Blog: Nothin' Sez Somethin'

Spirit - Groundhog Day from Clear, 1969.

You are all probably aware of the Dept. of Injustice attack on MegaUpload. I had numerous files stored there, so if you're trying to access any of that musick, just let me know in comments here & I'll do my best to re-up anything I can. Weird how this coincided with on-line protest against SOPA & PIPA. Glad ANONYMOUS struck back against those opposed to FREEDOM! Here's the story for anyone who is interested: Department of Injustice, Office of Pubic Affairs [...]

Freaks Kooks Psychos Ding-a-lings Fruitcakes Whack jobs Loopers Spazs Funky monkies Weirdos Nut jobs or nutters Yahoos Quacks Goobers Old Man Jenkinses Freaks " I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium. " Stephen Wright [...]

Tinariwen formed in 1982 but remained underground (Mali & Algeria both banned their political lyrics) until the group moved to the Malian capitol of Bamako in 1999. There the ten members drew on a rebel rock sensibility, openly playing their passionate, trance-like Desert Blues. Born in a region plagued by exile, war, & drought, Tinariwen (originally Taghreft Tinariwen, or 'edification of the lands') became known for vocalizing the political plight of endangered nomads. They were no strangers to armed conflict: Kheddou is said to have received 17 bullet wounds after leading several raids, armed only with [...]

I've always been a closet trip-hopper. Beth Gibbon's voice with Portishead never fails to touch that special spot, but all these years & only 3! I've always appreciated the similarity Siobhan de Maré & Gibbon's voices share...enjoying Siobhan's short stint with Mono. Shortly after her time with Mono, she was contacted by Robin Guthrie, former guitarist for the Cocteau Twins. After the Cocteau Twins were laid to rest, Elizabeth Fraser joined up with Massive Attack on Mezzanine , & Robin, along with fellow Cocteau band mate Simon Raymonde were busy running their Bella [...]

The Yobs were the alter-egos of The Boys. Following the release of Alternative Chartbusters , The Boys had a falling out with NEMS, their record company. So they bootlegged themselves as The Yobs for their Christmas 1978 offering of "Silent Night" b/w "Stille Nacht". After signing with Safari in 1979 "Little Drummer Boy" was given The Yobs treatment & appeared as "Rub A Dum Dum" in time for Christmas. After Baron von Bratboy left the band, the Yobs released "The Yobs Christmas Album" in 1980, [...]

Anonymous was kind enough to let me know that my Invisible Chains post was uploaded to drop.io & no longer available. I have re-uploaded it to mediafire, freshly ripped. Sorry if I have been less than attentive to this here blog, but it's harvest time in NoCal. My free time right now is non-existent but shortly I will return. I have been listening to King Tubby, The Scientist, & Thievery Corporation 24-7. Enjoy the Carla Noelle (Bozulich), NØ

Agent Nova I've posted musick by the great bizarro noise-rockers SteelPole BathTub here before, used to see them all the time in the late 80s/early 90s around San Francisco. Experimental electronica outfit Novex was actually a spinoff group from SteelPole BathTub. When the band moved over to Slash after being with Boner/Tupelo for several years, they met resistance with their idea of releasing a cover of The Cars debut album (finally released in 2002 as the SPBT album Unlistenable after a comment made by one of the Slash [...]

Something to listen to (& ponder) as you read: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Harry Irene , The Brown Star Sessions, bootleg 1972. I wrote this when I learned my old friend Mother Jim, an alcoholic for many years, had committed suicide by hanging himself from a rail-yard trestle. An article in the local paper began, "An unidentified man was found Thursday night hanging from the Fourth Street Railroad bridge. Cause of death was apparently suicide." [...]

One thing I've learned doing this blog is that out here amongst the byways of the Interweb there are a bunch of wisenheimers , wait, strike that, fonts of wisdom. I'm calling out to all you Brainiacs around the globe. Riddle me this: What ever became of Bronagh Slevin (musickally mostly...I don't mean I want to invade her privacy or anything...I not a stalker)??? Crustation was a trip-hop band, formed by Ian Dark, Stig Manley & Mark Tayler, three producers from Bristol. In the 80s they had played in bands with Adrian Utley of Portishead. [...]

Something to listen to while reading, if you so desire. White Car - No Better ep, Hippos in Tanks 4-song 12" HIT002, 2010. Side A - No Better Feel Hunt Side B - Spread Split Slap Reality Beat plus extra non-ep bonus track No Better (Gatekeeper Freundshaft remix) & now on with Story Time [...]

Something to listen to while reading, if you so desire. White Car - No Better ep, Hippos in Tanks 4-song 12" HIT002, 2010. Side A - No Better Feel Hunt Side B - Spread Split Slap Reality Beat plus extra non-ep bonus track No Better (Gatekeeper Freundshaft remix) & now on with Story Time [...]

Anyone that knows me, knows I'm always late to the party. I don't really socially network. I have my own small circle of friends & it's enough for me. I don't have cable TV, I don't read the newspaper, I don't listen to FM radio. I'm not totally oblivious, mind you. If events are really important to the planet or humanity, I somehow am aware of them by some weird quantum osmosis that I am unable to explain, either to you or myself. I believe it is imagicknation. I am really bad at checking comments on my old [...]

Carl Gustav Jung put forth the theory of "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." In my years on this planet, I have observed that the more deeply in-tuned one is with this so-called life, the more often these "occurrences"...well...occur. Recent case in point that spawned this rant. I was watching 30th Century Man the other night (the 2006 film about singer & musickian Scott Walker né Noel Scott Engel, once a part of the Walker Brothers...the fact that they were not brothers & were not Walkers was very kool). [...]

I think I first heard about/heard this over at Mutant Sounds . I downloaded it & listened to it on a regular basis, then finally the other day I got my hands on a copy. You can try it out & if you like it, you can go over to the Freaks Amour website & get all their stuff. I was having trouble with one track & I contacted Stuart Werner from Freaks A. He e-mailed me back the very next day saying the link was fixed & telling me about another track that was corrupted that [...]

Here's a masterpiece of magick musick FUNK!!! At times I think the perfection of the first cd is unsurpassable. I stop & listen to it over & over again. The Godzillatron funk metal of "Under the Influence"; the unfathomable beauty that is the cover of Hendrix's "If 6 was 9" & the best version ever of "Cosmic Slop"; then the disc ends with Eddie Hazel blistering the cosmos on "Pray My Soul" (listen to this with headphones, it's almost as great as "Maggot Brain"). So if you're not sure or not familiar with this sucka, then definitely get the first [...]

I posted some live X-Ray Spex from CBGBs over at Digital Meltd0wn. If you need some Marianne Elliot-Said that'll have to do. What can I say? What a firecracker! All us punx, x-punx, & x-ray spex are gonna miss ya. NØ

Dragged this out of the dusty vault after a friend told me about a fantastic show SL&G played March 12 at The Slaughterhouse in Berlin, Germany. Sad Lovers & Giant always had their strongest fan base in Europe, but this was their first ever show in Berlin. I think they are currently working on a new release & are also scheduled to play London later this summer (September 4th at the Purple Turtle). The set list from their recent show: Close To The Sea Alaska One Man's Hell Echoplay Vendetta Man Of Straw 3 Lines Happiness Is Fragile [...]

This is what I'm watchin' these days when I get a few moments to plop down my ass. "The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue [...]

This one is for Ib Sibling Something newer than Furious Angels Enjoy, NØ