tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89725594401932924872024-03-13T14:25:41.448-04:00Temple of the BlogThe blog of an obsessive music fan in Philadelphia. temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-90302781986413987782022-02-24T18:34:00.000-05:002022-02-24T18:34:13.137-05:00My Favorite Albums of 2021<p> These are the 2021 albums that I enjoyed the most. Without further ado, better never than late. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Accidentals</b> <i>Vessel</i> (self-released)</p><p><b>Aeon Station</b> <i>Observatory</i> (Sub Pop)</p><p><b>Alien Boy</b> <i>Don't Know What I Am</i> (Get Better Records)</p><p><b>Amigo the Devil </b><i>Born Against</i> (Regime)</p><p><b>Art D'Ecco</b> <i>In Standard Definition</i> (Paper Bag)</p><p><b>Bachelor </b><i>Doomin' Sun</i> (Polyvinyl)</p><p><b>Bat Fangs </b><i>Queen of My World</i> (Don Giovanni)</p><p><b>Ben Kweller </b><i>Circuit Boredom</i> (The Noise Company)</p><p><b>The Boys With Perpetual Nervousness</b> <i>Songs From Another Life</i> (Bobo Integral)</p><p><b>Cloud Nothings</b> <i>The Shadow I Remember</i> (Carpark)</p><p><b>Cloud Nothings</b> 7 monthly EPs from <i>January</i> to<i> July</i> (Carpark)</p><p><b>The Connells </b><i>Steadman's Wake</i> (Missing Piece)</p><p><b>Counting Crows </b><i>Butter Miracle/Suite One</i> - EP (BMG)</p><p><b>Courtney Barnett </b><i>Things Take Time, Take Time</i> (Milk! Records)</p><p><b>Cub Scout Bowling Pins</b> <i>Cub Scout Bowling Pins</i> - EP (GBV Inc.)</p><p><b>Cub Scout Bowling Pins</b> <i>Clang Clang Ho</i> (GBV Inc.)</p><p><b>Dinosaur Jr. </b><i>Sweep It Into Space</i> (Jagjaguwar)</p><p><b>Ducks Ltd.</b> <i>Get Bleak </i>- EP (Carpark)</p><p><b>Ducks Ltd.</b> <i>Modern Fiction</i> (Carpark)</p><p><b>Even</b> <i>Reverse Light Years </i>(El Reno)</p><p><b>Face to Face </b><i>No Way Out But Through</i> (Fat Wreck)</p><p><b>The Fratellis </b><i>Half Drunk Under a Full Moon</i> (Cooking Vinyl)</p><p><b>Gary Louris</b> <i>Jump For Joy </i>(Thirty Tigers Records)</p><p><b>The Goon Sax </b><i>Mirror II</i> (Matador)</p><p><b>GRMLN </b><i>Dark Music in the Sun</i> (self-released)</p><p><b>Guided By Voices</b> <i>Earth Man Blues</i> (GBV Inc.)</p><p><b>Guided By Voices </b><i>It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! </i>(GBV Inc.)</p><p><b>Harborcoat </b><i>Joy Is Elusive</i> (Phonophore Records)</p><p><b>Heartless Bastards </b><i>A Beautiful Life</i> (Sweet Unknown Records)</p><p><b>Hiss Golden Messenger</b> <i>Quietly Blowing It </i>(Merge)</p><p><b>The Hold Steady </b><i>Open Door Policy</i> (self-released)</p><p><b>Hurry </b><i>Fake Ideas</i> (Lame-O Records)</p><p><b>IDLES</b> <i>Crawler</i> (PTKF)</p><p><b>Jess Locke </b><i>Don't Ask Yourself Why</i> (Dot Dash Records)</p><p><b>Jesse Malin </b><i>Sad And Beautiful World</i> (Wicked Cool Records)</p><p><b>Julie Doiron</b> <i>I Thought of You</i> (You've Changed Records)</p><p><b>Julien Baker</b> <i>Little Oblivions</i> (Matador)</p><p><b>Kiwi Jr. </b><i>Cooler Returns</i> (Sub Pop)</p><p><b>Kneeling in Piss</b> <i>Types of Cults</i> - EP (AnyWay Records)</p><p><b>Lande Hekt </b><i>Going to Hell</i> (Get Better Records)</p><p><b>Lucy Dacus</b> <i>Home Video</i> (Matador)</p><p><b>Marina</b> A<i>ncient Dreams in a Modern Land</i> (Atlantic)</p><p><b>Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy </b><i>Superwolves</i> (Drag City)</p><p><b>ME REX </b><i>Megabear</i> (Big Scary Monsters)</p><p><b>Middle Kids</b> <i>Today We're the Greatest</i> (Domino)</p><p><b>The Mountain Goats</b> <i>Dark in Here</i> (Merge)</p><p><b>Naked Raygun</b> <i>Over the Overlords</i> (Wax Trax! Records)</p><p><b>The Natvral</b> <i>Tethers</i> (Kanine Records)</p><p><b>Orla Gartland</b> <i>Woman on the Internet</i> (New Friends Music)</p><p><b>Painted Shrines </b><i>Heaven and Holy</i> (Woodsist)</p><p><b>Pardoner</b> <i>Came Down Different </i>(BarNone)</p><p><b>Parquet Courts</b> <i>Sympathy For Life</i> (Rough Trade)</p><p><b>Ratboys </b><i>Happy Birthday, Ratboy</i> (Topshelf Records)</p><p><b>Rosali </b><i>No Medium</i> (Spinster Sounds)</p><p><b>Shame </b><i>Drunk Tank Pink </i>(Dead Oceans Records)</p><p><b>Silver Synthetic </b><i>Silver Synthetic</i> (Third Man Records)</p><p><b>Sleater-Kinney</b> <i>Path of Wellness</i> (Mom + Pop Music)</p><p><b>Split Single </b><i>Amplificado</i> (Inside Outside Records)</p><p><b>Steve Earle & The Dukes</b> <i>J.T</i>. (New West Records)</p><p><b>Teenage Fanclub</b> <i>Endless Arcade</i> (Merge)</p><p><b>Underwater Sunshine </b><i>Suckertree</i> (self-released)</p><p><b>Viagra Boys</b> <i>Welfare Jazz</i> (Year0001 Records)</p><p><b>The War on Drugs </b><i>I Don't Live Here Anymore</i> (Atlantic)</p><p><b>Wavves</b> <i>Hideaway</i> (Fat Possum Records)</p><p><b>Wednesday</b> <i>Twin Plagues</i> (Orindal Records)</p><p><b>Wild Pink</b> <i>A Billion Little Lights</i> (Royal Mountain Records)</p><p><b>The World Is a Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid to Die</b> <i>Illusory Walls</i> (Epitaph)</p><p><b>Wurld Series </b><i>What's Growing</i> (Meritorious Records)</p><p><b>You Am I </b><i>The Lives of Others</i> (self-released)</p><p><b>2nd Grade </b><i>Wish You Were Here Tour Revisited</i> (Sleeper Records)</p><p><br /></p>temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-24353929444093747822021-01-12T16:03:00.005-05:002021-01-12T16:05:03.238-05:00My Favorite Albums of 20202020 was one of the worst years ever. For music fans, not even having live music in your life, made things a lot harder for some of us. I listened to old bootlegs from some of my favorite artists and did some deep dives on catalogs of older artists. But I also listened to a lot of new music. Anyway, without further ado here are the 2020 albums I most enjoyed:<div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>Adrianne Lenker</b> <i>Songs</i> (Domino)</div><div><br /><b>Alex the Astronaut </b> <i>The Theory of Absolutely Nothing</i> (Nettwerk)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Anna Burch</b> <i>If You're Dreaming </i>(Polyvinyl)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Beabadoobee</b> <i>Fake It Flowers</i> (Dirty Hit)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Beach Bunny</b> <i>Honeymoon</i> (Mom + Pop)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Beach Slang</b> <i>The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City</i> (Bridge 9)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Beths </b> <i>Jump Rope Gazers </i>(Carpark)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bob Mould</b> <i>Blue Hearts </i>(Merge)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bonny Light Horseman</b> <i>Bonny Light Horseman</i> (37d03d)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Brian Bringelson </b> <i>Desperate Days</i> (Futureman)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bruce Springsteen</b> <i>Letter to You</i> (Columbia)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bully</b> <i>Sugaregg</i> (Sub Pop)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Coriky</b> <i>Coriky</i> (Dischord)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Dehd</b> <i>Flower of Devotion</i> (Fire Talk)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Drive-By Truckers </b> <i>The Unraveling</i> (ATO)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Drive-By Truckers</b> <i>The New O.K.</i> (ATO)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fiona Apple</b> <i>Fetch the Bolt Cutters</i> (Epic)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fontaines D.C.</b> <i>A Hero's Death</i> (Partisan)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Ganser </b> <i>Just Look At the Sky</i> (Felte)</div><div><b style="text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="text-align: center;">The Goodbye Party </b><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Motors</i><span style="text-align: center;"> (Double Double </span><span style="text-align: center;">Wham</span><span style="text-align: center;">my)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Greg Dulli</b> <i>Random Desire</i> (BMG)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Guided By Voices</b> <i>Surrender Your Poppy Field</i> (GBV inc)</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Guided By Voices </b> <i>Mirrored Aztec</i> (GBV inc)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Guided By Voices </b><i> Styles We Paid For</i> (GBV inc)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The High Water Marks </b> <i>Ecstasy Rhymes</i> (Minty Fresh)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Hinds</b> <i>The Prettiest Curse</i> (Lucky Number)</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Hum </b> <i>Inlet</i> (Polyvinyl/Earth Analog)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Idles</b> <i>Ultra Mono</i> (Partisan)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit</b> <i>Reunions</i> (Southeastern)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Jayhawks</b> <i>XOXO</i> (SHAM)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Jeff Tweedy</b> <i>Love Is The King</i> (dBpm)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Jenny O.</b> <i>New Truth</i> (Mama Bird)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Katie Malco</b> <i>Failures</i> (6131)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Kurt Vile </b> <i>Speed, Sound, Lonely KV</i> - EP (Matador)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Lees of Memory</b> <i>Moon Shot</i> (John Davis Brand)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Lo Tom</b> <i>LP2</i> (Lo Tom)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Low Cut Connie</b> <i>Private Lives</i> (Contender)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Lydia Loveless</b> <i>Daughter </i>(Honey, You're Gonna Be Late)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Margaret Glaspy</b> <i>Devotion</i> (ATO)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Marlin's Dreaming</b> <i>Quotidian</i> (Marlin's Dreaming)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Mike Polizze</b> <i>Long Lost Solace Find</i> (Paradise of Bachelors)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Mountain Goats</b> <i>Getting Into Knives</i> (Merge)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Narrow Head</b> <i>12th House Rock</i> (Run For Cover)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Painted Shield</b> <i>Painted Shield</i> (Loosegroove)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Partner</b> <i> Never Give Up</i> (You've Changed)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Phoebe Bridgers</b> <i>Punisher</i> (Dead Oceans)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Pillow Queens</b> <i> In Waiting</i> (Pillow Queens)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Protomartyr</b> <i>Ultimate Success Today</i> (Domino)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Ratboys</b> <i>Printer's Devil</i> (Topshelf)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Reflectors</b> <i>First Impression</i> (Burger)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Rookie</b> <i>Rookie</i> (Bloodshot)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Sadler Vaden </b> <i>Anybody Out There? 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<b><u>Filthy Friends</u></b> <i>Emerald Valley</i> (Kill Rock Stars)</div>
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<u><b>Hiss Golden Messenger</b></u> <i>Terms of Surrender</i> (Merge)</div>
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<b><u>Jade Jackson</u></b> <i>Wilderness</i> (ANTI-)</div>
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<b><u>Jenny Lewis</u></b> <i>On the Line</i> (Warner)</div>
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<b><u>Kills Birds</u></b> <i>Kills Birds </i>(KRO)<br />
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<b><u>Little Scream</u></b> <i>Speed Queen</i> (Merge)<br />
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<b><u>Lucy Dacus</u></b> <i>2019 Singles</i> (Matador)</div>
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<b><u>Versing</u></b> <i>10000 </i>(Hardly Art)<br />
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<li><b><u>Blushh</u></b> <i>Thx 4 Asking</i> - EP (Yellow K)</li>
<li><b><u>Cumulus</u></b> <i>Comfort World</i> (Trans)</li>
<li><b><u>Ellis</u></b> <i>The Fuzz</i> - EP (Fat Possum)</li>
<li><b><u>Garcia Peoples</u></b> <i>Cosmic Cash</i> (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)</li>
<li><u><b>Gold Connections</b></u> <i>Popular Fiction</i> (Egghunt)</li>
<li><b><u>Gregory Alan Isakov</u></b> <i>Evening Machines</i> (Suitcase Town Music)</li>
<li><b><u>Martha Ffion</u></b> <i>Sunday Best </i>(Turnstile)</li>
<li><b><u>Mini Meltdowns</u></b> <i>Mini Meltdowns</i> - EP (Good Land)</li>
<li><u><b>Remember Sports</b></u> <i>Slow Buzz</i> (Father/Daughter)</li>
<li><u><b>Spielbergs</b></u> <i>Distant Star</i> - EP (By the Time It Gets Dark)</li>
<li><b><u>Tony Molina</u></b> <i>Kill the Lights</i> (Slumberland)</li>
<li><u><b>Willie J. Healey</b></u> <i>666 Kill</i> - EP (Rough Trade)</li>
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<li><u><b>The Beatles</b></u> <i>Abbey Road</i></li>
<li><b><u>Green River</u></b> <i>Dry As a Bone</i> / <i>Rehab Doll</i></li>
<li><u><b>Johnny Cash</b></u><i> The Cash Collection: The Mercury Years 1987-1991</i></li>
<li><b><u>The Kinks</u></b> <i>Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)</i></li>
<li><u><b>Live</b></u><i> Throwing Copper</i></li>
