THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Queens of the Stone Age w/ The Dough Rollers Monday, March 21 Center Stage - 1374 West Peachtree Street NW in Atlanta 30309 SOLD OUT I'm not really up to spelling this out for anyone. I've got a brutal head cold and the Atlanta pollen is wreaking havoc on my sinuses. Really, I just want to make it out to the show and not have my head explode. And, at this point, if I have to explain to you why tonight's [...]
Photo by Shawn "Muddy" Brackbill FRIDAY, MARCH 18 We can only assume that the reason Pissed Jeans hasn't already entered WHYY's "NewsWorks Tonight Theme Music" contest—which we suggested earlier this week —is because the band has been busy preparing for tonight's show, which is the Allentown noise-rock quartet's first area performance in what feels like quite a long time. The band has kept a relatively low profile since releasing the "Sam Kinison Woman" single late last year; we're looking forward to catching [...]
Every now and then a weekend comes along that just makes you shake your head at the awesome. If it weren’t for this being Sober February I’d be shaking my head wondering how I was gonna get through it both physically and financially. Anyhow, for the out of town readers, find an awesome show to go to this weekend and support live music. For my in town readers, I found your shows for you: THURSDAY NIGHT @ THE ORPHEUM: GREENLAND IS MELTING & TIM BARRY ($10) [...]
Tim Barry has some east coast dates scattered throughout the next few months. Click below for the itinerary. Barry continues to support 2010's 28th & Stonewall .
LOL. That “exclusive” shit is douchey as fuck ain’t it. I promise it was totally tongue in cheek. Anyhow.... Two and change years ago, on a chilly rainy Saturday afternoon in Denver, a collection of people in town for the Suburban Home Anniversary Party sat in the front lobby of Suburban Home’s office watching the likes of Micah Schnabel, Austin Lucas, Tim Barry, Shane Sweeny and Devon Stuart pass around a single acoustic guitar, telling fish stories and singing songs. In the midst of all of this, this little guy takes the guitar, explains the inspiration [...]
(AIV Note: This was supposed to be posted yesterday but my dumb ass forgot to upload the podcast to the server. Der, I iz full of forgets....anyhow, enjoy.) Well, it might be a new year and I might have a radio show now but nothing really changes when it comes to the podcast. It starts nice enough and you might even be able to hear some improvement gleaned from doing a weekly radio show but it quickly devolves into a ½ drunk foul mouthed typical podcast. Don’t let that deter you though. While my speech and [...]
Autopsy IV is on his annual pilgrimage to strap a board to the bottom of his feet and slide down mountains. While he is away 9B will feature a collection of guest posts. Today’s post finds our good buddy Shawn Kellogg returning to continue rubbing in the fact that I don't live in Denver. Even though both Tin Horn Prayer and Arliss Nancy ’s new discs have been reviewed here and [...]
If you like tough-sounding songs with great one-liners like, "I like to get high as a mountain when I'm crumbling to my knees," then Tim Barry ’s 2010 release—his third album—is for you. 28th and Stonewall is 12-songs of pure countrypunk bliss. It is muscular, honest, earnest and gritty. It’s ballsy and brassy, bluesy and boozy. Angry, ornery, furious and joyous. Yeah, I loved it. If I’d been turned on to it last year, it would easily have made my top 10 for 2010. Virginia’s Barry is a chronic tourer, spending months at [...]
Gainesville's Greenland is Melting is starting to generate a descent amount of buzz for themselves ( we reviewed them here ) and they're about to hit the road to show some of the southeast what they're all about. If they're coming to your neck of the woods take it from me and go see the folk show. They're really nice guys and put on one hell of a fun show. Here are the tour dates: Friday January 21 Durham, NC [...]
Here we are at the end of another year. All things considered, it was a pretty good one. On a personal level, I came into 2010 facing some pretty freaky & scary health issues and I’m leaving more or less in tact and healthy. Both my Seminoles and my Buccaneers had positive seasons while it looks like my Lightning are gonna be in the playoff conversation all season. Musically, it was a pretty solid year too and that’s what we’re really here to talk about now ain’t it. In preparation for this show I literally (yes, I am [...]
