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May 08, 2006
onion domes of tallahassee, what happened?
Looking over the past couple months in the archives, this place has become both joyless and song-poor. I only put up 7 or so tracks in March, and 5(!) in April, good god. I will rectify that, I promise. Upcoming this week (on Friday hopefully): Orillia Opry, an Animal Collective-related song, and maybe a recap from the Excepter show (taking place tomorrow night- details here for the Philly show specifically, and here for the tour; check out their nice new website). Good stuff.
Those of you who have been reading the site since the very beginning (i.e. my little brothers, Matt Greenideas) know that I've written a decent amount about the Impossibles and the post-breakup careers of their lead songwriters, Rory Allen Phillips and Gabe Hascall- in fact, Rory's older new band, Nineteen Ninety-Now (I liked it, but I'm kinda glad he ditched that name) was the subject of the second post I ever did, back when I had only a passable knowledge of the English language, and could barely work a keyboard. Anyway, here is my brief history of Rory and Gabe: (pts. 1, 2, 3, 4).
This is all just to preface the fact that Rory has formed a new band, called Rory and the Artificial Heart, and will be releasing both the "End Prohibition" mixtape (compilation of all the songs he's written and recorded from 2000-2005), and a new album, recorded with the band, called "Social Studies/Computer Literacy" (due some time in the near future). The band is playing their first official show on June 10th at Emo's. Here are two tracks from the mixtape:
Rory Allen Phillips - Love Won't Be Enough (wrote about it in pt. 1, above)
Rory Allen Phillips - 10 Start Program (wrote about it in pt. 3, above)
Anyway, some more good news- Craig, the bass player from the Impossibles, is one of the members of the Artificial Heart, tackling bass duties once again (dude's pretty amazing). Gabe is still unaccounted for, although apparently he played a solo show in Austin in February some time- maybe he'll put out something soon.
So, you can order the 10 track mixtape right here (cheap, like $10), and listen to some of the songs from the forthcoming LP right here. V. exciting.
Posted by Kevin at May 8, 2006 12:40 AM