Feeling quite mellow today, so it seems apt to present an easygoing six pack for the weekend. Be cool, calm, and collected y'all. "Well I'm easy, hey, I'm simple like a fool ..." Word. Boz Scaggs - I'm Easy Green On Red - Easy Way Out Ted Lucas - It's So Easy (When You Know What You're Doing) Billy Joe Shaver - Ride Me Down Easy Sonny Stitt [...]
While we're not great ones for themed mixes on MM, Halloween is one of the exceptions we like to make. Here is a perfect mix for whatever ghoulish event you've got lined up today! Fifteen corking tunes, from the skewed new wave pop of XTC and off-kilter indie of the Mountain Goats to the trashy surf rock of The Cramps and from the folk-stomp of the Men They Couldn't Hang and the gothic drive of Ghost Dance to the pounding blues rock of the Scissormen and 22-20s . Enjoy. [...]
PLAYLIST: Super Furry Animals - Slow Life A Brief Smile - Bigger Lies The Young Knives - Diamonds In The West Envelopes - Boat The Blow - True Affection Green On Red - Abigail's Ghost Inspiral Carpets - She Comes In The Fall Killing Joke - Tomorrow's World Vue - Hey Hey Not In Here The Organ - There Is Nothing I Can Do Unrest - West Coast Love Affair The Fall - Tuff Life Boogie Hot Hot Heat - More for Show Amusement [...]
Worthwhile reissue of The Dream Syndicate's controversial second album Medicine Show Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show - Medicine - Prescription drug - Respimat
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Online shopping for CD's, downloading, eBay surfing, it's all well and good but there's no substitute for hands on - spending some quality time browsing vinyl, you never know what you can turn up, sometimes you hit pay dirt and this weekend I dropped on 3 quality finds while thumbing through the stock at a local second hand vinyl market stall, now some of my family and friends find it hard to rationalize my delight and the grin on my face that follows buying a second hand piece of plastic in a cardboard sleeve, but hey what else can you [...]
Last week while I was listening to Kevin Cole on KEXP he played a song from Purrs ' new album followed by the Dream Syndicate 's Tell Me When It's Over which reminded me of a couple things. One, how much I love Kevin Cole's kid in a candy store approach to his daily show (you never know what he might grab off the shelf) and two: how much the Purrs seem to be influenced by the Paisley Underground. About a year ago when I saw them across the street from the Green [...]
DOWNLOAD: Trainwreck Riders - "Safety of a Back" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Trainwreck Riders - "Chug Along" (MP3) Trainwreck Riders finally got around to releasing a follow-up to 2006's Lonely Road Revival . The new disc, The Perch , came out in May on Alive Records . The last time that I remember the band being in town, they put on a wild show at the Cake Shop. Here is one of my favorite quotes describing the band: " Trainwreck Riders play [...]
One of my favorite americana bands from when I was really young, is Green On Red . I have ever since enjoyed Chuck Prophet as a solo artist, almost as much as I have and am still enjoying those G.O.R. songs. For a guy from Belgium, these songs were the ultimate escape to the rocky deserts of Texas and Arizona (well, at least they were in my imagination at that time), without having to embark on the over-produced, way too slick songs of the likes [...]
Guy Gardner, the "one true Green Lantern," makes the mistake of coming between an Element Man and his cub, and earns himself a 24-carat electroplated beatdown. (from Justice League Europe #11, February 1990; by Giffen, Loebs, and Sears) I have mixed feelings about the story arc in which this sequence appeared, as I do about most attempts to integrate Metamorpho and his supporting cast into the DC Universe proper. The original 60's stories bordered on outright parodies of the superhero genre, and few writers apart from creator Bob Haney have been able to capture the [...]
Things seem to have ground to a halt around here. It's not that we've run out of gigs to review - we've got a huge backlog - it's just that both of us have been suffering from a serious lack of motivation. JustHipper has a decent excuse: she started a new job last month and it's longer hours and a much longer drive so she's exhausted most of the time. I, on the other hand, had the dubious distinction of turning forty a couple of weeks ago and I can't say I enjoyed it very much. Turning thirty [...]
For the last two weeks i have tried to get a long overdue haircut. I keep it pretty short so it can look pretty scraggly in about a month. My last hair cut was in February. I am starting to get past the point where I can mat it down. Song: The World Was a mess but His Hair Was Perfect Artist: The Rakes Album: T en New Messages Comments: The most new wave track on this album. It's "Fourth" New Wave [...]
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