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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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bring your own lampshade, somewhere there’s a party

lets kick off this weekend in grand style, shall we? tonight for your listening pleasure are some sire era mats demos/outtakes. some of em are a little rough, but all are definitely worth the download.

in other news, you ever go to open the door and you start proceeding through said door only to find that the door has met your foot first causing you to hit your head on the door? instant headache…awesome!

btw, i love how smangs shows up and all of a sudden i am changing the way i do shit around here. it’s just like a woman to go against the grain and expect us to fall in line. yet, sadly thats exactly what i am doing. bitches, man, bitches. i am assuming that the whole posting a few tracks but providing a full zip/rar is cool with everyone? understanding that i/we will never please anyone, i would like a general consensus.

1. little mascara

2. valentine

3. red red wine

4. empty is your heart

5. time is killing us

6. never mind

7. alex chilton

8. red red wine

9. run for the country

10. goin out of my head
11 learn how to fall
12 trouble on the way
13 make this your home
14 learn to fall
15 rock n roll ghost
16 someone take the wheel
17 only if we must
18 my little problem
19 someone take the wheel

zippo

is this a library or a bar

so, we meet again? here is a lovely westy boot entitled the gravel pit recorded live @ the stone pony on 8.7.93.

1. waiting for somebody

2. mannequin shop

3. achin to be

4. waitress in the sky

5. dice behind your shades

6. merry go round

7. seein her

8. i will dare

9. whole wide world

10. knockin on mine

11. skyway

12. dyslexic heart

13. daydream believer

14. smokey

15. i’ll be you

16. cant hardly wait

17. here comes a regular

18. world class fad

19. alex chilton

20. left of the dial

21. the ledge

22. silver naked ladies

Paul Westerberg Offers New Album For 49 Cents

Paul Westerberg Offers New Album For 49 Cents

get it here

i dont have any spit

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if you happen to be a amy winehouse fan the men of owl and bear have what i would assume to be a good to great quality recording for your downloading pleasure. if that wasnt enough, they also got wilco, lambchop, nirvana and of montreal shows available.

file this one under, just leave em be. sure most of their early stuff sounds like shit but thats half the allure. anyway, the first three mats records are getting remastered. will i buy em? sure. will i be happy about it? no.

here is an fm broadcast of the much under appreciated, at least stateside, teenage fanclub performing at the paradiso in amsterdam on 11.20.95. its an fm broadcast, btw.

1. intro

2. about you

3. star sign

4. what you do to me

5. escher

6. dont look back

7. the cabbage

8. radio

9. mellow doubt

10. verisimilitude

11. neil jung

12. sparky’s dream

13. the concept

i was born a poor black child

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for you smokers out there. am i the only one to have a thousand lighters, but never one actually on my persons? its just a given that i never have a lighter and i since i dont actually carry money on me, i refuse to debit a buck for one. i have been trying to quit so you would think that the absence of a lighter would be a sign, but its not.

ex-varnline and all around awesome guy, anders parker is playing tonight at the earl. he’s got a new live record out called 14th and division: live in portland, oregon august 2.2005. its awesome, by the way, and can be purchased through his site, on his current tour and maybe on itunes.

tell it to the dust

anders parker site / myspace

there’s something strangely comforting about jeremy grites and jason brown’s swivel chairs. i cant quite my get head around them just yet, though. they must have been raised in the 80’s cause their is something about their guitar tones that leads me to believe they nurtured their brand of rock/pop on the cassette tape. they just dont sound like a band from the 00’s and maybe its cause i have been listening to a bit of xtc lately, but brown’s plaintive delivery on “afterthought” is quite andy partridge-esque. pretty cool stuff…

afterthought

10 g (say so)

swivel chairs myspace

i love spacerock. plain and simple. sadly, there arent too many groups tripping down that road worth mentioning now-a-days. out the other side of my mouth, san francisco’s wooden shjips travel and as far as i am concerned, own that road. they got a new self title record out now on holy mountain records.

i highly recommend that you listen with whatever kind of headphones you may have.

we ask you to ride

lucy’s ride

wooden shjips site / myspace /holy mountain

i dont know you, but when i want to dive into the westerberg book of songs i more often than not reach for his solo rather than replacements stuff. its a strange phenomenon though cause his best penned words, i think, can be found on much of the replacements records, but i find myself connecting more to the “grownup” paul. even if at the time, i was kinda down on a few of his solo records, most notably eventually and suicaine gratification, cause i wanted him to be stupid, drunk and 20 forever. i was probably projecting some of my own shit about growing up onto him in some weird way.

here he is playing and being interviewed by former del fuego, warren zanes @ first ave on 9.23.07. thanks very much to the original taper!

EDIT: TRACKS TAKEN DOWN AT REQUEST OF ORIGINAL TAPER

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