tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81049615716114685382024-03-12T19:54:09.314-07:00panzan's blog that is on the interwebsmusic that i like and you gonna like it toopanzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-78967676820902206442011-08-01T14:29:00.000-07:002011-08-01T11:29:17.990-07:00(Re-up) Haberdasher - Songs on Love Nos. 48602-48608<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SXN-BoO-XeI/AAAAAAAAAHY/F4v5CvtSZgo/s1600-h/REP024-HABERDASHER-LOVE-clr.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 199px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SXN-BoO-XeI/AAAAAAAAAHY/F4v5CvtSZgo/s320/REP024-HABERDASHER-LOVE-clr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292712553535659490" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1997. Slint is gone and they are never (uh, well, probably) coming back. Indie rock musicians, human like any other artist, cannot help but to be influenced by their own contemporaries and idols. Plenty of bands borrowed the syncopated rhythms, tension-release dynamics, and minimal vocal signatures of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Spiderland</span> for their own creations. Some became arguably better known in their own time, e.g. Engine Kid, June of 44, A Minor Forest. Others rarely made a splash beyond their own three-day weekend tour radius. (See also: <a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/hurl-bessemer-process-2x7-shale.html">Shale</a>). </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;" >I never even heard of Haberdasher until a friend gave me this LP as a gift, i.e. he didn't like it and the used record store around the corner wouldn't take it. His loss was my gain - I got more than my money's worth, anyway. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;" >If you recognize the other bands already namedropped here, you can probably hum a few bars and come pretty close to the sound of this record. Nowadays, Haberdasher are probably best known as the previous band for one of the dudes in Oxes. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;" ><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yitpd9foan8pk8g"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;" >feel like a number</span></a></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-30905433902092840312011-07-05T10:14:00.001-07:002011-07-05T10:45:07.673-07:00Old Men on the Radio - WRCT Pittsburgh July 3, 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o4NC4EsOW5c/ThNMcwpRKqI/AAAAAAAAAXc/YkEA1K4lwy4/s1600/radioshow.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o4NC4EsOW5c/ThNMcwpRKqI/AAAAAAAAAXc/YkEA1K4lwy4/s320/radioshow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625924416493922978" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Time to revive this zombie with a five-hour mega-post.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Sometime in October 1990, at 3 AM on a Wednesday (if I remember correctly), as a sophomore civil engineering student at Carnegie Mellon, I turned on the radio transmitter for WRCT 88.3 FM in Pittsburgh, PA, and began my 17-year love affair with college radio. To put things in perspective, some of the hot new singles at the station were Nirvana's "Sliver/Dive" and Beat Happening's "Red Head Walking/Secret Picnic Spot" on Sub Pop, Superchunk's "Slack Motherfucker/Night Creatures" on Merge, and Jesus Lizard's "Mouthbreather/Sunday You Need Love" on Touch n Go. It was a magical time...</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />My last regular radio gig was a summertime shift in 2006. My last radio show was sometime in January 2007 over winter break, during what WRCT calls "random schedule." After that I started spending more of my free time on babies, home improvements, and all the other "adult" responsibilities I managed to put off until my mid-30s.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />I turned 40 earlier this year. My wife asked me what I wanted to do. I'm not the "guest of honor" type so I refused any ideas for a party - surprise or otherwise. After a few weeks contemplation it struck me - Radio. I wanted to go back on the air with a couple close friends from back in the day. So we did.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">This is the bumbling result. Five hours of college radio by three guys with musical tastes obviously rooted in the late-80s/early-90s punk and indie scenes.<br /><br /></span><span class="messageBody" ft="{"type":3}" style="font-family:arial;">Thanks to modern technology you can download a zip file containing five 128 bitrate mp3 files covering the whole nerdly affair. </span><span jsid="text" style="font-family:arial;">WRCT records mp3 archives of every minute of broadcast in 1:10 blocks. The last 10 minutes of each file roughly overlaps the first ten minutes of the following file. To compensate for this in iTunes I set start/end times for each file to ap<span class="text_exposed_show">proximate continuity from one file to the next. It's not perfect but for me its close enough... and a hell of a lot easier than recording my shows on c90 cassettes back in the old days. Anyway, I don't know if my start/end times are embedded in the mp3 files here, so I noted them in the Comments field of each files' ID3 metadata just in case.</span></span><span class="messageBody" ft="{"type":3}" style="font-family:arial;"> </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />I hope you enjoy listening to this because I sure as hell enjoyed doing it.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V0JA9ASD"><span style="font-family:arial;">Metalhead phone tree</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Playlist:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Chavez - top pocket man<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Minutemen - shit from an old notebook </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Come - car </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Bailter Space - splat </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Speaking Canaries - life like homes<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The Dead C. - This scary nest </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Evergreen - petting the beast </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Shorty - Hot for Teacher </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Big Star - september girls </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />My Dad Is Dead - cool rain </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Vaselines - son of a gun </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Celibate Rifles - pretty colours </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Implodes - song for fucking damon ii (trap </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">door) </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Battles - Dominican Fade </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />salt chunk mary - You Can't Hang<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Zombi - Digitalis </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Sludgehammer - Dynamite Lady </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Devo - Uncontrollable Urge </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />thomas jefferson slave appartments - cheater's heaven </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Gaunt - bored girls </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Death of Samantha - geisha girl </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Rocket From the Tombs - ain't it fun </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Hot Snakes - hatchet job </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Ex - Burnsome </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Wave Pictures - canary wharf </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Deerhunter - basement scene<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Pavement - Box Elder<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">the dynamic truths - you take it all </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />the Warmers - snake charmer </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Silkworm - Wet Firecracker </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Hold Steady - Banging Camp </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Prisonshake - Crush Me<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The Walkmen - The Rat<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Librarians - peace & quiet </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Registrators - i call your name </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Jam - in the city </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Mono Men - took that thing </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Prisonshake - almost always there<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Chavez - nailed to the blank spot </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Guided By Voices - jar of cardinals<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The Testors - time is mine </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Kurt Vile - Peeping Tomboy </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Subvert Blaze - Fool </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Polvo - bombsthatfallfromyoureyes<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The Fall - Hip Priest </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />John Spencer Blues Explosion - Train #1 </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Beat Happening / Screaming Trees - Polly Pereguinn </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Kustomized - the day i had some fun </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Effigies - body bag </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Mclusky - to hell with good intentions </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Volcano Suns - jak </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Claw Hammer - succotash </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Embarrassment - (i'm a) don juan </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Pitchblende - A Penny for the Guy </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Gordons - Sometimes </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Dead Moon - Johnny's Got a Gun </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Dustdevils - Throw the Bottle Full </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Tom Waits - Way Down in the Hole<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">the 1985 - Deepest Blue </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Great Plains - Letter to a Fanzine<br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">LCD Soundsystem - Home </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Nirvana - On a Plain </span></span>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-20241364896038982642010-09-14T13:29:00.000-07:002010-09-14T20:17:16.011-07:00Timber - Parts and Labor (re-up)<span style="font-family:arial;">This one is for Michael <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">dustdevil</span> who requested the re-up about a hundred years ago...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Original post <a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/timber-parts-and-labor.html">here</a></span><br /><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/419072366/timber_parts_labor.zip.html"><br /></a><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/419115944/timber_parts_labor.zip"><span style="font-family:arial;">computer games play themselves (again)</span></a>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-58510842794564224572009-12-19T21:01:00.000-08:002009-12-20T18:53:08.402-08:00Best of 2009<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Although you would never know it from my sparse posting over the last twelve months, I have been listening to an awful lot of music this year. Reading a few of the year-end lists this month, I realized that today's tastemaking hipsters have very little to offer me. I listen to NPR for the information, not the bumper music, ya know? Case in point - if I see <span style="font-style: italic;">Merriweather Post Pavillion</span> top one more list I am going to poke my ears out with some sung tongs. (Full disclosure - I do think "My Girls" is a really great song).<br /><br />For me, the golden age of new music was approximately 1988-1998. And I'm talking multiple genres here - metal, hip hop, and of course the various shades of indie that I favor nowadays. Maybe that is my problem. Maybe it happens to every obsessive music fan. At some point, I started longing for The Way It Used To Be. I became that boorish asshole who insists that most seemingly new ideas in rock music were being done better while you [20-something hipsters] were still listening to Raffi.<br /><br />And so, in some respects, 2009 was a great year for me. It was satisfying to see long-overdue redemption come for The Jesus Lizard and Merge Records. But this wasn't just the year of the aging hipster. There are a lot of kids out there making music The Way It Used To Be. Bob Pollard's myriad 2009 projects sound like Steely Dan compared to the droves of overmodulated, 4-track low-fi RAWK that came out this year.<br /><br />I won't even try ranking. Grouping is difficult enough. Links for official, free downloads might come later as time permits. (Did I mention I have a job which requires lots of travel, plus two preschool daughters - one of them an 8-week old baby?)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Bakers' Dozen, in alphabetical order:</span><br /><br />Dinosaur Jr. - Farm<br />It would figure that my top list would start with one of the reborn maestros from my Golden Age. This is a great rock record in any year as far as I am concerned.<br /><br />Floating Action - Floating Action / Floating Version EP<br />I found this one thanks to the awesomely reliable <a href="http://ongakubaka.blogspot.com/">Ongabuka</a> blog. There has been a lot of awesomely shitty "beach rock" the last few years. (e.g. Vampire Weekend has nothing to do with either vampires or weekends). Floating Action changes the game. Rough around the edges, and very likely stoned. I make a lot of long distance drives for my job. This was a favorite pick for summertime highway driving after dark. Bonus - dub/remix EP came out in July.<br /><br />Japandroids - Post Nothing<br />Lo-fi, yet heavy. Noisy, but melodic. Sloppy, yet perfectly executed.<br /><br />Knot Feeder - Light Flares<br />Don Caballero rolls on - in name only perhaps, but still rolling. Ian Williams has become a minor sensation with Battles. Even original bassist Pat Morris found a new home with The Poison Arrows. But for many years it felt like Mike Banfield (the only founding Don Cab guitarist, for what its worth) disappeared completely. Or if you live in Pittsburgh like me, and bump into Mike every once in a blue moon, if seemed like he became content in his life without performing music. Thank goodness then that his new project Knot Feeder, with some equally talented guys ten or fifteen years younger than him, is out now. Instrumental rock with emotion, The Way It Used To Be.<br /><br />Mos Def - The Ecstatic<br />A forty-five minute head nod, rooted in 1993 yet affected by modern touches... minus the crunk and Louis Vuitton of course.<br /><br />Oneida - Rated O<br />I saw Oneida play one time in 2003, and like a junkie I've been chasing that dragon ever since. They finally came through this year. Hard rock, groove, and drone, just like I've always hoped they would do on record.<br /><br />Patton Oswalt - My Weakness is Strong<br />OK, this is not music. So what. If you don't get it then you don't deserve the gift of laughter.<br /><br />Ourself Beside Me - Ourself Beside Me<br />Three ladies sounding like a cross between Velvet Underground and either Shop Assistants or Close Lobsters. This would make complete sense if they were from Brooklyn. They actually live in Beijing, which is astounding. I mean, how did they even hear the records that surely must have inspired their music? Trust me though, I would still rank this in the top 13 even if they really were from Brooklyn.<br /><br />Polvo - In Prism<br />In their original 90s incarnation this North Carolina band pulled off an exceptional melding of Sonic Youth dissonance, Beefheart herky jerk, Chicago-tight production and asian scales. Ten years after, add to that mix a top shelf RAWK drummer and a willingness to jam. This is their best album. I hope they keep going a la Mission of Burma.<br /><br />Sonic Youth - The Eternal<br />Is it just me, are did Thurston and Kim sing together a lot more on this record than ever before? It works.<br /><br />Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati<br />Native Tongues-style hip hop for the 21st century. From Cincinnati. Who knew?<br /><br />Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures<br />Most people I know will only pay attention to this because Dave Grohl is on drums and John Paul Jones is on bass. Little do they know that Josh Homme has been on a roll the last few years. Queens of the Stone Age's <span style="font-style: italic;">Era Vulgaris</span> is one of my favorite rock records ever, and the last couple Desert Sessions records pressed a lot of the right buttons for me, too. To my biased ears this may be a supergroup rhythm section, but Homme makes it a worthwhile listen.