
MORE LISTS! Yes, list season continues, as I fight with borderline obsessive compulsive disorder and an overwhelming need to rank things using a system that makes no real sense and changes every ten or fifteen minutes. Two disclaimers best just means my favourite, you are allowed to disagree without either of us being wrong. I've not heard every blooming album released this year. Onward then, to the first batch of my twenty favourite albums of the year. You can find a bunch of other albums I liked that didn't quite [...]

MORE LISTS! Yes, list season continues, as I fight with borderline obsessive compulsive disorder and an overwhelming need to rank things using a system that makes no real sense and changes every ten or fifteen minutes. Two disclaimers best just means my favourite, you are allowed to disagree without either of us being wrong. I've not heard every blooming album released this year. Onward then, to the first batch of my twenty favourite albums of the year. You can find a bunch of other albums I liked that didn't quite [...]
Image Copyright: None From the scorching heat on the edge of San Fernando Valley, come the Fay Wrays. Music Player: [...]

It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]

Last year, while sorting out all things Fresno , we acknowledged rock trio the Fay Wrays , who made our ears sting, if not bleed a little. It was good pain, though, inflicted with fervor but not malice. Principals Ben McEntee and Eli Reyes, along with various contributors, are back to bruising with the new album "Strange Confessor," which, whether you merely allow for a splash of thrash or feast on a steady diet of post-punk, makes for good consumption. Reyes may be in L.A. soon drumming for Rademacher (who are working on a new album), [...]

Fay Wrays - "When We Storm the Gates We Sing This Song" This is a reminder of (my) youth, of days when there was no need to pay any worry to the future. It's the sound of never holding back and always letting go; this is what it feels like to let it all out. Imagine an ominous, gray-painted sky decorated with heavy clouds that, before you know it, unleash a sea of rain as the wind tries to start a mosh pit with you. It draws strength from post-hardcore, agility from post-punk, [...]

I like the mysterious lyrics of this song by Fresno post punk band The Fay Wrays . "The weatherman I feel no shame and on top of my head there is a weather vane... The one with power well I am him. When the tempest comes, I'll be there to eat your young." If they ever make this into a movie, sounds like a job for my man Breakadawn(!) Cage. (tx to Gimme Tinnitus ) Fay Wrays: Weatherman.mp3 [...]

It's time to listen to the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are some of the songs that would get there own individual posts on GIMME TINNITUS, if I only had the time. This mix starts out with a party jam and ends all indie rock. Listen. Downloadables: Partee Hardee (mp3) by Javelin See Spaces ( Jacob Safari Remix) (mp3) by Teeth Anything Above Nothing (mp3) [...]
[Cheers to Amusement Parks on Fire's Michael Feerick on his birthday.] Top 3 places I'd considering going were I not going to thoroughly enjoy Admiral Radley and the Happy Hollows at the free Also I Like to Rock show at the Hammer Museum (consider that an invitation to join me; we can karaoke the mock-Schwarzenegger chorus of "I Heart California" together): ☛ Au Revoir Simone holds forth at the Echoplex. ☛ Wires in the [...]

Mike Mancillas is well on his way to earning an advanced degree in the Indie Rock School of Hard Knocks. Mancillas (also known by his stage moniker Malcolm Sosa) is the frontman of the band Rademacher , a steady presence on the Silver Lake scene for four years now even though they live in Fresno . Rademacher got some deserved attention for 2007's self-released "Stunts," and since then the band's uneven output has been matched by its uneven lineup, with Mancillas being the only constant. He's now working on new material — more "classic rock oriented," [...]

Check out the driving sway of "Weatherman," from Mata Hari , the debut album by California based trio Fay Wrays . sound: Weatherman http://www.myspace.com/faywray sfresno

Deep Sea Diver [mp3] - Grizzly Bear a nice one. This and a eleven other goodies came from the Kanine Records Sampler. Follow them on Twitter and they send it your way. Even Heroes Have To Die [mp3] - Ted Leo and The Pharmacists whoop, now on Matador Pigeon Toes [mp3] - Absofacto Tweetie Bird and [...]

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. - Jack Handy • • • • Iron Age is currently touring with Baroness ; may the force be with your ears. Burden of Empire Iron Age: Blog [...]
ZACH THAT: Golden Shoulders – "Mountain" Dragon Turtle – "Island Of Broken Glass" Fay Wrays – "Weatherman" Clare And The Reasons – "That's All" Avi Buffalo – "What's It In For" Woodsist – "Sculpture Gardens"
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Clare and the Reasons : "That's All (Genesis cover)" [mp3] other Clare and the Reasons posts at Largehearted Boy Fay Wrays : "Weatherman" [mp3] from Mata Hari other Fay Wrays posts at Largehearted Boy Final Fantasy : "Lewis Takes Action" [mp3]* from [...]

"My Drag" by Squirrel Nut Zippers , from the album "Perennial Favorites" (1998) - The punk rockers of the mid-90's swing revival released their finest work to date in 1998: "Perennial Favorites." This bona fide masterpiece is chocked full of flavors from big band to blues, from gypsy jazz to klezmer, from dixie to tango, and a little acid-trip/dream-sequence circus serenade thrown in for texture. One of the shining stars in this stratospheric LP is track 7, "My Drag." When you put Katharine Whalen's smooth, seductive, Billie-Holiday-back-from-the-g rave vocals together with a tango bridge full of bari sax beef [...]