I hate to start Pound for Pound back up on a sad note, but it is what it is. The music world and the city of Philadelphia lost one of its great ones on December 5, 2009 - Jack Rose . For those that don't know, Rose was one of the great guitar players and experimental musicians around. He was a founding member of the seminal noise band Pelt , then spent most of this decade making solo music on his acoustic guitar. He mixed country, blues, ragtime, ragas, avant garde sounds, all on [...]
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Grateful Dead, "St. Stephen" ( YSI link ) Grateful Dead, "Eleven" ( YSI link ) Wow, amazingly, we're back. I imagine that everyone has given up on Pound for Pound , as I kinda did too. But, things have calmed down and we are about to enter the Summer of Love '09 and you need Pound for Pound to guide your way through this epic season. That's right, 40 years later, it's time for a rebirth of the psychedelic vibes, epic jams and communal spirit. There's no better intro [...]
Ash Ra Tempel, "Amboss" ( YSI link ) 320 Time to fly our German freak flag, as we begin to dip into the krautrock pool. I want to first have us worship at the Ash Ra Tempel , one of the most influential of the genre. Formed in the 1970s from the ashes of the Conrad Schnitzler's short lived group Eruption , the band featured Manuel Gottsching on guitar, Hartmut Enke on bass and Klaus Schulze on drums and keys. Those are some serious names, so it's not surprise [...]
Grateful Dead, Live at the Fillmore West February 27, 1969 Set 2 Dupree's Diamond Blues ( YSI link ) Mountains of the Moon Dark Star ( YSI link ) ---> St. Stephen ---> The Eleven ---> Turn On Your Lovelight ( YSI link ) Cosmic Charlie Here's the conclusion to the first night of the epic four-night run, [...]
Grateful Dead, Live at the Fillmore East February 27, 1969 Good Morning, Little School Girl ( YSI link ) Doin' That Rag ( YSI link ) The Other One (Cryptical>Drums>The Other One>Cryptical) ( YSI link ) Over the coming months, I want to start adding a more psychedelic edge to the blog, take things back to the late 60s and early 70s to those weirdo sounds that sound so good today. I can't think of a better way to get started than commemorating [...]
Heaven 17, "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (LP Version)" ( YSI link ) Heaven 17,. "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Full Length 12" Mix)" ( YSI link ) Back with a bang, a classic 80s synth pop dance classic. Heaven 17 were a new wave-y band that was intimately connected to the amazing electronic rock music coming out of the UK in the early 80s. The band was formed by Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware when they split from their group called [...]
The Dells, "Get On Down (Theo Parrish Re-edit)" ( YSI link ) Minnie Ripperton, "Stick Together (Theo Parrish Re-edit)" ( YSI link ) Let's get back ready for the weekend with some disco . That's right, more Ugly Edits from Theo Parrish ! We've posted up one or two other volumes of this series, essential music, some of the greatest edits that I've ever heard, as the Detroit techno third waver and Chicago house-man shows his disco side. The "Get On Down" edit has sweaty [...]
Armando presents Robert Armani, "Circus Bells (Armando's mix)" ( YSI link ) Armando presents Robert Armani, "Circus Bells (full length original mix)" ( YSI link ) Okay, I lied about getting back into the swing of things. Seriously though, I'm getting back into the swing of things, starting....NOW! It's been a minute since we dropped any house music here, time to remedy that grave error. What better way to remedy it than with a stone cold Chicago acid house classic, Robert Armani's "Circus Bells" ? This one's the B [...]
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, "Wake Up Everyday" ( YSI link ) 320 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, "Keep On Lovin' You" ( YSI link ) 320 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, "I'm Searching For A Love" ( YSI link ) 320 Here's the logical follow-up to our Dimitri From Paris edits , a return to the original source material, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ! Yeah! Here's a few tracks from their 1975 Philadelphia International LP , Wake [...]
Dimitri From Paris, "Madd Luck" ( YSI link ) Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, "Bad Luck" ( YSI link ) Dimitri From Paris, "Feeling About 'Cha" ( YSI link ) Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, "Tell The World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby" We're jumping right back in the mix here, with two edits from the master, Dimitri From Paris . Dude is probably best known now for his Playboy Mansion mixes , which feature a [...]
