Found something kind of interesting over the weekend. Well, actually, they found me. Australian band Rouge Foncé hit me up on MySpace, inviting me to check out their music. As a fan of both Australian rock and attractive women, I didn't hesitate to see what's doin'. Rouge Foncé is a pretty recent addition to the Melbourne scene – they've only been together since June last year. Their music, especially live, is very compelling and listenable. One of the tracks I'm posting tonight has that definite Aussie feel to it: A raw energy behind a pop sensibility. At [...]
Wow. A week has slid by without a substantial post. Like I just disappeared off the face of the earth. Truth to tell I got busy with other stuff, as happens to the best of us, and things here kind of inadvertently got shifted to the back burner. And now I'm back with a post that doesn't even involve anything new. Over near the right side of this page you may or may not have noticed the blogroll. I used to note whenever I updated it, but [...]
Thought I'd take a sec to pat my own back here. I noticed an inordinate number of hits here today and found that my He Got Game post the other day is way up on the Hype Machine's hit list . Number 2, to be exact. And here I thought everyone had heard that song before! Thanks to everyone for tuning in and I hope at least a few of you stick around - I might even post something good again at some point.
In an abrupt turn-around from the music posted yesterday, today I've got some working class Pennsylvania punk rockers. I found the Dead City Dealers a few days ago, liked their music and their attitude and decided to investigate a little further. I found that DCD started life a year or so ago as The Disliked. "Nothing we write is intricate in the least," was The Disliked's mantra. "We play three or four chords per song. Sometimes more, but rarely." After a couple of personnel shifts, including the [...]
It's been a long time since I did one of these OST posts and, truth to tell, the origin of this particular post didn't come from the movie, but from a Buffalo Springfield song. I heard "For What It's Worth" the other day, which got me thinking about Public Enemy's soundtrack for Spike Lee's 1998 movie, He Got Game (I've mentioned before how my brain moves along those paths). I watched the movie once, some time ago, and, at least in my opinion, it wasn't one of Spike Lee's best. The movie stars Denzel Washington [...]
I had some Rolling Stones I was going to post the other day; some old outtakes and such, but after giving it a little thought, I decided it was pretty similar to a post I'd already done . Those links are down now, but it's barely been six months, so I decided I'd post that stuff some other time. But I still had that taste for the Stones, so I went back to my collection and dug around a little. What I came up with is a portion of a show from the 1969 tour [...]
I've been in the mood lately to listen to rockabilly, and in addition to the classic stuff, I've also been listening a lot to my generation's premier practitioner, Brian Setzer. A disk I've had on the shelf a long time and never gave a proper listen to is Setzer's 1998 solo album, Rockin' By Myself . I think the disk was recorded in 1993 during a show in Japan. I do know it was a Japan-only release, although the copy I have is lettered in Russian. [...]
Is it too late for third wave or too soon for fourth wave? Either way, it's good to know ska-punk survives. I can't put a finger on what it is that appeals to me about ska and ska-punk but doesn't appeal to me about real reggae. But that's how it goes and I guess I'll have to live with that shortcoming. I recently got an email and a CD from an Irish ska-punk band called Chewing on Tinfoil. As they say in the song "Hating Every Minute," "We sing these [...]
Regular viewers will know that, despite my seeming random approach to posting, I have an affinity for garage rock. These bands are the last line in the sand for DIY music. Certainly they're not always original, but they mean well. These are the guys and girls who pick up a guitar and plug it into a beat-up Fender amp and play because they love rock 'n' roll. Maybe they'll get a girl (or a guy) and maybe they'll get famous, or maybe someone will buy them a pint after their set. It doesn't matter because it's about the music. [...]
Some pretty tasty things in this go 'round of the Licorice Pizza mailbox purge. There's a cover of an old Sweet song and the first single from a garage band super group. I'll get right to my pick of the month, which is "Bow Down and Die," from The Almighty Defenders, the aforementioned supergroup. It's a funny thing because when I first read the email, I thought these guys had potential to suck. Wrong I was. Their debut album isn't due until September, but this preview of the collab between the Black Lips, King Kahn, and Mark [...]
