revision99 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Here we all are so many years down the road, all those burned up dreams and daydreams and nightmares past my blurred windows, pale faces entreating us. What was behind that door? I never tried the knob, did you? We live in Dallas and Las Vegas and Seattle and Minneapolis, but mostly in the South because [...]
OPTIMUSCRIME TORONTO (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Behold! The Saturday night set list! Many thanks to the lovely Aaron and Terence for allowing me to piggyback on fantastic night. And thank YOU for coming out! Set the First (B material) Magic People - The Paupers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3YwFKCbHI Take Her Any Time - The Longboatmen 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTnaPa9BaA Partie Des Dames - [...]
AM, Then FM (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
When I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, in the ’80s, one of the local rock stations, WMAD, would play the same combination of tunes every Friday afternoon, supposedly marking the official start of the weekend. I want to say it came about 2 p.m. because I often heard it in the car while heading home from the [...]
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
AC/DC's BACK IN BLACK has topped a new poll to find Australia's most influential album.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
AC DC's BACK IN BLACK has topped a new poll to find Australia's most influential album. The heavy rock epic beat The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever in the new ...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
A hedonistic paean to breaking free from workplace drudgery and hitting the town with your bird (Sheila, surely? – Sir Les Patterson), the Pub Column occasionally hears its chorus joyously ringing through his own mind after escaping the neon dungeon of Castle Greyskull to celebrate the coming weekend with a beer or three.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
In June 1964, the Beatles flew into Australia for a tour that turned the island continent Down Under upside down (which then rendered it right side up, i suppose -- oh, never mind). If in February the Fab Four hit...
MTV News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
AC/DC have been riffin' hard since the '70s, and with a new album finally on the way, we dug out this 2003 interview, in The Loder Files.
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
As I was born in 1960, there are any number of songs from that decade that I have known all my life. Often I could not tell you who sang them, though the answer often turns out to be The Hollies or Manfred Mann, which suggest those two bands are somewhere near the top of the 1960s second division of singles bands. (The first being The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Small Faces,...
DETAILED TWANG (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Like a lot of teenagers, I had my share of angst-filled difficult years. Growing up in San Jose, California during the early 80s, and going to what could ungenerously be called a “burnout junior high school” ( see another post I did on this here ), there were a couple years there where I felt, um, kind of alone, or at least pretty much divorced from my peers. We’re talking Ages 13, 14, 15 – grades...
Normalized Happiness (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
1. Friday I'm In Love - The Cure 2. Black Friday - Steely Dan 3. Friday Night, August 14th - Funkadelic 4. Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats (had to look that one up--thought it was the Hollies) 5. Police On My Back - The Clash Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
'Released on Hallmark / Pickwick in 1969, 'Bird Sounds In Close Up' is the possibly the greatest LP I've reviewed in Electric Roulette's entire 48 year history.'
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
IT was 11.30pm on Wednesday and Balmain's Commercial Hotel, in Sydney's inner-west, had just half-an-hour left under its current ownership before it closed. About a dozen people stood on the footpath drinking and smoking.
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Muxtape Challenge ahoy! We still have some tricky slots to fill, mostly in the early years, and really Muxtape isn't that hard to handle. Meanwhile, while we prevaricate over our Primer idea Left And To The Back steals in with an extraordinary downloadable compilation of largely British and certainly not American 60s psychedelia, including Cook & Moore's glorious Bedazzled (fuck off, Fraser and Hurley,...
MYSTICS NOT WASTRELS (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
The Presets - This Boy's In Love (Lifelike Remix) ( YSI ) ( ZShare ) Bloggers go apeshit for the Australian tunes at the moment, no? I don't have all my facts straight (and I am sure some would argue), but it would seem that this probably thanks in a large part to Modular's well-deserved international influence. And yes the Cut Copy album is fantastic, but to be honest I prefer the new Presets . The...
