In two
years, the Spokane, Washington-based five-piece Paper Mache - which
will be performing at Mixtapes in East Moline on September 3 - has
gone through more than a dozen members.
You might assume that singer/songwriter Chelsea Seth Woodward is difficult to work with, but to hear him tell it, it was simply a process of shaping Paper Mache.
"It started off as me doing a singer/songwriter, solo acoustic," he said last week, "but the intention was always to have the songs that I wrote have open interpretation, that we could play with them and I could have different members join and see what fit, and then develop a sound from there."
Our
little hub here in Rock Island feels doubly cool on a day such as
Sunday when we have into the studio a young, local talent gone Los
Angeles in Lissie,
then a few hours after she left to go swim at the pool and eat
hamburgers we have one of Daytrotter's original alums and makers of
one of the coolest records of the year, Koufax,
by for the second session of the day, and last, to cap the day, one
of the premier hip-hoppers on the planet: Aesop
Rock.
When
Flyover,
the fourth album from Des Moines-based Brother Trucker, sees the
light of day - maybe yet this summer - the band's fans will be
treated to a collection of timeless roots rock.
Perhaps there's been this empty feeling in your stomachs lately as the Daytrotter concert schedule has been slightly bare for the greater part of August. It's all about to change as the shows are going to start up again and hit like a blizzard, like two blizzards back-to-back.
Jazz
alto saxophonist Ernest "Khabeer" Dawkins will bring his
"Straight Ahead" Quartet with special guest pianist and jazz
educator Willie Pickens to the River Music Experience's Redstone
Room in downtown Davenport for Polyrhythms' Third Sunday Jazz
Matinée & Workshop on August 17. The workshop begins at 3
p.m., with admission $3 for students and $5 for adults. The concert
begins at 6 p.m., with general admission $15 and reserve seating $20.
So
far this week, we've already recorded Royal
Bangs and New Zealanders
The Ruby Suns,
who parked their motor home at West Lake Park for the night, ate some
Huckleberry's pizza, and then drove to Chicago to make the long
flight home. They were a little worn out when they came to see us,
but the tunes turned out well. Everyone should check out their newest
Sub Pop record and complain to someone that it's not been released
on vinyl.
We
began the week by recording one of the world's hottest young bands,
The Black Kids,
and one that should definitely be watched in the next year - Black
Joe Lewis & the Honeybears.
The Austin band will be back touring through the Midwest in October
with Okkervil River
and Crooked Fingers,
and early indications from them are that there might be a hole in
their schedule that would allow the tour to come through the Quad
Cities.
Jim the Mule started recording its second studio album, Last Solid Ground, in March 2007, and a rough mix was finished in August.
