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30 Day Song Challenge – Day 03
Day 03 – a song that makes you happy “I Won’t Write You a Letter” by The Doughboys When The Doughboys were at their best, their music had an incredible positive spirit that made their shows so much fun.
30 Day Song Challenge – Day 2
Day 02 – Favorite Cover Version This one is obvious: “Hurt” by Johnny Cash It may be predictable, too, but that’s also proof of how good it is. Mr Cash took Nine Inch Nails’ song about a person’s deteriorating relationships … Continue reading
30 Day Song Challenge – Day 1
Day 01 – Your Favorite Song I don’t know if I have a song that I consider my favourite. If there was one, it would have to be one that transcended different periods in my life, so it would have … Continue reading
My Bad Religion month – Pt 1
This is part of a series of posts I had planned but didn’t get around to finishing on Bad Religion’s 30th Anniversary. Here is the first one. From the free live album they made available through Myspace, to Germs of … Continue reading
2010 – Top 5 Shows
5. Pennywise / Riverboat Gamblers and others – Metropolis, Montreal I’ve already written about this. The only thing I have to add is that I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with on their next record. As mentioned, … Continue reading
2010 – Top 5 Albums
5. Grinderman – 2 I’ve enjoyed Nick Cave’s work with Grinderman a lot more than his recent Bad Seeds material. Grinderman is just so dirty. Dirty sweaty men playing dirty sweaty rock. I particularly like how they manage to add … Continue reading
Social Distortion
There is a new Social Distortion song up on Soundcloud in anticipation of the band’s new release, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, due for release in January. The song, “Machine Gun Blues” is a revelation in that it’s not showing … Continue reading
Mixed Tape – New Music 2010
I’m totally stealing the idea from Outroversion, who posted a list of favorite songs for a mixed tape as kind a half-way between the site’s birthday and the birthday of the blogger who does the site. Me, I’m going to … Continue reading
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Notes – Sept. 8, 2010
Some notes from the past few days: Helmet have a new record out. I didn’t realize they were doing new stuff. I knew they were touring but figured they were riding the nostalgia wave. Anyway, the record is called Seeing … Continue reading