(Haters Beware) WHITE MAGIC

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New-ish trio with Mira Billotte (Quixotic), Andy MacLeod, Miggy Littleton (Ida, among other things), just put out a six-song EP on Drag City. Three of the songs on the EP are my favorite songs by them live. Nice piano/guitar/drums (occasional bass) trio reminiscent of some Cat Power or Mary Timony but kinda better IMO. What say you?

(ddb step off yo)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

MIGGY LOOKA LIKEA DA ROCK

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

MARY TIMONY SUX WHY DID I SIT THROUGH THAT SHIT JUST TO SEE ERASE ERRATA?

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah I'm not so into Timony, that's why WHITE MAGIC is better yo.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Once I went to a BBQ at the Bilotte sister's house...They made really good mango salsa.

At least they got that going for them.

― ddb, Monday, 24 May 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dotsloft.co.uk/images/cupcakeus.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

They made really good mango salsa.

that's your second MANGO reference today.. fruity ass

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

ZUNG.

― ddb, Monday, 24 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

some insightful genius had this to say:

Anyway, I liked White Magic, I pretty much always do, definately glad she had the piano, I've seen them play acoustic sans piano(also sans miggy.) I thought they were good and while they're being cast into the neo-psyche folk revival, it's really a neo-psyche-rock revival, i.e., they are way more Jefferson Airplane then Incredible String Band. Or something.

The best show I've ever seen of their was last summers Marlborough Farms BBQ, hosted by Kevin Barker aka Currituck Co. In his living room, Currituck Co., White Magic, PG 6 and the Animal Collective performed while 30 people sat on the floor amidst balloons. Meanwhile, the nyc music elite gathered on the front and back porches and front yard to eat good foods and wander through the house, where, on the way to the bathroom, I discovered a Lowry organ left turned on, and proceeded to play that for a half an hour. The particular street in Kensington or Flatbush or whereever the hell that is was amazingly beautiful with these giant redwoods-esque trees. Then a friend of mine and I went to Bang the Party to hear Nicky Siano DJ. That's a pretty awesome NYC day.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had three songs of theirs on continuous repeat in my head for like two weeks now.

TWO WEEKS.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yah Ms. I-was-in-the-Vels still talks about how good that party was, Dan.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.eblox.com/lechner/totalbreakfast.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to live in that house in 95-96. Jowe Head peed in my dresser drunk one night. Ah, Brooklyn.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

that's fucking awesome

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

He actually started to. I was in bed with 105 fever on New Years Eve and he was staying there at Marlborough Farms recording and came in drunk and I hear "creak" and the drawer opens and a zipper sound and I go 'stop!' this aint the bathroom! And he, very English and polite was like 'oh dear,' and then goes down the hall where i kid you not i heard him urinate for like 7 or 8 minutes, the whole while saying 'oh my' and 'oh dear'. So that's the story. Oh, he tried to pass out on my bed too and i was going 'i'm sick! go away!' He was such a great fella though despite that trauma. When I went to that PG6 party I was telling people 'here's where Jowe peed and tried to pass out.' Dan, if you reissue his stuff, I can write the liners, ok?

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

you'd better!

That beats my story because my story involves my own band - we were staying with Scott Seward's brother Dan Bunny and Tom Greenwood in Hudson, NY after a show with Lisa Germano of all people. Anyway, my buddy Dave (the now notorious Wolf Eyes / No Fun Fest stagediver) drunkenly mistook a brand new wicker chair for a toilet in the middle of the night. I work up in a van to see a very understanding Dan Bunny rapping on the window saying "uh...your friend Dave peed on our chair."

who's reissuing Swell Maps stuff? Isn't it all in print? Except for maybe Jane from Occupied Europe?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

my story doesn't involve hip music people, but when I went to summer camp, we always had british counselors and there was this one bunk that was (luckily) empty as our counselor came back from his night out and urinated all over it, in a room filled with like 12 adolescent kids. I'm sorry, I'm not much of a drinker and I've never been so drunk as to mistake other objects for a toilet.

