One of the very best things about where I did my graduate work (Raleigh and Chapel Hill, NC) was its music scene. The Triangle as it's called, has been so flush with amazing musical talent over the years, it's almost surreal. I got lucky to see Slobberbone in a local Chapel Hill establishment the size of a closet (Local 506), Whiskeytown in a Raleigh bar the size of a basement (The Brewery), and Tres Chicas, Patty Hurst Shifter, Mayflies USA in a converted garage...But the one band I would have killed to see but [...]

Patty Hurst Shifter Download: MP3: Audrye Sessions - Waltz #2 (XO) [Elliot Smith] MP3: Jeff Buckley - When the Levee Breaks [Led Zeppelin] MP3: Damien Rice - When Doves Cry/ Babe I'm Gonna Leave You [Prince/Zeppelin] MP3: Patty Hurst Shifter - Mr Soul [Neil Young]

Bringing us a great blend of American rock ala The Replacements, Raleigh North Carolina based, Patty Hurst Shifter released this song, "Life is Mostly Waiting" on their Fugitive Glue EP in 2007. Its supposedly the first in a series of three EPs that lets the band stay productive and keep releasing songs in small bursts, which will give them some nice breathing room creatively. I was hidden amongst the crowd at the PHS gig in Austin this year at South by Southwest, where they played the Dirty Dog Bar, a venue with more of a raw [...]
(Day 2 begins here.) DAY 2 (continued) The talk with Ken Bethea took awhile so the guys went on without me. (I don't know how anyone survived before without texting capabilities at these things, it is essential.) As I mentioned before, sleep and food are kind of as-you-go at this thing, but I decided to take full advantage of a sushi bar that was near the 8 pm venue. I was still trying to
You've got to be either pretty ballsy or just plain great as a band to compare yourself to The Rolling Stones, Big Star, The Faces or current bands like Drive-By Truckers and Wilco. But that's just what the The Cartridge Family has done with the description of the band on their homepage. The band's new record, Shine Like a Bottle , was released yesterday and is being distributed nationally by Burnside Distribution and is for sale now on CDBaby here . The song "American West" fulfills the promise of the description above [...]

There are a couple of bands that I have no right liking. They have nothing in common with my musical tastes, typically they're louder than I usually like and often they're not so much a guilty pleasure as they are an unexplainable turn-on. Most I've discovered on mp3 blogs as the result of hearing a single song. The ones I can think of off the top of my heard are Patty Hurst Shifter, Thee More Shallows and Oneida. "She's Like A Song" from last years Too Crowded On The Losing End , is the one that [...]