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Who doesn’t love a murder ballad? Not us, right?
Not the fine folks at When You Awake, either. For Halloween, they’ve put together a fine mix of country & folk about killin’ the one you love, featuring Vegetable faves like Dock Boggs, The Louvin Brothers, and Clarence Ashley.
Cold Blooded Country: A When You Awake Mixtape

Before I bayl-aread earlier this month, I managed to drag my saggy ass to get it kicked by Deerhoof at the Great American Music Hall. Locals can catch them again in a couple weeks at Mezzanine.
They’re a four-piece again, which brings them back from the prog-band ledge — now it’s a 2-2 tie, with the [...]

Plush’s Fed (the work of Chicago fella Liam Hayes and associates) is one of those albums where the story of the music’s creation is inseparable from the music itself.
Wait, no it’s not! Enjoy!
Plush - Whose Blues from Fed

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Hello, Vegetables! I’ve returned safely from the land of the Silver Queen, and may I say, Indonesia has it goin’ on!
My quest for Indonesian pop went differently than I expected — being in places that catered to international tourists meant lots of American and British music. But if there’s one thing in Indonesia more ubiquitous [...]

Hello Vegetables Returns October 29
Well, dear hearts, it’s time to say au revoir for a few weeks — I’m taking Mrs. Vegetables far away.
I’ve got a soft spot for this song because it’s right on that dividing line between early heavy-rock Scorpions and later hard-rock SCORPIONS!
Lovedrive was their first album without our beloved Uli, and [...]

I can’t even begin to describe my love for these tipi-loving hippies.
Vielleicht you have to be in just the right mood, but once that mood and this music come together, dear hearts, I will see you later.
Locals will find them at the Du Nord in a week or so. I’ll be on the other side [...]

Ever since I discovered an album of safe-driving songs in my high-school library, I’ve had a thing for instructional and industrial (as in Dow, not Test Dept) music.
Honest Abe Records put out a superfoxy collection of industry-al tunes called Product Music — it’s hard to find on CD, but good ol’ Listener Jim posted the [...]