<br /><br />Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy<br />I accept the fact that lo-fi has become a stylistic choice rather than a fiscal necessity. I acknowledge that 2009 overflowed with high quality digital releases (allegedly) created with four track tape recorders. Neverthess, this record stands out.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Runners Up</span><br />Amen Dunes - Dia<br />Cave - Psychic Psummer<br />The Curious Mystery - Rotting Slowly<br />DOOM - Born Like This<br />Double Dagger - More<br />Eat Skull - Wild and Inside<br />Flaming Lips - Embryonic<br />The Fresh and Onlys - The Fresh and Onlys<br />Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another<br />Hole Class - Hole Class<br />The Mint Chicks -Screens<br />Motorpsycho - Child of the Future<br />Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo<br />NOMO - Invisible Cities<br />Obits - I Blame You<br />Pterodactyl - Worldwild<br />Ty Segal - Lemons<br />Sholi - Sholi<br />Superchunk - Leaves in the Gutter EP/Crossed Wires 7"<br />The Thermals - Now We Can See<br />Wale & 9th Wonder - Back to the Feature mixtape<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Also-rans</span><br />Akron/Family - Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free<br />Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue<br />Black Crowes - Before The Frost / Until the Freeze<br />Blank Dogs - Under and Under<br />Cheater Slicks - Bats in the Dead Trees<br />The Clean - Mr. Pop<br />dälek - Gutter Tactics<br />Deleted Scenes - Birdseed Shirt<br />Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP<br />The G - Hold My Gold 12"<br />Gangligans - Monster Head Room<br />Intelligence - Fake Surfers / Crepuscule with Pacman<br />Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall<br />LSD March - Under Milk Wood<br />Odd Nosdam - T.I.M.E. Soundtrack<br />Selfish Cunt - English Chamber Music<br />That Fucking Tank - Tankology<br /></span></span>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-1288821262477616352009-09-22T19:20:00.000-07:002009-09-22T19:25:42.264-07:00Death of Samantha - Where the Women Wear the Glory and the Men Wear the Pants<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SrWZIvlnjuI/AAAAAAAAAKI/L3pd9ZCX2uE/s1600-h/Death+of+Sam+-+Women+GLory.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383377305083547362" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SrWZIvlnjuI/AAAAAAAAAKI/L3pd9ZCX2uE/s320/Death+of+Sam+-+Women+GLory.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />This is a quick one since the Feelin' Kinda Froggy blog is MIA.<br /><br /></span><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">Almost an entire year ago I </span><a href="http://http//panzanblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/death-of-samantha-come-all-ye-faithless.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">posted </span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Death of Samantha's <em>Come All Ye Faithless</em> LP and <em>Laughing in the Face of a Dead Man</em> EP. User "robgronotte" requested <em>Where the Women Wear the Glory and the Men Wear the Pants</em>. Here it is.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">My previous descriptions still apply - RAWK.</span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div align="left"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/282438929/Death_o_Sam_-_Women_Glory_Men_Pants.zip"><span style="font-family:arial;">We got stoned and passed out on Lovers' Lane</span></a></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-34076006670989771632009-09-19T20:12:00.001-07:002010-03-13T18:37:53.867-08:00Zoom - (zoom)<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/Srl-WeHrW-I/AAAAAAAAAKg/keOfqRkYOrs/s1600-h/zoom.jpg"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 312px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384473754005625826" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/Srl-WeHrW-I/AAAAAAAAAKg/keOfqRkYOrs/s320/zoom.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">This was requested several months ago. Sorry I'm just getting to it now.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">If you look up "mid-90s midwestern indie rock" in the dictionary, you may well find this album's cover in the accompanying illustration. It doesn't get more midwestern than Lawrence, Kansas, home of the flash-in-the-pan powerhouse Lotuspool label. For about 29 months, Lotuspool completely owned it with releases from local darlings like Panel Donor, Bully Pulipit, and Zoom. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Then Lotuspool disappeared. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">I can relate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">If you liked the tight arrangements and quiet-loud dynamics that ruled CMJ "Core" radio playlists in 1991, check this out. </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><a href="http://www.lotuspool.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">let's pretend this never happened</span></a></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-65908145212396403882009-05-12T18:54:00.000-07:002009-05-12T18:57:09.880-07:00RIP Young Moss Tongue public blog<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/Sgoo7lcTlPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/KLyR_TytN6U/s1600-h/CorporateRockStillSucks2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 152px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/Sgoo7lcTlPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/KLyR_TytN6U/s320/CorporateRockStillSucks2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335121712702002418" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">long live the new private blog(s)</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-78276735661914371682009-04-06T19:15:00.000-07:002009-04-06T19:42:17.705-07:00Various Artists - Red Hot + Bothered: the indie rock guide to dating<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/Sdq3bYgv0dI/AAAAAAAAAJw/M_LbuumRd4M/s1600-h/red+hot+bothered+indie+rock+guide+to+dating.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/Sdq3bYgv0dI/AAAAAAAAAJw/M_LbuumRd4M/s320/red+hot+bothered+indie+rock+guide+to+dating.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321767590755815890" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The track list speaks for itself. These were mostly (entirely?) unreleased or alternate versions of songs by eighteen of 1994's hottest indie rock superstars. It hearkens back to the day when lo-fi was often a fiscal necessity as much as it was a stylistic choice. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Obviously, this was an early release in the now long-running series of Red Hot releases benefitting AIDS education, treatment and research. As far as I can tell, this comp has been out of print for many years. So, you should not feel guilty about downloading it today. You are not taking Atripla out of anyone's mouth. Nevertheless, if you are so inclined, please stop over to the </span><a href="http://www.redhot.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Red Hot web site</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Poke around, learn some, maybe</span><a href="http://www.redhot.org/shop/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> make a donation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Sensational Gravity Boy" performed by Freedom Cruise<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Still Flat" performed by Built to Spill + Caustic Resin<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The Mirror Is Gone" performed by Lisa Germano<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Mouthwash" performed by Noise Addict<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Indierockinstrumental" performed by Folk Implosion<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Some Fantasy" performed by The Verlaines<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Little League" performed by Liquorice<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Hazmats *" performed by Babe The Blue Ox<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Mainland China *" performed by Juicy<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The Fontana *" performed by The Sea and Cake<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Sotto Voce" performed by Cradle Robbers<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Rex’s Blues" performed by Jay Farrar + Kelly Willis<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Empty Yard" performed by Grifters<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Miracleland" performed by East River Pipe<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Snail Trail *" performed by Heavenly<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Hopeless *" performed by Future Bible Heroes<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Servicing Man *" performed by Flying Nuns<br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Quietly Approaching *" performed by Gastr Del Sol<br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/218244554/Red_Hot_Bothered_-_Indie_Rock_Guide_to_Dating.zip"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">if we wait for others to remember...