Mar 19 2009

OK, so who’s that new musical addiction?

Posted by Josh Shear in Music

So in that post yesterday, I alluded to a new musical addiction. Andrea was waiting for me to mention them, and she's been patient, but I don't how long that'll last since I don't actually know her, and I feel like making anyone wait more than four days is particularly cruel anyway.

And yes, I am for hire if anyone out there needs a run-on sentence or two for a blog post or news story.

I want you to meet The Real Tuesday Weld, whose Web site is so fancy it took me a while to figure out how to use it.

OK, so you may have already been on the TRTW bandwagon, if not from their songs' regular appearances in "The Gilmore Girls," then certainly from "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist."

Neither of which I was previously familiar, despite my being a virtual Six Degrees fanatic.

I picked up a copy of "Live at The End of the World," which is a live show at a club called The End of the World, as opposed to some mystical fantasy title.

But TRTW, along with performer The Clerkenwell Kid, got me interested in that theatrical way that the Asylum Street Spankers, Genesis P-Orridge and Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams got me interested.

Like the Spankers, TRTW features a large lineup, which accounts for its ambient sound and immense creativity.

If you read yesterday's post, you know I went into Soundgarden looking to judge some albums by their covers, and, while I was mildly worried that this could be another Berklee cookie cutter band based on the dark brick-and-wood-grain cover, the only disappointing thing about the disc is that it's short – like under a half hour short.

But The Real Tuesday Weld and I are going to have nights together, I'm sure.

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