Sonic Youth: One of my longtime crushes. Their last two albums have not only been good, but some of the best music of their storied career. The latter of the two, 2004’s Sonic Nurse, continues where Murray Street left off, expanding and riffing on familiar themes and motifs recognizable to any veteran fan. The tracks [...]
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Tim Buckley – Buzzin’ FlyMP3: Tim Buckley – Dream Letter ———–Amazon: Tim Buckley – Happy/Sad
Part III of the Soundtrack Enthusiast Series. For the most part I have enjoyed the majority of Cameron Crowe’s films…not so fast Elizabethtown. Having said that, Elizabethtown’s soundtrack — as the norm with all Crowe’s films — was good, especially the “road-trip” sequence toward the end. Below are some tracks post-Say Anything. Read part two: [...]
The Rambling Canuck highlights some of his favorite underrated artists
The Big Takeover Twenty-Five Years On: A Silver Anniversary Interview
Sunny (Brooklyn) waxes poetic on New Orleans’ musical legends
Between Thought & Expression tells us a bigass iPod is on the way
Big Rock Candy Mountain continues it’s excellent Christmas tunes feature
Exile On Hicks Street spreads the gospel of [...]
“The Who is a bloody wild animal and it has to be fed chunks of raw meat and Southern Comfort. It can’t feed on anything less.”
–Pete Townshend, New York Times, June 13th, 1974.
The Who: bombastic, excessive, crude, vulgar, drunk, unfashionably fucking awesome. Through a vicodin haze (er, neck injury) I recently sat down to [...]
Long weekends are a slice of heaven. Long weekends coupled with Thanksgiving leftovers are one step closer. While going through some old records post-feast I happened upon Kathleen Edwards’ 2003 debut Failer. Failer is one of those albums that sounds like an old friend you haven’t seen in awhile, yet things pick up right where [...]
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold (grooverider’s mix) MP3: Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold (rabbit in the moons mix)————–Amazon: Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold (single/import)
So I am curious to hear who got on board with eMusic, and what albums you procured. Last week I downloaded GBV “Under The Bushes, Under The Stars,” Sun Records “The Sun Essentials,” and Fugazi’s “Furniture EP.” A lot of the independent labels are playing ball it seems, so this may become my one-stop-shop in [...]
I posted about Thad back in June and referred to him as “a phenomenal north carolina singer/songwriter working the twang….hate to make comparisons, but imagine the quieter moments of a young whiskeytown-era ryan adams sans hubris.” Still fairly apt, but having spent several months digesting his catalog (and seeing his and Caitlin Cary’s duets [...]
DOWNLOAD:MP3: SOMEWHERE SOMETIMEMP3: YOU’RE NOT THE QUEEN ANYMOREMP3: THINGS I WILL KEEP DEMOMP3: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL DEMOMP3: THE OFFICIAL IRONMEN RALLY SONG DEMOMP3: WRINKLED GHOST DEMOMP3: GONNA NEVER HAVE TO DIE DEMOMP3: PERFECT THIS TIME DEMOMP3: LOOK AT YOUR LIFE MP3: DOLPHINS OF COLOR————-www.robertpollard.net
One of my favorite honky tonk acts of the last decade, The Star Room Boys, got together last week at The Caledonia Lounge in Athens, GA for a one-off reunion show. I would have paid top dollar to have been there. Bit Torrent courtesy of Athens taper Sloan Simpson.
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Presently touring the West coast (played L.A.’s Hotel Cafe’ last night) is Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, out of Athens, GA. Imagine a younger Will Oldham and you’re on the right track. Houck & co. have a new album out on Misra Records, entitled Aw Come Aw Wry, further illustrating the Athens music scene is alive [...]
