While Wisconson-based, snarky, smarmy, snarly folk-punk-alterna-blues troupe Violent Femmes impatiently waits their turn in the numbingly long line that currently sprawls outward from the “MID-'80s–MID-'90s BANDS WAITING TO REUNITE, TOUR, PLAY ALBUMS IN THEIR ENTIRETY AT FESTS, AND TALK/NOT TALK ABOUT RECORDING A NEW ALBUM TOGETHER” counter at the DMV or wherever, singer Gordon Gano has chos
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MUSIC NEWS - Brian Ritchie, bassist of the Violent Femmes and former Midnight Oil (Beds Are Burning fame ) guys; Rob Hirst, Martin Rotsey & Jim Moginie have formed a new group, according to reports. Ritchie recently told Undercover: "I was always a fan of the Oils, especially live. Rob Hirst is one of the most powerful drummers anywhere. Just to be playing with those guys is a buzz. I r...
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So Wednesday, my best friend/roommate and I went to see the Violent Femmes play at The House of Blues in Anaheim, CA - otherwise known as Disney Hell-Sprawl. For the most part, the evening was pretty fun. Even the traffic-consumed drive down from Pasadena wasn't too terrible (mostly because we got to see the Mesopotamian outlet mall, complete with faux-ancient Persian sphinxes). After nearly ge...
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Well, it is officially 2007 and it started of the same as every other year this morning. My father, who has no phone because he claims the phone company screwed up on his bill (just like every bill he has ever had, that‘s why he has not water at his house right now), called me from a number I didn’t recognize, waking me from a dead sleep at 7:30 this morning. He was at the hospital. In a norma
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I finally gut to see a band I've wanted to see for many years now. And it was well worth the wait.I am speaking, of course, of The Violent Femmes. They started off with Out Of The Window and got the croud going right away. I have to hand it to Gordon and the gang, after 25 years together they still have it. I haven't had this much fun watching a live band in years. If they're coming your way yo...
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College has finally met me. Here I am in O'Shag, one of the luckier draws in my life. A clean, co-ed dorm with mostly upperclassmen. Thankfully, they're really cool. So yeah. Also, Blister in the Sun is fucking awesome.
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Here's another tale from my musical history. A few years after Mike Smith & DK came into my life. This one also involves a lovely lad, one quite sweet on me… & though our relationship(s) were short-lived … one was less than 24 hours… oh yes kiddies; they meant the world to me, as did Brando. He was the first boy I ever "went out with" ;) But I thought he was kidding - trying to save me
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I had me a wife, I had me some daughters.I tried so hard, I never knew still waters.Nothing to eat and nothing to drink.Nothing for a man to do but sit around and think.Nothing for a man to do but sit around and think.Well, Im a thinkin and thinkin, till theres nothin I aint thunk.Breathing in the stink, till finally I stunk.It was at that time, I swear I lost my mind.I started making plans to ...
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So Wednesday, my best friend/roommate and I went to see the Violent Femmes play at The House of Blues in Anaheim, CA - otherwise known as Disney Hell-Sprawl. For the most part, the evening was pretty fun. Even the traffic-consumed drive down from Pasadena wasn't too terrible (mostly because we got to see the Mesopotamian outlet mall, complete with faux-ancient Persian sphinxes). After nearly ge...
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So, yesterday "atman":http://mog.com/atman read my mind and did a post I was thinking about doing today. Go read it. Does music shape our personalities or do our personalities shape our musical preferences?I don't know. Although you couldn't tell it from looking at me, in my soul I am a punk/post-punk princess with a healthy measure of dork thrown in for balance. I define myself by my music...
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I'm here to share my Violent Femmesy frame of mind.and this favourite quote:"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow What a Ride'" - Hunter S. Thompson
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| 1 Blister in the Sun |
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| 2 American Music |
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| 3 Country Death Song |
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| 4 Gone Daddy Gone |
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| 5 Jesus Walking on the Water |
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