This is for my two friends who called me unexpectedly yesterday. We have known each other for decades, and neither the years, nor distance, nor age, or not acting our age, or drunk dialing from the other side of the country can change how we feel about each other. Thanks, guys. I love you too. The Pretenders: You Know Who Your Friends Are from Loose Screw (2002) Website | Buy Low Stars: Calling All Friends from Low Stars (2007) [...]
When a new Christmas album comes out featuring perenial Ripple favorite, Ernie Halter, you know they've got our attention. Throw in the fact that all profits are donated to charity and we're right on board. Just when you thought you've had enough holiday music, along comes a dynamite little gem to make you change you mind, jump up and down and search for a Santa to hug. An Alternative Christmas features our boy, Ernie along with other alt artists like Lifehouse,Better than Ezra, Shinedown, along with a mix of new, up-and-coming bands like [...]
A little piece of the 1990's died today. (Which is surprising, because I thought this was dead already.) Zima is no longer being produced! I was way too young to drink it when it was popular back in the mid-90s, but as a fan of wimpy drinks, I'm saddened by the loss. Anyway, I'm a little OCD about the way I organize my iTunes playlist. Every list is named after a specific relevant kind of alcohol, and it's all in alphabetical order(i.e.: 40 oz. it hip-hop, Amstel Light is my Amsterdam mix, [...]
GOTH - 39 (central Columbus) Reply to: pers-858805900@craigslist.org [ ? ] Date: 2008-09-28, 6:09PM EDT yep, im goth.....no i dont wear anything but black, stop askin, wont change for ya either. I am who I am. can i meet an un-shallow minded human? we'll see..... Im 39....so no youngsters please (under 33 forget it, i have kids) I am studying to be a body piercer. I smoke MAD ganja, drink moderately, and have been known to take a pill here and [...]
Forgive me the Wilson Phillips song, okay? I also give you stuff from Sugar and The Connells who were both ridiculously good... just like that Better Than Ezra song. As always, just find "1990's" in the drop down category list in the sidebar to find all the other posts in this series and if you really love 'em, Stumble this post or any other. MP3 | Wilson Phillips - Hold On MP3 | [...]
Insert your best "What the fuck" right here I suppose, but, yes, I will now defend a Better Than Ezra album . It's funny that I decided a few days ago to revisit this album for this column. When I was giving a preview to the best friend yesterday, I thought I couldn't of timed this post better. This week is 10 years exactly since the album was released. Sometimes, I have a good thing with timing and sometimes I don't. I'm happy this one [...]
College rock. Just those two words together in a sentence make me want to hurl. REM, Camper Van Beethoven, They Might be Giants, 10,000 Maniacs, Cracker, Blind Melon, Pearl Jam, et al...keep it. Keep all of it. But how then to justify my BTE love? It's impossible - but there it is. OK, maybe it's not impossible. This could be the best LP of that loathsome era of 90's godawful "alternative" radio...and that's not damning with faint praise. As I wrote at Fun and Heartbreak and referenced last Friday, I [...]
so in honor of tonights championship game I decided to come up with a nice playlist to accompany it: 1. the jayhawks - stumbling through the dark 2. survivor - the eye of the tiger 3. marc cohn - walking in memphis 4. angie aparo - memphis city rain 5. state radio - rush ian 6. sufjan stevens - lo how a [...]
If there's one movie I could watch over and over again, it will be Empire Records (1995) . It's not an Oscar-winning or any other award-winning movie for that matter, but it has got a bunch of young movie superstars-to-be, a supeeerb boss, memorable quotes, and one hell of a soundtrack. This movie and soundtrack inspired my youth in the 1990s. Oh cliché. So here in the spirit of ushering the new year, I present to you, my entire collection of tracks from Empire Records I have managed to find over the years. [...]
The 90s was a strange and exciting time for me. Fresh out of school, weaning off flea-infested metal and senseless movies with young pretty actors filled with oddball dialogue that amounted to nothing. But more importantly, many nights sitting in front of my beat up stereo, catching the 8pm show on Time Highway Radio with my hand on the record button, waiting for those killer tracks. There was a new sound on radio then. A new sound that was loosely classified by This is Alternative stickers stuck on their albums. The idea [...]
