I don't advocate genocide, but if there is one town in Massachusetts that could use a reset button, it would be Malden. I mean.. where else would you find a littering event of this nature. Handi Snacks. We all remember those from when we were kids (or is it kheds?). They were that four cracker combo with that cheeze spread that was applied with a small red piece of plastic. I was a fan. Sure, they are probably loaded with horrific chemicals, but that's not the point [...]
The Litter were one of Minneapolis' most popular garage bands. Their orgins can be traced back to two mid 60s garage bands, the Victors and the Tabs. In late 1966 the Litter recorded their first single, Action Woman backed by a cover of the Who's Legal Matter. The A side was not a Litter original but a Ted Kendrick composition. Ted Kendrick produced Action Woman which was eventually released
The Litter - Distortions The Litter has often been shuffled away as merely a nuggets band, with their single "Action Woman" popping up on several compilations over the years, but their toughened strain of garage has become a touchstone for countless garage bands to follow. They take the R&B backbone of early garage and move it closer to that proto-punk line than many of their predecessors but still keep a ragged edge of soul in their songs. Distortions is comprised mainly of covers, as was the standard but [...]
Aren't you ungrateful motherfuckers lucky. You whine and you whine about how I don't devote enough time or energy to sharing more music, and then you get a music-heavy Top Ten and a Sunday Mix Tape in the span of two days. It's almost as if I care enough about you to slake your thirst. Or maybe I just like being popular, and I know MP3s are the way to keep you parasites clinging to this little virtual host body. Who knows, some of you idiots who call me "soft lad" are actually going to hear some experimental [...]
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• By now you've read this story on every news website on the Internet: Up to 90 of US paper money has traces of cocaine present on it. That's quite an impressive amount of blow, more than Canada (85%) and Brazil (80%), and way more than China (20%) and Japan (16%). Is it any wonder why America is lagging so far behind China and Japan as our economy crumbles and development slows? Of course not - it's the coke hangovers we all have to deal with on a daily basis. [ story ] • If you think that [...]
The desert surrounds. All arid and bare. This throat is dry. These eyes have tired. It is warm. Summer approaches. Golden orb in blue expanse. Cloud formations like none before seen. Little rodents cross paths. Lizards scatter when foot touches dirt. Swarms of bees test passersby. A red/brown snake five feet in length flicks its tongue at me. It's black eyes never waver. These sounds can not be properly captured. This air and these insects and all this life cannot be pictured. I needed to be alone with my thoughts today. I couldn't stay there, uncomfortable and bare. No more [...]
Delta Momma Blues , one of Townes Van Zandt 's earlier albums, is not as cut and dry as one might think. While the title-track drifts by slowly and gives off a somewhat lazy-river feeling, it contains a double-meaning from the songwriter. "Delta Momma," as Townes referred to it, was cough syrup with codine (Robitussin DM = Delta Momma), and was easily available over the counter. As the lyrics suggest, it made the consumer feel removed and relaxed. On the other hand, it is violently addictive (as a opiate) and it's ingestion with the other ingredients of cough syrup [...]
Hey everyone, it's Evan! I'm back! My laptop has a new keyboard and I've been itching to return to blogging every day. There was a scary moment this morning when I turned on my computer and the keyboard didn't work, but I reset the machine and everything worked again. I was quite nervous. Did you miss me? Yeah, shut up, you missed me. I want to send a quick thank you to Katie (kT), Bennett, Z, Reader X and Marika for their gracious contributions to Swan Fungus during my absence. Their terse, anodyne prose was truly a welcome [...]
All right it has been a while since the Jukebox appeared here so I guess that means its time to round up another collection of sweat stained garage tracks. Here's a bunch that goes from well known to unknown and polished to ragged and raw. Enjoy! [MP3] The Zombies - Stick and Stones This early Zombies single is a far cry from Odyssey and Oracle material, that's for sure. No lush pop here, just vamped up R&B with a great organ break and a hot shuffle rhythm. Dig [...]
The Litter were one of Minneapolis' most popular garage bands. Their orgins can be traced back to two mid 60s garage bands, the Victors and the Tabs. In late 1966 the Litter recorded their first single, Action Woman backed by a cover of the Who's Legal Matter. The A side was not a Litter original but a Ted Kendrick composition. Ted Kendrick produced Action Woman which was eventually released off the Scotty label sometime in early 67. From the intro, Action Woman is a flame thrower garage punk single with snarling vocals and one [...]
Okay here's some 'mo Bo. This time performed by others. First up, four rave-up garage rock versions, then a couple by the Rolling Stones (early and later) a classic from The New York Dolls, a Buddy Holly track (that was later gussied up and released posthumously), and an anonymous recording rescued with other tapes from a pile of dirt by writer and archivist Robert Gordon when the original Stax studio was razed in Memphis in 1989. "Put some dirt in your eye." Download: "Who Do You Love" [...]
SCRATCH, BANG, SCREECH, WAIL. This is one of those records that manages to sound completely out of it's time and, not just that, but completely out of time! A pounding garage track that overloads the speakers to nothing but a hiss, then reemerges again into the breakdown from the song. Completely captivating from start to finish. The Litter - I'm A Man Check out the album Distortions .
JumpTheTurnstyle
Wine, Women And Song
Raven Sings The Blues
Swan Fungus
Diary of a Spacetraveler
tangelO
The Rising Storm
Boogie Woogie Flu
The Beat!
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF EDWYN COLLINS (Part 9)
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
