Not only have fIREHOSE reformed for Coachella and elsewhere but there appears to be a compilation of the Columbia stuff on its way. This is a good thing, because while the SST albums were probably better on the whole, all fIREHOSE is good fIREHOSE. And besides that it will include the Live Totem Pole EP, which is not only hard to find but contains great covers of songs by Public Enemy, the Butthole Surfers, Wire, etc. Given that fIREHOSE is essentially the best bass 'n' drums in the world - the sainted Mike Watt and the [...]
Thought I'd posted this before? More Alt Sk8 Punk joy as used in Natas' ' Street on Fire ' video part. Michael David Watt founded both Firehose and the equally brilliant Minutemen - if you don't know check them out.
Big shout to Zwolf for schooling us on the pathmusick free MP3 label for crazy glitched up technoish experimental music. Have to say though, for us his stuff stands headbutt and shoulder charge above the rest. Have a few tracks which we're sitting tight on for the moment, including killer collaborations with Welsh Hip-hop legend Junior Disprol from Dead Residents and Martin Carr from the Boo Radleys (aka Brave [...]
It's been nearly ten years since the Boo Radleys decided to call it a day. Since then Martin Carr , who wrote all of the Boo Radleys' songs including the one that this blog is named for, has been releasing records under the moniker of Brave Captain . The songs and their delivery have never been too much of a departure from the Boo Radleys with the only noticeable difference being the absence of Sice who could really hit those high notes. Carr's voice isn't as stiking as Sice's but he has [...]
I do love songs based on or suggesting some relation to literature. So here's a double handful of my favorites, with snippets of whatever they might be drawing from. pedro the lion, "of minor prophets and their prostitute wives" [ buy ] This is looking farther back than most of the other literary-based songs in my collection; the title refers explicitly to the book of Hosea, and the song modernizes the constant call of the original work quite nicely. Its persistent beat and [...]
An entirely pleasant way to spend a Saturday afternoon. NYC legend Jack Rabid has been publishing The Big Takeover for 25 years now -- a labor of love that started as a Xeroxed fanzine and is now a thick-as-a-phone-book, full-color,...
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Sound of Summer (v. 3.1)
[REMIX] Dragonette – “Let it Go (Faustix Imanos Remix)”
