“You can never be sure of the people you know when they don’t want to show you their sadness”

-excerpt from The Breeze / My Baby Cries by Kath Bloom

Luke Rathborne will be playing every Tuesday night this August. I highly reccomend you stop by once or twice if you are in the city. And the shows are free, so what do you have to lose?

Press Release:

“The 21 year old – Brooklyn-based Maine native will play every Tuesday this month at The Living Room on the Lower East Side, Tuesdays at The Living Room on 158 Bleecker St in the Lower East Side at 10:30 P.M. for a special show every week, “In Search of the Miraculous” featuring a handful of NYC’s best musicians. Rathborne recently recorded material in New York with members of Antony & The Johnsons’ band, The Johnsons. Opening acts for the show will be Rain Phoenix’s “Papercranes” supporting her new album. ”

Reviews:
“..Like Bob Dylan, Lou Reed or Will Oldham, why should you expect anything else but constant haunting, and engaging development.” – TheFanzine.com

“strange… melancholic.. Rathborne has assembled a diverse septet of players for this show” – Village Voice

Hear some tracks at Luke’s Myspace. And here are Directions to The Living Room. Remember, it’s a free show, no tix required.

for alli

up in the air

sending soon

for all the disgruntled folks in my life (in ITC avant garde, 1974-77)

Listening to: Modest Mouse – Interstate 8 (Building Noting Out of Something, 1998)

Enjoy.

Thom, June ‘09

Hannah, July ‘09

Images Copyright © 2009 Levi Ward

The Walkmen – Bows & Arrows (Bows & Arrows, 2004)

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In my dream i was a werewolf you’re a stray dog with fleas staring at the sea nothing I can say to you change your heart.  These arms are mine don’t mind who they hold too bright too powerful to know.

01. Cocorosie – Werewolf (The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, 2007)

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02. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Bobbie Malone Moves Home (Etiquette, 2006)

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03. Fever Ray – When I Grow Up (Fever Ray, 2009)

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04. Thom Yorke (Mark Mulcahy) – All For The Best (Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, 2009)

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05. Burial – Dog Shelter (Untrue, 2007)

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06. The Field (The Korgis) – Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime (Yesterday and Today, 2009)

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07. The Big Pink – Velvet (Van Rivers & the Subliminal Kid Remix) 2009

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08. Radiohead – Last Flowers to the Hospital (In Rainbows Disk 2, 2008)

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the quiver in your voice brings me patience and I thank you for that. we were all in agreement like a drug deal. It was strange. red nail polish thin lips and that was when I knew I wasn’t made for this.

so many. I am surrounded by my past and yeah, thats fine but I am covered in pen caps and the knowledge of where to cut an empty white ballpoint in half after I pry off the blue end.

Tom Waits – Big in Japan (Mule Variations, 1999)

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Mistaking dog barks for distant laughter. No, sirens? No. It was laughter. The first month here I mistook a bug zapper for wood sounds. If you are wood sounds, please come take me now. 12:46 AM 7/o1/09

01. The Walkmen – No Christmas While I’m Talking (Bows & Arrows, 2004)

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02. Ilyas Ahmed – Earn Your Blood (Goner, 2009)

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03. Spacemen 3 – Walking With Jesus (The Perfect Prescription, 1987)

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04. Lady Lamb And The Beekeeper – Until I Am Bones (Samples For Handsome Animals, 2008)

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05. Luke Rathborne – Dog Years (Unknown, 2007)

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06. Television – Marquee Moon (Marquee Moon, 1977)

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07. Discovery – So Insain (Discovery, 2009)

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08. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – I Love Creedence (Etiquette, 2006)

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09. Red House Painters – New Jersey (Red House Painters 2, 1993)

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10. Luke Rathborne – Carousel (Unknown, 2008)

Unfortunately I don’t have a copy of this song. Too bad, really. It’s the perfect end note.

Enjoy.

11 Hope Street, (Self Portrait for L.C.) 2008

Glad to finally get this scanned.

Listening to Scott Walker: Scott 3 (1969)

More soon, enjoy.

Image Copyright © 2009 Levi Ward

Listening to Scott Walker’s Scott (1969)

Friend and muscian Luke Rathborne was just written up in Filter Magazine. If you’re in the city, go see his show at Joe’s Pub tonight. If not, you can listen to one of his songs below. Enjoy.

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