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will you wake me without warning some jingle-jangle morning

photo by david mcmahon

morning, all. in case you missed it, i am holding a lil contest to win matthew sweets new record, sunshine lies, here. the contest ends at 12 pm et on saturday, btw.

in other news, good friends of captains dead, the line of best fit is up for the peoples choice award at the bt digital music awards. if you could take time out of your precious day and help em out by voting it would be much appreciated. it would take ya all of 20 seconds. gracias! line of best fit has also started up the tlobf community, which seems to be kinda rockin already. check it out. you will find yours truly over there, if that does anything for ya.

here is a lovely mary lou lord show from music mellenium in portland, or on 10.4.97. thanks to the original taper!

1. talk

2. western union desperate

3. chit chat

4. she had you

5. he’d be a diamond

6. your new thing

7. his lamest flame

8. helsinki

9. i figured you out

10. 1952 vincent black lightning

11. talk

12. down along the lea

13. talk

14. camden town rain

15. talk

16. lights are changing

17. talk

18. polaroids

some jingle jangle morning

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win matthew sweet’s sunshine lies, here

i, admittedly, shield my love for matthew sweet and for no good reason, really. my fandom runs so deep that i have the altered beast album cover tattooed on my arm. i got it for reasons other than the fact that its a brilliant record, but i wont get all metaphysical on your ass. anywho, i have a copy of matthew’s most excellent new record, sunshine lies, to give away. sunshine lies is out today, btw. but you can win it here. all you gots to do to win is tell me what record cover you would grace your body with if had cash to dispose or, or maybe you already gots one and if thats the case, well you know what to do. this is purely discretionary on my part, and will pick my favorite.

dont feel like waiting or leaving a damn comment? buy it here.

here are some upcoming tour dates..

8/26 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba in-store
8/27 San Capistrano, CA – The Coach House
8/28 Silver Lake, CA – The Echo
10/20 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
10/22 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10/3 Chicago, IL – Park West
10/24 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
10/25 Cleveland, OH - Beachland
10/27 Boston, MA – Paradise
10/28 NY, NY – Webster Hall
10/29 Falls Church, VA – State Theatre
10/30 Atlanta, GA – Variety

i tell you one and one makes three

sup, homeslices? the family van dyke is preparing for a weekend camping trip in columbia. going to check out the town and partake in their local wares, i hope. hopefully we dig the town, cause i am just awaiting my offer letter now, which hopefully comes on monday. everything is a go as far as i am concerned.

hey, rhino is releasing an 18 track golden smog best of collection entitled stay golden, smog: the best of golden smog on 9.23. the collection will be available both on cd and in digital formats. it includes an early working of my personal favorite smog song “until you came along” and an previously unreleased cover of  brian wilson’s “love and mercy.” you can listen to 10 tracks from said collection by clicking here.

if you happen to be in, or want to travel to, atlanta, knoxville, or pittsburgh on saturday, august 23, cmt is holding a search for america’s best unsigned country act. they hit nashville on wednesday, btw. if interested hit up this link for more info and assumed fine print.

i dont know about you, but i used to love living colour. well, atleast their first two records, anyway. up until this listening to this show from first avenue in lovely minneapolis, i havent probably listened to em, more less thought about em, since probably 1991/1992. but through the power of the internets they have come into my line of sight. going to attempt to re-familiarize myself with vivid and time’s up.

as stated previously, this show is from first ave in minneapolis on 4.5.89.

zip it!

1. middle man

2. desperate people

3. memories cant wait

4. funny vibe

5. broken hearts

6. band intros

7. i want to know

8. glamour boys

9. open letter to a landlord

10. money talks

11. cult of personality

12. which way to america

13. the ocean medley

14. should i stay

15. whats your favorite color

cult of personality

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glamour boys

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hey my brother, can I borrow a copy of your “Hey Soul Classics”?


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Paul Mawhinney is thought to have the biggest record collection in the world, more than 1 million wax slabs, and plus that in 45s, worth more than $50m. He was forced to close his Pittsburgh vinyl tabernacle, Record-Rama in February, and unable to find a home for his complete collection (check out the vid above), he’s liquidating his stock. Sale ends Thursday, yo. And no, not on eBay. Paul is really stickin it to us — in-store only.

“Vinyl is like a cockroach” article from May 2008.

For the purists, the ones who can read I mean, check out my friend Brett’s book, “Vinyl Junkies.”

I’m not friends with Michael Ochs, but this is a sweet little coffee table book.

i can’t see my forehead

apparently i dont pay attention. cause you know that 49 cents you spent purchasing westy’s 49:00? yeah, well there isnt a full 49 minutes on said record! there are only 43 minutes and 55 seconds worth of music. son of a bitch, we been had! in any event, you can purchase the remaining 5 minutes and 5 seconds @ tunecore, for either a buck or $5.05, the choice is yours.

no one will ever mistaken me for a music critic, and thats fine. quite frankly there are way too many people, spending way too much time, writing up reviews/diatribes that in the end, end up saying close to nothing that resembles any fucking sense. one guy’s words i do quite enjoy is sean moeller from daytrotter and his write up on horse feathers only deepens my appreciation. he writes like he’s got heart and soul and not just out to prove that he can string a bunch of hyperbole’s and dictionary inducing words together. of justin ringles’ songwriting he had this to say:

He writes words as splendidly obtuse and heartwarming as Sam Beam, but makes almost all of them into the final conversation between Charlotte and Bob Harris at the end of Sophia Coppola’s “Lost In Translation,” in the thoroughfare in Tokyo, where understandable phrases melt into a louder clatter and yet tiny strains of the audible fall just short, leaving a mark of savory suspense as a memento.

after listening to a few tracks, both from a daytrotter session, and the first single from their upcoming killrockstars debut, house with no home sean’s choice of reference points are quite on the mark. i, nor do i think anyone else could have summed em better.

curs in the weeds

house with no home comes out on 9.9

riyl: nick drake, will oldham, richard buckner, iron and wine, bon iver

horse feathers play on slim moon’s deck

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OK, so who is the third?

First Bernie Mac, now Isaac Hayes. WTF. Who’s next? Prince?

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RIP Isaac. Even if you believed in Xenu and overdoses of Niacin.

rip bernie

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bernie mac dead at 50