#Brenda Sauter

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9/17/23.

I remember hearing "What Goes On" from The Feelies "Only Life" LP and thinking it was a near perfect cover of a perfect song. Well, now we get 18 live reminders of how much The Feelies (New Jersey) love The Velvet Underground.

This is a double LP release of a live show in October 2018. Glenn Mercer, Bill Million, Brenda Sauter and the Demeski/Weckerman duo have given us an amazing gift. The only thing better than this live album would be to have seen it in person. One can only imagine.

This is being released by Bar/None Records.

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Wild Carnation - Live on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock on WFMU, November 3, 2009

Over on Aquarium Drunkard this week, I spoke with Brenda Sauter, bassist/vocalist for The Feelies / The Willies / The Trypes — and Wild Carnation! The latter band's debut LP, Tricycle, is being reissued in expanded / remastered form for Record Store Day this month — the first time it's been on vinyl, if you can believe it. Tricycle is definitely worth your time and money; I've been into it for a while now, but the remaster makes it sound bigger and better than ever. If you're a Feelies fan (and who in their right mind isn't a Feelies fan???), you gotta get it.

As Brenda mentions during our chat, Wild Carnation still pops up to play shows from time to time and it sounds like they've got more than enough material for a new LP. Good news! In the meantime, check out this short-but-sweet Three Chord Monte set, live on WFMU. Catch the rising tide!

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Wild Carnation — Tricycle (Delmore)

“The Rising Tide” buzzes in on a breezy blast of distortion, its guitar lines flaring into droning dissonance, the drums crisp and minimal, the bass a subtle through-line in a deliriously murky roar. The sound filters Velvet Underground fuzz through the jangling exuberance of early R.E.M., and except for its fluttering, trebly vocals it could easily put you in mind of the Feelies. No coincidence there.

Indeed, Wild Carnation was one of an interlocking circuit of New Jersey bands that shared members—and a certain buzzy, drone-y, jangly aesthetic—with the Feelies. It formed around 1992, after the Feelies first hiatus and included Feelies bassist Brenda Sauter, her husband Rich Barnes and drummer Chris O’Donovan. (In terms of intricate interconnections, Sauter and Barnes already played together in Trypes, and they were also in Speed the Plough.)

This Record Store Day release collects the original songs from Wild Carnation’s first album, demo versions of seven of these 12 tracks and what looks like the entirety of a 1997 live gig in Hamburg, Germany. Thirty-one cuts in all, it provides a sweeping view of Wild Carnation’s early incarnation (there was another album called Superbus, some 12 years after the first). If the band was overlooked before, it is fully represented now.

And really, that’s a good thing, because there’s not a single dud on Tricycle. From the noise-addled propulsion of “The Rising Tide” straight through to the folk-picked intimacy of “Shaker Tune,” the main album cuts are uniformly engaging, and you get to hear them more than once, in various iterations.

For example, “Susquehanna 142,” a nod to the trains that crisscross Garden State sets up a hazy, mesh of intersecting guitar picking and lilting vocal descants. If you like that, and how could you not, the compilation provides additional context in the form of a barer, folkier demo and a pensive live version that brings out the tune’s dreamy side. Later, “The Lights are On (but No One’s Home)” blares and buzzes with feedback, a dirty crust under its careening, multi-voiced harmonies. A live performance brings the main melodic line to the front, emphasizing its hooky, poppy side and submerging the roar of amps.

The live cuts also provide a peek into Wild Carnation’s influences, with covers of Patti Smith, Neil Young and the sister band Speed the Plough. Barnes challenges the audience to name the band that wrote one of the most obscure covers, offering a free CD to anyone who gets it right. The CD goes unclaimed because even among the most ardent German audience, no one besides the band is very familiar with The Grass Roots. The song — “Wait a Million Years” — fits pretty neatly into Wild Carnation’s aesthetic, though, with sharp, power pop guitar licks, bashing rhythms and a melody that is both triumphant and minor-key melancholy.

You could certainly approach Tricycle as a Feelies side project, noting its similarities and thinking a lot about whether the music is better or worse. But this extended reissue argues for considering Wild Carnation on its terms, with stronger folk roots and careening, often thrilling vocal parts. Delmore will be putting out a similar package around Superbus in the fall, and even if it’s as long as this one, it seems like a pity that there wasn’t more.

Jennifer Kelly

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The Trypes - A Plan Revised

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The Feelies- Some Kinda Love: Performing The Music of the Velvet Underground (Bar-None)

Those of us hoping for a new Feelies album with all originals are still holding out hope, but it’s really hard to argue with this new record. For this album, the band's seventh, the band was recorded live at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City New Jersey on October 13, 2018 (five years to the day of this release) doing an extensive set of Velvet Underground songs.

If you know anything about The Feelies, you know that the band loves to do covers of their favorite artists and over the years they’ve done their share of V.U. covers.

This album was produced by the band's leaders, vocalist/guitarist, Glenn Mercer, and other guitarist Bill Million and it sounds great. The frenetic energy that this band has executed for decades is all caught here on tape during this live set.

