Ranking or even speaking on all the forgotten acts of punk and indie would take a thousand monkeys a thousand years. There have simply been too many bands who from the last 1970s onward have treated music as an alternative to entertainment, ascribed to it some rarified notion of art or subscribed to a more ascetic ethos, who were ultimately besotted by their difference and fell through the cracks. We know were it not for Kurt Cobain such an extraordinary group as The Vaselines may have been lost to many fans, or The Raincoats might have been left in their [...]
I tell you, I get no respect. Did you know that there are nerds on the Internet who are, at this very moment- writing about this website negatively!? Apparently my scribes against the "independent" music scene have touched the nerds in a very uncomfortable area. I've always figured that the more negative response I receive the more good I am doing. I think it's funny that I'm being called "retarded" after I called the nerds' heroes retarded! It's a cyclical name-calling match! I live for these Internet flame wars. And now, a mix tape for you. [...]
In a world where Super-Dads can't understand their Super-Sons.... "Don't blame me, son. Blame Trojan." ...and Super-Sons can't understand their Super-Dads... Tennessee Williams presents Bat on a Hot Tin Roof ! ...there is a place committed to bridging the Super-Generation Gap; a place called... ENOYREVE [...]
It has been a while since I checked in on The Exeter Popes . It turns out they are working on their full length. Get ready for some NYC flavored indie pop. New New New Downloadables: "IDWGH" (box.net mp3) Streamable: "50 Days" (youtube vid) from Snow, Mountain, Geisha White Shoe Records are here . CD BABY page is here . eMusic page is here . Old GT posts... here and here . Consider CLICKing [...]
Jeez... you go away for a few days and there's a new Virtual 7" from Atlas Sound ( here ) and then Microcastle is LEAKED by Branford Cox by accident. Branford's apology is here . You may have noticed the aura of hype around this album which was due for release this Fall. I am going to restrain myself. I just going to post one song from Microcastle . Maybe you heard it already ? It's a goodie. Downloadable: "Never Stops" (box.net mp3) The album [...]
a friend of mine made me a wipers mixtape back in the early 90's and looking back i remember my was "if i want to listen to nirvana, i'll listen to nirvana. if i want to listen to bob mould/husker du, i'll listen to bob mould and/or husker du." so, on and so forth. you get the point. i was pretty ignorant back then, or at least had a tendency to. said mix tape was listened to a few times, but filed away for safe keeping. it wasnt until probably until 2000 that i got around to listening to it [...]
No time to write much, but this is my weekly reminder to listen to Sinking with Sylvia and Todd (and Sometimes Matt Dwyer) on Little Radio . The show airs Friday from Noon to 2:00 PM. Each week on the show they feature an official You Set the Scene pick. Tomorrow my pick is "Taking Too Long" by the Wipers . I'm not the world's biggest authority on the Wipers or Greg Sage, so I'll point you towards Wikipedia if you want to know (a little) more. What I do know is that they [...]
I'm not sure how many of you have been reading this page for a while, but some of you may remember last summer's "The Great Chili Cook-off That Never Was" . 368 days ago, I tried to attend the Beverly Hills Farmer's Market Chili Cook-off. I showed up too late, and lamented my misfortunate for longer than I should have considering I didn't have a job or anything to do that day anyway. Nevertheless, when I saw this past week that somebody had Google'd "Beverly Hills Farmers Market Chili Cook-off", I got to thinking that maybe it was an [...]
The Wipers were a punk band from Portland, Oregon that began playing in 1977. The band was led by Greg Sage (vocals/guitar/main song writer), with Dave Koupaul (bass), and Sam Henry on drums. The original plan was for The Wipers to record 15 LP's (or albums) in ten years without touring or promotion. Greg Sage thought that music was more of an art form than entertainment and that it was something personal for the listener rather than a product you pay for. The band did despite this fact, play live shows. When dealing with independant [...]
After the Jump presents HEALTH , this Saturday June 21st, for After the Jump Fest in Brooklyn, NY, performing the evening benefit with Project Jenny Project Jan , Pattern is Movement , XXXchange, Titus Andronicus, and Mixel Pixel at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show begins at 8:30 . Listen :: Lost Time (PicturePlane Remix) MIA: What are your recommended records so [...]
Things have been cool around here. The weather finally started warming up. My sister is back from her vacay in Hawaii. And I'm feeling motivated to make more stuff/music. With that, here is peak at some stuff that I'm working on ... totes. WEBSITE: BIG SIS GOT KNOCKED UP AND I DID HER BABYSHOWER INVITES: /////////////////// And this is my music selection: [...]
"This show's not about wallowing. This show's about soaring. Like an eagle." -- Tom, taking flight high above the union man "Was that thing wreckin' Newark? Or Jersey City? Hoboken? No. No, we were sendin' the jets out to attack that thing. That was us. We're the good guys in this one." -- Tom, praising New Jersey's role in defending NYC against the Cloverfield monster "Exactly. They got their chops over in uh ... in uh ... you know [...]
Die! Die! Die! Genre: Punk / Punk / Blues From: Dunedin, New Zealand Hailing from the remote area of Dunedin, New Zealand, abrasive noiseniks Die! Die! Die! smash the spirit and sounds of Black Flag , Wipers [...]
I was first introduced to The Wipers by a dwarf who was my neighbor in South Philly. It was about 3 in the morning on a Tuesday, he was cranking Is This Real? and I had to ask myself the same thing. When I went downstairs to let him borrow my headphones I also asked if I could borrow his record in the morning. This post has: 1 Image 2 MP3's
I have been listening to The Wipers a lot lately. Over The Edge is a really amazing album that has been borrowed from by just about everyone it seems. I got this version off the box set, so it has a bunch of demos, b-sides and instrumentals. I knew Kurt Cobain and others stole from them a bunch, but I just heard the instrumental version of the song 'Our Past Life' for the first time. It looks like Dave Grohl was very heavily "inspired" when he wrote that Foo Fighter's song 'Everlong'. Anyway, what else can [...]
photo by charles peterson can one or two of you fine peeps do me a solid? i am testing out this new theme but i seem to be having an issue when viewing it with internet explorer. for those of you using ie, can you either confirm or deny that when you click on a single post, the sidebar is all the way at the bottom of the page? kisses, greg. oh, yeah if you are looking for an internship and are in the new york area domino records is looking for someone. [...]
Greetings from the land of the ill. I made the brutal mistake of rushing to kill the intense burning sensation which accompanies eating hot peppers with a cold glass of milk before remembering that my body cannot digest lactose. I feel like I'm on the brink of an terrible vomit-filled evening. Too bad, I was having a really good day. I hung out in Pasadena for a while, and then almost fell asleep in my notebook trying to write a short story. Have you ever tried to write something while half-conscious? I'll tell you right now, I started on page [...]
This is the Wipers first record. You know it's great. It's got that unique sound that you're so spoiled with from the 70s punk scene. Dark, haunting, energetic, powerful and... Punk | Powerpop | Mod | Hard Core
This particular species of feral psychedelic rock requires air like fire, big expanses of blue space against which it 'hurls itself with sickening force', no resistance encountered so it keeps... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogsp ot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"Don’t ever have anything to ever do with your life ever on a Tuesday night." -- Tom, appreciating Mike the Associate Producer more than ever upon his return "You’ve got the stink of laziness all over you." -- Tom on Wet Rat's continued failure to send him any music "Roy, Jr., that is unacceptable." -- Philly Boy Roy's father on the Eagles' woeful 1975 season "Not a whole lot of floor left in it. Kind of Flinstonian sometimes." -- Philly Boy Roy on the family's rickety 1976 AMC Pacer [...]
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