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Hey there! Look how new it is!
I’m sure there will be little things I’ll be fixing here and there (there are some Internet Explorer fomatting issues), but if there’s anything you notice that’s not right, or if there’s something you’d like to see on HV, let me know at kevin@hellovegetables.com.
[UPDATE: There is an unpleasant [...]

It’s one thing to start it with a positive jam, it’s another thing to see it on through
Stay Positive finds The Hold Steady completing their unlikely yet somehow inevitable transformation from great shouty indie band to Great American Rock & Roll Band. (Turns out all it took was a little singing.)
Is anybody anywhere having more [...]

Country music specializes in either “I’m deliriously happy” or “I’m completely miserable” songs, and Buck Owens was great at both. He could sing so you could hear the smile in his voice, and when he told you he was gonna lay around the shack till the mail train came back, you believed it. But he [...]

Syclops - Mom, The Video Broke from I’ve Got My Eye On You (insound / amazon CD / amazon mp3 / itunes)
http://www.myspace.com/syclopsband

You know you’ve made it as a band when you take over a word. Newscasters around the country can’t refer to “an unidentified slayer” without thousands of people in their living rooms throwing up devil horns and yelling “SLAYERRRR!!!”
When South Of Heaven came out, many of us were astonished at just how slow it was. [...]

Man, all the promo pictures of Cheap Time are kind of horrifying. But all the good live ones are copyrighted (damn you, flickr defaults!) so you and I will have to look at this one.
It’s worth it, though, because the song is an rock-n-roll ass-slayer from their debut full-length, which gives you 14 slices of [...]

It seems like that for the most part, the music world is pretty good about eventually coming around to recognize those who might not have been popular at the time but turned out to be profoundly influential. These people then get a chance to get the mass adulation they deserve and maybe make enough money [...]

Today I’m dropping some more good-time sunshine music, cuz it’s summer summer summer!
I adore the beat on this song, and when the horns kick in I defy you to not rock some sweet moves.
Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough from the YESly titled I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass [...]

I’m putting Wednesday’s post up a little early.
How can you go wrong with a script by Jules Feiffer, direction by Robert Altman, and (most importantly) songs by super undoubtedly 100% genius Harry (I love you!) Nilsson?
Well, a lot of people would say you could go wrong by having them do a Popeye movie. However, Popeye [...]

Here’s a happy, happy summertime jam from The Brighton Port Authority (which is what Norman Cook calls himself when he doesn’t want to be his other people) with David Byrne (who is the same guy).
The video and single (so I guess I should say “the song”) feature (so I guess it should be “features”) a [...]