The Raindogs
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Raindogs – Under The Rainbow I do love my country rock records. This track from The Raindogs fits the mold, but what really makes it special it the Celtic-like violin. The violin solo in the second half is truly the best part. The original poster, Captains Dead, is [...]
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Wins
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize Last year I discovered The Flaming Lips’s Yoshimi Wins live release on the dear, departed Lala. When the service shut down, this is the first album that I downloaded from eMusic so I could keep spinning it at work. The pace [...]
Live Wilco
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Norah Jones – Jesus Etc. (Live) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Wilco-California Stars (Live) Captains Dead posted the mp3s for two Wilco shows last week. I’d never heard Wilco live before and they were playing during what I consider the prime years – Mermaid Avenue / [...]
The First CD I Ever Heard
R.E.M. – Pop Song 89 Editor’s Note: This started out as a post for Star Maker Machine but I misread the prompt and wrote about my first CD listening experience instead of a first music purchase. Instead of tossing the post, I’m throwing it here. A more traditional post is in the works. Strewn across [...]
Roger McGuinn’s “bionic wrist” in action
That’s what he called it on his own blog, anyway. I took these videos last night at his concert at the Northshore Performing Arts Center on the campus of Bothell High School near Seattle. Sorry about the quality–they were taken on my Motorola W490 cell phone from row II in the mezzanine. I think I [...]
Johnny Lunchbreak
Johnny Lunchbreak – It’s Got A Hold On You Johnny Lunchbreak – Take Me Baby At heart, I’m a cheapskate. I rank music stores by their prices and the quality of their clearance selection. In general, this trait has served me well, but it has also kept me from exploring the boutique reissue labels. Luv [...]
Salty goodness
Laura Veirs – Wandering Kind I first ran across Laura Veirs about a year and a half ago — I stumbled across the track “Lost at Seaflower Cove” while browsing an assortment of local music websites. Now, I was not impressed with the song’s title, given that it sounded so painfully indie (and I even [...]
I’ve not heard much from Argentina, but what I have heard, I like
Los Enanitos Verdes – Te Vi En Un Tren In 1987 I was in elementary school. I’d yet to see pictures of Argentina, and even if I could find it on a globe, I had precious little in mind to distinguish it from its South American neighbors. Twenty years later, I find myself only slightly [...]
The Rumble Strips
Rumble Strips – Time Rumble Strips – Alarm Clock There are certain things I’ve come to expect from underdog Brit bands. Vaguely classical bridges, obvious accents, some horn assistance, and a focus on the girl that should have been. In these aspects, the Rumble Strips give Dexys Midnight Runners the best go for their money [...]
Terry Radigan
Terry Radigan – My Love Is RealTerry Radigan – Everything Starts Out Small There is an intimate, seductive quality to Terry Radigan’s self-titled 2000 release. The rough pulsings of rhythm guitar push like a nervous heart through My Love of Real. As the song builds, though, the guitar is buried, her nervousness forgotten in the [...]
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