April 28, 2005

Brightblack
Matador Records is pleased to herald the signing of one of America's most unique new bands, Northern California (via Alabama)'s Brightblack, the duo of Nabob (aka Nathan Shineywater) and Rachael Hughes (Rabob).

First emerging in 2002 with a Palace Records split 7" with Bonnie Prince Billy under the name Rainywood, Brightblack's 2004 LP 'Ala.Cali.Tucky' was recorded with Paul Oldham in Kentucky.

the following biographical spiel is culled from the Brightblack website:

"Nathan D. "Nabob" Shineywater was raised rurally in Alabama by two older men who became known in the community for enhancement of the spiritual side of life. The eldest chose to be a rural preacher, who sang gospels. The other man chose to distribute a refined white powdered South American plant to anyone interested, in hopes to enhance the "party spirit" side of life.

"Between these two men, Nabob spent his weekdays singing along to Steely Dan. The weekends however were spent with the aging community of peanut farmers in church, singing highly spiritual gospel. "Their voices were very diverse. All of them old, except mine. Some were missing teeth, adding percussion to the 'SSS' in S words. All the men and women sang with both sadness and joy, depending on their day, and they sang as prayer. Singing in that way is the only way to sing! It wasn't Sacred Harp singing, it was straight ahead gospel that lent itself to the most common of people."

"His best friend and music partner Rachael "Rabob" Hughes was also raised rurally, in Montevallo, Alabama. The downtown area has a wonderful wooded park of cedar trees, some of them carved as huge faces. Within the town's park Rachael's father built an ornate waterfall. The piano in their home was frequented by Southern Gospel as well. This is the crux of her playing style, which is solely released on vintage Rhodes pianos.

"Rural Northern California is where the two pitch tents in the warm months, and live communally in a small old cabin in the colder months.

"Brightblack Morninglight in recent live settings have included newest member Elias Reitz' complementory woven thunder of bells, tabla and other chiff-chaff-clap-boom percussions. Other members include Noah Wilson who has long been patterning his own drumkit beats with the shadows of invisible dew drops he found while photographing fields in Humboldt County, California.

"After 18 months of writing songs and playing & touring with bands like Bonnie Prince Billy, White Magic, Women & Children, Papa M, Joanna Newsome, Vetiver, Entrance, Gojogo, Daniel Higgs' Magic Alphabet, Lungfish, and recently making their UK debut at the Slint-curated All Tomorrow's Parties, Brightblack will commence recording their Matador debut later this Spring."

If you're curious (and who wouldn't be) you can check out a recent cover story on Brightblack from the SF Weekly.

Stephen Malkmus
As we count down the days until the release of SM's ridiculously great 3rd album, 'Face The Truth', we call your attention to the following free instore performance:

Seattle
May 24th at 7PM
Sonic Boom Ballard CHANGED! to Capitol Hill location
514 15th Ave. East

as well as the not free-at-all (well, except for the last one) gigs in finer venues across the land:

June 4 - Washington, DC at Black Cat
June 5 - Philadelphia, PA at Theatre of Living Arts
June 7- New York City, NY at Irving Plaza
June 9 - Cleveland, OH at Beachland Ballroom
June 10 - Detroit, MI at St. Andrew's Hall
June 12 - Minneapolis, MN at First Avenue
June 14 - Los Angeles, CA at El Rey Theater
June 15 - San Francisco, CA at The Fillmore
June 17 - Portland, OR at Crystal Ballroom
July 4 - New York City (Battery Park) at The Lawn
(supporting Yo La Tengo)

You can hear Stephen performing live on KEXP at noon (PDT) on May 24.

Download the new Stephen Malkmus e-card and do with it as you will.

Finally, we'd like to offer a shout-out (ie. "fuck you") to the cowards and thought-cops in the Ad Dept at Paste Magazine who have deemed our proposed advertisement for 'Face The Truth' to be beyond the bounds of "good taste." God forbid that anything might challenge the sensibilities of Paste's Yep Roc-loving, Starbucks-guzzling, Wes Anderson-worshipping readership. Seriously, if there's anything we or SM have done that is a poor fit with Paste's Ad Dept's narrow worldview, that is the highest compliment we've been paid since the last time Spin refused to run one of our ads.

