It is Easter. I'm using it as an excuse to give you an entirely contrived and slightly spurious soundtrack for that Egg hunt. On the other hand, some cracking tunes to add to your iTunes library. Download The Faith Brothers – The Easter Parade mp3 (from Eventide) Download Easterhouse - Whistling In The Dark mp3 (from Whistling In The Dark 73) Download Brimstone Howl - Easter At The Lewises mp3 (from Big Deal, What's He Done Lately?) Download Loch Lomond - Egg Song (Daytrotter Session) mp3 (from [...]
The calm before the storm. Literally. New York is bracing for the biggest hurricane it's ever faced (named after Irene Ryan, Granny Clampett was one tough cookie) and I'm just hoping my 100 year-old building will survive the winds. (It survived the earthquake on Monday... what a week!) Until then, or if you're somewhere not on the East Coast of the United States, please enjoy the collection of mostly jangly pop. This week mostly ping-pongs between now and the mid-'80s (hey, that's new for me!), with a few stops in the '90s as well. Cover art this week [...]
Well it seems these Friday posts are becoming more and more about the hound. So despite a friends fab big birthday bash, playing like a drain in two games of 5-a-side, trips to London, and Mrs Mackerel starting to fret about our daughter's birthday, it is an incident of dog rage that marks the week.Yesterday morning our hopeless, soppy pooch (on a lead) was attacked by a small, bad tempered,
Such is the amount of vinyl in the cupboard that I'm nowhere near finished the task of converting all the songs to mp3. I'm sort of doing it in a methodical way – the 7" singles that I've been amassing again have been converted, and I'm working my way through the 12" singles backwards from Z-A. I got to the letters F and E the other night, and this allowed me to listen to a couple of things I
Best Kept Secrets has just posted Easterhouse's 1986 debut album, Contenders , on their blog. And yes the track, 'Lenin in Zurich', is as intriguing as its title suggests. The final track on the album, 'Johnny I Hardly Knew You', has Andy Perry doing his best Scott Walker impersonation. Scott Walker in Easterhouse. How's that for a family in-joke?
Rhino's cool "alternative" box set of 2007 is The Brit Box which I wrote about back in August. It's in stores this week. As I said then, it does a pretty admirable job of documenting the cool music coming out...
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Sound Bites
THE VINYL VILLAIN
Inveresk Street Ingrate
Catcall – ‘The Warmest Place’
This Is Not The End (Gui Boratto 2012 Mix)
The Animal Kingdom: Gallo del Cielo
Rihanna Gets Nude For Nude
