Things in Light Podcast #24: Home on the Range Mix

Things in Light is pleased to present our twenty-fourth podcast, Home on the Range Mix, featuring Nuevo Mexicano recordings by Cobra//group, Knife City, Leeches of Lore, Pitch & Bark, Kayfabe Quartet, iNK oN pAPER, Bermvda Shorts, and Sabertooth Cavity. See the full track listing below.

TiL #24: Home on the Range Mix from ϟ▲ϻ▲и✝ђ▲ ▲ииɇ on 8tracks Radio.

1. Cobra//group - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
2. Knife City - Death
3. Leeches of Lore - La Follia Di Spazio
4. Pitch & Bark - Twisted Hammer
5. Kayfabe Quartet - Le Mat
6. iNK oN pAPER - Mumblety Peg (Live in the Red Stick)
7. Bermvda Shorts - Dzoavits
8. Sabertooth Cavity - Manteca

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Things in Light Podcast #19: Ersa Mix

Things in Light's nineteenth podcast, Ersa Mix, features recordings by the Grave of Nobody's Darling, Sad Baby Wolf, Venus Bogardus, Friends of Ya Ya Boom, North America, Tropical Girls, Leeches of Lore, Bigawatt, and A Hawk and A Hacksaw. See the full track listing below.

TiL #19: Ersa Mix from ϟ▲ϻ▲и✝ђ▲ ▲ииɇ on 8tracks.

1. the Grave of Nobody's Darling - Lake Havasu

2. Sad Baby Wolf - Everything Is (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)

3. Venus Bogardus - Dance-Collision [Chaz] 

4. Friends of Ya Ya Boom - Trash in the Grass (Trashio Postscript by Bud Melvin)

5. North America - Wet Dream

6. Tropical Girls feat. Glowhouse - Late Night

7. Leeches of Lore - Giant Sloth

8. Bigawatt - Anguria

9. A Hawk and A Hacksaw - Lujtha Lassu

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Things in Light Podcast #18: Tarantula Mix

Things in Light's eighteenth podcast, Tarantula Mix, features recordings by The Drags, Leeches of Lore, Venus Bogardus, Mrdrbrd, These Charming Cobras, Austin Morrell & the Alchemists, Trilobite, Mono-Stereo, and Vomit the Void Volume. See the full track listing below.

 

TiL #18: Tarantula Mix from ϟ▲ϻ▲и✝ђ▲ ▲ииɇ on 8tracks.

1. The Drags - Tarantula

2. Leeches of Lore - That Old Brain Rapin' Highway

3. Venus Bogardus - Analog Underground

4. Mrdrbrd - We Want You Dead 

5. These Charming Cobras - Tarantula

6. Austin Morrell & The Alchemists - Damaged Goods

7. Trilobite - Silver Skin

8. Mono-Stereo - Nogiziaketak

9. Vomit the Void Volume - Until the Wind Doesn't Know Me

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Things in Light Podcast #15: Black Forest Mix

Things in Light's fifteenth podcast, Black Forest Mix, features recordings by Drought, Streights, Harbors, Roñoso, Tenderizor, Leeches of Lore, Great White Buffalo, and Dread. See the full track listing below.

TiL #15: Black Forest Mix from ϟ▲ϻ▲и✝ђ▲ ▲ииɇ on 8tracks.

1. Drought - Nightwalker
2. Streights - Glitter Forest/ Cognitive Failure
3. Harbors - Recessive Departure
4. Roñoso - Furry Toes Aflame
5. Tenderizor - Hellucination
6. Leeches of Lore - Macrochelys Temminckii
7. Great White Buffalo - Four
8. Dread - Slay the Kings

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Things in Light Podcast #14: Flight Pattern Mix

Things in Light's fourteenth podcast, Flight Pattern Mix, features recordings by Deadtown Lovers, Pitch & Bark, The Glass Menageries, Javelina, Albuquerque Boys Choir, Luperci, Dripping Rainbow, and Bigawatt. See the full track listing below.

TiL #14: Flight Pattern Mix from ϟ▲ϻ▲и✝ђ▲ ▲ииɇ on 8tracks.

1. Deadtown Lovers - Vertigo
2. Pitch & Bark - Brilliant Armor
3. The Glass Menageries - Down the Well
4. Javelina - In Hiding
5. Albuquerque Boys Choir - Birds for the Sky
6. Luperci - Shine Like Stars in the World
7. Dripping Rainbow - Indian Shakespeare
8. Bigawatt - All My Best Things

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Things in Light Podcast #13: Walking the Wolf Mix

Things in Light's thirteenth podcast, Walking the Wolf Mix, features recordings by The Kill Spectors, Bigawatt, Great White Buffalo, Tenderizor, Sabertooth Cavity, Venus Bogardus, The Grave of Nobody's Darling, and The Kleptones. See the full track listing below.

TiL #13: Walking the Wolf Mix from ϟ▲ϻ▲и✝ђ▲ ▲ииɇ on 8tracks.

