possible shortest review of a record coming in 3,2,1… laura burhenn and her mynabirds have a new record coming out on 6.5 entitled generals. either youre going to get it, or you wont. either you love it, or you wont. its a call to arms to whoever is listening to get out there and standup [...]
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the mynabirds “body of work”
the tragically hip’s the roxy and elsewhere
morning! been a a big hip kick as of late, and have been trying to find some new live stuff, but sadly there isnt much out there as they sell most of their shows. so in lieu of posting something new here is a repost of this hip bootleg entitled roxy and elsewhere. this version [...]
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southeast engine “old oak tree”
well, one of my favorite records from last year southeast engine’s canary is getting a 4 song appendix ep, entitled canaanville, which was designed/recorded/written to accompany canary. canary is a fantastic fucking record, but thematically its kind of a hard sell. its a concept record revolving around the inhabitants of appalachian ohio during the great [...]
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silver jews “secret knowledge of back roads”
wow, this would have been a pretty awesome session to sit in on, dave berman, stephen malkmus and bob nastanovich recording presumably before berman started the jews, and stephen and bob, pavement. the recording in question is being released via drag city on 6.19 and is entitled early times. some of the songs on early [...]
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neil young and crazy horse live in birmingham, england, 6.2.87
happy memorial day, fellow americans! for the rest of you, happy monday. i wont get to sappy, but working with the men and women of the army on a daily basis and to see what they go through is sometimes hard to deal with, even from an outsiders perspective. either way, i thank our troops [...]
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glossary and austin lucas live tonight in baton rouge
hey baton rouge! you truckers better be at the austin lucas/glossary show tonight at the manship cause if you aint, and you call yourself a music lover or at very least a “fan” you are neither. two of my absolute artists performing yet again in our fair city?!?!? that shit is cray? is that term? [...]
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liz phair “and he slayed her” video
hey hey hey! back again. this time with a new song/video from my first rock n roll girlfriend, or maybe second or third, i cant remember, but its a liz phair as you probably took away from the title. that piece of shit site perez hilton somehow got to premiere it, yesterday, i believe. not [...]
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bon iver live from the haldern pop festival, 8.15.09
top of the early morning, y’all! had a request for a repost on this one, and since i fell asleep at pretty much 7.30 last night, im up a bit early, or at least feeling productive. oh, and this is bon iver live @ the haldern pop festival in germany on 8.15.09. much love to [...]
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cory branan “bad man”
a couple months back i was speaking w a beloved artist of a lot of us, who has been feature on here more than a few times, regarding cory branan. i had stated that i only really like about a quarter of his songs, at this point said artist called me crazy or something maybe [...]
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sugar – copper blue/beaster/f.u.e.l. trailer
ummm, what more could i say than fucking awesome! if you havent grabbed em yet, why dont you just give em your email address down there and pick up three live copper blue tracks from their bottom of the hill show in san francisco on 2.24.12. also check out the killer packages merge has for [...]
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what i’m listening to right now: beachwood sparks’ the tarnished gold
a couple of weeks ago whilst on twitter, dave from rawkblog mentioned that one of my favorite artists from the early 00′s beachwood sparks were back together. not only back together, but putting out a new record on subpop which is entitled the tarnished gold, and their first record in like 11 years. their two [...]
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new stuff from king tuff
howdy, top of the sunday evening! if there was a record i was looking forward to blasting through the baton rouge streets it’s king tuff’s latest self titled subpop release – due out on 5.29. sadly, i dont listen to em enough but when i throw em on, i know i am going to go [...]
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portastatic live at the duke coffee house, 8.9.94
oh hello, peoples. hope all of y’all are well. i have been on a huge superchunk/portastatic kick as of late and thought i would dig into the archives an repost this this sound board portastatic show, from 8.9.94 at the duke coffee house in durham. i cannot not recommend checking out mac’s portastatic enough, which [...]
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duquette johnston “roll baby roll”
tomorrow night, on a show i have never heard of, private practice, but apparently draws like 8 million people a week, friend of captains dead and just all around awesome dude, duquette johnston will have his song “roll baby roll” played at some point. fucking good for him! he is more than deserved of any [...]
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detective “basket of masks”
detective is actually supposed to be french, with an accent over the first “e,” and i would try to add one, but cant figure out how. they were named after a godard film of the same title, and are made up of james greer (ex-guided by voices, etc,) guylaine vivara and rory modica who both [...]
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rainer ptacek featuring calexico “be prepared”
howdy! on may 28 fire records is reissuing the complete works of rainer ptacek, a tuscon based guitar player who teamed up with howe gelb in the late 70s to form giant sand, but at the time i believe they were actually called giant sandworms. sadly, rainer died from a brain cancer in 1997, but [...]
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hallelujah the hills “get me in a room” official video
hey hey the official video for hallelujah the hills’ “get me in a room” which premiered on consequence of sound this morning. thats right, im stealing it, well not really. no one knows what happens next, my second favorite record of the year thus far, is out on 5.22. a side note, i think i [...]
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jeremy benson “too much love and not enough danger” – video
well, hello again! turns out mr jeremy benson of roadside graves premiered his new video on when you awake earlier today, not bitter, for a song off one of my favorite records, darksongs 2, from 2011 – well it wasnt really released then, i just heard it last year. you can now grab it for [...]
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