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Weekend Threesome: Drive-By Truckers, Smashing Pumpkins, Foxboro Hot Tubs
By Jay Busbee | January 4, 2008
It’s 2008, and Weekend Threesome’s back, firing up three high-octane tunes to get your motor hummin’ and have you on the edge of your seat from now till Sunday! Sunday!! SUNDAY!!! Check ‘em out–links take you to the iTunes store where possible–and, as always, leave your reactions/requests in the comments. Today’s batch is straight-up rawk:
Drive-By Truckers, “The Righteous Path”–This tune, off DBT’s upcoming release Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, is already available as part of a four-song EP, and it’s vintage Truckers–all longing and rocking and wistful and drunken all at once. Great stuff. DBT’s the best Southern rock band working today–tougher than Kings of Leon and My Morning Jacket put together–and so far, their new CD sounds like it’ll be another bullseye buckshot blast to the rusted, wobbly stop sign that is American culture. (Hey, overwrought music writing is easy!)
Smashing Pumpkins, “Rose March”–The Pumpkins took a lot of flak for last year’s CD Zeitgeist, but I thought it was a pretty damn good spin, if heavily tilted toward the rocking, Bullet-With-Butterfly-Wings side of the band. But then, their ethereal Porcelina wanderings always bore me to tears. Corgan & Co. just this week released “American Gothic,” a four-song acoustic EP, and “Rose March” is the best of the lot, a tune that’ll make you nostalgic for the halcyon days of 1996.
Foxboro Hot Tubs, “Mother Mary”–There’s an old story about how the Beatles, at the height of their popularity, talked about touring the bars and clubs of America under a false name–the Rockets, or something like that; anybody remember the details? Anyway, the thing is, there’s no way the Beatles could ever escape being THE BEATLES; no matter what they called themselves, you’d recognize who they were the moment George jangled out that first suspended chord or Ringo trilled the snare. Green Day’s no Beatles, but they did go one step further and record a six-song EP as “The Foxboro Hot Tubs,” a 60’s-style garage band if such garage bands had access to multimillion-dollar studios and production equipment. “Mother Mary” evokes the band’s ethos effectively enough–”Lust for Life”-style syncopated guitars combined with innocent-Springsteen we-gotta-get-outta-here-Mary lyrics. The Tubs have a website where they offered the songs for free for about a day. Your best bet now is to check their Myspace page or run a search through The Hype Machine. Or, you know, wait for the inevitable Green Day box set in 2013.
And that’s it! Have a good weekend, all!
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