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  The Legendary Pink Dots - Still Legendary, Probably Still Pink

  11.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I just found out that nordic beasts The Legendary Pink Dots quietly released a new full-length very recently called Platinum Blonde.  And as you can expect, like contemporaries Lilys and Psychic TV, they’re still all over the place.  Platinum Blonde features it all: psychedelia, noise, and hell, even a few dance ditties.

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  Blues Control - “Behind the Skies” and “Always on Time”

  11.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m probably really late on this, but I’m not really a bandwagon person anyway.
  Blues Control, Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho of Watersports, has always been rather hit or miss for me from what I had heard from them.  It seemed time to really give them a go last week when I saw Puff at Ear [...]

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  Feelin’ Groovy with Magik Markers

  11.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was really stoked on czechin’ the new Lindsey Buckingham joint the other night, as L-Train and I are both huge Fleetwood Mac fans.  And after listening, we were very sad about it.  Now that Lindsey isn’t scoring blow and beating up his girlfriends, his tunes are slowing waning in smooth rock quality.  I don’t [...]

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  Navigating the Dead C

  11.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of the best compliments you can receive as a musician is the notion of irritating music writers.  The Dead C has always been one of the most difficult groups to describe.  Like many psych rippers and no wavers, much of the Dead C’s repertoire specializes in noise and structure breakdown.  But simply labeling it [...]

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  Imagining Wire As a Wall of Sound

  11.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Post-punk pioneers Wire were oft recognized as a group in a strange nether region - one that was too artsy to be punk, too punk for the art kids.  Wire was angular and minimal, with gorgeous melodies remaining subtle and rewarding.  As such, it makes total sense to extract those under-the-surface pop structures, add dense [...]

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  Dead Meadow Peel Sessions

  11.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Gotta shout out to Evan at Swan Fungus again for locating more difficult-to-find holy relics.  Today, it’s a Dead Meadow bootleg, sometimes referred to as a Live on WFMU recording, though Evan points out that it’s actually a somewhat lost Peel Session.
  Dead Meadow releases some of the highest caliber Hawkwind-esque mind-melters today.  Of course, in [...]

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  Revisiting Simply Saucer’s Cyborgs Revisited

  10.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Since it’s Halloween week, and I always associate Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds broadcast with the holiday, it seemed like a decent time for posting proper on some Simply Saucer. Though their name sounds like an item you might pick up at your nearby intergalactic grocery stop, their astral psychedelic garage transmissions more than [...]

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  Fairport Convention Uber Alles

  10.27.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  With that autumnal chill now prominently in the air, I figured it would be appropriate to discuss my favorite fall-time electric folk collective. There’s nothing better than Fairport Convention on the ghetto blaster as the soundtrack to a crisp, dry, cool autumn evening. Evidently, the band agrees as well. Look at all [...]

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  A Side of Marmalade

  10.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Especially in music, it seems there are a lot of names that most prominently exist as a footnote. I’m sure that’s a peculiar place to find oneself in. You see this often in the quite communal scenes of the late ’60s and early ’70s, the best example being the Beatles and how everyone [...]

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  Hush Arbors Releases a Scorcher

  10.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  You’re more than welcome, of course, to read my additional commentary on this matter, but if you just want the gist of it, all you need to know is that Hush Arbors‘ new eponymous record is a scorcher!  It laid my ghetto blaster to waste.
  I already expected Keith Wood’s (a.k.a. Hush Arbors) debut for Ecstatic [...]