I will! Yeah, I'm sure there are a million bands I haven't heard that other people take for granted as basics
― Dominique, Friday, 11 April 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
La Lechera are you going to see Dead Rider at Hideout tonight?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, April 11, 2014 10:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
NO but I would go if you would go! Surely it's not sold out right?! I've got nothing better to do, that's for sure.
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 11 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I was thinking about it. Not sure if I'll have enough energy but I'll get in touch if I'm feeling adventurous.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 11 April 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
I wonder how many albums Maple sold
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 11 April 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
@Sarah -- you know Evelyn Davis is in CA right?
― Dominique, Friday, 11 April 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Cool!! Lemme know. I'll drive!
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 11 April 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
The whole Dead Rider album is up on the Drag City SoundCloud account btw. It sounds like Tomahawk.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 11 April 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
i feel like the beefheart comparison is way overplayed
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 April 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
it is, but comparisons ITT to tomahawk, polvo, craig wedren are batty balderdash.have people these days heard music ?USM:DNA /pere ubu maybe. slim whitman wrestling bobcat goldthwaite at the "derek bailey plays the fall vaudeville revue" at a push.it's that tension / release dialogue that no-one really matches 'fore or since that makes it. hillbilly slapstick branca cartoonsDR: scott walker gone glam no-wave. alex harvey gone waxtrax paranoid lothario.i'm quite certain that describing these musics serves no practical purpose, butfug me
― massaman gai, Friday, 11 April 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
― Dominique, Friday, April 11, 2014 10:19 AM (4 days ago)
Dude, my question to flamboyant goon tie was predicated on Evelyn praising musician Owen Pallett to high heavens
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone seen Invisible Things? They're playing here this weekend.
― funch dressing (La Lechera), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
Who are Invisible Things?
― grandavis, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
Mark Shippy and a crazy drummer http://invisiblethings.bandcamp.com
― funch dressing (La Lechera), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
Well then yeah, you gotta go!
― grandavis, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I listened to some of their music on bandcamp before, just didn't recognize the name. It's cool! Don't see how they would do it live, but would be interesting to see what they try to do. Plus yeah, that drummer is pretty nuts, seems like he would be fun to watch.
― grandavis, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.furious.com/perfect/usmaple2.html
― cwkiii, Friday, 13 June 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
This paper investigates the surprising parallels between U.S. Maple's notion of "reorganization" and Jacques Derrida's polyvalent corpus known as "deconstruction." I will focus, in particular, on how Al Johnson's vocals expand and critique the linguistic side of Derrida's theories through what Marcel Cobussen terms "deconstructions in music" (musical performances that act deconstructively on other musics).
― cwkiii, Friday, 13 June 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
woah that looks awesome
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 June 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
Cosign. Al Johnson is just amazing.
― grandavis, Saturday, 14 June 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
That essay is beautiful, though "Le Click" has always made me thing of NIN shreds when it comes on
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 14 June 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
i dig the enthusiasm (and at the same time i'm turned off by it) in the Ruccia essay, but wishful shoehorning abounds therein. parallels don't "exist" until they are drawn, are such parallels "surprising"? are they sufficiently investigated? (nope) what does the investigation enable? any acknowledgement of / investigation of alternative interpretations (and their "utility")? i'm sure Ruccia is an absolute sweetie, and that this was fun to research & write, but this was kinda bringing coals to Newcastle.
― massaman gai, Sunday, 15 June 2014 08:52 (ten years ago) link
It's that time of year again, the BEST time of year!!! The time I remember that U.S. Maple is one of the greatest bands of all time and go on a listening spree! Fuch yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-AgYj77A0
― grandavis, Friday, 17 April 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
This is the best day of the year so far. U.S. Maple day needs to happen more often.
― grandavis, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Fuck what I would give to see this band now
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I am a dope for never seeing this band live, though I would have had a brief window to do so. Still, bums me the hell out.
― grandavis, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
One of the amazing things about seeing them live was realizing how intentional even their weirdest and most shambling material was. They could replicate that sound of a band playing while tumbling down a flight of stairs so precisely.
― I Stepped On Your Samwich (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 April 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
My own ability to precisely replicate posts from two years ago is equally uncanny, it would seem.
― I Stepped On Your Samwich (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 April 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Hah pretty much every post of mine in here is a variation of "U.S. Maple is the best".
