happy saturday, a-holes! i aint got much going on except enjoying a few beers before i start my medical treatment tomorrow which of course puts on the wagon for 10 days. who knows? maybe ill go longer, i could stand to lose a few pounds. also, me and the wife are supposed to quit smoking on the 14th. she smokes much less than yours truly, but still we both need to stop. here are the replacements playing at the ritz on 10.26.87. the whole she-bangs [...]
top of the evening! hope everyone had just the most loveliest of weeks. shit, i know i did! or maybe not really, or it was fine, or just there. i havent decided. i did learn today that i have a sinus infection and a deviated septum. yay for genetics! dont think i have brought this up, but i have not been able to hear for the past month. well, i can hear, but its very muffled. so, being the proactive person i am, i went out and spent about 30 bucks on shit that would, if worked as advertised, unclog [...]
let me ask you a question. do you like the rock and the roll? im assuming you do cause your visiting this joint, but really do you love it? i do! otherwise i wouldnt be going on 7 years of running this place. with the interrogation out of the way, i gotta rock n' roll record for ya that wont disappoint, at all. in fact, this record has been buzzin in my ears for the past week or so, and continue to be impressed with each listen. the record that i speak of is wess floyd's foxhole [...]
firstly, i was really surprised to see that cmj was still around, but it doesnt appear they actually are in the magazine business - the old business model. i subscribed for years from maybe like 93ish to maybe 2000? anyway, happy to see they're still around even though they've been really out of my brain since the end of my subscription. i knew they still did the cmj conference thing, but thought that may be in name only. either way.. its interesting to see who they, or the labels in this case capitol was pushing back in 03. most surprising [...]
hey new orleans! these two fine people - one finer than the other, lydia loveless and scott h biram , are playing at one eyed jacks on friday, and you can grab a pair of tickets if you want to go to the show. how do you win said ticket, you ask? just leave a comment and ill pick one. i wish i could go, cause i hear both are amazing performers, but sadly i am stuck in baton rouge. doors open at 9, tickets are 12 bucks and its an 18 and older show. [...]
i believe i had heard of the band phantom limb from a year or two back, but dont believe i had the pleasure of listening to em. well, know phantom limb is water liars and the name of their upcoming record is entitled phantom limb . hows that for confusing? either way i am actually on my third listen of said record which comes out 2.28 on misra records . i was a little skeptical at first, cause the first song, which is provided below, "$1003 starts [...]
as y'all know i am a huge, huge, huge whitley fan, and i want this to get made or at least distributed. they have a hefty goal, but dammit if the internets cant do it, no one can. chris' music meant a lot to me, and it really pains me to see some of these clips, but still i/we need to see it.
flyer stolen from vintage richmond top of the day! that flyer is not this show, but from the time period. dont have much time as i actually have "work" to do, but i had a request for this superchunk show which took place on 2.11.92 at the whisky a go go. this performance was actually them opening up for hole. that would have been an interesting crowd. buy superchunk stuff via merge . 1. skip steps 1 & 3 2. [...]
in my humblest of opinions, i dont believe there are many artists out there that put out extraordinary material as much as joe o'connell aka elephant micah does on a consistent basis. i dont know how many people are aware of his work, but they should be. in fact i believe i did a "you should be listening to elephant micah" post a couple years back. hopefully, at least a few of you took the plunge. well, mr o'connell and his elephant micah has a spectacular new [...]
here we meet again. so, mr mangum is doin some dates. not many dates, mind you, but enough to get some really smart people to spend their hard earned cash to travel to these dates. maybe its just me, and it just may be, but i was a huge, huge, huge fan of neutral milk hotel in my 202s, but now that im on the wrong side of 35, they/he just doesnt ring the same bell as they used to. sure, its still great stuff, but it just doesnt speak to me the way it used to. this time 10 [...]
i really, really hate when this happens. an artist i really dig releases a record, and i am none the wiser. in this case its zoe muth and the lost high rollers' starlight hotel which was released all the way back in april of 2011. seriously? how did this fly under my radar? some pr person isnt doin their job! or maybe im just not up on the music blogosphere? either way, im into listen number 3, and this could have easily been in my top 14 of 2011. so, so great. [...]
i really, really hate when this happens. an artist i really dig releases a record, and i am none the wiser. in this case its zoe muth and the lost highway rollers' starlight hotel which was released all the way back in april of 2011. seriously? how did this fly under my radar? some pr person isnt doin their job! or maybe im just not up on the music blogosphere? either way, im into listen number 3, and this could have easily been in my top 14 of 2011. so, so great. i absolutely adore her voice and [...]
for some damn reason during my 3 year stint in nola i didnt go to jazz fest. its not for lack of trying, but it just never worked out in my favor. well, this year its gonna happen as bruce and the rest of the gang are playing said fest on 4.29 - which i believe closes out the first weekend. i cant wait, but also i know its gonna be a fuckin madhouse. still im sure its gonna be awesome. 1. jazz musician 2. [...]
im gonna preface this by stating that i am only a man, and being the heterosexual man that i am, i am drawn to women; especially lovely women you can sing, and play guitar. so, i have zero shame in saying what drew me to listen to ponyboy's music is that she's quite an attractive young lady. but, and this is a huge but, it doesnt mean shit if her music doesnt back it up. luckily for all of us, from what i have heard, it does.... ive only heard a handful of songs, but she's kind some smokey pipes [...]
as with the first edition, these are just a bunch of videos from youtube, duh!, that i have been diggin on lately. enjoy... from their reunion show! awesome...
what a way to end the week! here be a track from lucero's upcoming ato release, women & work , which is due out on 3.13.12. they're following up the release with a pretty big tour which hits new orleans on 3.11 at tipitina's with william elliott whitmore opening up. thats a musicgasm lineup right there... this premiered earlier today on rolling stone where you can read a little bit more about the record. i take that back, i dont know if it premiered there, but thats where i stole [...]
i hadnt planned on talking about the new craig finn record, clear heart full eyes - due out next week, cause i figured just about every other blog had talked about it already. maybe they have, maybe they havent? honestly i dont check these things, but sometimes i just hate adding to the noise. what changed my mind? actually listening to it. admittedly, i wasnt a huge fan of the last two hold steady records, and was just a lil leery of a finn solo record. sure, the guy is responsible for 3 of my favorite records of [...]
a lot of sites have "gone black" today in opposition to sopa, which if dont know what i am talking about that video down there breaks it down very well. i thought about not posting, but why censor myself, when others are trying to do the same thing. if anything, i think some folks should be posting more, maybe pushing some limits. these limits not being in an "illegal" fashion, but something outside the norm. im probably talkin out of my ass, as per usual. but, after watching that video, you'll understand in what a super grey area my site [...]
holy, effin crap! i seriously have been waiting on a new jealous sound record since kill them with kindness which was released in what, 2003? i dont know what the hell happened during the past 9 years? nor do i think i want to know, or need to know, but i am very very psyched to listen to this. havent listened to the single yet which somehow has been up on soundcloud for 3 months without my knowledge? crazy talk! getting back to that record, i cant recommend it enough, or any of knapsack's records which was blair [...]
hey, howdy, hi! in case y'all were wondering, yes, i am still watching parking wars. this thing has me sucked in like nothing else. i blame it on this massive head cold i am suffering through for my lack of better judgment or, to be honest, my taste in tv shows/movies arent really on par with my taste in music. anyway, here is exactly what the title suggests. got a request for this to be re-upped, and here it is.... thanks to the original taper.... the [...]
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