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Each month, since Feb of 2006, I start a playlist in my iTunes of the tunes that catch my ear that month. I started off writing a post to my Mog page with a short review or comments of each track, not only to keep a running diary for myself, but to hopefully point others toward these tunes. In the last several months I have started to cross post this information on other sites where I keep blogs. (If you are reading this somewhere besides Mog, you can find all the old ones at www.mog.com/iren) I want to apologies for any weird formatting stuff right here and now, I type this in MS word and then post it on these various message places, some of which have…w ell formatting issues…. Anyway for this month here is what caught my ear…

Lost Weapons by Dog Company from Songs of Discontent http://www.myspace.com/dogcompany44 Political street punk from Texas…

Maps of War by Disfear from Live The Storm www.myspace.com/disfear Heavy roaring cookie- monster metal punk in the Motorhead/ Hellacopters tradition, filled with energy and passion….

Acid reign by The Hellacopters from In The Sign Of The Octopus 7" http://www.myspace.com/hellacopters Speaking of the Hellacopters… they are about to release their last album…. And here is one of the tunes from it… It’s a cover of the Aussie band (the Yes-Men www.myspace.com/yesmenrock) and has just a hint of that Meatloaf operarock sound… but really it’s right back to the sound of the High Visibility era Hellacopters…I assure you that as this album slips into my brain stream there will be more for me to say… as The Hellacopters have been a part of my life for almost 10 years now and have lead me down paths and on adventures that I never dreamed of…

Sunshine by Bang Sugar Bang From Victory Gin http://www.myspace.com/bangsugarbang This is one of the poppier numbers from these guys and it’s been stuck in my head for a while…really great stuff..

This month was a little lite on stand out tracks, mostly because I am still trying to catch up on podcasts, and have been working more and listening less… hopefully next month will have more of note, and as I am expecting not only to absorb more tunes from recently gathered albums, but also looking forward to the release of some new stuff that I have been waiting for…

Thoughts, comments, spare change.