<li><u><b>Nirvana</b></u><i> Live and Loud</i></li>
<li><u><b>Nirvana</b></u><i> MTV Unplugged</i></li>
<li><u><b>Prince </b></u><i>Originals</i></li>
<li><u><b>Protomartyr</b></u><i> No Passion All Technique</i></li>
<li><b><u>R.E.M.</u></b> <i>Monster</i></li>
<li><u><b>The Replacements</b></u> <i>Dead Man's Pop</i></li>
<li><u><b>Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard</b></u><i> Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department</i></li>
<li><u><b>Sly and the Family Stone</b></u><i> Stand!</i></li>
<li><u><b>Soundgarden</b></u><i> Live From the Artists Den</i></li>
<li><u><b>The Stooges</b></u><i> The Stooges</i></li>
<li><u><b>Superchunk</b></u><i> AF (Acoustic Foolish)</i></li>
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temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-11856260186389591882018-12-31T18:23:00.001-05:002018-12-31T18:23:07.893-05:00My Favorite Albums of 2018Another year has come and gone. The holidays and new year have always created a bit of nostalgia for most of us, thinking about our time as kids and the loved ones we're missing who are no longer around to take part in the current holiday.<br />
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That nostalgia often leads to melancholia especially once you hit a certain age. Now, I'm at the age (45) where you realize that with the average American lifespan being around 80 years, you likely have many fewer tomorrows than yesterdays. This point was fully realized in a great <a href="https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-is-youre-going-to-die/">post</a> by Tom Scocca a few months ago.<br />
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These feelings probably have an effect on how some of us view annual gatherings differently. When you're at home staring at your phone and watching TV there is no constant reminder of your aging and mortality. But when you see family and friends, you see they have gotten older. Brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews, friends and your friends' kids all keep getting older. "Oh my, I can't believe how big little so and so has gotten" is just another way of saying, damn I am five years older than I was when he was smaller."<br />
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And in thinking about how you have fewer tomorrows on this earth before you become worm food, you then are forced to reckon with the number of those fewer tomorrows will be spent fighting illnesses or at best being less able to do what you did when you were younger. And then if you are lucky enough to defy father time and have more tomorrows than expected, it's likely you will have to see your friends and family suffer illnesses and pass on.<br />
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An acquirable wisdom that comes with aging is how precious a commodity time is. More than money, status, or anything else, time is the one finite resource we have and it's not on our side.<br />
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But art in general and music specifically can be timeless. Great music sounds just as present today as they did when it was released. When you put on an old album you are transported to 1966, 1978, or 1985, or 2003 all over again. This time next year will be wrapping up an entire decade and it feels like 2010 was only like two years ago. Father Time is still undefeated.<br />
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20. <b>Hurry</b> - <i>Every Little Thought</i> (Lame-O)</div>
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19. <b>Valley Queen</b> - <i>Supergiant</i> (Rock Call)</div>
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18. <b>Bat Fangs </b>- <i>Bat Fangs</i> (Don Giovanni)</div>
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17. <b>The Breeders</b> - <i>All Nerve </i>(4AD)</div>
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14. <b>Anna Burch</b> - <i>Quit the Curse </i>(Polyvinyl)</div>
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13. <b>Lucy Dacus</b> - <i>Historian</i> (Matador)</div>
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12. <b>Frank Turner</b> - <i>Be More Kind </i>(Xtra Mile/Polydor)</div>
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11. <b>Amanda Shires</b> - <i>To the Sunset</i> (Silver Knife)</div>
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10.<b> Swearin'</b> -<i> Fall Into the Sun</i> (Merge)</div>
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7. <b>The Beths</b> - <i>Future Me Hates Me</i> (Carpark)</div>
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6. <b>Courtney Barnett</b> - <i>Tell Me How You Really Feel</i> (Mom + Pop)</div>
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4. <b>Kurt Vile</b> - <i>Bottle It In</i> (Matador)</div>
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3. <b>Idles</b> - <i>Joy As An Act of Resistance</i> (Partisan)</div>
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2. <b>Parquet Courts</b> - <i>Wide Awake! </i>(Rough Trade)</div>
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1. <b>Superchunk</b> - <i>What a Time to Be Alive</i> (Merge)</div>
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<b>First Aid Kit</b> - <i>Ruins </i>(Columbia)</div>
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<b>Ty Segall</b> - <i>Freedom's Goblin</i> (Drag City)</div>
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<b>Alkaline Trio</b> - <i>Is This Thing Cursed?</i> (Epitaph)</div>
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<b>Michael Rault</b> -<i> It's a New Day Tonigh</i>t (Daptone)</div>
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<b>Rhett Miller</b> - <i>The Messenger</i> (ATO)</div>
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<b>Salad Boys</b> - <i>This Is Glue</i> (Trouble in Mind)</div>
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<b>Wild Pink</b> - <i>Yolk in the Fur </i>(Tiny Engines)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another year has passed and it’s time for the obligatory year-end album list. I have been thinking a lot about the album as a concept lately. And I feel like it is a poised for a comeback. About 7-12 years ago when iTunes was dominating the digital market, the market felt like we were reverting back to a pre-1960’s era of a singles-driven consumption. Why spend $9.99 for a 12-song album when you can get the two singles you really want for $0.99 each? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But now I view the iTunes era as a bridge of sorts from the past to the future. From the time that file-sharing sites like Napster made it possible for people to download anything by anyone at any time for free, the industry has been playing catch-up. iTunes offered a short-term solution. “Let’s put the pirates out of business by giving people consistently high-quality downloads for a lower price” was the theory. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Entire high-quality album downloads for less money than CDs (but of course without the cool artwork and liner notes that physical releases have). And that sort of worked to discourage stealing music anyway, but in the process the industry became more wedded to singles again. Overall album sales started to stabilize in the mid-2000s, but then <a href="http://gloriousnoise.com/2012/12-years-of-album-sales-2011-year-end-soundscan-data">fell sharply again</a> by the end of the decade. And the industry struck some bad deals with Silicon Valley in the process, always with an eye on next quarter's earnings report and not the next five years of growth and stability. Physical media sales still outpaced digital sales until 2014.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But we're in a weird situation now where album sales (both physical and digital) are only about <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/273308/music-album-sales-in-the-us/">40% of what they were 10 years ago</a>. And you can take either your personal music library or nearly every song ever recorded via a streaming service with you on a portable listening device everywhere you go. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Music has never been more a part of people's lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I still rarely stream anything yet but streaming services have been growing and as of 2016 were the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/music-streaming-sales-nielsen-spotify-vs-itunes-chart-2017-1">top way people consume music</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you factor in streaming with purchases the industry is experiencing <a href="http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/press-room/2017/nielsen-releases-2016-us-year-end-music-report.html">healthy growth</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And perhaps partly due to streaming without forcing a purchasing decision – "song or album? If a song, which song?" – albums seem to be making a comeback. A business model where you don't pay to "own" the music could maybe help revive the album.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course since Silicon Valley has made itself the new evil middle man and is barely compensating artists through digital sales/plays these days, there really is no financial incentive for most established artists to even release an album unless it was something they were proud of as an artistic statement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in the heyday of the “album era” (which I'm bracketing as mid-1960s to mid-1990s), there was more pressure on artists to release albums every year or two. That’s why so many artists in those days were cranking out ten-song albums with only two or three good songs and a lot of filler. "Here are a few singles and a new album to go out on tour promoting." Now artists don’t have those same financial incentives. I mean sure Green Day or the Foo Fighters or Taylor Swift or Bruno Mars probably feel some pressure from their labels to keep up the write/record/release/tour cycle every 2-3 years, armed with a few radio-friendly singles. But most established acts with a hardcore set of fans can really just wait until they have 10 or 12 new songs they feel are worthy of releasing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In short there are less reasons than ever before for an album to be bad or contain a large amount of filler, at a time when people are listening to albums more often again. It seems like a perfect storm of events to revive the album in the near future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">18. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Capitalist Kids - </b><i>Brand Damage</i> (Brassneck).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">17. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Waxahatchee - </b><i>Out in the Storm</i> (Merge).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">13. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Alvvays - </b><i>Antisocialites</i> (Polyvinyl).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">12. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Old 97's - </b><i>Graveyard Whistling</i> (ATO).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">10. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Deer Tick - </b><i>Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Vol. 2</i> (Partisan).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">9. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Partner - </b><i>In Search of Lost Time </i>(You've Changed Records).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">8. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Sheer Mag - </b><i>Need to Feel Your Love</i> (Wilsuns).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">7. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Alex Lahey - </b><i>I Love You Like a Brother</i> (Caroline Music).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">6. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Rips - </b><i>Rips</i> (Wharf Cat).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">5. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - </b><i>The Nashville Sound</i> (Southeastern).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">3. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>The Jesus And Mary Chain - </b><i>Damage And Joy</i> (Artificial Plastic).</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">2. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b>Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - </b><i>The Hanged Man</i> (SuperEgo).</span><br>
