Uncanny

NY TIMES "When I first started touring," Tom Verlaine said, "having to get up at 7 a.m. to get on buses or go to airports after playing all night, I thought: 'This is terrible. This is not what music is about.' It dawned on me that I had to make a decision: Am I going to go along with this whole thing or not? I just said nah. I decided against the whole 'careering' thing." He describes his life as, "Struggling not to have a professional career."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND FREE TIMES Adam Marsland, who formerly fronted power-pop ensemble Cockeyed Ghost, and his Chaos Band (bassist Teresa Cowles, keyboardist John Perry, drummer Kurt Medlin and lead guitarist Evie Sands, a recovered legend who had several mid-charting records in the mid-'60s) are taking a Carl & Dennis Wilson tribute show on a 10-date Midwest tour,

"I started doing these shows to show off my ability as an arranger and get something going that was interesting with other players I knew. It was basically just for fun and to show off/challenge ourselves," explains Marsland

"It had always been in the back of our minds that Carl and Dennis were good candidates for this because the music's really difficult and no one had ever really done it," he explains. "There's a million people running around doing Monkees covers or Beatles or whatever."

WALLY HEIDER

SOUND OF THE SUBURBS “2006 looks like it might be a good year. Scritti Politti have returned to their spiritual home, Rough Trade, and have their fifth album in 25 years scheduled for a 5 June release. Entitled 'White Bread and Black Beer' rumour has it that it's a killer, mixing hip hop with the Beach Boys, unfortunately not having a pre-release copy I can neither deny nor confirm this, what I can say is that it's always a pleasure to have some thing new from Green Gartside.”

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AMERICAN HERITAGE

SLOW SUICIDE STIMULUS’ debut, self-titled album was released in March to little fanfare. It’s too bad that one of the best albums of 2006 has received almost no media attention. Slow Suicide Stimulus = DUSTED DONS (Govone, Charlie Chan & Melski) and TAME ONE (of the Artifacts). The album is released by independent FLOSPOT RECORDS. Guest MCs include Yak Ballz, Camu Tao, Grandmaster Caz, SA Smash, Vast Aire, Jasper, Cage and Aesop Rock. Production by: El-P, Govone, DJ Mighty Mi, Camu Tao, Face Value, and more.

For lack of a better term, SSS is what I’d call industrial hip-hop; think the twisted, alien electronic beats on many of the albums released by the DEF JUX label. The affinity to Def Jux albums is not surprising, given the fact that several Def Jux artists (e.g. El-P, Aesop Rock, Cage, S.A. Smash) make cameo appearances on SSS. Additionally, there are very few samples across the album’s seventeen tracks. Most of the beats seem to be generated by synths and other electronic devices rather than by ripping break-beats off of dusty funk, jazz or soul LPs. Beyond the futuristic, electronic bombardment of the tracks, the industrial nature of SSS is highlighted by a noisy, claustrophobic ambience, characteristic of living in a large, urban environment, such as New York city. If a record brimming with a dystopian worldview coupled with heavy metal beats sounds interesting, Slow Suicide Stimulus is the album for you.
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