2012

 Emily Newton-John's 2012 albums:

1. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination

2. Charlie Megira and the Modern Dance Club - Love Police

3. Jacob Milstein - Baby Just Sitting There

4. Germ Hunk - I Am Hunk For Hands and Dog    


5. Mordecai - Waste/Drag Down



















6. Trust - Trst

7. Maxence Cyrin - The Fantasist

8. Tropical World - Sad & Gross

9. Jessica Jalbert - Brother Loyola

10. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

11. James Ferraro - Sushi

12. Cold Cave - A Little Death to Laugh

13. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms...

14. The Velcro Kicks - Subhumanoid Toxoid



15. Scorpion Violente - The Rapist

Favorite songs of 2012:

Black Bananas - Hot Stupid from Rad Times Xpress IV



Chromatics - Lady from Kill For Love



Nun - Solvents from 7"



The Intelligence - Fidelity from Everybody's Got It Easy But Me


Elvis Depressedly - Crazier with You


White Fence - Do You Know Ida Know?



The Ketamines - Kill Me Now

Taylor Swift - I knew you were trouble

Playlist for Jan. 11th, 2013

January 11th, 2013 by Emilynewtonjohn on Mixcloud

Marcus Mueller's Day Off (Loud) with Emily Newton-John 01/11/2013 04:00PM to 06:00PM

Doldrums “She's the Wave” from She's the Wave - Single on Souterrain Transmissions

Bauhaus “Swing The Heartache” from The Sky's Gone Out on Beggars Banquet

Apache Jackson “Soul Damage” from Soul Damage EP

The Brian Jonestown Massacre “Let's Pretend It's Summer” from Strung Out In Heaven on The Orchard

JC Satan “The Last Episode” from Faraway Land on Teenage Menopause

Bauhaus “Hollow Hills” from Mask on Beggars Banquet

Black Moth Super Rainbow “The Healing Power of Nothing” from Cobra Juicy on Rad Cult

Garage Sail “Day” from Doz Carns

The Cure “Secrets” from seveenteen seconds on Elektra

Trust “HEAVEN” from TRST on Trust and Arts and Crafts Records

A Split Second “Rigor Mortis” from A Split Second on Wax Trax

LA Vampires & Maria Minerva “Integration” from The Integration LP on Not Not Fun

Maxence Cyrin “Ouverture” from The Fantasist on Ekler'o'shock

Julee Cruise “The World Spins” from floating into the night on WB

Games “Strawberry Skies” from That We Can Play - EP on Hippos In Tanks

Mirror Kisses “1-2-Another” from Soaking Wet on self-released

Greenhorse “Hot Nights” from Transcontinental on self-released

Selma Oxor “Do It” from DiscosTtormento Wow: 2012 Fin del Mundo

Doldrums “Parrot Talk” from Empire Sound - EP on No Pain In Pop

Mariah Carey “Can't Let go” from Emotions

Zed “Bene Gesserit” from Visions of dune

Gary Numan “COMPLEX” from The Pleasure Principle on Beggar's Banquet

Nun “Solvents” from Solvents 7"

Zebulon Kosted “Forgotten forest” from Discography 2011 on self released

Cocteau Twins “IVO” from Treasure on 4ad

The Fresh and Onlys “Peacock and Wing” from "Play It Strange" + "self-titled" on in the red records

Mordecai - Waste/Drag Down 7"

college rock

Mordecai are the best band in the state of Montana. Brothers Holt and Elijah Bodish have each been "cutest boy in Missoula, MT" at various times in the past. Current cutest boy in Missoula is still in the air but Bernie holds a strong lead). This post isn't about cutest boys or best band, though. This is about my photos being used as front and back cover for the new Mordecai 7".

that's right i took these pics

with a camera

I won't try to write a Real, Intelligent, Grammatically Correct review because I don't want to and furthermore, Elijah writes like this:

his first language is maths

They sound like youth suffering. Like young people struggling. It's a sound that represents the state of Montana. Mordecai are from Butte. I stopped in Butte once. Every other building there is abandoned, boarded up, windows shattered and rock-marked. Lots of spooky ghost town vibes and weird, winding, vertical streets that dead end, dead end, dead end.

You can buy a copy of the new record tonight at Mordecai's record release show at the VFW in downtown Missoula. I'll be there telling everyone that I took those pictures.

See also: this week's Independent

ETA: Also see this video of Mordecai playing live last night at the VFW. That's me and Hana MT out back on the sidewalk.

A Show is a Baseball Game

Music is an art. It's invisible. Can’t be touched. It can be felt, though. If you stand too close to the speakers at a show, the vibration will zap your brain. If you stand anywhere at that Black Dice show that happened at the Palace a few years ago, the vibration will zap your brain (“melt your face off"). Of course, music is also felt in that intangible way. Listen to "Medicine Bottle" by Red House Painters for an example.