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<span style="color: #660000;">What a year 2016 was. Unpresidented, you might say. Definitely one of the top five best years of the last half of this decade. But it was a tough year. We lost Bowie, a Prince, and a Princess Leia and gained a President only 46% of the voters wanted. The Cubs and the Cavs ended decades of championship futility. The year in music was not a transformative one. It appeared to be the year of the comeback album in the rock world, with veteran rockers releasing either records hailed as "return to form" or just first albums in many years by various artists. Spoiler: most were not "return to form", but some were. Overall, a solid year of new music.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>The Lees of Memory</b> - <i>Unneccessary Evil</i> (John Davis Brand Music)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>M. Ward</b> - <i>More Rain</i> (Merge)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Metallica</b> - <i>Hardwired...To Self-Destruct</i> (Blackened)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Methyl Ethel </b>- <i>Oh Inhuman Spectacle</i> (4AD)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Mount Moriah</b> - <i>How to Dance</i> (Merge)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Purling Hiss</b> - <i>High Bias</i> (Drag City)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Nada Surf </b>- <i>You Know Who You Are </i>(Barsuk)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Summer Cannibals</b> - <i>Full of It </i>(Kill Rock Stars)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>TacocaT</b> - <i>Lost Time</i> (Hardly Art)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Teenage Fanclub</b> - <i>Here</i> (Merge)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Tyvek</b> - <i>Origin of What</i> (In the Red)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Wye Oak</b> - <i>Tween</i> (Merge)</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #660000;">Other Stuff Worth Checking Out</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Against Me!</b> - <i>Shape Shift With Me</i> (Total Treble/Xtra Mile)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Bleached</b> - <i>Welcome the Worms</i> (Dead Oceans)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>The Coathangers</b> - <i>Nosebleed Weekend</i> (Suicide Squeeze)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Dinosaur Jr</b> - <i>Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not</i> (Jagjaguwar)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Guided By Voices</b> - <i>Please Be Honest</i> (GBV Inc)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Honeyblood</b> - <i>Babes Never Die</i> (FatCat)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Jeff Rosenstock</b> - <i>Worry</i> (SideOneDummy).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Julia Jacklin</b> - <i>Don't Let the Kids Win</i> (Polyvinyl)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>LVL UP</b> - <i>Return to Love</i> (Sub Pop)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Margo Price</b> - <i>Midwest Farmer's Daughter</i> (Third Man)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Mitski</b> - <i>Puberty 2</i> (Dead Oceans)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Modern Baseball</b> - <i>Holy Ghost</i> (Run for Cover)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Pinegrove</b> - <i>Cardinal</i> (Run for Cover)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Pixies</b> - <i>Head Carrier</i> (Pixiesmusic/PIAS)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Robert Pollard</b> - <i>Of Course You Are</i> (Fire)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Savages</b> - <i>Adore Life</i> (Matador)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Slingshot Dakota</b> - <i>Break</i> (Topshelf)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>St. Paul & the Broken Bones</b> - <i>Sea of Noise</i> (Records LLC)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Steve Gunn </b>- <i>Eyes on the Line</i> (Matador)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Weezer</b> - <i>White Album</i> (Atlantic/Crush)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>White Lung</b> - <i>Paradise</i> (Domino)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Woods</b> - <i>City Sun Eater in the River Light</i> (Woodsist)</span></div>
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<u><b><span style="color: #660000;">2016 Shows</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Wow after 2013-2015 years (SXSW, Mats in MPLS, numerous shows around town), I guess there was nowhere to go but down as far as show attendance, but quite a drop off this year. Just the "Dad Rock" shows for me this year, I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Bob Mould</b> - 04/26 - Underground Arts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Pearl Jam </b>- 04/28 - Wells Fargo Center</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Pearl Jam</b> - 04/29 - Wells Fargo Center</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Wilco</b> - 06/04 - Mann Music Center</span></div>
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temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-2452353087929522872016-01-12T09:43:00.002-05:002016-01-12T09:49:35.943-05:00My Favorite Albums of 2015WOW, so I didn't post a single entry to this blog in 2015.<br />
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The total number of 2015 albums that I initially listened to in the year when they were actually released is probably greater than any other year in my life. But not as many stuck with me as in previous years. This 4th or 5th wave of garage-rock and Paisley Underground homages have kind of run its course with me. Honestly I spent more of 2015 listening to older music. The Replacements, Superchunk, Sleater-Kinney, the Kinks, Guided By Voices, and Yo La Tengo were in my rotation a lot more than any 2015 releases. And I finally took that deep dive on some other artists I've been meaning to check out for years: Mountain Goats, Yo La Tengo, Meat Puppets, Wire, Velvet Underground, and the DB's to name a few.<br />
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Anyway, here is my dumb list in descending order:<br />
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<b><u>Top 25</u></b></div>
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<img height="200" src="https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/ultimate-painting-green-lanes.jpg?w=380&h=380&crop=1" width="200" /> 25. <b><u>Ultimate Painting</u></b> - <i>Green Lanes</i> (Trouble in Mind Records)<br />
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<img height="197" src="https://cbsradionews.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/isbell-free-cover.jpg?w=620" width="200" /> 24. <b><u>Jason Isbell</u></b> - <i>Something More Than Free</i> (Southeastern)<br />
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<img src="http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/59788/28c70a75.jpeg" height="200" width="200" /> 23. <u><b>Yo La Tengo</b></u> - <i>Stuff Like That There</i> (Matador)<br />
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<img src="http://www.capturedtracks.com/captured13/wp-content/uploads/CT-226-EZTV-Cover_14001-600x600.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 22. <b><u>EZTV</u></b> - C<i>alling Out</i> (Captured Tracks)<br />
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<img src="http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/08/31122634/widowspeak-560x560-560x560.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 21. <u><b>Widowspeak</b></u> - <i>All Yours</i> (Captured Tracks)<br />
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<img src="http://www.glidemagazine.com/glide/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/tommykeen5.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 20. <b><u>Tommy Keene</u></b> - <i>Laugh in the Dark</i> (Second Motion)<br />
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<img src="http://cdn.pitchfork.com/albums/22104/homepage_large.5f30eab1.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 19. <b><u>Kurt Vile</u></b> - <i>B'lieve I'm Goin' Down</i> (Matador)<br />
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<img src="http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/58200/17deca82.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 18. <b><u>Mikal Cronin</u></b> - <i>MCIII</i> (Merge)<br />
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<img src="http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/SIJS-2400.jpg?wmode=transparent" height="200" width="200" />17. <b><u>Courtney Barnett</u></b> - <i>Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit</i> (Milk!)<br />
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<img src="http://s0.limitedrun.com/images/1110006/v600_SpeedyO_FoilDeerCVR900.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 16. <b><u>Speedy Ortiz</u></b> - <i>Foil Deer</i> (Car Park)<br />
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<img src="http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/58236/42dfde64.png" height="199" width="200" /> 15. <b><u>Torres</u></b> - <i>Sprinter</i> (Partisan)<br />
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<img src="http://floodmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The_Woolen_Men-2015-Temporary_Monument_cover_med_res.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 14. <b><u>The Woolen Men</u></b> - <i>Temporary Monument</i> (Woodsist)<br />
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<img src="http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/57817/5be2dee9.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 13. <b><u>Waxahatchee</u></b> - <i>Ivy Tripp</i> (Merge)<br />
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<img src="http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/06/23160750/Bully-Feels-Like.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 12. <b><u>Bully</u></b> - <i>Feels Like</i> (Columbia)<br />
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<img src="http://static.stereogum.com/blogs.dir/2/files/2015/01/Best-Boy.png" height="200" width="200" />11. <b><u>Mike Pace and the Child Actors</u></b> - <i>Best Boy</i> (Self-Starter Foundation)<br />
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<img src="http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/08/27112421/SWIMMER_cover_small.jpg" height="198" width="200" /> 10. <b><u>Robert Pollard</u></b> - <i>Faulty Superheroes</i> (GBV Inc), <b><u>Ricked Wicky</u></b> - <i>I Sell the Circus </i>(GBV Inc) / <i>King Heavy Metal</i> (GBV Inc) / <i>Swimmer to a Liquid Armchair</i> (GBV Inc) <br />
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<img src="http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/thisisthealbumcoverforverucasaltsnewalbum.jpg?wmode=transparent" height="181" width="200" /> 9. <b><u>Veruca Salt</u></b> - <i>Ghost Notes</i> (El Camino)<br />
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<img src="http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/60434/6b85ce7b.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 8. <b><u>Wavves</u></b> - <i>V</i> (Ghost Ramp/Warner Bros.)<br />
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<img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iFXG16xgL.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 7. <b><u>Sleater-Kinney</u></b> - <i>No Cities to Love</i> (Sub Pop)<br />
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<img src="http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/albums/22232/homepage_large.a76c3d5e.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 6. <b><u>Protomartyr</u></b> - <i>The Agent Intellect</i> (Hardly Art)<br />
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<img src="http://www.treblezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/8-28-Royal-Headache-High-560x560.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 5. <b><u>Royal Headache</u></b> - <i>High</i> (What's Your Rupture)<br />
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<img src="http://www.heyreverb.com/files/2015/07/wilco-star-wars-w.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 4. <b><u>Wilco</u></b> - <i>Star Wars</i> (dBpm Records)<br />
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<img src="http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/920/MI0003920992.jpg?partner=allrovi.com" height="200" width="200" /> 3. <b><u>Jesse Malin</u></b> - <i>New York Before the War</i> / <i>Outsiders</i> (One Little Indian).<br />
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<img height="200" src="https://www.mergerecords.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/6/af884e3dacf63311c3d323fcc060641e/image/_resized/10_700_700_538_twerps_900px.jpg" width="200" /> 2. <b><u>Twerps</u></b> - <i>Range Anxiety</i> (Merge)<br />
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<img src="http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/10/Beach-Slang-The-Things-We-Do-To-Find-People-Who-Feel-Like-Us.jpg" height="200" width="200" /> 1. <b><u>Beach Slang</u></b> - <i>The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us</i> (Polyvinyl)<br />
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<b><u>Honorable Mention</u></b></div>
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<b><u>Dawes</u></b> - <i>All Your Favorite Bands</i> (HUB Records)<br />
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<b><u>Dilly Dally</u></b> - <i>Sore</i> (Partisan)<br />
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<b><u>The Decemberists</u></b> - <i>What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World</i> (Rough Trade)<br />
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<b><u>Houndmouth</u></b> - <i>Little Neon Limelight</i> (Rough Trade)<br />
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<b><u>The Juliana Hatfield Three</u></b> - <i>Whatever, My Love</i> (American Laundromat Records)<br />
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<b><u>Low Cut Connie</u></b> - <i>Hi Honey </i>(Contender Records)<br />
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<b><u>Mac McCaughan</u></b> - <i>Non-Believers</i> (Merge)<br />
