MAGIK MARKERS - HOLY SHIT!

June 16, 2006
From Elisa: "The bets are in that the month long US Pillage Tour won't last more than a week and a half, and we're hoping to beat the spread. With stridently pro-gay rights roughneck trio Lambsbread, the online-slots-addicted Markers plan a swath of rust and airplane glue fueled invection to pay back their gambling debts, with 'vitamin shots' from their own Dr. Feelgood, Steve Gunn of GHQ. Tastemaker David 'D' Arby' Keenan had this to say of the 'Bread: 'amphetamine-hyped Mainliner gobbling speed-balls of beaming white light' and one kid this one time was like, '...whoa, I didn't know they were playing no fun.' But play they did, lathering the beer-gummed masses into an intense, stomping ecstasis and speeding up Schumann Resonance with just one show. The Magik Markers: well, we think some douchebag on a message board said it best when he posted, '"I Trust my Boobs and Vagina to sell Records, etc."' Amen Brother! So put on your leather shorts, fasten up your Antares Auto-Tune Pitch Correcting Plug-In, wheel yourself down to your local BPOE and catch Pillage Fever. Catch it!"

DC tonight: NOISE AGAINST FACISM

So their latest (Boss) is a monster. Discus!

Crazy loud mastering job.

I enjoyed them live yeeears ago (2001). Was kinda fun. But records and current live shows are just so...average.

yeah, but they've now perfectly ressurected the spirit of 1985.

Crazy loud mastering job.

truu ouch

The poncey songs are nice.

Awesome fucking album, great band.

That said, I'm not fond of the album's mix. The drums deserve better, and the vocals are a tad too loud in many places (very distracting). You can tell they wanted to be all like "Elisa IS a great writer, see? We told you so"! Also, she seems a little too concerned with rhyming...I enjoy her free-form rants more. They need to mix in a fucking 20-30 minute jam on their next outing instead of limiting themselves to such traditional song lengths.

I sound like a hater, but trust me, I love this album. They never cease to surprise me, and I think we are still far from seeing all this band has to offer. They're one of the few bands that excite me nowadays. I just think they still need some polishing for the official releases. At the least, they need better engineers in the studio.

you're right about the rhyming.

bedroom door aJAR
gonna make you a sTAR.

They never start to surprise me. New kids, old noise.

all the things i looked for in Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex = BOSS

Lee Ranaldo has turned Thee Magik Markers into a 3rd rate Cat Power. Those drums sound like cardboard boxes.

yeah, but they've now perfectly ressurected the spirit of 1985.

This sounds intriguing. How is it like 1985?

This band is so raging

yo kyle in response to your comment of many years ago they are playing NO tomorrow

Homework Undone--did Lee record the album? I'm not being a prick...I really don't know.

yes

BOSS

fuckin love this album

I am the secular pentecost / squeezing out the blue snake

That's about pooping.

Boss is great. Get the vinyl dave?

lo-fi handmade covers with semi-gloss photo inesrt = intentionally funny?

Is the vinyl out already?!

Get the vinyl dave?

not yet but i will. (yes it's out)

BOUCE

THNAK U FOR THIS REVIVE

i wish Rick Ross was on this album though

yes, yes, and yes...i will never understand all this, "its just this" talk. confusion is sex is only 30odd minutes..you don't want more?! esp if its not that at all?! pulling boss out for todays walk

i wish Rick Ross was on this album though

Controversial change of direction for new Magik Markers album:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025SAA.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

the first three tracks on this absolutely slay

can anyone point me to free MM live mp3s online? having a hard time finding any

The Lighter Side of ... Hippies

BONFIRE has some HOT LICKS

TASTY LICKS AT THAT

I love the current Markers action, they are just a great band.

Pretty good interview with Elisa in Rookie Mag of all things (no slight, just don't read it much and this is the first time I have been pointed their way for a weirdo music thing): http://rookiemag.com/2013/11/magik-markers-mirrorless/

This album feels....really pro forma how

I want an Elisa solo album ala Jim Morrison's An American Prayer, where it's mostly just voice

Haven't even heard the record yet, just relating to the last few shows I have seen, which I loved. Gotta go listen to the record I guess.

That Dream (Shitty Beach) is such a rugged lil jam i keep that one on repeat for a while

^^^ - rizzx otm, this was already really good, but that pushed the album to a new level. Loving this.

Yay...the album starts off great like that with a couple of hazy burners until it leads to the shitty beach where they roll around in the sand and it gets in their guitars and they have a great time. Still taking in the sweeter parts of the album, they haven't clicked as much for me

Headphones! I find myself dancing along to Find You Ride and kitchen pogoing to That Dream while the rest of the album is great to zone out to. Headphones!

this is pretty much sold out everywhere on vinyl already

i bet drag city will press more ... man, what a great record, though!

yeah I respect that Drag City doesn't play games with creating artificial scarcity, like for ex. when they repressed Purple Mountains as fast as they could

oldies.com has 8 copies left after I ordered

2020 is such a perfect rock record for these times, all weird and insular and shut-in and downbeat