From the opening "Sunday Morning," you will hear old V.U. classics, like 'Sweet Jane," "What Goes On," "White Light, White Heat," and plenty more as well as more obscure nuggets such as “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'," and "New Age” to name but two.

Nearly 50 years after their original formation (and at least 40 years with this long-running lineup which also includes Stan Demeski on drums, Brenda Sauter on bass, and Dave Weckerman on percussion) the Feelies are still delivering. To anyone who knows, the band is a national treasure and this album is only adding to that legacy.

www.bar-none.com

www.thefeelies.bandcamp.com

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Album Review: The Feelies - Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground

The Feelies are wise and intuitively understand that when covering the Velvet Underground, there’s no use in trying to sound like the Velvet Underground.

So on Oct. 13, 2018, in New Jersey, the Feelies went out there and just played as they do and the show - documented five years later as Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground - turned out to be a worthy tribute and a worthwhile listen for those who missed it.

There’s obviously no viola and no Feelie can do Nico. But guitarists Glenn Mercer and Bill Million pull off a cool trick in swathing the Velvet’s guitar parts in Byrdsian layers while never losing the timbre of the original recordings. On the mic, Mercer channels Lou Reed’s attitude on such tracks as “I’m Waiting for the Man,” “Run Run Run” and several others. But bassist Brenda Sauter shines brightest standing in for Mo Tucker on “After Hours.”

Some Kinda Love is loose but never sloppy. It’s a cover album, yet’s it’s no mere imitation. There’s no stage banter and no overt fawning over the Velvets; the Feelies instead let their version of the music do the talking and it speaks strongly via the band’s confident delivery.

Grade card: The Feelies - Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground - B+

1/16/24

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The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms

white vinyl

Line Records LILP 4.00168 J, 1986

Originally released: April 1980

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One More Chance to Catch the Feelies at Rough Trade NYC This Weekend

The Feelies rose up out of North Jersey in the mid-’70s making jangly, droning avant-garde post-punk music that wasn’t exactly a commercial success at the time, but it did make them highly influential with other bands in the burgeoning indie-rock scene. They put out four highly acclaimed albums between 1980 and ’91 before calling it quits. But then the band got back together, quite literally—with Glenn Mercer (vocals and guitar), Bill Million (vocals and guitar), Brenda Sauter (bass and vocals), Dave Weckerman (percussion) and Stan Demeski (drums) reuniting in 2008 to play a pair of shows at Maxwell’s, the site of what had been their final show, 17 years earlier, and another opening for Sonic Youth. They continued to make appearances over the next few years and then put out their fifth long-player, Here Before (stream it here), in 2011. “One play confirms Here Before is excellent, an album that finds the band seemingly picking up where it left off and sounding as committed and invigorating as ever, reveling in the beauty and power of rhythm guitars and cracking percussion,” raved AllMusic. “Now as before, there are few groups in rock and roll that perform as brilliantly and purposefully as an ensemble as the Feelies, and on Here Before their trademark sound remains a thing of wonder that hasn't been dimmed a bit by the passage of time.” A sixth studio album, In Between (stream it here), arrived in 2017. “The new Feelies album is both mellow and intense in ways only the New Jersey band can pull off,” gushed Pitchfork. The Feelies play three local shows this weekend, and while Friday and Saturday are already sold out, there are still some tickets left to see these underground legends live and in person on Sunday night at Rough Trade NYC.

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The Feelies: Live at The 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. 6/22/18

On a blistering night in July of 2011, I rode my bike to Prospect Park to catch the legendary rockers from Haledon, New Jersey: The Feelies. Despite the heat and subsequent unwillingness of any of my family or friends to join me, I wanted to see this seminal band that I had loved in the 80s but had since disappeared for many years. I arrived to see a smaller crowd than usual at the bandshell and noticed that a large percentage of the audience were unaccompanied middle-aged white guys, many with beards and glasses. The heat would not stop these Feelies fans, and we were all rewarded by an energetic show.

The illusive Feelies brought their brand of post-punk rock and roll to the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. on Friday night. Since reuniting in 2008 after a 16-year hiatus, they have been hard to catch. Lately, they average less than 10 shows a year and stick mostly to the east coast. The near-capacity crowd witnessed the quintet deliver a generous helping of their catalog divided across two sets. There were notable songs from their seven albums and three EPs, with many of the crowd pleasers coming from their earlier records. Despite their light touring schedule, this band remains rock solid. The rhythm section of Stan Demeski (drums) Dave Weckerman (drums and percussion) and Brenda Sauter (bass) created a rich wall of sound behind the guitars and vocals the two original members: Glenn Mercer and Bill Million. Mercer and Million have been at this since 1976 and the experience showed. They have taken a rock tributary from The Velvet Underground and formed it into their own river; a river filled with vigorous vocals and heavy-duty guitar hooks.

