Woodsist/Fuckittapes

http://www.woodsist.com/ & http://www.woodsist.com/fit.htm
One of my favourite labels of recent years. also, for euros, a lot of the recent Woodsist releases are on spotify http://open.spotify.com/search/label%3a%22woodsist%22

Woods & Ganglians are my 2 faves but I just got the art museums lp and I'm enjoying it.

I wish fuckittapes releases didn't sell out so damn quick. (only have a pocahaunted tape,Gospel and some warmer milks) Thankfully I finally managed to be on the ball and got the new woodsist bands compilation tape. most of the songs are previously unreleased.
http://www.woodsist.com/comptape.jpg

So anyone else a fan of the label?

some. Kurt Vile's Constant Hitmaker is a favorite, but I guess that's really a reissue as it came out on CD on Gulcher originally (dig the White Fence too but it's the same thing as the LP came out on Make A Mess originally). Love The Fresh & Onlys LP, like Moon Duo OK, Real Estate is growing on me, but I can't really get behind Woods or Ganglians.

I like the Real Estate and Moon Duo albums a lot too. Not heard any Kurt Vile.

Blues Control - Puff is great

Sun Araw is pretty cool although I don't own those records

good 7"s by Sic Alps, Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls

Oh Sees Tidal Wave 7" is great. And the Magic Lantern lp is my favorite out of the Woodsist lot.

The Herbcraft on the new woodsist subsidiary "Hello Sunshine" is very good imo. Droning fuzz guitar indie-sike. "Puff" is awesome indeed. I like the last Woods record better than the new one, but that one I haven't spent much time with.

Woods Family Creeps is my favourite of all the woods releases.

I really enjoy the Meth Teeth album on Woodsist too.

i like almost all the soundscans i've been listening to on woodsist's label page on emusic.

the label's bands have a similar aesthetic, i think.

Shit, I forgot all about Blues Control's Puff LP. That's a great one.

Yeah I have that one too!

have liked a ton of stuff on woodsist over the past few years. including reissues and whatnot, most especially: kurt vile - constant hitmaker, blues control - puff, woods - songs of shame and the fresh & onlys - grey-eyed girls. plus some great singles by idle times, pink reason, sic alps, eat skull, fergus & geronimo and real estate. on the fence about ganglians. the woodsist lp/ep/whatever is didn't do much for me, but i dig monster head room on weird forest. haven't heard the meth teeth lp or the new woods.

been interesting to watch the shift from the more "difficult" drone/noise-leaning woodsist circa 06/07 -- putting out stuff by racoo-oo-oon, night wounds and blues control -- to the more garage/pop oriented woodsist of the last couple years.

The folk spectre lp is innaresting

I'm a big Woodsist fan. Woods & Ganglians of course. White Fence is among my favorites of 2010 at this point. Moon Duo is an excellent Wooden Shjips offshoot. The Fresh & Onlys releases are all tres-cool, as is the Mayfair Set. Eat Skull is mindblowingly righteous skuzzpunk. Psychedelic Horseshit & Meth Teeth are crazed boiling lunacy. Wavves & Magic Lantern are killin' it. Crystal Stilts have put out some of my favorite tunes over the last couple of years. Offhand, the only band from the Woodsist orbit I'm having trouble liking is prolly Blank Dogs. The synth/pop/wave scene has never been my cuppa tea for the most part.

I think I better check out Kurt Vile then. Never heard Ariel Pink either so i guess i better get to it. Magic Lantern are awesome. Funnily enough i couldnt get into the psychedelic horseshit stuff i heard.

been interesting to watch the shift from the more "difficult" drone/noise-leaning woodsist circa 06/07 -- putting out stuff by racoo-oo-oon, night wounds and blues control -- to the more garage/pop oriented woodsist of the last couple years.

yeah, but it seems a natural shift though.

I'd count myself as a fan of Woods, Real Estate, Eat Skull Psych. Horseshit, Crystal Stilts, Blank Dogs, Moon Duo... not sure which of those have released stuff on the Woodsist label that I've heard, but I enjoy all of 'em to some degree.

Methinks all of those have released at least one thing on Woodsist.

Oh yeah, Sean OTM--that Folk Spectre LP on woodsist is great! And the new one, on Arbitrary Signs, is even better.

I'll have to check that out, Ian.

