From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Jesus Speaks To Me

April 30, 2009

Four hundred and eighty-one Vegetables, and not one Joseph Spence (unless you count a 2007 Christmas bonus).
Problem solved! Next up, swine flu. [Update: solved.]
Joseph Spence – Out On The Rolling Sea

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I’ve Seen The Freaks Lost In The Milky Way

April 29, 2009

So yesterday I was talking about connecting the dots from band to band or from band to producer, etc. I had followed Mitch Easter from producing R.E.M. to having his own band, Let’s Active.
Years later (after the Internet made dot-connecting and information-gathering a ton easier), I was tracking down Let’s Active mp3s and having a [...]

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It’s Great. It’s Strange.

April 28, 2009

If you were an obsessed young rock fan in the pre-Internet days, you scrounged for information on new bands any way you could. Magazines, The Trouser Press Guide To New Wave Records, opening acts at shows — all potential links to the next epiphany.
Another way to look for bands was to connect the dots: so [...]

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All In All, It’s Been A Pretty Good Year

April 27, 2009

The last time we heard from Camera Obscura, Tracyanne Campbell was letting Lloyd Cole know that she was ready to be heartbroken.
I guess she must have gotten her wish, because she’s worse off than ever on the new album. She says that she wouldn’t even call her lyrics ‘lyrics’ — “Just documentation of what was [...]

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Hair Of The Dog(?)

April 24, 2009

Well damn, y’all, you think I’m gonna post a track by an angry Australian band and then not go on a Boys Next Door/Birthday Party jag? They were only the GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME.
When I’m 80 years old (which feels like it will be soon), I’ll hear the astounded voices of youths [...]

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I Slip The Net, Being Tall And Thin, And Pretty Soon The Dark Turns To Dim

April 23, 2009

It’s a big, beautiful world, and even though you try your darnedest to soak up as much beauty as there is, there’s still going to be some band from Australia that you didn’t even know about but has like five albums already, and you know what? Hella good, that’s what.
I may be a depressed hippie, [...]

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Why Would You Fill Your Clip With Such Bogus Ammo?

April 22, 2009

Some days, you-all just have to live with what’s been in my head for the last twenty-four hours.
Must be all the glistening in the sunshine around here lately.
[language alert: audition this one before playing it for your mom]
Gold Chains – Break Or Be Broken from Young Miss America

http://www.gold-chains-worldwide.com
http://www.myspace.com/gcsc
Bonus Glistens
Why not go on a 24-hour-a-day Gold [...]

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You And I And A Flame Make Three

April 21, 2009

HOOOLY CRUMB DEAR LOVINS
I got some good news and some bad news for ye … which do you want first, like you have a choice?
Weeell, the good news is that the gifts are falling from heaven like crazy these days and 2009 is shaping up to be pretty badass.
The latest slice of early love comes [...]

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You, You’re The Apple Of My Eye

April 20, 2009

STOP THE  PRESSES, CHILLUNS!
Not only do we have an impending  Black Moth Super Rainbow album to celebrate (Eating Us, May 26), but the kind, kind gentle folk of the snowy forest have dropped some early love.
Now you know what you’re doing this week: lying on your back (or flying through the clouds, or both) and [...]

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Can You Come Out To Play?

April 17, 2009

I know I posted a song from the Numero Group soul reissues recently, but they’re so good! And I want to make sure you know about them.
Today’s song is by a 7-year-old, and is possibly better enjoyed without knowing the situation he lived in.
Altyrone Deno Brown – Sweet Pea from Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid [...]

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