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WDL #47 Derek & The Demons – Changes
Last year Derek and the Demons put out an album. (http://derekandthedemons.bandcamp.com/album/underground) Soon after the guitarist (Kiel Alarcon) had a boo-boo and went to the hospital for a few months and the bassist left for Boston. While in the hospital the bassist visited the guitarist and taught him all the secret bass moves so that he…
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WDL #46: MISERABLE CHILLERS – BULLY’S IN HEAVEN
You dig the plant from the root ball if you want to preserve it in its complexity, how deep the roots go you cannot tell until the shovel hits dirt and you start pulling. Im thinking of dirt and roots and organic materials in a late spring charge and Miserable Chillers is playing on my…
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WDL 45: 2014 RSD Comp
This year’s two thousand and fouteen Record Store Compliation is here! This years is our fourth compliation and features a large swarth of bands from as far away as Richmond, VA, CALIFORNIA and Rutland. From the strangness of VHS addicts, to electro Worcester soundscapers to the post college grunge hollows to pastoral psyche festish-ites…
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A Sad Note On The Blog
Our server sucks dingus and lost all of our posts from May of 2013 – April 2014. Attempting to reconstruct some of them. What’s done is done, though. At least there is this:
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WDL #44 Poor and Perfect – ‘Ribs/ Friends, Heart, Family’
WDL #44 Poor and Perfect – ‘Ribs/ Friends, Heart, Family’ Poor and Perfect is the baby of Chris Rosenquest. His first EP under the moniker started as seven songs which boiled down to two lush, roots rich lullabys. Erasing the idea of maximum output and concentrating on pace of process, Chris arrived at a new philosophy; “good…
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Carton Podcast Preview
Carton will be on an upcoming episode of the WDL podcast, but in the meantime check out this special video preview of their performance.
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Carton Live on Your Computer
New band. Carton, drops by to record an episode of the What Doth Life podcast and the whole thing will be beamed live to your computer here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/whatdothlife! Listen to their album here: http://cartonvt.bandcamp.com/album/sunburst-ep and like them on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/CartonVermont?fref=ts.
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WDL 037 – The What Doth Life Record Store Comp Vol. III
Record Stores were severely scarred and emotionally greased this past april when them sweet franks over at what doth life bomb dropped a lard sandwich on they lap. featuring a trunk dunk fulla rad rip tides, the what doth life record store comp day vol iii is the essential material witness to your i-89 corridor…
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The LAW ABIDERS GO POD
Criminal’s worst nightmare, THE LAW ABIDERS, joined host Kiel Alarcon at the What Doth Life podcast recently. Check out the entire interview video below, as well as implorable dynstropia garth brooks. full interview. live performance.
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WDL 036 – Carton ‘Sunburst EP
6 (and a half) tracks from Vermont’s Carton, featuring members of The Pilgrims, Giant Travel Avant Garde, The Jobz and Heavy Winged. Carton took to Sonelab in Easthampton, MA to track these songs (plus 1 more song, ‘Fingertips’ to be released via 7″ by Negative Fun records) with the talented and hell of a nice…
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The Pilgrims Videographies of Chosen Lands
the pilgrims – “bronski” the pilgrims – “static signals”
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Derek & The Demons Living a LIE
derek & the demons live at the lebanon opera house, lebanon, nh january 2013.
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it’s A BEAR! Live vidvidvid
live @ the main st museum 2013.
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Radio Show Updates
I’m just getting back from an awesome vacation on the Long Trail with some fellow Doth Lifers so there will not be a new podcast this week. However, that means the most excellent The Law Abiders episode will air on WOOL-FM for another week. Speaking of WOOL, our Tuesday airing has been moved from 7-9…
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ROCK N ROLL SHOW THIS FRIDAY
Hi Friend. WHATdothLife is throwing a show this Friday at the Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Featuring rock n roll by The Pilgrims: http://pilgrimsvt.bandcamp.com/album/its-not-pretty Thompson Gunner: http://thompsongunner.bandcamp.com/ Death Pesos: http://music.deathpesos.com/ Lake Superior: http://stateandmainrecords.com/ FRIDAY MAY 3RD! MAIN ST MUSEUM CHICKEN GUTS BEER BBQ
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Update! Band in a Hat Week 2
Darf frad par. Ezekiel. These are words. Words describing the world of music. Music as a definitive language of the heart. Broken into meters and tones, emotion exfoliates the soul. Hazgardz. Rapllapers rum pa pum pum. Etc. You get the idea. Ryan/ Timothy UPDATE: Ryan and I have two songs. We also talked about babies…
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We Are Making Bands: Week 1
A lot of cool people write to us. They ask “How can we get involved?” “What do you do?” “WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?” Decidely, we don’t really know. I think we just like to do stuff. In a fit of self-expression, one of the latest projects WDL has taken on is the…
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THE PILGRIMS LIVE AT CATV
Back, prior, before, during morrows past (like November 2012), The Pilgrims stepped into CATV studios in White River Junction, VT and recorded five songs as well as an interview with In The Mix’s Graham Robinson. The recorded tape was accidentally lost for months and later found at the Listen Center. The tapes were recorvered and…
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WDL # 35 IT’S A BEAR! THE ETERNAL REVERSE NECKBEARD INSIDE JOB EP
IT’s a BEAR! comes out swinging with a new EP – Beiber age bros that play like pros, sounds like if Minor Threat was hanging around people that were ten years older then them (and there’s some truth in that statement). ‘Emo’ like it was rite as spring, and goofy/ self actualized enough to say…
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WHAT DOTH LIFE presents: LET’S START A BAND
Hey Pal. You want to be in a band, right? You like making some noises, but you want to make some friends, right? March is Official START A BAND MONTH and What Doth Life is celebrating it by starting some new bands. How will it work? … Interested parties will submit to a rigorous screening…
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2013.
