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CLUES – TOUR DE FRANCE 2010

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:34:04 +0000

Le Cabaret Electric	Le Havre	12 Feb
La Carène Club	Brest	13 Feb
Le Confort Moderne	Poitiers	14 Feb
Drak Art*	Grenoble	15 Feb
Le Brise Glace	Annecy	16 Feb
La Poudrière	Belfort	17 Feb
Le Grand Mix	Tourcoing	18 Feb
Le 6 par 4	Laval	19 Feb
L’Omnibus	St-Malo	20 Feb
Le Chat Do	Blois	21 Feb
VIP	St-Nazaire	22 Feb
Le Saint des Seins	Toulouse	23 Feb
Epicerie Moderne	Feyzin	24 Feb
La Lune des Pirates	Amiens	25 Feb
La Cartonnerie	Reims	26 Feb
La Maroquinerie	Paris	27 Feb

Most dates with Jerusalem in My Heart

*Added

VIC CHESNUTT | AT THE CUT

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:27:04 +0000

Vic Chesnutt
At The Cut

“Chesnutt’s second album to feature musicians from Thee Silver Mt. Zion,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Witchies and Guy Picciotto from Fugazi
(who also co-produced the record with Howard Bilerman) picks up where
North Star Deserter (2007) left off, with an explosive group of arrangers
and players allowing Vic to conjure snarling spittle and devastating
fragile grace in equal measure.”

“…impish, surly, witty, unflinching perspective, brilliantly unique wordsmithery
and a profound playfulness that thumbs its nose at a life of seriously hard knocks.

Vic’s prolific writing – chock of full of real irony, wonderful turns of phrase,
humour, rage and tenderness, brutal literalism and ornate observation
– constitutes a truly original voice and reflects a truly indomitable spirit…

A core group of players emerged from this first recording to accompany
Vic on two European tours in support of the album: Thierry Amar (bass),
Efrim Menuck (guitar), Jessica Moss (violin) and David Payant (drums)
all of Silver Mt. Zion, along with Guy Picciotto (guitar). Together with
studio members (and occasional live players) Nadia Moss (piano, organ)
and Chad Jones (guitar), this same troupe has reunited for Vic’s second
Constellation album, once again recorded by Howard Bilerman at
Hotel2Tango in Montreal…

Vic hacks away, “throwing myself at the cut / with a force heretofore
unknown to me”…sweet pastoral childhood reminiscence,
“Flirted With You All My Life” a quite literal ode to the dance
with death, delivered with a perfect and unaffected mix of exuberance,
defiance and insouciance…

For an album so overtly shaped by ruminations on mortality, by a man
from Athens, GA who certainly knows of what he sings (having survived
a car accident at age 18 that confined him to a wheelchair and has subjected
him to an endless cavalcade of complications, procedures, emergencies and
towering medical bills ever since), it is both refreshing and unbelievably
heartwarming to hear how Vic Chesnutt sidesteps any of the obvious Southern
Gothic tropes, lyrically and musically. No vaulted arches, gaping abysses or
burning fields here – no ‘voicing’ of the preacher or the devil, no putting on airs.
Vic manages to sing so authentically and wholeheartedly from and about his
sense of place (the South, the wheelchair, 21st century America) because he
refuses to sentimentalise any of it and rails against his personal fate without
bitterness, without apology, with a sardonic and sometimes angry poetics of
the passionately humanist and secular variety: wholly framed by the back
porch, championing a humble wisdom, a sincere ethics (without moralising)
and a natural literateness, certainly permitting a wisecrack or three, but never
allowing for anything hackneyed or cornball or fake. At The Cut is a
bona fide classic by a man better positioned than most to sing it strong and true.”

Villa Villa Nola is very proud to carry this record. It costs 8 dollars 69 cents.

HERE.

“Flirted With You All My Life”
FROM At the Cut
PLAY

“Philip Guston”
FROM At the Cut
PLAY

“Chain”
FROM At the Cut
PLAY

Video of “Chain” recording, directed by Jem Cohen:

Moodsis moodsis i am trying

nocarsgo — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:52:13 +0000

Moodsis moodsis, i’m trying to write about money. We had a meeting yesterday about our future & that of the recording industry at large & we determined that thru perseverance, greed, the ultimate in sham we can begin working on a new inspirational record. We were playing QC w/ the GHOST AND MRS MUIR and everyone was there and it was a time of great joy and celebration. But what is the first step to new record

Click here to view the embedded video.

DISHWASHER Black Orpheus

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:37:01 +0000

Please watch and listen to this scene from the Marcel Camus classic ” Orfeu Negro ” or ”Black Orpheus”. It is actually the last scene from that movie.

I skipped school one afternoon when I was 14 and watched this movie instead.

The colors. The vibrancy. The dancing.

Unforgettable.

CCLLUUEESS dates in ONTARIO >>> CHICAGO

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:01:57 +0000

Last “CLUES RECORD” mini-tour in North America.

Wednesday, January 13
Cafe Dekuf
Ottawa

Thursday, January 14
The Ebar
Guelph

Friday, January 15
Club Absinthe
Hamilton

Saturday, January 16
Silver Dollar
Toronto

Sunday, January 17
Schubas Tavern
Chicago

Thursday, January 21 JUST ADDED
Université Laval
Québec City

BEYONCE & CLUES

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:53:06 +0000

BEYONCE sues CLUES for the opening of “Halo”. Too similar?!!
The opening of Clues’ You Have My Eyes Now bears a striking resemblance to Beyonces’ Halo.
Reached for comment Knowles said, “More like Thieves.” Clues declined to comment.
New York Lawyer Richard Grabel will represent the “band” in defense of their “song.”

YOU DECIDE:

A) Halo by Beyonce

B) You Have My Eyes Now by Clues

Magic Weapon

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:35:15 +0000

January 1st, 2010

It’s been awhile since I’ve added anything of substance to VVN. I took a lot of time off from Magic Weapon since Residue Hymns to try new things before I started writing songs again. Since late November I’ve been recording a record at Digital Bird Studios with Martin Horn (Parlovr, Cotton Mouth, Nightwood). It’s a lot different than anything I’ve ever worked on before. Thanks to those of you who purchased a copy of Residue Hymns with Villa Villa Nola. To be frank, the last time I listened to that EP I cringed a lot. I think there was definitely some rushing being done on my part to try and get it done as quick as I could without paying attention to many things (namely vocals) but I guess it’s an honest representation of Matt Shane and my abilities at the time.

The new record is mostly me doing all the instrumentation (Nathan Gage of Shapes and Sizes/Elfin Saddle plays Contrabass on a song) and it’s more of a lushed out vibe than anything I’ve recorded. I have this picture I took of a Yayoi Kusama installation that I want to use for the cover. I hope to have more recordings up here one day.

Happy New Year

Jordan

So many stamps and put with bl…

nocarsgo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:34:17 +0000

So many stamps and put with bloody finger.

No Cars Go – New Record

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:14:11 +0000

i’ve been finishing a new music for internet distribution, i know the name nocarsgo must go, i know. it’s not a good name for a band. it’s a better name for a song. in VA and we had a group of friends and our first band UNEDUCATE EVIL dissolved, we started a supergroup with THE SPARTANS/UE called NO CARS GO. years later in mtl it became a song name. then i’ve just kept making songs under this name but itsa bad idea and embarrasssing some of the time. i hearby dunno what to dub but forged anew 2. 2010.

clues in montreal

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:38:41 +0000

DECEMBER 18
METROPOLIS
montreal
8 PM