The Pastels’ Illuminati Compilation
With copious apologies, I regret not updating much the past couple of weeks. I’m a dickfor. I’ve had a lot going on with the holiday safari, relocation, yadda yadda. But I will make it up to you with the promise of a new day, more updates, and a nice rare treat. Illuminati was a compilation released [...]
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Daniel Johnston - 11.22.08 - Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville
Certainly the conventional lore, exponentially propelled by the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, builts a towering mystique around Daniel Johnston - a troubled genius, a volatile and mysterious persona, a songwriter informed by mental illness, a musician catapulted to internationally success thanks to smart product placement by way of Kurt Cobain. But seeing him [...]
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See Daniel Johnston Tomorrow Night in Louisville for a Recession Price
I’m ridiculously broke. Many of us in this tough economy can’t find a job, and I blame the baby boomers. I blame them for their economic policies, I blame them for forcing all their children to go to college so they can have a "real job," I blame them for us not being able to [...]
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The Legendary Pink Dots - Still Legendary, Probably Still Pink
I just found out that nordic beasts The Legendary Pink Dots quietly released a new full-length very recently called Platinum Blonde. And as you can expect, like contemporaries Lilys and Psychic TV, they’re still all over the place. Platinum Blonde features it all: psychedelia, noise, and hell, even a few dance ditties. Though they’ve yet to [...]
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Happy Jonestown Day - Pass the Kool Aid, Por Favor
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre at the Peoples Temple community in Guyana, the second largest death en masse of American civilians from non-natural disaster origins (the first being niner eleven), claiming 909 very loyal lives. Jonestown wasn’t just a bizarre and significant historical event, but also was a direct influence or [...]
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Blues Control - “Behind the Skies” and “Always on Time”
I’m probably really late on this, but I’m not really a bandwagon person anyway. Blues Control, Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho of Watersports, has always been rather hit or miss for me from what I had heard from them. It seemed time to really give them a go last week when I saw Puff at Ear [...]
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Feelin’ Groovy with Magik Markers
I was really stoked on czechin’ the new Lindsey Buckingham joint the other night, as L-Train and I are both huge Fleetwood Mac fans. And after listening, we were very sad about it. Now that Lindsey isn’t scoring blow and beating up his girlfriends, his tunes are slowing waning in smooth rock quality. I don’t [...]
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Adventures in Shortwave, Part 2
Awesome! Irdial and the Internet Archive now have this convenient embedded widget (provided below) that allows you to play just about the entire set of The Conet Project. If you’re not hip to the Conet Project, it is an expansive collection of mysterious number stations broadcasts. Click the "next" button to browse through the various [...]
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Attention Louisville - Help with Job Get?
I try to avoid the Decibel Tolls becoming too much of a personal blog. But I need some help, dear readers. If you’re in the Louisville metro area, and know of people who are hiring, shoot me an email: kb [at] thedecibeltolls.com. Craiglist and other job boards are nothing but scams and [...]
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Boduf Songs on His First Tour (They Grow Up So Fast)
Moody, blacker than black slowcore folk superstar Boduf Songs, fresh from dropping How Shadows Chase the Balance on the flawless Kranky label, will bring joy to all the girls and boys this fall in his first national tour. Since it’s his first one, be nice ya’ll! The tour includes two New York shows and a [...]
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