The precise ad is reproduced here (you saw an alternative version of it as a poster, in the last news update):

Interpol
On the heels of their biggest UK and European headlining tour thus far, Interpol are back in the US playing the following radio festivals next month.

May 14: HFStival, Baltimore. M&T Stadium.
May 15: Y100rocks.com, Philadelphia (ex-Y100). Y100Rocks FEZtival Pier
June 3: Q101 Block Party, Chicago. New City YMCA.
June 4: Endfest14, Seattle. White River Amphitheatre.
June 5: KNRK Festival, Portland OR. Crystal Ballroom.
June 10: 99X Music Midtown, Atlanta. Main Stage.

with more to be announced.

The band will be making their 2nd appearance on NBC's 'Tonight Show With Jay Leno' since the release of 'Antics', performing "Evil" on the May 20 broadcast.

"C'mere," the 3rd UK single from 'Antics', entered the British charts at No. 19 last week. 'Antics' has since been certified Gold in the UK (100,000 sold) and is both Interpol's and Matador's first Gold record in that territory.

Interpol wil be making a one-off appearance on May 8 in Sunderland as part a live broadcast for the BBC's Radio One, then they'll return to the UK in June for stadium dates supporting U2 and Coldplay (check the tour dates section).

Laura Cantrell
The first MP3 from the new Laura Cantrell album 'Humming By The Flowered Vine', "14th Street" is now available for your consideration. We'd rather have your money, but in this case, we'll settle for your consideration.

photo by Ted Barron

Laura will be performing at NYC's Virgin Megastore (Union Square, 52 East 14th St.) on June 21 at 7pm. Said event will be followed by shows in the following non-retail environments:

Jun 22 - Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts (Calder Courtyard)
Jun 23 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
June 24 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse
June 28 - Arlington, VA - Iota
June 30 - Raleigh, NC - The Pour House

July 1 - Atlanta, GA - Red Light Cafe
July 4 - New York, NY - Battery Park, The Lawn (with Yo La Tengo, Stephen Malkmus)

July 19 - Amsterdam - Paradiso**
July 20 - Amsterdam - Paradiso**
July 22 - London - Shepherds Bush Empire**
July 26 - Manchester - Bridgewater Hall**
July 27 - Glasgow - Academy**
July 29 - Gateshead - Sage Arena**

** supporting Lucinda Williams

Laura is being profiled on (not hosting, as wrongly reported here yesterday) a segment on the American Routes radio show, for broadcast between May 18-24.

And, our apologies, we wrongly reprted here that there was a confirmed booking on World Cafe (WFUV and WXPN) on May 25; this is not true. Instead, you can hear Laura perform and be interviewed on WFUV and WXPN on those dates. Later this summer, you'll see Laura as one of the many guest commentators on CMT's "100 Greatest Duets".

Dead Meadow
could there possibly be a hotter concert attraction in North America this June than Sleater-Kinney and Dead Meadow? The Def Leppard/Bryan Adams tour of minor league baseball stadiums comes to mind, but the other bill is probably a better value for money (offensive joke about drummers missing limbs edited by cowardly thought-cops).

6/15 - Minneapolis at First Ave
6/16 - Chicago at Riviera Theater
6/17 - Cleveland at Beachland Ballroom
6/18 - Toronto at the Phoenix
6/19 - Montreal at Club Soda
6/21 - Burlington at Higher Ground
6/24 - Philadelphia at Trocadero
6/25 - DC at 9:30
6/27 - Off or Norfolk at Norva
6/28 - Chapel Hill at Disco Rodeo
6/29 - Asheville or Charleston
6/30 - Atlanta at Variety

The New Pornographers - new album, tour dates, possible Michael Pare reference
'Twin Cinema,' the New Pornographers' third album, finds all seven-plus members pushing themselves in dizzying ways. The album features leader A.C. Newman's most heartfelt songs yet, such as "The Bleeding Heart Show" and the Neko showCase "These Are The Fables". "The Jessica Numbers" and "Three or Four" approach "Jesus Christ Superstar" levels of theater and nerve, "Use It" and the title track are amongst the band's best. Dan Bejar (Destroyer) three remarkable contributions include "Jackie, Dressed In Cobras," a wild-eyed glam sequel to Mass Romantic's "Jackie". Guests include singer Nora O'Connor and Carl's long-lost teenage niece (really) Kathryn Calder on vocals and piano (soon to be a touring member of the group).

