Wow, I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since the start of Coachella. I was planning to do separate posts about the other great performances I felt were worthy to mention(& hadn't been mentioned much by others of the Coachella crew w/me) but decided to incorporate them into two posts. You're probably sick of hearing about it by now,oh well,too bad, heh.First up, The Breeders were incredibly fun ...
Before the music industry's own personal credit crunch - caused, to varying degrees, by the ascent of the MP3, overpriced albums and the failing, ephemeral, television-created popstar - a good way for people to discover new bands (especially before the internet existed), was by record labels issuing cheap samplers displaying their wares.In fact, label samplers such as Cooking Vinyl's Delicatess...
The Breeders - Mountain Battles(4AD, 2008)7.5 out of 10Singing "I can feel it!" over and over again, Kim Deal hurtles tumbling with her band out of the speakers on "Overglazed." Two minutes of this excited psychedelic revelry pass, evoking the Who as much as Throwing Muses, and then the Breeders land in the semi-glorious, scatterbrained mud that is the remainder of Mountain Battles. It is the f...
I replay an interview I did with Matt Ogborn of the Proper Nouns. They have a cd release show at Cafe Bourbon Street this Friday night, May 2. There are other bands, shows and singles hyped. It's all about the hype.Stream: http://patradio.org/blix/wimpy.phpDownload the show by right-clicking ( or Cntrl + click for Macs) and selecting "Save-As" or whatever it's called in your browser:http://pa...