Unkle is telling me More Stories
Fuck Yeah!!! Unkle’s “MORE STORIES” is kicking my ass right now. Not that I should have expected anything less, but being the pessimist that I am I wasn’t really sure what this bonus disc and “part 2″ of their last record “War Stories” was actually going to be. No one wants to fork over some cash for some shitty euro remixes. We’ve all been played the fool and done that once or twice haven’t we?
Well you won’t be disappointed here… this is a record containing a mix of B-sides, remixes, unreleased War Stories session tracks, and music composed for the film Odyssey In Rome (by Abel Ferrara who made flicks like The Driller Killer, Ms. 45, King of New York and Bad Lieutenant). I found out about this little fucker a while back and wanted to buy it but being as broke as I was at the time, I couldn’t fork over the $50 bucks for this Japanese import. Now I’m beating myself up for not resorting to other forms of prostitution to get-dat-money. Now that I have it (I stole it), I can’t stop dancing. And I recommend buying this record at once, so I can balance out my crime of stealing it. Don’t blow it.
Ever since Unkle’s “War Stories” came out almost a year ago, I’ve been dancing in mesh shirts ever since. I don’t think I’ve played a cd this much since “In Utero” when I was about 13… And If you’ve ever been lucky enough to see the brilliance that goes on when Travis and I dj, you know what I’m talkin about. It’s a staple and the shit slays.
Unkle - “Turnstile Blues [Surrender Sounds Sessions #4] - Autolux”
“Odyssey In Rome” trailer
About 6 months ago I saw Unkle at the Echoplex. I guess their manager screwed the pooch and didn’t get Richard File’s Visa in time so he couldn’t board the plane to get over to America. In case you aren’t aware Richard File is half of this incarnation of Unkle (and the best incarnation by far if you ask me) so I hope they fired that knucklehead manager. So Richard and the other guitar player they had this summer in Europe (when Travis saw em and said they kicked ass) didn’t get to come to America and in their place they had two other pussies with lame Alternative Press hair cuts and wallet chains playing air guitar in place of him. Great, I just paid to watch two dorks pretend to air guitar to the cd.
The highlight of the show was when Chris Goss plugged in for a song or two then you really got to hear what a real live guitar actually sounded like and then the jig was really up. It was still a pretty decent show and I had a killer time but that could have been cuz of the yellow guy. I’m sad to say since then Richard File and Unkle have parted ways. I’m not sure why but that news makes me sad. The official Unkle page says: “In January 2008, the official Unkle website announced that Richard File had, after ten years’ collaboration, left Unkle due to his solo work with his new band named We Fell to Earth.”
Anyways… I’m smoked and I got work super early so just check out these tracks from this thing. I guarantee satisfaction.
Troy boy
Unkle - “Restless” video
Unkle - “Hold My Hand” video
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May 7th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
War stories was an awsome disk, Reckless certainly made me almost crash into a few sign posts from dancing in my car. I’ll deffinetly check this out once I’m no longer broke.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
click my name for a uncle article
May 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
sorry unkle my spell checker was on
May 7th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
New Autolux tune at their myspace site.
Do you guys know when that new album is coming out?
May 7th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
this post is 100% true. one of my favs from last year & saw em early this year when they toured. RAD
May 8th, 2008 at 3:27 am
UNKLE ART UPDATE:
Lazarides Gallery in London is proud to present War Paint, an exhibition of artworks inspired by the UNKLE album, War Stories, with works from Robert Del Naja, Warren du Preez, Nick Thornton Jones, William Bankhead and Ben Drury.
When James Lavelle’s album War Stories was released in 2007, he collaborated with his long-term creative partner, Robert Del Naja, also known as 3D from Massive Attack. War Paint will feature paintings by 3D inspired by War Stories as well as works from other artists who have long-term working relationships with James and Del Naja.
The event will run 25 Mar - 25 April from Tues thru Sat, 11am-7pm. Admission is free so be sure to stop by the Lazarides Gallery to check it out!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Legacy Recordings is launching a new CD Series titled X2 for Bob Dylan. The Bob Dylan X2 includes the Another Side of Bob Dylan and The Times They Are A-Changin’ CDs and will be found in stores on May 13
May 8th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Gotta agree. About 80% of War Stories slays.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:55 am
More Unkle. Shiny. Let me express my gratitude for sharing this by using a conversation between two gay men after a day of vigorous sex.
Gay Man 1: So did I make your day or what?
Gay Man 2: Make my day? - You made my hole week…
Disclaimer: 4 out of 5 gay men laughed at this joke when tested.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I’m still not sick of seeing the praise.
Sans File when I saw UNKLE live, but, whatever. Cool. I’d be so in to have some tea with JL.
Exhibition would’ve been alright. Anyone go?
Keller.. It’s May now yeah?
May 14th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
That show at the Echoplex was the shit. I was so stoked when Chris came onstage.
Those hire-a-guitarists were nice guys though. They recognized me from LA the next day in SF and tried to get me in even though the gig was 21+.
I fucking hate bar shows that are 21+. I’m not there to drink! I’m there to hear awesome music!
… the drinking starts AFTER the show!