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Friday, December 1st, 2000
New Palace Records in the Hopper According to the latter label's website, Palace Records will be distributed by Chicago's Drag City in the new year, a move which means better Palace availability to the consumer, and as much Oldham as your stomach can handle. The imprints' first co-release will be the self-titled third full-length from The Anomoanon, the creative outlet for the eldest Oldham, Ned. It also features younger brothers Paul and Will. Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Will's willfully odd moniker, is also on the schedule of new releases with Ease Down the Road, the full-length follow-up to the hugely awesome I See a Darkness, the title track of which was recently covered by every convict's favorite singer (besides Britney), Johnny Cash. Expect these records to be out in February or March, just before little Donny and Marie Oldham sign a contract with ABC for their own talk show.
New Old David Grubbs Music to be Released In other Drag City news, the label announced that, early next year, it will reissue a couple of domestically unavailable David Grubbs pieces as a single record: The Coxcomb/Avacado Orange. The former was an LP-only French release, and a musical interpretation of a story by Stephen Cranes, while the latter is both a reworking of a song from Grubbs' solo debut and a leftover from the sessions for his most recent full-length, The Spectrum Between. Just so if you actually did pay the outrageous import price for The Coxcomb, you'll now have to crack open your wallet again to hear this "new" track. You Grubbs-aholic freak.
Japancakes Flip New Record Kindercore Records will present the world with a new Japancakes full-length in February. Entitled The Sleepy Strange, the album treads the same path as the Athens, Georgia band's debut, If I Could See Dallas; namely, the musicians go into the studio unrehearsed and simply repeat musical phrases over and over, and then assemble the most "interesting" parts into whole "songs." It's a technique that one of the band members even goes so far as to call "boring to a lot of people." Bald-faced honesty will get you everywhere in our book. The producer was Andy Baker, who, having previously worked with Macha, knows his numbing instrumental drones when he hears them.
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