
The random mid-90s alt-rock compilation; is there any better source for oddball rarities and bizarro obscurities? It's thanks to this trend of "let's package as many bands who we think the kids who like Nirvana might like together and see what happens" we have albums like No Alternative , with Soul Aslyum's awesome take on "Sexual Healing" and that crazy Carpenters tribute record with Sonic Youth's cover of "Superstar." Chairman of the Board , a collection of alt-rock groups taking on standards made famous by Frank Sinatra, doesn't have any classic cuts like those records [...]

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, [...]

Sister Double Happiness - Heart And Mind [ buy ] "Well, Gary Floyd and all his pals, Are gonna come on down to the roundaround, They're gonna shoot all day." --Butthole Surfers, "Gary Floyd" Sister Double Happiness was founded by a couple of Dicks. No, not like that. The Dicks were one of Austin's primordial punk bands ( "Hate The Police" anyone???), but after their breakup and a move to San Francisco, drummer Lynn Perko and singer Gary Floyd founded SDH. Gone were [...]

Even more stuff I've been filling my earholes with that I picked up recently from mp3 blogs around the Web. from Album by Honor Role - Following Footprints from Bizarros LP by The Bizarros - The Waves Cry from Baby Sex by The Residents - Something Devilish from [...]
I have a good friend who was in a great late 80's & early 90's SF band called Bomb... They are just awfully under appreciated and more so each day, and perhaps rightly so... but I thought I'd share a few tracks that were faves of mine... Their music was dark, silly, evil, booming and loud... and aside from all those good things...despite even a year or so of major label status, remains relatively obscure... So here's some Bomb mp3'z below for the hundreds of y'all that stop by each day... [...]