Intonation Music Festival

So I am in Chicago attending the Intonation Music Festival. I'm really looking forward to seeing: The Go! Team, Prefuse 73, Four Tet, Tortoise, Deerhoof, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Dungen, and the Will Oldham DJ Set. And I'm not complaining at all about getting the chance to see The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, and Out Hud for the second time this year. For a complete list of the artist lineup, click here.

I'll try to post some pictures when I can...

The Lovers' Album of the Week - Part 1

Felix Laband Dark Days Exit

The Music Lovers playlist for 7/14/05

1. Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2. Woolley Bridge - Bromheads Jacket from Woolley Bridge/Leslie Parlafitt 7" 3. Get It On - The Oggs from Radiotherapy 4. Welcome Back Mr. Audio-Technica - Matson Jones from Matson Jones 5. You Can Decide - Field Music from Field Music 6. Bernadine - John Wilkes Booze from Telescopic Eyes Glance the Future Sick 7. Cash Machine - Hard-Fi from Cash Machine 8. Somewhere A Star Shines for Everyone (by request) - The Innocent Mission from Now the Day Is Over 9. Bog People - Xiu Xiu from La Foret 10. Call It Clear - Halloween, Alaska from Halloween, Alaska 11. War On Sound - Moonbabies from War On Sound 12. Pagina Dos - Prefuse 73 from Prefuse 73 Reads the Books EP 13. Ongyilkos Vasarnap - Venetian Snares from Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett 14. The Forest Scares The Hell Of Me - Say Hi To Your Mom from Ferocious Mopes 15. Red Handed - Felix Laband from Dark Days Exit 16. The Party Which You Know Will Be Heavy - Kinski from Alpine Static 17. Battle Rhymes For Battle Times - Koushik from Be With 18. What Else Is There? - Royksopp from The Understanding 19. Clocks (Royksopp Remix) - Coldplay from Clocks Remixes 12" 20. Happy 13 - Flotation Toy Warning from Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck 21. Bitter At Best - Meredith Bragg and the Terminals from Volume 1 22. Lousy Pictures - Wolf Parade from Wolf Parade EP 23. Aimless Day - We/Or/Me from Simple Lines EP 24. Spiral Golden Town - Deerhoof from Green Cosmos 25. The Cemetery - Architecture In Helsinki from In Case We Die 26. Be Gentle With Me - The Boy Least Likely To from The Best Party Ever 27. We Just Won't Be Defeated - The Go! Team from Bottle Rocket EP 28. The Grand Tour (by request) - The Geraldine Fibbers from What Part of "Get Thee Gone" Don't You Understand?

Memphis Beat Playlist for 7/12/05

All selections come from The History of Garage and Frat Bands in Memphis 1960 - 1975, Vol. 1 and 2 on the Shangri-La Projects record label.

1. Flash and the Casuals - Uptight, Tonight
2. Tommy and the Counts - Stormy Weather
3. Merits - Please, Please Little Girl
4. Ole Miss Downbeats - Geraldine
5. Yo-Yo's - Leaning On You
6. Percussions - Your Love
7. Breakers - Don't Send Me No Flowers
8. Goodees - Condition Red
9. Memphis Nomads - I Wanna Be
10. Rapscallions - Land of Soul
11. Castels - Save A Chance
12. Village Sound - Sally Got A Good Thing
13. Joe Frank and the Knights - Can't Find A Way
14. Los Angeles Smog Division - Blue Green

- Special thanks to Ron Hall for sharing with us a very special time in Memphis music history detailed in his book Playing For A Piece Of The Door: A History of Garage and Frat Bands in Memphis 1960-1975.

The Memphis Beat Summer School - Week 4

I am very pleased to announce that author Ron Hall, who wrote the very entertaining book Playing For A Piece Of The Door: A History of Garge and Frat Bands in Memphis 1960-1975, will be our guest for Week Number 4 of the Memphis Beat's Summer School Sessions. From the Shangri-La Projects website:

A History of Garage and Frat Bands in Memphis, 1960-75 is an amazing candid history and discography of over one hundred garage bands who recorded at least one record in Memphis from 1960-75. Great pictures to boot! Ron Hall researched and wrote this definitive account of the garage era in Memphis. Indispensable!

Tuesday (7/12) 1 - 2pm on WEVL 89.9FM

The Music Lovers playlist for 7/7/05

1. Shine A Light - Wolf Parade from Wolf Parade EP 2. Fortunately - Ghosty from Me Me Me EP 3. End of Freedom - Wilderness from Wilderness 4. Buses/No Buses - Bear vs. Shark from Right Now, You're In the Best of Hands 5. Love Steals Us From Loneliness - Idlewild from Warnings/Promises 6. I Pick Notes from the Sky - Gary Higgins from Red Hash 7. Someone Like Me - Royksopp from The Understanding 8. Casimir Puaski Day - Sufjan Stevens from Illinois 9. Miss Teardrop - Felix Laband from Dark Days Exit 10. Four - Alarm Will Sound from Acoustica: Aphex Twin Performed by Alarm Will Sound 11. Chicago (iTunes Exclusive) - Sufjan Stevens from Illinois 12. The Hand That Feeds (DFA Remix) - Nine Inch Nails from The Hand That Feeds DFA Remixes 13. Please Wake Me for Meals - Barbara Morgenstern/Robert Lippok from Tesri 14. All Your Kids Have Turned To Static - Kinski from Alpine Static 15. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us - Sufjan Stevens from Illinois 16. It's You - Animal Collective from Prospect Hummer EP 17. Green Cosmos - Deerhoof from Green Cosmos 18. It's 5! - Architecture In Helsinki from In Case We Die 19. Underwater (You and Me) - Alec Ounsworth from Songs About Coming and Going (Demos) 20. ***/Your Honor - Regina Spektor from Soviet Kitsch 21. Come On! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens from Illinois