I’m stopping 20 miles short of calling this list a “best of” list. As the stacks upon stacks of cds in my computer room will prove, there is so much music from 2010 that I didn’t hear that it’s impossible for me to gloss this list anything other than a collection of some my favorite albums from the year. Everything on the Essential Listening list is worthy of your money and ears but as a blog owner I am obligated to bring you one of these lists at the end of every year so here is mine as [...]
My normal year-end favorite albums list usually tends to favor the bands/artists who I saw live in that year. This is only somewhat true for 2010. While The Hold Steady , The National, Drive-by Truckers , and Justin Townes Earle all had killer live gigs in Toronto this year, I just couldn't get into their 2010 releases (I didn't write a review of The National at Massey Hall on June 8 because every other blogger in Toronto did). Turns out that I tended to like some of the opening acts better than some [...]
This will be the final Top 5 of 2010, so it seems appropriate that it would be a “best of” list. I don’t really think this one requires much explanation. You post your 5 most favorite songs of 2010 as your mood today dictates it to you. I know narrowing the year down to a mere 5 songs is a monumental task but with a little work, I believe you can do it. Here are mine in alphabetical order: American Graveyard - Common Ones Glossary - Through The Screen Door [...]
Ok so this isn't a rip off of High Fidelity but rather a nod to the movie that gave me the inspiration for this, almost, weekly feature. If you don't do vinyl then Side One, Track one is the first cut on a CD. It's not as easy as it sounds. Mine is Side One, Track One out of the collection I have at work which is more limited than I would like for this but some time's you gotta make do. You can do whatever you like: S1T1 from your current collection on your mp3 player, all time, what's [...]
LOL. The other day I said it was ninebullets.net policy not to write about EP’s, only to then write about an EP . Well I am gonna follow that up by, less than a week later, writing about another EP. I mean, wtf is policy for if it’s not to be blatantly disregarded, right? Anyhow, Frank Turner was someone whose name I read and heard a lot, but whose music I’d never heard. Matter of fact, it reached a point where I was hearing his name so much and hearing his music so little that I began [...]
This week's Top 5 is all about songs that have quotable lyrics. I mean lyrics that just jump out at you. It can be a single line or even the whole damn song. I think mine are all one or two lines and some are just because they make me giggle. This one was so tough I just picked out the first five I thought of and maybe that's cheating but there's just so damn much good music out there that it's impossible for me to make a decision. Anyway I want to see your favorite quotes [...]
"You wait for change, change, change, change, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait. What do we need to do? We need to be proactive. If you feel like fucking voting, then vote. Then go home and take care of your family, your kin, your group, your community, and your fucking whole neighborhood. That's how we make change, change, change, change, change. We care the fuck about each other. And not constantly sitting the fuck around waiting for other people to take care of us!" Tim Barry - [...]
Rocktober! Get it? No?! Ok....I'll go stand over there... On the 26th day of Rocktober Shel Silverstein gave to me...a 26 second song! Actually, this song is 27 seconds. My Morning Jacket - 26 Second Song.mp3 Buy : Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Shel Silverstein (2010) On the 27th day of Rocktober Drew Kennedy [...]
You know the saying, "Sometimes the truth is better than fiction." Well, thanks to TheOtherBrit , that's what our Top 5 theme of the day is. Top 5 Songs based upon true events. Personally, I found this one easy as hell to complete and have a backlog of about 20 more that I feel should have been included. Nonetheless, here is my list for now. Bob Frank & John Murry - Bubba Rose, 1961 : This song is from the album, World Without End , an album of murder ballads based on real life [...]
Have you heard the news? It was announced last week that an English company is now offering the service of pressing your ashes into a vinyl record after (obviously) you die. This is basically the sloppiest wet dream in the history of music geek soiled undergarments, and it bears the obvious question; You’re dead and they’re making a record from your withered corpse.... what 5 songs are gonna make up your Side A? There are quite a few directions one could go with this...I originally started down the sentimental route but quickly realized that [...]
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