A few merrie toons to celebrate the coming of the hot, muggy season.Sumer Is Icumen In - Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular MusicThis Town Makes My Skin Crawl - The Service Industry - Calm DownOut Into the Abyss of Night - Joe and the Sonic Dirt from Madagascar - singleIndian Summer - The Panic Basket - Hard BreadWhite Summer - The Yardbirds - Cumular LimitHey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising SunNessun Dorma - Jeff Beck - Emotion & CommotionRock Is Dead...
A few current obsessions, including music from the Nervebreakers, T. Tex Edwards & Out On Parole, the Small Faces, the Bipolar Express, Joe and the Sonic Dirt From Madagascar's new album "A to E Are Ex, Why, and Z" (download free from virb.com/jatsdfm), the Gorillaz, Arvo Part, and Billy Bragg.Nervebreakers - Hijack the Radio (demo) / Hijack the Radio / Face Up to RealityT. Tex Edwards & Out On Parole - LSD Made a Wreck Out of Me / You Ain't Never Gonna Live To Love Saturday Night Again / Smit...
Tired of winter. Some music celebrating the Vernal Equinox, including new music from Kim Salmon, Jimi Hendrix (!), Mark Growden, RJD2, and the Gorillaz, some tunes for my big sis, and R&B from Earth and other places.Celibate Rifles - Wake UpKim Salmon/Surrealists - RQJimi Hendrix - Valleys of NeptuneRichard & Linda Thompson - Walking On A WireElvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - This House Is Empty NowVan Morrison - Sweet ThingRay Charles - It Should Have Been MeNu-Sounds - A Foggy DayYochanon/Su...
Sending some love to the late Yeti/Great Tyrant bassplayer Tommy Atkins, who left the planet on 2.25.2010. Go easy, friend.The Spectre's Sinister Command - The GunslingersThe Great Tyrant - Take CareYeti - Blood LotusMiles Davis - Rated XCurtis Clark - BlessingsYells At Eels - Document for Toshinori KondoBoris - Flower Sun Rain (Pyg cover)The Move - The Last Thing On My MindRichard & Linda Thompson - A Heart Needs A HomeGentle Giant - His Last VoyageFrank Zappa/Ensemble Modern - Get WhiteyTom ...
Some things I've recently reviewed for the blog, the I-94 Bar, or the FW Weekly. I'm trying to talk less, or at least less often. I fuck up the narration a couple of times. Oh well. If you want more info about the tracks, email me at ken.shimamoto@gmail.com (because I'm dull and unimaginative in that way).Vijay Iyer - Galang (Trio Riot Version)Josh Alan - Jeff's BoogieWoodeye - The FrayHochimen - Brush With ReligionThis Moment In Black History - MFAMaster's Apprentices - War Or Hands of TimeTr...
Celebrating ten years of Real Rock Action from Sydney, Australia, with Craig the Barman. Good onya, mate!Radio Birdman - I-94The Saints - This Perfect DayNew Christs - Like A CurseDeniz Tek - Agua CalienteCelibate Rifles - Tripping At the MallSonic's Rendezvous Band - Clock With No HandsDied Pretty - DousedThe Stems - At First SightTurbonegro - Prince of the RodeoLime Spiders - Slave GirlThe Saints - (I'm) StrandedScott Morgan w/the Jones Bros. - Pop PoppiesDied Pretty - D.C.New Christs - The ...
Some days are happier, some days are sadder, but music's always there to help you get through.Richard Thompson - From Galway To GracelandSonny Sharrock - Who Does She Hope To Be?Rationals - Ha-HaSkip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor BluesHochimen - In An Old HouseRichard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black LightningThe Who - Man With the MoneyMark Growden - CoyoteCaptain Beefheart & His Magic Band - PeonOrnette Coleman - Lonely WomanSimon & Garfunkel - Voices of Old People / Old Friends / Bookends Th...
I feel like a child with a new toy or an obsessive-compulsive with a new scab. Here's another episode, pretty rockin' and pretty '60s-centric. Eric Ambel - Always On My Mind / Deep Purple - The Bird Has Flown (single version) / Terry Reid - Without Expression / Flamin' Groovies - Have You Seen My Baby / jefferson Airplane - Young Girl Sunday Blues / Small Faces - Song of A Baker / Remains - Hang On Sloopy, Why Do I Cry, Ain't That Her / Mike Watt - Drove Up From Pedro / Elvis Presley - Blue Mo...
The inaugural episode of the Stash Dauber podcast. Just a bunch of records I heard and liked in 2009.Mark Growden - Faith In My PocketNeil Young - Tell Me WhyBob Fante - Go Go SupertoyVelvet Underground - Run Run Run (live Hilltop Festival 1969)Seabrook Power Plant - Peter Dennis Blanford TownshendDennis Gonzalez Band of Sorcerers featuring Frank Lowe - Hymn for John CarterMarty Ehrlich Rites Quartet - Dogon A.D.Jack Rose - Kensington BluesChris Potter Underground - Rumples Snowbyrd - Is It On...
