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April 2008
Keith Hudson -- Playing It Cool & Playing It Right LP
Scritti Politti -- Early 2xLP
Russian Circles -- Station CD
Fire -- whatever that Spanish title is on the Guerssen reissue
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and the Early Worm -- Early Worm LP (thanks Ryan!)
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets -- The Howling LP
Grabba Grabba Tape/Margaritas split 12"
Death to Pigs -- Carnal Carnival LP
Factums -- The Sistrum LP+7"
V/A -- Shadow Music of Thailand LP
V/A -- I.V.G. LP
Tranzistors -- Yoo...
whoops, this week got away from me.
Soft Location -- Diamonds & Gems LP
Dazzlingkillmen -- The Face of Collapse LP
Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns -- A Blow From Me, A Toot to You LP
Religious Knives -- Resin CD
Religious Knives -- 08/15/07 Big Jar Books, Philadelphia, PA CD
Moonshake -- Big Good Angel 12"
"30 Rock"
"The Office"
Michael Rother -- Flammende Herzen LP
Russian Circles -- Station CD (yawn)
Cloudland Canyon -- Lie in Light CD
RTFO Bandwagon...
Windy Weber -- I Hate People LP
Jazkamer -- Metal Music Machine LP
Stray Dog s/t LP
Thank You -- Terrible Two LP
Hot Butter -- Popcorn LP
Sir Douglas Quintet -- Dynamite Woman b/w Too Many Dociled Minds 45
Goblin -- Roller LP
assorted records played at Cockfight
The Kids in the Hall -- live
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall"
"Diff'rent Strokes" bike shop molestation 2-parter
"Rock and the Pop Narcotic" by Joe Carducci
Francis Harold and the Holograms...
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets -- The Howling LP
Oxford Collapse -- BITS CDR
Michael Rother -- Sterntaler LP
"The Office"
"30 Rock"
RTFO Bandwagon 7" test press
again these posts document my listening habits, and habits otherwise as they relate to music and life. completely open for discussion.
4/16 action:
Kin Ping Meh -- No. 2 LP
Dennis Coffey -- Instant Coffey LP
Jefferson Airplane -- After Bathing at Baxter's LP
Gulls -- Free(er) 12"
AC/DC -- Powerage LP
4/17 action:
DJing at Bowery Electric (ok gig)
CAVE -- Hunt Like Devil/JAMZ LP
Michael Rother -- Sterntaler LP
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets -- The Howling LP
RTFO Bandwagon...
Spent last night polishing off the latest edition of Still Single for Dusted; check it out.
Sean Smith -- Eternal LP
Gulls -- FREE(er) 12" (total sunrise jam, insane)
Clusterfuck -- How the West Was Won LP
Ssion -- Clown 12"
"Arrested Development" s2 episodes
part of "Foxes" on cable
part of "Ego Trip's Miss Rap Supreme" on VH1 (gooooooooo Khia, pull that other lady's weave out)
Hey -- me and Mr. Vacation got two gigs in NYC this week. Czech it out:
Wed Apr 16 @ THE BOWERY ELECTRIC (327 Bowery btw 2nd and 3rd, in the former Remote Lounge space, Manhattan) ... new bar owned by some heads; we're gonna help break it in
Fri Apr 18 @ Daddy's Bar for COCKFIGHT (437 Graham Ave. btw Frost & Richardson, Williamsburg Brooklyn) ... this is the monthly jam
We play rock, punk, soul, funk, metal, garage, psych, Brazilian, and a lot of points in between. Doo-doo-wap is...
Did a lot of listening in preparation for my singles column for Dusted. It'll be published tomorrow. Here's what I bossed:
Green Bullfrog LP
The Breeders -- Mountain Battles LP
The Breeders -- We're Gonna Rise 7"
Curtis Mayfield -- Back to the World LP
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone -- new 7" picture disk
Deadverse Massive 12" picture disk
El-G 7"
Fennesz/Jeck/Matthews -- Amoroso 7"
Kids on TV -- Jeremy Mon Ami 7"
Lognhalsmottagningen...
I made it in February and March. Check my Mixtapes section for more.
Contains all or part of the following tracks:
Gabor Szabo "Somewhere I Belong"
Atlantis "Mr. Big Shot"
Socrates Drank the Conium "Starvation"
Haystacks Balboa "Spoiler"
Hawkwind "Ghost Dance"
Faust "Meadow Meal"
Ram "AXA"
Todd Rundgren "Flamingo"
Hall & Oates "You're Much Too Soon"
Richie Havens "Run Shaker Life/Do...
