yay

The Brian Jonestown Massacre will release a new album later this year.

'My Bloody Underground', out on March 31, was recorded in Liverpool and Reykjavik, in August then October respectively last year.

In a statement, the retro rockers, the subject of the infamous 2004 documentary 'Dig!', promised that the new album would be “experimental” and “avant-garde”.

from Brian Jonestown Massacre announce new album details | News | NME.COM

also on their website it has an album preview you can download woo! alas i cant do any downloading at the moment as the computer im using may explode. boo.

Meh.

Are they still overrated, or do they actually get the props they deserve now? They're still pissed that Yo La Tengo got to play the Velvets in I Shot Andy Warhol, aren't they? That's no reason to prolong their career...

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i'm excited, i guess.

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

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I think they'd probably settle for that reaction from people.

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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

boring and overrated.

haha, well tbh i don't particularly care as all the stuff they release tends to sound the same, despite being consistently good.

i'd be excited if it was a different sound, had progressed as a band, or if they had an accompanying tour that would bring them to aus. i highly doubt any of these things though. so really, they're not doing a great job at keeping us enthused.

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

-ktlr

The name was about the most perfunctory thing about the whole affair... very lazy indeed. Why not My Velvet Valentine? I prefer that, to be honest. The Velvet and Mary Valentine?

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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

Major LOL at the song titles...Anton fucking cracks me up!

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Brian Jonestown's Bloody Underground: record news, potty mouth

Legendary Californian experimentalists The Brian Jonestown Massacre - now essentially Anton Newcombe (pictured) and a host of floating members both past and present - return on March 31 with their thirteenth album, My Bloody Underground.

Recorded in Liverpool and Reykjavik between August and October of last year, it also features contributions on two tracks by ex-Ride singer/guitarist Mark Gardener.

The full tracklisting is as follows:

'Bring Me The Head of Paul McCartney On Heather Mills' Wooden Peg (Dropping Bombs On The White House)'
'Infinite Wisdom Tooth' / 'My Last Night In Bed With You'
'Who Fucking Pissed In My Well?'
'We Are The Niggers Of The World'
'Who Cares Why'
'Yeah - Yeah'
'Golden - Frost'
'Just Like Kicking Jesus'
'Ljosmyndir'
'Automatic Faggot For The People'
'Darkwave Driver'/'Big Drill Car'
'Monkey Powder'
'Black Hole Symphony'

DiS managed to grab a few words with Anton earlier today, where the man himself revealed: "I was deconstructing and detuning guitars in 1978 aged 11 way before Thurston Moore had picked one up and Kevin Shields was learning how to play Cramps records." He also seemed quite proud of the fact that since giving away all of his music for free via the internet, and how he can "fill any venue anywhere in the world as I have 90 million users e-mail addresses - something no one else even Dylan or U2 could achieve."

Sadly, when DiS went on to ask him whether he regretted never signing a major record deal as 90 million album sales would make him some serious money, he hung up amidst a stream of expletives. Blast. Which wasn't one of them.

Read the full interview on DiS in March.

I once messaged him and told him he was an asshole.
I crack up at parenthetical song titles.

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Experimental? Legendary? I'd stretch just about as far as "infamous".

The song titles are cool, but having better titles than songs is always fatal.

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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

I know....I love those titles!

So, did Anton ever write back, or show up at your doorstep and try to kick you in the head or anything?

He laughed contemptuously, and carried on masturbating.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter