May 06 2009
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Yves makes a point during basic tracks for Go Negative.
May 01 2009
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BPX @ CD Baby
Buy CD or MP3 version of BPX debut Go Negative.
Apr 30 2009
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Bands we like (cont'd)...
While we can’t exactly say what the new record will sound like we can report that Michael has been listening to an enormous amount of Death Cab For Cutie, that he’s a major fan and that he & Ms. Serafin really enjoyed catching them last Monday night at Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium. Here’s the setlist:
The Employment Pages
Your Heart is an Empty Room
The New Year
We Laugh Indoors
Crooked Teeth
Photobooth
My Mirror Speaks
No Sunlight
Company Calls
Title Track
Grapevine Fires
I Will Possess Your Heart
I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Title and Registration
Cath…
Long Division
The Sound of Settling
Marching Bands of Manhattan
ENCORE:
A Diamond and a Tether
Soul Meets Body
Transatlanticism
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“Kelvin Scale” - 4th track on BPX debut Go Negative. This is what we think folks have in mind when they say we remind them of Pavement…
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Sean at the Rock n Roll Nest channelling gatefold shot from Taking Liberties.
Apr 23 2009
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They’re playing The Ramones in Safeway. I love California…
From: Wells, 10:27pm
Apr 20 2009
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Leonard Cohen at The Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA - 4/15/09
Scattershot impressions of transcendent Leonard Cohen show last Wednesday at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre… He came out for an hour or so, took an interval and then came back for another two. There was probably close to an hour-long encore, just on its own. Great band. Great man. Wry and genuine and humble and humorous and just very Be Here Now. Present. Very present. Took off his hat, holding it to his heart and stood respectfully watching each bandmate as they took a solo. Not a lot of chat with the crowd but what there was was warm and real. If the whole reason he’s touring at 74 is because his ex-manager stole his life savings, there was not a tinge of resentment or bitterness there. He’s no Van Morrison! Ha! (love Van, btw, just sayin’…). When he came back for the 2nd half he said he’d had a cognac with his (spiritual) teacher who asked him which of these cognacs has the masculine taste and which has a feminine one. LC said he didn’t know. His teacher said “you’ve learned nothing”. LC remarked that his teacher is 102 and that as they drank he said “I apologise for not dying”. LC said to the crowd “I feel much the same way”. Earlier he told us it had been 15 or 16 years since he’d been on a stage and that he’d been nearly 60 at that time - “just a kid with a crazy dream”. In the time intervening he’d “attempted to study the world’s religions but cheerfulness kept breaking through”. Setlist included Suzanne, Everybody Knows, Waiting for the Miracle, Hallelujah, Chelsea Hotel #2, First We Take Manhattan, I’m Your Man, So Long Marianne, Ain’t No Cure For Love, 1000 Kisses Deep (spoken), In My Secret Life, Democracy and I Tried to Leave You, which, appropriately enough, he closed with. Great great great.
Apr 16 2009
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