... a little seltzer down your pants.Is both the clown motto as reported on The Mary Tyler Moore show and the first line of Caldonia by The Gourds.Ive been seeing various line ups of The Gourds over the past few years and I've never seen a show as tight as last night's. The acoustic songs were driven by a clean mandolin and the electric songs rocked as rocking should. You could bounce a quarter...
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A quick Mog search reveals that not only has no one posted about The Asylum Street Spankers, no one is listening to them either. So here we go...For the uninitiated, The Spankers are a string / bluegrass / blues / country band that, back in the day, shunned 'demon electricity' in its entirety. Tho nowadays the size of the clubs they play requires a mic or three. They played two excellent sets t...
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I was hedging on seeing Man Man last Friday until I cruised the mog-o-sphere to read some reviews. The excellent live reviews encouraged me to go, and I'm glad I did.Much of what I've read (in Mog and elsewhere) compared them to Tom Waits - primarily due to the gravelly voiced singer and Bone Machine style cacophony. In addition to Tom Waits I'd add to the mix a recording of a 2nd grade music...
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Yeah, you - indie rock math rock art rock band.You know that song you play? The one that starts out with the keyboards playing a soft repetitive tune. Then the bass comes in. Then the drums come in. Then everything gets a little louder. Then the guitar comes in. Then the keyboards and drums get a little more complicated. Then there's that kind of yelling vocal. Then everything gets really l...
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I'm on a listserv (ah, the pre-blog days of the internet) filled with aging hipsters such as myself. There is a discussion going on regarding great bands that formed after 2000. It is currently a woefully short list. I'm thinking this is due to the demographics of the listserv, not the quality of 21st century music.Therefore, knowing MOG is a jillion times larger than the listserv and skews ...
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I've been checking out "Slacker":http://www.slacker.com recently and am digging it more than similar sites (Pandora and last.fm leap to mind)It is your basic 'pick an artist and we'll create a station around it' along with preset stations based on genre. The nifty part is the genre stations are programmed by humans, not an algorithm. The even more nifty part is they are coming out with- a deskt...
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A guy walks into a soda shop and says, "I'd like a chocolate ice cream sundae without the chocolate ice cream." The soda jerks says, "We don't have any chocolate ice cream.""Give it me me without vanilla, then."If you asked for a jam band without the jam, you might get Dr. Dog. They took the stage last night looking suspiciously jammy. Scraggly beards - check. Ironic sunglasses - check. Goofy hat
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So, The Alcohol Stunt Band (_not_ The Alcoholic Stunt Band) - may or may not exist anymore- is lead by Chris Crofton and whoever he can find to play behind him, which is sometimes no one- writes punk rock ditties about huffing paint, professional wrestling, drugs and boozeThey (he) peak with Snakeskin Snake - a song that mixes cliche rock and roll nouns (tattoo, Cadillac, girlfriend, guitar, et...
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With the new editing features my 'trusted mogs' and 'mogs that trust me' are now arranged by the aesthetic pleasantry of their avatars.I'm going to go alphabetize my medicine cabinet now.
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Twangfest & KDHX-FM St. Louis are once again hosting TWO day parties this year at Jovita's in Austin on March 15th & 17th. This is an invitation only event. You can download an invitation will be available here http://www.twangfest.com/sxsw.html beginning on March 1st for a limited time. Thur, March 15th Twangfest & KDHX-FM PARTYJovita's1619 south FirstAustin, TXhttp://www.jovitas.com Insid...
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