Tone Rodent In Blogspace

the goods...

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Long time Coming...

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:18:00 +0000

Here's a track I recorded in London earlier in the year with Rosco from Spacemen 2 and features Sky Sunlight Saxon (R.I.P.) and a bunch of other great people! They are listed in the vid! Thanks All!

Unreleased Spiritualized! and more Live from Vancouver!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:26:00 +0000

The Strolling Cones Cock and Bull Sonic Circus

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0000

Off Broadway and Tone Rodent Present:
The Strolling Cones Cock and Bull Sonic Circus
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Off Broadway, St. Louis, MO

A mini festival of local and regional Purveyors of Rock, Skronk, Shoegazing and Sonic Splendor, featuring St. Louis’ own Bunnygrunt (HHBTM Records), Stella Mora, Troubadour Dali, Learn, Artist and Tone Rodent alongside Chicago’s The Saturday Nights, Kansas City’s The Tambourine Club and from Ohio, Bomp Records and The Committee To Keep Music Evil Recording Artist Floorian.

Floorian

Tone Rodent

Bunnygrunt

The Saturday Nights

Stella Mora

Troubadour Dali

Learn, Artist

The Tambourine Club

Lepers TV

Take Me To The Other Side

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:58:00 +0000

Take Me To The Other Side

Some Tone Rodent For You: New Stuff On the Way

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:51:00 +0000

Tone Rodent - Amen

Tone Rodent - Down (demo)

Spiritualized: Morning Becomes Eclectic

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:42:00 +0000

Simply Beautiful!

The Stone Roses, I'm a sucker for nostalgia!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:02:00 +0000

Spiritualized-Full Electric! I LOVE IT!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:24:00 +0000

Jason Video Interview: BBC 6

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:31:00 +0000

Shoegazer Alive Breaks Down Shoegazing!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:00 +0000

Shoegazer Alive

1- Shoegazer Classic
* My Bloody Valentine
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/
* Ride (First singles, Nowhere and Going Blank Again)
http://www.rideox4.net/
* Slowdive (all, except Pygmalion)
http://www.musicstack.com/slowdive/index.html
* The Boo Radleys (Everything Allright Forever)
http://booradleys.co.uk/
* Lush (Gala)
http://www.curve.demon.co.uk/lush/
* Pale Saints (all)
http://www.palesaints.co.uk/
* Kitchens of Distinction (all)
http://www.stephenhero.co.uk/kitchens.htm
2-Post-Shoegazer (sounds made for Shoegazers Classic Bands
post-gazewave, and followers)
* Ride (Carnival of Light and Tarantula)
http://www.rideox4.net/
* Lush (all after Gala)
http://www.curve.demon.co.uk/lush/
* Slowdive (Pygmalion)
http://www.musicstack.com/slowdive/index.html
* Swervedriver (Ejector Seat Reservation)
http://www.swervedriver.com/
* Adorable
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friend
ID=48828581
* My Vitriol
http://www.myvitriol.com/
* Blind Mr. Jones
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/blind_mr_jones/artist.jhtml
* Daydream Nation
http://www.elephantstonerecords.com/daydream.html
* Bethany Curve
http://www.bethanycurve.com/
* Colfax Allbey
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,541995,00.html
* Monster Movie
http://www.monster-movie.com/
* Alcian Blue
http://www.elephantstonerecords.com/alcianblue.html
3-Shoegazer rock
* Catherine Wheel
http://www.catherinewheel.com/
* Swervedriver
http://www.swervedriver.com/
4-Shoegazer baggy (mix with indie dance)
*Chapterhouse
http://www.chapterhouse.info/
*Curve
http://www.curve.co.uk/
5-Shoegazer psychedelic
* The Telescopes (after Taste)
http://www.thetelescopes.com/
* The Verve
http://www.theverve.co.uk/http://www.myspace.com/thevervetv
* The Boo Radleys (after Everything Allright Forever)
http://members.tripod.com/~workshy/index.htm
* Loop
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kifixqe5ldde%7ET1
* Revolver
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3pfrxql5ldde
* Moose
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:g9fqxqw5ldde
NEW GENERATION
6-Shoegazer second wave - japanese style
*Cruyff in the Bedroom
http://www.onlyfeedback.net/cruyff/bio.html
*Honeydip
http://www.music.ne.jp/~honeydip/
*Luminous Orange
http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~luminous/english_.htm
*Dive
*Coaltar of the Deepers
http://www.musicmine.com/cotd/
*Hartfield
http://www.hartfieldweb.com/
7-Shoegazer second wave - north american style
*Astrobrite
http://www.myspace.com/astrobrite
*Fleeting Joys
http://fleetingjoys.com/
*The Meeting Places
http://www.themeetingplaces.com/
*LSD and the Search for God
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=26372884
*Readymade
http://www.readymade-yvr.com/
*Lilys
http://www.myspace.com/thelilys
8-Shoegazer second wave - south american style
* Resplandor (Peru)
http://www.resplandor.com.pe/
* Brincando de Deus (Brazil)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=331463180
* Old Magic Pallas (Brazil)
http://www.myspace.com/oldmagicpallas
9-Shoegazer second wave - european style
* Air Formation (England)
http://www.airformation.com/news.php
*Malory (Germany)
http://www.malory-music.com/
*Polarkreis 18 (Germany)
http://www.polarkreis18.com/
*Ecstasy of St. Theresa (Czesch)
http://www.eost.cz/
*Pia Fraus (Estonia)
http://www.piafraus.com/
*Heaviness (Sweden)
http://www.heaviness.se/
*Sea Dweller (Italy)
http://www.seadwellermusic.com/
10-Nugazer
*M83
http://www.ilovem83.com/
*Mew
http://www.mewsite.com/
*Engineers
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=ENGINEERS&sql=11:0jfqxqraldde%7ET0
*Serena Maneesh
http://www.serena-maneesh.com/news.php

FRIENDLY STYLES
11-Dreampop
*Cocteau Twins (and the most of bands produced by Robin Guthrie)
http://www.cocteautwins.com/
*Galaxie 500
http://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/
*Silver Screen
http://www.myspace.com/thegreateststorynevertold
*Asobi Seksu
http://www.asobiseksu.com/
*A Sunny Day In Glasgow
http://asunnydayinglasgow.com/
*Drop Nineteens
http://www.myspace.com/dropnineteens
12-Space
*Flying Saucer Attack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Saucer_Attack
*Seefeel
http://www.myspace.com/seefeelmyspace
*Spacemen 3
http://www.spacemen3.co.uk/
*Spiritualized
http://www.spiritualized.com/
*Sonic Boom
http://www.sonic-boom.info/
*Spectrum
http://www.sonic-boom.info/
*Unisex
http://www.thetelescopes.com/
*Inner Sleeve
http://www.chapterhouse.info/
13-Noise Rock
*Sonic Youth
http://www.sonicyouth.com/
*Dinosaur Jr.
http://www.dinosaurjr.com/
*Jesus & Mary Chain
http://aprilskies.amniisia.com/
14-Post-rock
*Lights Out Asia
http://www.lightsoutasia.com/
*Mogwai
http://www.mogwai.co.uk/
15-New noisepoppers
*The Raveonettes
http://www.theraveonettes.com/
*The Dandy Warhols
http://www.dandywarhols.com/index.php
*The Brian Jonestown Massacre
http://www.brianjonestownmassacre.com/
*Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/
*Blackstrap
http://www.blackstrap.net/

LONDON, LONDON 24 MARCH 08!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:09:00 +0000

Here's some for the London gig:
Tone Rodent: London
Hope & Anchor
Media Circus
Just Fuzz
The Great Fury

MEDIA CIRCUS- Radio 1 Scott Mills "One big, young band coming out". I agree. Simple sound but with character. Mix of Oasis and younger rocky stuff , and certainly good music to listen to whilst having a shower and prepping for a big nite out.

JUST FUZZ- Mad for it Britrock mothers embracing Embrace, Oasis, Stone Roses.... And their 'Working week' is a really neat song and they seem to have a bit of a buzz do fuzz.

TONE RODENT- From St Louis Missouri USA...Open up with some dark moody croon led stuff with horror film keys and sloppy Pavement like guitars/feel. Influenced by Spacemen 3, Velvets, MBV...Dark psych with a yearning drugged out feel.

THE GREAT FURY- From Manchester…an acoustic ropey take on the Arctic Monkeys perhaps… very similar vox and lyrics…bits of Oasis and Jamie T may be discened in this fine work too.

What You Should All Listen To!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:38:00 +0000

The Koolaid Electric Company

Kontakte

The Tamborines

Get It On!

Spiritualized NEW ALBUM!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:00:00 +0000

Spiritualized's sixth studio album Songs In A & E is finally set for release this May.

The twelve track album is interspersed with six 'Harmony' tracks and features several tracks that Jason Pierce previewed at his 'Acoustic Mainline' shows late last year including 'Sitting On Fire', 'Baby I'm Just A Fool' and 'Goodnight, Goodnight'.

The album is set for release through Sanctuary Records on May 19.

Spiritualized are playing some festivals this year, confirmed so far are Coachella and Benicassim.

Pierce has also scored the music for Harmony Korine's forthcoming movie 'Mister Lonely' about a poor Michael Jackson lookalike living in Paris.

The full Songs In A & E track listing is:

1. Harmony 1
2. Sweet Talk
3. Death Take Your Fiddle
4. I Gotta Fire
5. Soul On Fire
6. Harmony 2
7. Sitting On Fire
8. Yeah Yeah
9. You Lie You Cheat
10. Harmony 3
11. Baby I'm Just A Fool
12. Don't Hold Me So Close
13. Harmony 4
14. The Waves Crash In
15. Harmony 5
16. Borrowed Your Gun
17. Harmony 6
18. Goodnight Goodnight

from UNCUT

Soak Your Shoes In Red Wine And Strike The Angels Dumb: Tone Rodent Live In London

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:58:00 +0000

Yes, It's True!

Tone Rodent will be making their first UK appearence on the 24th of March, 2008 at The Hope and Anchor in Islington, North London. It will actually be a "solo" gig with Adam Rodent. Adam will be taking to the stage with some very special guests(fingers crossed: an announcement will be made shortly) also appearing on the night are The Great Fury, Just Fuzz and Media Circus. The songs of Tone Rodent take on a more fragile and haunting space when performed solo. The dirt, drone and dirge are still there mixed with a sparse and spacey haze. Shoegazer Alive says, Think a stripped down Jesus and Mary Chain mixed with Spacemen 3.

LATER.....

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:17:00 +0000

Here are some of my favorite moments on Later ....

Bettye Lavette: Later With Jools Holland

Grinderman: Later With Jools Holland

The Cure: Later With Jools Holland

Graham Coxon: Later With Jools Holland

Six By Seven: Later With Jools Holland

Primal Scream: Later With Jools Holland

This one isn't from later but it's one of my favorite videos reminds me a bit of the K Foundation burning a million quid!!!
Mansun: Taxloss

I'm Baaaaack!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:15:00 +0000

Wow-It's been sometime since I posted anything...life throws curveballs and you've got to decide what to do with them. I am going to make an effort to get things back up and throwing things out that are interesting to me and maybe you!

Cheers!

It's Been Awhile....Jesus!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:17:00 +0000

Jesus and Mary Chain!

Glasshouse Gig...14 vids

Never Understand

Head On

Far Gone And Out

Sidewalking

Snakedriver

Happy When It Rains

bonus ALPHABET STREEET request

Some Candy Talking

Between Planets

Blues From A Gun

bonus, Jim's missed que from Cracking up

Cracking Up

All Things Must Pass (the new song)

Teenage Lust

Just Like Honey (with Annie from Giant Drag)

Reverance

Sorry ... It's Been Ages!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:00 +0000

OK All Apologies....but here are some fantastic links to some great blogs!!!

b.o.o.t.l.e.g.s.

Musicalement Votre

Part Of The Queue

Rock Army

No Data

Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers

Amusement Parks On Fire

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:23:00 +0000

Amusement Parks On Fire-Venus In Cancer

APOF-Live

APOF-Blackout

APOF-Eighty Eight

APOF-A Star Is Born

APOF-In Flight

APOF-Out Of The Angeles

J Spaceman Talks About Acoustic Mainlines

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:41:00 +0000

here's a short interview with Jason about the Acoustic Mainline shows, here's the main bit:

So what are these shows all about, Mr Spaceman?

They’re special, smaller things. When you strip all the songs back to their bones it becomes just about the lyrics and my voice and if they don’t work then, they never will. I didn’t feel brave enough to do the songs on my own so I picked up this sort of accidental band. Now we’re a real band, I think we have something fresh. Spiritualizeds lives shows are full of electricity and LSD, whereas these are very fragile.

Who’s in your audience?

It’s a sort of split between people who’ve been there since Sapacemen3 days and there’s this other lot that have only recently found out about me. The audiences have been amazing. They feel it as much as we do. Someone mentioned me in the same breath as Brian Wilson recently and that was just completely bizarre. He’s such a big part of who I am.

How does stripping it all down affect the songs?

Some of the material works on a nostalgic level, some, with the more full on string arrangements work in other ways, as someone said to me, like Astral Weeks. It makes your brain do the work. Usually, acoustic shows are more folky, more story-songs, but these are something different. It is like church music.

What’s been your favourite show?

I think Edinburgh was the best show I’ve ever done- it was just beautiful. We played Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space and people stood up to clap. Ten minutes later they were still clapping., The band were crying, I was crying, That was a really weird, snake-handling moment- everyone on their Saturday night drugs.

The band always look surprised by what’s going on.

They are, I think we all are! We take chances. I’m an alright electric guitar player, but I’m pretty amateur on the acoustic. None of us, apart from the string section, can really play, but we do try. I’ve got Doggen on Rhodes who’s usually a guitarist so we’re a bit tagged. But we’re ambitious.

What about your new album?

This year, I promise!

Live Music?

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:15:00 +0000

Do You Like Live Music?

Check This Out!

Spiritualized-Rated X

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:12:00 +0000

Stylus Magazine's Seconds column examines those magic moments that arise when listening to a piece of music that strikes that special chord inside. That pounding drum intro; a clanging guitar built-up to an anthemic chorus; that strange glitchy noise you've never quite been able to figure out; that first kiss or heartbreak; a well-turned rhyme that reminds you of something in your own past so much, it seems like it was written for you—all of those little things that make people love music. Every music lover has a collection of these Seconds in his or her head; these are some of ours.

Like most things Jason Pierce has been involved with recently, there's a fairly ridiculous contributor/gear list on the inside of 2003's Amazing Grace, and as nothing is listed by song I have no real idea what specifically is being used on “Rated X.” There are the odd strings, horns, guitar playing both conventional and abstract (at one point it sounds like wire being stretched) and even vocals, but it's still an incredibly weird track by Spiritualized's standards: of the 5:19 running time just over a minute and a half is occupied with what I'd consider to be the actual song, and it's what happens for the rest of the time and the interactions between the two modes the song exists in that elevates the track into something special.

Part of its power lies wholly outside the song itself; at one point Pierce doubles a key lyric from the devastating elegy “The Ballad of Richie Lee” in “Rated X,” and with only the fiercely joyous “Cheapster” in between the two tracks your mind is dragged back to the total, wasted enervation of that song. But while “The Ballad of Richie Lee” is a remembrance of a friend who committed suicide, “Rated X” has broader issues, and a different kind of oblivion, in mind:
And you might think
The past is through
But the past goes right on through
And memory holds the hurt inside
Regret creeps up on you
So put your hand into my hand
And baby we'll forget
That life had even started
Before our hands had met
On “The Ballad of Richie Lee” those last four lines were as bleak as you can get, but here because Pierce is suffering not so much from a particular trauma as from memory itself, the obliteration of thought is presented hopefully; a slight amount of light seeps into Pierce's staticky vocals as he ends the “song” portion of “Rated X.” If he'd kept it short, like “Home of the Brave” off of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space he'd still have an incredibly affecting track. Of course, to get there, we had a minute and a half of what could be the band just preparing; the drum and guitar sounding incredibly tentative, the slight organ drone just a prelude. After he stops singing the song again subsides into this kind of half-existence for two minutes, the piano being tapped randomly, forlorn horns easing into view and apprehensively winding around the ductile guitar line, drums rumbling softly in the background.

On a purely sonic level the moment when the more structured part of “Rated X” kicks in, Mellotrons and soft distortion gently pitching the track aloft, is quietly stunning. But what makes the song so great is that the structure of the track, even of Pierce's delivery, mirrors the content to strongly. He begins the song by singing “If memory was written down / I'd cut it up / And cross it out,” and then proceeds to do just that, assembling and disassembling “Rated X” right in front of your ears. The first couple of times I heard the album the intro and outro were lengthy enough that I effectively forgot the middle part, as subtly rapturous as it is, and that Pierce would marry that structure to a song about the pain of memory and the trap of the past is a brilliant touch. He wants to externalize his history, make it something he can cut up and cross out, and although the less consonant parts of “Rated X” have their own musical appeal at first they serve precisely that function.

When I mentioned to Alfred Soto that I wanted to talk about the song's use of memory and the past, he said he was thinking of doing something similar with Japan's great “Ghosts.” But while that song does make extremely effective use of a fairly spectral backing track and plenty of space for David Sylvian's voice, it's still more present in a number of ways than “Rated X.” This is a song that barely exists, that functions more as a waking dream (right down to Pierce's murmur) than anything else, and even has the verve to slowly lull you into slumber and then wake you back up afterwards; “Ghosts” is a synth-pop song, albeit an incredibly accomplished and interesting one. “Rated X” is one of the most intriguing and successful fusions of form and content I've ever heard, and while Pierce's lyrics might not work in a more forceful context, here they sound not just fitting but convincing. If you're ever going to escape the snare of temporal existence, this is the way you're going to do it, not drugs.

By: Ian Mathers
Published on: 2007-03-06

The Black Angels: Give Thanks, Passover (Again)

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:33:00 +0000

These are fighting times, people. We are surrounded by grit, spit, and bloody war, but in the distance moving forward is The Black Angels. They’ve returned unscathed from their first tour of duty with Seattle-based Light In The Attic Records, still armed with their self-proclaimed "Native American Drone 'N' Roll" and set to release their debut long player. Passover speaks of real-life horrors, death, and destruction with doses of love, sex, and healing. Don’t lose track, these are caring times as well.

Formed in 2004 and hailing from the mescaline-infused outskirts of Austin, Texas, this gang of musical misfits has been on the road non-stop since their birth. Growing in spades since their debut, self-titled EP, Passover showcases a band on the make. Spiraling upwards to the skies with the enemy straight on their trail, "The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven" sees The Black Angels reaching high and stretching out with trance-inducing guitar lines from Christian Bland, Nate Ryan’s filthy medical dumpster bass, and the grizzly preacher vox of lead shaman Alex Maas. "Black Grease" is a bluesy monster full of swagger propelled by the primitive beat of drummer Stephanie Bailey and the mourning drone of organist Jennifer Raines.

10-songs deep, Passover has come again. Reflecting and questioning the intergenerational psychosis of American social life that surrounds us, The Black Angels put forth their answers in song. It’s a call to arms for those ready to join the good fight, a rock 'n' roll salvation during the times we need it the most. As Maas bellows on "Young Man Dead,": Fire for the hills, pick up speed, and let’s go...

ON TOUR:
Wed 3/14/07 Austin, TX Emo's Annex
Thu 3/15/07 Austin, TX Red Eyed Fly
Fri 3/16/07 Austin, TX Red 7
Fri 3/16/07 Austin, TX Antone's
Wed 3/21/07 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Thu 3/22/07 Shreveport, LA The Jackrabbit Lounge
Fri 3/23/07 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
Sat 3/24/07 Birmingham, AL The Bottletree
Mon 3/26/07 Atlanta, GA The Earl
Tue 3/27/07 Mt. Pleasant, SC Village Tavern
Wed 3/28/07 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
Thu 3/29/07 Knoxville, TN Pilot Light
Fri 3/30/07 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
Sat 3/31/07 Newport, KY Southgate House
Mon 4/2/07 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
Tue 4/3/07 Columbus, OH Little Brothers
Wed 4/4/07 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox
Thu 4/5/07 Washington, DC The Rock and Roll Hotel
Fri 4/6/07 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
Sat 4/7/07 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
Sun 4/8/07 Brooklyn, NY Luna Lounge
Tue 4/10/07 Cambridge, MA Middle East Upstairs
Thu 4/12/07 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
Fri 4/13/07 Detroit, MI Lager House
Sat 4/14/07 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Mon 4/16/07 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
Tue 4/17/07 Iowa City, IA The Picador
Wed 4/18/07 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
Thu 4/19/07 Lawrence, KS Bottleneck
Fri 4/20/07 St. Louis, MO Duck Room
Sat 4/21/07 Columbia, MO Mojo's
Thu 5/24/07 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
Fri 5/25/07 Vancouver, BC Richards on Richards
Sun 5/27/07 George, WA Sasquatch Music Festival

Right Now

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Rodent) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:39:00 +0000

The Phonocaptors-Right Now

Dammit Hutto!