While 'Twin Cinema' is no less catchy (and the arrangements no less intricate) than your fave moments fromÝ Mass Romantic and Electric Version, there's a sense of economy and cutting wit which stand in slight contrast to the party-out-of-bounds vibe of those records. The New Pornographers have blown us away, again. Dig it deep. 'Twin Cinema' will be in stores August 23.

tracklisting:

Twin Cinema (listen to the MP3)
The Bones Of An Idol
Use It
The Bleeding Heart Show
Jackie Dressed In Cobras
The Jessica Numbers
These Are The Fables
Sing Me Spanish Techno
Falling Through Your Clothes
Broken Beads
Three Or Four
Star Bodies
Streets Of Fire
Stacked Crooked

the following East Coast dates have been confirmed with more to follow:

June
23-Hoboken, NJ at Maxwells
24-Lancaster, PA at Chameleon Club
25-Brooklyn, NY at Celebrate Brooklyn
26-Northampton, MA at Pearl Street Nightclub

In addition, the NP's Todd Fancey has a four song solo EP, 'Fancey' out on March Records next month.

The Double
NYC's The Double have completed recording on their Matador debut, 'Loose In the Air,' a worthy successor to 2004's 'Palm Fronds' (Catsup Plate).

The massed Ace Tone/Vox/Casio keys of Jacob Morris and floating vocals of David Greenhill have led some staff members to liken The Double to music as diverse as '60s British folk mixed with theatrical synth bands. But the spooky/paranoid vibes and insistent, inventive rhythms of percussionist (he's more than a drummer) of Jeff McLeod consistently build up a wall of sound more nervous and more intense than that comparison might suggest. A consistent war between compressed noise/percussion and washy, abstracted vocals lives up to the band's name... except that irresistible pop melodies are laid on top. An indescribable and lovely mess.

(the management would like to add that this album is equal parts spooky, jittery and clang-tastic. The most wildly original NY album since 'Talking Heads 1977'? 'Marquee Moon'? Von LMO's 'Future Language'? OK, I'll stop now.)

track listing:

Up All Night
Idiocy
Icy
On Our Way
Ripe Fruit
Hot Air
What Sound It Makes the Thunder
In The Fog
Dance
Busty Beasty

Yo La Tengo
Though we are quite concerned about the effects the video game boom are having on the music industry (wouldn't you rather buy a new album by Juice Newton?) not to mention the nasty correlation between first-person shooter/corridor games and blowing up High Schools, we have (with some second thoughts) launched a primitive Yo La Tengo video game.

As more and more of you continue to be enthralled by the 'Prisoners Of Love' double & triple CD compilations (the collection about which Coolfer raved "....couldn't make it all the way through."), Yo La Tengo prepare to take their show on the road (please note the new batch of European dates):

May 15: River Fusion/Sand Island, Bethlehem PA
May 18: Rose Theater, Lincoln Center, New York:The Sounds of Science (live accompaniment with the films of Jean PainlevÈ)
May 27: Shibuya Club Quattro, Tokyo Japan
May 28: Laforet Museum, Tokyo Japan:The Sounds of Science (live accompaniment with the films of Jean PainlevÈ)
May 29: Club Quattro, Osaka Japan

July 4: The Lawn, Battery Park, NYC (with Stephen Malkmus and Laura Cantrell)
July 9: Mass MOCA, North Adams MA:The Sounds of Science (live accompaniment with the films of Jean PainlevÈ)

Aug 5: Benicassim Festival, Spain
Aug 7: Umbria Urbino Festival, Italy
Aug 9: Berlin Columbia Club
Aug 10: Hamburg Fabrik
Aug 11: St Malo La Route Du Rock, France
Aug 14: Leicester Summer Sundae
Aug 15: Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
Aug 16: London Koko
Aug 17: Holland Paradiso
Aug 19: Cannes Festival Pantiero