About a year ago I posted the praises of a site called Mohawk Radio, which is sort of a "MySpace alternative alternative." To summarize my previous post, the majority of the bands with pages there are un- or independently-signed. And, unlike MySpace, where you can only stream music, most of the bands on Mohawk Radio have download links for their music. That makes it a great source for finding new music. Today's music is a couple of bands I recently happened across on Mohawk Radio. Neither has [...]
All right, I'm back. I had some non-Internet things going on and I also had to renew my host. Dreamhost is a great host and has always provided me great service, but it does cost a little bit to use. And I hate to come at you with my hand out asking for donations, especially since I don't think I've ever helped out anyone else. But we're all good again. It's been nearly a month since I posted any Iggy, so I thought it might be an appropriate time [...]
OK, so I'm over the hurt feelings of having my posts randomly deleted. Actually, it's happened before, but it was a couple of posts that were more than a year old and I'd already unlinked the songs. It just makes me mad that Blogger does that. Eventually, maybe I'll stop posting music and just write about the things that piss me off. I'ma try again with some music from a Seattle band that doesn't fit the Seattle "stereotype." By that, I mean the grunge / indie thing. The Naked Saints [...]
yeah, so I guess yesterday's post has been disappeared. I appreciate blogger deleting my whole goddamn post instead of sending me a note to just unlink the song. thanks. Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message. The notice that we received from the International Federation of the Phonographic [...]
You may want to mark the date and time when you read this, because it could be the first, last, and only time I'm gonna say this: I could not wait to hear the new single from Jay-Z. I only very recently heard about this song "D.O.A. – Death of Autotune," which was actually released earlier this month, but right away I knew I had to hear it. I am so sick of these "singers" manipulating their talentless voices. I mean, give me an hour in the studio, a high-priced producer, and an Autotune [...]
Led Zeppelin's 1997 release BBC Sessions was welcomed in many corners – at long last an official version of what had been bootlegged for almost 30 years. Although fans were happy to see an official release, die-hards complained that some of the songs were edited or (gasp!) omitted entirely. So... the other day I found an album helpfully titled More Forgotten BBC . In the forum where I found this, there was a lot of back-and-forth over what had been officially released and whether or not More Forgotten BBC was an actual [...]
Dumping out the mailbox one last time this month with hopes of starting fresh in July. For regular viewers, it should come as no surprise when I say again there is a good variety of music on the platter, from hip-hop to metal and a few stops in between. One of the more interesting tracks is "Bad Driver," by Dudley Saunders. Saunders, who looks more like Tommy Gavin's sponsor on Rescue Me than a musician, spins an interesting tale in this song. I've listened to it several times and I'm still not sure if it's about road [...]
In the past hour, my childhood has passed in front of my eyes. Busy at work all day, I had no idea Farrah Fawcett had died until I got home this evening. I turned on the TV and saw that on the ticker while CNN was reporting first that Michael Jackson had been hospitalized, then that he had died. As of now (7 p.m. EST), the L.A. Times is reporting Michael has died, although that has not yet been officially confirmed. Neither [...]
I like to think that I'm pretty much on top of new music insofar as the stuff that interests me. That's why it totally took me by surprise when I read a couple of weeks ago about the latest supergroup, a band called Chickenfoot. Chickenfoot, for those who haven't heard, is the teaming of legendary rockers Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, and Chad Smith. The band, as the members say, "kicks a donkey's ass six ways to Sunday and back again." Chickenfoot came together almost by accident, [...]
Happy Father's Day to those of you to whom it applies. I've been away all weekend, but I wanted to get this post up tonight, and I'd like to dedicate it to the memory of my stepfather. My stepfather passed away last year. Due to some ridiculous circumstances beyond my control, there is/was a rift in the family and I had been out of touch with him for several years. He was part of my life much, much longer than my biological father, and I regret I wasn't able to see him before his death. [...]
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