Paste’s 50 Best Albums of the Decade list, out today, is a mixture of A-list indie rock standards and token hip hop and mainstream picks. These selections are mostly successful releases that cater to a white audience of semi-alternative persuasion. Even if this roster is more a reflection of who's reading than the music itself, though, at least they climbed the mountain -- and hey, the album...
Wherein a few quotes from the Paul Westerberg documentary and concert film "This movie would not be possible without your illegal footage and photographs. Thank you." opening screen of "Come Feel Me Tremble "I'm open to a good idea. But if a bad idea is more fun, then I'll do the bad idea for the sake of the moment." One word descriptions of old albums: Interviewer: Hootenanny?...
There aren't too many musical artists in my lifetime who have been more underrated than Bob Mould. His output over the last 25 years has been stunningly consistent, yet other bands with nearly identical sounds always seemed to get more pub. Husker Du of course became cult faves of college radio in the mid-1980's, but never quite achieved the popularity of fellow Minnesotans The Replacements. While...
Noisy, shoegaze garage rock is on offer here from Minnesota guitar-janglers Gospel Gossip . The excellently titled single ‘ Sippy Cup ’ bursts in with fuzzy guitars, wailing feedback and propulsive drums. The whole tune has a warm drunken slur to it and an emotional weight to boot. Mumbling vocalist Sarah Nienaber delivers a fantastic performance where you can identify with her struggles...
http://www.mediafire.com/?d1y4man4zmd Recorded at home and with Westberg playing all the instruments this album has something for most people, from bluesy rock, acoustic ballads, garage rock and Beatles type pop. Lyrics are not always top notch but worth forking out your hard earned dough for. Obviously that is what you will do after giving it a listen, won't you?
150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time 149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble 148 - Franz FerdinandFranz Ferdinand 147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain 146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues 145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days 144 - Robert Wyatt Comicopera 143 - Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs 142 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell 141 - Rahel Unthank and the Winterset The Bairns 140 - Espers...
Image by Kendall Pavan via the Deer Tick MySpace page. Deer Tick, The Henry Clay People, and Alberta Cross Friday, October 2 Emos ( 603 Red River St ) $15, Doors at 10pm, SOLD OUT [ info ] | [ tickets ] We're mostly repeating ourselves here, but read on for more information on this action-packed triple bill at Emo's Indoors along with an opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the now sold out gig....
Tons of bands today reference R.E.M. and The Replacements as an influence… but what about the bands that influenced them? Both Peter Buck and Paul Westerberg cite the band Big Star as the pinnacle of power pop. (Heck, The Replacements even wrote a tribute for frontman Alex Chilton on the album Pleased to [...]
I might have a crush on Paul Westerberg. I said might . If you have never listened to The Replacements, what the heck are you doing reading my blog??? Get yourself to youtube*, itunes... wherever it is you check out music, and check them out. Do you like punk rock? classic pop? songs with good lyrics? eighties music? Any or all of the above, and I guarantee you will love The Replacements. If you somehow...
After a flurry of quick digital releases in 2008, Paul Westerberg has been quiet this year. Until now. Tuesday brought the release of another digital offering, an EP titled P.W. + the Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys The EP title derives from one word from the titles of each of the six tracks. As with last year's releases, there is no supporting information. It sounds like another one-man-band affair,...
Paul Westerberg released a 6-track digital EP yesterday, PW & The Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys. The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiles author James Ellroy, whose new novel Blood's a Rover is one of the best books I have read...
Corny, I know, but new music from Paul Westerberg arrived today. The six-song ep PW & The Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys can be found here . Not sure how this one slipped under the radar, but here’s a classic from the Westerberg catalog to tide you over while you download.
David Grahame has a new untitled album out, and Bruce at Not Lame has the limited 75-copy run. Aside from the limited quantities, there's a catch: It's priced at $11.50 per track. And there are only two tracks. Sounds enticing, right? Actually the two tracks are two long song medleys that total 55 minutes, so it is the length of a full album. Apparently, Grahame is taking a page out of Lannie Flowers'...
Hola amigos! Kleph here. Todd's busy doing his part for the glorious SB Nation people's revolution you've all been hearing so much about and asked me to pic up the Friday Random Ten duties again. And, once again, I'm tweaking the rules a bit. About a month ago a friend of mine from high school and I got into an discussion about those horrible songs from the mid-80s we simply could not deny retaining...
“I never travel far without a little Big Star,” Paul Westerberg sang in “Alex Chilton,” a track from The Replacements 1986 gem Pleased to Meet Me. The line speaks for the cult of fervent listeners of Big Star, the 70’s Memphis act that over the course of three LPs defined the term “power-pop” while suggesting [...]
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