Spoon
After a whirlwind 3 weeks supporting Interpol across Europe, Spoon are back in the USA, finishing work on the video for "I Turn My Camera On", and preparing for their appearance at this weekend's Coachella festival. A full scale North American tour (with the Clientele supporting) runs through late June, and we're hopeful that Spoon will be returning to Europe at the end of the Summer. In the meantime, 'Gimme Fiction' is out May 9 in the UK, Europe and Australia (a bit later in Japan), and May 10 in North America through our friends at Merge. It is no understatement when we proclaim said album to be one of the more challenging, packed-with-ideas, life affirming rock'n'roll recordings you can allow into your skull. Every couple of years this fantastic band emerges with yet another masterpiece that tops their previous efforts, and this time is no exception.

Cat Power
following a bunch of recently completed Eastern US shows with Sonic Youth and her own Scandinavian jaunt, not to mention a show at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and a few in Scotland and Ireland, our friends in Australia can catch Chan Marshall occasionally supporting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on the following dates:

May 10 - Brisbane - Brisbane Convention Center - with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
May 12 - Bulli - Heritage Hotel
May 14 - Sydney - Newtown
May 15 - Sydney - Luna Park Big Top - with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
May 16 - Sydney - Luna Park Big Top - with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
May 17 - Melbourne - Northcote Social Club
May 19 - Hepburn Springs - Palais
May 20 - Melbourne - Festival Hall - with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Early Man
Perhaps you've had your head torn off watching Early Man on tour with Mastodon and the Burning Brides. Or maybe you've come across their recent Monitor EP, "Fuck You If You're Talking To Me". In any event, both of the above are a mere hint of what you can expect from Early Man's forthcoming Matador full-length, due this Autumn.

M. Ward
Your correspondent had the privilege of catching M. Ward accompanied by the deft hands of Norfolk & Western recently, and I am not ashamed to say that the performance brought tears to my eyes. Or perhaps that was the tear gas. Y'know, I might have gotten the gig mixed up with a protest against the local police's overuse of stun guns & choke holds. But I am pretty sure one of these events was spectacular while the other was merely "really good". You can catch M. Ward at the following bigass outdoor events.

Jun 11, 2005 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
Jul 21, 2005 - New York, NY - Castle Clinton (w/ band)
Aug 7, 2005 - Newport, RI (Newport Folk Festival) w/ Emmylou Harris

MATMOS SEZ:
We just played a benefit for our friend Dax Pierson in San Francisco, alongwith Dj Doseone, Jel & Alias, and Sagan. We're getting ready to truck on down to Coachella to do our thing in the desert heat as a threepiece with Jay Lesser; the lineup was to have included Mark Lightcap but Drew has the flu so we can't go down to rehearse with Mark, alas. Happily, before getting the flu Drew finished the Hamlet chapter of his dissertation. Martin remains steadfastly the manager of the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Back at home, we are hard at work on the new Matmos album. Our experiments recording herds of snails interrupting the path of white flashlights, blue LEDs and red laser beams en route to a light-controlled theremin was a big success. The snails seemed to be playing the theremin with their eyestalks. It was magic. We are working on some remixes too, for Nortec folks and for Jim Foetus, and Drew is toiling on Soft Pink Truth remixes for Eats Tapes, Safety Scissors, and Grizzly Bear.

Pretty Girls Make Graves
Just back from some UK dates supporting Bloc Party, Derek writes:

"We are going in to record on July 1st, the record is not going to be called "The Shivering Duck" after all... We also just set up a 2 week midwest tour for Aug. Other than that, there will be a lot of swimming and Barbeque this summer."

Matador Alumni Corner
One of the creative forces behind NYC's Arsonists, Q-Unique, has a new solo album, 'Vengence Is Mine', available now on Uncle Howie Records. Q will be the special guest on WFMU's "Coffee Break For Heroes & Villians" on Wednesday May 4 from 2am-6am.

Listening Piles and Miscellany:

Roger Miller, Mission Of Burma
On the road in the midwest w/Alloy Orchestra:

Bell's Amber is quite a good beer.
WiFi is charming.
The white flowers which fall in Illinois are charming as all get out.
Plotting new material for that rcck group I'm in. Is there a reason to do so?
The Summer for Condensation.

