Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Lies My Body Told Me

Marc Ribot (pronounced REE-bow) was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. As a teen, he played guitar in various garage bands while studying with his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. After moving to New York City in 1978, Ribot was a member of the soul/punk REALTONES, and from 1984 - 1989, of JOHN LURIES LOUNGE LIZARDS. Between 1979 and 1985, Ribot also worked as a side musician with Brother Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chuck Berry, and many others.

His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Vinicio Capossela and John Zorn.

CERAMIC DOG
Marc Ribot – guitar, vocals, banjo etc
Shahzad Ismaily – bass, synthesizer, vocals etc
Ches Smith – drums, percussion, electronics, vocals, keyboards

Today's tune "Lies My Body Told Me" is taken from the album "Your Turn" which was released in April 2013 on Northern Spy Records. Enjoy!



Upcoming Tour dates:

CERAMIC DOG European Summer Tour
7/13 MARSEILLE/France (SOLO) - Marseille Jazz
7/15 BRUGNERA (Pordenone)/Italy - Parco di Villa Varda
7/16 Brisighella (RA)/Italy - Anfitetro Spada
7/7 SOTTEVILLE-LES-ROUEN/France - Atelier 231
7/18 GENT/Belgium - De Bijloke Muziekcentrum
7/19 MÜNCHEN/Germany - Jazzclub Unterfahrt
7/20 DORTMUND/Germany - JunkYard, Sommerbühne
7/22 WARSAW/Poland - Pardon, To Tu przy Nowym Teatrze
7/23 LJUBLJANA/Slovenia - Cankarjev Dom
7/24 SAN SEBASTIAN/Spain - Museo Chillida-Leku
8/21 Saalfelden/Austria - Saalfelden JazzFest

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Garcia Peoples - One At A Time

New Jersey cosmic indie jam band GARCIA PEOPLES offered up a new studio recording with their fourth proper album, "Nightcap At Wits' End" in October last year. The album showed a shift in approach yet again, moving from the extended jamming of their live shows and "One Step Behind" toward more detailed compositions with 12 relatively compact songs.

Formed in New Jersey by guitarists Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki, the band took a few years to find their flying shape, solidifying into a lineup with Danny’s brother Cesar on drums and Derek Spaldo on bass by mid-2016. Ramping up their acceleration around the time of their 2018 "Cosmic Cash" debut on Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records, they’ve blasted through residencies and new songs and sessions and collaborations, relocating to New York, picking up two new members in keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Pat Gubler and bassist Andy Cush, and leaving a trail of live tapes in their wake. This year, they’ve delivered not one but two new albums for BBiB: the sleek and song-oriented Natural Facts and the sprawling improvisatory opus of "One Step Behind". 2019 also saw the first performances by the full GARCIA PEOPLES lineup, a six-person behemoth with Spaldo on third guitar.

With a stash of live recordings accumulating at the Live Music Archive, GARCIA PEOPLES music is very much a living entity. Since the release of their previous two albums, songs have started to expand, jam suites have grown, and experiments have been undertaken. The first part of 2019 has seen GARCIA PEOPLES back Philadelphia guitarist Chris Forsyth (an expanded Solar Peoples Band has hit double-drummer overdrive several times now), and joined with guitarist Ryley Walker. They’ve improvised on WFMU, and jammed with the sounds of ocean waves and falling rain at strange late night happenings. Probably something else new and wonderful and weird has happened in the Garciaverse since I wrote this.

Whether or not you thought you knew GARCIA PEOPLES music, "One Step Behind" is something new and beautiful, for new heads and old. No matter where you stand–behind, beyond, or another plane altogether–One Step Behind is ready. For those about to get on the Bus, we salute you.

"Nightcap At Wits’ End" was a long time coming: more than nine months in Philadelphia with Jeff Zeigler, who recorded "Natural Facts" – from the first work in August, 2019 to the final mix, only a few weeks before I heard it in that eerie midnight. But this album has arrived as if absolutely destined for right now. I am tempted to say it is the band’s best record, except GARCIA PEOPLES are too restless to settle for plateaus. Just do as the title says. Raise a glass at your wit’s end, and let the music blow away the night. The artwork for "Nightcap At Wits’ End" is made by the great D. Norsen

Today's tune "One At A Time" is taken from the latest album "Nightcap At Wits' End", released October 9, 2020, Video by Kendra Amalie, enjoy!



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The Atomic Bitchwax - Easy Action

In a busy three years since New Jersey’s most powerful power trio THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX, issued 2017’s "Force Field", they’ve toured the US and Europe multiple times over, taken part in fests far and wide, and blown past the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album. "Scorpio" is the follow up to the group's 2017 full-length 'Force Field', and their eighth studio LP overall spanning more than two decades. "Scorpio" was released in August 28th via Tee Pee Records.

The album acknowledges the two-decades milestone in its opening revamp of the first song the band ever wrote with vocals, “Hope You Die,” the crash-in of which will be immediately familiar to anyone who’s seen them live. A generation later, it still gets the message across.