― grandavis, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
i am still wondering what al johnson is doing, like he's off making a masterpiece and not telling melike what is he doing aside from writing this in april of 2013?!
This Masterpiece Creature is procreating (now this should put the (B.F.R.O.) folks on their collective smarmy assess; she’s breeding and birthing on each block depositing 2 to 4 pre-owned or slightly used Chevy Cavaliers,be it the sporty sedan or the more sensible four-door. Oddly enough all Chevy Cavaliers here are born between 98 and 02,’ also born healthy with a Sanyo CD player and roomy ashtrays.
The Cavalier is the official pace car of Dubuque. The Cavalier occupies the second and third quadrant on the Dubuque family crest. She is our quixotic metal, our roboid…roboid. That is my word: roboid - I just made it up! All of you take witness for I have coined. Everywhere you look, every 50 feet or so, there’s another gooey newborn, a Chevy Cavalier-year’s 98’ through 02’
But that’s neither here nor there.
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 17 April 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
i loled at "roomy ashtrays"
Hah yeah. He was on Twitter for a moment, then he was gone. There is some live footage of him somewhere above doing a solo performance/reading.
― grandavis, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
saw Dead Rider over the weekend and they kinda reminded me of like, i dunno, El-P fronting the Minutemen? the drummer had a somewhat pronounced jazz-funk feel and they were all wearing different hats. they also had a fog machine.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
the bass was not as Minutemen-y as the drums iirc
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
No fog machine at the show I saw a couple of months ago, but there's video of much of the set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfu6shiyD_Q
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
I'd just go with Bowie + US Maple as the best summation. Really like these guys. Great video. The influence of Al Johnson hangs heavy on their live attitude...
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
Invisible Things album is fuckin incredible
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 22 August 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
I need to re-visit Dead Rider - kinda bummed I missed that show. The thread always gets a LHi3S listen outta me.
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 22 August 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/61509-tortoise-return-with-new-album-the-catastrophist-share-gesceap-plot-tour/
"The album features vocals from Yo La Tengo's Georgia Hubley (on "Yonder Blue") and U.S. Maple/Dead Rider's Todd Rittmann (on a cover of David Essex's "Rock On"). "
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
The album cover is horrifying
I saw Dead Rider the other night, now pared down to a trio, they remain the greatest band currently active.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
seeing invisible things tonight with the exwhee!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
How was it La Lechera? Should have been a good pairing!
― grandavis, Thursday, 22 October 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
Amazing show!! A guy I know is friends with the invisible things drummer (Jim?) and told me he is a professor and specializes in a particular type of Sri Lankan drumming insert heart eyes emoji here !!! <3 I'm really tired now but super great show.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 22 October 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
Awesome!
― grandavis, Thursday, 22 October 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
This is one of those weird things, because everyone knows David Bowie and almost nobody knows Dead Rider, but the overlaps between what they've been doing and what Bowie is doing now are kind of major. This live video, btw, is seriously fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkgl_N91bU4
― dlp9001, Friday, 20 November 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
It's time to go down the U.S. Maple listening hole again. This is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JarSldMzLfo
― grandavis, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:32 (1 year ago)
YES
― Nose-Punk Era (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
I can't remember what originally compelled to click this thread and start listening to the music, but US Maple has to be one of my favourite ILM finds of the year and possibly fave ILM find full-stop. Been listening to Acre Thrills and Talker on near-enough constant repeat over the last few weeks. Their whole approach feels so fresh to me at the moment.
― Nose-Punk Era (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
They are a treasure that only grows more wonderful with the passage of time. A true wonder of a band.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
We're only talking five relatively short albums, but there's something in them that keeps me thinking there's even more (that I missed the last time) when I go back to them, despite playing them many times. It's not that I'm missing anything specific, but they have that quality that suggests so, keeps them fresh IMO
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
Interviewed Al years and years ago, just dug up a couple of great quotes:
A lot of people who may come see the band but who haven’t heard the records may think it’s improvisation. I really want to get away from that. It may sound silly, but in my heart of hearts, I would like U.S. Maple to be taken in as a Black Crowes song can be taken in, on some levels.
I don’t think we’re that complicated. We continue to go back to the still to generate this liquid that has the same ingredients as early Journey. I’m telling you, they’re there. The difference is the arrangements. They’re just presented in a different way.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
!!!!!!!! acre thrills documentary surfaces online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loni6SVagbw
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 December 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link