Bands with three words for a name are the only bands I listened to last week. Red House Painters. Magic City Boys. Sun Kil Moon. Those three-word bands provided an intermittent score to what was a miserable, reclusive 7 consecutive days. How many great shows vagazzled Missoula’s event schedule last week? A bunch, and I missed them all because I chose to nurse my stress-induced anxiety and depression with loneliness and dairy products. From July 6^th to July 11^th I was underwater, in a haze, irritable. I googled things like “why can’t I stop sneezing.” I google satellite map-explored neighborhoods in NYC. I took walks through Alphabet City as well as the Meatpacking District. 

5 Ninth Avenue, where Nelson Sullivan lived

This story has no ending, but it wanders away from the beginning right now. Around 7pm last evening I resolved to attend the show at The Lab rather than continue to lounge on a mint-colored, vintage couch, bathed in the gold light of a low summer sun, refreshing my twitter account every 10 minutes (that’s right, I have a Twitter account - I opened it yesterday). Instead, I changed my clothes 4 or 5 times, settled on a pair of shorts and a Fag Cop t-shirt, super glued my sunglasses back together, and pedaled over to The Lab.

The Lab is dirty. Everything is dirty there. The furniture, the people, the dogs. Even the dirt on the ground is dirtier than average dirt. I arrived early, sat on the porch, and complained to anyone within earshot about my terrible week, feeling sick, etcetera.

Death Moth played first. This is where the show made it to first base in a baseball metaphor. Death Moth is June West, an amicable person who possesses a natural external beauty that is a reflection of her inner beauty. She also has a beautiful voice and an ability to write beautiful, mesmerizing songs. June played a beautiful electric guitar.  I don’t know if she has recorded under Death Moth yet, but her previous work in Julie and the Wolves and Magic City Boys is breathtaking.

Julie and the Wolves c. 2010

The athleticism of Better Tennis nailed second base: one handsome young man with an electric guitar and a voice that is at once firm, confident, hesitant, and uncertain. Riley is his "name" name. He is behind Germ Hunk-fever, too. Riley is a fascinating musician. He writes music that he hasn't even written yet. Hana MT sat next to me, sipped her Cook's champagne, and together we watched in hands-on-cheeks-horror as a hobo spider crawled inches from Riley's metronomic foot. The courteous spider waited until the end of the song to climb under (possibly into) Riley's messenger bag. 

After Better Tennis I noticed that my contacts were in my eyes. All the squinting, winking, and rubbing became tiresome. It would be best to drive home and put some glasses on. Dane said, “you’re gonna miss The Mallard, bro,” but I was all, “I’m old now, nearly 30, and life-moments have become replaceable and interchangeable. Driving home to peel the contacts off of my eyeballs seems equally fulfilling as watching some band that I have never heard before.” When I returned to the Lab, the basement door was a carafe's mouth pouring glistening cups of hot happiness all over the yard. Yes, The Mallard killed it and I missed out. Alas, I have seen billions of bands at little shows in Missoula and I am now incapable of feeling any regret about missing out. I am desensitized, or a husk, or something empty like that. 

I still felt horrible. Maybe I had an ulcer, or diabetes, or anemia, or a thyroid problem. Whatever was wrong, the symptoms were as follows: dizziness, fatigue, and a stomach ache. At that point in the night, my blood felt as carbonated as Hana's bottle of Cooks. Carbonated blood and then  WAP!  Bad Naked staggered outside, whipped his failure ball with his belt and PUSH OUT THE BABIES PUT ‘EM IN THE FACTORIES drove me away indoors. Foul ball.

The Lab’s book-ridden living room was my retreat until I heard the familiar noodlings of Needlecraft noodling up from the basement. I
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                                                           d downstairs and found a sturdy place to sit in order to sit-dance. I am unhealthy and sometimes unhealthy people are lazy and can’t bother to stand up. I sat-danced until the cosmic, banging beat squiggled into my brain. Needlecraft gave me Toxoplasmosis. The jams wormed into my control center. I danced, standing on my own wobbly feet. By the time they finished their set I was cured! Music heals. I would use some kind of third base related joke but I can't think of one.

This whole baseball metaphor doesn’t make any sense anyway.

SELMA OXOR

I don't know if you have ever seen a flash drive. Those little tiny things. Like a tiny tube of an android's lipstick. Inserting a flash drive into anything is the same as buying it a ticket on Oceanic flight 815. Therefore, you will never encounter another recorded mixcloud stream of Marcus Mueller's Day Off. It's too hard. Impossible. Like, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps impossible.

So, there is a band called SELMA OXOR. They are from Monterrey, Mexico. Okay, they might not be a band anymore. Who knows? Certainly not the internet. Studies have suggested that they released a self-titled LP back in 2009. Then there is this killer track and video (discovered via NEGATIVE YOUTH) that claims a release date of 2012:

Regardless of Selma Oxor's origins or whatever, this track rules. Listen to it a hundred times while the sweat collects on that part of your face below your nose and above your mouth. Where moustaches grow.

