Don't try this at home. You will overwhelm your storage space. You will eventually collect unemployment and won't want to part with your records. In case this does happen. Hang tight you can always hide in the basement with your records and talk about the good ole'days of making mix tapes for your friends singing at the top of your lungs while driving down the garden state parkway to the shore...
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I hate your playlist and taste
Killer mp3 blogs for the moment
In no particular order of hipness or musical taste. Was just cruising for some new music up on elbo.ws and came across these folks plus a few of my normal mp3 haunts. hypem.com has been too elitists recently. So enjoy the rock as this fan of music fans is fickle.vainzine.blogspot.com more new disco but coolprettymuchamazing.com - nice and well rounded.http://captainsdead.com/ Has sunny day real...
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Rock n Roll Court Tavern Seminar Sat 4-25-09
Andy Diamond presents a rockn'roll seminar at the Court Tavern this coming Saturday, April 25th, 2009 featuring sets by The Stuntcocks, Eastern Anchors, Harlot and from Baltimore LandSpeedRecord![ View FB Event invitation ] Now in order to take advantage of this special offer you don't much preparation to do except get there early by 10PM EST to enjoy everything the bands and court have to offe...
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The Meatmen play the Brighton Bar
Monday, April 21st The Meatmen are playing the infamous Brighton Bar with The Takers, The Sexzombies and American Speedway. Get yer punk rock on.Mp3's from Go Cart Vs. The Corporate Giant:Morisey Must DieAbba, God and MeBuy some Tesco Vee vt The Meatmen on Emusic
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Radical Rock Reactionaries
Way back in the mid-80's there was a great local alternative band called Animation that borrowed from Echo and The Bunnymen, Lou reed and whatever was hip at the time. The town benefited from having a pretty decent local record shop called the Music Staff. Life was good. Animation's release Loud Day had everything; a great intro song with a stomping bass part promised you that the rest would be...
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Live Video Indie Rocker - Zac Clark Tycoon
Always love it when a music fan puts so much energy into seeing live music. Zac Clark the Rocker Tycoon is one of those open minded guys that cares and comes armed with cameras in tow and stands in the front row. He made one song videos for Frankie and his Fingers, No Pasaran!, Eastern Anchors, and Binky Bianca at a recent Jersey City show at the IMAC. I wish there were more folks like them an...
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Summer Surf and turf driving Mix
If you are planning on escaping for the weekend and taking off on a friday let me help with the summer mix. Hopefully you're headed to someplace hot and with A/C. There are a few classics on here with a little bit of twist backed with some golden nuggets. From the newish bin are Desolation Wilderness from their record White Light Strobing; lots of twirly reverb and delay that can help you get l...
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Review Pronto All Is Golden today and always
The early description of 70's icons like Randy Newman, Jackson Browne and Glen Frey come to mind when listening to Pronto's debut All Is Golden. Under the analog edge is a indie band playing retro, sparse and working to let the core of the song bring it on home like a inspired yelling carpediem. No massive amounts of compression, comfortable sweaters, or studio trickery can fool the good song r...
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Time to pledge to WFMU.org
Hey, so you like music? You like independent and strange artists? Ever wonder why the radio sucks so bad? Seriously you must not know about wfmu.org. Do your kids, your kid's kids and your family a favor and start listening to FMU. You won't ever be able to listen to regular pop-music ever again! Beware of the blog.
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Mr. Thumb Flowers are not Evil
Based out of New Brunswick, NJ in the early 90's there was prog funk alternative rock metalish band called Mr. Thumb. The group had two singers and a running gaggle of drummers. Above is the cover for a 3 song ep called "This time it's gonna fuckin' Hurt" on Hub city label Well Primed Records. The track we are featuring in this post was supposed to appear on a follow-up 7" and self titled album...
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Dear Grammys,The Britsh are coming, the British are coming
As I sit and watch the Grammy's and actually enjoy Coldplay, despite their fruity Sgt pepper outfits, I put my trolling skills to work and found some great nuggets and music posts for you. I'll also say the one country band had a ripping guitar player. I didn't care too much for the song but the solo was hot. Other than that the Grammys sucked but I had to watch. Who dressed Katie Perry as Cheq...
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DUH New Jersey punk rock band
New Jersey yielded some great hardcore, Thrash and punk bands in the 80's. One of them was a band called DUH with ties to Westfield, NJ which featured drummer Ben Forgash and guys from Rutgers( think one was named was just "J"?) I can't remember exactly. Anyway, I'm not even sure that this 11 song record was called Trout (I made that shit up but it seems appropriate). Whatever the case here are...
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Lux Interior punk icon dies at 62
Dear young performers,Psychobilly, reverb and The Bigsby would not exist the way we know today if it were not for Lux Interior and Poison Ivy of The Cramps. Shit I might not know how cool the 50's really were unless I never heard Bad Music for Bad People way back when. The songs were simple, easy to play but the crazy slow feel catapulted you into this alien world of weird science, hot rods mix...
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Review: Andalusians Do the Work Indeed
Dear Andalusians, the womyn in rock sometimes try and sound like the musical genius that were Throwing Muses and end up sounding like a Scrawl record on slommo. I'm more of A fan of the Donelly / Hersh contingency and always appreciated the soulful swirly vocals and absent crash cymbals. Liked that there were no solos and chorus's to be had. The comparison for the new 7" ep on Dischord by Andal...
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The Living End of Punk by Zeke
World Famous Zeke is heavy-grass ladden smoke out American Rockn'Roll punk rock. Take the really ugly side of MotorHead and mix it with something really fast from Crypt Records and you've got the dark tattoo that is Zeke. Needless to say they are relentless stoner rock and apparently W's Patriot Act caught up to the band so they can't Leave the good ole' USA. Which is good news for the rest of ...
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Rough Cut by the Wrens on magnet.com
OK it is a little bit noisy and again features a piano but the pressure is on. Here is a new song as featured on the Wrens Watch page over at magnet.com. Not sure what the freaking title of the song but lets not get ahead of ourselves. The meta info says "vox fx" which probably is just engineer speak that there are effects on the vocals. There is some crappy distortion like the compressor is c...
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David Lee Roth Sound-off board
Get your fill of David Lee Roth "oohs"and "aaaahs". "Beg or borrows". From the Running with the Devil sound board. If you are daring you can maybe make be your own goofy song with no talent at all. Ok maybe you need the help ofMicrosoft's Songsmith software. Then you can make your own video like the one below. The music that is created by this automated software is pretty laughable but hey we ...
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NJ Demo Tape punk graveyard
So if you're old enough to remember there was a time that any band with any sort of DIY ethic could put out a run of 100 demos. No internet. No email. Just collect the beer money set-up the mic, make some artwork and then just start duping tapes. The distribution network was slow and conducted via snail mail and shows. Tommy Southern AKA devil dick has another blog playing tribute to said lost...
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New Wrens Songs to spite Magnet
I'm not sure if you have been following the super annoying thread at Magnet where they have been stalking Charles Bissell as part of a Wrens Watch every week, some bits are pretty sarcastically cool guy funny, others a little uncomfortable to say the least. Not sure if anybody has really noticed yet but Wrens last release The Meadowlands was almost like what feels like a decade ago. Yikes! Th...
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Deep Elm Bonfire of Trust review
Deep Elm is giving away 16 songs for free for the next few days. Some of the high-lights include: the spacey guitar rock of Moving Mountains and the big guitar goodness of Desoto Jones. Do it now. There are lots of great deals from this label and it helps they still have that energy that is lacking in a lot of indie labels these days.
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