Interview With Rene Hell + Stream a Track From His Forthcoming Type LP "The Terminal Symphony"

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to have a gchat with Jeff Witscher a.k.a Rene Hell last week. We rapped about minimalism, punk rock, and motorcycles. Jeff and Type were gracious enough to give us an exclusive sneak peak of the new Type LP. Head over to East Village Radio to read the interview and hear the new jam.

Tom Carter Live Set @ EVR

Our old friend Tom Carter stopped by Just Music last night and proceeded to blow us away with a live set. Easily on of the most amazing live sets we've ever had on the show. Check out the archive here. (By the way, www.evr.com has been revamped and the archives can be paused and searched!)



Playlist for Just Music 02/27/11

1.automat - mecadance - automat
2.manfred mann chapter three - konekuf
3.joe beck - nature boy
4.isotope - rangoon creepe
5.cabaret voltaire - exhaust
6.three legged race - mourning order
7.panabrite - triangle foundation
8.daughters of the sun - ghost with chains
9.dada - yuuen-inraku-gakijyo
10.opponents - opposition 5
11.Tyndall-Erdbeerkristalle
12.Gospels -Rainy Days/ Lake Side
13.Tom Carter - Live in EVR Studio
14.the grateful dead - the other one
15.The Stereo Shoestring - On the Road South
16.j. jay & the dell-tones - wrong side of the track
17.mother lion- simple house
18.moby grape - goin' nowhere

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R.I.P. Captain Beefheart: January 15, 1941 - December 17, 2010

So today Captain Beefheart died. Maybe he died thirty years ago when Don Van Vliet said so. After demolishing all accepted norms and practices for "rock" music Van Vliet walked away. He was an artist and maybe he said all he could say with sound, maybe the desert spirit's spell was too strong to resist. He didn't make music, he took it's rotting corpse and burned it,smeared the ashes on a cactus and took a picture. He made blues out of oranges and reds, conjured monsters from electricity and wire. No artist made more of an impression on my youthful mind when all that wasn't Top 40 excited me. I picked up Trout Mask Replica, having read it was an "important" record. I didn't even like it but I was drawn to it. It made no sense to me. Up until that point I wanted music to pat my forehead and tell me everything was going to be ok in the most matronly way possible. I needed a soft kiss before the nightmares and Beefheart's music was the fever dream: vivid, disorienting, and impossible to describe to the healthy minds and ears chosen to protect us from the other. Eventually, I came to realize music wasn't the end, it was the means and Don Van Vliet was my greatest teacher.

I did a special tribute to Captain Beefheart with my friend/cohost of
Just Music Casey Block today on East Village Radio. You can stream the archive here: http://www.eastvillageradio.com/news/items.aspx?id=18756

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10.Magma live at Highline Ballroom - even the bourgeois seating plan of that shithole couldn't ruin the waves of Zeuhl beauty flowing from the stage. One of those rare occurences where an artist that arguably peaked over 30 years ago can still write interesting material. I still don't know what the fuck Vander is talking about.

9.Hexbreaker Quintet @ Port D'or - yeah, theyre all buddies but if they sucked I'd tell you. definitely worth the trip to the hinterlands of Brooklyn.

8. Nurture Abuse @ 13 Thames - perfomance was great, but the "West Side Story" like fracas between the early noise show scum and the coked out party fucks swooping in for the late show rave was even better.

7.Northampton Wools @ The Rock Shop - Nace/Moore with the addition of Corsano. Looks good on paper, sounds better in person. Bill and Thurston may be the best gtr combo since Betts/Allman. Corsano proving once again to be one of the best listeners around.

6.Lussuria "Silk and Honey" CS (Hospital) - 20 minutes of dark ambient with one of the best vocal samples ever.

5. Trepaneringsritualen "Septentrional" (Hanson) - sick, twisted industrial blackness from the always reliable Hanson Records. They don't have a porn star in the band so I doubt anyone cares.

4. Sawyer/Yeh/Wooley @ union pool - improv from three of the finest this pathetic city has to offer. this set made me hard and despite me slobbering congratulations all over him everytime we meet, Wooley is still a prick to me.

3. C.Lavender/Ceci Moss @ Triple Canopy - real women doing real noise.

2. Yellow Swans "Going Places" (Type) - yeah, they toned it down somewhat from earlier work but this record is so intricately layered and constructed it hits every sweet spot in my body. the warmest record ive heard in a long time.

1.Mark Mcguire - Please don't lump this guy in with the tidal waves of nu-age garbage that has been rolling through the blogosphere. I've been brought to tears listening to the simple majestic beauty of Mcguire's guitar excursions both live and on record which probably means I'm a giant pussy but fuck it. This isn't some kid fucking around with expensive toys trying to pretend its Berlin in 1977. Totally outside of any trend/genre, Mcguire makes music that will be cherished for years to come while his peers move on to exciting careers as publicists,hedge fund managers and professional vacationers.

Friday,December 17th

Remembering Peter Christopherson, Tonight on Just Music, 10pm ET

Remembering Peter Christopherson, Tonight on Just Music, 10pm ET

Terrorism - Skyguide (Hospital,2010)

Admittedly, I am not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to the current state of metal. The list of sub-genres is somewhat nauseating but I think we can all agree that Stoner Metal is the deadest of horses. Black Metal has been the rage for quite some time with little tweaks here and there on a tried and true formula. It doesnt matter what the band name is because that BM font on the record is indecipherable anyway. What I've been finding interesting as of late is the infusion of noise and black metal. This communion of bastard sounds is in glorious display on this tape by Terrorism. I don't know anything about this band. From what I can tell we have at least one guitar and drums. The vocals are mostly of the strained, death-knell by a troll under the bridge variety but there are also moments of bass heavy grunts and taunts. Now that I think about it, there may even be some samples on here, adding to the dark disorienting effect of the caveman drumming and "who the fuck knows what they used but it works" sounds."Skyguide" is one of those tapes that is literally impossible to describe and is all the better for it. One of my favorite jams in a long time.

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