Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas has passed away at 66 after "a short illness", leaving Michelle Phillips as the only living Mama or Papa. I only recently became acquainted with the backstory of the short-lived group via the liner notes to last year's great John Phillips reissue John the Wolfking of LA, and have added Phillips' out-of-print autobiography Papa John to the mental list of

American Music Club "Firefly" Mark Eitzel "Firefly" (Live) On their now out-of-print 1988 album California , bad-luck alt-rock critic's darlings American Music Club put an ironically upbeat, mellow spin on "Firefly." It is, after all, a song of transience. It's an ode to the few moments we're allotted with the beautiful things in life, a theme that naturally carries an undertow of sadness. And then the Club's frontman, Mark Eitzel, was writing as a gay man in late 80s San Francisco- [...]
mp3 Labour (Comet Gain) Realistes mp3 Forlorn Labour (Tram) A Kind Of Closure mp3 Fruits Of My Labor (Lucinda Williams) World Without Tears mp3 Worth Of Labor (Starflyer 59) I Am The Portuguese Blues mp3 Job To Do (American Music Club) Love Songs For Patriots mp3 Found A Job (Talking Heads) The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads mp3 Work (Bob Marley & The Wailers) Uprising mp3 Working
I'm way behind in posting my weekly Sirius radio playlists. The last one I posted was Week 8 . Here's the playlist from Week 11 (8/15/2006). On this show I played all music that came out on Merge Records , and all music that happens to be available in MP3 format... 1) Superchunk - Becoming a Speck 2) And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Mistakes and Regrets 3) Pipe - Chula 4) Dinosaur Jr. - Forget the [...]