In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Lydia Millet is one of my favorite writers, and her first collection of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys marries celebrities with animals to great effect. These keenly written interactions of human and animal move these tales forward and offer rare insights into the human psyche as well as our celebrity-obsessed culture. The Los Angeles Times wrote of the book: "Lydia Millet's first [...]
San Francisco's the Fresh & Onlys make for great autumn listening. There's something gothy about their psychedelic rock 'n' roll swing, but the sort of vintage wind-blown vibe that's more internal than dyed hair or eyeliner. That atmosphere was definitely there on " Invisible Forces " and " Dude's Got A Tender Heart ." You know, a sort of refined Gun Club garage thing (they still do mention Buzzcocks, Mekons, and Country Joe and the Fish as favorites). As far as their employment info, bassist Shayde Sartin explained: I'm the only one currently with a full-time job. I [...]
Hailing from Chicago's West Side the YellowHammers have being around since 1994 but have managed to fly under my radar until now, the band are set to release their self-titled fourth album later this month. The band are Terry White (guitar, harmonica, vocals), Rob Pierce (vocals, guitar), Kevin James (bass, vocals), Phil Levin (drums), Tom Kneesel (pedal steel, guitar), the eleven track album includes a faithful cover of R.E.M.'s ( Don't Go Back to) Rockville and ten originals. [...]
It's fucking windy and rainy and shitty in NYC. The Mekons - Chivalry
The daily mix: 1) Dr. Feelgood: "Watch Your Step" 2) Buffalo Killer: "Down in the Blue" 3) Wild Billy Childish: "Medway Sadness" 4) Dinosaur Jr.: "It's Me" 5) Ludella Black and the Masonics: "The Pill That I Take" 6) The Breeders: "So Sad About Us" 7) The Go-Betweens: "Here Comes a City" 8) The Mekons: "His Bad Dream" 9) Reigning Sound: "Straight Shooter" 10) The Supersuckers: "Someday I Will Kill You"
Big Audio Dynamite - C'Mon Every Beatbox The Men They Couldn't Hang - Shirt of Blue The The - Infected China Crisis - Arizona Sky The Primitives - We've Found A Way To The Sun Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - Boat To Bolivia Lone Justice - Shelter Colenso Parade - Fontana Eyes The Mekons - Slightly South of the Border Swing Out Sister [...]
The Associates released ' Club Country ' on April 26th 1982, which appeared on their third album, Sulk . The B side was a non-LP track. The 12 inch version added "Ulcragyceptemol" (added as a bonus to Sulk when it was re-released) and a remixed version of "Club Country". The single reached the #10 spot on the U.K. singles chart. AND I HADN'T HEARD OF THIS BAND UNTIL LIKE 2 MONTHS AGO. It's pretty shocking, actually, especially considering how much they resemble early Cure and Factory artists like A Certain Ratio or Happy Mondays. In fact, Michael Dempsey [...]
TUNE IN Today For The Last Shadow Puppets, Ipso Facto, Brakes, Miike Snow, Bad Lieutenant, Johnny Foreigner, Architecture In Helsinki, Mekons, The Bouncing Souls, Fol Chen, Yes Boss, Colourfast, Peaches, Wonder Stuff, Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls and 111 more!
TUNE IN Today For Mekons, Matt & Kim, Anton Sword & The We Ours, Franz Ferdinand, The Cribs, Andy White, Architecture In Helsinki, Spinnerette, Florence & The Machine, Longwave, Squeeze, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The BPA, Band Of Skulls, The Clash and 111 more!
Featuring: 1 Your Cheatin' Heart Beck Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute Orig. Hank Williams 2 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session Orig. Hank Williams [...]
The daily mix: 1) Tom Petty: "Insider" 2) Elliott Smith: "Punch and Judy" 3) The Flying Burrito Brothers: "Wild Horses" 4) The Builders and the Butchers: "Down in the Hole" 5) The Jacobites: "She Never Believes" 6) Jarvis Cocker: "From Auschwitz To Ipswich" 7) Magnolia Electric Co.: "Little Sad Eyes" 8) Blitzen Trapper: "Boss King" 9) The Mekons: "Ice Rink in Berlin" 10) Art Brut: "Sound of Summer"
Filed under: Around the World Hard not to look at the choice of 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' for the lone cover on 'rivermudtwilight,' the first album by the super-trio Les Triaboliques , as coming with some subtext. After all, "misunderstood" is almost a default setting for these guys, each with histories of doing music that sometimes might have confused and confounded people. Ben Mandelson very purposefully confounded -- and delighted -- many in the guise of Hijaz Mustapha with the high jinks (and high-standards in music) in the [...]
