kind, Tape-Toons, Will Sessions and other awesome stuff!

Before I get back to the MBV posts (of which there are two more) I wanted to share some info about some things coming up and some recent releases.



kind are going to be performing live on October 23rd at Akron's Musica with Full Wave Rectifier so make sure you go! It's gonna be Full Wave Rectifer's last show and I'm so bummed! I just found out about them and then they've gotta break up? WAHHHHH!!! Still though, they rock and I'm sure everyone will continue to rock in their own fashion. kind ain't going anywhere though, they're still working on new songs and getting them recorded. Hopefully there will be some new music soon from them! But in the meantime, get yourself to Musica so you can give a warm finale to Full Wave Rectifier and let them and kind rock your worlds!


I'm going to be posting a full review for a band that's local to me named Tape-Toons in the near future. They're from the Kent, Ohio area and just pressed up CDs of their debut album, Gravel Love, and it's really, REALLY good! Because I'm going to be doing a full review of their CD and talking with them for a post I'm not gonna say much here, but you can check out their song, Mice In The Walls, via the link below. They'll have a video for it online soon which is being done by my buddy, Bobby Makar, who did the logo for us here at The Unheard Music. In regards to their sound, it's bluesy but noisy and a little out there. Very cool guys and very cool music! You can check out their MySpace and Facebook pages for more details..

Tape-Toons - Mice In The Walls



I just got to hear the new Will Sessions EP, Kindred, the other day and it's damn smooth. Will Sessions is the brainchild of Sam Beaubien who plays trumpet and keyboards and does arrangements. The new EP is a tribute to the pioneers of jazz fusion (actually the EP's proper title is Kindred: A Tribute To The Pioneers Of Jazz Fusion) and it does it's job really well. The pieces on the EP are full compositions so don't expect Will Sessions to get wild like mid-seventies Miles Davis but the record is so full of soul and the performances lively. Sam's trumpet really reminds me of Miles' seventies space funk and if that gets your interest you'll love the record. It's coming out on The Few Records and being distributed by Community Projects, a subsidiary of Carl Craig's Planet E Records. I've got a track below for you to check out from the record and it's hot! Make sure you get the EP when it drops and I'll have more info as to where you can get it ASAP.

Will Sessions - Polyester People



There have been a lot of really high profile releases this week and I wanted to remind folks of a few of them.



Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score for The Social Network is out digitally as of yesterday and you can pre-order physical copies right now via Trent's Null Corporation label. As of right now you can get the album as high quality MP3s for $2.99 from Amazon but you can get lossless formats as of tomorrow from the Null Corp. site. On top of that, if you order the physical release you'll get an immediate download of the album in lossless, MP3 or a variety of formats. The soundtrack is excellent and it makes me think Trent should have done the new Tron movie instead of Daft Punk. He and Atticus clearly have a Wendy Carlos influence in their sound. Going to see the movie on Friday too. Hope it's great!



Schematic's StiLL iLL is now available via Amazon digital and iTunes! GET IT NOW!


If you pre-ordered the new Sufjan Stevens before, I believe last Friday, you should have received a free download in lossless, MP3 or just about any other format you could want of the full album, The Age Of Adz, and man is it incredible! Electronics play a more significant role throughout the album and might be a little surprising for those not expecting that sound, but the songs are as wonderful as ever and everyone should be pleased. The album will receive a normal physical and digital release on October 12th. You can still pre-order it but you'll have to wait until then for your download. If you can't wait though, you can stream the whole album over at NPR.



Neil Young's Le Noise is out and it's awesome! Get it on iTunes, Amazon digital, or at your favorite shop where you buy CDs. This is definitely his best album in years!



And just in case you missed it, No Age's Everything In Between came out last Tuesday. It's awesome and you can get it digitally or physically via your favorite shops. The vinyl version comes with a huge booklet of photos, lyrics and other imagery. It's a really beautiful release and totally worth it if you wanna spend a few extra dollars.



And on a few other notes...



