Much of the nation, most especially the mid-west and the south, have been trapped under a dome of extreme heat for the past month or so, while the Northeast has been dipping in and out of excessive temperatures for weeks. Here in the west, we've had a mild summer with below average temperatures for most [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
I think that I had to be sixteen or seventeen before I ever held an electric guitar. It must have been a BC Rich as it belonged to the younger brother of my buddy Beej and younger brother was a metalhead who aspired to join Dave Murray and Adrian Smith in Iron Maiden. The next time I ever held a guitar was a good five years later. A housemate in college, Billy, owned a white '64 Gibson SG. Many nights we'd be hanging out in the living room watching some bad movie on [...]
Yup, it's Sunday, and that means it's time to kick back, and read a magazine or book, surf the web, do Christmas cards or tree decorating, and fire up the S-25 Mix. As with all of IRC's playlists and mixes, just click the first song and the Yahoo media player will automatically stream through all [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
"If they wanted to call me Rumpelstiltskin, I would have done it to have the opportunity to make records. Johnny Cougar indeed. - John Mellencamp Okay. Let's get it out of our systems....get your John Cougar snickers...your "My Country" joke...your "Corporat.....ERR....Heartland rock joke....Get them all out of the way now. When you're done we'll talk about this release like adults. Done? It's okay, I get it. I'll wait. No, there is no need to apologize. Just get it out of your system and then [...]
Not long ago, someone asked me to name my favorite place that I've ever visited and my brain immediately locked onto faraway places like Dublin, Paris, and Hong Kong. However, over the past couple weeks, childhood memories have nudged a locale far closer and far less exotic into mind. Sure, if anyone wants to hook Paloma me up with round-trip tickets to Dublin, Paris, or Hong Kong, those tickets will be used, but - at this moment, here in the midst of summer - the place I think I'd most like to spend some time is a small [...]
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about Walter Schreifels ' new record is that it sounds completely effortless, like the hardcore/post-hardcore luminary is not even breaking a sweat, like the music simply exists out there in the universe waiting to flow through whenever Mr. Schreifels picks up a guitar and opens his mouth. There are, of course, other surprises: for example, sometimes when Schreifels here picks up a guitar and opens his mouth the music sounds like Squeeze , or John Cougar , or Maritime . But these surprises do not eclipse Schreifels' startling ease with acoustic [...]
This is quite simply one of "the" sampled songs of the 1980s/1990s....The simple 4 beat ''shout and whoop" drum break (that quickly became the trademark of the... High quality download and some links hidden from RSS feed, click through to http://www.feelmybicep.com for full download
From Convoy to Sean Penn's cinematic interpretation of the Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman," called The Indian Runner , filmmakers have fairly often looked to narrative songs for inspiration. Sadly, more times than not, they either seem to miss the mark (see: The Gambler ) or end up making a movie that has nothing much to do with the song ( Jumpin' Jack Flash ). However, sometimes they do succeed fairly well and we get an enjoyable movie like Alice's Restaurant or [...]
Long before he reclaimed his name as John Mellencamp, there was an artist named John Cougar, a heartland rocker from Indiana in the vein of Bob Seger who had released a handful of albums in the late '70s to relative indifference from the public. Cougar had managed to hit the Top 40 in 1979 with an ode to frustration called I Need A Lover , but even that success was overshadowed by a version of the song by Pat Benatar. Undaunted, backed by his long-time band and produced by guitarist Steve Cropper (of Booker T. & The [...]
This is a Facebook thing I swore I'd never do, but then I realized that swearing to never do such things is just about as doltish as actually doing them. Crippled with paradoxical boredom I decided to move forward with a 25 Things thing, figuring I might be able to flip it into something less "read my diary" and more "Sing Your Life." I mean, ain't nobody wants to know my sleeping habits and what I last had for dinner, but maybe we can all stand to learn a little more about me musically. And then, [...]
John Cougar Jack & Diane [ purchase ] As a child of the 80's John Cougar always struck me as sort of a wannabe Bruce Springsteen. I suppose there's a little more to him than that, but I have never really been a big fan. That being said, Jack & Diane has always been a pretty cool song, and since most of the other really awesome Johns have been taken I figured I'd feature it here. John Cougar has exactly two other songs that I like, [...]
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