Via Wikipedia: “Manfred Mann Chapter Three is the debut album released in 1969 by Manfred Mann Chapter Three. It was on of the three first albums released on the Vertigo record label.…
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New Music I Have Enjoyed Of Late
First off, thanks for all the book recommendations that have come pouring in via comments and e-mails this week. I stopped by my local bookstore today and picked up three titles today:…
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Manfred Mann – Chapter Three Volume Two
Via Prog Archives: “The second and final installment of Chapter Three’s recorded history is the logical extension of the amalgamation of murky electric piano led blues and progressive jazz flights of fancy…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 284
It’s been an eventful week. Last Sunday I ran a half-marathon. On Monday I got food poisoning. Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty much a blur (a vomit-y Spin Art blur!). Thursday I…
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Brast Burn – Debon
Yesterday I shared a brilliant (and sadly unheralded) record by Karuna Khyal. Today you can end your work-week with what is perhaps my most-favorite Japanese rock record of all time, the incredible…
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Karuna Khyal – Alomoni 1985
Alternative Press said: “Karuna Khyal are an altogether more psychotic proposition, quite capable of inducing frontal lobe fatigue in those lacking a hardy constitution. Great monolithic slabs of damaged, half speed Beefheartian…
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Happy Halloween
I felt good enough to venture outside today. I figured 12 hours without vomiting was as good a sign as any that I’d cleared my biggest hurdle. Stupidly, I woke up and…
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On The Los Angeles Halloween Half-Marathon
It seems pointless for me to get worked up about having run a half-marathon yesterday. In fact, running 13.1 miles was actually a step backwards from my marathon training schedule, which instructed…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 283
It’s been a busy day, people. I was up at 6am preparing to run the Los Angeles Halloween Half-Marathon downtown. I’ll write a full recap tomorrow when more details/photos have been posted,…
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Various Artists – Wailing Ultimate
Where else are you going to find Dinosaur (Jr.!), Volcano Suns, Squirrel Bait, Big Black, Naked Raygun, Big Dipper and others all in the same place!? …If you answered “Uh…one of Evan’s…