Is Spiderland my favorite album of the ’90s? That’s tough…I can’t say for sure, but it’s pretty damn close. It still resonates with me as much as it did at the time of initial release. I won’t go into all the bands Slint influenced over the past 15+ years as it’s obvious once you hear […]
Archive for January, 2006
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
It’s 1999. Kathleen Edwards records a six-song EP entitled “Building 55″ and presses 500 copies. This EP, now out of print, is the first recorded output of Edwards’ career prior to her signing with a label and releasing her full length debut, 2003’s Failer. Here are six tracks off “Building 55″ for posterity. Brittle, affecting […]
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Ear Farm exposes hidden evil/satanic messages in rock music. Paul is dead.
I Guess I’m Floating has some Tom Waits going on right now.
If you haven’t gotten hip to So Much Silence, get on it. Kevin is some sort of wizard ripping streaming audio into MP3s. Check his archives for radio show rips. I rec the […]
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Country, folk, raga, jazz, and bluegrass. All these genres and more play out and interweave in Kevin Barker’s wanderlust album Ghost Man on First. This first installment in the Ghost Man trilogy is challenging to say the least, but rewarding under the right circumstances. Fans of free-form neo-folk should dig, i.e. fans of Animal Collective, […]
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
DOWNLOAD: MP3: Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins :: The Charging SkyMP3: Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins :: Rabbit Fur Coat ———-Amazon: Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
photo via graboff.com
In November of last year Ryan Adams and his band The Cardinals took the stage on the famed Austin City Limits television program. Airing this past Friday on PBS in most major U.S. markets, the broadcast featured seven songs spanning Adams solo career as far back as his debut album Heartbreaker. Entirety […]
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Live @ The Ottobar 2.23.05
The Mark Kozelek show this past weekend at The Troubadour was everything I thought it would be. Intimate magic. Still riding my post-Kozelek buzz, here are some live tracks from his show at The Ottobar February, 23 2005.
DOWNLOAD:MP4: Mark Kozelek :: Have You Forgotten (live) MP4: Mark Kozelek :: Neverending Math […]
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Son Volt :: Loose String (live) MP3: Son Volt :: Tear Stained Eye (live)
MP3: Son Volt :: Chickamauga (live)———-Amazon: Son Volt - Austin City Limits
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Championed by the late John Peel, among others, Cantrell’s recorded catalog has gotten stronger with each subsequent release. Below are some covers she has worked out over the years, plus two songs from her last two studio releases.
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Laura Cantrell :: Indoor Fireworks (elvis costello)MP3: Laura Cantrell :: Letters (lucinda williams)
MP3: Laura Cantrell :: […]
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Upon it’s release, music critic Jerry McCulley described Jesse Malin’s debut as “heartfelt country-by-way-of-Delancey-Street.” Sounds apt to me. For those of you who didn’t pick up The Fine Art of Self Destruction a few years ago, check out these three version’s of Malin’s “Brooklyn” below. The first two can both be found on the album, […]
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Reminder: Cat Power’s excellent new album, The Greatest, is in stores Tuesday. Here is what I wrote about the pre-release in November.
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Cat Power :: Could We MP3: Cat Power :: The Greatest ———-Amazon: Cat Power :: The Greatest
- www.catpowermusic.com
- www.matadorrecords.com/cat_power
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Unrelated MP3: Lohan Freestyle (this is hilarious)
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
Nobody..and I mean nobody funks it up like The Meters did in their prime. Shit-hot grooves. I have collected a number of shows from the band’s ’70s hey-day, and this is one of my favorites. Culled from a 1977 New Orleans Live radio broadcast — complete with a smokey-voiced DJ popping in and out […]