Bob Dylan, "Chimes of Freedom" (live at Newport Festival 1964) It's a beautiful day for America, as we inaugurated Barack Obama and we realized that George W. Bush can no longer destroy this country. Not much I can really add to this moment, just to say how wonderful a feeling it is to wake up into what feels like a genuinely new world. These past 8 years have been a nightmare, at times one that felt like it would never end. Well, it's over and you can hear the chimes of freedom. I love you all, let's get [...]
Get ready NYC. Korrupt VII. Throne Of Blood. Dances With White Girls, Mattie Safer of The Rapture and WiZ. Meanred Productions. Good People.The divine Lorraine Sangre hosting. 88 Palace, 88 E. Broadway. This one's so rad, all I need is declarative sentences. Be there.
Gilberto Gil, "Bat Macumba" ( YSI link ) Jorge Ben, "Take It Easy My Brother Charlie" ( YSI link ) Tom Ze, "Jimmy Renda-se" ( YSI link ) G-d, it's been way too long since we had an update here. I'm really sorry, but I've been knee-deep in the grad school application process and have needed to reserve every brilliant thought and witty prose for my personal. We're coming to the finish line with that, so it seemed like a good time to jump back in here. [...]
I was fortunate enough to attend that rarest of rare occurences, a live Suicide show , last Thursday night. It was my second time seeing them, as I also caught their free show at the South Street Seaport last summer; nothing quite as weird as seeing the darkest of bands playing outdoor in the sunshine to a crowd full of drunk yuppies. This time, they chose the odd venue of Club Europa in Greenpoint , a two-floor club that mostly hosts local acts, not seminal ones that have influenced everything that has come since. It's actually [...]
Suicide, "23 Minutes Over Brussels" ( YSI link ) Every so often I like to focus on one particular artist or genre for a bit and that time has come again. I caught one of my favorite bands of all-time, Suicide , last Thursday night at Club Europa in Greenpoint, Brooklyn . I'll have more to say on that later, but for now I wanted to start posting up some live Suicide music. There's no other place to start than the duo's most infamous show, June 16, 1978, live at the Anciennes [...]
Friendly Fires, "Paris (Aeroplane remix)" ( YSI link ) 320 "I promise, someday, we're gonna live in Paris." How could I not love this song with a lyric like that and a remix by new disco kings Aeroplane . We're in the midst of horrible rainy/snowy weather here in NYC right now, so it's nice to have this cosmic and sunny remix to remind us that the summer is coming around again. Just listen to those warm keys and handclaps and tell me you don't see yourself on an beach on some isolated island watching the [...]
Chuck Chillout, KISS FM radio show August 28, 1986 ( YSI link ) Here's something fun to kick off the week, as we continue to try to dig into the first decade or so of rap music. A real radio show from the mid-80s NYC! It's a great blast from the past, a chance to hear the earliest days of rap music in its most natural setting, the hour and fifteen minute straight mix. Hard to overstate how important these shows were to the development of hip-hop, as they gave the new genre a sense of importance [...]
Talking Heads, "Heaven" ( YSI link ) Talking Heads, "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" ( YSI link ) This seems like the logical follow-up to the Greg Wilson edits, going back to the Talking Heads album that that edit came from. Stop Making Sense was the concert film shot in December 1983, directed by Jonathan Demme, that remains one of, if not the, greatest concert film ever shot. I'm partial to The Grateful Dead Movie , but you should definitely add this to your Netflix [...]
How can you not help this little guy out?!? No, this is not a request to help out Mr. Bob Dylan. It's much more important, as a little dog needs the help of the Pound for Pound masses. Little Dylan, pictured above, developed a possible brain infection Wednesday afternoon and his devoted owners, Alana and Dimitry, took him to the ER at the New York Medical Center, where he underwent tests. He's going to make it, which is great news, as the vet was able to figure out that there was nothing wrong neurologically [...]
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