1. The Kill Spectors - Red River St.
2. Bigawatt - Concealer
3. Great White Buffalo - Hallraiser
4. Tenderizor - Rockweiler
5. Sabertooth Cavity - Kief Mountain
6. Venus Bogardus - Quien Es
7. The Grave of Nobody's Darling - Mary
8. The Kleptones - I See Rainbows (for Yoko)

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X's and O's: Santa Fe Scribbles George Lewis Jr.'s Name On Its Trapper Keeper

My introduction to Twin Shadow was facilitated by stumbling across the Alex Markman-directed video for "Slow" during the languorous heat of July. The video, an incisive and charming casting couch parody, was interesting enough that I immediately procured Twin Shadow's debut album, Forget (4AD, 2010), and put it into rotation. Sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Morrissey" or the "Bangladeshi Bowie," Dominican Republic-born, Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based George Lewis Jr.'s Twin Shadow is pure, sweet, nostalgic new wave-pop that manages to simultaneously sound as sentimental as a preserved rose and as present-tense as a sunrise.

Via 4AD: "Twin Shadow is the nom de plume of George Lewis Jr. The troubled son of a hairdresser and a 'teacher who lived many lives,' his formative years were spent in suburban Florida. Later, George escaped and travelled north to New York, where the slow gestation of Forget took place over a duration of many months in his Brooklyn apartment. Impressed by the unknown Twin Shadow, Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) lent his considerable talents as a co-producer, getting behind the dials to add a final flourish to the eleven tracks that would become Forget."

Check out the aforementioned video for "Slow" and Twin Shadow's new video, for "At My Heels," below. Twin Shadow will open for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, in The Fe at Corazón on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. All-ages. Bar w/ ID. $10-15.

And check out these The Pains of Being Pure at Heart vids:

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Light Emerges: Akron/Family Perform Sunday in The Fe

Akron/Family's newest album, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, is markedly different from 2009's Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. Supposedly, after hearing several deadlines whoosh by, the band delivered a CDR with four of the albums' tracks and a paranoid Post-it promising to deliver the rest of the album directly to the vinyl pressing plant, and a handwritten note that read:

"It started. a note left for us in an old abandoned space reads:

'Do Not Erase

I Was Ak'

Flourish.Flourish.Flourish. Fuck Shit Up.

We took this to heart.

Hidden out. Abandoned train station Detroit summer. Odd purple light. Rooms converted into serious makeshift portal creation zones to dimensionalize the recording fully in imagination. Honey bee mexican grocery behind. Sky is night. Song construction think back a submarine culture inspired side of Volcano futurism forested in old backbrain Japan.

Birth of early adulthood ideal tribalist experimentation before belief of the best better ways. Little dreams written in communal books. These memories recovered from old coughing hard drives, spliced infinitesimally small and reconstructed into front lobe acid punk outsider emotional music spaces. A true fantasy story that ain't no lie for direct to our fans and for the rest of 'em. All welcome and fuck 'em all or at least the rest of 'em simultaneously.

A great flourishing of friendships and joint creativity and hard work. Brought about by the still stubborn belief in a vision creative and encouraging.

Catching the Big Fish. An Eastern European blue van dream up. Follow the 12-foot yellow paper roll from SE Portland. A dream roll of visions and bulldozers organized by Future Librarians unemployed, Intoxicated, Artistic-bent, Roving Aimlessly Free of expectation 100 years later."

-Akron/Family

So, yeah, I guess it sort of sounds like that. Psych-folk-meets-art-rock is a pretty good descriptor, but words sort of fail me here. Akron/Family are wonderfully freaky. The band of Portland/New York-based drifters will perform on Sunday evening at Corazón. 7 p.m. 21+. $10-12. Delicate Steve, from New Jersey, opens.

Delicate Steve - "Wondervisions" Video (Feat. Nat Baldwin) from stereogum on Vimeo.

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Penetrating the Picture Plane in The City Different

UPDATE: Pictureplane informed me of this show's cancellation via Facebook at 4:25 p.m. Egedy promises to make up the show as soon as he can.

When I first heard Pictureplane's "Goth Star," I mused about how I wished it had been the soundtrack to the teenage keg parties I attended in the Piney Woods. Intrigued but not well versed in occult, electro, or gothic culture, it would have been just the thing to blow my naïve mind. And, even though I've outgrown a lot of my naïveté, "Goth Star" shone as brightly as it would have in a hypothetical teenage electro-Stevie Nicks phase. Equal parts détournement of and homage to "Seven Wonders," it's an invocation to dance and reminisce.

Pictureplane's Travis Egedy grew up in Santa Fe and migrated to Denver when he graduated from high school. In an interview with Denver Westword, Egedy described The City Different: "Santa Fe blows me away with how progressive that place is. It feels like ten years ahead of the rest of the country. It's super slow paced and laid back. Everyone's really chill and friendly. Everyone's kind of a hippie and the Hispanic culture is really strong down there. There's a lot of Native American culture, which is neat to see. The town is a little segregated. There's a lot of wealth, rich white people there. The Hispanics kind of live on the other side of town. But it's not that bad. There's just not a lot for young people to do there. It's a very small community. Very established. All the galleries cater to the older artists. There's not really a young scene there at all, which is weird."

Native son-turned-Pictureplane aviator Egedy returns to the Fe tomorrow and will perform at Rouge Cat tomorrow night. Doors at 9 p.m. $8-10.

Fellow Denver denizen Hollagramz opens.

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