After they ended with their most well-known tune “Crazy Rhythms,” the band stepped backstage. They didn’t spend much time there and emerged for a total of four encores. They delighted the audience with a few more originals as well some excellent covers including The Velvet Underground’s “Rock and Roll” and “I Can’t Stand It,” Television’s “See No Evil” and Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” The experience was reminiscent of leaving a good New Jersey diner: everyone left full and satisfied.

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1/24/24.

I'd never even heard of Wild Carnation (New Jersey) until Record Store Day 2023 when Delmore Recording Society reissued "Tricycle". I'm not totally sure what series of events brought me to these "Superbus" demos, but the lack of a physical release took me to Discogs when I found that "Superbus" was Wild Carnation's 2nd release - 12 years after "Tricycle". It has been reissued by Pine Hill Records.

Like many other Feelies related side projects, the Feelies DNA is unmistakable. Brenda Sauter was associated with not only The Feelies, but Speed the Plough and The Trypes. Those sensibilities are brought to this release as well.

According to the Bandcamp page, Wild Carnation shared the stage with The Bats, Luna and Moe Tucker among others.

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INTERVIEWS ETC 2023

I sometimes talk to people! Going back over the last year, I had some nice conversations with some very cool people. I like doing interviews, but they definitely stress me out a little bit. I suppose it's good to get out of your comfort zone from time to time, though ... So yeah, here are a few of those interviews, in case you missed 'em the first time around.

HEAD VOICE (James Jackson Toth, Ben Chasny, Donovan Quinn)

Donovan Quinn: There’s one aspect of process which is like a user manual. You know, turning on a machine, how you control the bass or whatever. But then there’s a part of process which is more of our terrain, where it’s kind of a story. An artist or a group of artists is interacting with all these elements — each other, gear, inspiration. With each of our pieces in Head Voice, we’re getting little bits of that story.

ILYAS AHMED

With my record, I’ve seen people reference Loren Connors, which is great — I’m a huge fan of Loren Connors. But I’m always comparing it to something like Bill Fay, maybe in an emotional sense. Or like, Neil Young — how do I make “Cortez The Killer” … but not just copy it. One of my favorite Coltrane tunes is “Alabama.” Those eternal favorites you always come back to. How can I make something that feels like that without just doing that, right? I’m not interested in copying it, I’m interested in transmuting it, making it fit into my weird perspective of the world. 

WILL HERMES

As an artist, [Lou] was a “transformer,” and everybody has their own version of who he was. What they want him to be, what aspect of his character they wanted to take in. I tried to show them all. I don’t know if they all morph into a single, intelligible human being. But maybe that is part of what was endlessly fascinating about him. He was all of these things simultaneously and they didn’t all necessarily add up.

M. SAGE

I think it’s radical to have fun. And to be silly. It’s not meant as escapism or denial, but the world is dark and weird. And it keeps getting darker and weirder. It’s radical for an artist to afford an audience joy or pleasure. I mean, I love a lot of that solemn, serious, foreboding electro-acoustic music. There’s incredible stuff, obviously. But I wanted to make something that felt fun. And accessible! That’s radical, too, I think.

HORSE LORDS

Andrew Bernstein: We’re trying to make things that sound interesting to us, first and foremost. But we’re also hoping that the music and the way we operate spurs the listener to think differently. Every act is political, and our decisions might make someone reconsider how they make music or how they go about their lives.

BRENDA SAUTER

“The Obedient Atom” at White Eagle Hall was really special. That was one of the original Willies songs and it never got recorded. It was one of those songs that was always left behind for one reason or another. To finally play it out just felt incredible … and then the fire alarm went off and everyone had to evacuate [laughter]. There’s something about that song! Surreal. The atom wasn’t so obedient that night.

Further reading: Bill Million on the Feelies' live tribute to an Underground legend

GUIDING LIGHT: A TOM VERLAINE APPRECIATION

Alasdair MacLean: I also think of some of Stephan Mallarme’s phrases – “the musician of empty nothingness.” Verlaine seemed to be working in parallel: “Watching the corners turn corners;” “Lightning struck itself.” The language turns in on itself, like the guitar solos. He obviously knew those poets back to front. I imagine lots of other people have tried to do this since, but all of them have made fools of themselves. Verlaine never did.

Further reading: Tom Verlaine - 20 Great Tracks

SPIRAL STAIRS

When we first started talking about rehearsing, I was like, “We’re probably going to be playing the same 20 songs. Let’s just pick another 15 songs that we know we can bust out.” Eventually, we finally came to that point…but then in rehearsals we ended up playing probably like 60 songs [laughs]. I’m like, “Oh my god!” That was just for the two Primavera shows, so it was like “Come on!” It took a while to re-learn all of that stuff. 

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Andrew Forell 2023 End of Year

Robert Forster, photo by Stephen Booth

2023 buzzed by in a whirl of too much work and music. So many records and so many missed. I kept going down rabbit holes of genre and artists, chasing and never quite hauling in all the things I wanted to, or felt I should, listen to. In the end, music being so difficult to rank, here, in alphabetical order are the records I spent most time with a bunch of others I’ve been recommending to anyone who would listen.