 Lots of shows in Missoula last weekend. I would recap for you but I spent Friday through Monday morning sucking on popsicles and listening to Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, and Magic City Boys.

In other music-related, bloggable news, last night I dreamed that my teeth started to fall out. Then my entire right jaw bone fell out. As if there are two separate pieces to the human jaw bone. My right one fell out last night.

C U N HELL

Keep Your Ears Ringing

"The Bison Range sounds like the perfect place for you. I get what you mean about music entering the atmosphere in a brash way. There is so much noise here all the time, it would be nice to just turn off most of it. On this block, at the Marador, it's constantly loud. People, cars, construction, trains stamping out whatever subtle sounds have been here longer, like birds or leaves moving against leaves. Janet Jackson said once, on some VH1 interview I saw when I was eight years old, that she doesn't like to listen to music very often. I get it. Last night, around 9pm, Dane and I walked around Pattee Canyon without aim or attention to time. You know those tall pines? The wind blew high, not low to the ground where we were, but high up at the tip-tops of the pines, creating a constant yet wavering drone. Just that wind and Dane's voice punctuated by scattered bird calls. In the last week I have heard so many sounds that I haven't wanted to hear: a couple fucking upstairs, an enormous bongo drum-karaoke all night loser party. The whooshing sound the wind makes when it flies through the tops of the pines is what I want to hear. Sometimes putting on a record or the radio is painful in that it's just another layer of noise that I am sick of listening to."


-Excerpt from a letter to R. M. Flynn, June 2012

Marcus Mueller's Day Off 5/19/2012

Riley took a break from bench pressing a whale (a specific whale, whose death inspired Clyde to swim out past the waves to his very own death, as it was meant to be, not by the roadside, but in the sea) to co-DJ a special Saturday edition of Marcus Mueller's Day Off (which regularly airs every Friday from 4-6pm MST on KBGA 89.9FM). A live stream is available via www.kbga.org if you wanna tune in to KBGA anytime (Friday 8-10pm is spectacular), anywhere. Recorded stream from May 19th is right here and features the soft, gay jamz selected by Riley Wave, interspersed with the same sad, goth jamz Emily Newton-John always plays, although this time I relied on records and compact discs instead of the usual satanic ritual method. The result is altogether not goth.

MAD PEACE HUGE WORLD REAL LIFE NASAL DRIP 

(Americana) with Emily Newton-John 05/19/2012 04:00PM to 06:00PM

St. Thomas Missionary Baptist Church “Power In The Blood” from Power In the Blood

Lou Reed “Intro/Sweet Jane” from Rock n' Roll Animal on RCA

Paula Abdul “Cold Hearted” from Cold Heart single

Shirley Ellis “BRING IT ON HOME TO ME” from The Very Best Of on Master Classics Records

K.S. Chithra “Chitthirai Maastthu (Featuring Malaysia Vasudevan)” from K.S. Chithra on Finders Keepers Records

Maurice White “Stand By Me (Extended Dance Version)” from STAND BY ME - Single

Walter & Wataja “NIGHTLIFE” from Nightlife - Single

El Pedro “Real Love” from Real Love

Nancy & Lee “Some Velvet Morning” from Nancy & Lee on Reprise Records

Glenn Kotche “Clapping Music Variations” from Mobile on Nonesuch

Inoyama Land “Glass Chaim” from Danzindan Pojidon

Interior “Technobose” from INTERIOR

Chromatics “LADY” from Kill For Love on Italians Do it Better

Glass Candy “Feeling Without Touching” from Feeling Without Touching - EP on Italians Do it Better

Yellow Magic Orchestra “Ishin Denshin (You've Got to Help Yourself)” from Service

Yukihiro Takahashi “Something in the Air” from Neuromantic

Glenn Branca “Structure” from The Ascension on 99

Roberta Flack “TO LOVE SOMEBODY” from Quiet Fire on Atlantic

Chris Rainbow “Tarzana Reseda” from Home of the Brave

Michael Angelo “The World To Be” from Michael Angelo

King Tuff “Evergreen” from King Tuff on Sub Pop

Cass Elliot “(If You're Gonna) Break Another Heart” from The Road Is No Place for a Lady on Legacy Recordings (http://www.legacyrecordings.com)

Germ Hunk “Uncle Hair” from I am Hunk For Hands and Dog on self released

Denis Yekani & The Movement “Try Your Luck” from Try Your Luck

Randy Newman “I Love L.A.” from Trouble in Paradise

Dionne Warwick “(There's Always) Something There To Remind Me” from The Best of Dionne Warwick on IndieBlu Music

Germ Hunk “Planet of the Lungs” from I am Hunk For Hands and Dog on self released

Microdisney “Horse Overboard” from And The Clock Comes Down The Stairs on Big Time

Death Moth Family Band “Rambler” from Dry River Session

New Beginnings “Sweet Sweet Spirit” from Youthreach Is A Song

Ssion “Feels Good (4-EVR)” from Bent on self-released

Marcus Mueller 5/19/2012 by Emilynewtonjohn on Mixcloud