</span></a></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-86984398306594074422009-04-06T18:32:00.000-07:002009-04-06T18:54:28.506-07:00Coral - Altamont in Dub<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdqtuZ47BpI/AAAAAAAAAJo/95vuwhdQRf8/s1600-h/altamont+in+dub.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 170px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdqtuZ47BpI/AAAAAAAAAJo/95vuwhdQRf8/s320/altamont+in+dub.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321756922426885778" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">By popular demand - i.e. one person requested it - here is Coral's second and final LP. All the remarks I made in my <a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/coral-pillow-talk.html">previous post about their first LP</a> basically apply here, too. The title is more than just a clever turn of phrase, though. There are reggae-affected bass lines throughout. You won't confuse this record with The Upsetters, let alone Fugazi, but the intent seems obvious to my ears.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Ever since I posted<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> Pillow Talk</span>, I've been listening to these two Coral LPs more in the last few weeks than I have in the last ten years. As the saying goes, these records have aged very well. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Very</span> well. With all the chamber pop that passes for "indie rock" these days, it's refreshing to hear some authentically atonal vocals backed by a real Power Trio and put to tape (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">tape!</span></span>) with bare boned clarity.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">My old friend Doug, currently writing for <a href="http://www.dustedmagazine.com/writers/mosurak">Dusted</a> and otherwise living the dream in NYC, probably said it best in a Halloween-themed column: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Schick’s later outing in Coral marks its territory as the most depressive, backbiting, hopeless rock music ever committed to tape, with drops of your own blood. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Altamont in Dub</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> was the last release for the stalled Fistpuppet imprint; its title alone should clue you in to what’s in store: a dark, disturbing, intensive reinterpretation of a tragedy. Musically, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Altamont</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> is top notch, determinedly metallic, mostly uptempo, and pregnant with deep rhythms, but this is a cursed album that feeds into your insecurities and misgivings, fueling their cold fire but inevitably leaving you assed out once it’s all over. Do you dare find out for yourself?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/218234601/altamont_in_dub.zip">word.</a></span></div></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-32917934247289793682009-04-01T12:54:00.001-07:002009-04-01T13:15:20.812-07:00Tanner - (Germo) Phobic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdPGj5b5PdI/AAAAAAAAAJg/K9ma14lFXBQ/s1600-h/tanner+germophobic.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdPGj5b5PdI/AAAAAAAAAJg/K9ma14lFXBQ/s320/tanner+germophobic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319813904870227410" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lots of good stuff was coming out of San Diego in the early 90s. Rocket From the Crypt (RIP) got lots of the attention, and deservedly so - you would be hard pressed to find a band more dedicated than RFTC to the absolute entertainment and enjoyment of every fan at their shows. Of course, one of frontman John Reis' other bands was arguably far more influential. Indeed, Drive Like Jehu is one of my all time favorites, and undoubtedly inspired a few others. </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">One of Jehu's later tour partners were fellow San Diegoans Tanner. One time ubiquitous indie behemoth Caroline even released their first LP, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ill Gotten Gains</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. And if you search the interwebs for a minute or two you should be able to find a copy for yourself. (If not, let me know. I'll be happy to upload upon request). </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The follow-up LP </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Germo) Phobic</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> was far more difficult to find. Not just in today's blog- and P2P-driven communities. I mean that when the CD was hot off the presses you could not find the fucker anywhere. The label never even serviced my old college station, </span></span><a href="http://www.wrct.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WRCT</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - and in those days, EVERYONE serviced WRCT. I never saw a copy at my local record store, either, and it was not for a lack of looking. The scarcity continues today. Google doesn't seem to know about any other blog uploads, so I'm just trying to do my part.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Enough with the preamble. If you like Jehu and similar-minded tight, tense, and intense guitar-driven rock, get to clickin'.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/216286269/tanner_germophobic.zip"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">we were the right ones</span></span></a></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-38285737203165435412009-04-01T12:09:00.000-07:002009-04-01T12:32:32.016-07:00Spoon - Live at Emo's [December 4, 2004]<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdO8h4H0uVI/AAAAAAAAAJY/B86GhV0pgZE/s1600-h/spoon_500x365.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdO8h4H0uVI/AAAAAAAAAJY/B86GhV0pgZE/s320/spoon_500x365.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319802875041593682" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdO8cb66QdI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/S4JHDhpkTb4/s1600-h/spoon.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you are wondering why I'm making such a flurry of posts lately after several months of near extinction, here's the deal. My company is doing so well in this slow economy that they decided to give me and everyone else in the organization one week off - unpaid. This is my week. Legally... technically... I am not supposed to do any work for my employer this week. Fair enough. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You must know Spoon by now. They definitely got more popular after being dropped by a major, and IMHO got better, too. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">This is a bootleg from a hometown show at the venerable Austin, TX rock club, Emo's. This happened just a few months before </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Gimme Fiction</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> was released. That's the one post-major Spoon album I don't really like. No biggie though; the setlist draws liberally from the entire Spoon catalog up to that point. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It sounds awesome, too. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Kudos to t</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">he </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">entrepreneurial fan and/or sound man who made this pristine recording. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/216274171/Spoon_Live_at_Emos.zip">i don't make any of this stuff</a></span></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-28007987260263312882009-04-01T11:40:00.001-07:002009-04-01T11:52:51.439-07:00French Kicks - One Time Bells<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdO1Kue5XII/AAAAAAAAAJI/OCQLL5uPEZA/s1600-h/One_Time_Bells-French_Kicks.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdO1Kue5XII/AAAAAAAAAJI/OCQLL5uPEZA/s320/One_Time_Bells-French_Kicks.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319794780735626370" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">In my mind this is an obvious follow up to my previous </span></span><a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/natural-history-beat-beat-heartbeat.