Live Recording: Mark Lanegan - "Live at the Esplanade Hotel July 9, 2010"

Well folks, Ritual Room's good friend and loyal follower Paddy has done it again - and by "it", I mean he's sent over more awesome Mark Lanegan material. This is a bootleg that was being sold at Mark's recent show in Dublin that Paddy was kind enough to upload - a recording of a performance from July 9, 2010 at the Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Apparently it was basically the same setlist as the Dublin show and was quite the performance (as you can see by the setlist!). This recording is amazing quality as well. This gives me chills. Enjoy.

1. When Your Number Isn't Up

2. One Way Street

3. No Easy Action

4. Miracle

5. Like Little Willie John

6. Don't Forget Me

7. Where the Twain Shall Meet

8. Message to Mine

9. Mirrored

10. The River Rise

11. One Hundred Days

12. Field Song

13. Traveller

14. Bombed

15. Wildflowers

DL: "Live at the Esplanade Hotel"

***picture stolen from Owl and Bear***

Album: Asunder - "A Clarion Call"

*Ahem*... Sorry for my silence. Life has suddenly become completely insane, and I'll have very little spare time until I start adjusting to this more. Anyways, you don't care, and I need to post some music, so let's go.

This is my favorite doom record. Normally I would have quite a lot to say about it, but, I have well, no time. Trust me though. I haven't lead you astray yet, have I?

1. Twilight Amaranthine
2. Crown of Eyes
3. A Clarion Call

DL: "A Clarion Call"

EP: Alice in Chains - "Sap"

Hey, remember how cool this EP is? This is the "Sap" EP by (that's right) Alice in Chains, which famously contains a guest appearance by Ann Wilson of Heart and that ridiculous yet somehow awesome "Alice Mudgarden" mashup on the track "Right Turn". I mean, if you're going to do Alice in Chains you may as well do it right. (And while you're reminiscing you also might as well remember this clip from Headbanger's Ball where the band has a day at the waterpark here.)

1. Brother

2. Got Me Wrong

3. Right Turn

4. Am I Inside

5. Love Song

DL: "Sap EP"

News: Jason Simon's Debut Solo Album Available for Purchase

Jason Simon's (Dead Meadow) debut self-titled solo album is now available to order on the Tee Pee Records webstore here. There are CDs or 500 copies available on white vinyl. I love me some Dead Meadow and am really stoked to hear this release!

The official release date for Jason Simon's solo record is September 14th and here's what the Tee Pee website had to say about it: "It is a stripped down and intimate record filled with intricate guitar work and poignant well-thought lyrics. Some songs are filled with dark brooding drones. Others songs leisurely carry the listener down meandering rivers as they slowly develop in their own unhurried way."

http://www.myspace.com/manfromelsewhere
http://www.myspace.com/deadmeadow
http://www.teepeerecords.com/

Compilation: Butthole Surfers - A Collection Of Great Venereal Diseases

i know i said that i didn't like to cross streams when it came to blog postings down yonder in my melvins compilation post...but if there's any reason to make 2 blogs feel awkward...it's the butthole surfers

this was a little something i put together for another radio show i participated in called THIS IS OUR MUSIC which plays only texass-bred music

and you can't think of texass and not think of the butthole surfers...well you could...but why would you want to?

so now i present you all with yet another sweet compilation to make folks feel all warm and cuddly and nyQuil smoothie-y

1 - sweat loaf
2 - dust devil
3 - creep in the cellar
4 - the lord is a monkey
5 - i saw an x-ray of a girl passing gas
6 - the colored fbi guy
7 - p.s.y.
8 - the hurdy gurdy man (1)
9 - the shah sleeps in lee harvey's grave
10 - the one i love (live) (2)
11 - ricky
12 - pepper
13 - intelligent guy (original version)
14 - something (1991 version)
15 - who was in my room last night?
16 - dum dum
17 - wnyu interview
18 - moving to florida
19 - just a boy
20 - the wooden song
21 - jingle of a dog's collar
22 - underdog (3)
23 - hey
24 - american woman (4)
25 - fast
26 - pittsburgh to lebanon
27 - cherub
28 - one hundred million people dead
29 - the shame of life

1=donovan cover
2=rem cover
3=theme song cover
4=the guess who cover

DL: a collection of great venereal diseases

EP: Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction

it's the album that made people go "oh man...it'll be so kick ass if we can play as slow as possible...and only use chord changes every 10 minutes...this is gonna be a great idea!"

i remember finding my very first earth album in a bin of cassettes years ago at a disc jockey...it was the PHASE 3: THRONES AND DOMINIONS album...it was only $1.00...i'd never heard of the band before then...and really...i don't even remember why i bought it...maybe it was because of the album cover

so i took it home...popped it into the stereo....and BAM!....my windows rattled

and then i was sold

actually...i wasn't completely sold until i was laying on my couch with some headphones on and under the influence of some...well...

let's just say i went for a little ride...on my couch

so enough of the words

you know who earth are

you know what you need to do

DL: extra-capsular extraction

Compilation: "Rituals for the Stoned: A Stoner Rock Compilation by Psymin"

Here's a compilation made for this site by heavy rock guru Psymin who sometimes drops by the Sludge Swamp to drop his 2 cents in. Now we're all fortunate enough to have him drop by Ritual Room as well with a ripping compilation he titled "Rituals for the Stoned". (I made the cover art... I'd say it's some of my finer work.)

Anyways, I asked Psymin to create this compilation after talking stoner rock genres with him and feeling like a newcomer to a musical style I've been up on for years about 5 minutes in. So give this a download if you're into this kind of thing - you aren't likely to find anything better... or anyone better to lead you into the genre. So sit back and relax, he knows what he's doing.

1. Fluid4 - Medusa Queen
2. Greenhouse Effect - The Mayor
3. Hanging Tree - Free Ride
4. I Are Droid - Before the Fall
5. Kinch - Huca (El Hombre Rojo)
6. Lions - Can You Hear Me?
7. Lo Pan - Dragline
8. Lowrider - The Gnome, The Serpent, The Sun
9. Madking Ludwig - Alone with Us
10. Palm Desert - 10,000 Miles
11. Skua - The Lotions
12. Taliban Airways - Tsunami Surfer
13. Truckfighters/Firestone - Megalomania
14. Vincent's Ear - Guido Bombed Cienega
15. Wrench - Aloha Mama

DL: "Rituals for the Stoned"