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Rock

Today’s Vegetable:
I Am Just The Host For This Body

March 11, 2010

Last week I promised you some Honeycomb, so here it is for yer assured enjoyment: a lovely local gang of crackpots who know exactly what they’re doing and sound like they can take it wherever they like. I sense the opportunity to see them in small venues slipping away…
Five stars and two thumbs up, go [...]

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Bonus Beats:
Have I Mentioned How Much I Love Two Guys Making A Racket?

March 10, 2010

Well, I do. There’s something simple, true, and friendly about two dudes getting out there and giving some poptunes the blowout treatment.
You’ve got your No Age holding things down in Los Angeles, your Japandroids covering the Great White North, and now you’ve got your Bonjour Afrique, bravely manning the overseas anchor in Paris.
Bonjour Afrique – [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
What Started As A Game Became A Chore Before Too Long

March 10, 2010

I’m back in an “all hail pop” mood, the kind of mood that had me posting The Jam and Joe Jackson and Squeeze back whenever that was. I owe this mood to Field Music, whose latest, Measure, is 20 songs du pop in various stages of normalcy.

The point is, when you listen to Measure (especially [...]

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Bonus Beats:
And Since You Are My Friend, I Would Ask That You Lower Me Down Slow

March 9, 2010

The Veg hopper’s overfilled, so let’s relieve a little of the pressure.
Freelance Whales are a band from some city on the East Coast, but don’t hold that against them. They’re from one of the other boroughs, anyways. The point is, though, that they make really nice music.
Freelance Whales – Generator^Second Floor from Weathervanes (out April [...]

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Farewell, Mark Linkous

March 8, 2010

Sorry to see you go.
Sparklehorse: “It’s A Wonderful Life”

directed by Guy Maddin (as if I had to tell you that)

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Best of 2010:
Citay – Dream Get Together
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me

March 8, 2010

Putting two more up on the Big Board today!
Citay’s super-Californian twin-guitar adventure Dream Get Together is a sweet leap.
Citay – Mirror Kisses (feat. Merrill Garbus from Tune-Yards)
http://www.citay.net
and Joanna Newsom’s latest, a triple-LP of unbelievable goodness (if y’all don’t know, ya better ax somebody). I might as well just put four Have One On Mes [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Hey … I Don’t Feel So Good

March 8, 2010

I miss the time when metal bands tried to play music that was pretty. I haven’t been able to get this one out of my head, but it’s entirely welcome to stay. In fact, let’s just bring 1986 back to stay, with its Peace Sells, Master Of Puppets, and Reign In Blood.
Megadeth – Good Mourning/Black [...]

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Friday Flackbash:
I Hear Him Playin’ His Bagpipes Every Mornin’, I Think That It’s A Warnin’

March 5, 2010

This was the thirteenth song I posted on HV, and you probably weren’t around, so I’m happy to be able to bring this amazing song to your attention.
What was with the early 70s? Can they please come back? In 1974, ABBA started a pop song with “My, my / In Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender” — [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
You Were Smokin’ Cigarettes With Your Big Red Lips, And Girl, You Made Me Wish That I Was Dead

March 5, 2010

Have I told you how much I love Spencey Dude & The Doodles? I have? Frequently? And recently? Then how come I haven’t posted a song yet?
Taken care of, chilluns.
Spencey Dude & The Doodles – Flirting from their self-titled 7″ on Rob’s House Records
Next show’s March 26 at the Hemlock. If I’m upright, I’ll see [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Punched In The Code, Ran Up The Stairwell

March 4, 2010

I’m going to bring the celebratory mood down a little bit with a beautiful and intensely personal song from John Vanderslice. The recorded version can be found on Pixel Revolt, but this version is snipped from a performance on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” — a beautiful arrangement, performed with the folks who accompanied Vanderslice at [...]

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