The Feelies – Some Kinda Love (Bar/None)

2023 has been a good year for guitar music.  New albums from Teenage Tom Petties, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, The Drin, The Tubs and The Murder Capital have been on high rotation here. So why a 2018 live tribute to a band who broke up in 1973 by a group in their fifth decade? First, these are songs are from The Velvet Underground, and second, simply, The Feelies. Joined by Richard Barone and Joey Maestro from The Bongos, they rip through a set that features the “hits” and some lesser-known songs with affection but not awe. Glenn Mercer and Bill Million’s guitars thrum in the style we are accustomed to, while Stanley Demeski, Dave Weckerman and Brenda Sauter provide rhythmic support which adds a dynamic swing to songs like “There She Goes Again,” “Head Held High” and “I’m Waiting For the Man.”  Some Kinda Love is a pure dopamine hit of great songs played by a brilliant band. Joy and fun in equal measure.

Robert Forster – The Candle and the Flame (Tapete)

On The Candle and the Flame Robert Forster produces some of the most emotionally direct and effecting songs of his career. Recorded in the shadow of his wife, Karen Bäumer’s diagnosis of, and treatment for ovarian cancer, Forster writes with grace about family, friendship, love and the past. The only song written in direct response to the illness “She’s A Fighter” contains only six words but the propulsive tension of the music expresses everything Forster doesn’t attempt to say. It’s an extraordinarily powerful performance, a cathartic blast, and for me, one of the songs of the year. “Tender Years,, “The Roads” and “When I Was A Young Man”  are also up there. As I said in my review “few (songwriters) imbue the quotidian joys of domestic life and the power of memory with such poetry.”

Iceboy Violet – Not a Dream But a Controlled Explosion (Fixed Abode)

On their self-produced album Not a Dream But A Controlled Explosion Iceboy Violet mixes rap, grime and swathes of liminal ambience into an emotionally purgative chronicle of identity, desire and fantasy which flows with a dreamlike intensity. Over deep pulses of sub-bass, taiko influenced percussion and concrete noise, their voice shifts in and out of focus, here a background whisper, there an urgent Northern accented boom. The music, like the vocals, is in constant flux, slipping between hard club beats and eerie ambience. At just 17 minutes, the eight tracks here stay with you for far longer.

The Inward Circles – Before We Lie Down in Darknesse (Stone Corbel Press)

Scottish composer Richard Skelton manipulates a six second fragment of Baroque recorder music taken from the run-out groove of a battered 50-year-old vinyl recording into haunted soundscapes that to tap into something primordial and elemental within layers built like geological strata. This is music to lose yourself in. Obsidian and glacial, Skelton’s work captures and preserves trace elements of melody and rhythm so imperceptible that you feel as much as hear them. Before We Lie Down in Darkness is a beautiful, timeless voyage andhas often eased me from insomniac anxiety to sleep in the last few months.

King Vision Ultra – Shook World (hosted by Algiers)

Using musical stems from Algiers’ Shook, found sound and collaborations with artists including ELUCID, Matana Roberts, DJ Haram, Dis Fig and Bigg Jus, King Vision Ultra’s self-styled mixtape is a companion piece and conversation with its source rather than a remix. A shifting  sound collage that explores and interrogates race, class, gentrification, violence, love and community, Shook World digs into the core of New York City. Recordings of subway announcements, overheard conversations and confrontations lend a bracing realism and more than once Shook World  has merged with the noise and incident of daily trips on the 1 train. A brilliant, often disorientating and abrasive sound portrait of NYC from some of its most interesting musicians.

Kofi Flexxx – Flowers in the Dark (Native Rebel)

Native Rebel founder Shabaka Hutchings has been in the vanguard of the English jazz scene with his bands Sons of Kemet, Shabaka & The Ancestors and The Comet Is Coming and as a cross-genre collaborator with artists on three continents. Posited as a “creative principle” rather than a band, Kofi Flexxx, Hutchings acts as guide and producer. Flowers in the Dark is anchored by pianist Alex Hawkins, flautist Ross Harris and a dynamite rhythm section of bassist Daisy George and drummer Jas Kayser. Backing guest vocalists including rappers billy woods and ELUCID, singers Siyabonga Mthembu from South Africa and Tamil born Ganavye and poet Anthony Joseph on album highlight “By Now (Accused of Magic)”, the quartet provide a fulcrum that draws together the strands of black music into sinuous unity. The instrumental tracks  are equally good. “It Was All a Dream” has the rhythmic power of Sons Of Kemet with Hawkins’ percussive piano and George’s bass bounding along ahead of a wall of horns and Harris flying above them while managing to find a gritty rasp the bottom end of the flute. “Fire” is a bluesy spiritual jazz with George and Harris both prominent. An album that exemplifies Hutchings’ holistic approach to music.