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<b><u>The Mountain Goats</u></b> -<i> Beat the Champ</i> (Merge)<br />
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<b><u>Titus Andronicus</u></b> - <i>The Most Lamentable Tragedy</i> (Merge)<br />
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<b><u>White Reaper</u></b> - <i>White Reaper Does It Again</i> (Polyvinyl)<br />
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<b><u>The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die</u></b> - <i>Harmlessness</i> (Topshelf/Epitaph)<br />
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<b><u>Other Stuff Worth Your Time</u></b></div>
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<b><u>Adult Mom</u></b> - <i>Momentary Lapse of Happy </i>(Tiny Engines)<br />
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<b><u>Advaeta </u></b>- <i>Death and the Internet </i>(Fire Talk)<br />
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<b><u>Built to Spill</u></b> - <i>Untethered Moon </i>(ATP Recordings)<br />
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<b><u>Ceremony</u></b> - <i>The L-Shaped Man </i>(Matador)<br />
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<b><u>Colleen Green</u></b> - <i>I Want to Grow Up </i>(Hardly Art)<br />
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<b><u>Deerhunter </u></b>- <i>Fading Frontier </i>(4AD)<br />
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<b><u>Joanna Gruesome</u></b> - <i>Peanut Butter </i>(Slumberland)<br />
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<u><b>Albert Hammond Jr</b></u>. - <i>Momentary Masters </i>(Vagrant)<br />
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<b><u>Hop Along</u></b> - <i>Painted Shut </i>(Saddle Creek)<br />
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<b><u>JEFF the Brotherhood</u></b> - <i>Wasted on the Dream</i> (Infinity Cat)<br />
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<b><u>Lucero</u></b> - <i>All a Man Should Do</i> (ATO)<br />
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<b><u>Of Monsters and Men</u></b> - <i>Beneath the Skin </i>(Republic)<br />
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<b><u>Palehound</u></b> - <i>Dry Food </i>(Exploding in Sound)<br />
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<b><u>Pins</u></b> - <i>Wild Nights</i> (Bella Union)<br />
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<b><u>Seapony</u></b> - <i>A Vision</i> (Self-Released)<br />
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<b><u>Title Fight</u></b> - <i>Hyperview </i>(Anti-)<br />
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<b><u>Wildhoney</u></b> - <i>Sleep Through It</i> (Deranged Records)<br />
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<b><u>Wolf Alice</u></b> - <i>My Love Is Cool </i>(Dirty Hit Ltd.)<br />
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<b><u>Worriers</u></b> - <i>Imaginary Life</i> (Don Giovanni)<br />
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<b><u>2015 Shows</u></b></div>
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Purling Hiss/Dark Blue at Johnny Brenda's - 2/13/15<br />
Sleater-Kinney at Union Transfer - 2/28/15<br />
Jesse Malin at Main St Music in store show 3/31/15<br />
Protomartyr/Amanda X at Johnny Brenda's - 4/14/15<br />
The Replacements/Superchunk at Festival Pier 5/9/15<br />
Soul Asylum/Meat Puppets at Underground Arts 6/19/15<br />
Mudhoney/Pissed Jeans/Amanda X at Union Transfer 7/9/15<br />
Archers of Loaf at Union Transfer 7/11/15<br />
Jesse Malin at Boot and Saddle 7/25/15<br />
Old 97's at Union Transfer 10/29/15<br />
Jesse Malin at Johnny Brenda's 12/17/15<br />
<br />temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-9906591547256747922014-12-15T11:49:00.001-05:002014-12-31T09:01:29.043-05:00My Favorite Albums of 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>When we do year-end music lists in December we all become these guys</i></div>
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If you're a big fan of music, books, or movies then year-end lists are like the best and worst thing about December every year next to Christmas and the predictable title-less end to another Eagles season. Part of me hates the notion of boiling down an entire year into a top 20 or top 10 or whatever, but still I usually skim most of these lists to see if there are any new albums I missed out on during the year. And these lists are everywhere. And some begin getting published in November, which seems a little weird to me with roughly 9% of the year still left. But that's fine, I guess the writers of these lists just ignore everything that comes out after Thanksgiving or they have advance copies of everything they think they may like.<br />
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And then what do you call your dumb list? "The best...."? "The top...."? I used to do that, but now I think I've settled on "My favorite...." That's what the list is. I probably listened to more new music this year than any other year in my life. Just scanning my 2014 playlist on iTunes I count nearly 1600 songs on there, which translates into roughly 160 albums - or more likely 110-120 albums with lots of EPs and singles and one-offs.<br />
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It was a pretty eventful year of music pilgrimages attending <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/03/john-does-sxsw-2014.html" target="_blank">SXSW</a>, seeing the<a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/09/its-too-late-to-turn-back-here-we-go.html" target="_blank"> Replacements in St. Paul</a> along with dozens of great local shows.<br />
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[Just shut up and tell everyone what albums you liked]</div>
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OK, so anyway click through below (page views!!) to check out my favorite albums of 2014:<br />
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<b><a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-favorite-albums-of-2014.html">1</a> <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/p/my-favorite-albums-of-2014-2.html">2</a> <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/p/my-favorite-albums-of-2014-3.html">3</a> <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/p/my-favorite-albums-of-2014-4.html">4</a> <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/p/my-favorite-albums-of-2014-5.html">5</a> <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/p/my-favorite-albums-of-2014-6.html">6</a> <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/p/my-favorite-albums-of-2014-7.html">7</a></b></div>
temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-52253778095430159142014-09-18T09:56:00.001-04:002014-09-18T10:22:58.917-04:00It's Too Late to Turn Back, Here We Go.....<div>
For the last half of my life, I've had two things in particular on my lengthy bucket list and one seemed unlikely to ever get crossed off. First, I always wanted to take a trip to the Twin Cities and see all of the sights that my favorite band ever, the Replacements, helped make semi-famous. The venues they played, the places/things they sang about, the places they frequented, the Stinson house on the cover of <i>Let It Be</i>, etc.<br />
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The second thing on the bucket list was actually seeing the Replacements play live. I got into the band as they were going on hiatus, so I never had a chance to see them live. I've seen Paul Westerberg solo numerous times, but it wasn't quite the same. I understood that if a reunion ever happened it would likely be just Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, and two other non-Replacements (or replacement Replacements?), but to me that was close enough to be the Replacements. And Josh Freese and Dave Minehan were sort of honorary Replacements at this point having played with Paul and Tommy previously, so it was really the perfect reunion lineup.</div>
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When the reunion started last year I said if they ever played a non-festival headlining gig in their hometown, I would do whatever I had to do to be there. So when tickets went on sale for the reunited Replacements show at Midway Stadium in St. Paul, I had an opportunity to accomplish both of these things at the same time. I got tickets through the band pre-sale and immediately started planning my trip.<br />
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It would also be the first show the Replacements had played in their hometown in 23+ years. Crossing both of these items off the bucket list on the same weekend was actually kind of surreal. If you had told me I'd be standing in the outfield of a minor league baseball stadium watching the Replacements play in front of 14,000 people in 2014 (for a show that sold out in 10 minutes), I'd have asked you what drugs you were on and if you had any extra for me. As the saying goes you marry the first time for love, the second time for money, and the third time for companionship. In the case of the Replacements, they definitely are getting paid big bucks the second time around and they also seem to having a great time doing it, so it's probably a mixture of love, money, and companionship.<br />
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It's been days since I experienced all of this and I still haven't come down from the adrenaline high yet. First, here are some separate links to the pictures I took of the Replacements landmarks in Minneapolis:</div>
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<a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/09/mary-tyler-moore-statue.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Mary Tyler Moore statue</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/09/bob-stinsons-bench.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The bench dedicated to Bob Stinson in the Lake of the Isles park</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/09/more-minneapolis-pictures.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Various other pictures from the trip</span></a><br />
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This poster was modeled on the old Minnesota Twins poster:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Take me down to the hospital reference?! (sign at Midway Stadium)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">stage view from around where I was standing the whole night</td></tr>
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Lucero and the Hold Steady were both very good as expected. And now that I've been to the Twin Cities, I understand many more of Craig Finn's local references in the Hold Steady catalog.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucero opened things around 7pm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hold Steady came on a little before 8pm</td></tr>
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Unfortunately, once it got dark it was difficult to get good pictures from where I was standing due to the glare from the stage lights.<br />
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For starters the Replacements sounded great, probably way better than any band with that long of a layoff has a right to sound, even 11 shows into their reunion. I have dozens of bootlegs of shows where they were sloppy and drunk and kinda terrible. And I have dozens where they sound great. This was definitely one of the great-sounding performances, as all of their reunion shows have been so far. Guitarist Dave Minehan and drummer Josh Freese are very good musicians who are perfect fits with Paul and Tommy, so the result is a really tight versatile powerhouse live band who sound terrific. And the show was being recorded with professional camera crews, so we will probably see a DVD release of this in the coming year.<br />
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I can't really find any fault with a 30+ song setlist containing almost all of the fan favorites, including a handful of songs they've rarely been playing if at all on this reunion tour. In retrospect I would have liked to have seen "Little Mascara" or "I.O.U." as well, but it's akin to quibbling over an A+ set vs. an A++ set.<br />
