paying close enough attention (sorry, Victor, we've been a bit busy). It's a great album and one song ("High Fructose Corn Syrup") was inspired by our first meeting with the man. It's all Melissa's fault if you get that song stuck in your head. And, if you haven't yet, you can check out his video "Gotta Go" and see us dancing with our cat Mushi Mushi Gila Monster among other things.
So, go pony up the $6 Canadian (which, unfortunately for the Americans in the crowd, is worth more than it used to be).
Love and happiness,
H and M
Other evening highlights: Tori covers! Tori costumes! Tori drag queens! Prizes for Tori Q & A! If you ever wanted to die and go to Tori heaven this is probably the closest you'll ever get, so come one, come all.
One of my favorite song poems ever is called "Junkies and Monkeys" and it's sung by Kay Weaver, who was not only a song poem singer, but a feminist filmmaker! One of the best songs about marijuana use vs. heroin... and I mean that in a good way.*
*We would, of course, never advocate such things as drug use on a blog.
Scene: M and I driving while Summer Days and Summer Nights!! plays. "Girl Don't Tell Me" comes on.
M: Who is this?
H: The Beach Boys.
M: This sounds like every song that guy from the Shins* has ever written.
H: Huh, you're right.
*We have nothing against The Shins, they're fine. It probably helps that I refused to watch that horrible Zach Branff movie. Also, instead of the "Ticket to Ride" break, they probably would have stuck some sweeping Echo and the Bunnymen strings or something. Still, I can't hear this song without seeing in my mind James Mercer instead of Carl Wilson singing. Damn you Melissa and your astute observations!
Hey look, it's a new video from The Harvey Girls. This one is for the song "Faster Peach" from our EP Declinate, which you can download at SVC Records (all proceeds go to RAINN). This one is cat free, although Mushi was a little hacked off by that (freaking ingrate). Actually, the original youtube video that we used is here, in case you were wondering. Hooray for crappy editing software!
In other news, we've finished another EP (almost album, missed it by a minute and some change), which is being mastered by our pal Steve and includes help from DJ Sku and the newly relocated Approach (along with genius drumming from our pal Brent Piepergerdes) and we're playing out again soon with new songs written with the help of Josh and Matt. Yay us! Also, the long worked-on collaborative EP between The Harvey Girls and Feedle is in the mixing stage. We'll stick up a song soon. Yay us again! Also also, our pals Wow and Flutter are finishing up an album that may or may not include some singing and sax playing by us (we recorded it, we're just not sure they're using it). Yay W&F!
With love,
THG
Hey, if you're into recording music at home, Hometracked is an excellent resource. Now if only we could find time to actually finish our projects, we'd be much happier.
--Hiram