Pretty stoked on the Steel Pole Bath Tub piece up for this week's Unsung Heroes -- go on and check it out.
Beastie Boys -- Paul's Boutique 2xLP
Sly and the Family Stone -- A Whole New Thing LP
Yura Yura Teikoku -- Slow Death/It Was a Robot remix 12"
"30 Rock"
"The Office"
really great dinner last night @ Momofuku (poulet rouge, pork buns, oysters, pistachio ice cream)
Portishead -- Third MP3s
Breeders -- Mountain Battles LP
Swob -- Persis Hussey...
Breeders -- Mountain Battles LP and promo 7"
that awful SxE thing that Thurston Moore narrated on National Geographic Channel
Manfred Mann's Earth Band -- Nightingales & Bombers LP
Earles & Jensen -- Just Farr a Laugh 2xCD
Cloak/Dagger -- Kamikazes 7"
Gentleman Jesse/Joseph Plunkett split 7"
Spirea X -- Fireblade Skies LP
Big Dipper -- Supercluster (disc 2)
Longmont Potion Castle calls
Aqualamb.
Got a 12 lb. box of records from Matador/Beggars Group yesterday...
Torche -- Meanderthal CD (x3 ... so great)
Them, Themselves or They CDR
The Endless Blockade -- Primitive CD
"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" DVD (not too great)
assorted Longmont Potion Castle calls
Kurt Vile -- Constant Hitmaker CD
Gentleman Jesse/Joseph Plunkett split 7"
Bad times @ work when you're listening to harassing prank call recordings over and over. I'm thinking about asking our HR department if they're equipped with Nanette Nunanacci.
Really...
Clinic -- Do It! MP3s
T2 -- It'll All Work Out in Boomland CD
T2 s/t CD
Wye Oak -- If Children CD (ugggggggh)
Funkadelic -- Let's Take It To the Stage LP
The Church -- Heyday LP
Spirea X -- Speed Reaction 12"
Vivian Girls 7"
"Brotherhood of Satan" on the Tivo
some s2 "Newsradio" episodes
Oxford Collapse/Cause Co-Motion/Home Blitz -- live
Sir Douglas Quintet -- Rough Edges LP
Sir Douglas Quintet -- The Return of Doug Saldana LP
Bauhaus -- Go Away White LP
Pains of Being Pure at Heart/Parallelograms split 7"
Lögnhalsmottagningen -- Oron Nasa 7"
Oxford Collapse -- Spike of Bensonhurst 7"
Big Dipper -- Supercluster 3xCD
Dungen -- 2 LP
Monster Magnet -- 25...Tab LP
killer ramen from Minca Friday night before the show (really need some more now that a cold...
and the hits just keep on coming...
Thee Milkshakes {i}Talkin' Bout Thee Milkshakes (Hangman) ... Billy Childish and co. banging it out. Had this for a while but only last night thought to put it on. It's a belter.
DJ set @ Daddy's. Played a bunch of psych records. My friends from Optimo in Scotland showed up, as did at least one of the Yeasayer boyz and company. Good times, had to end early, but that was personal.
Every Steel Pole Bathtub record from butterfly love through the 2x7", in prep for a piece I'm writing for FUZZ
Socrates Drank the Conium On the Wings LP (anazitisi) ... holding to this as being one of the best of the best of its time and scene
Garbage & the Flowers Eyes Rind As If Beggars 2xLP (the now sound) ... copped this down in Austin at a Fucked Up/Sex Vid instore on the East Side (the store is called Trailer Space, I think). a record I'd been looking for in vain for 10...
Push your skull through the calico wall
Rebecca Ross and myself playing the finest in head music
DADDY'S BAR
10pm-laaaaaaaaaater dude
437 graham ave btw frost and richardson, williamsburg brooklyn
Almost forgot to mention this ... I recently posted about standing 2 feet away from EYE at Other Music while the Boredoms freaked out. It's on the Fix, so check it:
http://www.fuzz.com/articles/article/Other-Music-NYC-62
so this'll serve as a place where i post what i checked out musically/visually thee previous day/night/weekend. it's chill. you learn something perhaps, or you don't.
CAVE Hunt Like Devil/JAMZ LP (Permanent) ... pretty cool Hawkwind/Oneida worship, presumably from Chicago
Mayyors 7" (Waste of Oil) ... black sleeve, black labels, black cover. how black can it get? this black. new brutal flippin' out noise rock from sacto. 300 copies, sold out in a week.
El-G 7"...
