| Congrats to the Trust No Ones! | 07 11 2006 | |
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| ÆTHENOR now available | 07 11 2006 | |
| www.vhfrecords.com
vhf97 CD & ltd LP !!!!!!!! | ||
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| Guitar Lessons | 07 11 2006 | |
| How To Play Guitar By David Fair
I taught myself to play guitar. It's incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play high sounds and the fat strings play low sounds. If you put your finger on a string near the body part of the guitar it makes a higher sound and if you put your finger on the string farther out by the tuning end it makes a lower sound. If you want to play fast move your hand real fast and if you want to play slower move your hand slower. That's all there is to it. You can learn the names of notes and how to make chords that other people use, but that's pretty limiting. Even if you took a few years and learned all the chords you'd still have a limited number of options. If you ignore the chords, your options are infinite and you can master guitar playing in one day. Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier as they go down. But the thing to remember is it's your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different-sized strings on because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put six strings of the same thickness on so he wouldn't have so much to worry about. Whatever string he hit would have to be the right one because they were all the same. Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. I f you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place is wrong. But that's absurd. How could it be wrong? It's your guitar and you're the one playing it. It's completely up to you to decide how it should sound. In fact, I don't tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they all feel about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all, they don't depend on the body resonating for the sound, so it doesn't matter if you paint them. And also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction-to-effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the string can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls. The first guitar I bought was Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it doesn't really matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I've never tried one. I guess they sound all right, but they look ridiculous and I imagine you'd feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn't to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world. | ||
| 07 11 2006 | ||
| FROM AN AQUARIUS RECORDS REVIEW /STATEMENT ABOUT BORIS VEIN LP!!!!!:
"Boris need to learn that with popularity comes responsibility to the fans that have made them popular, and the more popular a band gets, the more artistic sacrifices have to be made. A band that routinely sells 5000 or 10,000 copies of a record, can not make 7"s or eps or lps and limit them to 500 or 1000. All that means is that the -majority- of your fans, the ones who just love your music, the ones who buy all your records and buy tickets to your shows, the ones who through their support enable you to play music for a living and tour and rock, will NOT get to hear those records, will become increasingly frustrated and eventually stop being fans. It happened to Stereolab as they continued to do stupidly limited releases, it could happen to Boris." O))) response / statement: Where the fuck do they get off stating: "the more popular a band gets, the more artistic sacrifices have to be made." Artists are free to do whatever they want for whatever reason they choose. Thanks for the record buyer comments. | ||
| O))) & The Pies | IDEAL FEST, Gothenburg 06 | 07 11 2006 |
| http://www.ideologic.org/DLpublic/060310SunnvsWolfEyes.MP4
Cinematography via PITA | ||
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| 06 11 2006 | ||
| Urnotalone
A short cellphone movie by Jan Poppke, Germany. Realized in a experimental film course at Bauhaus-University Weimar. Running time: 3:11 min | ||
| SUNN/BORIS PODCAST | 06 11 2006 | |
| http://www.southern.net/southern/podcast/
Tony Sylvenster interviews Atsuo/BORIS and myself during our recent press trip to London. | ||
| SOMA, LORD, MOORE & GRUBBS | 05 11 2006 | |
| "I live in Brooklyn, but the TV Eye/Southern Lord event at Rockstar Bar was the first of this year's CMJ-related shows I attended in my own borough. Wait, I thought Manhattan's cultural life was dead? I'd planned to see Fucked Up tear through that Avail-bating Toronto hardcore at Northsix, but the kids were stuck at the Canadian border (I checked their blog to make sure), so I didn't trek to the Jade Tree showcase.
No worries: There was free beer (thanks) and the wooden mermaid centerpiece at Rockstar to keep me company and help me drown those sorrows. The musical focus of the evening was Greg Anderson and a freshly shaven Stephen O'Malley joined by Earth's Steve Moore (on trombone, Korg) and David Grubbs (on guitar) for a set of drone with additional details. Grubbs is a much busier, less patient player than Anderson or O'Malley, often adding arpeggios and contra chords to their sustain. He was also the most expressive-- rocking and rolling and picking like slow-mo Townshend. O'Malley offered ecstatic faces here/there; Anderson kept his back to the audience. Moore fell somewhere between O'Malley and Grubbs. The lights went out for a few seconds, and I welcomed that veil of black. Choreographical analysis aside, Anderson and O'Malley are clearly the essential nucleus in any Sunn 0)))-related outing; additions are fun, and the band has always explored collaboration, but Grubbs's Gastr Del Sol-nimble fingers felt unnecessary. The band's amazing when working with the right vocalists-- á la Malefic and Wrest-- but when you have instruments as heavy as theirs, why bother adding a noodling guitar? There was even a moment when things sorta fell apart. That said, a small dream of mine is a collaboration between Sunn 0))) and Tony Conrad. The Rockstar set, though not revelatory, seemed like a revelatory step in the right direction. Check the equation: Grubbs has worked with Conrad and now Sunn's done stuff with Grubbs. We can solve it with the transitive property, or something, I think." — Brandon Stosuy, from pitchfork.com | ||
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| recent history | Eire O))) | 28 10 2006 |
| photos courtesy Mark D | ||
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| SUNN vs DUBLIN | 27 10 2006 | |
| screenshots courtesy of Stephen McCormick | ||
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| SUNN vs BBC | 27 10 2006 | |
| Check this out... BBC/SUNN live interview & performance from Frieze 13th October 2006:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A16561839 | ||
| Lizzi | 26 10 2006 | |
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| SUNN vs EMISSIONS FROM THE MONOLITH 8 | 26 10 2006 | |
| Yeah, this is the gig with this year's O))) monitor throwing episode.
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| 26 10 2006 | ||
| tip: new Norbert Möslang disc "Burst Log" = killer | ||
| SEPULTERA Refuse Resist | 26 10 2006 | |
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| SUNN vs CORK Eire 102006 | 24 10 2006 | |
| Images courtesy of Paul Kavanagh. | ||
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| SUNN vs FRIEZE | 24 10 2006 | |
| SUNN vs FRIEZE 13 October 2006
Thanks to Matt Shaw for the video | ||
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| 24 10 2006 | ||
| Come bare witness to further meltdown.
THURSDAY, October 26 Peeesseye Magik Markers Suishou No Fune (on tour from japan) at Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, ny http://www.northsix.com/ Doors at 8pm Peeesseye plays first at 9pm. | ||
| 24 10 2006 | ||
| New GINNUNGAGAP LP "Crashed Like Wretched Moth" LP now available from Conspiracy Records: www.conspiracyrecords.com | ||
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| PITA & z'ev vs Cambridge | 24 10 2006 | |
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| 23 10 2006 | ||
| Malkuth
Tuesday, October 24th Club Midway 25 Avenue B bet. 2nd & 3rd Streets 9pm w/ Titan and Suishou no Fune (jpn) | ||
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| Galway | 23 10 2006 | |
| Pic via HERZOG | ||
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| SUNN vs FRIEZE via Rodolfe | 16 10 2006 | |
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