2006-10-13
"We sound like a smart garage band, to my ears, when we play live. The record is a little more tidy, but they still rock, and rock me along with them. This is the rockingest record I've made in years," Robyn Hitchcock says of his latest album "Ole! Tarantula." To even his amazement is the variety and quality of artists he brought together for the Yep Roc Records release. "A surreal vision and Technicolor celebration of life - from its inception and the whole catastrophe of it - till its groovy decay and inevitable last breath," Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 funk and groove about rocket ships, museums of sex, red locusts, N.Y. Dolls, and, of course, tarantulas. Tracks to hear are title track 5 "Ole! Tarantula," 1 "Adventure Rocket Ship," 2 "Underground Sun," 8 "'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)," and don't miss the killer piano line of 4 "Belltown Ramble." Jake BurrittMATTHEW RYAN
From a Late Night High Rise in Paris
MILTON AND THE DEVIL'S PARTY
How Wicked We've Become
Hippo Campus
Bashful Creatures - EP
JASON MRAZ
We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
Aimee Mann
Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
THE BELLRAYS
Have a little Faith
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