Got my copy of The State's Comedy For Gracious Living yesterday, and it has the most absurd CD packaging I've ever seen. The liner notes fold out so you can compare your height with that of the individual members of The State. Totally insane! I don't know how many copies are left, but I heard that about two thousand were made available so you should head on over to Rhino Handmade quick if you want to purchase one. It's totally worth it!



Soctt Pilgrim vs. The World gets a DVD/Blu-Ray release on November 7th! I hate to say it but I may end up buying a Blu-Ray player for all the incredible bonus features. It's gonna be so SWEET!!!!!



On a side note, Cee-Lo Green's new album, The Lady Killer, got moved up for release also on November 7th! That album is gonna be sweet!




I'll be back tomorrow with my second My Bloody Valentine post, and yes, I will include We Have All The Time In The World in that or the third post. Also, I'm planning my Christmas/holiday/whateveryouwannacallit gift and was wondering if anyone out there might want to assist me. The big thing at this point is I'd like some help with the art. If you are an artist and might like to help me with a reinterpretation of something, please drop me a line and we can chat about it. I'll be asking for some more assistance as we get closer to December, but it's mostly going to be so I can have some help distributing it.

Take care everyone and see you all tomorrow!




PS - This was the most difficult post I've done in forever. Way too difficult to get all these images to work right! Hell, The State pic is frickin' sideways! WTF?

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

I don't get to movie theaters as often as I used to, so when I do go it's usually for a film that I'm really psyched for. Two years ago a bunch of my friends and I went to see The Dark Knight at a midnight showing, and we all left the theater with our expectations fulfilled and then some. This year, I've seen two summer movies in actual theaters and I was blown away by both. The first was Inception, which I enjoyed so much I've seen it twice, and the second is Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Everyone has been talking about Inception since it was released, so apart from saying that I love it and that Hans Zimmer's score is brilliant I'll save the rest of my thoughts on that piece of celluloid. Scott Pilgrim though, that's another story. I just came back from the theater about an hour ago and was knocked for a loop by how incredible it was. Not only was it visually enticing as hell, with the whole film and comic being an homage to classic video games, the characters were wonderful and the story engrossing. I was amazed how many times I thought about my ex-girlfriends and my current relationship. It made me think about what I've done wrong, what I've done right, what I've wished I could have changed and what I learned from those relationships that made me stronger. It wasn't preachy or heavy handed either, rather it conjured those feelings in a way that made me happy to think about my rights and wrongs. I left the theater feeling recharged, and that usually doesn't happen.

The music in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is just as important as the story. The soundtrack is like an incredible mixtape filled with songs you recognize and songs you don't but sound like you should. There are classics from T-Rex and the Rolling Stones as well as indie classics from Plumtree, Frank Black, Black Lips and my personal favorite on the soundtrack, Beachwood Sparks' cover of Sade's By Your Side. But the score is incredible too! Primarily created by Nigel Godrich with help from Beck, Dan The Automator and many others, the score captures the video game theme while also focusing in on that woozy feeling you get when you're falling hard for someone. Beck contributed five songs, mostly given to Scott Pilgrim's band in the film, Sex Bob-Omb, while Broken Social Scene gave two songs for Crash and The Boys, one of Sex Bob-Omb's competitors for a record contract as well as letting their classic, Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl, be used in the soundtrack.

I hope to go see Scott Pilgrim again in theaters, but this, along with Inception, is a film I will be purchasing on DVD the day of it's release (as I'm sure many know, I'm anti Blu Ray, but we won't go there). You should definitely get there and check it out, and if you love the music like I do, grab the soundtrack for that mixtape feel with the songs written by Beck and Broken Social Scene, and you can get the score for Nigel Godrich's awesome contributions to the film. Both soundtracks are available digitally, but you can get the standard edition CD in stores with the "songs". And if you haven't read the comics yet, you'll want to dig in after seeing the film, so visit your favorite comic shop or bookstore and they'll hook you up. Hope you enjoy it all just as much I did!


PS - Yes, I wanna see The Expendables too, but I might just wait for the R5. Yeah, that's kind of evil, but you know a lot of you do it too. If I love it though, I'll totally buy it on DVD (cuz Blu Ray SUCKS!).