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Friday Flackbash:
Baby Baby Monkey, You Won’t Get No Disease

February 12, 2010

One minute and forty-six seconds of perfection.
The Dickies – You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
first posted August 3, 2007
[photo from the Bed Jump Blog]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Fly On, Albatross

December 4, 2009

To paraphrase Craig Finn, I survived the nineties one time already, and I don’t recall them all that fondly.
That said, I’d consider doing it all over again if it was the only way I could hear a really heavy song about an albatross. (I have no idea what this song is actually about, but it [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
So I Spawned Me A Family, We’re Livin’ The Good Life

December 1, 2009

I’ve spent the last 24 hours completely engrossed in Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, And Occasionally Pointless History Of Bay Area Punk, an oral history by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor. So, lots of reminiscing, lots of phony reminiscing about things I was never a part of, and lots of music going through my [...]

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Evergreen, Crystal Lake, And Badger

July 31, 2009

Hey America! Big doins at the Hemlock tomorrow!
ROTfest: a celebration and reunion of classic San Matean bands and related ventures. Some legendary local bands of the 90s and 00s will be there, including Mensclub, Wig Torture, Clap Band, The Pirate Band, David Nudelman, Three Stoned Men, and Smile God Loves You.
Saturday 8/1, 6PM, $7. Visit [...]

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I Live In A Greenhouse And I Am Getting Wasted, Yeah

June 12, 2009

David Longstreth, high-end crackpot behind Dirty Projectors, has said that much of the music on their simultaneously confounding, accessible, and awwwesome new album was heavily inspired by singer Amber Coffman’s trip to California, more specifically by a whale sighting from Mount Wittenberg. (Local slugabeds like me might not know that’s in Point Reyes. Get out [...]

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Damn, I Feel Hard

February 3, 2009

Heyhey, this is the 420th Vegetable, but you don’t have to be baked to appreciate a didgeridoo hip-hop track about abusing marsupials.
It’s from the new Diplo compilation Decent Work For Decent Pay, Vol. 1, which collects a handful of original tracks and a gang of remixes of the likes of M.I.A., Hot Chip, and of [...]

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You Got To Please Her Palate

December 1, 2008

Chicken has been a muse to many great musicians. Me, I don’t get it. Even back when I ate meat, chicken ran a distant third to the other land-based meats.
The popularity of chicken songs might have more to do with the socioeconomic status of the folk and blues musicians, who probably couldn’t afford to have [...]

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That Pig Made Me Feel So Bad

November 18, 2008

I guess I can blame not knowing about the new Antony And The Johnsons EP on the fact that I was out of the country, but that doesn’t excuse me not telling you about it, dear ones.
If you haven’t heard their 2005 album I Am A Bird Now, I beg you — please do. And [...]

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Shape Of The Rainbow

October 2, 2008

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 [...]

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Don’t Be Afraid Of What You’ve Learned

September 29, 2008

My favorite songs on Blitzen Trapper’s first album Wild Mountain Nation had that feel like they weren’t brand-new songs — they felt like they’d always been around, and Blitzen Trapper had just helped them to surface.
Furr has that sound start-to-finish. Like when you finally get around to listening to a “classic” album — familiar, new, [...]

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