sOmEThiNg foR thE wEEkenD, SIR? (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Among the many great song writers that burst into out lives via the radio and our black and white TV sets were the songs of this remarkable woman: Ellie Greenwich. Her CV is one to be proud of and contains the songs of legend. Songs such as: "Be My Baby", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Leader of the Pack", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy",...
Silent Words Speak Loudest (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Feel good hits of the 25th November 1. 'Bang' - The Raveonettes 2. 'The Train From Kansas City' - The Shangri-Las 3. 'So Bored' - Wavves 4. 'Yeah' (crass version) - LCD Soundsystem 5. 'It's Thunder And It's Lightning' - We Were Promised Jetpacks 6. 'Sonny Liston' - Elapse-O 7. 'Rehearsal' - It Hugs Back 8. 'Stay Famous' - Cougar 9. 'Lovely Rita' - The Beatles 10. 'Dreamer' - Lightning Dust Reviews...
words without music (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Performed by THE SHANGRI-LAS REleased as a single in 1965 And by BLONDIE in 1976 Return to: Tales from a Draughty Old Fen I can't find attributions for this song, but will try to. It demonstrates the difficulty of trying to get "off the streets" once you've been on them. He don't, hang around, with the gang no more. He don't do the wild things that he did before. He used to act bad, Used...
Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The last day of CMJ felt like a mad dash to the finish line as bands tried to cram in final shows amidst a horrible weather day. When you weren't getting drenched outside, you were sweating up a storm inside....
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Dion and the Belmonts Runaround Sue The Shangri Las Leader of the Pack The Angels My Boyfriend's Back Gene Chandler Duke of Earl Sam Cooke You Send Me Ritchie Valens La Bamba J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers Last Kiss The Viscounts Harlem Nocturne
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
I was just listening to a Best of Sam and Dave album. In the intro to I Thank You, someone says: I want everybody to get up off your seat And get your arms together, and your hands together And give me some of that o-o-old soul clapping with the last three words practically sung. An even better intro, though not a better song, is on their You Don't Know What You Mean to Me, which has an almost preached...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
VAMPIRES and rock'n'roll stars have plenty in common. Think about it: they both keep unholy hours, possess pale skin, floppy hair and flouncy clothes, and you wouldn&#
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Founds another all-girl garage-pop ensemble Frankie Rose, fast becoming known as the free spirit (aka swinger) of Brooklyn’s lo-fi indie scene, has officially split from minimalist punk act Crystal Stilts in order to form yet another dashingly cool all-girl band in the vein of her former outfit Vivian Girls. With a MySpace page already up, Frankie [...]
Oh Word (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Down By Law. This is the second OhWord TV selection to feature a Bigfoot .
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham relocated from Florida to Brooklyn, adding two additional players to the fold, but they haven't left the beach behind. What makes their Summertime! work is the breezy melancholy that flows endlessly, even through the songs you'd expect to be sunny (a la "Let's Go Surfing"). The Beach Boys had a knack for that kind of thing too, but this is a very different...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Before April March refined her francophile schtick with 1995’s Paris in April, afterwards became a Burgalat protegé and finally a Quentin Tarantino favorite , she was – still Elinor Blake then – part of a quite different scene. In 1988, she recorded the 7-track EP Spring Fever under the moniker of The Pussywillows, with her friends Lisa Jenio and Lisa Dembling. Spring Fever,...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
NEKO CASE *** ORAN MOR, GLASGOW
Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
I shoulda written about the death of Ellie Greenwich before, very remiss of me. She was a singer, songwriter and producer during the 1960s in a very male dominated music business. Her songs are famous and certainly stick in the mind yet there was hardly any fanfare about her death, her contribution to music should [...]
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Hello, welcome to the Ruthcast. Why the Ruthcast? Because my friend Ruth who runs the Bowery with Jane came round to the house last week to thoroughly upstage me on my own podcast. Last year Ruth was a guest on my Fresh Air radio show and completely and utterly upstaged me, and in this podcast we [...]
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Miss Derringer would be the soundtrack to a roller coaster ride in the tiny town that Beetlejuice pops out of. If Beetlejuice was made in 2009 and his merry townsfolk were the members that surround frontwoman Liz McGrath ...
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