I still find that Missy Elliot kicks ass charmingly.
Love the Criterion DVD Collection of Stan Brakhage films - the shortest one, at 9 seconds long, gives more information than 10 Hollywood grotesqueries.
Food in the midwest is not as good as it should be. (for a moment i thought i was in london....)

While selling '60's Detroit area posters on-line, someone wrote me explaining the '60's band, The Pigfuckers. He said his cousin was in the group, and they were a free-improv. outift "that played the Cass Corridor". They were on a poster I sold featuring the MC5, The Psychedelic Stooges and the Up. When they played in Ann Arbor, they were called the "PFs" to avoid police harrassment.

The past is made of glass. Look at it too hard and it breaks.

Jeremy P. Goldstein, Beggars Group
Twelve Things That Made Me Happy In April

1. Opening Day
2. Hearth
3. Ash at Bowery
4. The flavor explosion that is Dok Suni.
5. Finally allowing "Love Steals Us From Loneliness" by Idlewild to etch itself on my brain.
6. Same goes for "Romantic Rights" by Death From Above 1979
7. And Maximo Park's "Apply Some Pressure"
8. The pancakes at Supper.
9. Graham Coxon at Bowery
10. The ever-engaging 24.
11. Dizzee Rascal live at Irving Plaza.
12. As always, the hummus foul at The Hummus Place.

Matt Harmon, Beggars Group
Gang Gang Dance "God's Money" (Social Registry)
Kinski "Alpine Static" (Subpop)
Animal Collective "Prospect Hummer" (Fat Cat)
Alasdair Roberts "No Earthly Man" (Drag City)
Mary Timony "Ex Hex" (Lookout!)
Prefuse 73 "Surrounded By Silence" (Warp)
Bird Show "Green Inferno" (Kranky)
Currituck County "Ghost Mqn on Second" (Troubleman)
The Oranges Band "The World & Everything In It" (Lookout!)
Electrelane "Axes" (Too Pure)
Mike Wexler live

Jenn Lannchart, Beggars Group
*Joseph Arthur live at Bowery 4/20/05... AMAZING & a shame it wasn't sold out.
* Dizzee Rascal live at Irving 4/23/05 One of his BEST live shows in the states yet!
* Donald Sutherland ALMOST getting into my cab during Tribeca Film Fest. Premier screening.
* Members of Artanker Convoy visiting me on EVR & singing live on air along w/ their record.
* Workin' the floor at Sound Fix on Saturdays.

Fred Navarrete, Beggars Group
things that make me happy
-Finally having a place to live come May 1.
-Getting to see Dizzee Rascal live
-Hamburgers from Dumont in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
-Don Pepe in Newark, NJ - authentic Spanish food
-Seeing Beck's dancer on stage and having him remind me of my friend Alex, only not as Latin and not as smooth with the ladies.
-Stattracker on my fantasy baseball league.
-finally being able to watch Yankee games. Not having cable sucks

Listening pleasures
Stephen Malkmus - Mama
The National - Abel
Beck - Girl
Ash - Detonator (yes, they stole the guitar hook from the Scorpions)
Bloc Party - This Modern Love
Kills - Good Ones
Doves - Black and White Town
Queens of the Stone Age - Everybody Knows You Are Insane
Minotaur Shock - Vigo Bay
Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out
British Sea Power - Victorian Ice

Euvin Weeber, Beggars Group
POINTS OF INTEREST
The National - Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (Matador)
Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Merge/Matador Europe)
I'm not a total company man.
Dalek live at Elysium, Austin TX SXSW
Moving to Manhattan for the first time
Lowe's Hardware Store (because I'm living in Manhattan)
the Guild D-25 guitar I found on the STREET!
Danzig - S/T (UMG)
Dead Meadow March 25 at the Mercury Lounge
The Wire Season 2 on DVD (HBO)
RIP the Delgados

