Touch Tongues Now!
This is about music. This is about sound. This is about rock and roll.
Honestly, I don't know how to even word this post. My words are failing my thoughts as my fingers try and move in a fluid motion across the keyboard.
This is about music.
This is about sound.
This is about rock and roll.
This is about everything I love,
everything that is music.
My headphones have been currently producing the sounds of; Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, Glasvegas, The Dead Weather, Sun Kil Moon, Smog, M83, TV on the Radio, Boards of Canada, Jonsi and Alex, Say Hi, Discovery and The Passion Pit all merging with my all time favorites Bowie, Lou Reed, The Velvets, The Dolls, The Smiths, T Rex, The Fall, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Clash, Mott the Hoople and a whole entourage of others. I create a playlist every drudging half asleep morning of music from my vast and undiscovered library of music that no longer pushes the closet or shelf space but external HD space (3 of them now to be exact) in order to awaken my soul by 12 O’clock.
Once again, a specific duo has absolutely blown my ears into absolute oblivion, to the point where I have to get up and dance singing and shaking to the music that they continue to create. Not long ago I wrote a post about "The Greatest Band you have never heard of" and they still are! This creative force in the shape of two individuals are no longer named "Street Hassle", but now "Touch Tongues" . Honestly, what the hell is going on in the music world when a force of nature like Touch Tongues isn't in everyone's playlist, headphones, IPod or whatever you use to fill your ears with waves. Last week they uploaded a new songs to their MySpace page that were recorded in a single weekend in a storage shed. "Instead of a garage band we're a mini-storage band" Pierre Krause (The wife) told the Dallas Observer in an article last week.
I know "The Dead Weather" album is brilliant, amazing, I can't stop listening to it myself. But "Touch Tounges" is raw, is real, is rock and roll, is right here in Dallas. This is what Art is all about. Being an Artist myself, to lock yourself in a mini-storage shed and kick out songs, on your own, at the brilliance they have done. This is what creating is all about, this is the life of artists, this is the life of stories, this is the life of a generation of middle fingers and change.
Pierre and I go way back, I consider her family. I have always, for the number of years I have known her, called her the second coming of Patti Smith. Not only as a vocalist, but as a poet, an absolutely brilliant poet. You can here bits of Patti in every breath of her vocals while husband Chris is banging out Johnny Thunders, Mark Bolan, Bernard Sumner and Lou Reed guitar riffs to her haunting, yet powerful vocals that even hint at a female Ian Curtis. The new songs have a Joy Division feel in the sound, which always brings me that excited, yet sorrowful feeling.
Do yourself a damn favor, listen, and go see a show. Bring a crew out, dress up, go to dance, go with the attitude of visiting the Manchester's Rafters Club on April 14th 1978 and witnessing Joy Division, or David Bowie performing Ziggy Stardust in 1972. If you go with an attitude of rock and roll history, "Touch Tongues" will be one of the best shows you have ever seen.
"I AM HERE"- Dallas Independent Artists Community
The DIAC Trade Show is meant to bring awareness and unity to the artists of Dallas.
I will be showing this weekend in Dallas with members of my Artists Group "5D" and other Dallas Collectives-
The DIAC is hosting a large exhibition aimed at unifying Dallas’ local talent within the arts, music, and performance.
The event will be at South Side on Lamar on the dates of May 29th from 7pm-11pm and May 30th from 1pm-11pm. South Side on Lamar is located at 1409 S Lamar St, Dallas, TX 75215.
"I AM HERE"- The DIAC Trade Show is meant to bring awareness and unity to the artists of Dallas. The event will showcase over 200 artists and all artwork will be available for either purchase or trade. By trade we mean that we want everyone to have the opportunity to own original artwork and we're willing to let you offer us something in trade for it: services, products, cash, or whatever. Come with your best offers.Art and music will be dispersed throughout the building’s various rooms and venues, arranged by collectives and groups, so as to bring awareness to all that they do and provide. As visitors move through the event, they will be able to become familiar with the many artist residencies and businesses that exist in South Side as well.
The Dallas Independent Artists Community is an umbrella organization dedicated to bringing unity to the artists and collectives of Dallas, and to bringing purpose and vision to the work of the individual artist. The DIAC brings awareness to what is already taking place in the art community, everyday, within the various collectives that already exist.
Without seeking membership, the DIAC strives to be a community hub which serves as the earpiece and mouthpiece for the artists in Dallas as a whole. By providing education and guidance, pooling our collective resources, and stressing the need for community, the DIAC works to strengthen and empower the artists of Dallas.
Todays Playlist with videe's...Bjork, Pixies, Low, Johanna Newsom..etc...
A lot of great music on today's playlist with some youtube videos.
Here is my non-headphone, maybe some headphones playlist for the day or maybe week, we shall see how my mood or the weather changes. The Autumns- The Angel Pool
Bauhaus- In The Flat Field
Bjork- Homogenic [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSohz7B0Zo]
The Blow- Paper Television
Brad- Interiors
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvdqE2WQGo&feature=related]
Brian Eno- Another Day on Earth
Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it in People
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiSBAykx9vA]
Chris Ganeau- Music for Tourists
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyG6G67LvZ4]
Gravenhurst- Flashlight Sessions
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHvUTrrqBDY]
Johanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mendor, YS
Low- The Great Destroyer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3MGbNE1WA]
The Magnetic Fields- Distortion
Piano Magic- Part-Monster
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAx1pkMigQ]
Pixies-Doolittle
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRrTl2J2w8]
Portishead- Dummy
The Rosebuds- Night of the Furies
Tall Dwarfs- Fork Songs
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DfJc0Une5g]
The Twilight Sad- Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters