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Excuse me, Señor. You are a member of the club?

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on February 21, 2008
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wazzzz uuuuup? that never gets old. in case you or ever bored on the train, bus or wherever boredom may set in, captains dead is now optimized for viewing via your phone or at very least pda phones. i tried it this morning on my palm and it looks pretty good. it presents just the meat of the site, and allows you to download stuff pretty easily - i downloaded a 6meg song from the site in about 45 seconds. so, if you are using a 3g phone and are using a memory card you should be all good.

i was pretty psyched when i got a copy of the local anesthetic cd which is a compilation of all the seven inch singles, and then some, by the denver based/duane davis(wax trax co-owner) owned label, the local anesthetic. a wee bit of background, wax trax was founded by dannie flesher and jim nash(rip) in denver but then moved to chicago and sold the enver store to duane davis and dave stidman. wax trax, in chicago, was the epicenter of cool and spent so much money there before their untimely closing in the 90s. to say this is a great comp is bit of an understatement. its being released via smooch records or it may be available now. here’s a little taste.

i wanna be you by your funeral

wake u by white trash

the draft by bum kon

i left my heart but dont know where by jeri rossi

smooch records site

here be a killer marah show from 5.1.06 live @ sala estense in ferrara, italy.

1. intro/tutti frutti

2. its only money, tyrone

3. the demon of white sadness

4. barstool boys

5. for the price of a song

6. city of dreams

7. round eye blues

8. the apartment

9. sooner or later

10. rain delay

11. feather boa

12. head on

13. the closer

14. sure thing

15. point breeze

16. the dishwashers dream

17. my heart is the bum in the streets

18. east


i think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it

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on December 21, 2007
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to say i was a little estatic when this tweedy and bennett show from ‘99 showed up on dime yesterday is a major understatement. i was at this show and it is still one of the best tweedy shows i have been witnessed to. the only thing that could have possibly pissed in my cheerios is if it were a shitty recording. all worries were quickly vanquished, thankfully, cause this is a pristine recording of their performance during the old town school of folk music festival on 7.25.99. much love to the original taper.

1. intro

2. james alley blues

3. shes a jar

4. new madrid

5. blood of the lamb

6. down in the willow garden

7. auld triangle

8. another man’s done gone

9. hesitating beauty

10. via chicago

11. sugar baby

12. i got you

13. forget the flowers

14. im always in love

15. the lonely 1

16. summerteeth

17. pecan pie

18. true love will find you in the end

19. casino queen

20. encore break

21. california stars

22. hoodoo voodoo

i miss jay…


he pulled my belly hairs with a juicer

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on December 13, 2007
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photo by charles peterson

i have fatherly duties to attend to this morning for the boy is ill. so, in the mean time here is soundgarden at the metro, in chicago, on 10.21.89. its not the greatest recording, but definitely listenable. i would rate it like a 7 or 7.5. side note re: this show, i was actually supposed to be in attendance but i was grounded. i was 15 and was grounded for a shitty report card.

1. ugly truth

2. get on the snake

3. loud love

4. mood for trouble

5. properties

6. nothing to say

7. gun

8. i awake

9. big dumb sex

10. full on kevins mom

11. come together

12. beyond the wheel

13. hands all over

14. earache my eye


A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer

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on December 6, 2007
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anyone see kenny vs spenny? thus far i have only had the opportunity to check out the farting episode, and as much as i love fart based humor, the show as quite annoying. sure, i laughed out loud at numerous times throughout the episode it got to the point where i just wanted to gag. which i suppose is maybe the point. i loved the underwear/heat sensor visual, but there was still no for me to have ever witnessed such and experiment. i dont see it lasting very long, but drawn together still lives so there is hope for just about anything.

baby dee seems to be quite the character, literally. at first i was not even sure what gender dee was, it would turn out that dee is indeed a she. but, based on first impressions i was unsure whether dee was some kind of stage act or parody, both being not by type of thing. as it turns out, baby dee is pretty right on. kind of a melding of waits old world charm and stephin merritt eccentricities. she’s got a new will oldham and matt sweeney produced(they also play) record entitled safe inside the day coming out on drag city on 1.22.08. guests on the record include andrew wk, robbie lee, max moston (antony and the johnsons), william breeze (psychic tv), john contreras (current 93), james lo (chavez) and lia kessel. here’s the first single from safe inside the day.

