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The Breeders – Mountain Battles record release party

Posted by LoveHowlMuse on April 7th, 2008 - Read comments and add your own

Click play to attend the Mountain Battles record release party with The Breeders at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Hall in Dayton, Ohio. It’s as low key as the new record is passionate, as in very. We also highly recommend checking out their webzine Breeders Digest.

If you don’t know The Breeders already then you will discover why they were Kurt Cobain’s favourite band. If you do know them already, their new album will confirm that grunge was not just a trend but a powerful creative movement. It’s a perfect antidote to all the bling, self-promotion and egotism that still pollutes the music industry and our consumer culture as a whole. The songs on Mountain Battles are intelligent without being clever and are catchy without being cutsey. With one of the best voices in rock ‘n roll, Kim Deal opens the album with the declaration “I Can Feel It” – and we can too. You’re not gonna want to miss this.

The new record is released today in the UK and tomorrow in the USA.

Buy Mountain Battles on CD, Deluxe Edition CD or Vinyl from Amazon.co.uk.

The Breeders – Cannonball – Their first chart hit

The Breeders – The She – Performed on live TV, one of our favourite tracks from their last album

Breeders Digest

The Breeders 2008 tour dates

Wikipedia – The Breeders

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November 22nd – Saint Cecilia’s Day

Posted by Trish Lyons on November 21st, 2007 - Read comments and add your own

Patron saint of musicians, composers and church music

trismos

Her name means ‘blind’, she lived for three days after the executioner failed to de-capitate her. He struck his blow three times and ran away in fear when he had failed in his task. Blindfolded she lay and waited for death all the while singing hymns for her true love.

Sounding a trismos, the steady whistling noise that is a sound reserved exclusively for dead souls. Oh Cecilia you’re breaking my heart. You’re shaking my confidence daily. Shakin’ my cocaine and saltine. A misheard lyric. A misplaced sound. It’s much more important how language sounds than what its concrete content is. Oh Cecilia I’m down on my knees and begging you please to come home.Your blood pearl necklace of tangled fences. A song heard in dreams that carries us across the breach of sleep. A bridge, the middle 8. Richard Pryor’s funeral pyre. Bob Dylan’s burning guitars and boxcars. Clickity clack clack, don’t step on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back. Bridges burned and backs turned. A structure seeks stasis by balancing forces in tension and compression. Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Chorus Verse again.

Sea shanties, football chants, cowboy songs, church house songs, song of songs, protest songs, drinking songs, poor ol’ me songs and ballads.

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