Sunday, January 14, 2007

Taking a Water Break

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...Maybe a permanent one. If I don't come back, thanks for visiting. -Kent
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Rare Strummer Tune

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Happened upon this on eMusic today. It's Joe Strummer performing under the pseudonym Electric Dog House. Not sure what year it was rele...
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Friday, December 22, 2006

Five fer Friday XI

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[MP3] Generation X – "100 Punks Rule" EXPIRED That first album by Billy and the boys was awesome. Here's my favorite track. ...
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The Fratellis

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Thanks to Water-rat Sparkylulu for turning me on to the Fratellis. These fun-first Scots are kinda like an amped-up, rocked-out Beatles, in...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Andy Partridge/Fuzzy Warbles

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Andy Partridge of XTC fame recently compiled an entire musical life of outtakes, alt takes, and unreleased takes into an eight-disc set titl...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

More Xmas

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Santa went to the Island of Misfit Blogs this weekend and brought back these two gems: [MP3] Spinal Tap – "Christmas with the Devil...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Five fer Friday X

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[MP3] Aimee Mann – "Stupid Thing" EXPIRED Let's begin ballady with this track from Mann's first solo disc. [MP3] Ben Kwel...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Picks fer '06, Part 2

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From The Tragic Treasury: [MP3] Gothic Archies – “Walking My Gargoyle” EXPIRED From Funnel Cloud: [MP3] Hem – “Not California” EXPIRED Fro...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Picks fer '06, Part 1

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This is the best I’ve heard in 2006, a good but not great year fer rock ‘n’ roll. Of course, I only have two ears so there’s only so much I...
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Friday, December 08, 2006

Five fer Friday IX

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[MP3] 101ers – “Sweet Revenge” EXPIRED Joe Strummer from his pre-Clash days (thanks to Pete for this!). [MP3] Joe Strummer and the Mescaler...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

The Gothic Archies

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Read on only if you have an affinity for wickedness, wretchedness, and woe. You’re still reading? You are a sick person. But that’s not all...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Snow Tracks

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Well, December is here. Time to drag the Christmas songs down from the attic. [MP3] Apples in Stereo – “Holiday Mood” EXPIRED [MP3] The Boy...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Five fer Friday VIII

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[MP3] The Hong Kong – "Tongue Tied" EXPIRED New wave, Blondie-like pop from another blondie-led band. [MP3] Elvis Costello – ...
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999

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This post goes out to Greg, the childhood buddy who introduced me to punk back in high school and in the process saved my rock ‘n’ roll soul...
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Promo: Memphis

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If you any of you are pondering doing a music blog, here’s one of the perks: As you become established and start getting some traffic to you...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Stupid Songs

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This is a post I’ve been wanting to do for a while. A few months back as I was listening to “Beer for Breakfast” by the Replacements, I real...
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Monday, November 27, 2006

My Aim Is True

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By popular demand (one person constitutes popular demand at the Water All Around blog), here are three tracks from Costello's classic 19...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Elvis Costello

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You young uns might not know this, but there was a time way back in rock ‘n’ roll days of old when Elvis Costello didn’t take himself too se...
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Friday, November 24, 2006

Five fer Friday VII

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[MP3] Garbage – “I Just Wanna Have Something to Do” EXPIRED Saw Shirley Manson singing with the Pretenders on VH1 last night, and it remind...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Grandpaboy

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When Paul Westerberg was with the Replacements, there were only a handful of songs I didn’t love. Since he left the Mats, there’s only a ha...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Five fer Friday VI

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[MP3] Cracker – “Movie Star” EXPIRED Gotta love a song with the lyric: “The movie star crashed her car but everyone said she was beautiful...
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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Ivy

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I probably wouldn’t have heard of and certainly wouldn’t have dropped dough on Ivy if it weren’t for Fountains of Wayne. Regular visitors t...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Libertines

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I love the Libertines. Which makes the abrupt, highly publicized descent of co-founder Pete Dougherty into drug-dazed dereliction – a desce...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Old 97s

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I’m gonna start this one by asking: Why do so many rock-o-philes hate the term “alt-country”? I mean, bands like Whiskeytown, Wilco, Uncle ...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Test

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I need to check if my new file management site is linking up with elbo so you guys get my favorite Epoxies track. Enjoy! [MP3] Expoxies – ...

Five fer Friday V

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[MP3] Soviettes – “Multiply and Divide” EXPIRED If you haven't heard the Soviettes, you're in for a treat – they're like punke...
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Cock Sparrer

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Somehow, these guys escaped my punk purview back in ’82. Which is kinda surprising cuz those were my college days when I’d scour the bins o...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Rancid

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If the Clash had stuck it out and stuck to their punk roots, they’d sound a lot like Rancid. Led by HellCat Records co-founder Tim Armstron...
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Monday, November 06, 2006

The Briggs

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The moment I heard the Briggs sing "I wouldn't be so paranoid if the world wasn't out to get me," I knew I had to do a po...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Five fer Friday IV

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[MP3] Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 – “(A Man’s Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs EXPIRED Don’t much care for Hitchcock’s new disc (on...