Seablite – Lemon Lights (Mt St Mtn)

San Francisco band Seablite’s second album Lemon Lights delves deeper into their love for 1990s English sounds. The quartet of vocalist/guitarist Lauren Matsui, vocalist/bassist Galine Tumasyan (bass), guitarist Jen Mundy and drummer Andy Pastalaniec channel the lush end of 1990s British indie. Ride guitarist Mark Gardener mastered Lemon Lights and the result is an album of shoegaze adjacent songs which incorporate the jangling sound of Seablite’s Bay Area contemporaries. It’s a deeply satisfying combination elevated by vocal harmonies, serpentine bass lines and Pastalaniec’s driving percussion. Lead single “Melancholy Molly” has the rollicking rhythm of Ride’s “Leave Them All Behind” overlaid with Matsui and Tumasyan’s lush harmonies and the twin guitars sparking from the mix. The sound is dense but melodic, allowing the guitars to chime and shimmer than rather fuzz and the  melancholic edge to tracks like “Pot of Boiling Water” and the dreamy closer “Orbiting My Sleep” make Lemon Lights resonate.

Sinaïve – Répétition (Antimatière)

When Sinaïve released Répétition in April, I had a cursory listen, filed it away and promptly forgot about it for several weeks. My mistake. On second listen, their combination of Gallic cool, psychedelic pyrotechnics, VU drone and the distant echoes of Ye-Ye and the French underground was irresistible. The Strasbourg trio - Calvin Keller on vocals/guitar/keys, Alicia Lovich drums /vocals/organ and bassist Alaoui O - make a wholly satisfying racket. On the 11 plus minutes of “Citadelle/Bis Repetita”, Sinaïve ride Lovich’s robotic rockabilly beat and Alaoui’s throbbing bass though a suite that sounds among other things like “Ghost Rider”, “Sister Ray” and Love at their wiggiest before Keller’s freight train riffs entangle themselves as if on a lock groove. It’s a terrific piece of sonic détournement. “Les Diaboliques” finds Keller crooning over a squalling guitar and molasses bass line before guest singer Raphaëlle Albane enters, an earthbound angel amidst the feedback. Albane appears again on “Cela ne Fait que Commencer” to close the album duetting with Keller over a quiet pulsing beat, organ and strummed guitar.

99Letters – Makafushigi (Disciples)

Osaka producer Takahiro Kinoshita’s Makafushigi (Mystery Tape)is built on samples of the instruments and vocal styles used in Japanese Imperial Court music. As 99Letters, Kinoshita fuses these ancient sounds with modern electronic music in ways that are as malevolent as the demons of mythology and as sinister as the organized crime and ultranationalism in contemporary Japan. The tracks on Makafushigi are washed in a seamy mix of grit and clamor, a grim, grimy world of back alleys, dingy bars and low-tech manufacturing. On discovering this I went on to a deep dive into 99Letters’ back catalogue and emerged when Kinoshita put out his most recent album Zigoku on Phantom Limb in November. He is the artist I’ve been most thrilled to discover this year.

The Others:

Algiers – Shook (Matador

Armand Hammer – We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum)

jaimie branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (International Anthem)

John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy – Evenings At the Village Gate (Impulse)

Comet Gain – The Misfit Jukebox (Tapete)

The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom (Drunken Sailor)

Euglossine – Bug Planet is the Current Timeline (Hausu Mountain)

Asher Gamedze – Turbulence and Pulse (international Anthem)

Gods Gift – Turn All the Lights Out (Play Loud!)

Laurel Halo – Atlas (Awe)

The Reverend Michael Kristen Hayter – SAVED! (Perpetual Flame Ministries)

Irreversible Entanglements – Protect Your Light (Impulse)

Life Strike – Peak Dystopia (Bobo Integral)

Kevin Richard Martin – Black (Intercranial)

OXBOW – Love’s Holiday (Ipecac)

Purelink – Signs (Peak Oil)

Quicksails – Surface (Hausu Mountain)

Rainy Miller x Space Africa – A Grissaille Wedding (Fixed Abode)

Speaker Music – Techxodus (Planet Mu)

Strategy – Graffiti in Space (Constellation Tatsu)

The Tubs ��� Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)

billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)

99Letters – Zigoku (Phantom Limb)

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The Feelies - Sooner Or Later

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Wild Carnation- Tricycle (Delmore Recordings RSD reissue)

Now here is a very overlooked and underrated gem of a record. It is a side project for Feelies bassist Brenda Sauter. On here she’s handling bass/vocals and she is joined by guitarist Rich Barnes (who is awesome) and on drums Chris O’Donovan. One thing about these three is that throughout Tricycle they are wired and completely locked in!

The songs are tight and taut and the jangly guitar overload goes on and on (if you’re like me you won’t want it to stop). Not just that, but the songwriting is all aces here (and I just happen to love Brenda’s low-key vocals, too).

A few of my favorites include tightly spun wonders like “Acid Rain and The Big One,” “Wings,” “The Rising Tide” (you’ll swear that this is an obscure 80’s cut from New Zealand’s Flying Nun label) and “No Doors in Kansas City” to name but a few.