Tracked in Jan. 2020 at Sound Spa in Edison, NJ, with Stephen DeAcutis engineering, "Scorpio" is a righteous next stage of the momentum The Atomic Bitchwax have been building through hard touring and release after release of gauntlet-throwing-down rock and roll. This is a band that never stops moving, and only ever moves forward.

The group, which originally formed in the mid-90s, consists of lead vocalist/bassist Chris Kosnik, drummer Bob Pantella, and guitarist Garrett Sweeny, all of whom are past or present members of the band MONSTER MAGNET.

Today's tune "Easy Action" is taken from the latest release, enjoy!



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Ruby the Hatchet - Easy Livin'

Thursday, time for a cover, it will also be the last cover of 2019.

"Easy Livin'" is a song by the British rock band URIAH HEEP, released as the second single from their 1972 album "Demons And Wizards". The band also shot a basic music video for the song in 1972. It was the band's first hit in the United States and the only top 40 hit there, peaking at No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1972.

Philadelphia psych rock quintet RUBY THE HATCHET has premiered a cover of URIAH HEEPs 1972 “Easy Livin’” via a new music video, see it below. A staple of their recent live sets, the band recorded the cover at Retro City Studios in NJ.

The group commented on the cover:

“URIAH HEEP is a band favorite and still an unsung hero of sorts in our opinion. Many of their songs make our karaoke cuts, but Easy Livin’ was especially fun to figure out now that we have been toying with live three part harmonies. All of the high notes in our cover are vocally supported by Johnny, and of course Owen…still trying to put a mic in front of Lake. Plus, when you have someone like Sean playing organ, a Heep cover is a must.”

Enjoy today's tune. Recorded May 21st, 2019 by Joe Boldizar at Retro City Studios in Germantown, PA. Original song by Uriah Heep (1972). Video directed and edited by Todd McConnell and Jillian Taylor. Live studio footage and photography by Dante Torrieri (Germantown, PA). Roadburn live footage by Volksradio Moos (Tilburg, Netherlands). Live at the Echo footage by Arturo Gallo (Los Angeles, CA).



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Monster Magnet - Look To Your Orb For The Warning

It was 1995. Grunge was wearing woefully thin and nu-metal was lurking just around the corner. Someone needed to blast a hole through this wall of mumbling self-pity and sexless whining, preferably using a giant raygun full of drugs, naked women and mind-bending space rock anthems. So, who you gonna call?

“I’ll never forget it,” he recalls today. “It was like, ‘Alright, I wanna do everything on "Dopes To Infinity" that I didn’t do on "Superjudge". "Superjudge" was a really annoying- sounding record with a lot of mid-range stuff. On "Dopes To Infinity" I wanted to make a kind of smooth, ethereal kind of rock record. I wanted the whole thing to have that really consistent sound. I want to be able to put on this record and be instantly transported to the land of "Dopes To Infinity" and I’ll never wanna leave that land! I didn’t want it to sound like a random collection of songs. I really wanted to make something that was completely different from everything else out there.”

“The record became a total mission for me,” he admits. “It didn’t take that long but it seemed like it took forever because I was always making shit up as it went along. I’d go back to the hotel room and draw diagrams and crazy stuff. It was right at the dawn of digital sampling and all the samples sounded like shit and I wanted real instruments, so I was renting real Mellotrons, and they’re a huge pain in the ass. They’re huge instruments and they have to be tuned constantly. Everything was a tuning nightmare. I was tuning the drums with a guitar tuner! Ha ha ha ha! It was nuts. It was a real weird experience for the guys I was working with too. They’d never done anything like that before. We were working from four o’clock in the afternoon until eight in the morning and the poor engineers had just about had it, like, ‘What do you want now, Dave?’”

“I remember the record company saying, ‘Would you please try and make it sound at least like something people might recognise?’” says Dave. “I think the guy was just trying to tell me in his own way that I could do myself a lot of favours if I could just buckle down and write at least one song for the masses. I kinda did it with "Negasonic Teenage Warhead". I guess that was my answer to him. It’s not hard, you know? NIRVANA songs just sounded like BOSTON to me, like "More Than A Feeling". So I took one of those riffs and wrote the whole thing in half an hour.”

“It was shit! A total disaster! Fucking horrible! Ha ha!” he roars. “But seriously, it was somewhat close to what I wanted, but when it was over I kinda thought I’d gone a bit too far. It’s such a world of its own that it doesn’t have much dynamics inside of it. It’s not emotional enough. That’s where Powertrip came from. It had to be more emotional and I had to separate myself from being a producer and a singer. That’s the one problem I have with "Dopes To Infinity", that I was a producer first and a singer second. Live and learn, man. It’s still a fuckin’ cool record.” This feature was originally published in Classic Rock issue 94, in May 2006.

Today's tune "Look To Your Orb For the Warning" by the New Jersy rock band MONSTER MAGNET, the video is filmed (Live in Düsseldorf, Germany - 16th April 1995) the tune is taken from the third album "Dopes to Infinity". It was released on March 21, 1995. The tune "Look To Your Orb For the Warning" is a real favorite from the album, chugging riffs in midtempo which progresses slowly like a bulldozer thru everything on its way. Enjoy!