Sonya Kolorwrat, Beggars Group
I love my new Canon digital camera and the boy that bought it for me
I like the IRS for the first time in 4 years - hello refund!
I love Queens Of The Stone Age
I love Martha Wainwright's record
I love Whole Foods
I love my new book on the history of the Clash
I love Andrew Bird's new record "The Mysterious Production Of Eggs"
I love Matisyahu
I love Wolfmother

Miwa Okumura, Beggars Group
-"Some Cut" by Trillville & Cutty off the King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present:Lil' Scrappy
(dirty dirty dirty lyrics but my god, there is no denying this is one stellar song!)
-Dr. Dog Easy Beat
-Minotaur Shock Maritime
-Gang Gang Dance God's Money
-Sleater-Kinney The Woods
-Gang of Four Entertainment!
-Pimp My Ride (Xzibit)

Dave Martin, Matador Direct
1. Human Eye S/T LP/CD& Live 4-23-05 Magnetic Field, Brooklyn
2. Ponys Celebration Castle & Live
3. Cobra Verde Copycat Killers CD
4. Yura Yura TeTeikoku Sweet Spot CD
5. Gaunt - Everything
6. Lyres - Everything
7. Melvins - Mangled Demos From 1983 CD
8. Judas Priest Angel Of Retribution CD
9. AC/DC Family Jewels DVD
10.Alasdair Roberts No Earthly Man LP/CD

(Patrick told me to mention to you that the CD side of the "Dual Disc" Judas Priest CD does not play in our CD player (which is actually a cheap Toshiba DVD player that Patrick recommended. The DVD side worked fine. The CD side did play fine at home, but I have a Sony CD player so that's expected.)

Peter Jacobsen, Matador Direct
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust (Wonder)
Boredoms - Seadrum/House of Sun (Vice)
Boris - Akuma No Uta (Southern Lord)
Daedelus - Exquisite Corpse (Mush)
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money (Social Registry)
Hatebeak
Pelican

Mark Ohe, Matador Records
10 Songs

The Beast And Dragon, Adored
Fight!
Camden County Blues
Letters
At Her Open Door
Loud Cloud Crowd
Help You Ann
Be a Fish
Homemade Bombs In The Afternoon
Heaven Is a Truck

Jesper Eklow, Matador Records
records
Jeffrey Cain - For You LP
Jeffrey Cain - Whispering Thunder LP
Hairy Chapter - Can't Get Through CD
The Budapest Quartet - The Historic Early EMI Recordings 1932-36 4xLP
Fred McDowell And His Blues Boys LP
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan/Swapan Chaudhuri - Halfmoon LP
v/a - Music From The Middle East rec. by Deben Bhattacharya LP
Dane Belany - Sahara LP
Wicked Witch - Fancy Dancer b/w Y Wood U Call It Rock 45
Rancid Vat - Profiles In Pain 45

books
Bernhard Leitner - The Wittgenstein House
Charles Portis - Masters Of Atlantis
Montague Summers - The Restoration Theatre
Robert Conquest - The Dragons of Expectation
E.P. Thompson - Whigs and Hunters - The Origin of The Black Act
James Crumley - The Muddy Fork & Other Things
Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean Delumeau - Conversations About the End of Time
Ring Lardner - You Know Me Al

Patrick Amory, Matador Records
Best of the Juerg Schopper CDRs:

1. Jeanne Bovet - The Tapes (Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, 1997)
2. Violin Recital - Liana Isakadze, Renata de Barbieri, Wolfgang Marschner, Salvatore Accardo
3. Jeanne Bovet - Noel intime a la chapelle du Vieux Rompon
4. Piano Recital - Evgueni Krouchevsky, Svjatoslav Richter, Max Egger, Julius Katchen
5. Jeanne Bovet - Piano - W.A. Mozart
6. Piano Juerg van Vintschger/Piano Magda Tagliaferro
7. Madeleine de Valmalete Piano France - Privat LPs - Spiritual Stereo

Gerard Cosloy, Matador Records
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer (Relapse)
Jennifer O'Connor - The Color & The Light (Red Panda)
Kylesa - To Walk A Middle Course (Prosthetic)
Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence (Secretly Canadian)
Richard Pryor - Evolution Revolution (Rhino/Laff)
Backowski, Corsano, Flaherty - The Dim Bulb (Wet Paint)