Summer songs all summer long
Check out my selection of summer songs over at Muzzle Of Bees. Ryan was gracious enough to ask me to submit a few tunes for this feature. The one song that isn’t linked up over there can be found below. Dig it. MP3 | Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Back and badder than ever
Hey everybody! We are back (but thoroughly tired) from a fantastic fun-filled weekend in Pennsylvania without any A/C. I’ll give y’all a full rundown tomorrow but now I’m just going to kick back and leave you with a little Whiskeytits. Yep, their name says it all. See you tomorrow. MP3 | Whiskeytits – Goddamn Pirate (Read more…)
Halftime (the best of 2006 so far)
Well, the year is almost half over and my daughter is now 7 months old (can you believe it?) There has also been a lot of great music released in 2006 thus far and I’ve got a whole bunch of it loaded onto the iPod for our road trip this weekend. We are going to (Read more…)
Review: Bebek – Open Eyes (or) caution bebek on board
Bebek is a musical ensemble that calls the city of brotherly love (Philadelphia, PA) their home. They are not necessarily a group that would normally be featured here at CYSTSFTS?, but whatever. Classifications be damned. On their new EP Open Eyes, the band lays down a dark, late-night, atmospheric, almost trip-hop foundation for the sultry (Read more…)
Lincoln logs will one day rise again
Don’t anyone forget about our 2nd podcast. My wife even joined in on this one. You can subscribe to the feed subscribe to the feed or just download it here. So I signed up for a Myspace profile a few months ago, and since then many bands have used that as a way to introduce (Read more…)
Review: Cartel – Chroma (or) burn this city to the ground
Why is pop-punk such a dirty word and such an under appreciated genre? Has it always been that way? Here is a little story… I’ve know the guys in New Found Glory for roughly six years (well before they became superstars featured on MTV’s Cribs) and aside from (perhaps) a little less bite and a (Read more…)
My life in the forests of ghosts
You all know that Sonic Youth has a new album due out on June 13th, right? And you will all go out and buy it like you did all their other records, right? Well, the album is called Rather Ripped and if you need any more incentive to go get it, below are a few (Read more…)
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 9)
I was less than two years old when (in early 1980) The Effigies formed and became one of Chicago’s first and most important punk rock bands. They (along with bands like Naked Raygun) can be credited with creating the Chicago-style punk rock sound of the 80’s. Driven by forceful guitars (a la The Buzzcocks) and (Read more…)
Can you hear the podcast from the Southside 02: summertime is in the air (or) travelling songs
I know you have all been waiting for this. Yep, here is the second edition of Can You Hear The Podcast From The Southside? The theme for this one is “Summertime Is In The Air (or) Traveling Songs” and I’ll be the first to admit that this one is far superior to the last one. (Read more…)
