dan kelly and the alpha males – sing the tabloid blues
checkout cutie’s whistlin diamond sea here is another stellar reason to revisit the collection. i seriously forgot how good this album is. dan kelly is the nephew of well known […]
checkout cutie’s whistlin diamond sea here is another stellar reason to revisit the collection. i seriously forgot how good this album is. dan kelly is the nephew of well known […]
[apology for the rambling below – donated blood this arvo and in the process of recreating blood cells] been released and torn apart been inside the only storm that’s been raging […]
i could just tell it was bad, i couldn’t tell how bad i think i have something to blame pitchfork for – though i can’t hold it against william bowers […]
the cute little late-30s guy at big star suggested that i would like iron & wine if i liked palace. i would have bought anything he told me to… it […]
this perhaps comes back to venus. as a soundtrack, or as music in and of itself, does it match the images that originally accompanied it, or is it the other […]
i listen back to this album and wonder if modern day fans of you am i ever knew of or liked this work. it was their first album and one […]
dear mr echo this is a single release of a song from the last pavement album that was perhaps the weakest thing they did. it starts with the eponymous song […]
now this is electronica. for those of us who grew up using street, subscription and fanzine mags as the main sources for information about the music we listened to and […]
there’s something disconcerting about this album. i count this as my first bandwagon moment wherein i liked the sound of a song that was being flogged a bit when i […]
i’m just a station on your way, i know i am not your lover no, it’s not leonard cohen. i have to admit that i randomly picked two other items […]
tonight it’s almost the most recent thing by a band that i knew quite well in the 1990s, but never liked enough to get the music. it’s dinosaur jr. i […]
a small amount of orchestral music. this brings out my love of all things celestial. and of course, a foundation for how lyric-less music can convey such clear images in […]
i am so familiar with the first strains of cherubs coming through headphones. those sounds buried themselves in my mind on freezing nights in the first canberra winter i endured […]
i just got back from a dream attack, it took me by surprise steve malkmus was the parallel second great crush of my music life (alongside jon spencer). he was […]
a woman swimming under, her warm breath sending thunder on to parts south i forgot how amazing this album is. music like this was reason enough for me never to […]
it’s metallic pink! eugh. i think it’s meant to be ironic. and this brings me to one of the strongest feminist statements that needs to be made through my collection […]
a nice relaxed bit of jazz for the evening of a long day… i have to be honest that i can’t talk even remotely knowledgeably about jazz. however, “i know what i […]
i don’t know how or where i first came across godspeed. i think it was some connection, again, to will oldham back in the earlier days of discovery. i am […]
to begin this day’s entry, it’s important to explain that this is the second in a series of six short releases by david pajo as papa m in what he […]
i never had a direct interest in everything but the girl; this is the only thing i have in the collection and it’s burnt from my sister. this was the […]