What is/was the deal with the Swell Maps stuff. I got Marineville and Train Out of It when they were Mute/Grey Area cut-outs and you couldn't go to a store without tripping over copies of them, then later got a CD burn of Jane From Occupied Territory which I'm I'm listening to right now...The Helicopter Spies is definately more Sonic Youth then Sonic Youth, or sounds like Sonic Youth jamming with Mars or whatever. Brilliant.

Then there's been those other compilations I haven't heard, like International Rescue because I assumed I had most of that stuff. I don't know Jowe Head solo, but know that Secrectly Canadian did all those Niki Sudden reissues, I think.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

so anyway, about that White Magic EP...

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't heard it.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

it's pretty good!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe I'll reissue it in 20 years.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not new-wave enough.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway, how about a Vels reissue?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

there's only so much music, you know? Acute's gonna spread it's wings. I'll pull one of those things where I stop liking a certain music and suddenly Acute only releases unreleased slick nashville country from the 70s or something. Oh man, right now I'm listening to something that may come out on Acute eventually and it's so goddamn New Wave it's brilliant.

Vels. hmmm. I'll have to listen to the records again. I think it's a bit poppy/glossy for us!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

awww man somebody should put those records out. A certain ex-member thinks nobody cares about them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

brian turner is the best writer on ILX period.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

cleaning up my random crap in iTunes and found these tracks i downloaded exactly a year ago today!

i really like them (surprise, surprise, jason likes some indie rock, holy fuck!). Nina Simone's Plain Gold Ring was already one of my fave songs. i'd love to hear the Nick Cave version, never could find it on Limewire.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

this thread is really cute too. it's like a noize board little get together.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

on my dorm floor first year of college, there was this kid that pissed ON his roommate while drunk (the other roommie was asleep) TWICE!!

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

once on each foot?

― cousin larry bundgee: the next generation, season two (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

haha. stop remembering my previous posts

actually twice on his face

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

"One-Note" bears more than a passing resemblance to Mickey Finn's "Night Comes Down" and "Come Back Home" by Howlin' Wolf.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

I cherish my Tylenol Ouch! split. What have they been up to recently?

― Wrinklepaws (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Going slowly, I guess
There is a big article/interview in Fader which I thought would mean there would be some new material but it wasn't mentioned.
I saw them maybe three times and hated them (including that marlborough farms show) but then they clicked. I really like the ep and then while stoned and seeing them jam out on the zeppelin like one from the ep at Volume I decided they were America's best rock band. Then I got less high.

― bowler, Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

new album. Dat Rosa Mel Apibus. i like but don't love like i did the EP. gotta find that.

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

still haven't heard it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to remember seeing these guys open for Ghost (along w/6 Organs) on their last tour and being thoroughly bored/non-plussed. But at their set at Arthurnights recently they seemed like an entirely different band, much more engaging...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

got the new lp today, so far it's great, liking the fuller sound of it compared to the ep.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

I just got this off emusic - on first listen I really like it. Her voice is very satisfying, mature and pleasing (thin, childish irritating voices seem to be the hallmark of current indie) - similar timbre to Joni Mitchell. Jim White on drums is always good. Some of the songs are a little repetitive, but mostly good.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Bump just because I'm surprised no one is talking about it. I'm listening to it for the third time in a row - it's really good

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

It's really nice, but their live charisma-vacuum has left me depressed and angry on three separate occasions. They definitely belong on the thread of "performers who look like they would rather be ANYWHERE but onstage playing for you." Come to think of it, even Slant 6 (and def. Quix*o*Tic) had the same thing going.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I mnust buy. Heard once and it sounded great!@

― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen them. I kind of imagined her to have some sort of understated charm from the photos I saw.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

better thank Newsom's album

(inject controversy here)

― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, well, the only thing controversial about that is that I don't really see that much of a comparison other than them both being women on Drag City.

Man, I love "The Light" - those banshee lamaze class yells get me every time.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

i actually think it's better than "ys" too, tho i do think "ys" is pretty great.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

live charisma-vacuum

Based on ArthurNights, I totally agree with you there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

so what is this new EP dark stars like? and does Kim's always sell stuff before it is officially released?

― mizzell, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

we have a promo at our radio, don't know the actual street date. 4 tracks, all with Jim White, only heard one and it didn't make an impression.

― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

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