Weekly Discoveries 10.09.2014 – Sway, Richard Hell, Realistic Pokemon and Heigh Ho
Alex
Whirr – Sway
I’ve neglected listening to Sway for the past few weeks, despite the near constant urging of my circle of friends. The album is currently sitting at 141 on Billboard’s Top 200 list and, for this genre, that’s an astounding achievement. Plus, their label Graveface records is “a small independent label with a focus on all things hand-made, hand-assembled & unique,” and they have a shop in Savannah, Georgia that sounds right up my alley. Good job Loren.
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John
Richard Hell – Time (Alternate Version)
My car’s CD player recently broke. While in Portland this past August my friend gave me a couple of tapes for the road. One of them was local record shop Mississippi Records’ Afraid of the Dark compilation, the 16th volume of the label’s tape compilation series. Each volume has a theme, and this one’s was old garage rock’n’roll from the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. This song by Richard Hell and the Voidoids is on the B side. Richard Hell arguably invented punk rock fashion, but his music was quite strange and eclectic for 1970’s rock music.
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Mahlon
Realistic Pokemon artist Arvalis (RJ Palmer)
On his DeviantArt profile, the first thing RJ Palmer (aka Arvalis) mentions is “I love dinosaurs.” If you spend a couple moments browsing his works you’ll notice he also loves Pokemon. RJ combines these two loves to create what he calls “realistic Pokemon”. RJ also has videos that take a look at how he creates his monstrosities and has even published a book featuring all of the “realistic Pokemon” he has created to date.
Blastoise
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Grant
Blake Mills – Heigh Ho
I was introduced to Blake Mills and his impressive resume (studio, touring and production credits with some of the biggest names in music by the tender age of 26), by Michael Witcher a few months ago. This week, I discovered Blake’s newest studio album, “Heigh Ho”. Not only did it live up to the hype, it deserves a lot more. You can’t pin a genre on it. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that it fits many genres. His guitar work alone has catapulted him near the top of my “top artists I haven’t seen live” list. Speaking of that, so when is Tom Waits hitting the road again?