Review: Parkas – Put Your Head In The Lion’s Mouth
Parkas are one of those rare bands that takes its cues from the loud and fuzzed-out garage rock of yesteryear but manages to sound anything but derivative. Fusing the bluesy guitar licks and soulfully ragged vocals of bands like the Stones or the Mats with the more modern roots sensibilities of bands like Big Buildings, (Read more…)
Review: Cake – B-Sides And Rarities
My daughter loves cake; especially birthday cake. My wife and I (however) probably like the band Cake more than we like the kind with frosting and candles. Sure, that is a totally ridiculous lead-in, but I’m entitled. After an evening with three little girls (Hailey plus a 3 year old and her 21 month old (Read more…)
Two for Tuesday
I forgot my iPod at home this morning and was forced to listen to (gasp!) conventional radio since my choices in the car are radio, iPod, or a shitty old Motley Crue cassette. Anyhow, while listening to WONC, I heard both the following songs and thought they would make a good twofer. It is currently (Read more…)
Review: Sarah Blasko – What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
Ok. I’m gonna make this one short and sweet. If you liked the last two Laura Veirs albums, I think you’ll like Aussie indie pop darling Sarah Blasko’s latest album What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have. You might even like it better. What The Sea Wants… is a little darker than anything from (Read more…)
Review: The Forms – S/T
If it is possible for a band to be thunderously ethereal, The Forms can be that band. Basically, their recently released new self-titled full-length pretty much rocks. It is full of muscular and angular post-rock that twists and turns its grooves inside out. The band also manages to find enough room to sneak in some (Read more…)
A cold, icy, and rainy day mix part two
MP3 | Feist – I Feel It All MP3 | Michelle Shocked – Anchorage MP3 | The Weepies – All That I Want MP3 | 10’000 Maniacs – Like The Weather MP3 | Destroyer – Painter In Your Pocket
A cold, icy, and rainy day mix part one
MP3 | Tracy Chapman – Fast Car MP3 | Iron & Wine – House By The Sea MP3 | Paul Simon – Kodachrome MP3 | Wilco – The Lonely 1 MP3 | Travis – Why Does It Always Rain On Me
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 22)
Now my first exposure to the now legendary South Suburban bubblegum pop-punk of Winepress (and a number of other bands) was on the “Dad Are We Punk Yet?” compilation from the awesome but now defunct Harmless Records which featured their song “She Just Won’t Do.” My next exposure to the band was the Mushuganas cover (Read more…)
