Dj Subverse brought this to my attention last week, and it has worked its colors into my gray matter. A hyper contemporary soundscape featuring a beguiling mix of eastern and western sounds and melodies all tossed about in dub stylee. This mp3 packs a lot of music into two minutes and fifty seconds! Seductive and [...]
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Rainbow Arabia’s strange and beautiful “Haunted Hall”
Birds & Batteries find “TV Commericals” in Nature
Extra trippy guitar pop from the Sonic Youth side of Husker Dü approximately. Luscious psychedelic vocals and a Devo meets King Crimson arrangement make this worthy of both New Wave and Prog Rock tags. Unusual. Lovely. Strange. Check it out.Birds & Batteries “TV Commericals” (mp3)from “Nature vs. Nature”(Birds and Batteries) Need more!
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Kent State’s “Radio Moscow” playing all our requests
One of the cooler regional hits of 1982 was the lo-fi garage punk of “Radio Moscow” by a Southern California band called Kent State (formerly Red Brigade). They played every punk venue on the west coast and then some, adding a twist to American hardcore music that was more Troggs than Sex Pistols. Rodney Bingenheimer [...]
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Meet the New Age, same as the Old Age
What’s this? A blatantly New Age mp3 on yours truly SuperFan’s own site? But yes! We’re coming together, converging if you will, harmonically, mystically, cosmically, on the astral plane for a flying dream and heavenly feast. Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or Indigenous People’s Day or lament the Turkey-opalypse, here’s some soothing meandering flutes and gamelan [...]
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New End Original’s very own “Thriller”
And how do we like our emo? Why, with kick ass power pop hooks and punk pop aggression and yearning teen angst on that razor’s edge between bliss and despair, thank you, how else? This song has it all. In fact, “Lukewarm” by New End Original has been one of my faves in this genre [...]
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Curtis Harvey’s lovely “Box Of Stones”
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I swear if Paul Westerberg were born in the Appalachians instead of Minneapolis, he would have started a hillbilly band and recorded this song. Or I could say, if Bill Monroe were a young New Yorker, he might have done. These are compliments to all parties, if there’s any wondering. Curtis Harvey, at the time [...]
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Power Pop For Lulu!
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And what for the interstate drive to the ‘rents house for turkeyopalypse? Big rock, sweeties, big, loud, top-down, preferably decadent glam goth, can we do that? Thank you. Living 80’s zeitgeist Flesh For Lulu has re-recorded some of their classic material, with more modern production values, and created a record which is bound to introduce [...]
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J Courage gets in “Too Deep”
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There’s a certain mojo that can happen with filtered bass synths, rather like the sensation of psychedelics settling in your tummy with just a hint of what’s to come. Now, I usually don’t get all Vice Magazine on you, after all this is a family blog (you should see my family) but, this is drug [...]
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Exploring 13th Chime’s shimmering darkness
Enter at your own risk, “The Lost Album” by 13th Chime on Sacred Bones Records. “Sarah’s Got a Chainsaw” is not so much the bloodbath the title might suggest, but instead a raucous and beautifully recorded note from the grave from this driving goth-esq Texas band. Gr8 80’s flavored reverb’d out vocals bounce around on [...]
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Themselves as Themselves, in “Gangsters Of Disbelief”
On the avant-garde side of hip-hop we find anticon’s dynamic duo Themselves carving some far out original soundz and spittin’ equally mind bending lyrical flows. “Gangster of Disbelief” is a crazy, brilliant production, featuring urgent yet controlled vocals which hypnotize from the first dubby strains of the intro to the last drop of warm synth-y [...]
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The Black Seeds – “Slingshot”
Why, it seems everyone and their cousin has a reggae band these days. Coming from the jazzy swingy new skool funky side o’ the tip is a band from Wellington City, New zealand called The Black Seeds. Boasting monster horn players, sophisticated arrangements and a scary solid rhythm section, this is not a trivial musical [...]
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Eddie Floyd demands 100 percent Sweet Soul
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Soul music legend Eddie Floyd has been singing, recording and touring for something like five decades, and the man shows no sign of letting up today. This classic recording of “Ninety-Nine and a Half” is pure molten gold – just puts a lot of more contemporary records flat to shame, I’m afraid. Probably best known [...]
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Rocking out with The Sons Of Hercules
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Rock is not dead. It is brain dead. The Sons Of Hercules understand the power of not understanding. The subtle genius of retardation. The mastery which flows from lobotomous guitars, beer soaked vocals, and swaggering drum beats. As The Stooges demonstrated in the late 60’s, for a certain kind of rock, dumb is smart. From [...]
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Pere Ubu, Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi
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Pere Ubu is not exactly a household word, but their art has influenced decades of popular and influential acts like the Pixies, Joy Division, REM, Bauhaus and others. The songs on their new album make up the backbone of a theatrical production, “Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi”, that premiered in 2008 at London’s [...]
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Creeping out with My 3 Scum
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Creepcore! Creep-a-billy? I wish I had found this for Halloween! But here ya go, this track rocks. This trio of Scum from Erie (where else?) PA are a tight and fun band, drawing heavily on the sound of The Cramps and surf music. “You Creep Me Out” is, I believe, a love song, of a [...]
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Los Fabulosos Cadillacs’ triumphant return
Not that they ever went away, but Los Fabulosos Cadillacs just released their first studio album in ten years, and it is gr8. “Contrabando de Amor” is the lead off single, and it is an undeniable smash. Truly anthemic, joyous, fun, passionate, tight, unpretentious.. let’s see, did I leave anything out? Oh and glorious! K? [...]
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Agent Orange surfs the Interweb
Southern California’s beloved surf punker pioneers Agent Orange have rocked for over three decades, and they continue to tour and deliver a gr8 live show. This song from their brilliant 1981 album “Living in Darkness”- recently re-released digitally by Posh Boy Music – is a good taste of their innovative guitar work and unique collision [...]
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Sev Statik – Blue Flame (feat. Eternia)”
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Sev Statik and crew bust a fresh and forward thinking hip-hop jam. Lots of gr8 wordplay here from Sev and Eternia, and a musical collage that is a cut above. Funky guitar and organ bites ride on some excellent drum loops and the lyricists get busy. Intelligent and entertaining work.Sev Statik “Blue Flame (feat. Eternia)” [...]
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Cutty Ranks tell it like it is
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From an eclectic comp on the Fractal Entertainment label, comes this brilliant cut by Cutty Ranks. “Hardcore Riddim” lives up to its name with this massive promo track. Top artists from Jamaica including Luciano, Bushman, Gyptian, Courtney Melody, Jah Mason, and Ras Shiloh are also featured on this collection so check it out for a [...]
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Bear In Heaven makes a “Wholehearted Mess”
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In the lush, synthetic universe, inhabited by Bear In Heaven, anything can happen. The arrangement of “Wholehearted Mess” is surprising at every turn, with each bridge, verse and chorus opening a new door. An unusual and inspired chord progression, expressed in bold strokes on saturated, pitch-melting keyboard patches, frames a sweetly understated vocal magnificently, and [...]
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