I don't know many details, but apparently a 3 year old girl got into a car wreck and needs our help. A bunch of bands are putting on a show this Saturday at The Rustic Frog and the proceeds will be going to the family to help pay medical costs. Show starts at 7pm(I think) and its 10 bux at the door.
We missed Venus Trap but caught a great show from Ultra Pulverize and Wax Fang. The only thing I am still upset about is that I didn't get an OCP... email us if you aren't down with OCP (thanks for the joke and great review Backseat Sandbar!)
Below is a video of "Hearts are Made for Beating" and some photos... View them all here.
As much as I love WFPK and all they do for the city, if I could voice one complaint, it would be that they only post archived material in 64kbps mp3s online (I know we're lucky we can even access past shows but still I bitch...). I'd gladly pay to get the files in at least 128kbps but there are no options for that. Mp3s are bad enough but when you compress down to a bitrate that small they turn into tinny sounding worthless files.
Along comes John King to the rescue! I met John at the Louisville is for Lovers CD release show at the Pour Haus on the 15th and he was so kind as to bring me a copy of the CD that WFPK gave him so I could track it out and turn it into high quality mp3s for distribution.
If you didn't pick up your copy of Louisville is for Lovers 2008 yet, shame on you; you can do so here. Thanks go to all the artists, John as well as WFPK!
Use the links below to stream the tracks or download them individually or click here to download the entire show.
If there is one show not to miss this, its this one. Black Mountain just released the most hyped album of 2008 and I gotta say it lives up to most of it. As if that wasn't enough JagJaguwar label-mate Bon Iver will open for them. Also, locals Phantom Family Halo have just been added.
I might not be able to make it to this but wish I could. I'm pretty sure this show will completely kick ass. The new Whigs album is great, plus you get Wax Fang as an added bonus. Both these bands for the price of a Spicy Chicken Value meal from Wendy's?! Act now, and they'll even throw in The Spinto Band at no extra charge. (Honey Mustard is 15 cents extra) The Whigs will also be opening for My Morning Jacket and Yo La Tengo on March 13th @ SXSW.
"To celebrate this freakishly long year, we're putting on a freak show of our own."
the fervor recently got some attention over at Cause=Time : "Women fronting rock bands is a huge plus in my book.Think about it. How many amazing bands out there kick ass with women doing vocal duties. The Fervor is from Louisville, KY, and they also sound like they're from Kentucky, and I mean that in the best of ways. It definitely has that dirty south flava to it... You can purchase their latest album, Bleeder, here.This music is best enjoyed with a bottle of whiskey and a couple of cigarettes."
LEO: You all seem to play Louisville fairly often, do you all have a direct affinity for the town or is it just go-to stop where you know you can sell out a show? ST: I would say both. It does take both of them really because we wouldn’t come (to a town) if we didn’t want to. And it’s a great crowd there as we get closer to the south and get closer to home. LEO: The last two times you all played here you were at a theater, now you’ve gone back to playing Headliners. Honestly you all didn’t seem quite as enthusiastic in the theater as previously had been in playing the smaller venues and bars — so was it a conscious effort to return to a platform where you can connect with an audience more directly? ST: Yeah, that’s definitely what we want to do especially with the new record out. We just want to get down there with everybody and get back to the rock show. We wanna pack the place out and get the energy going. Because The Dirt Underneath tour last year was super laid back, acoustic, broken down a little bit, that was great, but we’re all ready to stand up plug in, and turn it up again.
LEO: “I’m Sorry Houston” is a beautiful song, as I said I know you’re a fan of guys like Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, but that song feels like something out of Nashville from the late fifties or early sixties – is there a place in your brain where Jim Reeves and Sam Cooke meet? ST: Yeah, all of those people you named are from the south. They’re southern people, country people like us. It wasn’t a conscious thing it just happened that way, I wasn’t trying to do anything or make it sound any way, it just came out soundin’ like it did.
!!!BECAUSE THIS IS AN ALL AGES SHOW, IT MUST BE OVER BY MIDNIGHT. THEREFORE THE SET TIMES ABOVE WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED, SO BE SURE AND GET THERE EARLY TO SEE ALL OF THE BANDS!!!
I don't know many details, but apparently a 3 year old girl got into a car wreck and needs our help. A bunch of bands are putting on a show this Saturday at The Rustic Frog and the proceeds will be going to the family to help pay medical costs. Show starts at 7pm(I think) and its 10 bux at the door.
