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Major League Baseball has announced the musical guests for Games 3 and 4 of the World Series, and Game 3 will serve as a veritable tribute to the McGraw family, whose scion, ace closer Tug McGraw, pitched the Phillies to their World Series victory in 1980. Tug's son, country star Tim McGraw, will take the field with a local Boys and Girls Club to help throw out the first pitch in honor of his late father. And who, pray tell, is singing the national anthem? Pennsylvania native Taylor Swift, whose 2006 single "Tim McGraw" catapulted her to country [...]
I must have heard this song a dozen times in different places and never knew who it was. Then finally as I sat goggle-eyed watching 'About A Son' it played out in its lo-fi grandness. Was a tad surprised that it was the Vaselines because I had always reasoned that they were a heavy punk outfit. I had also surmised that they were American given Kurt Cobain's love for them but it turns out they
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Als ob Kevin Shields und The Raveonettes zusammengespannt hätten. Die Vivian Girls aus Brooklyn sind die zarteste Versuchung dieses Sommers und zeigen auf wie "achtziger" 2008 ist. (more...)
This is a special Super Swingin' Mix... because it might be the last one ever. I threw links in this post like you eat lunch. As I've mentioned before, Swan Fungus is one of my favorite blogs out there (along with WFMU 's and Raven Sings the Blues ). With regard to the former, I like the author's idea of yanking a bunch of news stories together and then posting totally righteous jam hives that may or may not have anything to do with what he's writing about. I'm going to steal that [...]
Earlier in the week I got a phone call from Army Navy front man Justin Kennedy. If for some reason you don't recognize the name, you may recognize the name of former Pinwheel bandmate Ben Gibbard. Gibbard's had some wonderful success following Pinwheel and Kennedy and company is no doubt set for the same. During the [...]
1. Nirvana - Sappy 2. John Maus - Just Wait Till Next Year 3. Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby 4. Pulp - Can I Have My Balls Back, Please? 5. The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow 6. The Modern Lovers - Astral Plane 7. David Bowie - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide 8. The Vaselines - Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam 9. Crass - Punk Is Dead 10. [...]
Sub Pop, my most beloved record label, is celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year. Co-founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman started a radio show in 1979, which turned into a fanzine, later to become the official Sub Pop Records we've all come to love. It's hard to say exactly when Sub Pop "started" because in a decade it morphed from strictly a passion to a business. Sup Pop is partially responsible for surfacing the 90's grunge scene in Seattle, releasing albums by Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney. The label is now shaping the sound of indie music, signing bands [...]
where were plaaydoh back in the day? when mixtapes ruled the land and bands with songs you could fit into the gap at the end of yr c90 tape were something to be coveted and treasured. you had yr minutemen and yr magnetic fields and yr guided by voices. plaaydoh would have slotted in quite [...]
As always, I'm more than a week late on my coverage of a festival, and really, this time it's a shame. I came out of Marymoor Park on Sunday evening sunburned, fairly intoxicated, numbingly exhausted and unabashedly in love with one of the great record labels of the last 20 years. I mentally scribbled down all the great things about the weekend that I would write in two days of epic coverage of the event. The great bands, the amazing VIP area, the pleasant crowds and the shocking lack of lines for bathrooms, beer, or food - I [...]
The Smittens Genre: Indie / Pop From: Burlington, Vermont, United States Cute, nice, sweet, innocent, honest, twee; all words that todays music journalists tend to deploy as terms of abuse rather than endearment. Reading a review in 2008 that describes a band as cute or sweet is just about as damning as faint praise gets. Well then The Smittens, ( not to be confused with Aussie folksters The Smitten ) the name does [...]
On June 9th, The Vaselines played one of the best shows I've ever seen. Or heard. According to their Wikipedia entry the show is already "legendary." The Vaselines are Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly. The band was formed in 1986 (in Scotland!) and broke up in 1989 (I think). Kurt Cobain called McKee and Kelly his "most favorite songwriters in the whole world" and Nirvana covered three of their songs, exposing despondent flannel wearing youth to upbeat jangly pop songs. This was their third [...]
Police have issued an arrest warrant for Joshua Wilkes, lead vocalist of the Legendary Shack Shakers. The arrest warrant charges Wilkes with exposing his genitals to hundreds of teens and adults in the audience. The venue was a nonprofit facility in downtown Nashville with three stages, an indoor skate park, and a coffee bar. A Rocketown representative stated "we are all treating this as a very serious criminal matter." The band claims that it is a mass hallucination brought on by ergot in the sacramental wine. [...]
The entire day was a blast, but for me this was worth the price of admission...
Judging from the local stars in plenitude around me (I spotted a sweaty Mark Arm from Mudhoney, fresh off his set, Kim Thayil from Soundgarden sporting a Sunn-O shirt, and Eddie Vedder and his daughter on stage, watching the band), this trip of theirs across the pond was a big freaking deal. read more
photo by packagethiefnj We reviewed The Vaselines first-ever U.S. show on Radar . It was a magical experience. And we don't use that phrase lightly. The Vaselines - The Day I Was a Horse (Live at Maxwell's) ( short wave rockin has the whole show.)
Influential Scottish act the Vaselines are playing the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary shindigs this weekend in Seattle, on the heels of playing its first U.S. shows ever this week in New York. Here's a video from the band's show in Brooklyn last night.
You know what I'm excited about this weekend? SP20. Duh. Though I've spake to many a die-hard music fan who's forsworn the event for some ridiculous reason (distance, crowds, generally lack of cajones ), this is going to be the event of the summer concert season (sorry Block Party, you'll be fun too!) and I hang my head and shake a weary finger at those who deign to miss it. Sub Pop's been impressing the shit out of me for as long as I've been listening to interesting music (sadly, not as long as you'd [...]
This weekend Sub Pop is celebrating an awesome 20-years in the music business with a HUGE show out in Washington. I can't make it out there for it but I wanted to take a moment to celebrate one of the most important labels of my life-time. I thought about how to do that and decided that a list of the 20 Best Sub Pop Albums of All-Time would be perfect! And so here they are... 20. L7 Smell the
The short and damaged tracks on the self titled debut full-length [ buy ] from Brooklyn's Vivian Girls are stripped down, tattered and catchy as hell --- a combination of classic punk ( The Ramones ), outsider pop ( The Shaggs ) and modern alt-rock ( The Vaselines ) Enjoy. Wild Eyes mp3 Tell the World mp3 Vivian Girls [...]
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