A few weeks ago, my girlfriend mentioned that Better Than Ezra was playing a free show in downtown Baltimore and asked if I wanted to go. Better Than Ezra? Free? I'm there. BTE has always been one of my favorite bands. They've consistently produced great music starting in one of the golden ages of rock in the mid-nineties. Of their 5 major studio albums, not a single one has been bad. In fact, I'd venture to say that all of their output [...]
Better Than Ezra - Good Download MP3: Better Than Ezra - Good Video: ___________________________ Toadies - Possum Kingdom Download Mp3: Toadies - Possum Kingdom Video: ______________________________ ________________ Spacehog - In The Meantime Download Mp3: Spacehog - In The Meantime Video: [...]
[Wait, I need another beer if I'm going to write about my freshman year in high school.] Okay. It's 1995. The last gasps of grunge, before Courtney Love had gone completely bat shit crazy on drugs. I remember those school days as endless and always overcast. Staring out from the large cafeteria windows. Stealing cigarettes behind the library (yes, I was a 14-year old smoker). Constantly bemoaning our suburban teenage wasteland. Depressed and awash in the novelty of angst. We were all obsessed with music back then. Maybe it was the after-effect of Nirvana's [...]
For my first installment of Time Travel Tuesday, I chose New Orleans-based band Better Than Ezra. Still revered by quite a few rabid fans, BTE continues to rock after nearly 20 years. The band formed in 1998 while the members, singer Kevin Griffin, guitarist Joel Rundell, bassist Tom Drummond, and drummer Cary Bonnecaze attended LSU. After the death of Joel Rundell in 1990, the band took a year-long break before reuniting in Los Angeles. In 1995, BTE released their debut on a major label, Deluxe , on Electra Records, and the first single from [...]
I just took this picture in my backyard -- it's of the hill of the junior high school right behind my house. These three kids have been out there snowboarding for hours, now that the snow has stopped and it's a gorgeous sunny day (28 degrees, but gorgeous). I love Colorado. Backyard snowboarding. I keep amassing new Christmas tuneage to share, or else discovering something I had forgotten, buried in the depths of my iTunes. I figure I'll spill 'em now because it's my last chance for about 11 months. [...]
BETTER THAN EZRA canciones recomendadas: good.mp3 desperately wanting.mp3 lifetime.mp3 vifoma records:la mejor musica pop & rock alternativo. links para escuchar gratis canciones de simple plan,dover,everclear,sunday driver,...
Girl Talk's Night Ripper , this summer's hot blogness, has inspired many conversations between us music geeks. When I got the CD, I grabbed my pad and paper and started scribbling down every sample that I thought I recognized, however challenging it was. So then I e-mailed Heather of I Am Fuel, You Are Friends and after talking about a collaborative post lo and behold she sent me the wiki link to a list of samples and it made our [...]
Ha ha, I'm not going back to school. Ever. But if you are or know someone who is (darn kids at 6:45am at the school across the street from my house, bells ringing, band practice, what have you) Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good has a fantastic Back-To-School Mix post that I wish I thought of. Here's the tunes Taylor selected along with his witty musings, head over to his blog to snag the downloads (and there's a few tunes from me at the end): Mark Mothersbaugh [...]
speed of dark
The Ripple Effect
Amherstdam
The Swill Merchant
Can You See the Sunset
Stranded In Stereo
The Vinyl District
I Hope Your Ears Bleed
Stereo » Music is the glue of the world
Pirates of the Bargain Bin
Letter Never Sent
EatSkeet.Com
The Late Greats
Eggs for Becky
I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
vifoma records:rock-alternativo
Some Velvet Blog
Song Of The Week: Glass Candy "Life After Sundown"
Friday Remixes
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Detroit Techno Producers Used A 2013 Ford Fusion To Make An Original Track
M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" (Urban Noize Remix)
