If I haven’t left you by the August of two thousand ten, I am truly a pathetic person. Cheers to the countdown, my long-time & recurring acquaintance.
MARKED MEN – Ditch (2009)
Is there reason to try? You’ll never make it on your own
Hang your head and just cry
No reason to leave, just stay home, all alone
You don’t know why it creeps up slowly in your mind
You know it’s a lie–those little voices of your own
Ditch, stuck in a ditch, stuck in a ditch,
and that ain’t new (x2)
You know it’s sucking you in–what they said so long ago
You wanna believe them again
It’s not that sad, you know, let it go
You don’t know why it creeps up slowly in your mind
You know it’s a lie–those little voices of your own
Ditch, stuck in a ditch, stuck in a ditch,
let it go (x3)
Ditch, stuck in a ditch, son of a bitch,
let it go.
I realize that I don’t post enough music on here anymore because I am either too busy or lazy, and that we are a little low in the art department, but it’s gonna change when I get back to school! In order to make up for a summer low on music, I am presenting everyone with a travel mix I made. Each song title describes a part of my journey back to the ‘burgh. ENJOY!
1. Battle – One More Night
2. 1990s – Thinking of Not Going
3. ADULT. – Plagued by Fear
4. My Teenage Stride – To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge
5. Friendly Fires – On Board
6. The Walkmen – The Blue Route
7. Tic Toc Tokyo – Points of Correspondence
8. Thao Nguyen – Travel
9. French Kicks – The Way You Arrive
10. Crystal Skulls – Away From Home
11. Vampire Weekend – Campus
12. The Colour – Black Summer
Will update soon, but for now enjoy your Fourth of July, I will enjoy my birthday on the 5th, and you can check out my fucking dance-a-licious muxtape:
http://solipsized.muxtape.com
Filed under: bands, miscellaneous | Tags: brain thrust mastery, icons, in action EP, we are scientists
It’s not a secret that I am a huge fan of We Are Scientists. Not only are they one of the most congenial bands I’ve had the pleasure to meet, they are also great at putting on a sincerely amusing performance. I have a Brain Thrust Mastery review in the works, so you can hear what I have to say about the new album soon. In the meantime, check out these icons I made. I’m running out of trial time on my CS3, so I figured I should take advantage of these last days and what better way than making graphics with gorgeous textures?
all icons are free to use but please link back here if you distribute them
No post would be complete without some tunes, so here are some b-sides & oldies:
We Are Scientists – This Means War
We Are Scientists – History Repeats
We Are Scientists – Secret Handshake
We Are Scientists – Bomb Inside the Bomb
Detroit Red Wings are one win from securing the Stanley Cup. Game 4 should be interesting. The Penguins tried to pick up the pace, but Red Wings did it better.
kansas city:
Before I go into Oxford Collapse, I just wanted to mention I noticed that White Rabbits have been removed from the lineup at the Record Bar for the June 1st date. That night there will be an all ages experimental rock show consisting of Mutators, Modern Creatures, and KC locals Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse in addition to the 18+ show later that night. Thumbs up to Record Bar for organizing these types of events. Most all-ages events in the Kansas-Missouri area occur in Lawrence so I think it’s really valuable that they’re doing this. Thanks Steve Tulipana. You’re a hottie (he really is).
Speaking of all ages shows, so when I was in high school a bunch of my friends and I were skipping cafeteria lunch to go to eat at Dean & Deluca instead (Evan Werts if you are googling your name this pertains to you). We went in the back by the dumpsters and employee vehicles to smoke cigarettes because we were still a couple years underage and didn’t want to see our headmaster or any other faculty who might potentially be there on their lunch break. Well some dude with a chef’s smock comes out and gives us a ton of flyers for this pumpkin carving contest his band was performing their CD release gig at. Specifically, the Architects’ CD release party at Recycled Sounds. This was back when they were unsigned and their myspace page was impossible to find and very scarce. I remember tittering like a typical teenage girl because some cute guy just invited me to an event that wasn’t sponsored by my school. I also remember passing out the flyers to only people I liked because my friends kind of just wanted to get rid of them, therefore only I was left in charge of dissemination within my bubble.
anyway I bet you thought I was going to go into a super fucking old show review but NO! The life lesson here is that promoting events on a DIY level is a tricky thing which involves the efforts of many different types of people. Reach out to those young teenage girls even if you think they are going to be groupies, because–to be honest–it’s not the musicians that teach the fans to get over the idolatry, it’s the friends that supplement the necessary humiliation. OH HIGH SCHOOL!
disclaimer: I am not nor ever was an Architects groupie.