It's funny how "Spectre" and "Folk" alternate positions in the band name.
It's Pete Nolan, btw, folks.

and pete nolan, btw, is the drummer for magic markers. folks. ;)

it's funny when i was talking to Jeremy last time he brought in records, he was talking about how the Hello Sunshine imprint was going to be for the dronier, weirder, more 'out' side of things, and how ironic it is that just a few years ago woodsist was putting out Pocahaunted records and shit. ("peyote road" is actually prob the best thing I've heard from them.)

Pete Nolan, btw, is severely awesome. I think he has been in something like 73 bands over the last few years.

blues control - puff

it's not often that somebody builds a new wing on the psych mansion, these guys were prolly my fave going concern in '07

and I like raccoo-oo-oon a lot but was not a big fan of the mythos folkways series

I thought it was ok

I side with Edward where Blues Control is concerned. It thrills me when a band can take recognizeable influences & mold them into a new form.

Pfork reports on Herman's fav. label: http://pitchfork.com/news/39105-woods-real-estate-members-on-woodsist-records-compilation

I got the cassette in the mail a few weeks back. It's great.

Had no idea there was gonna be a vinyl of it.

It can't be just me that thinks that the eventual Fresh & Onlys singles/odds & ends compilation will be fucking glorious.

Saw this in the latest Eclipse Records update, figured it was worth mentioning on the thread:
*Acoustic Family Creeps - Acoustic Family Creeps one-sided LP $15.99 (Acoustic Family Creeps)
"One sided, bootleg-style twelve inch that may very well be Brookylns own Woods, caught live in Europe. No listed record label, no B-side, no repress. Weve seen these for sale at Woods shows so they may be legit, although the world is ripe with mystery. Very limited."

Yeah, I have that 12". Got it in Monorailmusic in Glasgow.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Acoustic Family Creeps

saw a used copy of the folk spectre lp the other day for cheap, and picked it up due to mentions on this thread. sounding great atm, very aptly named. cool combo of dead c./shadow ring dust scrape and groovier fsa/tower recordings tones. both spacious and crushed. thanks for the heads up.

did anybody go to the fest?

I'd be interested to hear how it was. friend of mine is planning to try to go next year. saw Woods on Saturday in Manhattan, decent set but short ... only played about 60 mins including a couple long jams that were borderline filler. (to be fair one of the jams toward the end of the set was p killer and I do like that space-rock side of them as much as the song-y side.) one-song encore was just "Military Madness" and then they're out.

srsly though, what is with the mouth-mask that one guy wears. I hear it's a distorted microphone or something? shades of Frank Booth.

http://www.oxfordmusicblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/woods1.jpg

i am planning on it for next year, stayed there early this june and it was hella chill

er i mean late june

xp lucas sings into a pair of headphones hooked up to some thingamajigs.

ps an hour is not a 'short set' unless you're nick cave or something

yeah, and hour seems standard for an indie rock gig? not everyone can be guided by voices or dead moon.

woodsist really snuck up on me over the last year. i think they send a ton of promos down this way because i don't have much trouble finding their stuff used.

listening to ganglians, purling hiss, ducktails, real estate all the damn time.

heard great things from norcal ppl about the fest this year and last year too, the henry miller library is one of the best venues in the world imo (good booking too, whoever got cluster to come there a+ good work)

the two white fence albums are sooo great

woodsist really snuck up on me over the last year

me too, was surprised to see how much of their catalogue i've been getting into

an hour is way too long for a set imo

agreed

i was gonna say but then i remembered seeing AMT with ned

but i did take a 30 min breather about an hour in

honestly though for 90% of bands 30 mins is enough for me

the recent ducktails and spectre folk records are p gd great

portland would be okay too. we have trees! lots of them! woods even

moon duo was on that lineup too iirc

I just got lucky and happened to be in big sur that wknd

just gonna reiterate how much i want to go to this

btw anyone going get campsites now it is a nightmare

y'all should come down to Big Sur, esp. northwestern folks

btw anyone going get campsites now it is a nightmare

haha when i pitched going to this to my bf this morning he was like 'is there camping' and then made a face

i have family nearby -- so i'd either crash there, go for a charming cheapish motel, or just drive down and do only one of the days

camping in big sur is kind of glamping any way you slice it imo <---- this could be wrong

what is glamping?

ok this thread has convinced me to get tix for this

my family would camp in Big Sur for a weekend or so every summer when i was a kid. it was pretty much normal camping.

glamour camping
yea it's pretty much normal camping, but with like burrito places down the road

there weren't any burrito places anywhere nearby when i was a kid! we had peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and campfire hotdogs and s'mores and stuff.

lol at burrito places making something glamourous. especially when in big sur there are super fancy places to eat.

i think there were bathrooms with running water, but that was about it for amenities

lol at burrito places making something glamourous. especially when in big sur there are super fancy places to eat.