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Here is a re-gram of the setlist:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b>Setlist:</b></u></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1. Favorite Thing</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">2. Takin' a Ride</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">3. I'm in Trouble</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">4. Don't Ask Why</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">5. I'll Be You</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">6. Valentine </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">7. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Waitress in Sky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">8. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out /into Third Stone From the Sun (Jimi Hendrix)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">9. Take Me Down to the Hospital</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">10. I Want You Back (Jackson Five)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">11. Going to New York (Jimmy Reed) with Tony Glover on harmonica </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">12. Color Me Impressed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">13. Nowhere Is My Home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">14. If Only You Were Lonely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">15. Achin' to Be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">16. Kiss Me on the Bus</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">17. Androgynous</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">18. I Will Dare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">19. Love You Till Friday /into Maybellene (Chuck Berry)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">20. Merry Go Round</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">21. </span>I Won't</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">22. White and Lazy /into </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">Borstal Breakout (Sham 69)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">23. Swingin' Party</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">24. Love You in the Fall (from Paul Westerberg solo album)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">25. Can't Hardly Wait</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">26. Bastards of Young</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">27. I Don't Know (with Buck Hill interlude in the middle)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><u><b>ENCORE 1:</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">28. </span>Skyway (Paul solo on a 12-string)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">29. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">Left of the Dial</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">30. </span>Alex Chilton </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><u><b>ENCORE 2:</b></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">31. Unsatisfied</span></span></span><br />
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- Prior to the Replacements taking the stage <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FZ0i-PTLdA" target="_blank">St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman spoke</a> for a few minutes about the greatness of the band and then declared September 13th "Replacements Day" in St. Paul.<br />
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- The band entered to the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird."<br />
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- Before "Take Me Down to the Hospital", Paul dedicated it to Slim Dunlap, who he noted had to go back into the hospital. They were hoping he could have attended the show.<br />
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- They stopped the Jackson Five's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNDVviOIHdc" target="_blank">I Want You Back</a>" after the first verse and chorus and it sounded pretty good. And then Paul brought out local blues harmonica legend Tony Glover for a cover of Jimmy Reed's blues classic "Going to New York." The rest of the band seemed genuinely surprised about this, as there was nothing about the Jimmy Reed cover on the setlist. And that was the extent of the special guests, which was fine. I didn't want to see a bigger name hijack the show. Although I thought there might be an outside shot Craig Finn would reprise the role of the cop from "Kids Don't Follow" that he played in the Replacements tribute shows in NY in 2011.<br />
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- Before "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhfQdSp5HSk" target="_blank">Nowhere Is My Home</a>", Paul said "Here's another song we never released called 'Nowhere Is My Home'...and it's suddenly true." Perhaps a nod to his recent divorce?<br />
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- Paul planted a big smooch on Tommy during the last part of "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5soGL73ZZo" target="_blank">Kiss Me on the Bus</a>" (see this video around the 2:35 mark).<br />
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- Paul played "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzOG3vRpnXQ" target="_blank">Skyway</a>" flawlessly which is notable if you remember seeing the 2002 solo tour, where I believe he finally nailed the words and notes perfectly at the Philly show I attended, about 10-12 dates into the tour. He had to do it blindfolded so he wouldn't mess it up. I don't recall if he ever played it perfectly again on that tour.<br />
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- After "Skyway" the band returned wearing honorary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2pId0jrEs" target="_blank">St. Paul Saints baseball jerseys</a> with their last names on the back. And Paul tried to ditch the jersey at first and Tommy finally convinced him to put it on. Tommy: "Put that fucker on. Put it on." Then Paul said, "How many bands have done this? You think Bob Dylan put this fucker on? You think Michael 'fuckin' Stipe put this on?" Tommy: "It's cold. We need it." And with temperatures dipping into the 40's, Paul then said something like "I wanted to be #9. Well, they are kinda cozy." I believe Tommy had #15 and Paul had #25, I couldn't make out the other band members. And I'm sure they can auction those off for charity soon.<br />
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And there is so much to read into the setlist for an obsessive fan. Playfully closing with "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IMh7gFOWQ" target="_blank">I Don't Know</a>" (Should we give it up?....I don't know) and then ending with "Unsatisfied." Are they still unsatisfied? Does this mean they are going to continue scratching an itch? Westerberg rarely played "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALQ16b_lqs" target="_blank">Unsatisfied</a>" on his last few solo tours, probably partially as he noted at one show when a fan requested it, "But I'm so fully satisfied." They seem to be adding more songs to the rotation to keep it more interesting for them, as if they were preparing for this to continue. But I suppose your guess is as bad as mine on the 'will it continue?' topic.<br />
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And finally this picture below found online of Paul and Tommy hugging credited to "Darin K" pretty much conveys what so many Replacements fans felt seeing this reunion, and this show in particular.<br />
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Seriously, it is one of my favorite pictures ever and I will probably print it and get it framed. Diehard fans probably all felt like we were a 3rd party in a group hug, reaching out and hugging our favorite lovable "best band that never made it big" heroes, and thanking our prodigal sons for returning from a 20+ year hiatus. Your first instinct as a fan is to want a band to play "one more song", and I was hoping for one more. But as soon as I saw the hug after "Unsatisfied" I knew that was the perfect way to end the show.<br />
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They are rock 'n' roll blood brothers at this point, with a bond that will go deeper than most families have. Westerberg noted in a recent <i>Rolling Stone</i> profile, "We'll call each other up when things go south, because we know we can get a laugh out of each other. How many people do you know that you can call up and get a guaranteed gut-wrenching laugh? Sometimes it's worth all the money and kissing and hugging in the world."<br />
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Earlier in the set between songs Westerberg said, "Sorry we took so long." And Stinson laughing a little quipped, "No you ain't." That sequence right there is why Replacements fans love the Replacements, showing all facets of their humanity. Just when one of them gets a little too serious and sentimental, the other one, on cue, breaks the mood (and the other's balls). Wise wise-asses. Courageous cowards. Ambitious slackers. It was said about Hold Steady that they appeal to "guys who like to drink beer and read." And that is the same group the Replacements always appealed to: smart guys (and gals) who like to drink beer and have a good time and love great songwriting.<br />
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This big hug was the final act before they left the stage. You can read so many emotions into this: relief, elation, fulfillment, victory, etc, If the reunion tour ends in a few weeks (October 12th in Austin, TX is the last date scheduled) and they never play together again, this picture kind of says, "We finally did it the right way. Now we can leave the 'Replacements legacy' in its proper place." So yes, maybe the "sorry we took so long" sentiment was directed as much at each other, as to the fans. As in, "what have we been doing NOT playing together the last 23 years and missing all this fun?" And if they continue, making new music together and touring, as some signs point, well then this embrace looks like more of a feeling of conquest or a "It's great to be back. It feels like we never left" sentiment. I'm hoping it's the latter, although if it isn't I'll have a life-affirming unforgettable concert memory of the first/last time I saw them. </div>
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<i>The Replacements, "Skyway" live at Midway Stadium Sept 13, 2014</i></div>
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The first stop on my Replacements tour was to the Stinson house at 2215 Bryant Avenue.</div>
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temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0Minneapolis, MN, USA44.983334 -93.26666999999997644.8035955 -93.589393499999971 45.1630725 -92.943946499999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-52770747397631651362014-03-27T10:11:00.000-04:002014-03-29T18:18:37.692-04:00John Does SXSW 2014 - Getting Around<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you would like to read my recap of just the music, please click <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/03/john-does-sxsw-2014.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">For starters I would like to say I really enjoyed Austin. I like the food and arts and music culture intermingling. And I like that it has a huge university in the middle that fuels everything else. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">They do as good as a job as can be expected for SXSW, with hundreds of thousands of visitors flocking to the city for a week. But there are still a fair amount of delays and lines to confront. Cabs are nearly impossible to get. After our flight arrived the line at the cab stand at the airport had to number over 100 people. Luckily there is a steady flow of cabs coming to the airport for pickups and drop offs, so the wait was maybe only 20 minutes. Unfortunately that means cabs aren't readily available for the 2-3 mile trips within the downtown area of the city (a bit too far to walk, but maybe not far enough to be willing to wait 20 minutes for a bus). On the first night, after looking for cabs for an hour, I ended up having to flag a golf cart taxi to get home before I knew the bus schedules and routes to/from my apartment. They do have pedi-cabs (bicycles), but they only travel within the downtown area. They definitely will not take you two miles north at 2am.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But basically Austin during SXSW isn't Philly or NY. You can't just get a cab and say, "Take me to Place-X." You have to know where you are going and how to get there and most likely take the bus and/or walk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for lodging, our apartment was fine and relatively cheap compared to what hotels were charging. But it was nearly three miles away from most of the music venues. If you are going to stay 2-3 miles away or further and bus it into the downtown, then you have to leave your place to start the day with a backpack full of everything you need for the day. You probably won't be going back there again until the day is over and it's time for bed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also it was about a 30-minute bus ride into the downtown area from where we were staying in the north campus area. Add in time walking to the bus stop, time waiting for the bus (and bus often being behind schedule), and time to then walk to where you are going when the bus lets you off, and you are looking at about an hour from the time you leave your apartment until you can realistically get to the first place you are going. That was a bit of adjustment for someone like myself who lives in downtown Philly and walks fairly quickly to almost anywhere I need to go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So our apartment rental was mainly just a place to sleep, shower, and re-organize our backpacks for the next day, packing extra sweaters/shirts/jackets depending on the weather, etc. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next time I attend SXSW I will look for a place closer to the venues, even if it was a mile away, that is still walkable late at night. I just hope the extra cost to stay closer won't be prohibitive. The hotels are unaffordable for the average person (some wanted $700+ per night). But if convenience is super important and you can afford it, it would be nice to be able to go back and forth to your hotel throughout the day and avoid having to carry the daily backpack of "everything you need for the next 16 hours." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you stay until the end of the night, they have a Night Owl bus line that picks people up in town from 12am-3am. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> So you have to plan accordingly and when it comes to choosing what artists you see at what venues later in the night. Wherever you are, you have to get back to 6th and Congress streets or be
along the bus route around 2am or you might have to walk home once the Night Owl stops running. Even after we got to the bus pickup location in time we still had to wait for multiple buses before we got on, as hundreds of people are waiting for each bus line at that time of the night, with the biggest crowds around closing time at 2am. So on several nights we didn't get home and get to bed until 3:00-3:30am-ish. Again, plan accordingly. If the artist playing at 1am isn't someone you are willing to potentially have to stay up until 3:30am </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">in order </span></span></span></span>to see , then you should probably just leave and catch an earlier bus.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for getting around to the actual venues, I thought the cost of a badge or wristband was a little pricey at first when I registered. But if you value your time, it's probably worth the cost to get a badge. It gets you into many crowded "official" events that you wouldn't otherwise get into. And even during the unofficial events during the day, badges often get priority over wristbands and those who have neither. Also, with badges you can usually bypass any cover charges.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In general I think the badge vs. wristband vs. "neither" argument comes
down to how valuable your time is to you and how many sets of music you want to see. I hate waiting in long lines so
for me my time is worth the money. Of the 40-something sets I saw,
at least half were during the day and I probably could have gotten in
without a badge anyway. But for some of the shows there were three-tiered lines to get in to the venue. Badges had top priority, then wristbands, and then those with neither. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the Hype Hotel day parties, for instance, if you had
neither you had to go across the street, wait in a long line for around thirty minutes just to get a wristband for that venue. Then you had to wait in line
for the venue and still get skipped by people with official badges and
wristbands. So I probably still would have gotten in to that show eventually without a badge, but maybe not
until after waiting in line
for an hour. As it was I waited in line for about ten minutes then they checked my badge and ID, and
just put a wristband on me and and I got right in.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />And
any of the crowded "official" shows at night you needed the badge. So badges allow you to do what I did some of the days and nights and go venue
to venue to venue for just maybe 1 or 2 artists in each place. Otherwise, if don't have a badge you will spend much of that time waiting in line and not getting
in right away to hop around and maximize your show time. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />If you wanted to badge-less/wristband-less
suppose you could just do like 1 or 2 "unofficial shows" every day too
and take your chances and then just look for whatever was open after that, knowing
you already had a pretty good day of music. Again, it depends on what is important to you and how much your time is worth and what you are trying to get out of the trip.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for beating the long lines and getting around, I generally had a good week until the final day when it came to that. I think the key is if the headliner at a place is a fairly big name (Bob Mould, The Hold Steady, etc.), you probably need to get there earlier and sit through a few acts you may not care about. Don't mess around seeing someone else an hour before the headliner that you really really want to see. Do not assume you will get right in even with badges and wristbands. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">seems like Friday and Saturday are the most crowded days. I assume some people just
come for the 3-day weekend and skip Tuesday-Thursday. And I think on Friday more
of the locals come back to town or come into town. It definitely seemed like more of the University of Texas students were back from
Spring Break and on the buses those days. That probably combined to make all the day
parties on Saturday nearly impossible to get into if you didn't get there around when they started.</span></span><br />
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in the future I'd consider leaving Saturday during the day rather than
Sunday because of everything I noted already - the festival is more crowded and there are less overall
gigs. And the big shows that everyone goes to with long
lines are so hard to get into anyway. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now that I know the ropes the next time I m looking forward to doing this again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some other random notes about the trip: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Early in the afternoon on Wednesday March 12th I </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">had a coffee at Cafe La Crepe while I'm 95% sure Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak was sitting in there relaxing/meditating. </span></span><br />
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- Sound checks, sound checks, and more sound checks. I saw 40+ sets of music that week and almost as many sound checks. As my wife quipped, "I've watched more sound checks this week than I had in my entire life combined."<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Guacamole is plentiful and awesome in Austin. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also I saw two different people eating an avocado the same way you see people eat apples or oranges for a snack. They cut it in half and just started scooping it out. I mostly lived off of protein bars, tacos, guacamole, and Lone Star during the trip.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">- For meals I ate from street vendors a few times. I also had dinner at El Sol y Luna, Manuel's, and Lamberts BBQ. All were very good. I ate lunch from a famous taco truck on the final day and dinner from Peruvian Creole barbecue truck one night. The rest of the week it was peanuts and protein bars for breakfast/lunch. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Portable cell phone/device battery chargers are a must-have. Most will fit in your pocket and definitely in your backpack. Being out for 15 hours a day using your phone constantly for maps, directions, pictures, and general communication means you will use up most of your power. We are used to this convenience nowadays. And with events like this with so many people trying to access the mobile network at the same time, your device will use up its battery much faster than usual trying to constantly connect. Also, put your device in airplane mode to save on this battery usage as much as possible. </span></span><br />
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then Lucinda Williams an hour or so later at the Gatsby. So many people around me who seemed to just
want to be there for a half dozen other reasons besides the music. People
with badges hanging at the bar talking during the sets (probably talking "business"). There were fans lined up outside waiting to get in who would have killed to be in that position. Those two events
definitely seemed to be more of insider events than any of the
others. So many record company flacks and the like just hanging out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">- It appears the venues have a "1 person gets in for every 10 who leave" policy for shows they expect to be crowded. So this causes the lines to grow quickly. I really didn't understand why I had to wait 10 minutes to get into the Hype Hotel show with maybe 10 people ahead of me. And then I got inside and the venue wasn't even half full. Just let everyone in immediately until it reaches capacity. Then go with the "1 in for every 10 out" policy for awhile. I'm not really sure why you would stagger the people entering otherwise. </span></span><br />
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conversations I overheard were all the same. Basically twenty-something guys
complaining that they've hardly seen anyone good all week and just were kind of going to big name parties or showcases and sitting through a
lot of acts they didn't know or didn't like and then not knowing where else to
go. It seems there is definitely a market for some kind of app to make artist recommendations at SXSW for the agenda-less festival goers so they can maximize their enjoyment. It also would come in handy if you are through waiting in a long line for a show and want to see if there are other similar artists playing anywhere reasonably close at the same time.</span></span></span></div>
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Hi, my name is John and I finally attended my first South By Southwest music conference this year (hence the catchy title of the post). Having never gotten to experience this event when it was smaller in scale and without the heavy dose of multinational corporation sponsorships (AT&T, Chevy, iTunes, et al.), I can't really compare hashtag-SXSW to the older SXSW conferences. But from what I gleaned from veteran SXSW attendees, the spirit of the old South By is still there, you just need to look a little harder to find it while ignoring all the big events that are being used (at least in theory) to help pay some of the bills.<br />
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Because the event has gotten so big now, unfortunately that means acts like Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Soundgarden will be jetted in to perform one-off corporate sponsored events. But since these acts are so big and have already toured extensively in recent years, I can't imagine there are too many fans flying cross-country and paying thousands of dollars to see them phone-in a 45-minute set to help a big sponsor sell corn chips or music services. At least Green Day had the sense to play this festival as their alter egos/side project Foxboro Hot Tubs, I assume playing only songs they recorded under that name. <br />
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The whole point of the original SXSW was to highlight emerging and/or underground artists. Showcasing some of the biggest names in rock, pop, and hip-hop kind of defeats the purpose and original spirit of the festival. A few hundred thousand people are going to SXSW now annually whether these big names are there or not.<br />
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It is apparently a necessary evil now though. As one questioner pointed out during a Q&A at a conference I attended - he works the SXSW festival and even though he hates it, he realizes Chevy and AT&T are helping to pay his and others' salaries now that the festival has grown so large.<br />
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I was fortunate enough to avoid all of the above events during the week, so in my circles SXSW still stayed fairly true to its original intent. My to-see list could be divided into three categories: favorites of mine whose music I know well and couldn't wait to see, artists who I had never actually heard much from before but wanted to see for the first time, and the last being the artists you never heard of before but end up seeing, with the ultimate hope that many from the second and third group eventually make it into the first group.<br />
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Anyway, below is a daily recap of my five days at SXSW seeing 35 full sets of music (and another few handfuls of partial sets) without a whole lot of sleeping or eating. I literally drank "beer for breakfast" (and lunch) with a protein bar most of the week. I also have a companion post that goes over the logistical, non-musical parts of the trip <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/03/john-does-sxsw-2014-getting-around.html" target="_blank">here</a><a href="http://./">.</a> That post is meant to serve as a guide for future attendees and general observations about Austin and the SXSW event through the eyes of a virginal attendee.<br />
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I didn't arrive until early in the afternoon. And after getting to my Airbnb apartment rental and then taking the bus downtown to register at the Convention Center and pick up my badge and swag, it was already 4pm. So what to do? I didn't have a ton of bands on my list to see on Day One, so it was wide open.<br />
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SXSW democratizes the registration process. So my name is listed in same section of the book with people like Debbie Harry, Mickey Hart, Bob Mould, Neil Young et al.<br />