Not only that does this include the original album, but this RSD reissue adds a bunch of demos and a full live set from Hamburg, Germany from 1997.  If you missed it the first time around here is your chance and if you loved it back then, well, time to update your copy!

www.delmorerecordings.com

www.wildcarnation1.bandcamp.com

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There were countless times we wanted to video last Saturday’s Feelies show. After all, they were playing, not one or two, which would be pretty normal for them, but an ENTIRE SET, of Velvet Underground songs. There was some connection to the newly opened Velvet Underground exhibit which we wrote about in our last post. Afterwards, they played a full set of their own stuff and then topped it off with no less then 3 encores. 

Yes, the Velvets are a huge influence on the Feelies. The driving, rocking, relentless beat combined with melody and an embrace of the noise that can happen when you play electric guitars loudly are hallmarks of both bands. It’s not unusual to hear the Feelies to pull out a cover here and there. We even saw them do a few with Lou Reed himself back in the early 90′s out on Long Island. It was comical to see Lou trying to keep up with the band as they did Run Run Run. 

This show however was something else. We heard songs we never heard them try before like Head Held High and Heard Her Call My Name. We got emotional as they kept going, one classic after the next. We finally lost it when they did this one: All Tomorrow’s Parties. Bassist Brenda Sauter’s voice is eerily reminiscent of Nico’s and we soon found ourselves with tears running down our face while holding up the phone. There were a number of purists who complained about recording the show so we didn’t record the whole song and that was a mistake. This was history and a recording was necessary. 

We talked to the band afterwards and put in our request that they make this show a live album. We know it was recorded for audio and maybe video both. Fans of the Feelies and Velvet Underground, the world over, would rush out to get it. There isn’t a band ion the planet more adept at reproducing the music of the Velvets than the Feelies and it was a thrill to witness.

Here was the Velvets setlist:

Sunday Morning Who Loves the Sun There She Goes Again What Goes On Sweet Jane Head Held High I’m Waiting for the Man White Light/White Heat I Heard Her Call My Name New Age That’s the Story of My Life All Tomorrow’s Parties (Brenda Sauter on vocals) Rock & Roll We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together Run Run Run I Can’t Stand It (with James Mastro) After Hours (Brenda Sauter on vocals) Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (with Richard Barone)

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Préparez votre corps à travailler Pour que votre métabolisme se déplace, vous devez faire fonctionner vos muscles. « Les muscles brûlent naturellement les calories, de sorte que plus vous avez, plus de calories tu brûleras au repos », dit Holland. Visitez pendant 4 jours de formation en résistance cette semaine, ainsi que 30 à 45 minutes d’entraînement cardiovasculaire pendant les jours de repos. Utilisez ces conseils pour maximiser votre renforcement de la force dans ce court laps de temps afin que vous puissiez construire votre base rapidement.

Faire des pompes Holland suggère d’ajouter du poids et d’abaisser vos représentants lors du levage. « C’est mieux pour le renforcement de la force parce que vous travaillez pouvoir contre endurance », dit-il. Vous imposerez plus vos muscles, ce qui rend cela plus efficace pour le renforcement musculaire dans un délai restreint. Les femmes, heureusement, ont peu de testostérone, l’hormone responsable du gonflage. Mais certaines femmes en ont plus que d’autres. Si vous avez tendance à être fatigué, respectez votre poids régulier, explique le formateur Brenda Powell, directrice générale de l’Institute of Human Performance de Boca Raton, en Floride. Mais si vous avez une construction moyenne, vous devez lever des poids suffisamment lourds pour que vous ne puissiez compléter que huit répétitions et continuer à ajouter du poids à chaque jeu jusqu’à ce que vous ne puissiez faire que quatre ou cinq répétitions. Essayez cette toute autre séance de force pour garder vos muscles défiés.

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Poussez vos muscles Organisez vos sessions de force afin que vous ayez 2 jours de suite. « Vous allez travailler vos muscles plus fort – presque les choquer en forme », dit Holland. Lorsque vous les divisez davantage, ils répareront et augmenteront davantage ». Par exemple, soulevez les poids lundi, mardi, jeudi et samedi. Vous aurez suffisamment de temps de repos mercredi, vendredi et dimanche pour vous rétablir, mais si vous êtes malade, faites différents exercices pour remettre vos muscles sous différents angles. Vous bénéficierez effectivement d’une série d’exercices puisque vos muscles seront constamment mis au défi de s’adapter, et vous brûleriez plus de calories alors qu’ils seraient forcés de travailler plus fort.

Reste alimenté Powell dit que vos niveaux d’insuline tombent lors d’un exercice intense (n’importe quoi où vous travaillez à 75 pour cent de votre fréquence cardiaque maximale, comme une classe de spinning). Lorsque vos niveaux d’insuline deviennent irréguliers, votre corps produit du cortisol, une hormone du stress qui décompose les muscles et a été liée à la production de graisse du ventre. Vous devez reconstituer vos magasins de glycogène pendant que vous travaillez pour réguler vos niveaux d’insuline. « Chaque fois que vous faites plusieurs ensembles, vos niveaux de glycogène diminuent de 40 pour cent », dit Powell. Buvez une boisson sportive pendant un exercice intense. Ne vous inquiétez pas pour les calories : une portion de 8 onces de Gatorade contient seulement 50 d’entre elles. Et bien que l’eau soit bonne pour un exercice modéré, pour des sessions intenses, vous aurez besoin des calories et des électrolytes pour garder vos muscles et votre métabolisme amorcés.

