The November installment of the Feel Bad For You Mixtape is up and streaming. The FBFY mixtape has entered a new segment of it’s life moving from a message board tape curated by Ms. Rockstar Aimz , of My Aimz Is True , to a mixtape put together by a collection of (mostly) like minded bloggers. You can stream it below and head over to the official FBFY mixtape web site for some dialog on why each song was selected. Track Listing: [...]
Austin Lucas, perennial 9B favorite , wants to record a new album. He wants to record a new album with none other than long time 9B darlings Glossary as his backing band! If you have seen these two touring together then you know exactly how epic this could be! If you haven't then I will assume that you are an invalid who is housebound because if you have turned down an opportunity to see these two together when you were physically able to do so then you should just go hang yourself right now! But [...]
Most of you probably remember Browan as the spotlight thieving guitarist in Jason Isbell's backing band, The 400 Unit. Well, since leaving (?) the 400 Unit Browan has found a home with the fellas at This Is American Music and has just released a highly polished debut EP that you can have for 4 dollars . That's less than a dollar a song. The only way to get it cheaper would be to illegally download it. But don't do that . Save the thievery for bands that don't deserve your money. Like Mumford and [...]
After taking a week off for my wife's birthday we came back with what largely turned into the all request hour. Good thing they were all good requests. So if Jason Isbell, The Drive-By Truckers, Glossary, Dwight Yoakam and a whole slew of other awesome sounds like a good hour to you; put some ears on the archived stream of the show . Below is the playlist for November 08, 2012 [Artist - Song (Album)] 01. Truckstop Darlin' - I See You (Hope and The Heart It Breaks) [...]
It seems that there is still one constant in a world that’s slowly getting closer to that Zombie apocalypse most of us have been preparing for. No matter how much crap we have to take, fantastic music keeps getting written and released. Andrew Combs “Worried Man” was high on the list of albums I’ve been really looking forward to this year, and it does not disappoint. I discovered his EP “Tennessee Time” after Autopsy IV wrote about him in 2010, and reviewed it for my norwegian blog. I’ve been keeping tabs on him ever since, and [...]
A lot of the music I listen to is at times slightly noisy with electric guitars trying to create magic just by being loud. And I enjoy it. Mostly. But the enjoyment is a two-edged sword, as it makes it harder to open up my ears to music that's either acoustic or closer to pop. At times, when listening to submitted albums - I suspect some of them are written off just because they don't sound like the music I enjoy listening to at that point in time. Unfair, maybe - but music is subjective, and with the number of [...]
Nashville’s Allen Thompson gave it a good run, but the longer he worked at being a solo artist, the more he knew he needed to be in a band. So, sometime in early 2011 he formed the six piece ensemble, The Allen Thompson Band, and they went to work polishing the songs Allen had been struggling with. The result is Salvation In The Ground , a 9 track love letter to that 70’s era Southern rock and roll sound. Think more Eagles than Skynyrd. Salvation , save for a few stumbles, manages to be vintage without [...]
If you’ve been reading Nine Bullets you might remember me praising the David Wax Museum last year. Their album Everything Is Saved was in my top ten for the year and “The Least I Can Do” was my favorite song. Needless to say, when I got an email about their Pledge Music campaign for the next album I found the twenty bucks to send over. It seemed like months and months between the time I sent some money and the email showed up with the download and I hadn’t been blown away with the snippets I [...]
I was made aware of Harley Poe via a Ninebullets Radio request from Gina Truitt of The Well and I pretty much fell in love immediately. As their bio says, Harley Poe doesn’t simply write songs about killers and monsters. Harley Poe writes songs about being killers and monsters and they do it in an incredibly infectious and fun manner. Hard to believe this project was birthed while lead singer/writer, Joe Whiteford was fronting the christian band, Calibretto 13 . Calibretto 13’s label found it less than comfortable as well it seems [...]
