In no particular order ... The Architects, Vice (Anodyne) New boots! New boots and truncheons! (Should be tellin' you something.) Yeah it is -- that it's time to fuckin' lock and load. Seriously, th... Continue reading "The Wayward Son's Local Albums of 2008 'n Stuff" >
My Saturday night plan was a little spotty. After spending the day doing things as various as laundry, watching movies, and guest-hosting KJHK?s children?s program Little Red Radio, the general idea was to bounce between the Replay and the Jackpot, snapping photos and seeing friends. The Jackpot had a punk ...
This is Ivy League cover The Arcade Fire's Crown Of Love with an intimate, folksy feel. Listen to the Golden Shoulders and the 60s-activism feeling Golden Soldiers . Benji Cossa is the man, there much to support the claim, such as the song April . Slaraffenland says I'm A Machine . What about you? Agnes Mind [...]

Biography Of Ferns - John The Barber ( mp3 ) Brendan Canning - Hit The Wall ( mp3 ) Coldplay - Violet Hill ( mp3 ) Firewater - Borneo ( mp3 ) From Bubblegum To Sky - Even The Sunbeams ( mp3 ) From Bubblegum To Sky - Operation Big Beat ( mp3 ) Lousy Robot - It's Getting To Me ( mp3 ) Lousy Robot - Welcome All To My Weird Awakening( mp3 ) Mr. Gnome - Night of the Crickets ( mp3 ) Mr. Gnome - Pirates [...]
Hopefully, while everybody's waiting for DCFC's Narrow Stairs to tumble down, they won't miss all the terrific indie albums released this week from the likes of Tim Fite, Laura Gibson, No Age, The Republic Tigers, Shy Child, Matmos, The Long Blondes, Lykke Li, The Morning Benders, Elvis Costello, and so many others! (Check out Largehearted Boy's list for the dizzying array.) One of the most exciting releases this week has to be Firewaters' The Golden Hour , the first album from Tod A. after a three year sabbatical through the Middle East, [...]
It's interesting because most of the time, the music featured on music blogs (including your humble ox-cart of servitude) is made by up-and-coming, fresh-out-of-the-gate, wet-behind-the-ears and other hyphenation-heavy-idioms bands. It's not often you come across a situation quite like that one of The Pedaljets, a band whose heyday was back in the mid-to-late 1980's, having spawned albums which generated national critical acclaim and had opened for acts like Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, Meat Puppets and pre-UFO era Flaming Lips. Yet they broke up, for reasons as vast and nebulous as band break-up reasons can be, [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: 100 Year Picnic : "Greener than the Trees" [mp3] other 100 Year Picnic posts at Largehearted Boy Baskervilles : "Caught in a Crosswalk" [mp3] from Twilight (out June 3rd) other Baskervilles posts at Largehearted Boy Daniel Ahearn : "Down for the Count" [mp3] from Pray For Me By [...]

hola, gaywads! hope everyone is enjoying their respective weekends. my 4 days off are coming to an abrupt end, with another 11 day stretch ahead of me. yeah.. hey mr. drunkard has the new my morning jacket "evil urges" available for your listening/downloading pleasure, here . i was, honestly, unimpressed with my first go around with it, but after a few more listens i am definitely diggin it - sounds almost like mmj fronted by prince. admittedly, i am still getting used to the more groove-centric mmj, as z did nothing for me the first 20 or [...]
The Pedaljets (from Pedaljets reissue) "Agnes Mind" "Place in the Race" Kail (from True Hollywood Squares ) "Wendy" The Broken Letters (from Sing the Burning Alphabet ) "Another Morning" "Licht" The Last Shadow Puppets (from The Age [...]