Faire usage de la fenêtre magique La période de 45 minutes après l’exercice est le meilleur moment pour que votre corps métabolise les nutriments, dit Powell. Votre métabolisme est déjà élevé à partir de votre séance d’entraînement, et lorsque vous rechargez correctement, vous pouvez conserver le feu. Mangez quelque chose qui a des glucides pour restaurer le glycogène et la protéine pour aider à développer les muscles. Aller pour un sandwich au poulet grillé ou du yaourt aux amandes et aux fruits. C’est idéal si vous pouvez manger dans les 20 premières minutes après l’exercice car vous pourrez réguler votre glycémie plus rapidement. « Vous pouvez également manger un tiers de vos calories quotidiennes dans les 3 heures postérieures à l’exercice, car votre corps est en mode haute gravité et va métaboliser les calories plus rapidement », dit Powell.

Mélangez vos repas Toujours mélanger les protéines, les glucides et les graisses lorsque vous mangez, explique Ann Yelmokas McDermott, Ph.D., spécialiste de la nutrition à l’Université Tufts. Vous avez besoin du mélange pour alimenter votre corps et rester assiette. Chaque fois que vous avez un seul groupe, vous risquez plus tôt de vous ressentir plus longtemps et de consommer plus de nourriture. Et ne craignez pas les graisses saines. « Ils prennent plus de temps à se décomposer dans l’intestin, alors vous vous sentirez plus longtemps et finira par consommer moins de calories », dit McDermott. Au lieu de consommer du yaourt sans graisse, par exemple, choisissez faible en gras. Faire sauter les légumes dans de l’huile d’olive, ou répandre du beurre d’arachide sur un bagel.

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Deuxième semaine

Booster votre Métabolisme Maintenant que vous êtes entré dans une rainure et avez construit un muscle, vous devriez augmenter votre intensité pour stimuler votre métabolisme. Pour commencer, permettez l’une de vos exercices de force pour une journée de cardio supplémentaire pour vous donner plus de temps pour brûler des calories à un niveau supérieur et ajouter une séance d’intervalles pour rendre votre cardio plus intense. (Par exemple, vous pouvez maintenant faire mardi une journée de cardio au lieu de la force.)

Buvez de l’eau Consommer plus d’eau peut maximiser votre métabolisme. Les chercheurs de l’Université de l’Utah ont constaté que la déshydratation (de la transpiration) peut ralentir votre métabolisme au repos (RMR) de 2%, ce qui, si votre RMR est de 1 500 calories, représente 30 calories non brûlées par jour. Dans une autre étude, ils ont constaté que boire 12 verres d’eau de 8 onces augmente le métabolisme plus élevé que de prendre quatre ou huit verres de 8 onces. Consommer plus d’eau augmente également l’énergie, ainsi que le désir d’exercer », explique le chercheur Wayne Askew, Ph.D., professeur de nutrition à l’Université de l’Utah. Si vous pouvez boire deux grandes bouteilles d’eau par jour, vous aiderez votre pic du métabolisme.

Activités physiques en intervalles Au lieu de faire du jogging pendant une demi-heure, faites des intervalles. Sprint pendant une minute, puis reposez-vous pendant une minute. Le changement d’intensité augmentera votre métabolisme et vous permettra de travailler plus fort tout en vous donnant le temps de respirer. Holland suggère d’utiliser des dés pour rendre vos intervalles intéressants. Si vous utilisez un morceau, ou même deux, multipliez le nombre que vous roulez par 10, et faites un sprint pendant plusieurs secondes (puis reposez-le pour le double de ce montant). Vous pouvez également utiliser les dés pour les intervalles de circuit pendant votre routine de poids. Si vous déplacez un nombre impair, faites un crunches – et utilisez le numéro que vous roulez pour obtenir vos représentants. Si vous obtenez un nombre pair, faites des squats ou des flexions. C’est un moyen simple de garder vos exercices variés et de vous déplacer. Pour une combustion plus graisseuse, Powell dit d’ajouter des intervalles après 45 minutes d’entraînement en force. Elle suggère de faire de trois à cinq séries d’intervalles difficiles de 1 minute, avec des périodes de récupération de 2 minutes.

Reste active Lorsque vous reposez entre les ensembles, reste actif pour maintenir votre fréquence cardiaque. Travailler un groupe musculaire différent – si vous faites des lâches, faites des flexions entre les ensembles. Vous pouvez également ajouter du cardio en effectuant des sautés ou en faisant du jogging en place. Un cumulatif de 10 minutes de ces exercices pendant le repos tentera plus de 85 calories supplémentaires.