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Speaking of Neil Young, he was giving a keynote speech at a conference on his new digital music product launch called <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/neil-youngs-pono-hi-def-mp3-player/" target="_blank">Pono</a>. But I didn't spend thousands of dollars to come to SXSW to hear speeches that would end up on YouTube in a matter of days (see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neil%20young%20sxsw&sm=3" target="_blank">here</a> for clips of Neil Young's speech on YouTube, as predicted that afternoon). I came to hear live music all day, every day. I can eat, sleep, and watch YouTube videos at home. The "music everywhere, all day" thing is what SXSW began as and how I wanted to experience it.<br />
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So I thought I had missed a chance to see <b>Speedy Ortiz</b> at the <b>Side Bar</b> for the <i>Harry Fox Agency</i> day party, but just as my luck would have it they were starting a little later than originally planned due to a delay getting there. The Side Bar outdoor setup reminded me of a backyard of a beach house
with picnic tables mostly stones replacing the grass on the ground. And then drummer Mike Falcone put out a request to borrow a high-hat cymbal for his drums, which caused another longer delay until the cymbal was found and set up, but it was worth the wait. This was my first time seeing this MA-based quartet led by Sadie Dupuis and they didn't disappoint. <i>Major Arcana</i> was one of the best releases of 2013 and their new EP <i>Real Hair</i> is stellar as well. I originally thought I'd be seeing Speedy Ortiz 2 or 3 times this trip, but this turned out to be the only time (please play Philly again soon!). And Sadie tweeted me back on Twitter, so the trip was off to a great start.<br />
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A little later I caught a great set by Yonkers, NY-based <b>Palehound</b> at <b>The Metal & Lace</b>. Palehound started as a project for Ellen Kempner (who is still not old enough to drink) and grew into a full band. I think they played just about every song from their <i>Bent Nail</i> EP and new 7-inch as well as at least one new song that is still untitled. Palehound is on the Massachusetts label Exploding in Sound Records and have much in common with their label mates. <br />
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I ended up seeing a set by the Tennessee-based blues-rock outfit <b>Clear Plastic Masks</b> at Holy Mountain shortly after that, due to a venue mix up on my part (one-part my mix up, one-part no signs on the venue, and one-part getting vague instructions from the guy working the door at the Red 7 indoor venue that I didn't clarify). By the time I realized I was at the wrong venue, the line was too long to get in to catch the Chicago Made showcase at Red 7 outdoor venue around the corner, featuring <b>Autumn Defense</b>, <b>Archie Powell and the Exports</b>, and others. So a rough SXSW baptism for me.<br />
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So it was on to the Rainey Street scene to the <b>Javelina Bar</b>. Rainey Street is about a two-block stretch of what looks like fraternity houses and nearly every one is a music venue (or possibly some private house shows?). I was hoping to make it to 1am to see <b>Split Single</b>, but my internal clock was saying it was bed time after waking up at 5am Eastern the previous day. So I stayed for <b>Dana Falconberry</b>'s folky roots-rock set and some of<b> Torres</b>' set before having to call it a night and figure out how to get back to my apartment before being awake for 24 consecutive hours.<br />
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Wednesday started at the <b>Hype Hotel </b>for <b><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/02/against-me-and-wye-oak-to-headline-cosigns-iii-at-austins-hype-hotel/" target="_blank">Consequence of Sound's Cosigns III Festival</a></b>. It was sponsored by Miller beer, so the beer choices were Miller High Life, Miller Lite, and MGD. And admission came with a pair of free drink tickets, so I used them on a bottle of water and a High Life (probably saving more money on the water). Anyway, I missed the start of the show, but ended up getting there just as <b>Together PANGEA</b> from SoCal was about to play. I guess they were "undislikable" to use a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/jason-isbell-as-undislikable-as-it-gets/2014/01/29/606904b6-8908-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html" target="_blank">Chris Richards term</a> of semi-endearment, with their Pixies-meets-Emo pop/punk kind of sound.<br />
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They were followed by Strokes guitarist, <b>Albert Hammond Jr</b>. This was my first time seeing Hammond live and he didn't disappoint. He and his band ran through a tight set, including a few new songs plus selections from his 2013 EP <i>AHJ </i>and his first two LPs <i>Yours to Keep</i> and <i>Como Te Llama?</i>, ending with a cover of the Misfits' "Last Caress." I've always believed that Hammond's solo stuff is better than most of what the Strokes have done since <i>Room on Fire</i>.<br />
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<b>Wye Oak</b> from Baltimore followed with a set of all new songs from their forthcoming LP, <i>Shriek</i>. The new songs are bass/drum/keyboards with no guitars, so this was definitely a departure from their previous work. Perhaps their set was strategically placed between the two guitar-heavy acts as a change of pace.<br />
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<b>Against Me!</b> closed out the party with a great set, mixing old and new songs and I believe playing at least one song from all of their albums, with most of the songs being from the 2014 release <i>Transgender Dysphoria Blue</i>s and 2007's <i>New Wave</i>. At these types of festivals, it seems almost every act plays to about 60% of the crowd who are big fans and/or super-interested in their set, while the other 40% hang off to the side and check their phones, waiting for their favorites to take the stage. Against Me! was definitely playing to a mostly packed house of rabid fans.<br />
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Then on to <b>Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop</b> to catch an acoustic set by <b>Rhett Miller</b> of Old 97's. Seattle's independent radio station, KEXP was at this location all week, as they have been the last few years. Miller mixed in several new ones and some old classics ("Time Bomb", "Barrier Reef", "Doreen") and of course the Longhorn Network's theme song, "State of Texas." Miller is definitely one of the few artists I've seen who can pull off the solo acoustic show and make it almost as entertaining as the shows with a full band.<br />
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There is music everywhere during SXSW. Afterwards while eating a chicken sandwich from a street vendor in the middle a festival I caught sets by a pair of speed metal acts I didn't know anything about before heading over to the Chevrolet Courtyard for the rest of the night.<br />
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The <b>Chevrolet Courtyard at Cedar Street</b> venue was created just for SXSW. It was a nice outdoor courtyard in the middle of a bar/restaurant. So they threw together a stage and voila - another cool venue. <br />
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The <b>Felice Brothers</b> from the Hudson River Valley in upstate NY were the first act I saw. I knew of them, but had never actually heard them and I was pleasantly surprised. They have a country-rock style reminiscent of The Band, but with a fiddle and accordion very prominent in their songs. <br />
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<b>Lucius</b> from Brooklyn was on next. They had a unique twangy pop/rock sound, led by a duo of similar-looking female keyboardists/singers and supported by a standard guitar/drums band. Sort of Neko Case meets Blondie. They were not at all what I was expecting, in a good way. <br />
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<b>Lucinda Williams</b> followed. This was my first time ever seeing the alt/country legend play live. The set got started a little late due to sound problems, so a planned 45-minute set was more like 30-35 minutes. But she and her band sounded good playing a few new songs and some older ones, including "Changed the Locks, "Joy", and "Righteously."<br />
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<b>The Hold Steady</b> closed things out. What else can I say about the Hold Steady and how great a live band they are? They ran through 5 or 6 new ones and lots of old favorites ("Stuck Between Stations", "Chips Ahoy!", "Weekenders", "Constructive Summer", "Slapped Actress", "Magazines", "Sequestered in Memphis" - <i>'subpoenaed-in-Texas!...'</i>, "Hot Soft Light", etc), doing their best to make the most of their 50-60 minutes of stage time. No nonsense, no banter, no jams. Just song after song after song until the they were told they had to wrap up. I'm sure they would have played longer if they could have. And much like Against Me!'s set, the Hold Steady were playing mostly to diehard fans who were into the set, singing along with most of the songs. But then again their "psalms are sing-a-long songs."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Day Three - Thursday, March 13</b></span></div>
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Thursday began at <b>Paste Party</b> at the <b>Swan Dive</b> on the strip of venues on Red River Street. I arrived shortly after the party began. <br />
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<b>Split Single</b> is a band from Illinois I've been looking forward to seeing. Jason Narducy fronts the band and plays guitar in a project that includes Britt Daniel from Spoon on bass and Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Bob Mould) on drums. You may know Narducy from his time playing with Robert Pollard of GBV and also playing in Bob Mould's current band, as well as filling in as the touring bass player for Superchunk last year. They have a classic alt/rock sound that reminded me a lot of the Replacements. Their LP <i>Fragmented World</i> drops on April 1st.<br />
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<b>Ages and Ages</b> from Portland delivered a solid set of pop/rock music tinged with country-rock and folk at times. They reminded me a little of Dr. Dog or the Decemberists on some songs. <br />
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<b>Lydia Loveless</b> is an act I knew nothing about before SXSW, but the 23-year old from Columbus, OH and her backing band were very impressive. This was a raucous set of garage-y alt/country reminiscent of Whiskeytown-era Ryan Adams.<br />
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<i>Lydia Loveless performing at the Bloodshot Records party</i><b> </b></div>
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<b>Those Darlins</b> from Nashville are a band I've been looking forward to seeing live for a few years and they didn't disappoint with a great set of garage-y alt/country, featuring songs mainly from their last 2 LPs - <i>Screws Get Loose</i> and <i>Blur the Line</i>, and also covered Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot", also previously covered somewhat notably by U2. <br />
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<i>Those Darlins performing "Screws Get Loose" at Cheer Up Charlie's</i></div>
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I had to nearly run from the Swan Dive to <b>Beerland</b> for the <b>Can't Stop the Bleeding</b> (a sports blog) day show, a block north to catch the set by <b>Protomartyr</b>. They hail from Detroit and their 2013 debut LP <i>No Passion All Technique</i> has been in heavy rotation for me since I discovered it late last year. The obvious MC5, Pissed Jeans, and Parquet Courts comparisons are apt and also don't quite tell the whole story. They ripped through a blistering set of songs mostly from <i>No Passion</i> and also their debut EP, along with a new song called "Scum, Rise!" from their forthcoming LP that will be released next month.<br />
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<b>Obnox</b> from Ohio was up next at <b>Beerland</b>. It is a one-man band created by Lamont "Bim" Thomas. He had a drummer accompanying him for this set, but it was mostly just raw, fuzzy, post-punk. There is a blues rhythm though underneath all the noise. <br />
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Philly's <b>Paul Green School of Rock</b> was getting some love in the Beerland bathroom.<br />
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I was originally planning to head a few blocks away to the <b>Mohawk</b> for the <b>Stereogum Party</b> to see <b>Speedy Ortiz</b> and <b>Cloud Nothings</b> later in the afternoon, but the show was cancelled out of respect for the victims of the hit-and-run outside the venue the previous day.<br />
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While I was seeing the shows at the <b>Swan Dive</b> and <b>Beerland</b>, my wife was at the Convention Center and caught the <a href="http://sxsw.com/music/news/2014/session-spotlight-warehouse-songs-and-stories" target="_blank">Warehouse: Songs and Stories</a> conference with <b>Bob Mould</b>, <b>Steve Wynn</b>, <b>Britt Daniel</b>, and <b>Matthew Caws</b>, among others. <b> </b><br />
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<b>Bob Mould</b> debuted his new song. Here's a clip below:<br />
