Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sounds like a naked Fugazi. For whatever reason, I totally neglected the Evens first two records. Mistake. I’ve been playing both records, as well as the two new songs on repeat for the last two days. The duo has a new record on the way for later this year. Can’t wait. A new the Evens [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
In 2011, two punk albums with similar philosophies, created on different contintents, came out. The first was lauded as one of the greatest best punk albums of modern post-post-punk times and all-around praised for breathing life into a genre (only assholes think) thought to be dead. That album was also included on many best of [...]
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Minutemen/Saccharine Trust split 7-inch 2011 Water Under the Bridge Records (San Pedro, CA) I thought I had the Minutemen cornered. I’ve got all their records, singles, lots of cruddy bootlegs, the We Jam Econo DVD. I know the Meltzer Minutemen scribblings. I know the Charles Plymell We Jam Econo masterful wonderpiece. I follow Mike Watt [...]
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
I’m not one to argue with Adam’s picks, partly because even if I disagree with him at the moment, in time I will eventually come around to see that he was correct, and partly because he can be angry fucker and scary to boot, so EVERYTHING HE SAID IS CORRECT, in particular about the Mike Watt pick, [...]
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Best album of the year: Hyphenated Man by Mike Watt I think I knighted this album the best album of the year LAST year, but fuck, it’s so good I’m doing it again. I did have it in December 2010, the Jap version, but the righteous release came out in 2011 and man it sounds [...]
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Tagged 13 chambers, arabia mountain, black lios, Chartreuse Bull, cymbals eat guitars, dos, dos y dos, firehose, fugazi, hyphenated man, jeff the brotherhood, lenses alien, let england shake, mike watt, minutemen, murder the mountains, pj harvey, red fang, screaming females, vaz, we are the champions, wu-tang, wugazi
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Best album of the year by a member of Sleater Kinney: Wild Flag by Wild Flag Corin Tucker won this last year, so Wild Flag had to win it this year. In all seriousness, both those records kill and for very different reasons. Wild Flag is loud and fun and probably the record I danced [...]
It’s a puritan nation, baby. And yet, there was still some good, weird, unorthodox music made last year. I realize its January 3, a few baby steps into the last year of existence, 2012, but I have to finish off all the Old Yellers from last year before I move into this one. Best song [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Gnarwhal – Duane This is music for the Two Thousand Teens. Frantic, disturbed, paranoid, unsettling punk played by four dudes from Nashville, Tennessee. The album is exhausting. To make it worse, or better really, it fills your head with questions. How does he play guitar like that? How do these guys play this stuff live? [...]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Feel like I’ve listened to this album for years, and I haven’t even listened to Wilco for years. Weird sounds inhabit this album. Layers upon layers of abnormal stuff. In desperation, I have pointed to the Beach Boys as an example of a band able to pull off the impossible task of playing catchy songs [...]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Was I hungrier this year? I don’t think so. I eat a lot every year. I did eat more jazz, though, even though I’m still very lost when it comes to knowing what’s good what’s great and what’s garbage. Let’s change this metaphor. I drank a lot of jazz this year, and I drank it [...]
