Perhaps the least-known Sub Pop records of the last ten years — okay, maybe Combustible Edison or the Blue Rags might be more obscure — Ugly Casanova’s Sharpen Your Teeth is everything…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 211
Happy Super Bowl Sunday, you super people! I hope your team won, if you’re a sports guy who likes a certain sports team. Otherwise, as we say in New York (about the…
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The Top Ten Bands I Don’t Understand
Thanks to everyone who has commented on and shared the link to that White Stripes post I made yesterday. I’m happy it created some dialog, and I’m even happier it wasn’t perceived…
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Nine Days Wonder – We Never Lost Control
Nurse With Wound List alert! I’ve been lusting after this since I first heard it on progressive/experimental blog. A dealer was selling a nice near-mint example at WFMU in October for $75,…
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Sam
April 2005 My grandfather, my father’s father, was born in 1907, and died in December of 1983, eight months after I was born. There is an old family movie filmed the week…
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Sunday Mix Tape Zero – PFC Summer ’94 Bunk Cedar
Even as a 12 year old I didn’t know how to spell. “Wait a minute — Mix Tape Zero?” You’re probably asking. Yeah. Mix Tape Zero. Let me explain. As I cleaned…
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10 Bad News Chicks I Shouldn’t Be Attracted To
A few days ago my favorite website The Frisky ran an article entitled 10 Bad News Dudes I Shouldn’t Be Attracted To. The premise was that the author, Amelia McDonell-Parry, would list…
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Violet Sedan Chair – Seven Suns (13th Tone Records, 1971)
Here’s a funny story. Starting 6 or 8 weeks ago the store begins receiving e-mails, phone calls, and drop-ins by customers who are asking about a record by a band called Violet…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: The Foundry On Melrose
When my mother is in town, I don’t have to starve myself. In fact, I eat very well when she is around to foot the bill. And I don’t have to feel…
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Nun-Plus – Ljubimo
This is one of two great records I was introduced to at the big record listening party I attended a few months ago. As soon as I heard it I realized that…