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a journey into portastatic’s some small history

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on September 3, 2008

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hola, amigos! feelin a wee bit better after consuming copious amounts of campbells chicken noodle soup which for a canned soup is pretty damn yummy. still feelin off balance, but i’ll take walking into walls any day over feeling the need to vomit.

the man who should be king and is my son’s namesake, mac mccaughan under his portastatic moniker is releasing an ultra cool 2 disc comp of rarities called some small history which collects “b-sides, compilation tracks, EPs, fanzine vinyl, and previously unreleased material recorded between 1990 and 2007.” i have heard it, multiple times, and i must proclaim that it is worth every penny of the paltry 13 bucks he is charging for it. he covers ryan adams’s “oh my sweet carolina,” dylan’s “its all over now, baby blue,” galaxy 500’s “tugboat,” american music club’s “firefly,” and a bunch more.

order some small history and other mac related awesomeness, here.

some small history

i want to know girls off bright ideas

song for a clock

san adreas

hey! it’s enrico pallazo!

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gregor

on November 9, 2007

in shows and the earl

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sup? so band of horses are doing a three night stand at the earl, 12.28 -30. you can pre-order the tickets here or wait until they go on sale to the general public next week. the choice is yours. visit the earl’s site for more info.

i reposted the first half of pavement’s stuff up the cracks comp over here.

anyone excited about the new season of project runway? not only do i love me some heidi klum, tim gunn is freakin awesome/hilarious. btw, it starts on wed, 11.14. take a look at this years cast. chris looks he’s going to be a real trouble maker or something.

my man, mike doughty, has a new record entitled golden delicious coming out on 2.18.08, which seems like a hella long way away. i mention this because last night, in chicago, he started his “the question jar show” tour. on this shortish tour he will take requests and answer any and all questions placed into the question jar. if anyone went to the show at schubas last night let me know how it was. even though there isnt an atlanta show, i am still curious. he plays tomorrow evening in louisville @ phoenix hall tavern. check his site for a list of dates. here is the first single from golden delicious.

27 jennifers - its not an mp3 but a stream

looking at the world from a bottom of a well from haughty melodic

your misfortune

mike doughty site

andy ditzler is normally not my cup of tea, but there is something oddly endearing about him and his spoken word take on pop music. he kinda falls somewhere in between stephin merritt and ben folds, but more on the folds end of the spectrum. his songs are fun and smart, but not hokey like fun or pretentiously smart. check him out..

another customer

economics

andy ditzler myspace

while i got you here, check out capgun coup’s “fucked.” pfork gushed all over it, or so i have been told, which doesnt mean anything to me, but its still a pretty cool tune.

fucked

huck fin

both tracks are from their team love debut, brought to you by nebraskafish.

capgun coup myspace

somewhere nestled in my top 5 favorite bands is superchunk. shit, i named my damn kid after mac - if that tells you anything. creepy? maybe. so, i was pretty damn psyched when this show from 93 showed up on dime. i dont know why, but i dont think i have ever come across a superchunk show. maybe i just dont hang in the right corners of the interwebs. if anyone has a hook up let me know.

here they are in krefeld, germany on 5.30.93

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squish, just like grape

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gregor

on June 25, 2007

in shows, superchunk, the clash, the teenage prayers and youtube

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top of the morning y’all. firstly click here! vote for the teenage prayers, por favor. they have fallen 80 votes behind and we need to help make that up. this is the last time i will ever bring it up but please do go vote for these dudes.

secondly, superchunk is streaming “misfits and mistakes” on their myspace page. “misfits and mistakes” is from the aqua teen movie soundtrack, btw.

thirdly, here is the clash performing at l.a.’s memorial coliseum on 10.29.82. its a nice soundboard recording, just to let ya know.

1. london calling

2. police on my back

3. guns of brixton

4. this is radio clash

5. spanish bombs

6. rock the casbah

7. the magnificent seven

8. janie jones

9. train in vain

10. tommy gun

11. clampdown

12. brand new cadillac

13. should i stay or should i go

14. i fought the law

should i stay or should i go?

are you being driven? or do you drive?

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gregor

on May 13, 2007

in ryan adams, shows, superchunk and tunes

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has anyone seen the aqua teen movie? i have heard from reliable sources that its pretty great/fucked up. i have been meaning to but alas it has not come to fruition. so, i am guessing, at this point, that i will be waiting for the dvd. it should be out fairly shortly, i hope. one of my top 3 favorite groups, superchunk, is releasing a 7″, i love vinyl, for the single “misfits and mistakes” which appears on the aqua teen movie soundtrack. the b-side features none other than meatwad on vocals. you can pre-order it here for a lousy 5 bucks.

in other superchunk news, they will be playing a benefit show, along side of the mountain goats, @ the metro in chicago on june 20. more info can be found here.

as a reminder, wilco’s sky blue sky is out this week but you can still get a bunch of cool shit with your order. check out these awesome wilco toys. if they weren’t 50 bucks i would definitely be all over em. they also opened a pretty cool uncle tupelo shop, with some pretty cool stuff, alongside of the wilco shop.

have you listened to hallelujah the hills as of yet? i wrote about em a few months back. the recently signed to misra and are going to be releasing collective psychosis begone fairly shortly.

hallelujah the hills yeah they named a song after themselves. so what?

ok, as it turns out there is like 60 tracks making up bedhead vol 2. so, this is going to 3 part series.

19. stumblin through the dark tonight

20. wonderwall

21. dead flowers

22. like a virgin

23. off broadway

24. shadowlands

25. brown sugar

26. helpless

27. thank you louise

28. this time