John Vanderslice on KZSU (Wednesday! hosted by me!) 6pm PDT, new album streaming, live video album blog tour
John Vanderslice releases his 6th album Emerald City tomorrow, July 24th. His first appearance after it’s released? With me, on KZSU. That’s right, listen to John Vanderslice do a live set on KZSU at 6pm Pacific this Wednesday July 25th. You can listen online (the new 192kps AAC+ stream sounds gorgeous, by the way) or at 90.1FM in the Bay Area.
Every song from Emerald City is streaming at JV’s myspace page (also at spinner). I got a copy of the album last week (through KZSU) and it sounds very good. It goes back to a more distortion-exploring sound like Cellar Door.
As I mentioned back in May I got to sit in on a rehearsal of Emerald City and it’s just been officially released what that was for: live videos of each song from the album on 9 different blogs. Each recorded with multiple cameras and using the amazing analog audio recording technology at Tiny Telephone on May 26 and 27 and later edited all together. Watching the video, I get a little jolt because two days prior to these recordings I was sitting on those steps between Broecker and Ian Bjornstad and watching them rehearse these tunes. It’s cool to see what I saw now on video for everyone.
I’m going to make a list of where you can find each video, which I’ll update as more are released.
Emerald City live to tape/ video:
- Kookaburra (at stereogum) man that Dave Douglas drum beat is so good!
- Time To Go (at my old kentucky blog)
- The Parade (at youaintnopicasso)
- White Dove (at Gorilla v Bear[1])
- Tablespoon Of Codeine (at aquarium drunkard)
- The Tower (at brooklynvegan)
- The Minaret (at chromewaves)
- Numbered Lithograph (at six eyes)
- Central Booking (at catbirdseat)
Check back as I’ll update this as further videos are posted! (For the curious/ obsessive, the rest will be at stereogum, youaintnopicasso, my old Kentucky blog, brooklynvegan, gorilla vs. bear, catbirdseat, six eyes, aquarium drunkard and chromewaves.)
[1] I like saying “gorilla v bear” like it’s a legal case.
[...] So, here’s how things go. Adrian has this radio show, I Once Was Canadian, on KZSU. And John Vanderslice is going to hang out and have his first post-EC-release appearance with Adrian. (They are friends. !@!!) This is like being one degree of separation from a mega-star. *bubbly* So I will be listening. How about you? [...]
[...] As I mentioned earlier, I had an hour with John Vanderslice on KZSU during which he did a few songs and we chatted a bit. I asked him about the blog videos and the title of “nicest guy in indie rock”. I’m not sure how interesting an interview it was for everyone else—it felt more like JV and I were just talking and it happened to be over the radio than anything else—but I sure had fun. [...]
[...] John Vanderslice has been doing this video blog tour, where he releases high quality live videos of each song on his new album to blogs. I’ve been following it here, but it’s now complete so I’ll reprint the list: [...]