
The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles The Shivers - Irrational Love Compulsive Gamblers - Your Happiness The Devil Whale - Magic Numbers The Dead Trees - World Gone Global Widowspeak - Gun Shy Luke Temple - Ophelia Jonny Corndawg - Chevy Beretta Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune [...]

¿Sampleos, semi-covers, ¡plagios! o puro cotorreo? The Chocolate Watchband - Medication The Chocolate Watchband - Don't need your lovin' The Chocolate Watchband - Misty Lane The Chocolate Watchband - I'm not like everybody else

On a whole, I don't believe there is anything humans dislike more than the unknown. Laws are attempts to control behaviors, or to establish rights. Gods and divinity are just attempts to answer the uncertainty; nothing has changed. Scientific Method is crucial to the discovery of almost anything tangible. There is this notion that the more we know, the less unknown there is. Its a gigantic fool of an idea, but it catches everyone off guard as logic. There's no way to distinguish what is knowledge with what is true. So the unknown grows exponentially to our belief that we [...]

A few years back, I was talking to a friend of mine about Neil Young's guitar playing, and he said: "You've gotta be really good to play that badly." I knew exactly what he meant. The same can be said for singers who scream-- the best ones are great singers to begin with. Look no further than James Brown. In my opinion, there's no greater screamer in American Music right now than Greg Cartwright, who happens to be a great singer as well. By the photograph and title of this post, you may have thought you were gonna [...]
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I don't know how the SHIT this happened, but somehow I never got around to reviewing The Reigning Sound 's Love and Curses album (listen to "Stick Up for Me," one of the best cuts, below), on In the Red Records. I'll admit I was late to catch the bus on these guys. They've been releasing stuff for years, and singer Greg Cartwright is an ex member of The Oblivians , Detroit Cobras , [...]

A few years ago, a friend turned me on to the Reigning Sound , which immediately became one of my favorite bands. I listened to Home For Orphans and Time Bomb High School until the discs turned to a fine glittery dust. I told all of my friends about them. Bought more records. Told more friends ... maybe even told a few enemies. Reigning Sound singer/guitarist Greg Cartwright might be the only man alive who can pen songs where a shit-storm of distortion [...]

In honor of the resurrection of the World's favorite resurrection act , the missus and I took a brief sojourn to Atlantic City, to celebrate the original Nazz's teachings. In other words... gambling, intoxication and overindulgence. Atlantic City will never have the cachet of Las Vegas, the scam that was perpetuated upon the denizens of the Garden State will always be apparent. The casino's promised a rejuvenation of the area, but the only "second coming" A.C. has had is in the immediate area adjacent to [...]

....and listen. "Stop And Think It Over" mp3 by The Compulsive Gamblers, 2000. available on Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing "Think" mp3 by The "5" Royales, 1957. available on Monkey Hips and Rice [...]
"Runnin' around like an animule. I'm runnin' down the hall, back and forth, and back and forth. I'm runnin' suicide drills or something, like I'm tryin' out for the team !" -- Tom, getting fired up for the show Rollins-style "Two for The Queen , three for The Queen , two for The Queen , three for The Queen ..." -- A series of old New Jersey residents succumb to the magnetic pull of the Helen Mirren vehicle "You should move to Baltimore, start [...]