News (Making Up for Lost Time)

When people tell you to "keep your day job" they must mean stop blogging.  Breaking free for just an hour to post some things that you've may have already heard about in the past week (but this is more for me than you).  We proceed to take note on some telephone wire intercepts.

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Beck has been blowing up news wires with his announcement of his Record Club project where he and some friends (Devandra Banhart, MGMT, Jamie Lidell, and producer Nigel Godrich) will pick an album and spend one day recording a cover of the entire thing, posting one song at a time on the internet.  Beck has chosen Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" off of Velvet Underground and Nico as the first item produced by this hyper drive covering factory.  Check it below.

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As seen in the DVD Doc of Atlanta's now verging (once hidden) music scene, We Fun, the Black Lips have a close relationship with King Khan (of King Khan and the Shrines).  Consequently, The Black Lips have joined a punkster super group with Khan and Mark Sultan (of BBQ) called the Almighty Defenders.  The group is going to release their first S/T record on September 22 on Vice Records.

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The American master of surrealism (films like Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Dune...) is releasing Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi.  The disc contains seven tracks that feature lyrics by Lynch (sung by Fox Bat guitarist Dave Jaurequi) and music by Fox Bat.  Fox Bat were session players for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and "were in the 'pink room' and 'blue Frank' scenes in the film." (for you Lynch fanatics)  As quoted in the EW article, "Dave Jariqui was not a singer, he was a guitarist, a fantastic one, but I asked him to sing and speak these lyrics of mine, because I had a hunch that proved correct: he had great phrasing, and I love the grain of his voice."  The first released track (as of yet) "Shoot the Works" carries a typical Lynchian spook expressed through 50's style rock.  A great and challenging contrast when considering the 50's era was such a hum drum Golden Age of Americana purity.  Amidst the rows of manicured lawns and white picket fences of the 50's suburbs there was always the house that was "haunted."  Mid summer, dressed in your bermuda khaki shorts and white pocket t shirt, you crept up to see what brooded inside.  As you got closer, you could hear "Shoot the Works" playing from a phonograph just on the other side of the warped beach wood door.  The sound is seductive, but, unpromising.  It is your challenge and mocks your fear of adventure.  

Stream> David Lynch:: "Shoot the Works"