Mary Timony is the sort of musician who has been a part of so many projects that it's hard to pick two! Autoclave seem like the obvious choice but Helium really did it for me. I got on board with Pirate Prude and they never lost me. One of my most fond memories is going to see Helium with my friend T at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco. It was one of those nights when everything worked out - the show was sold out so we arrived very early to make sure we got in. Having [...]
In 1994 I got super into Excuse 17. Saw them play quite a few times and somehow started corresponding with their guitar player. I had informed her that if they ever needed a place to crash while touring to let me know. In the summer of 1995 I received a postcard asking if her new band could crash at my place en route to L.A. from Olympia. They did indeed stay over and gave me a copy of their first cd for my trouble. However, it was their drummer who I really hit it off with. I went to all [...]
I moved to the east coast from Sacramento about 2 1/2 years ago but I cannot escape the music that comes out of that place. There is a group of people there that put shows on for no reason other than they love the bands. Venues there right now are practically non-existent. Every few years Davis and Sacramento seem to trade off on where the majority of shows are happening. Seems like Davis is stepping up right now with house shows. The city has been morphing and changing into something unrecognizable - generic outdated clubs that belong back in the [...]
Another sort of monumental musical thing for me was queercore. Freaky queers have been in the music world for a long time, but this was the first time I was encountering music that I felt a real connection to. People were singing about shit that I was living! In 1996 there was a queercore festival in San Francisco called Dirty Bird. At that point, I really didn't think anything could be more amazing. A lot of bands played the event (Cypher In The Snow, The Need, Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live), but I was most excited to see [...]
Let's travel back in time to an era before the internet. A time when things like discovering new music wasn't a click away. I've been obsessed with music since I was 3 years old. Any early memory I have is associated with music somehow. Lucky for me, I was the last of 5 kids so I was exposed to A LOT of different types of music while growing up. My mom spoiled me with Motown. Not all of my siblings were so kind - a lot of Journey, Hall & Oates, disco, and Top 40 in the late 70s and [...]
As I figure out hosting mp3s and such I will be posting things of that nature here. As someone who has been in bands and released music on independent labels, worked at a college radio station, and who generally loves and supports independent music and labels I would like to make clear from the get go that my only hope is that if you hear something here and like it PLEASE go out and buy it! Other assorted things such as opinions on restaurants, perhaps some recipes, and various thoughts as they enter my head and leave my fingers.
Logical Logic
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