the only bones that show

baby dee site

there were many, actually lets just say between the years of 94 - 04, an evening was spent in bars scattered throughout chicago neighboorhoods. one thing i love about chicago is that in the winter you drink cause there isnt much else to do, and then in the summer you drink cause, well, its summer. anyway, my point is this, chicago’s morning recordings reminds me of the dark end of the bar. the perfect place to chill and just let everything going on just pass you by. think yo la tengo on codeine with a splash of some dream pop band, if thats possible. their new record the welcome kinetic is out now, i believe. check em out…

we loved the city years

sugar waltz

the welcome kinetic

morning recordings site / myspace

here is a stones compilation entilted lonely at the top. check the txt file for all the info regarding lonely at the top.

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i like your nurses uniform, guy

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on September 18, 2007
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if you are in the atlanta area there are three noteworthy shows happening this week, two on thursday and the other on saturday. both john vanderslice @ the earl and local h @ the masquerade are playing on thursday and magnolia electric company are playing at the earl on saturday. actually, i dont know how notable local h is, but i used to go see them quite a bit back in chicago and it was always a great time. in case you forgot who or have no idea who local h is, here is a little diddy they penned a few years back.

high fiving mf

speaking of canadians, i was very excited to hear that hayden has a new record coming out shortly. when, i dont know? but apparently its soon. its kinda funny sometimes where internet travels will take you. my initial search had nothing to do with hayden, but the next artist i am going to speak about, but somewhere along the way i ended up on his site. anyway, if you have never heard him definitely check him out. he’s got a very deadpan delivery but he writes some wonderful songs.

bass song from live from convocation hall

dynamite walls from skyscraper national park

home by saturday from elk lake serenade

robbed blind

hayden site

so, as i was saying, my initial search was centered around finding more information on patrick park’s most recent release, everyone’s in everyone. alas, i was pretty much shut down at every turn i regret to report. patrick’s previous record, loneliness knows my name, is a pretty damn fine piece of folky pop. its not brilliant my any means but it showed a lot of promise. in fact it is pretty great and only marred by a couple clunkers. i am just hoping he doesnt pull a beth orton on me. dont have much to offer, but here are a couple of edited down tracks. why edited? seems kinda ridiculous if you ask me.

nothings wrong

home for now

patrick park site

somtimes its hard differentiating between the sincere and really fuckin pretentious. cause there’s really a fine line. such is my problem with team love(r), david dondero. i want to believe its the former, cause these two songs are really quite good. maybe its his charlie parker references in “rothko chapel” or his association with team love that sends up some kind of off color flag. i am not conor oberst hater, in fact i actually enjoy his stuff, in small doses, but lets be honest he’s got a flair for the over dramatic. i digress, dondero definitely knows how to pen a lyric, thats for sure, and they are nothing like oberst’s, but his delivery which comes equipped with a slight warble, keeps me from jumping on the wagon with full force. thats not to say i wont come around, but right now that damn impediment is slightly off putting.

rothko chapel

when the heart breaks deep

his new record, simple love, was released on 8.21

david dondero site / myspace

up until a couple of days ago i cant tell you the last time the sounds of jon spencer blues explosion graced my ears - probably at least 5 years or more. while i own every jsbx record, orange being the best, i just dont ever feel up to the task. they have always been a little mentally taxing to me. this is not to say they arent great, but well you know..

here they are playing at the whiskey a go-go on 1.4.95.

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you should live with my friend, anal mclooney

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on September 14, 2007
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i want one of these, really badly. if you are wondering what it is, it is a darth vader lamp. duh! the face looks like a piece of rootbeer flavored hard candy, yum, and his helmet looks like its made of evil sequins. all of which makes it even the more awesomer! want one? click here

sadly, lucy’s fur coat is just one band in a long line of many san diego based bands that have gone the way of the cassette tape. during the early - mid 90’s it seemed like their was just a shitload of great bands comin out of san diego. then after a year or so they just rolled out like a fog, never to be heard from again. the music, on the other hand, was kinda like teenage love makin. hard, fast and no style, but thats what made em great. lucy’s fur coat’s jaundice is what i would catagorize as the epitome of the san diego scene - at least from the outside looking in. the record is a hot mess and sounds like it was recorded over a long weekend that included, but not limited to copious amounts of beer and weed… its absolutely glorious though.

luckily for you, the gentelmen of lucys fur coat have both of their records available for download free o’ charge.

super

treasure hands

easy

lucy’s fur coat site

now these things have been passed around so much you can drive a truck through em - if you are pickin up what i am putting down. i had accidentally deleted mine a few years back and when they showed up on dime the other day i had to get em. not as cool as the yankee hotel foxtrot demos but still pretty great stuff.

here are the summerteeth demos by the greatest band to ever be featured in a vw commericial, wilco…

1. a shot in the arm

2. were just friends

3. im always in love

4. candyfloss

5. how to fight loneliness

6. tried and true

7. shes a jar

8. pieholden suite

9. nothingsevergonna…

10. via chicago

11. elt

12. my darling

13. in a future age


i wish tyra banks would stop talking

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on September 5, 2007
in demos, matthew sweet and the mabuses
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i am still having a hard time dealing with the recent booting off of sam on bret michaels rock of love. sure, she had a seemingly endless amount of trust issues, was white as a bob barker’s hair and had that funky gap tooth but she was cute as hell. meh, he doesnt deserve her anyway. i am sure he will end up picking heather the 32 going on 52 year old. she’s dang nasty in every conceivable definition of the word. i wouldnt even fuck her with your dick.

anyone seen once yet? i hear that its supposed to be quite wonderful.

btw, if you werent aware, senor jobs is announcing a slew of ipod stuff today, actually like right now. he’s already announced a new widescreen nano. check engadget for developing details.

i have to admit, atlanta’s gringo star’s name really annoys me. the music’s good, the name not so much. so the quandry that lays ahead of me is how can i respect a band’s music if i dont respect the name that they have chosen to share with the world? it reminds me of a high fidelity type question. anyway, like i said their music is pretty damn good and really thats all that matters. even if i have a hard time letting name roll off my tounge without grimacing, but i digress. if you are a lover of 60’s era kinks, or that oozie pop goodness that only big star can provide then the southern gentlemen of gringo star should put you into some kinda saccharin, with a splash of whiskey, induced haze

their self titled debut record is out now, i believe

no reason

gringo star myspace

sticking with my issue with band names, chicago’s head of femur gets the award for most misleading. to me, head of femur sounds like a name reserved for goth or death metal band. throw in “bloody” or “black” in front of their name and there you have it! i dont want to mislead cause i actually dig their name. what about the music you ask? im gettin there, dont rush me. they are actually kinda hard to describe, intelligently. the title track off their upcoming leader and the falcon ep, due on 10.2, starts off with a springsteen-esque tickling of the ivories then they break into e6 inspired harmonies - thats all within the first 10 seconds. from there its just good ol’ smart pop that will definitely illude the masses. call me absolutely crazy, but one thing i keep hearing throughout is the escape club’s “wild, wild west.” am i the only one?

they are doing a short tour. make sure to check their myspace page for dates.

leader and the falcon

elliot guild is in california split from hysterical stars

oh youre blue

curve that bird

head of femur myspace

if you havent checked out the mabuses as of yet please do so. their debut mabused is freakin great. if you are a fan of supper furry animals, olivia tremor control/circulatory system, etc definitely check em out.

mirth

seasider

the mabuses myspace

i dont give enough damn love to matthew sweet thats for sure. he singlehandedly changed the way i look/listen to pop music with the release of the classic girlfriend and the often misunderstood, but no less brilliant altered beast. here are the demos to the latter; a set commonly referred to as superdeformed.

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