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Natural History</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"> post. More early-oughts NYC indie pop, with their own unique twists. French kicks were more apt to put some abrasion in their guitar tones. At the same time, their vocal harmonies could be sweeter and smoother than their gotham contemporaries. </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">The reviewer who caught this album at pitchfork invoked Hall & Oates as a referential put-down. In my book, that's a compliment. Blue eyed soul never got any smoother or sweeter than that Philly duo's peak run a couple decades ago. For what it's worth, I think there's a touch of Prince in some of the vocals and songwriting, too. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/216256086/French_Kicks_One_Time_Bells.zip"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">we get lost every time</span></span></a></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-48254184729260239782009-03-30T10:59:00.000-07:002009-03-30T11:29:40.786-07:00Cell - Slo*Blo<img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 312px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SdEJmQd4pZI/AAAAAAAAAI4/l9fD-OUmPQ0/s320/slo-blo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319043187761259922" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/royal-trux-thank-you.html">A</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/royal-trux-thank-you.html">s I've mentioned before</a>, there was a time when record store cut-out bins were stacked to the ceiling with all the WTF major label signings. If you dig around long enough you probably still can find a handful of vintage 1993 DGC promo copies of this record at <a href="http://cityguide.aol.com/pittsburgh/entertainment/pauls-compact-discs/v-107700122">my local favorite.</a> </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">I probably haven't listened to this since I first dismissed it as just another typical major label cash-in on my beloved "underground" sound. But a funny thing happened recently. I stumbled back upon the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://timedoor.textdriven.com/index.php?id=276">DGC Rarities, Vol. 1</a></span> compilation, and it turns out that the Cell track on there is pretty fucking huge. One thing led to another, and I ordered this CD for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Slo-Blo-Cell/dp/B000008E3U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238437036&sr=8-1">one penny plus shipping</a>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">My penny saved is your penny earned (yeah yeah, not my best metaphor, I know). Never mind this album is one of the more notorious relics of that borderline-psychotic post-<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Nevermind</span> major label feeding frenzy. After fifteen years, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Slo*Blo</span> actually holds up really well with such time-lapsed objectivity. I am obligated to mention Sonic Youth here - Cell's drummer was a SY roadie before hitting the big time, as it were - but save for that relationship and being signed by DGC, that's where the similarities end. This record is full of loud, midtempo rock songs with soaring guitar duels and anthemic choruses. If I had to pick an indie rock icon as a reference, I would have to say Lungfish. That's right.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/215424195/cell_slo-blo.zip">now you wonder why</a></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-49093210620534300062009-02-09T12:02:00.001-08:002009-02-09T12:44:45.977-08:00Crystalized Movements - This Wideness Comes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SZCMBOF_QkI/AAAAAAAAAIo/DXPgH32nfho/s1600-h/R-1064842-1189372910.jpeg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SZCMBOF_QkI/AAAAAAAAAIo/DXPgH32nfho/s320/R-1064842-1189372910.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300890714006045250" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What the hell am I going to say about this? I am not worthy to describe it accurately, but I will try anyway. Crystalized Movements was the first in a long succession of bands led by underground psychedelic guitar icon Wayne Rogers. Eric Arn (of </span><a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/primordial-undermind-yet-more-wonders.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Primordial Undermind</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and an underground guitar icon in his own right) played second guitar in earlier lineups of Crystalized Movements. Prior to releasing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This Wideness Comes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in 1990, Arn was replaced by longtime Rogers collaborator and partner Kate Biggar. The rest, as they say, is history. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Most songs start out as melodic psychedelic rock, dive into one or more heavy freak-out rabbit holes, and occasionally splash around in the quicksand of Sonic Youth style noise. Like I said, I cannot describe this accurately. Take my word for it, this record is pure joy. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have never seen this album in any of the usual blog circles. Why not? I would say that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> This Wideness Comes </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">set the tone for the next eighteen years (and counting) of Rogers-Biggar creations. After one more Crystallized Movements LP (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Revelations From Pandemonium</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 1992) the pair continued to expand their mind-altering vision of rock music in Vermonster, Bongloads of Righteous Boo, Magic Hour, and - currently - Major Stars. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For fans of Twisted Village, Forced Exposure, rock music, and w33d.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/196084112/crystalized_movements_wideness_comes.zip"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the kitchen's out of sugar</span></a></span></div></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-88746433970755815682009-02-09T07:54:00.000-08:002009-02-09T08:17:28.326-08:00Some Velvet Sidewalk - Whirpool<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SZBSTsxvbtI/AAAAAAAAAIg/ajGaZB9sXgI/s1600-h/Svs-wp.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SZBSTsxvbtI/AAAAAAAAAIg/ajGaZB9sXgI/s320/Svs-wp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300827259805855442" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some Velvet Sidewalk were contemporaries of Beat Happening in the late 80s/early 90s Pacific Northwest scene. Not surprisingly, K Records released most of their recordings. They shared Beat Happening's minimalist approach to rock, but Some Velvet Sidewalk were a bit more... there is no way to candy coat this... talented. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Even then, it took SVS a couple albums to really get their stride. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Whirlpool</span> is my personal favorite album of theirs. It was certainly heavier than their earlier releases, but it was also more sprawling in its sound and tighter in its performance. No doubt this was thanks in large part to production by Steve Fisk. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">If you like slightly atonal, sometimes noisy and droning, occassionally childlike, but ultimately melodic indie rock typical of the early K Records persuasion, check it out.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/196002687/some_velvet_sidewalk_whirpool.zip">i blame you</a></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-61631115775663495262009-02-02T04:44:00.001-08:002009-02-02T04:48:00.216-08:00XLIII<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SYbreGxYkgI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/wAvTQ2m-IMI/s1600-h/15.new.1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SYbreGxYkgI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/wAvTQ2m-IMI/s320/15.new.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298180914094313986" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SYbrTxBI6BI/AAAAAAAAAII/-DvDTkkifBU/s1600-h/00.2.new.opis-4091-mid.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SYbrTxBI6BI/AAAAAAAAAII/-DvDTkkifBU/s320/00.2.new.opis-4091-mid.