Photo by Ryan CutlerGirls Got Rhythm Fest Day 1With the Muffs, Pierced Arrows, White Mystery, Caroline & the Treats, the Pinsch, and Hot RashAmsterdam Bar & Hall, St. PaulFriday, May 11, 2012V
Two weeks ago, we told you about the first ever Girls Got Rhythm Fest taking place at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St. Paul on May 11-12. The two-day, female-focused music festival is headlined by R
Let's hear it for the girls! This spring, women, men and any other forms of music-loving life have a reason to get excited about girls with guitars. Announced just two days ago was word of a brand ne
"I remember everything ... I remember everything ..." This past Saturday, the Bottom of the Hill club in San Francisco capped off a week of 20th anniversary celebrations with a lineup that could've been beamed in from 1995: Fastbacks , Muffs (Facebook group), and Uncle Joe's Big Ol' Driver . Don't misunderstand me, I wasn't there. I was at La Zona Rosa in Austin having my face melted off by Wild Flag . But, for those of us who were paying attention in [...]
A1 ENTER THE MUFF Revolving sub-basses and massive organs entrances the sweaty dancers when Enter The Muff spins on the platter. B1 STEADY MUFFIN We dive much deeper into the inner sphere of our minds on this journey.
oh happy fucking monday! not sure where i got my hands on this little nugget, but its a promo that warner brothers and reprise released back in 92 or 93, i believe. it collects what were a bunch of tracks that werent commercially available at the time, but i am sure now are. so posting this one is like playing online casino games , its a crap shoot. anyway, this is what the folks that put it together had to say, at the time, about this "collectors" promo. "When you see it a few years from now, [...]
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Music for Muffs by GreenSteez | Alt. download link : mediafire So smooth, so soulful. This is a breath of fresh air. I shoulda waited 'til Sunday to post this but I just couldn't wait. Enjoy (and MC's: have at it....)
Jason was wondering if we'd bring back the Sunday Funday video series. Your wish is our command. This first one is a Teen Daze remix, and not only is the remix amazing, the video is a perfect companion. This second one is sweet and subtle video from Metronomy that I found cruising a soon-to-be featured electro groups blog. Here is a cool live video of the Freelance Whales performing with some kids. And here is a cool little video from [...]
Album Review: I am a little late to the game to this group but in the grand skeem of things not really because The Like is retro gal 602s pop in the vain of She & Him via Downtown Records. Certainly paying great homage to the genre as this music borrows nicely from that whitegirl mo-town sound but without the bee-hive hair-dews. Honestly not much has changed but that is ok! They are just re-spinning but knowingly with the right twists , so it comes across as super fun peppy music relying more so [...]
Outer space - The Muffs It's fun to follow bands through their degrees of seperation via cover songs. Well,no, it's nerdy. Anyway, in addition to the Beach Boys (and a heap of other bands), the Queers also covered End It All by the Muffs. The Muffs have covered the (English) Beat, who've covered Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, who have covered the Beatles, who poached and rebranded so much early rock'n'roll. And onward. I wonder what the longest chain of this nonsense [...]
What a treat this past weekend to see The Muff's ! Kim Shattuck and mates Ronnie Barnett-Bass and Roy McDonald-Drums put on a swell show (Kim told me she loves the word "swell") at Maxwell's in Hoboken. I actually hadn't been 'cross the river to Maxwell's since the late 80's. As far as I can tell, it hadn't changed at all- except the beer prices were higher! Thinking back to the shows I saw back then... Redd Kross, The Replacements, [...]
This is no way a complete list of alternative underground female singers. Not even close to a short artist list either. Lets call it the first entry. Mostly independent non-super-star artists who have stamp their name clearly in underground music. We'll have to revisit for sure as this always part of the music discovery process. Mostly obvious choice with some new faces which is awesome to see and hear. Liz Phair from a recent show at Maxwells doing the teenage dream song "fuck and run" because she was much better [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours myspace.com/themuffs The Muffs are celebrating 20 years as a band, and as that milestone suggests, all three members are in their 40s. They're no longer the 'Kids in America' they sang about on the Kim Wilde cover that, with its placement on the era-defining 1995 'Clueless' soundtrack, was the closest they ever came to a major hit. Friday night (Jan. 28) at the Bell House in Brooklyn, N.Y., they left that tune [...]
Shadow Shadow Shade Play a Thursday Night Residency in February The Satellite quietly started selling tickets for the first of its shows today (there's a transition period where Spaceland Productions is still booking a lot of the nights through January and some all the way into March). Check out The Satellite's venue page at Ticketfly for details. Among the notable shows: 12/3 (the first show listed with "The Satellite Presents") - Lower Heaven / Exploding Flowers / Jason Simon 12/9 [...]
Agony - The Muffs I guess i'm really excited for this allotment of time i've put aside this afternoon to drum for the first time since Alex left. All things going to plan, this is first song i'll test my muscle memory to. Then the rest of the album. It's really fun to play, and a perfect test to see just how much neglect has cost me in ability. I love drumming. I really do. I just have lost the routine for it. And [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive The Muffs have been bashing out gritty and catchy pop-punk singles since 1991. Some of the highlights in the storied career of these Southern California garage-rockers extraordinaire include three major releases on Warner Brothers and Reprise Records and several singles on Sub Pop and Sympathy for the Record Industry. The veteran trio is back in the studio and will return to Austin, Texas, for this year's SXSW . Spinner caught up with singer-songwriter Kim Shattuck (who was gracious enough to grant us [...]
One of the good things about living in Los Angeles is that occasionally a band like Dinosaur Jr. will play a free show. "Wait, free??? Are you sure it's not the cover band, Dinosaur Jr. Jr.?" This was my first time seeing the Dinos since June 14, 1991 at the Hollywood Palladium ... with Nirvana opening. Woot! FYI, I attended that gig on crutches, having had my right knee scoped two days prior. 1991: the year both punk and I broke. Tuesday night's gig at [...]
Acting as the predecessor to movies such as Cruel Intentions , which is based on Laclos' novel Les Liasions dangereuses , and 10 Thing I Hate About You , the adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew , the 1995 comedy, Clueless , which is based on Jane Austen's novel Emma , champions the spirit of notable literature being adapted into a high school film that just so happens to offer a stunning and dynamic soundtrack, too. Not only did Clueless take Alicia Silverstone from video vixen to [...]
In 1994 the Coca-Cola company debuted a bold, new bottled juice beverage line, Fruitopia . It wasn't just a fruit drink; it was a concept, a gateway to a higher plain of flavor, the one path to real, ultimate thirst quenching. Coke banked on the early nineties' Summer of Love nostalgia trip to market their Snapple-competing drink to Generation X's wannabe hippie crowd. The result was a striking, psychedelic television ad campaign that made Fruitopia out to be a, like, totally mind-opening beverage, man. The following 30 seconds will not inspire: violent crime, [...]
[Getting back into town today after a little road trip. Thanks to my pinch-bloggers the past few days; happy birthday to Stewart Copeland; and here's a full plate of music goodies from which to sample tonight:] My trip to the heartland yielded a good read or two, including this Riverfront Times interview with Son Volt's Jay Farrar on his band's new album "American Central Dust." The quintet plays the Wiltern tonight with the Cowboy Junkies . ... The "Also I Like to Rock" free concert [...]
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