Friday, June 26, 2009

Friday Morning Cartunes...June 26th, 2009

The Seeds - Nobody Spoil My Fun (GNP) LP
Oresund Space Collective - My Heel Has A Beard (Transubstans) CD
Trad Gras Och Stenar - Homeless Cats-Praises Of The Inconstancy (Subliminal Sounds) LP
Kraftwerk - Rueckstoss Gondoliere (private) cdr
MV & EE - Stateline (Three Lobed) CD
Bardo Pond - Inside (Matador) CD
Atavist - 7:05 (Aurora Borealis) LP
Grails - Burning Off Impurities (Temporary Residence) LP
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Pawn Shop Blues (Willie Anderson) LP
Pink Mountain - Ditch Witch (Sick Room) LP
Heavy Winged & Inca Ore - Into The Fog (Not Not Fun) LP
Beld - Broken Kingdom (private) cdr
Sandy Bull - No Deposit, No Return Blues (Sutro Park) LP
Sir Richard Bishop - Tripurasundari (Locust) LP
Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers - Revolt (Klang Industries) LP
Lamp Of The Universe - Astral Planes Of Knowing (Astral Projection) CD
Burnt Hills - Microburst (Flipped Out) LP
The Social Icons - Lou Reed (Vollwert) CD
40 Watt Monkey - Go Where You Go (Indie) CD
Silver Lions 20/20 - Give Me Back My Whig (Classic Bar Music) LP
Sky "Sunlight" Saxon/Firewall - Spirit Of The Sixties (PVC) LP
Wo Fat - Shake 'Em On Down (Brainticket) CD
Stonebride - Bending Roads (Setalight Records) LP
Wino - Gods, Frauds, Neo-Cons and Demagogues (Southern Lord) LP
The Clear Spots - Roach Beef Sandwich (Deep Water) CD

Friday, June 19, 2009

Friday Morning Cartunes...June 19th, 2009

Heavy Winged - Morning Flesh (Aurora Borealis) LP
Reverend Bizarre - Dunkelheit (Spinefarm) LP
Jex Thoth - Kagemni (I Hate Records) LP
Arbouretum - Infinite Corridors (Thrill Jockey) LP
Jack Rose - Cathedral et Chartres (3 Lobed) LP
Land Of Kush - The Light Over The Ranges (Constellation) LP
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Nice Butterfly Mask (Smalltown Supersound) LP
Roger Wooten & Piu - Out Of The Coma (Mellotronen) LP
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (Jagjaguwar) LP
Woods - Rain On (Woodsist) LP
Life On Earth - Watching The Shadows (Subliminal Sounds) LP
Headdress - The End (No Quarter) LP
George-Edwards Group - Easternia (GZD /Drag City) LP
Wayne Rogers - Autopia (Twisted Village) LP
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Bells At The Slipstream (Willie Anderson) LP
Gomer Pyle - Mimesus (Roadburn) LP
The Machine - Solar Corona (Nasoni) LP
Groovegasm International - The Player (demo) cdr
Groovegasm International - Planetsoul (demo) cdr
Amalgamation - An Open Letter To Sweet (demo) cdr
The Social Icons - Pop Is Falling Apart (Vollwert) CD
Wooden Shjips - Motorbike (Holy Mountain) LP
Pink Mountain - Shelflife (Sick Room) LP
Ornette Coleman - Theme From A Symphony (A&M) LP

Friday, June 12, 2009

Friday Morning Cartunes...June 12th, 2009

Volker Kreigel - Slums On Wheels (MPS) LP
Wilkinson/Edwards/Noble Trio - P nut / Kwak'mbabali stomp (Bo'Weavil) LP
Wolfgang Dauner - Nothing To Declare (ECM) LP
Hugh Hopper - Nozzles Tecalemit (Atmosphere) LP
Isotope - Rangoon Creeper (Gull) LP
Soft Machine - Pataphysical Pt.1/Alphabet Pt.1/Hibou... (Probe) LP
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Around Knuckle White Tie (GSL) LP
Golom - Orion Awakes (Caroline) CD
Lamp Of The Universe - Love Eternal (Astral Projection) CD
Cheval Sombre - It's A Shame (Double Feature) CD
Headdress - Lost White Brother (No Quarter) LP
Earth - Junkyard Priest(Live) (Southern Lord) LP
Mighty Baby - Now You See It (Sunbeam) LP
Trad Gras Och Stenar - Punkrockarn/Punkrocker (Subliminal Sounds) LP
Kebnekajse - Brudmarsch efter E. Eriksson(Subliminal Sounds) LP
Opal - People From Out The Space (Materiali Sonori) CD
Michel Magne - Grand Theme Malko (CDHW) CD
Georges Garvarentz - Le Temps des Loups (CDHW) CD
Group Doueh - Nabi El Mohamed (Sublime Frequencies) LP
Acid Mothers Temple SWR - Uzumgayu-Just George Benson (Magaibutsu) CD
Truckfighters - Last Curfew (Fuzzorama) CD
White Hills - Oceans Of Sound(Thrill Jockey) LP
Pontiak - Laywayed (Thrill Jockey) LP
Hawkwind - Steppenwolf (Charisma) LP

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Prog Fest October 2009

Prog Fest 2009 in Ottawa happens October 23-24th ...The main event which will be announced shortly as confirmed will go down on the Saturday (24th), at Carleton University Alumni Hall.

