CARISSA’S WIERD OFFSHOOT BANDS COME TO AUSTIN Our favorite post-Nirvana Seattle band and ‘sadcore‘ artists extraordinaire Carissa’s Wierd had a multitude of bands form in their wake, most notably Band of Horses. However, two of those bands, Grand Archives and the solo project of SeraCahoone will be hitting up Stubb’s on June 21st. Two great acts featuring ex-members of CW, so be sure and hit them up when they come to town.
Carissa’s Wierd – Sofisticated Fuck Princess Please Leave Me Alone ******************************************************************** NEW BAND CHEER – HIGH PLACES Although much blogged about, Pitchforked, and generally well-reported on, Brooklyn duo High Places are just now coming into rotation on the Cannibal Cheerleader playlist. Electronic noodling and whispy female vocals combine to make strange, ephemeral pop tunes that swim by easily but leave a smoky haze in their wake. Very unique in sound, this duo promises to go places with their upcoming full-length, as reported by Stereogum. Check them out, they’re definitely worth a listen.
High Places – Head Spins (Extended Edition) ******************************************************************** M.I.A. CANCELS EUROPEAN TOURThe seemingly endless tour of our favorite female rapper M.I.A. has apparently hit a snag, as the songstress has just announced she will be cancelling her upcoming European tour in order to avoid burning out. So sayeth Miss Maya:
“I’m canceling because I feel like physically I just have to stop for a second,” she said. “It’s too insane. I was losing a sense of just, like, reality, you know what I mean? I think for an artist like me, it’s so important for me to be in the streets and go to the same shop every day and see the same people and, like, communicate. And it’s really difficult to do that when you’re in the city every day for 24 hours. Like, I love connecting with my band, but I want to actually help them and be a part of peoples’ lives. Which is really hard when you’re on tour.”
Seems reasonable to us. Here’s hoping the time off produces a new record like last year’s Cannibal Cheerleader approved Kala.
I spent much of this week looking for new and different bands, all the while considering putting them up on this site. Coming up empty I began to get discouraged. “Will anyone even read this post? Will people even care what new artist I put up? Does anyone read Cannibal Cheerleader?” I thought to myself. Through this depressing haze came the low, Pacific-Northwest strum of an old friend, Seattle’s long dead legends Carissa’s Wierd.
Carissa’s Wierd is a reminder of why I love music, why I love writing about music, and why I’m doing what I’m doing. When I was a lonely indie kid growing up in small town Texas poking around Limewire looking for friends to filter through the expensive headphones I bought to keep the world out I found the lonely keyboard clinks and male-female change-off vocals of Carissa’s Wierd. The perfect indie-rock group, with modernist, soulful leanings, obscure instrumentation, and heartfelt emotion to spare. Since their breakup members of the group have gone on to found great but lesser groups (Band of Horses, Jenn Ghetto’s solo project S) and their demise saddened many.
Last night I found the band’s Myspace, or not really the band’s per say, but a fan page featuring their songs created by “a Colorado boy with nothing better to do with his time”. The page itself is not unlike the band itself. A seemingly thrown-together, simplistic piece with nonetheless a great depth of emotion and caring for its subject manner. The picture up there is the guy’s choice for the profile picture on the Myspace and it seems fitting for their sound. Under the ‘Sounds Like” section the Colorado boy writes “Punk kids grown up and gone sad.” Nothing could be more apt. Check them out if you like this crazy thing we call music. Here’s a live video by them.
******************************************************************** TERROR THURSDAY – ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH
To end the week off I’ll post about to of my favorite things: My Morning Jacket and Austin. Check out this Google video version of their Austin City Limits performance. See you next week and please comment if you like what you see!
Our favorite post-Nirvana Seattle band and ‘sadcore‘ artists extraordinaire Carissa’s Wierd had a multitude of bands form in their wake, most notably Band of Horses. However, two of those bands, Grand Archives and the solo project of Sera Cahoone will be hitting up Stubb’s on June 21st. Two great acts featuring ex-members of CW, so be sure and hit them up when they come to town.
Although much blogged about, Pitchforked, and generally well-reported on, Brooklyn duo High Places are just now coming into rotation on the Cannibal Cheerleader playlist. Electronic noodling and whispy female vocals combine to make strange, ephemeral pop tunes that swim by easily but leave a smoky haze in their wake. Very unique in sound, this duo promises to go places with their upcoming full-length, as reported by Stereogum. Check them out, they’re definitely worth a listen.
The seemingly endless tour of our favorite female rapper M.I.A. has apparently hit a snag, as the songstress has just announced she will be cancelling her upcoming European tour in order to avoid burning out. So sayeth Miss Maya:
