Photography By Holly Boos

One million roses of truth, or red for love.
I give them all away, with those quaint southern moments of two people connecting.
Depressing music to top 40 ears, but gorgeous and righteous to me, and maybe someday you.
Only I understand or can dissect this mayhem
The moments of disheartening past performances when you wish we could change that one reply.
The phone call you can’t make or receive.
You’re hiding behind yourself in the great divide…your high as hell now, while wandering for the touch of simplicity, and soul searching for education that you can’t seem to read about.
They call you troubled, you call it addiction.
They make little notes about you, while you fiddle with your fingers, like a child whose legs can’t touch the ground, sitting in his booster chair.
The door slams in and out.
The wind rushes around while you talk to yourself down ”Greed Street.”
Only sure thing is you standing on your own feet.
Rhythm then blues, and faces traced in red wine.
It drips down your back, it flows, it contributes, its morning, its love.
We have a seed to change the world, but we bury it too deep, therefore we cannot grow.
Same book I have been reading for the last five years.
It sits on ”chapter tears.”
I’m challenged by the kid spitting next to me, but defunct by the scholar teaching me.
Its cold and the north’s winds are colder. These roads spin you like a bottle of our favorite cheap whiskey.
Picture the smirk on my face, as I sit in your own personal lobby; acoustic mind, organic hobby, little hikes, and your body.
I kiss and whisk you away, in the future where we lay; together until we judge each other.
With the cool breeze and the fall effects, I hope to see you before and after I become a nervous wreck.

“The Errant Charm” is a superb soundtrack for an afternoon idyll. Vetiver bandleader Andy Cabic spent hours wandering the streets around San Francisco’s Richmond District, listening to rough mixes, tinkering with lyrics and arrangements. The album opens with “It’s Beyond Me”, a slow boil of acoustic guitar and vintage keyboards over a roomy beat. Here you’ll encounter almost every sonic idea showcased on “The Errant Charm”, the album’s universe distilled into one vibrant song.

As the summery “Can’t You Tell” unfurls, you’ll begin to pinpoint some of the album’s unifying elements, the integration of drum machines and a washed-out, ambient guitar sound, peppered with jangly flourishes. Then there’s “Hard To Break”, the hazy, layered harmonies and sunlight-dappled guitar evoking fond memories of Fleetwood Mac circa 1982’s “Mirage”.

Cabic and producer Thom Monahan have already made four Vetiver records together and know each other’s aesthetics well. It was time to experiment more, which was why Cabic didn’t arrive at Monahan’s Los Angeles studio with many completed songs. Instead, they started with lots of loose ideas and fleshed out the best bits. In some instances, they augmented or edited parts by themselves, and at other junctures they waited until the remaining Vetiver players could convene in one place to contribute. Those full band performances figure prominently in the album’s driving midsection… “Right Away”, “Wonder Why”, “Ride, Ride, Ride”… each of these selections is more propulsive and rocking than the one before it. Certainly that was Cabic’s intention for The Errant Charm, to push the dynamic range of Vetiver to previously unheard extremes.”

Purchase June 14th on Sub Pop

The January EP comes out officially on May 10, but you can download it right now if you pre-order a copy!!  Go to http://www.scdistribution.com/ to order… Download begins immediately once the order is complete.

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Available to pre-order here.

Off the album Past is Prologue, which has been reissued by Ghostly International.

Resenting someone else for their work has never been something I felt comfortable accepting. Almost as if I resent something, but lie to myself about the emotion of it. Well, its fairly important to just let it be and the point of this series is honesty at all costs. I find it hard to accept another person’s work if I think their character is undeserving of any success, even though the measure of another person’s character is not up to me, I don’t decide, well who frickin decides then?  Its the ultimate dichotomy I’ve come to know so well. I want them to be highly successful, I just hate their personalities,I hate their f@king shoes, and their dumb artwork even though it looks amazing, so I hope they fail at the same time. Do I envy their success or do I envy the ignorance that leads their pretense? WTF!!! (thanks Marc Maron)

Hands Are Weird Looking

I think the hardest part about living in a creative world is getting over the illness of contempt for another person’s work. I could easily reduce them, like they do to so many others in order to feel better about themselves. That would be too easy, inevitably creating a monster who always runs from raw emotion. I think its wise to wrestle with these feelings. Let them weather me, and shape something to come, ah… something creative.  If I’m to be truly honest, the resentment feeds my muse, its doing so right now. Maybe thats a dangerous game to play with my creative spirit, but I think its healthy at this point. I seem to embrace and celebrate most people. But these cats are just f@cking rotten. I dislike them more as we spin through to summer. So enlightened in a still shot, but yet the truth can’t hide behind a camera, neither can the apathy that seeps from their quasi-earthy-dispositions. Get a new pair of shoes and stop spending so much time trying to look like you didn’t spend so much time, and just maybe I’ll wish you success. Wait, is this about me? No, but I can be pretty pretentious, and I need a new pair of shoes. I want a pair of those Toms, they look cool man.

F@%k you resentment, and f@%k you Mr. Apathy. This one was made for you and me.

Even though The White Stripes are no more Jack White and his imprint Third Man Records is set to make a recording of the The White Stripes last ever show released on double-vinyl through its Vault subscription series.

The double LP, Live in Mississippi, is a complete recording of the band’s show in Southaven, Mississippi in 2007. The package also includes a DVD of another live show from 200 and a 7″ single of early, previously unreleased White Stripes recordings.