This week The Cargo Culte is featured on the "Anatomy of a Blogger" program over at BreakThru Radio. Listen and laugh as theallseeingi stutters, stumbles, rants and rambles through a hard nosed interview…weep with joy at the delivery of another sublime playlist…. 00:00 Intro 01:21 Interview with Isreal part 1 04:29 Mighty Mighty - The [...]
[Download] STR Mixtape - Partly Fish, Partly Purpose (Download) Title Artist Starting Time If I Needed Someone The Beatles Youth Beach Fossils 02:18 Voi Ei Ei Voi Olla Totta TV-Resistori 04:52 Ballbearing Blues Kevin Ayers 08:05 Bad Dream - Hearford's Beat Suit Magik Markers 08:51 Be Still James Apolo 12:56 Time Has Told Me Andrew John 15:57 Cleveland (For Dan Dockrill) Dave Mooney 20:12 Fat Girl Kevin Coyne 24:12 Yo Sere El Animal Vos [...]
[Audio] STR Mixtape - Floor Sweeping (Right click + Save as to download) Title Artist Starting Time God Only Knows Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. If I Were a Carpenter Sweet Tea 03:06 The Shore Chapel Club 06:25 Take Me Home Or I Die Alone Dead Gaze 11:35 The Ocean (Zeppelin cover) Laura Veirs 15:48 Metal Guru T. Rex 19:32 Leaving Graceland Electra 21:53 You Don't Own Me (Dusty Springfield Cover) Electra 25:51 Coconut Trees Starflyer59 28:26 [...]
One can't write about a band like Pierced Arrows without talking about age. Fred and Toody Cole throw off the mean age of a small venue like Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia so atypically that it illuminates not just their own, but the ages of everyone else present: the barely legals all dolled up for a Tuesday night of $4 Pabsts; the age of the bartenders who politely roll their eyes; the age of the local openers; the age of the out-of-town openers; the age of the quietly-out-of-place middle age guy perpetually at the rear end of the [...]
This is from May, but it's new to you, I'm sure. Showing off their garage rock grit, the Black Lips successfully covered The Lollipop Shoppe's "You Must Be A Witch" on their recent tour in the UK. And, best of all, they did it without getting into a fight!Thanks for HandJobFilms for the vid!MP3: Black Lips- "Short Fuse"For more info on Black Lips, visit black-lips.com.

The Lollipop Shoppe - You Must Be A Witch ( buy ) "You're painting me green, you're talking obscene, you´re making my life into a dream, you're wearing your colours to be like the others..." Furious sixties garage rock from the one and only Fred Cole, who since played in countless different bands to finally achieve well-deserved underground popularity with the mighty Dead Moon in the nineties. At the ripe age of sixty, soul survivor Cole is still going strong with Pierced Arrows as we speak. Hats [...]
it goes like this. the weeds begat the lollipop shoppe. the lollipop shoppe begat zipper. zipper begat the rats. the rats begat dead moon. dead moon begat pierced arrows. yup, fred and toody have been at this since god were a boy. garage rock, punk, psyche and country wheezes spread out over forty years. and they're [...]

The Lollipop Shoppe - Just Colour Well Dead Moon fans, if you've picked up The Rats reissue out this year, dig a little further back to Fred Cole's first band. The rather unfortunately named Lollipop Shoppe cut this sole album in 1967 and its a pretty prime slice of garage with a few forays into pop territory. The name actually was none of the band's doing, as they started out as The Weeds but upon getting signed to Uni were persuaded into the name change at the label's request. [...]
by bmac Another week in the books for 2008. At this point in the year, some may regret some of their foolishness and aim towards a new routine of spiritual and mental growth. Step one is taking the first step. Here's a mix with a bunch of new artists to change your ears' modus operandi. STICKSHIFTS AND SAFETYBELTS BY CAKE: BETWEEN THE BARS BY [...]
by kevin diamond (banner photo by mel mccue) Ever since I was a teenager, I've been hooked on that feeling you get, creeping into the old, musty, dusty, mom-and-pop record shop, pouring over the hastily typed reviews of new albums taped up under the "Staff Picks" section, and selecting a few of them for purchase. It's like jumping into the frozen ocean without dipping your toe in first, or taking a bite of a new food you can't even pronounce. Allow me to share my results from time to time in this [...]

The Lollipop Shoppe (originally named the The Weeds ) were one of the most rockin' garage bands from the late 60's opening for the likes of The Doors and Yardbirds. Don't let their kitschy name fool you, these guys are way more intense and punk-rock then your average sixties pop group. The Lollipop Shoppe was fronted by singer Fred Cole (who went on to form the legendary garage-punk group Dead Moon . In "You Must Be A Witch," Fred's voice howls paranoid accusations as heavy chords strike with menace. The tempo [...]

Time for yet another installment of the Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files, where we blow the dust off of a forgotten favorite and give its lack of chart success a once-over. Artist: The Lollipop Shoppe Album: "You Must Be A Witch," 1968 What happened: Formed in 1965, these garage rockers initially dubbed themselves The Weeds, but their manager, British DJ Lord Tim Hudson , mandated the band's name change to the Lollipop Shoppe in 1967. The band released "Witch" as its debut single in 1968; the song and [...]
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Dead Moon, Echoes of the Past" (Sub Pop 2006) One of those bands that doesn't so much have a backstory as a creation myth, a sort of inevitability and necessity of their existence. (Doug Mosurak ran it all down in Dusted better than I could. Required reading, there will be a test.) Fred Cole is like a parallel Neil Young, and it's not just the high singing voice and one-string gtr solos -- they're both true survivors, in it for the long haul, although in Cole's case subtract out the stylistic experiments [...]