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New Dr. Dog Album
Posted: Friday, December 2, 2011 - 10:03
They've released 3 songs from Be the Void, and so far so GOOD!
That Old Black Hole:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRS8D4l_gjA
Control Yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AP6i9ZoE1Y
Warrior Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79nWjiz-XI
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i heard Control Yourself for the first time live last month. UH-mazing!
If you pre-order the album, you can get those three in digital format...support the band if you like what you hear!
I will be pre-ordering! Thanks for the heads up.
They will be in Dallas in march. Got your tickets yet knucklehead? I had decided not to pre order and wait to get it at the show, so all the new stuff would be new to me but the 3 downloads changed my mind.
and too make it all the more tempting, Control Yourself, isn't even on the album!
Oh yeah, I'm all over the Dog show in Dallas. I'm even contemplating skipping the big Red Hot Chili Pepper show in Dallas so I can drive to Austin and see Dr Dog at Stubbs, and that's sayin a lot because I love me some live Chilis.
Here's a cool video from Juans Basement (pre-new drummer):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxRxkRC8C9Y
It'd be neat to see the Avetts play in that guy's basement
Dr. Dog is the best band I've been recommended on the message boards. knucklehead, I believe either you or sundayrehab said something about them a few months ago... I'm glad I listened. Thanks.
@Knucklehead &@bert see you at the Granada! Really excited for the new CD, the new tracks are great.
Sweeeeeet..... We'll have to meet up and get a good vantage point for this one. I can't seem to get enough of those first 3 tracks.
Check out a little teaser of a new song. This is gonna be yet another great tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0VYsaGATpI
This is easily my most anticipated release of 2012 (and of course the Avetts but theres not set date on that yet) and these three songs have just cemented the idea that this album is going to be fantastic! Shame, Shame blew me away and i can already see this taking it to a whole different level.
Another song dropped today (album should leak soon):
Lonesome:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/01/song-premiere-dr-dog---lon...
that songs is BAD ASS! my favorite, yet!
i love me some lo-fi (sounding) Dr. Dog!
For those interested, Dr. Dog is playing WXPN's Free at Noon concert in Philly this Friday, January 27. If you are out of the area, you should be able to listen live online or wait until it gets archived at NPR.
http://www.xpn.org/concerts-events/free-at-noon
they just did a live set here:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/2012/jan/25/dr-dog-studio/
available for download and streaming, several new songs. AMAZING!!!
@courtneywas: thanks for the WXPN heads up!
Thanks for the link. That's worth a download for sure.
Here are some photos from their closing set at Bristol back in 2009.
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2540779790078693903xCcHwJ
thanks for the pics!
BRRR 2009 was actually my first exposure to Dr. Dog.
Friends had suggested before that I would like them, but when I went to BRRR, Sam Quinn and Holy Ghost Tent Revival just kept talking about how excited they were to see Dr. Dog and that they would be at their set. I went on their recommendations and LOVED it!
the quote I still remember from that festival they day after Dr. Dog played the night set was:
"You can follow Dr. Dog by the trail of melted faces."
"You can follow Dr. Dog by the trail of melted faces."
- Sam Quinn
WXPN live show:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/145516391/world-cafe-live-dr-dog
Leaked!
Fantastic!!!! Song 3 (These Days) sorta reminds me of older Kings of Leon or Strokes...
I like how each album sounds completely different than the last. Long live the Dog!
Thanks for all those links. I wasn't familiar with them. Awesome
Entire Album Streaming on Conan O'Brien's website for the next week:
http://teamcoco.com/drdog
Onion Review by Chris Mincher February 7, 2012
After 2010’s meticulous, majestic Shame, Shame, no one was asking Dr. Dog to go back to the scrappy lo-fi rock of the band’s younger days. The group’s new symphonic bent was worth further exploration, and the relaxed swagger of 2005’s Easy Beat isn’t the type of thing that’s easily manufactured. But, for whatever reason, Toby Leaman and Scott McMicken felt it was time to return Dr. Dog to its roots, and Be The Void is a spot-on sonic homecoming. The record’s classic-rock, live-concert sound is largely indiscernible from Dr. Dog’s early self-recordings, which is to say that 11 years in the business hasn’t sapped any of the Philadelphia group’s enthusiasm.