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298180736456124434" /></a>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-88756749968040864202009-01-31T20:34:00.000-08:002009-01-31T20:43:59.794-08:00RIP Myron - Go Steelers<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxgSelYUA8gfeKis8CTgWmuyJjgpCmSkowXWPRcAVCWbY2YFoZEMX0yogOUifYoSH4T7MDA0dJknMVBAtKjGw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-20410351913480568332009-01-31T19:16:00.003-08:002009-01-31T19:58:36.741-08:00The Most Secret Method - Get Lovely<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SYUUOWXAZDI/AAAAAAAAAHw/61XceQ9ikwg/s1600-h/getlovely_cover250.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SYUUOWXAZDI/AAAAAAAAAHw/61XceQ9ikwg/s320/getlovely_cover250.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297662773424055346" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where to start?</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I suspect that some subscribers to this blog have their own forgotten favorites, as I do. Bands who were criminally unknown in their time. Music so transcendent that I cannot believe I am the first to post it for download in teh blog-o-sphere.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I live in Pittsburgh but I have a few friends in DC. In my single days that was a no-brainer weekend roadie, with time to spare for post-show Ben's Chili Bowl plus a Saturday afternoon record shopping and billiards spree in Fells Point. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I first saw The Most Secret Method play in 1999 at the Move Studio in Pittsburgh, a dance studio/indie rock show space in a distressed suburb called Wilkinsburg. I can't remember for sure who they opened for (I think it was Juno), but I know they made a lasting impression. I made at least three trips after that to catch them in DC, including their sweltering farewell show at the Black Cat in August 2002. Every trip would have been a blast regardless, but the Most Secret Method was the reason.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">How to describe them? Take the SG-driven sound of Fugazi, combine it with the post-hardcore pop slant of Jawbox, add the male-female vocal dueling of X, arrange it with the minimalistic economy of the Minutemen, front it with a Broadway-caliber singer, and back it with a fretless bass virtuoso. If you liked the DC sound of the late 90s but you never head them before, The Most Secret Method are your new favorite band from that scene.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-family:arial;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/192299726/most_secret_method_get_lovely.zip"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">get ready to move</span></a></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-34325742620886963032009-01-24T11:09:00.000-08:002009-01-24T19:31:54.389-08:00Coral - Pillow Talk<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SXtqi9_bytI/AAAAAAAAAHo/0J8E7L5Hsl4/s1600-h/coral+pillow+talk.jpeg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SXtqi9_bytI/AAAAAAAAAHo/0J8E7L5Hsl4/s320/coral+pillow+talk.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294942935892871890" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I subscribe to several other like-minded blogs - far more prolific than my own, for the most part. There was a minor Honor Role sensation over the last few weeks when at least two of you posted the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Rictus</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> album (see </span></span><a href="http://onebaseonanoverthrow.blogspot.com/2009/01/these-footholds-give-me-places-to-stand.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> and </span></span><a href="http://feelinkindafroggy.blogspot.com/2008/12/honor-role.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">). One or two follow up comments mentioned singer Bob Schick's next band Coral. That reminded me that I've never been able to find a digital copy of Coral's first LP </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Pillow Talk</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Apparently, I could not find find mp3s of that album because no one ever bought it. There is a seemingly endless supply of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> "sealed, mint condition"</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> Pillow Talk</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> CDs in virtual cut-out bins all across the interwebs. I am still gainfully employed, thankfully. </span></span><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/21/sunday/main4680489.shtml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Doing my part to end the recession</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, I sprung for a frivolous luxury and ordered myself a copy ($5 postpaid!). </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">So here you have it. If you like Bob Schick's vocals (not everyone does), read on. If you liked the indie-blues arrangements of Come, and if you dig Crazy Horse devotees like J. Mascis, Silkworm and Karl Hendricks, this is very much in the same vein. If you slept on this record 15 years ago, here is your shot at redemption.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/188852165/coral_pillow_talk.zip"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">i remember it all so clear</span></span></a></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-60836244481907069522009-01-17T20:29:00.000-08:002009-01-17T20:38:42.274-08:00Gear Jammer - Horsepower 2000 7"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SXKx5iCxENI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/kKONn2cONgQ/s1600-h/63Gear-Jammer_20-BG.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SXKx5iCxENI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/kKONn2cONgQ/s320/63Gear-Jammer_20-BG.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292488114062823634" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Here's a response to a recent post by our like-minded friends at [shiny grey monotone]</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">This was Hazelmeyer's short-lived post-Halo of Flies band. They only released two 7" records as far as I know. Check out the other one </span><a href="http://shinygreymonotone.blogspot.com/2009/01/gear-jammer-two-tons-of-chrome-7.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/185242554/Gear_Jammer_HP2k.zip"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">i drink, too</span></a></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-46966553302809859912008-12-29T14:45:00.000-08:002008-12-29T12:30:51.310-08:00Records I liked in 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SVkpOTLCriI/AAAAAAAAAHI/-t_lL4ki-2I/s1600-h/scotch-pic.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SVkpOTLCriI/AAAAAAAAAHI/-t_lL4ki-2I/s320/scotch-pic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285300963337481762" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">well, it has been another busy month with no posts. i actually have been planning this post for several weeks, but i wanted to check it twice before finally putting it out there. no discussion, just a list of the records i liked in 2008. most links provide either artist-sanctioned downloads of individual tracks (whenever i could find one), streams of full albums (mostly at </span></span><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/panzan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">last.fm</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">), or streaming tracks as a last resort... with a couple exceptions</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i hope everyone else is also still finding new music they enjoy.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">top eleven:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the black crowes - warpaint (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Black+Crowes/Warpaint"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">warpaint</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the gutter twins - saturnalia (download </span></span><a href="http://www.subpop.com/assets/audio/4022.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"idle hands"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">melvins - nude with boots (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Melvins/Nude+With+Boots"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">nude with boots</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">modey lemon - season of sweets (download </span></span><a href="http://www.birdmanrecords.com/modeylemon/audio/Modey.Lemon-Milk.Moustache.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"milk moustache"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">no age - nouns (download </span></span><a href="http://www.subpop.com/assets/audio/4260.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"eraser"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">oxford collapse - bits (download </span></span><a href="http://www.subpop.com/assets/audio/4465.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"the birthday wars"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">parts & labor - receivers (download </span></span><a href="http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/nowheresnigh(edit).mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"nowhere's nigh"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">prisonshake - dirty moons (download </span></span><a href="http://scatrecords.com/mp3s/Prisonshake-Crush_Me.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"crush me"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">scorch trio - brolt! (stream three tracks </span></span><a href="http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=95090"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here)</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">times new viking - rip it off (download </span></span><a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/times_new_viking/times_new_viking_2_songs.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"my head/r.i.p. allegory"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the wedding present - el ray (download </span></span><a href="http://www.manifesto.com/mp3/weddingpresent_thethingilikebest.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"the thing i like best about him is his girlfriend")</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">second top eleven:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cheap time - cheap time (stream tracks </span></span><a href="http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=114641"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">dead meadow - old growth (download </span></span><a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/dead_meadow/dead_meadow_im_gone.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"i'm gone"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/dead_meadow/dead_meadow_what_needs.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"what needs must be"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">don caballero - punkgasm (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Don+Caballero/Punkgasam"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">punkgasm</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">endless boogie - focus level (</span></span><a href="http://www.noquarter.net/mp3/manlyvibe.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">download "the manly vibe"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">magic lanterns - high beams (download </span></span><a href="http://www.inflightatnight.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/magiclantern_eathsheadhawkmoth.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"deathheads hawkmoth"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">nissenenmondai - neji/tori (stream </span></span><a href="http://www.imeem.com/pitchforkmedia/music/Dyw4aqA0/nisennenmondai_pop_group/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"pop group"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the shaky hands - lunglight (stream </span></span><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Shaky+Hands/Lunglight"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">lunglight</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">suffocate for fuck sake - blazing fires and helicopters on the frontpage of the newspaper. there´s a war going on and i´m marching in heavy boots (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Suffocate+For+Fuck+Sake/Blazing+fires+and+helicopters+on+the+frontpage+of+the+newspaper.+There%C2%B4s+a+war+going+on+and+I%C2%B4m+marching+in+heavy+boots"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">blazing fires...</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">vandermark 5 - beat reader (stream 'further from the truth (for walker evans)" </span></span><a href="http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4099"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)<br /></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">wale - the mixtape about nothing (</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">download </span></span><a href="http://www.zshare.net/download/12770681c4ad01f5/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, because it was meant to be given away in the first place)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">witch hats - cellulite soul (stream </span></span><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Witch+Hats/Cellulite+Soul"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cellulite soul</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">honorable mention:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">atlas sound - let the blind lead those who can see but not feel (download </span></span><a href="http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Atlas%20Sound%20-%20River%20Card.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"river card"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">blood on the wall - liferz (download </span></span><a href="http://www.thesocialregistry.com/_mp3/free_music/botw_hibernation.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"hibernation"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">bonnie "prince" billy - lie down in the light (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.imeem.com/artists/bonnie_prince_billy/playlist/RUeHvibD/lie_down_in_the_light_album/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">lie down in the light</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">david holmes - the holy pictures (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/David+Holmes/The+Holy+Pictures+%28Comm+CD%29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the holy pictures</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the dirtbombs - we have you surrounded (stream "ever lovin' man" </span></span><a href="http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4097"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">home blitz - weird wings (ok, technically </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">weird wings</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is a portion of home blitz' self-titled full length which was released in 2007. sue me. stream tracks 11-15 </span></span><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Home+Blitz/Home+Blitz"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">koushik - out my window (download </span></span><a href="http://stonesthrow.com/podcast/stonesthrow_koushik_sun.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"lying in the sun"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ted leo/pharmacists - rapid response (</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">buy </span></span><a href="http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=478"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, support worthy causes like </span></span><a href="http://www.foodnotbombs.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">stephen malkmus - real emotional trash (download </span></span><a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/stephen_malkmus_jicks/cold_son.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"cold sun"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/stephen_malkmus_jicks/stephen_malkmus_jicks_baltimore.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"baltimore"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">mudhoney - the lucky ones (download </span></span><a href="http://www.subpop.com/assets/audio/4300.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"i'm now"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">portishead - third (stream </span></span><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Portishead/Third"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">third</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the roots - rising down (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Roots/Rising+Down"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">rising down</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">subtle - exitingARM (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Subtle/Exiting+Arm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">exitingARM</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ten kens - ten kens (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=270"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ten kens</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)<br /></span></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">torche - meanderthal (stream "healer" </span></span><a href="http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4238"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">why? - alopecia (stream </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Why%3F/Alopecia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">alopecia</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span><br /></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-62490194104594558162008-11-26T09:52:00.000-08:002008-11-26T10:18:18.604-08:00Peter Brötzmann / William Parker / Hamid Drake - Never Too Late But Always Too Early [LIVE]<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SS2NqqdE1dI/AAAAAAAAAG4/-PISh5lUfHo/s1600-h/51mK6au70EL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SS2NqqdE1dI/AAAAAAAAAG4/-PISh5lUfHo/s320/51mK6au70EL._SS500_.