Prior to my buying into the heathen bargain that is Los Angeles, ye olde Drunkard grew up in the wooded enclave that is Atlanta, GA. Recently, through the magic of eMusic, bit torrent and the like, I have been revisiting albums by ATL artists that I long sold off in the mid-late 90s in an [...]
Popular blog delves into the history of the Cabbagetown scene of the 1980s and '90s

The Love Language Lalita Tenement Halls Plenty Is Never Enough The Shins Plenty Is Never Enough Since the Walkmen seem to have lost the plot (along with a bag of hooks) and the Rockateens have... Well, I don't know where they've gone (oh yeah, Tenement Halls !), but where is one to turn in the quest for fuzzed out, sepia-toned melodies hammered [...]

Japanese Appropriators of Poor White Man's Culture The Rock-A-Teens Woo-Hoo The racist rockabilly at the Irish pub does not want to be your friend. He already has a pudgy girlfriend with poor skin, a Betty Page haircut, and a nose piercing that makes her like a bull. He has a brother. His brother is a bus-driver. That's a job. A thankless fucking job. His [...]
For today's Roll Call we call out Chris Strawn of Glen Iris.
Would it be cliched to call the Rock*A*Teens "reverb-drenched"?

Woo Hoo - Rock-a-Teens . mp3

The Rock*A*Teens: "In the Woods of Hemlock Park," from the Golden Time LP (Merge, 1999)