― mizzell, Friday, March 9, 2012 10:48 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:(

why are you sad?

I've never been able to eat at the fancy places, anyway I'll see ya'll there

when you are camping, burritos are the height of decadent glamour. wet, hot and wearing pumps.

^ referring to myself, oc

you wear pumps to go camping?

glumping

btw anyone going get campsites now it is a nightmare

do you have a rec. of which one to shoot for?

wait i thought the burrito was wearing pumps

Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

also recomend making a reservation for the public bath hours (1 am to 3 am only) at esalen institute

do you have a rec. of which one to shoot for?

― dmr, Friday, March 9, 2012 11:03 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you head up to big sur early or want to just try for it I would rec that you get a first come first serve site at andrew molera. This is prob the cheapest option and while the sites themselves are just like in an empty meadow its right next to a beach and close to the library.

Fernwood is pretty alright for a private campsite so I would hop on it if there aren't any state park options. Pfeiffer's incredible if you can get a spot in the redwoods, but this fills up super quick, may be some availability now. These three are all pretty close to the venue. Kirk creek is generally considered the best park to camp at of all of these but it's about 40 mins to an hour from the venue and not easy to get a site there. There are couple other public and private places that are cheap that I've never stayed at, but I know some of the other state ones are kind of inland and a bitch to get to.

I am prob not as well versed as a lot of other people here but that's what I got

I AM THE BURRITO!

uh, anyway, i have been listening to "don't lie" over and over again for quite a while. nice accidental (?) fringe benefit of lofi gleverb camping style is that it sounds boss through shitty computer speakers.

I am prob not as well versed as a lot of other people here but that's what I got

super helpful, thanks

if I'm able to swing it I'd probably be getting in fairly last-minute so I think I'd need something I can reserve in advance

then I would say Pfeiffer #1 and Fernwood or whatever other private site around there (there are a couple right next to it) #2

wish I could go to this

Pfeiffer is already booked up through October if I was filling out the online rez thing right

following up on mantles talk upthread, i believe they have a slumberland lp on the way later this year

always blows my mind a bit that mantles dude is also personal of pizzas fame

lol i didnt know that

personal & the pizzas are like only the fifth best pizza punk band

i was disappointed that when i saw them they didn't do very many songs about pizza, like they might have done one.

slippery slopes - pizza i'm against it & the ep it's on is my fav http://www.discogs.com/Slippery-Slopes-Sad-Tugs/release/2755493

so excited for Woodsist Fest. can't believe it's in like 2 weeks.

Michael Hurley had to drop out so they added Sun Araw. Also a King Tuff pre-fest show on the Friday but me and my friend are staying in SF that night so we'll miss that one.

if anyone is going and wants to meet up, email me at dmr3345 at gmail, I'd be down to hang out

i don't know who king tuff is but this made me lol - http://chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&ID=725

http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/woodsist_crowd.jpg

WDYLL chilling on a blanket in big sur

such a great time. intimate venue in a great setting, nonstop good music, met a lot of super nice people from all over.

picture is from The Fader btw

The record by The Woolen Men has been a consistent favorite this year.

That Woolen Men record is quite the sleeper hit. I went to Woodsist fest this year. Man it was literally the chillest thing ever.

my friend JT who I went with last year went again. I was kinda jealous even though (imo) the lineup wasn't as good.

PAINTED SHRINES Debut Album Heaven and Holy Out Today on Woodsist

New Collaboration Featuring Jeremy Earl of Woods & Glenn Donaldson of Skygreen Leopards / The Reds, Pinks & Purples

It's very Woods-y which is totally a good thing. Breezy and fun. Though Woods have a more interesting rhythm to them imo

the reds pinks and purples record last year was amazing, this doesnt quite reach those heights but it's very pleasant. agree that it feels less idk rangy or loose than woods, the reds pinks purples drum machine pop aesthetic tamps things down a bit.

I enjoyed it

is anyone going to the fest this weekend? do people need rain panchos?