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273026502810981842" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm not much of a writer when it comes to describing jazz (and you could probably argue that I'm not much better with other music). But, I know what I like. As a former sax player, I envy Peter Brötzmann's intensity and stamina. I love Hamid Drake's sense of rhythmic imagination. I love almost everything I've heard with Drake and William Parker playing together. So, naturally, I love this massive two-disc live set.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">If you already enjoy modern jazz styles, I think you will enjoy this too. If you are a newcomer, there's no time like the present. These three musicians are among the most (dare I say) important innovators on their respective instruments in the last 40 years.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/167649252/Never_Too_Late_Always_Too_Early.zip">go</a></span></div></span>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-66413070076771942722008-11-26T04:53:00.000-08:002009-02-09T08:18:20.677-08:00The Wedding Present - Watusi<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SS1HESJFd8I/AAAAAAAAAGw/f0tkjwYk4xw/s1600-h/watusi.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SS1HESJFd8I/AAAAAAAAAGw/f0tkjwYk4xw/s320/watusi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272948877635712962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">You can't swing a dead cat in a room full of aging hipsters without lashing someone who owns a copy of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Seamonsters</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. With good reason. What I don't get is why more people don't also adore the follow up, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Watusi</span>. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;">Lyrically, it continues the usual themes of unrequited love and narcissistic heartbreak. Musically, however, the band built on the shredding guitar template and adopted a somewhat more diverse sonic palette. Recording with Steve Fisk may have helped. Listen to Fisk's contemporary project Pell Mell (posted yesterday, <a href="http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/pell-mell-flow-interstate.html">here</a>) and you may hear what I mean. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;">It's difficult to find this album in any format right now. It is not for sale at any of the major mp3 stores. I could not even find it posted on another blog. Hopefully, Island Records will not hammer me as hard as they did <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/negativland_pr.html">Negativeland</a>. Enjoy!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://sharebee.com/bed8281c">they can keep it all</a></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-11294176902215676562008-11-25T19:12:00.000-08:002008-11-26T10:19:24.653-08:00Killing Capitalism With Kindness - An Xpressway Records Compilation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SSy_DLc1P1I/AAAAAAAAAGo/0MlaSB3Has8/s1600-h/o372357.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SSy_DLc1P1I/AAAAAAAAAGo/0MlaSB3Has8/s320/o372357.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272799325078241106" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;">The early 90s were apparently a very prolific time for musicians from the land of the long white cloud. College radio dorks like me dropped the needle on anything from the Flying Nun and Xpressway labels that crossed our path. Ultimately, Flying Nun got most of the attention, but Xpressway was clearly the more adventurous label. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Killing Capitalism With Kindness</span> was an Xpressway compilation of artists - some of whom were familiar to international college radio dorks like myself, but many of whom were not - leaning towards the lo-fi, experimental side of kiwi indie rock. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;">Every song on this comp was intentionally recorded in "substandard" conditions. Songs range from hauntingly beautiful to smartly melodic, with fuzz, hum, and tape hiss serving as just another instrument. The collection was assembled by Peter Jefferies of This Kind of Punishment, who close out the set with the dark and stirring "Reaching an End." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://sharebee.com/82a5f925">brought to the ground by the oldest </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://sharebee.com/82a5f925">clich</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://sharebee.com/82a5f925">é</a></span></span></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104961571611468538.post-41363624865374495282008-11-25T13:57:00.001-08:002009-02-09T08:18:43.329-08:00Pell Mell - Flow & Interstate<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SSx1956H0CI/AAAAAAAAAGY/tZ3UEZTyDlo/s320/Pell+Mell+Flow.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272718970121080866" /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SSx1-O2J25I/AAAAAAAAAGg/cqT7teYwse8/s1600-h/Pell+Mell+Interstate.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SSx1-O2J25I/AAAAAAAAAGg/cqT7teYwse8/s320/Pell+Mell+Interstate.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272718975741582226" /> </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">[I have been very busy lately with work and family. Free time has been at a premium. To those who have commented and written, thanks for the encouragement!]</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;">For whatever reason, there is a disproportionate amount of music released in 1992 that has always dominated my turntable/CD player/computer/iPod playlists. Among my very favorites from that year, and from all time, is Pell Mell's third LP <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Flow</span>. This is gorgeous instrumental guitar rock music with just the right combination of noise and melody and quite a distinctive style. It certainly borrows elements from surf music and krautrock, but from my perspective this mostly sounds like... well, it sounds like Pell Mell.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;">All you middle-aged heads like me remember the major label feeding frenzy of the early 90s. For Pell Mell, it was kismet. Microsoft used a snippet of one of their songs (I think it was "Flood" but I am not sure, and the interwebs fail me on this search). Pell Mell's former manager was working as an A&R rep for DGC. I suppose that was as much "buzz" as one could have ever foreseen about for an anonymous, scattered,nomadic instrumental band which rarely played live and almost never toured. The result was <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Interstate</span>, another gorgeous record which picked up where <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Flow</span> left off.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Interstate</span> was not gorgeous enough in the sales column, apparently. Pell Mell recorded another record for DGC but they got downsized instead. The resultant album - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Star City</span> - wound up on Matador. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;">A few years later I had a pleasant surprise watching the second episode of HBO's excellent <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Six Feet Under</span>. Fans of that program should instantly recognize the first song on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Interstate</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/167389483/Pell_Mell_Flow_Interstate.zip.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[...]</span></span></a></div>panzanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092646432192914583noreply@blogger.com0