Limited to 1000 copies, this is easily the rarest Do Make Say Think release. It also happens to contain one of the best grooves the group has ever laid down, “I Love…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 215
At Birds. Where I drink quite often these days. I sit down and order a drink. Thesy remarks, “Dude, you look really good. You’re glowing!” Uh…really? Are you sure I’m not just…
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Calexico @ Echoplex; Los Angeles, CA
It’s been almost 8 years since the first time I saw Calexico. During their tour for Feast Of Wire I caught them at a small restaurant/club called NXNW in the suburbs of…
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VDSQ Solo West Coast Tour @ Show Cave; Los Angeles, CA
Thank God for Google Reader. Without it I probably wouldn’t have checked Mark McGuire’s blog and found out that he was playing in LA as part of the VDSQ solo acoustic West…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 214
At least one wise man — or maybe scores of wise men — once said that music is not your friend in the immediate aftermath of a negative life-changing event. I don’t…
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Warm Weather Music
The weather has been really nice in Los Angeles for the past week or so. It has provided me with numerous opportunities to take my new car out for drives across the…
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Lard Free – I’m Around About Midnight
A few months ago a private record collector invited me to his house down in the OC to hang out, listen to records, and buy a couple LPs from him. I spent…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: CUT
Some of you may already know this because you follow me on Facebook and Twitter, but I celebrated my 28th birthday yesterday. Well, more accurately, I celebrated my birthday this past weekend.…
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3rd Annual IPA Festival @ Naja’s Place; Redondo Beach, CA
It’s hard to find people who want to drive to Redondo at 2pm on a Thursday to start a marathon drinking session. But it’s easy to find people in Redondo who you…
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Syl Johnson – Total Explosion
If there’s one thing you need to know about R&B/Soul music, it’s that certain artists have innate abilities to illicit a particular response from listeners. I wouldn’t necessarily call finding said artists…