Ajouter des protéines Augmentez votre consommation de protéines pour stimuler votre métabolisme. « Le corps doit travailler plus fort pour le traiter car il contient de l’azote, ce qui est métaboliquement coûteux », a déclaré le Dr Deitrick. Mais manger trop de protéines peut vous fatiguer parce que votre corps utilise son énergie pour digérer. Les exigences alimentaires générales en RDA comprennent 0,4 grammes de protéines pour chaque livre de poids corporel. Pour une femme de 140 livres, c’est 56 g. Le Dr Deitrick suggère d’ajouter temporairement 30 g supplémentaires de protéines à votre alimentation, ce qui fera de votre corps travailler plus fort et brûler plus de calories. Vous pouvez ajouter une demi-tasse de fromage cottage (15 g) et 8 onces de yogourt faible en gras (11 g), ou 8 onces de lait écrémé (8 g) et 3 onces de thon (22 g).

Dormez bien Obtenez au moins 6 heures de sommeil chaque nuit. « Votre corps libère des hormones de croissance après 6 heures de sommeil, c’est-à-dire lorsque vos muscles sont en train d’être tonifiés », a déclaré Holland. « Si vous avez suffisamment de repos pour libérer ces hormones musculaires, vous pourrez pousser plus fort le lendemain ». Il est également important d’ajouter un jour lent – peut-être en milieu de semaine – pour donner à vos muscles une pause et une chance de grandir encore plus. Faites une longue promenade ou un jogging facile au lieu de votre routine difficile habituelle.

Troisième Semaine

Brulez plus de calories Maintenant, il est temps de brûler autant de calories que vous pouvez dans votre séance d’entraînement. Échangez une autre session de force et remplacez-la par des cardio lourds, ce qui augmentera votre fréquence cardiaque. À ce stade, votre temps est mieux passé à faire du cardio puisque vous avez déjà construit du muscle pendant les semaines 1 et 2.

Essayez de ne pas parler Si vous pouvez tenir une conversation pendant 20 minutes pendant le jogging, vous allez bien. Mais pour accélérer votre métabolisme, le Dr Deitrick conseille d’aller au-delà de votre zone de confort, au point où vous ne pouvez pas parler. Utilisez-le comme moyen d’augmenter les niveaux d’intensité de l’intervalle. Aller assez fort pour que vous ne pouvez pas parler pendant 2 minutes, et ralentir afin que vous puissiez discuter pendant 2 minutes. Pour brûler le plus de graisse et les calories, aller aussi fort que possible pour autant que vous le pouvez.

Ajouter une résistance Améliorez vos intervalles en ajoutant une résistance pour les rendre plus difficiles. La Hollande suggère des répétitions de colline – faites un sprint sur une colline et remontez. Faites cinq répétitions après un échauffement de 5 à 10 minutes. Vous pouvez également augmenter l’inclinaison sur votre tapis roulant où mettre le bouton sur votre vélo tournant.

Étendez vos intervalles Les courses de tempo, qui sont essentiellement des intervalles longs, permettent de maximiser votre consommation de calories pendant et après votre séance d’entraînement. (L’intensité accrue maintient votre métabolisme plus haut pour une période plus longue après l’exercice.) La Hollande suggère de courir dur pendant 5 minutes puis de faire du jogging pendant 5 minutes. Si vous le pouvez, appuyez-vous pour aller plus fort que votre rythme typique pendant 15 minutes. Incitatif : Si vous courez pendant 15 minutes à 7 mph (essayez ceci sur un tapis roulant pour noter votre vitesse), vous brûlez environ 180 calories par rapport aux 110 que vous brûlez si vous faisiez du jogging pour le même temps (basé sur 140 -pied femme). Jog pendant 10 minutes pour se réchauffer avant que votre tempo ne fonctionne, puis pendant 10 minutes après le refroidissement.

Lutte contre la faim hors contrôle Lorsque vous exercez de l’exercice plus fort, vous vous sentirez plus affamé. Le Dr McDermott suggère de boire une protéine et un smoothie de fruits après vos séances d’entraînement. Rangez les bananes pelées dans le congélateur (dans les sacs Ziploc) et achetez des baies congelées. Une fois que vous arrivez à la maison, mélanger une banane, des baies, 8 onces de yaourt à faible teneur en matières grasses et une tasse de lait faible en gras pour faire un smoothie instantané et une gratification instantanée.

Gardez votre corps à la recherche «Jouez avec vos rapports de travail à reposer lorsque vous faites des intervalles pour garder votre corps en train de deviner», déclare Gunnar Peterson, un entraîneur de célébrités à Los Angeles. Lorsque votre corps ne peut pas s’adapter à votre plan, il est obligé de travailler plus fort, donc vous travaillez toujours dans votre capacité de combustion des graisses. Peterson suggère de «onduler» vos intervalles : par exemple, courir ou pédaler dur pendant 2 minutes, puis reposer pendant 30 secondes. Reprenez encore 2 minutes, puis reposez pendant 1 minute. Prolongez vos périodes de repos de 30 secondes jusqu’à ce que vous atteigniez 2 minutes, puis revenez à des périodes de repos de 30 secondes, vous écrêtez 30 secondes à la fois.

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