Despite the colorful palm trees on the cover, San Francisco lo-fi psych-garage crew the Fresh & Onlys' Grey-Eyed Girls is proving to be a great soundtrack for the shift from summer to fall. After seeing the quintet -- who reference the Buzzcocks, Mekons, and Country Joe & the Fish as influences -- at Todd P's Woodsist-curated SXSW '09 event I described them as "an autumnal Sticks & Stones." Now that it's actually colder out, it's good to see an off-the-cuff remark made in 90-something degree weather sticks. You definitely got a sense of the chill [...]
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir are neither from Scotland nor do they play gospel. The Chicago band release their new album ...and the horse you rode in on on September 15th on Bloodshot Records. The play rock. In fact they sort of remind me of some weird cross between The Mekons and Okkervill River. And by the way, don't confuse the album title with this one.Stop - The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Decade: 2 (2002-2003)the unknown bomber, Baghdad, 2003Verses 4,5,6; chapters 8,9,10.Ivor Cutler, Once a Fortnight.The Mekons, Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem.The New Pornographers, The Laws Have Changed.Auguries and imprecations: Ivor Cutler, the last eccentric: recorded in 2002, dead in 2006; Mekons on OOOH!, their best LP of the decade, 2002; New Pornographers on 2003's Electric Version ("What
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir are neither from Scotland nor do they play gospel. The Chicago band release their new album ...and the horse you rode in on on September 15th on Bloodshot Records . The play rock. In fact they sort of remind me of some weird cross between The Mekons and Okkervill River. And by the way, don't confuse the album title with this one . Stop - The Scotland Yard Gospel [...]
With a rabblerousing "supergroup" line-up, the Waco Brothers are all set to storm the High Noon with their hardcore play-like-your-life-depends-on -it live presence and blend of country/punk/rock. The line-up consists of Marc Durante (KMFDM), Tracy Dear (World's Greatest Living Englishman), Deano (Dollar Store), Alan Doughty (Jesus Jones),Steve Goulding (Mekons, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Graham Park & the Rumour), and Jon Langford (Mekons, Pine Valley Cosmonauts). They have been praised for their exhilarating and rowdy stage presence, whether at home in Chicago, IL or at SXSW. Their latest release, "Live and Kickin' it at [...]
With a rabblerousing "supergroup" line-up, the Waco Brothers are all set to storm the High Noon with their hardcore play-like-your-life-depends-on -it live presence and blend of country/punk/rock. The line-up consists of Marc Durante (KMFDM), Tracy Dear (World's Greatest Living Englishman), Deano (Dollar Store), Alan Doughty (Jesus Jones),Steve Goulding (Mekons, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Graham Park & the Rumour), and Jon Langford (Mekons, Pine Valley Cosmonauts). They have been praised for their exhilarating and rowdy stage presence, whether at home in Chicago, IL or at SXSW. Their latest release, "Live and Kickin' it at [...]
THEORY REALLY HAS HAD IT THIS TIME, THE YOUTH SCENE IS POLARIZING BETWEEN THOSE WHO WANT MEDIA BLOW OUT AND THOSE WHO WANT TO BLOW OUT THE MEDIA. FUCK ANYONE WHO IS STILL PREPARED TO PLAY A ROLE: COMMUTER AND POP STAR, MYSTIC AND HOUSEWIFE. ALL IN ALL THE BASTARDS IN BLUE ARE JUST A RED HERRING. THE UNDERGROUND PRESS IS PURE CRAP BUT THE DIGGERS APPEARING OUT OF THIS ARE REALLY GOING SOMEWHERE. THE REFUSAL implicit in the dropout lifestyle [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Camper Van Beethoven : 1989-08-01 [mp3,ogg,flac] "Flowers" [mp3] Camper Van Beethoven : 1988-01-01, San Diego [mp3,ogg,flac] "No Flies on Us" [mp3] other Camper Van Beethoven posts at Largehearted Boy Cracker : 2009-08-04, Charlotte [mp3,ogg,flac] "Eurotrash Girl" [mp3] other Cracker posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
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