After 4 MEDIOCRE albums, Aldean finally has a complete work. That's what I hear and its obvious-I have never been a big fan of Aldean's style or material so I listened to this album not expecting much. Oh was I wrong. One listen through this album and I was blown away and after 50 listens, nothing has changed. I'm HIGHLY selective and critical of most musicians-you need to do something special to impress me and Aldean as done that with this record. I'd read critics reviews of Aldean's prior albums and they would say things like "the new [...]
Despair, cheap whiskey, and stale cigarette smoke are the first things that come to mind when I listen to Hope And The Heart It Breaks . It reminds me of walking in to the wrong bar at just the right time. You all know what I am talking about, you've been there. Some nights you need a place that's off the beaten path, a little run down, and where no one knows or cares who you are. As far as I am concerned Truckstop Darlin's sophmore effort fills that void perfectly. With Hope And The [...]
Some Dark Holler sounds exactly like what you think they would sound like with a name like that. But I could be wrong because I’ve never seen a light holler. On “Bar Tabs”, the opening cut, the harmonica sounds like it bounces off at least two hillsides before reaching the rest of the band and on the next song, “Cry For Me” the fiddle sounds like it’s traced the steps of the harmonica. Maybe that’s where the longing in the sound comes from, but I could be wrong. Hollow Chest is a mood record, yet [...]
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LOL. Last night's show starts a tad rough. The Buccaneers were playing a game and I was so distracted by the game I forgot to plug the audio cables into the stations soundboard. We managed to get our feet under us and pump out a decent show in the end. So if brand new Snakehealers, Maldives, Sturgill Simpson, Kasey Anderson and Have Gun Will Travel spiced with some comedic interlude courtesy of Earl Dibbles Jr. sounds good to you, put some ears on the archived stream of the show . Below is the playlist for October [...]
I'd say the general reaction I got from people when I announced I was going to see Flobots was 50 percent "Who?" and 50 percent "The Handlebar dudes?" Yes, the dudes responsible for 2008 hit single "Handlebars" dropped into Orpheum in support of their third and most recent release, The Circle in the Square , and I was very interested in how they'd sound four years after releasing that infuriatingly catchy track. Local prog-hip hop band Samurai Shotgun hit the stage first and impressed the hell out of me. I know [...]
I’m not old and I don’t feel old but one sign of the aging process setting in on you is when you get your first ongoing medical condition. I’ve only got one and it’s not something that’s going to put me in the ground but I do have to deal with it on a daily basis. Several years ago the doctor at the clinic told me I had gout and that there were some things I needed to watch, eating wise, and that I needed to swallow this little pill every morning after breakfast. One of the things [...]
I'm of the school that the most important quality of a writer is his/her/hir deftitude at balancing humor and heartbreak. One isn't true without the other, not for any prolonged period of time. For high office in this school, Carolyn Mark runs unopposed. The Queen of Vancouver Island is Carolyn Mark's seventh album. In the past she's sung the vulnerable and farcical songs of alcoholism ("what a wino/what do I know?"), infidelity ("point of view/what's the point of you?"), and not being terribly famous ("you're at the Irish bar, not [...]
The other day I was driving down the street listening to NPR and drinking a 3 dollar cup of coffee as we 30-somethings are known to do. I’m not sure what show was on as I’m, normally, more of a sports talk radio than NPR guy but it featured an author and he was talking about how above all else you have to write from an honest place. That (to a certain extent) honesty trumps quality wordsmithing every time. Hearing him explain this made something click and I finally knew how I was gonna write about Joe Pug’s new album, [...]
Muscle Shoals is pushing out more good music than an episode of Ninebullets Radio these days. Added to the mix is The Pollies and their new album, Where The Lies Begin . Focused on making an album of songs in lieu of singles, Where The Lies Begin took the band 2+ years to make. The result is finding universal praise from bloggers to those print media dinosaurs. So check it out, you might be finding one of your favorite albums of the year:
Nine Bullets
Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
Black Hippy - U.O.E.N.O.
HAERTS: “All The Days”
DANCE BITCH DANCE: disclosure - when a fire starts to burn