Carnegie Mellon University Carnival Fireworks, April 19th 2008
Hey guys. So I hadn’t updated for a while, and updates are going to be coming along pretty slowly for the next two weeks. I just spent two sleepless days in the printshop creating my final printmaking portfolio with some pretty awesome intaglio and lithographic pieces–so there is a lot of new art that I will be showing soon!
There are a lot of things that I haven’t posted about, like the bands at CMU Carnival, the Beach House show, the Amon Tobin show. I apologize for that, but school always comes first for me, because that’s why I live in Pittsburgh for most of the year. Here is what you can expect from gigawave next month:
- A new bi-monthly contest where I will give away art (prints, small paintings, holga shots of musicians, original stenciled t-shirts, etc.)
- A consistent weekly musicdraw. It’s going to be summer and I will work this beast like crazy!
- Album reviews, old and new. Promise.
- More focus on Kansas City, as I will be spending the next four months there. However, you can still expect Pittsburgh show previews as well as news links and the like
The biggest event of the summer for gigawave, however, will probably be a site revamp. I am planning on moving to my own domain soon, but I can’t say when because I need to build the blog and make sure it is compatible with Firefox, Safari, and IE before I move everything over there. It’s probably going to take me all summer and completion will probably come towards the fall.
Also, I am looking at several jobs for the summer, two of them which I got interviews for are at portrait studios. Isn’t that exciting? Wish me luck, as I need to score some work! I might also be working at a printmaking shop once a week in Lawrence, KS. I love printmaking and next semester I will be taking a class with Robert Beckman, director of Artist Image Resourc. I think it is the direction I want to go in, in terms of artmaking, so maybe one day I will be running my own graphic design company. Who knows. THE FUTURE AWAITS US.
Filed under: bands, events, interviews, miscellaneous, news links, pittsburgh
So Many Dynamos Coming to Pittsburgh
Yes it is true! SMD are planning to play a date in the burgh. From their myspace bulletin:
In the almost-as-near future, we’re about to do another tour. Here are the dates so far. As you see, there are lots of TBA’s so feel free to message us about it, we’re still in the booking stages and could use assistance if you feel like you can help.
04/30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ TBA (details will be announced soon)
download:
So Many Dynamos – In Every Direction
So Many Dynamos – Progress
Triggers Interviewed for Post Gazette Article
Triggers explode with power-pop debut
Thursday, March 27, 2008
By Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“At first we kind of didn’t take things too seriously,” says singer-guitarist Adam Rousseau. “We had all sort of gotten out of ‘bad relationships,’ so to speak, with our previous bands and I, at least, was really just thinking of Triggers as something to do just for fun. I mean, I thought we played well and had some decent tunes, but it wasn’t until we played our first show and got such a positive reaction from the audience and our friends that I thought, ‘We might be on to something here.’ “
read the rest of the article here
New Book of Photography on Pittsburgh
Local photographer Mark Bolster has recently published a book filled with elegant and poignant photos of places in and around Pittsburgh. The book is available in digital format online, or physical format from bookstores, or you can buy it directly from the artist himself. For more information, click on the image of the cover in order to view samples from the book:
New Records for the Radio Station
Seeing as I missed Mixel Pixel two nights in a row, I decided to hit them up for a 12 inch of “Coming Up X’s” last night; the song is one of my favorites off their 2006 album Music for Plants. Very exciting. Rob Corradetti, who does the art for the band, was also nice enough to slip in the 7 inch of “Kind of Girl.” Definitely am going to spin those next time I am at the station, maybe even make some mp3 files to share. Mixel Pixel = quite an affable band.
