It's a nice day for a Red Wedding. Spoiler Alert: Don't Google the above quote. RULES for uninitiated noobs: I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Pop Culture , Music Appreciation Getty Once upon a time, music fans had to actually pay for all their music, a phenomenon that peaked in the 1990s. The explosion of alt-rock left major labels awash in cash and on the hunt for "the next Nirvana ." A ton of terrible music was released in the process, much of which sold by the bucket load thanks to the labels tendency [...]
SideOneDummy Records is pleased to announce the vinyl re-issue of Superdrag's 1996 debut Regretfully Yours on December 11, 2012, marking the first time the album has been made available on vinyl. Superdrag's first for Elektra Records, Regretfully Yours, included the hit single "Sucked Out", which peaked at #17 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart. The larynx-shredding chorus (along with a Buzz Bin video) helped plant the band's flag on a national level. "Some of the dudes went and watched Iggy Pop play a secret show at Coney Island High that night," recalls guitarist and vocalist John Davis, [...]
From the mid-90's to the mid-00's, I recorded ALOT of music related footage on VHS tapes. Apparently, I had a lot of free time on my hands. For the last few months now, I've been going through those tapes to see what I did record back in those days but also, looking to see what was worth [...]
Ah Black Friday... the day when the 1% tells the 99% to go save the economy. But if you're not in the mood to stab a bitch for a flatscreen today, why not browse around ViolentSuccess to see what sort of music is new and awesome lately... A.A. Bondy: Believers - Although I'm not familiar with his earlier work, hearing an album like this certainly warrants a closer examination. After being the frontman for Verbena [...]
One of the Gawker writers (they're pretty much indistinguishable from one another at this point, what with the constant snark and irreverence) wrote a blog post today about "hipster music blogs" and their authenticity problem, meaning editors/writers for said blogs love to use their pulpits to cry foul whenever an artist with a manufactured image [...]
Things I learned this weekend: Apparently it's grounds for an ass-kicking when you're black-out drunk at a bar and you tell a girl her boyfriend is "limp dicked" and ask her if you can "put a little baby in your tum tum." Good thing I was in a large group of people who would have [...]
in the realm of the pop and power and punky genre, me thinks it dont get much higher than the men from knoxville, tn, superdrag . i celebrate their entire catalogue with much frequency, although i mostly just listen to last call for vitriol , but everyone i run into, who are superdrag fans, prefer their 1996 release, regretfully yours . sadly, i have not listened to their last release, which was put out in 09, industry giants . anyone got any insight on it? good, bad, indifferent. honestly, i wasnt much of a fan of [...]
Up High in the Night (2001) Stab the Unstoppable Hero (2002) Must have gotten these two Arlo releases from a SubPop publicist. I'd have to go back and look at SubPop's catalog releases during the early 2000s to see just how these fit into the stuff the label was putting out. Seems to me that it was between the mid-90s grunge/punk stuff and the later 2000s bearded folk stuff. Up High in the Night [...]
A band celebrating it's tenth year is not a an easy feat. The weight of inner turmoil and a desire to break out or bust usually causes most bands to rupture from the inside out. What has happened since the great buffalo trio " Johnny Nobody " struck it's first chord? The curse of the Bambino was lifted and Vancouver rioted in the streets to give us a famous kiss. The prophecy of the Canadian band the Tragically Hip came true; New Orleans actually did sink under the wrath of a hurricane called Katrina. [...]
Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV's Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from '80s college rock to '00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite [...]
It’s sad to see that Superdrag recently went inactive again because I never got a chance to really get into them. My friend Bender introduced me to the Tennessee band a few months ago, and their pure 90s sound quickly ... Continue reading
Superdrag frontman John Davis gettin' his Punk (or Skate Rock) on. This new band consists of him, Stewart Pack, Nick Raskulinecz and Nick Slack. Here's "I Want To Destroy" which was performed at their first ever band practice 3 days ago: Their debut EP should be out soon. You can hear more Epic Ditch on their - > MYSPACE page. John's also [...]
Guided by Voices , who celebrated Matador Records' 21st birthday earlier this month in Vegas, will be on the receiving end of a celebration early next year. And according to TwentyFourBit , although the GBV tribute album so far has no name, it will have plenty of exciting names on the tracklist. As Wayne Coyne mentioned on Twitter in September, his Flaming Lips recorded their cover of "Smothered in Hugs" for the compilation. Now, No More Fake Labels founder Misty Dawn Briggs has revealed to Independent Weekly a bunch more artists [...]
We’ve known that the Flaming Lips recorded a cover of Guided by Voices’ “Smothered in Hugs” for an as-yet-untitled tribute album ever since Wayne Coyne spilled the beans via Twitter last month, and now a host of acts have been added to the compilation’s impressive roster. No More Fake Labels founder Misty Dawn Briggs gave Independent Weekly the scoop on 20 more tracks promised to the project from Blitzen Trapper (“Hot Freaks”), Cymbals Eat Guitars (“Gleemer”), Superdrag (“A Salty Salute”), Vivian Girls’ Katy Goodman as La Sera (“Watch Me Jumpstart”), Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, and others. [...]
MidPoint is just around that corner and we have alot of goodies to share with you here at ENS pre-festival. But today, it's all about the "secret" show. In the past, secret shows have been played by Superdrag in 2008 and did not happen last year. Today, the clues are trickling out as to what band will be this years preformer and here is what we have to go on so far. Secret Show Hint #1: The band sings in English. Secret Show Hint #2: The band's first album sold more [...]
Kentucky-based publicity firm, Crash Avenue , state in the " About Us " section of their website that they're "fueled by a passion for good music and art." We definitely believe that seeing how their brand new free July compilation features three of Chicago's best up-and-coming rock bands. The comp, titled Guerrilla vs. Bear , features 10 tracks of not only Crash Avenue artists, but bands the firm dig and are friends with as well. Chicago is represented quite well as the comp features the track "Traitors" from dark prog-rockers [...]
Hey man, it's officially summer! I mean I think it was "official" a few weeks ago, but once you get to free Slurpee day at participating 7-11s you pretty much know it's summer for real. I didn't get a free Slurpee today because the only flavor I ever enjoyed was Coca Cola, and after two full weeks of not drinking soda I didn't want to tempt myself and fall off the wagon. So...no free Slurpee for me this year. Still, it's fucking summer now! Let's have a party! Okay, enough exclamation points. Instead of speed-writing excitedly [...]
ARTIST: Hey! Rotate This. 016 with over fifty freebie downloads for songs by Billy Bragg, Whirl, The Rentals, The Acorn, Peter Gabriel, noun, Mock & Toof and more ! So much more! DATE: 07-08-10 WRITER: Don Loder Alright real quick, So tell me if you think I'm wrong - some things are just too good to pass up aren't they? I found some stuff like that for you this week kiddies, and it's just awesome. Somehow, I found a bunch o' solid gold SWAG to lay [...]
Hamacide - "Broadway Dancers" MP3/download I'll tell you the truth: I've been flirting with giving up this Blog thing. I've dropped so many other projects to keep this blog fresh and vital it's totally insane. What's the point? Well, something tells me I should keep Gumshoe Grove going, so ... I plan to. But that [...]
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