Irene's Pub, 855 Bank Street in Ottawa at will be the site for the "Official" Prog-Fest Warm Up Night........

October 23rd, Friday....

"the band whose name is a symbol"
Castor
Nervous System


3 groups..... $ 8.00 admission , $ 3.00 of which from each admission will go towards CKCU Funding Drive.

More info as unfolds shortly... stay tuned...

Friday, June 5, 2009

Friday Morning Cartunes...June 5, 2009

Sergius Golowin - Die Weibe Alm (Wah Wah) LP
Association P.C. - Scorpion (MPS) LP
Soft Machine - All White (CBS) LP
Aethenor - I (VHF) LP
Black Math Horsemen - Deerslayer (Tee Pee) LP
Scorpions - Dark Lady (RCA) LP
Church Of Misery - El Padrino (Rise Above) LP
Wo Fat - Analog Man (Brainticket) CD
Alice Coltrane - Jaya Jaya Rama (Impulse) LP
Wolfgang Dauner's Etcetera - Yin (MPS) LP
Sir Richard Bishop - The Pillars Of Baalbeck (Drag City) LP
Beld - Not Enough Hootch (demo) cdr
Diagonal - Cannon Misfire (Rise Above) LP
Gila - Braintwist (Second Battle) LP
Reaction - Live Is A Wheel (Living In The Past) CD
Alunah - Show Me How (Nasoni) 10"
Heavy Hands - See Saw (Language Of Stone) LP
Oresund Space Collective - Orbital Elevator (Transubstans) CD
Burnt Hills - Over The Rainbow (Noiseville) LP
"the band whose name is a symbol" - Billy Bonkers (pre-release) cdr
White Wires - Let It Go (Going Gaga) LP
Warpig - Tough Nuts (Fonthill) LP
Miles Davis - Great Expectations (Columbia) LP

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Hot Tickets

Okay, summer slowly gettin' here but it's been HOT at Birdman for months !!

Our man Chetley Weise from Auburn, Alabama and formerly of Immortal Lee County Killers, Quadrajets and currently fronting the awesome San Fran based Silver Lions 20/20 played a deadly FREE set of electric blues in the shop this past Saturday ! Some wicked delta raunch which included songs by Burnside, Hooker and Howlin' Wolf to name a few. A crowd of about 25 folks witnessed how the spirit of Skip James is alive and well, residing in the body of the "Cheetah" ! Thanks dude, we'll have ya in our house anytime !

Lotsa cool used records making there way in to the shop these days and again I say feel free to trade stuff in for new tunes ! The better ya bring, the better ya git !

A shitload of new stuff 2 or 3 times a week as arrivals makes Birdman the happenin' spot in the hood for all the important musical scores...diggin' new stuff BIGTIME from the likes of Sir Richard Bishop, Church Of Misery, Trembling Bells, Life On Earth, The George Edwards Group, Black Math Horsemen, , Weird Owl and tons more !!

Here's our top seller's for the month of May, 2009...

The Heads / White Hills - Split Rocket LP
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned Tee Pee LP/CD
Acid Mothers Temple - Lord Of The Underground Alien 8 LP/CD
Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes Tee Pee LP/CD
Weedeater - God Luck & God Speed Southern Lord LP/CD
Wooden Shjips - Dos Holy Mountain LP/CD
Booker T. - Potato Hole Anti LP/CD
Mahikari - S/T Birdman LP
Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles Alive LP/CD
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Grupo Nuevo ORL LP/CD
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love Jagjaguwar LP/CD

In other news "the band whose name is a symbol" plays this Saturday, June 6th, at Carleton University outdoors by the unicentre as part of CKCU's Open Doors celebration...FREE to everyone it'll feature DJ's , 4 live bands, food and tours of the radio station. Black Ball, Mono Hum and Cosmic cousins also play. "the band whose name is a symbol" play at 4 pm.

"the band whose name is a symbol" who have a newly recording psych rocker on the upcoming Going Gaga vinyl comp, perform as part of the 2nd annual Gaga Weekend on Saturday June 13th at Yogi's Meat Locker on Main Street. "tbwnias" perform at 7 pm-ish.....hope to see you there. The band's own 2nd LP will be off to press this week. The album is called "Superficial Marks" and will be wax only and ltd to 100 copies.