Hi Friendzone, What Doth Life celebrated our 3rd birthday on January 1st, 2013. Three years at 33 releases. What will 2013 bring? Folk duo trio Babe Lincoln is happy to welcome third member Andrew Stimpson. With a ton of new work, and a concept (?) album on the way, is it safe to say that they…
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Luke Chrisinger 2.0
Mr. Chrisinger has returned. A new two song EP showed up buried beneath the late November frost on my windshield. My compact disc player couldn’t read it for the first ten minutes. Digital breath steamed out of the exhaust. Finally, a tracks seeped in throw the morning commute. The mystery boy has returned. Ah, champion.…
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TWO SHOWS
TWO SHOWS in WRJ THIS DECEMBER. BE A PRO, GO. DON’T STAY HOME, GO. DON’T BE ALONE, GO.
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BsP, Poet Laureate of WhatDothLife
Wonderful style, hand rolled ciggarettes, Foucalt in his pocket, BsP is coming to a show near you. Ben recently stopped in at some Boston shows including one with the Pilgrims and one with The Images (feat, Pete ala Death Pesos). Read below for wordsmithings of our resident Neal Cassady Death sales fall short with Pilgrims…
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WDL 33! What I Did On My Summer Vacation
The newest comp from WhatDothLife is an Ode to the Death of Summer. Brought to you from the brink of collapse in the first week of November the comp features WDL favorites Giant Travel Avant Garde, The Pilgrims, Ryan T Hebert, Chris Faulkner (of Bellwire and Jonee Earthquake Band), Davis McGraw (The Pilgrims), Babe Lincoln!…
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THE PILGRIMS: IT’S NOT PRETTY! FINALLY.
Recorded over a PBR-fueled 2012 Cinco Deee Mayo, The Pilgrims (finally) released their first full-lenth album, It’s Not Pretty, on Sept 21. The album is 13 songs of punky, rocky, geeky, garagey, music for your blown-out car stereo and background party noise. Download two free single from the album! GLUE: Glue by The Pilgrims STATIC…
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Planetarum: Chrisinger v. Holtz
Luke Chrisinger (AKA Actaeon Complex, Esau’s Ladder, GTAG, I Love Journal, Colour En Bloc;;; ET AL) has returned from semi-retirement, with a new project entitled PLANETARUM a series of EPs traversing the solar system, instrumentally and lyrically. Both “musician and non-musician”, the dude continues to astound. Something beautiful: Neptune Two by Planetarum Something crashing: Mars…
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Welcome Back!
Settle down class. I hope you had a nice time, eating candy wizards, playing leap poodle, awash in water sports, and diabetes off pappy’s pruned vodkas. Unfortunately, summer’s over, kiddies. Let’s see if you can pull it together, get yon’ sights on straight. Welcome Back. Your first assignment of the year? HOW I SPENT MY…
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GREEN BASTARD
MOOOOM! Mom! WHAT the HELL. MOOOOOMM, the washing machine is on the fritz again! mom…?MOM?! Holy shit, the washing machine tipped over! It’s gone fuckin’ Nuts! MOM! I unplugged it, it’s not stopping! MOOOOOMM IT GREW TEETH. THE MACHINE HAS TEETH. MARY JOSEPH JC CARTER THE MACHINE IS EATING MY SOUL. MY SOUL IS THE…
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Stream Giant Travel Avant Garde’s ‘La Maladie D’Amour’
Giant Travel Avant Garde have recently released their third full-length album entitled ‘La Maladie D’Amour’ a bastardized translation of love sickness. La Maladie D’amour by Giant Travel Avant Garde dream the american, rise will we. separated. walls down cut. you to eat decide. myself, made to, our plans. sun into turns home. light. another. find.…