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Great bands you might not have heard of #5 - Mendoza Line

2009-04-03T14:24:03Z

I wish I could remember where/why/how we first heard this band, all I remember is that it happened when we lived in our first place in LA. We heard this first track (maybe on Morning Becomes Eclectic or something??) and loved it, and I had to get...

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Great bands you might not have heard #3: Common Rider

2009-03-18T15:01:25Z

Yes, so far all the bands I've mentioned are defunct. It's a fuckin' shame I know. So who was Common Rider? Jesse from Op Ivy's next project. They put out two full lengths, and one post-mortem split ep. There's also a vinyl EP that I don't ha...

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The River (s)

2008-12-26T20:38:49Z

I mentioned The River & various modern updates recently in my review of the last Gaslight Anthem album, and I thought I'd return to that briefly, just to post the 3 songs in question and see if anyone out there knows of any other direct modern t...

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Album Review: Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

2008-12-22T00:57:13Z

[I forgot to post this here first, it wound up on my general blog first, so sorry non-existent legion of readers.] Have I blogged about these guys before? I'm sure I must have, because I really like them. Anyway, on to the album. We have an ...

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two songs for election day

2008-11-05T05:47:37Z

Two songs for election day. Hopefully it will be closer to the first than the second. The first came up in my random play on my phone on the way home, the second I was reminded of by a conversation with my wife about the brilliant, if challeng...

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Two songs for the day

2008-10-02T23:09:18Z

Today brings you two songs (via me), separated by 27 years and without much in common. The first: It's just an all around fun song. Great to sing along to, "blast" in the car, etc. It also turns up at odd moments in modern media (I believe it d...

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for Beth, from Jen

2008-07-13T01:02:29Z

Maybe others will also enjoy the humor awesomeness that is MFatGG.

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songs about pets

2008-06-16T23:17:53Z

For some reason the other day I got to thinking about bands that write songs about their pets. Probably because I was listening to the Weakerthans at some point. Oh yeah! It was because I was doing that little blog about them...so anyway, here...

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two good songs

2008-06-12T20:22:10Z

...that came up yesterday in the car on my mp3 player: Tegan & Sara - I Hear Noises Arctic Monkey - Florescent Adolescent Both of these songs I love, for completely different reasons. I Hear Noises is really kind of cheesy lyrically, but I t...

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85% albums: Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site

2008-06-04T00:45:33Z

What is an 85% album? Well, one that's not 95% ...something that's very good, and that I recommend buying, but it may have an obvious flaw (1-2 weak songs) or have an irregular flow, etc. I'd say if you can get a deal on an online purchase of an a...

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