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The Parlor Mob - 4th Of July

Independence Day (colloquial: the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776.

So happy Fourth of July and National Day all Americans.

Today we play the New Jersey base rock band THE PARLOR MOB released the song "Fourth of July," last year, which Alternative Addiction describes as "anthemic."

Enjoy!



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Trixter - One in a Million

Sunday, time for a classic.

"One in a Million" is a tune by the American hard rock band TRIXTER.

TRIXTER are from Paramus, New Jersey. The band achieved major success in the early 1990s but disbanded for several years as glam metal lost mainstream popularity. The most recent lineup reunited in 2008 to tour and record new material.

Current members
Pete Loran – lead vocals, occasional rhythm guitar (1983–1995, 2007–present)
Steve Brown – lead guitar, harmonica, backing vocals (1983–1995, 2007–present)
P. J. Farley – bass guitar, backing vocals (1988–1995, 2007–present)
Mark "Gus" Scott – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1984–1995, 2007–present)

In December 1990 TRIXTER filmed the video for the second single, "One in a Million", at a sold-out show in Rockland County, New York. The band also recorded a song, "One Mo Time", for the film If Looks Could Kill. The song featured Edgar Winter on saxophone. By January 1991 the record was selling 20,000 units per week.[citation needed] The video for "One in a Million" went No. 1 on MTV for three weeks.

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The Atomic Bitchwax - Houndstooth

The American riff rockers THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX did released their seventh full-length LP "Force Field” on December last year.

The first tune of the album resulted in the video ”Houndstooth”, see it below.

The band is from New Jersey, formed in 1993 by bassist/vocalist Chris Kosnik. THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX mixes elements of 1960s psychedelic rock and 1970s riff rock, filtered though modern progressive rock. Their music has appeared in popular TV shows including Jackass, Home Wrecker and various Fox Sports broadcasts.

"Force Field” is featuring the powerhouse rhythm section from legendary space lords MONSTER MAGNET. Recorded at the Freakshop in Keyport, New Jersey, mixed at The Panic Room in Ocean, New Jersey and mastered by Alan Douches (CHELSEA WOLFE, TOMBS, THE OBSESSED), "Force Field" sees THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX's high energy, scale-based guitar mangling hitting astronomical levels, with full stack amps pushing out dangerous levels of blown-out metallic mayhem. An awe-inducing tumult of head-down forward drive and top tier hard rock, "Force Field" mashes sci-fi and hi-fi, rocketing THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX into the outer reaches of the modern-day heavy music universe.

Today’s tune ”Houndstooth”, taken from the bands latest release "Force Field”, enjoy!



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The Parlor Mob - Into The Sun

This cool band comes from New Jersey, US and was born in 2004.
Its kinda hard for me to comprehend why they didnt have a breakthrough here in Sweden. They have a taste of they 70´s and a dash of 2000 :)



On August 15, 2010 the band released this statement via their websites,
in regards to their new album:

"We got home from Europe last fall knowing that we had effectively finished touring behind And You Were A Crow and feeling ready to start work on the next album. After a little bit of downtime, we pretty much holed ourselves away from everything and began writing with the individual ideas we had from the road, putting things together and seeing where it would take us.

We spent the dead of winter locked away near our home in NJ, recording demos and trying new and different things with our ideas. At some point in this process, a schism developed and we ended up parting ways amicably with our bassist Nick Villapiano. There was nothing personal about it, and we are still the best of friends. Nick is now playing in a band called Atlantic, Atlantic, and we are all very close and we encourage you to check them out. They're a fantastic band. After continuing writing for a while with no bass player, we ended up with another one of our best friends joining the band. His name is Anthony Chick and we're excited to have him as a full time member.



We finally really settled in (with a new rehearsal space) this spring and felt able to charge full bore towards the finish line, and now at last it's in sight. We've been compiling ideas and songs and concepts since about halfway through the last touring cycle and we've been condensing and improving them into what they are now. Not to mention the things that we've been writing moment to moment that we've been fleshing out into living songs. At this point we're just about ready to get in the studio and make the record.

Our friend Matt Radosevich, who engineered the first record and with whom we've remained extremely close, is going to be producing this album. We've been working with him doing pre-production for a bit now, and starting tomorrow we'll be doing two more weeks of thorough pre-pro. When that's done, it will be time to make the record.

The process that brought us here with these songs was long, extremely intense and emotionally heavy, and we're fully aware it took a bit longer than expected, but the recording process we plan on making fast, spontaneous and equally as emotionally charged. We're currently more powerful than we've ever been, and feel more strongly about these songs than we ever have about anything in our career."
We cannot wait to bring you this record.
Love, The Parlor Mob

Now on Tuesday, October 11th, their second album DOGS will be released in stores on CD and double LP vinyl, as well as digitally.

The tour looks like this:



Their homesite.
On Facebook.

Okey, Folks here is The Parlor Mob and a tune from their new album.

Cheers, Thetania

The Parlor Mob - Into The Sun (Official Video) from The Parlor Mob on Vimeo.