Yep, folks. This is it. Time for new posts has slipped due to new projects (and school). But I will still be around mp3blogville! So we need not say final goodbyes or anything like that. However, the songs you see available now will disappear by the first of August. Thanks for everything, guys. Two years is about long enough to do anything. And there are about 2 million mp3 blogs popping up every day, so... see you around. ~Neal
(not including "Happy" ) * Read the story behind this 1971 masterpiece here * from the original Stones album: Turd On The Run mp3 Ventilator Blues mp3 I Just Want to See His Face mp3 Let it Loose [...]
(Below is a quick tribute to Bob & his Gimme Tinnitus ...) Q: Who has received the most posts here in the last two years? A: It's them Texas acid freaks -- way, way up at the top of the pile. piouhgd got the first bit of props ; and then last summer Rembrandt was featured. So it was only a matter of time before their 1987 album [...]
Rarely is it the case that this blog pounces on the moment to address the really important issues... And after a long time wrestling with what to post today, I was saved by our pal and sometime Blank Crisis correspondant, Joel Rowsdower. He sent us this article about a film coming soon, The Purple Brain . (I searched for trailers, but no-could-find.) The plot is as follows: Sure, the pot you and your 40-something peers once enjoyed may have been innocuous, but that's only because it bears [...]
This is probably the last podcast for a while. Until August or whenever I can get some other personal crap together. Remember, you may access previous mixes at any time by clicking labels: podcasts at the bottom. And don't forget to subscribe while yr at it! [...]
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In honor of this weekend's 40th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival -- which effectually broke this American artist in his homeland. I am not posting that legendary performace here today, but if you'd like, YouTube it below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 I had originally envisioned today's post in the podcast format, with my friend Andy sharing some [...]
I'm totally with the Punk Guy on this one . And there are only a handful of bands left I'd kill to see reunite & tour again. Released a year prior to that which I spotlighted in the last post , FNM returned from their genre-shattering Angel Dust record, sans longtime guitarist , and delivered something a little more accessible, but no less brilliant. It was called... well, you know ... [...]
You say you hate this band ... and frankly, so do I. But shortly after the release of their third album (left) in 1996, I was won over for a spell. Why? I ask myself. Perhaps because it nods off to the best in '70s glam rock. Maybe because it's so trashy-- fucking slutty, even. Like getting crazy head behind a fast food joint from someone you barely know, right between the dumpster and the grease trap. Not that I would know what that's like. Tumble in [...]
Not long ago, I closed a podcast with a track by this Athens artist -- a man completely devoid of a Web presence these days, apparently. Oh well. Some fellow Georgians out there might recall him as the dreaded kat underneath the hat working the register at Low Yo Yo's . He also played for a time (I'm unsure as to whether this is still the case) in self-described "improv-noise freaks" Garbage Island . Jewel On mp3 [...]
Introducing a new feature here on the ol' Crisis -- the ZIP CLUB ! I will try to post a classic record in its entirety once a month for as long as I feel like it. The idea is that folks coming in from the Hype will not be privy, unless they do a bit of looking around at the site (i.e. the opposite of grab & go readership). And don't think of it as me punishing those folks; I know they will come around some day. Think of it more as a way I can [...]
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This blog has entered Year 3, and with that comes a new design. And feedback is appeciated. Tried to post this once, and it was a long one, but blogger ate it somehow. So let's try this again... If you could go back and talk to my 15-year-old self, in 1990, and asked me who my favorite bands were at that moment, I would probably tell you: Jane's , The Cure , and this band, which happens to be our selection for today: This was obviously [...]
Much has been written about this one, and so I'll just compile what I can from various sources below. I bought it just a few weeks prior to his death in 1999 . A former Moby Grape and Airplane member, Spence suffered from schizophrenia, and during a 1968 recording of Grape's 2nd album, attempted to break down a bandmate's hotel room door with a fire axe while on LSD. He was committed for six months to the criminal ward [...]
Thanks to Joel for reporting to me this wonderful news a couple'a weeks ago. You may recall I I wished it upon a post last December... More again from my fave Spillage: Time Trap mp3 Else mp3 You Were Right mp3 Temporarily Blind mp3 Broken Chairs mp3
WAIT!... WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!... JUST A JOKE!!!! 'Zat more like it? I hope so. One thing I like most about this record from 1978 , apart from the obvious, is the way the drums sound. And if you didn't already know-- that's one Mr. Pete Thomas bashing the skins all the livelong day. I should probably tell you that I can do a great (if I say so [...]
Dance! ( mp3 ) For: Robert Stitt, 48, mortally wounded in a "battle dance" yesterday.
I mentioned this group in my last post . And I realized how incredibly reductive I sounded in describing the new oM music. My apologies for that. Please take a bite outta Side Two (below) from their 1978 debut and forget I said anything at all. Too Much Paranoias mp3 . Hold the pickles./ Hold the lettuce./ Special orders don't upset us./ All we ask is that you let us serve it your way!!! Taken from [...]
If you've got some time to kill, head over to the online baseball comic my pal Ernie & his collaborator, Sean, have created at Friendly Confines . Tell 'em I sent you, too. Sheesh. It's been a while since I've done one of these-- but alas, another Georgia Music Post. And what other band is more deserving of my love and adoration? From twinkly townie-folk to global glam through a Devo-ish blender, today's pick are one of the scant few remaining [...]
In BC news: For those of you tired of keying in that dash between the Blank and the Crisis-- or can't be bothered with the whole dot-blogspot noize-- your fingers will soon thank me. I registered a sweet spot for us on the Internets yesterday where we continue to do our thang: blankcrisis.com . [...]
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