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Dolly Parton is an angel on this earth, and Down From Dover is on the All-Star team for songs that make me cry. I figured Thursday is a good day to post it, because you’re probably feeling good that it’s almost the weekend. That gives me tomorrow to help you get over having listened [...]

I don’t know whether it was because we were 20 years younger or because Eazy-E was about 5 feet tall and sounded like he was 3 feet tall, but the violence and misogyny just didn’t bother us then. It might bother you now, though.
If it doesn’t, you’ll be pleased to know that the latest CD [...]

I had no idea until I was researching today’s vegetable that there was some sort of Mesopotamia controversy. Reportedly it was supposed to be a whole album, but they abandoned the recording session (making it an EP). Also reportedly, they did not like the production by David Byrne, which was the wrong way to [...]

This oughta sound good on a Monday. It’s from this wicked-awesome compilation I found called Die Schönsten Deutschen Country Und Trucker Songs. But in trying to find out whether or not that CD was at all available anywhere, I discovered that you can download a WHOLE ALBUM by these guys! Some days the vegetables are [...]

Juana Molina is from Argentina, and she makes good music that sounds like this.
Juana Molina - Rio Seco from Son (insound / amazon / itunes)

Hooray.
Dude ‘N Nem - Watch My Feet (amazon CD / amazon mp3 / itunes)

United State Of Electronica is the best party band ever. People in the know (especially in Seattle) jam-pack their shows and throw a happy love party. But even if it’s a poorly-publicized Sunday night show with 15 people in the audience, they still rock it like it was that humongo stadium in Rio.
I don’t [...]

Yeah Yeah we can all grab at the chance and be handsome farmers
Yeah you can have twenty one sons and be blood when they marry my daughters
And the pain that we left at the station will stay in a jar behind us
We can pickle the pain into blue ribbon winners at county contests
 
 
Yeasayer - 2080 [...]

For songs that mention the band’s name, you can always count on metal.
Of the holy triumvirate of speed-metal (Slayer, Metallica, and Megadeth), Killing Is My Business is my favorite debut album — muddy production, funky bass tones and all. The “Rattlehead” riff is one of the most wickedass speed-metal riffs of all time.
Don’t wear [...]

I saw that this song is on a compilation of the worst songs ever recorded. What?!? This is one of the BEST songs ever recorded!
Introduced to me by my beloved Cramps, here’s a masterpiece from 1964.
The Novas - The Crusher available as a 45 from Norton Records