Le Drive-By Tigres
Now that I have your attention with all the Britney news, here's some new music you must check out.
On Friday night, Laura XBox, Marcus, Celeste and I did some pre-partying at 119 Bar before the Drive-By Truckers show, then headed (minus Celeste) around the corner to Irving Plaza for one of the best concerts I have seen all year.
DBT are southern rock revivialists. The real deal, though, not a marketing gimmick ([cough]Kings Of Leon[cough]). Most of head trucker Patterson Hood's songs are about booze, Skynyrd, daddy's car, George Wallace, and "the Southern thing." And believe or not, they get a lot of mileage out of that. It helps he's got a perfectly grizzly Southern drawl that heralds tales of hard-living. I've been listening to five DBT albums on shuffle and I really can't get enough. Maybe 'cause I've never been to Alabama.
Drive-By's three guitar assault killed at Irving Plaza, and in between songs Patterson shared New York stories and took swigs of Jack. Even the crowd was cooler than usual: jolly country-rock lovers instead of the usual NY hipsters.
Here's a dark cut from the band's Southern Rock Opera (rock operas are so hott these days).
Drive-By Truckers - "The Three Great Alabama Icons"
"Heathens" wins Song Most Played On Stereogum's iPod Last Week. It's from Decoration Day and I was psyched they played it Friday night.
Drive-By Truckers - "Heathens"
I guarantee I was the only loser in the front row snapping pics on my camera phone.
I don't know why I bother; my camera phone obviously sucks. Suggestions appreciated.
Anyway, here's the setlist (thanks Marcus!):
Drive-By Truckers @ Irving Plaza, NYC 9/17/04
Cottonseed
The Buford Stick
Sink Hole
Your Daddy Hates Me
The Day John Henry Died
Never Gonna Change
The Company I Keep
Daddy's Cup
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
The Boys From Alabama
Let Me Roll It [duet with opening act Allison Moorer]
Heathens
Marry Me
Women Without Whiskey
Lookout Mountain
Puttin' People On The Moon
Uncle Disney [off Patterson's solo cd]
Tornadoes [dedicated to Southern folks affected by Ivan]
Outfit
Where The Devil Don't Stay
Goddamn Lonely Love
The Living Bubba
Zip City
Let There Be Rock
I should also mention. Wes Freed is the guy responsible for DBT's fantastic album artwork. This, for example, makes a nice desktop wallpaper.
Now, totally switching gears...
I know a lot of you have really strong opinions about feminist electro-punks Le Tigre. Well, at least my fiancee and her friends do. I'm not gonna pretend to be some Kathleen Hanna expert, but I do know she unintentionally inspired the title of a famous rock anthem by scrawling "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit" on a wall when bandmate Toby Vail was dating the Nirvana frontman. Also, I thought she was really cute dancing around in that old Sonic Youth video. And she sings on Green Day's new concept album (rock operas = still hott).
You may have Gawker Stalked the trio at Misshapes or already own the "Deceptacon" 12", but you should still check out This Island ... even though it's (gasp) on a major label. Cry sellout if you must, but I dare you to resist the Pointer Sisters cover:
That tune wins Song Most Played On Eliza Jane's iPod Last Week. If I was a DJ, or a poseur iPod DJ, I would spin it ASAP.
Did you like it? If so, you owe it to these politically-minded girls to vote. If you register at mustvote.com, you get free music.
Also, fun fact: last week Laura Xbox interviewed Kathleen, who then told her publicist that Laura has perfect skin and hair. Also Laura writes good articles about abortions.
So to recap, you'll want to pick these new albums up at your preferred music retailer.
Posted at 8:22 AM
Tags: Drive-By Truckers
I thought Le Tigre was all women....
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See? That "I'm So Excited" cover is great!!
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surprise! they are all women...;)
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When I was seventeen (1996), I went to see Bikini Kill in the bay area and a friend of mine from NYC who was all excited to come to Cali, visit me, and see them had to cancel her plans because her dad tragically died, I went to the show and met Kathleen and told her the story and months and months later when Bikini Kill went to NYC, she looked up my friend, met up with her, gave her hand-written lyrics, AND the sweater off her back (it was cold). So Kathleen is so tops in my book for doing that.
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i agree the dbts kick ass. but whats with the kol hatin? ive never read about them being a "marketing gimmick"...please inform because i happen to BE FROM alabama AND love both kol & dbt. also, theres southern rock revivialists all around these parts...like the dexateens for example.
http://www.fleabomb.com/Article-137.phtml
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I love their cover of Excited! Thanks, Scott. I'll go vote for them now.
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Well, duh. I thought you were saying that they were in some sort of competition and needed votes for their song. I'm already planning to vote in November. :-P
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truckers sounds kind of group of hipsters trying to be like Neil Young.
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i have a fever and am home in LI... but lets make plans for later this week.
kiss the kitty for me.
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never could really stand KoL honestly, but have always loved me some DBT
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I've been looking for that Le Tigre track since it got mentioned somewhere here last week. Thanks, Scott!
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If you don't like them, fine. But the Truckers are so NOT hipsters. They're just a bunch of old boys playing loud rock and roll very well.
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fine, i just read there bios, I guess they really are southern boys. not hipsters doing niel young, then, but how about a poor man's neil young?
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Okay, I know that I shalt incur the wrath of some, but..I really can barely not vomit when I see the moustache lady.
I mean if I can get grossed out by Brit's dirty hair, I can tell a chick to shave right?
pee ess- I do like LeTigre
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I LOVE KATHLEEN HANNA AND SHE MADE SUCK AN IMPACT ON ME WHEN I FIRST SAW HER IN 96 WITH BIKINI KILL. I ALSO HEART JULIE RUIN!!! LE TIGRE IS FUN AND I HEART ALL THE ALBUMS BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT THIER NEW SINGLE T.K.O. OR WHATEVER SUCKS!!!!! I HONESTLY DON'T SEE WHAT THE POINT OF HAVING JD SAMSON IS? I KNOW THEY ARE MORE POPULAR IN THE LESBIAN SCENCE AND THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT H.E.R.M.S, BUT IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE. ... AND YES IT'S GREAT TO MARKET AND FEED OFF AND WHATEVER FROM THOSE WHO WORSHIP YOU AND LOVE YOU CAUSE YOU NEVER SO CALLED SOLD OUT.. ALTHOUGH I ONLY HEARD THIER NEW SINGLE B/C MY GIRLFRIEND FOUND IT ON THE "TRASH" BIN IN THE MTV STUDIOS.. AND WHO CARES RIGHT WHAT MTV THINKS B/C ALL THE MUSIC THEY HAVE ON TV SUCKS ANYWAYS!!! BUT I DO LOVE KATHLEEN HANNA AND WISH SHE WOULD JUST GO SOLO AND I HAVE NO HARD FEELINGS TOWARDS THE OTHER BAND MATES I JUST THINK SHE IS THE BRAIN OF THE GROUP....
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jd is awesome. i can't get the track off this site? been reset? poops.
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The DBT guys are lousy tippers! Enough said.
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Yeah, Kings of Leon have so much less credibility than Britney Spears...thank goodness yr not spending countless hours being "ironic" about them....
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is this on the new album? they opened at coachella with this, it was flippin' great.
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DBT rock. Saw them many times when I lived in Birmingham, at all kinds of bars that made the Village Idiot (RIP) look like a clean, well lighted place. Need to make a point of catching them up here now that I'm in NYC ... too bad they didn't play "Late for Church" tho.
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i like these drive-by truckers. and your site. just saw neil young play in bekeley and it wasn't too different from the show you linked to. solo acoustic.
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haven't gotten a chance to fully evaluate the new album, but le tigre surely rocks.
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Hello folks nice blog youre running
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