Freak Scene #9 « The FADER

Freak Scene #9

story THE FADER

This week we take a look at music on the road. Woods and Religious Knives took what seemed to be a relaxed week-long summer tour along the East Coast and were kind enough to document their listening habits while driving from town to town. Woods, which contain three-fourths of indie rockers Meneguar, play lo-fi forest ballads with Jeremy Earl rocking a sweet falsetto over the bands reserved sweeps. Christian Deroeck adds many nice 12-string guitar touches to the equation. Their debut CD is out now on Shrimper and goes down real easy. Woods sound like drinking in the dark outside. Its good, its what you should be listening to at the end of summer.

Religious Knives continue on their own road of hypnotizing basic rock drones to higher levels, the rock band emphasized more than ever with the rhythmic drive of Nate Nelson and Todd Cavallo taking it home. Mike Bernstein is now front-man guitar jammer and I suppose Maya Miller is now Christine McVie. All together they took their collective mugs on the pavement and brought the righteous sounds to the people the old fashioned way. These pics and picks are a but a glimpse of these bands’ collective talents and interests. For those seeking more, the two bands made a split tour cassette on their Heavy Tapes/Fuck It Tapes labels and is a damn nice souvenir even if you weren’t there. It’s worth it just for RK’s amazing cover of “96 Tears”. We hope you enjoy this look at life on the road and as always music recommendations are at the heart of it all, most importantly before I let them take over, I recommend Woods and Religious Knives both highly.
-STEVE LOWENTHAL

The Woods Van:

MV & EE with the Golden Road- Gettin Gone
Magik Markers- Boss
Pink Reason- Cleaning the Mirror
International Harvester- Sov gott Rose-Marie
Graham Nash- Songs For Beginners
Skygreen Leopards- Disciples of California
Neil Young- Tonight’s The Night
Mighty Baby- Jug of Love
The Dead C- Trapdoor Fucking Exit
Silver Jews- Natural Bridge
Nirvana- Nevermind
Simon Joyner- Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999
Jandek- Rocks Crumble
Grateful Dead- Europe 72
Skip Spence- Oar
NNCK- Letters from the Serth
Mad Dog Bonner- The Big Cup
Italo Deruggiero- part due
Kebnekajse- Resa Mot Okänt Mål
Fleetwood Mac- Tusk
FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF ‘76- Contraction

The Religious Knives Van:
Eddie Hazel “Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs”
Grateful Dead “Rockin the Rhein”
Circle Jerks “Group Sex”
Royal Trux “Cats and Dogs”
Kraftwerk “Red Cone”
Modern Lovers LP
Fleetwood Mac “rumours”
Relatively Clean Rivers LP
Neil Young acoustic boot 72
Neil Young 2/27/71 boot
Manuel Gottsching “inventions…”
Vox Dei “La Biblia”
Steely Dan “Pretzel Logic”
Funkadelic “Free Your Mind”
Fleetwood Mac “Tusk”
The Doors “s/t”
Maya’s mix “birdie’s baddest beats” (Isleys, Gap Band, Kool and the Gang, Nas, etc.)
Opus Alfa 1972

Fleetwood Mac “Fleetwood Mac”
Ty. Rex “Unicorn”
The Undisputed Truth “Cosmic Truth”
Bob Dylan “Blonde on Blonde”
Smog “Knock, Knock”
Rolling Stones “Forty Licks”
Bulbous Creation LP
Buckingham Nicks LP
Traffic Sound “virgin”
The Other Half LP
Excepter “Streams”
Bob Dylan “Rolling Thunder Revue”
Prince “Greatest Hits”
John Fahey- various tracks
Velvet Underground “White Light/White Heat”
Endless Boogie “Cakeshop 5.6.06″