With its raucous shouts and handclaps, Be The Void has a loose energy that’s suggestive of a basement gig at a college house party—these are songs built for crowd participation, and every track has something to bounce around and chant aloud to. A throwback to ’70s guitar-rock, “These Days” has a rapid hook driven by a thumping bassline and striking piano chords, while “Get Away” is the album’s most expansive track, with soaring harmonies rising from an impassionedly howled refrain.
New addition Dimitri Manos, a multi-instrumental talent, grinds together electronics and percussion into a dirty snarl of noise and distortion; it’s the slight touch of chaos that makes songs like “Vampire” such an amped-up thrill. That Dr. Dog has written some supremely catchy tunes isn’t too surprising, but few would expect its (or any band’s) fifth record to be every bit as exciting as its first.
What's up scarylarry??? You gettin pumped for that Avett Nebraska show?? Who knows, maybe they'll bust out a new tune or 2 for ya.
As for the Dog... They played another great little session for WFUV (NYC):
These Days, That Old Black Hole, Do the Trick and Lonesome:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D276A42D55DD5CE
they put on a great show in portland earlier this week. here's "Jackie Wants a Black Eye" from their (5 song!) encore: http://youtu.be/P4mc1lW9YYE
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I heard "Jackie Wants a Black Eye" on Eastbound and Down last night!
These days is probably my favorite off the new album. Anyone going to the Atlanta show?
These Days is the song I most want to hear live off the new album. "I hate when people say, 'Those were the days. Well, what are these days?'"
f***ing brilliant!
As far as favorite song, I'd have to say Turning the Century.
I hear ya fellas, this new album has been on constant rotation for a few weeks now. They also came out with a Deluxe version with a few more tunes (Exit for Sale, Control Yourself, What A Fool)
Turning the Century is awwwwwwesome:
"I've been fishing off the dock,
Every beach and every brook.
And it feels the same
And it felt the same without the hook."
Only a few short weeks til they hit my town.
Here's my little interpretation of those lyrics above: he looks for God everywhere and he finds Him, with or without church/religion... similar to our Avett's Me and God?? Here are the next lines:
And I'm humbled by the maker
I've been given all I gave.
And I don't expect,
No I don't expect to be saved.
No I don't expect;
I ain't asking to be saved.
Is the deluxe edition only mp3? Control Yourself is a great track.
knucklehead, i agree completely with you. Scott writes some pretty deep spiritual lyrics. My favorite is from the song Old Ways:
"Let your worries go, we're all in love, a tidal wave, that comes from up above."
dailyfisherman, it's on itunes, and well worth the buy. Exit for Sale is fun!
Well the show was spectacular! They were BRINGING IT. I'd have to say Toby (bass/singer) stole the show, his raspy growl during Fate and other songs really did it for me.
Not only was the show awesome, but all the guys hung out afterwards and took pictures and signed stuff. Really nice guys.
To top it off, they played about a dozen old Avett song over the loud speakers while we were waiting in line to get in.
Any video knucklehead? I have about 8 I need to go through. We know a guy that has a good audio recording of the show, I hope to listen tonight, I may try to match it up with my videos.
Nah, too busy ragin (and my camera wasn't charged before I left). it was packed pretty tight.
Yeah I'm most definitely lookin forward to that audio and those vids too. They had some nice jam outs during a few of those songs.
Here are the videos. I havent given them a full listen yet and dont have the titles complete, some may even be wrong. I just typed what I could remember late last night. Any help on the titles would be appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFsHHbXex_c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa6i3o8AazE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eGXYV657GY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woZIwBZUV2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmBL4oM3teM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLNwRW7khI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsmaR7zo9no Battery died on my camera so this ine is with the Iphone
Nice work!
1. Someday
2. The Ark
3. The Beach
4. Heavy Light (extended jam!)
Sounds and looks good. 2 thumbs way up!