Big Dipper has been added to RockBand 2! “All Going Out Together”, “She’s Fetching”, and “Younger Bums,” are available to download on the RockBand website to play on your home video game system.
All three songs and more Big Dipper awesomeness are available on Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology in the Merge store.
Video from YouTube showing “She’s Fetching” in RockBand 2 action below! Download the MP3 and unleash your air guitar!
image from nyctaper via flickr
The NYCTaper recorded and posted the entire Big Dipper show at Southpaw last weekend! It’s 100% free (though he nicely asks you support the bands, and we agree) and available in mp3 and, if you ask nicely, FLAC. Get the MP3s here!
Order your copy of Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology here.
WMBR’s Late Risers’ Club had special guest Gary Waleik on the show this morning! You can listen to an archive HERE!
Big Dipper reunites later this week! Don’t miss it!
04.24.2008 * Hoboken NJ @ Maxwell’s
04.25.2008 * Brooklyn NY @ Southpaw
04.26.2008 * Cambridge MA @ Middle East Downstairs
Image from tirbd.com
Things I’d Rather Be Doing is kicking off Big Dipper week today!
Monday brings the bulk of the interviews with the band — Gary Waleik, Bill Goffrier, Jeff Oliphant and Steve Michener — while the days that follow will find me (and the band) looking at each of the band’s four LPs (for the sake of scheduling, Boo-Boo will be included with Heavens, just as it was on my worn Homestead Records twofer CD) and the new material on Supercluster will be considered the band’s fourth LP).
Why not head over to the Merge store so you can have your own Big Dipper week? And don’t forget about their upcoming tour dates!
Big Dipper sent us a basket of celebratory fruit as Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology reaches stores!
Also out:
Destroyer – Trouble In Dreams
Buy them from our new Digital Store or your local record shops!
We’ll be releasing a 3-disc Big Dipper retrospective in March and the band will be re-forming for some shows in April! Check out an mp3 of She’s Fetching!
Gary Waleik’s Top 10(s):
Top Ten LP’s I’ve rediscovered now that I’ve reconnected my turntable:
1) Here Come the Warm Jets – Brian Eno
2) A Different Kind of Tension – Buzzcocks
3) Ringo – Ringo Starr
4) Volume, Contrast, Brilliance – The Monochrome Set
5) Aphrodesia – Jackie Gleason
6) Chairs Missing – Wire
7) June 1, 1974 – Kevin Ayers
8) A Nice Pair – Pink Floyd
9) Lolita Nation – Game Theory
10) You Broke My Heart in Seventeen Places – Tracy Ullman
Top Ten Wax Cylinders I’ve Rediscovered Now That I’ve Repaired
the Victrola:
1) Man Will Never Walk on the Moon – Grumpy Gus and His Nattering
Naysayers
2) Prohibition is Next to Godliness – The Idle Rich Christian
Women’s Abstinence League Choir
3) The Depression is Good for People Like You and Me – Bootstrap
Bob and the Blue Collar Self-Haters
4) I Foresee a Time Fifty Years Hence When a Band Called Guided
By Voices Emerges from Dayton, Ohio – Honolulu Slim
5) Lye Soap Blues – The Yonkers Boys Choir
6) Gee, Ain’t Mississippi Swell? – The Hudson Bay Chorus
7) Young, Loud and Snotty – Dead Boys
8) A Tribute to Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lawrence Welk and His
Orchestra
9) The Hanukkah Variations – Richard Wagner
10) You’re A Grand Old Flag – Theodore Roosevelt and the Fifty
Ninth United States Congress Glee Club
Steve Michener‘s Top 10 Music Business deaths in 2007:
1)Lee Hazlewood….What can you say? He discovered
Duane Eddy and gave Nancy Sinatra a career. One of the
greats.
2)Luciano Pavarotti….Quick, name the other two
tenors!
3)Porter Waggoner….Leaving this world with a
satisfied mind.
4)Denny Doherty….Mamas and Papas singer AND Canadian
citizen. We all should accomplish so much in one
lifetime.
5)Max Roach….one of the greatest drummers of all
time.
6)Boots Randolph…..Composed and played ‘Yakety Sax’,
the theme song to Benny Hill. If there were a god it
would have been Benny who got the brain hemmorrhage.
7)Robert Goulet….I’ll give him a pass on his lame
music career since he was Wheezy the penguin in Toy
Story 2.
8)Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett….Born in Somerville,MA, he
wrote ‘Monster Mash’ in 30 minutes and spent the rest
of his life cashing BMI checks.
9)Don Ho….Brought Hawaiian music to the mainstream
with nary a slack key guitar in sight. Not one of the
greats.
10)Hilly Kristal….Owner of CBGBs where I spent some
of the best nights of my musical life.
Jeffrey Oliphant‘s Top 10 Fun Things from 2007:
1) ELO – Time
2) Fountains Of Wayne – Utopia Parkway
3) Brian Adams – Greatest Hits
4) Smart Money.com
5) Nikki Sixx- Heroin Diaries
6) The Future For Investors – Jeremy J Siegel
7) Yahoo Fantasy Sports
8) Michael Savage Radio Show
9) Moon Bats
10) Connells – Ring
From CMJ.com:
Nearly 16 years after the band’s breakup, Merge is announcing a reissue of what they are calling Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology due March 18. This three CD set includes their Boo Boo EP and first two albums as well as nine bonus tracks, a video and one previously unreleased CD made up of the band’s final recordings. In addition to the release, the original Big Dipper line-up will play 4 shows on the east coast in April and if all goes well then they will extend to the mid-west later in the year. Yesterday afternoon, I spoke briefly with Gary Waleik about the reunion and what it’s like to re-learn you own songs.
CMJ: Were you initially (sixteen years ago) planning to release Very Loud Arrays as it is today or including more tracks?
GW: In the band’s opinion, Very Loud Arrays (recently titled) were the best 15 tracks from a group of 25 or 30 that we had recorded after being dropped from Epic. At the time we believed that we would be picked up by a new label, a new trend of them had begun to sprout and were becoming larger than indie labels but smaller than majors—we thought that we would have fit right into that.
CMJ: You announced the reunion five months ago on your MySpace blog, how have you begun the process of remembering your music since then?
GW: Well personally I have not started due to the time that I have spent working on our anthology. Our bassist Steve has begun and we have been keeping in contact on his progress. I don’t think that it should be too hard, I haven’t seriously played guitar for the past 15 years but remembering the songs will come quickly after remembering the guitar.
CMJ: Do you see Big Dipper continuing to play after April? Who is this decision up to?
GW: Ultimately the decision is up to the band. I’m sure that Merge would love for us to tour relentlessly but we are family men now with full time jobs. Now we’re all either gray-haired, bald or much heavier than we were 18 years ago when we last played together and subsequently more self-conscious. If our April shows go well, we have fun and receive a positive response then we’ll take it from there. The band will discuss the idea and agree as a whole if we would like to continue on to a tour of the Midwest—we were always popular there, especially in Kansas.
Check out the Big Dipper myspace page, and check out an mp3 from Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology here! Also, talk about how excited you are that Big Dipper is back via our forum!
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