This Must Be The Place

The Mets are playing their best baseball in ages and Shea Stadium is absolutely rocking. Their first series against the Braves is gonna be a live one.

Monday through Wednesday...7:10 PM. Oh baby.

World Drifts In

Its been a good few weeks at SpiderRoll. In the past the blog has seen more constant attention, but we like to think that the quality of each post has increased, even if the frequency has diminished.

Today, we want to raise our faithful reader's* attention to the new release from Arizona's Calexico. For those unfamiliar with 2003's exquisite "Feast of Wire," a stop over at eMusic may be in order.

The last few years have seen several EP's, live releases, collaborations and solo joints, from the team outta Tuscon- and now their back with a proper studio LP, Garden Ruin.

From the sound of the album (and the photos above) it seems as if the band has gone pop. The music sounds more rock than jazz, more city less country. On deeper dives however, the textures, rhythms, intrumental flourishes and flashes of funkiness that made Calexico sound so good on previous efforts are still there.

On Garden Ruin, they've folded a top sheet of words over their comfy musical beds and beneath a crystallized lyrical vision lies another feast of wires.

*gramatically this would be incorrect if there was more than one reader.

Like a Prophet On a Burning Shore

Keeping with the theme established in the earlier post from this week, Spider Roll will maintain the West Coast focus with a couple of photos from my mellow, Justin Perri.

Bridging The Intercoatal Gap

"So I rocks the West Coast as well as the city yo,
I got crazy flavor like a P.E. Video."

This t-shirt design is madness with a side of the mouse. Plump graphic, and the medium is the message...again and again like the 36 Chambers. For this I reference (in the above photo caption) a collabo cut with Brooklyn's own Masta Ace, bridging the intercoastal gap years before everyone else figured it out.

That he name checks Flav (years before VH1 figured it out), is the super hot milky bonus. As for the post, well it's in honor of my dude on the tube. Ryan doing his thing in primetime...its about that time.