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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"...
 
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