A message from Danny Amis Dear Friends... I can't thank you enough for your generosity. Thanks to your help, and the upcoming benefit shows, I no longer need to stress out over my medical bills. THANK YOU AGAIN!!! As many of you know, I was diagnosed with Cancer in 2010. This forced me to stop working and touring. The type of cancer I've been told I have is called "Multiple Myeloma", cancer of the bone marrow. I was caught off guard without insurance, but thankfully was [...]
Here are 10 of my favorite songs of the year that don't hail from my favorite albums list. Here's to a great 2009 and a Happy New 2010! In no particular order: Frog Holler ∞ Control Freak (I Know, I Know) Jenni Muldaur ∞ Dearest Darlin' Los Straightjackets ∞ Cal-Speed Lewis & Clarke ∞ Petrified Forest Céu ∞ Cangote James Maddock ∞ When The Suns [...]
"Deck The Halls" - Los Straitjackets "Joy To The World" - Stroudavarious Orchestra
Screw the office Christmas party ... pour some rum into the egg nog, rip off your clothes and rock out! Shall we? MP3: "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" by Bruce Springsteen and Friends MP3: "Rockin' Winter Wonderland" by the Fabulous Thunderbirds MP3: "The Christmas Boogie" by Toni Price MP3: "She'll Be My Everything For Christmas" by Los Lonely Boys [...]
Screw the office Christmas party ... pour some rum into the egg nog, rip off your clothes and rock out! Shall we? MP3: "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" by Bruce Springsteen and Friends MP3: "Rockin' Winter Wonderland" by the Fabulous Thunderbirds MP3: "The Christmas Boogie" by Toni Price MP3: "She'll Be My Everything For Christmas" by Los Lonely Boys [...]
OK, so Christmas is quickly approaching and although you have been thinking a lot about shopping as you have been listening to TBE X-Mas Part 1 , you haven't been doing much about it. Now that shopping days are countable on our hands it's time to kick the spirit into high gear. I've done all I can to help by cobbling together this mix of Christmas classics covered by our contemporaries. You don't even need to celebrate Christmas to enjoy these jams! So weather you are as behind on your holiday business as I am or not, throw this [...]
Art Brut's Eddie Argos tweeted this video the other day. It would be a shame not to share. And here's some more Christmas music. I should have mentioned in my last post about Los Straitjackets that the band released a follow-up holiday album, Yuletide Beat , last month. I still like Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets as one of the best Christmas albums. The Christmas Song - Raveonettes [...]
Every December I pull out one of my very favorite Christmas albums, Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets . Los Straitjackets , those guys who wear the Mexican wrestling masks and play killer surf guitar, made the perfect seasonal album earlier this decade: 13 short instrumentals in 32 minutes. The first video below is from a recent show in New York. El Vez , the Mexican Elvis impersonator, lends his vocals. [...]
Surfing and Christmas aren't themes that generally go hand in hand. The ideal conditions for the former are pretty far removed from the traditional snowflakes-and-sleigh-bells scenarios commonly connected with the latter. But hey — even surfers have got to get their Yule on, so it's only naturally that there should be a surf-rockin' holiday album, and neo-surf stalwarts Los Straitjackets are just the guys to make one. With that in mind, Yuletide Beat offers pretty much what you'd expect to get from a Straitjackets Christmas outing; traditional holiday tunes are twanged up in a giddy guitarfest guaranteed to [...]
America's favorite lucha libre band, Los Straitjackets are returning with a dose of Christmas spirit. There second album of classic carols set to surf punk and rockabilly beats, Yuletide Beat, will be available November 24th. You can stream a sample of "Deck the Halls" and more here. Los Straitjackets' website Los Straitjackets' Myspace
A Club designed AROUND the sound system...Finally. A first for Vancouver. Fortune has had it's doors open for a couple weeks now, doin the soft opening phase and from what we have heard and seen, all to fine fine praise. GMan and Rizk brought in a Funktion One sound system. This should be the first flag for you to go check it out as it is as premium as it gets for sound. This however is only the beginning...the boyz went to the next level and incorporated, and I quote "...eco-friendly design specs [...]
If there is one band that comes regularly to Musikfest that I am always excited about, it is the Mexican wrestling max wearing surf group Los Straightjackets. If you have never seen them live, do yourself a favor and check them out. One of the best live bands around. They are playing Sunday and Monday. Listen: Los Straightjackets ∞ Sing Sing Sing
Who knows when the Henry Clay People are going to have time to record a follow-up to "For Cheap or For Free" — besides upcoming tour dates with the Airborne Toxic Event and a date Aug. 7 at Lollapalooza , their name is on a list of local bands slated to play the Lobsterfest on Sept. 17-18-19 in San Pedro. No official announcement yet, but the names I hear for the shindig at the Port of Silver Lake — er, San Pedro — includes the Henry Clays, the Happy Hollows [...]
I know I said one of the requirements of a Cleaning Up The Kitchen album was sing-a-long-ability. So how does an instrumental album make this list? Simple, the melodies of the song are simple and easy to sing. And at just over a half hour, one much clean fast to finish the dishes before the album. Listen: Los Straitjackets ∞ Fortune Cookie What do you listen to while cleaning up the kitchen? Leave a hullabaloo.
A straight shot of instrumental guitar rock It's been awhile since the masked men of guitar rock cut a straight-up album of instrumentals, and this one is a gem. You can hear links with many great instrumental guitar acts of the past, including the Shadows, Davie Allen & The Arrows, the Ventures, and Link Wray, but also Northwest grunge masters the Wailers, post-punk practitioners the Raybeats, and Americana greats the Sadies. Someone should pit Los Straitjackets against the Sadies in a cage match at a classic car show – everyone would win. The group's [...]
Yesterday's free download from eMusic was the song below. The latest from Los Straightjackets. They have a sweet new album out. Best surf music around. Listen: Los Straightjackets ∞ Sasquatch Speaking of surf songs, Coconut and The Duke started a youtube channel . Coconut was in PA for a few days. We recorded some short "commercials" for our debut album – In The Bamboo Forests Of Pennsylvania – due out in June. Check out our surf song below. More: [...]
So last night I was doing some late-night tube-viewing--in a state of mind that might precipitate late-night tube-viewing, if you catch my drift--and just as all of memories of Nashville's beloved Los... Continue reading "Los Straitjackets on Conan" >
Celine Dion tribute band (Columbus) Reply to: comm-997605356@craigslist.org [ ? ] Date: 2009-01-18, 11:56AM EST Hey guys, I'm looking to form a Celine Dion tribute band. We'll play all her hits. But to make ourselves different from the other Celine Dion tribute bands out there, here's my idea... we'll all DRESS up like Celine--long blonde wigs, high heels, dresses (the drummer can tight leather pants if it's easier). People will dig it. After we practice our act and get it tight, and once the restraining order [...]
Full disclosure: I got several of these country and/or western Christmas tunes from my fellow blogger at A Truer Sound who posted a kick-ass country Christmas mix last year, and recently re-posted it. ZIPPED 1. Adam's House Cat - Santa's Out of Rehab by Christmas.mp3 No clue where this came from. Adam's House Cat is the precursor to one of my favorite bands, the Drive-By Truckers . This track was probably recorded sometime between 1988 and 1990. Its fun listening to [...]
Sometimes Midwestern hospitality comes off a little like a sick joke. :) The inside of the cemetery gate Loudonville, Ohio Themes Day Pt. 2 Addams Family MC Hammer - Addams Groove Los Straitjackets - The Munsters Theme Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
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