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She also caught <b>Archie Powell</b> playing an acoustic set at the Convention Center.<br />
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After taking a break it was on to see NY alt/rock troubadour <b>Jesse Malin </b>and his new band at the <b>South By Sapporo</b> party at <b>Cheers Shot Bar</b> on the 6th Street strip. I've been a fan of Malin's for years and this was a solid set of mostly new material from his forthcoming release, along with a cover of the Ramones' "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?", which worked really well with the horn section in the new band and also the Pogues' "If I Should Fall From Grace With God."<br />
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<i>Jesse Malin and his new band performing "All the Way From Moscow"</i></div>
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The <b>Merge Showcase</b> followed that night at <b>The Parish</b> on the 6th Street strip. It's one of my favorite record labels and I really like most of its roster. The bottom line is I trust Merge even I know nothing about a band, but I find out they are on Merge. First, I know they probably share similar integrity and values about music as others on Merge. And second, I know if Mac and Laura at Merge were willing to sign this band, they are probably pretty good. Anyway, here's a quick <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjZH-gBKk8" target="_blank">segment</a> on Merge's 20th anniversary from 2009 (checkout Wye Oak being featured back then).<br />
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I didn't arrive until just as <b>Vertical Scratchers</b> were finishing up, but I liked what I heard briefly, reminiscent of 60's British invasion rock combined with a classic Guided By Voices indie rock sound.<br />
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<b>Saint Rich</b> were up next from Sussex County, NJ were impressive with a set of that seemed equal parts blues-rock and garage, very reminiscent of the Strokes on a few songs.<br />
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<b>Hospitality</b> from Brooklyn were next playing an impressive set of indie pop with selections from their two LPs, 2012's <i>S/T </i>and 2014's <i>Trouble</i>. <i>Trouble</i> is one of my favorites of 2014 so far.<br />
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<b>Wye Oak</b> from Baltimore followed with another set of mostly new songs from their forthcoming LP, <i>Shriek</i>. This set had a few older songs in it, unlike their set at Hype Hotel. One of the most powerful moments of the night came shortly after midnight, when Jenn Wasner read the note about about a moment of silence for the victims of the hit-and-run outside the Mohawk. And then they segued into "Holy Holy" from <i>Civilian</i>.<br />
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<b>Bob Mould</b> closed out the night with an hour-long set of new songs and old songs. And I ended my day seeing Jason Narducy playing bass with Bob Mould, after beginning my day seeing his band Split Single. It was a long day for him, but that's SXSW for you.<br />
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Mould opened the set with "Star Machine", "The Descent", and "Keep Believing", from his last album <i>Silver Age</i>. And he closed out a rare encore at SXSW with Husker Du classics "Flip Your Wig" and "Makes No Sense At All." In between he played several new songs, which were really good, especially "This War" which he debuted earlier in the day at the Convention Center. He played about 5 other new songs, along with Sugar standouts "A Good Idea" and "If You Can't Change Your Mind" and other Husker Du songs like "Hardly Getting Over It", "Chartered Trips", and "Hate Paper Doll." I'm probably forgetting a few more other older songs. Anyway, this was a great set by a rock legend. It was almost worth the trip just for the Merge Showcase.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Day Four - Friday, March 14</b></span></div>
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Friday started out with the <a href="http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_MP23995" target="_blank"><b>New Punk Strategies</b></a> conference at the Convention Center, featuring <b>Mac McCaughan</b> from Superchunk/Merge Records, <b>Lyle Hysen</b> (Bank Robber Music), <b>Joseph Voss</b> (industry lawyer), and <b>Rebecca Gates</b> (Parcematone Presents). It was an interesting hour-long discussion highlighting how to help support musicians today as they navigate the new music business model, while helping them maintain more control over how their art is used. <br />
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From there it was on to the New Movement Theater to see <b>Pile</b> from Boston. It was a theater for films and Pile played the front lobby. They tore through a set of garage punk songs, mostly from their last LP <i>Dripping</i>.<br />
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Next it was off to <b>Waterloo Records</b> to catch <b>Protomartyr</b>'s set. It was similar to the previous day's set, but they sound was better at Waterloo. I could probably watch a few sets from this band almost every day.<br />
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<b>Mac McCaughan</b> of<b> Superchunk</b> was next back at <b>Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop</b> for performances that were being broadcast on <b>KEXP</b> radio in Seattle. The shows on this day featured Merge bands celebrating <b>Merge Records' 25th anniversary</b>.<br />
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(As an aside, honestly, my rock fanboy man-crushes get no bigger than the one I have for Mac. When you're younger and you imagine yourself as any "rock star", you probably wish you could be certain super-famous ones for a variety of reasons (money, girls, whatever). But for several years now, if I could have been anyone, I'd have chosen to be Mac. For 25 years he's been the singer/guitarist in a great band (Superchunk), a singer/guitarist in a very good under-appreciated side project (Portastatic), and co-founder/co-owner of one the best record labels in rock music history, certainly one of a handful of the greatest independent labels ever, all while maintaining an admirable independent ethos).<br />
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<b>Mac </b>did an acoustic set, opening with "Overflows" from Superchunk's <i>I Hate Music</i>, played live for the first time ever. The set also featured "Watery Hands", "Detroit Has a Skyline Too", "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo" and some others from both Superchunk and Portastatic releases.<br />
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<b>Ex Hex</b> followed to close out the Merge 25 showcase with another "wow" set, similar to the previous night at the Parish. It was cool to see the members of Ex Hex taking in Mac's set before theirs too, like big fans would.<br />
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After taking a break for a few hours, the next stop was <b>Lamberts BBQ Upstairs</b> for the <b>Misra Records Ohio Showcase</b>. <b>R. Ring</b> featuring <b>Kelley Deal</b> (of <b>Breeders</b> fame) were one of the main acts and she was hanging out in the audience before the show.<br />
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<b>Greg Vanderpool </b>(of the <b>Monahans</b>) kicked off the showcase. I was not familiar with his music at all but this was a solid set of rootsy Americana rock songs. <br />
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<b>Connections</b> from Columbus, OH were next and they were one of the the bands I was most excited to see with their GBV-inspired garage rock sound. They rarely if ever play outside of OH, so this was finally a chance to see them live. They formed a few years ago as a new project featuring Adam Elliott, the drummer for <b>Times New Viking</b> and his brother, singer Kevin Elliott and guitarist Andy Hampel, both formerly of <b>84 Nash</b>. And then they added Dave Capaldi on guitar and Philip Kim on bass. They've had an epic 2012-2013 that saw them release over thirty songs already, with another LP on the way in 2014. It was a great economical set that featured mostly older songs with a few new ones. I got to talk to Kevin Elliott a little bit as I bought a 45 from him for <a href="https://twitter.com/deadradiosound" target="_blank">DeadRadioSound</a>.<br />
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And then it was on to the <b>Gatsby </b>for the <b>Pandora Discovery Den Festival</b>, featuring <b>Lucinda Williams</b>. The band sounded really tight again and they played a similar set as a few nights before, ending this set with a cover of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World."<br />
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<b>Shakey Graves</b> followed with a one-man blues rock thing, similar to G Love. But it was time to get home by then, so I left before the end.<br />
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Saturday seemed to filled with huge party shows all over the strip with many big (indie big, anyway) names on the same bill. So instead of people being more spread out at several different venues, everyone seemed to be going to the same 5 or 6 shows at some point.<br />
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And it seems Saturday is the day more of the locals are there and those who just take off Friday and come for a three-day weekend, so it's the most crowded day of the entire festival. The lines were ridiculously long. I didn't get into the Brooklyn Vegan show at the Red 7 (which featured most of the artists already listed above on the same bill), after waiting in a block-long line for over an hour. I finally gave up after moving about 20 feet in an hour. And by then it was too late to see any of my plan-b or plan-c shows and/or they were too far away to get to in time. So I just decided to have a nice early dinner and see Ex Hex again that night at <b>Cheer Up Charlie's</b> and wrap up before 2am for a change, since I had a 7:30am flight home the next morning.<br />
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<b>Wild Moccasins</b> were the first band I saw at <b>Cheer Up Charlie's</b>. They had a country-tinged pop sound with some "world music" mixed in and were not really my cup of tea.<br />
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<b>Crooked Bangs </b>followed. They are a local Austin punk band I've read about previously. They ran through a set of old school punk/Riot Grrrl songs reminiscent of Bikini Kill but with a little more of a 70's punk sound.<br />
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<b>Ex Hex</b> were next with no surprises. Just another great set very similar to the previous ones.<br />
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And that was the wrap on my first ever SXSW. It was an incredible experience and an exhausting but fun five days. I look forward to doing it again in the near future. Also, again if you would like to read a post about some of the non-music parts of the trip, check it out <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2014/03/john-does-sxsw-2014-getting-around.html" target="_blank">here</a>.temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-55618121079112506242013-12-31T10:41:00.000-05:002014-03-19T08:42:47.464-04:00The Year in Music 2013 - Part 2<div id="yiv1545724375yui_3_13_0_7_1384395272641_9" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
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<b>20. <u>Rogue Wave</u></b> - <i>Nightingale Floors </i>(Vagrant). Think of a cross between Band of Horses and Woods with some power-pop like Bigger Lovers thrown in and that's the brand of smart, trippy pop/rock that Zach Rogue and Rogue Wave deliver. This record continues to get better on repeated listens.</div>
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19. <b><u>The Fratellis</u></b> - <i>We Need Medicine</i> (BMG). The Scottish trio returned after a hiatus with an unexpectedly good mix of their Brit pop meets Clash (or Oasis meets Green Day for you kids out there). This was one of the most surprisingly good records of the year.</div>
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17. <b><u>Deer Tick</u></b> - <i>Negativity</i> (Partisan). Over the course of six years and now five LPs, Deer Tick has grown from folky alt/country-sounding band into an eclectic rock band, featuring everything from pop/rock to punk to piano ballads. While I think this is a bit of a disappointment compared to 2011's <i>Divine Providence</i>, it's still a notable "growth" record for a band possibly in transition. </div>
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<span id="goog_984955121"></span>16. <u><b>Veronica Falls</b></u> - <i>Waiting for Something to Happen</i> (Slumberland). Very solid follow up to the excellent 2011 <i>S/T</i> debut for the English quartet. It has the same Vivian Girls/Seapony vibe as their debut, but the production on this one is a little cleaner and I feel it detracts from the songs just a little. Really good album overall though.<br />
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15. <b><u>Neko Case</u></b> - <i>The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You</i> (Anti). Neko Case has a voice that is the epitome of the "she could sing the phone book" cliche, versatile enough to sing rock, blues, folk, or country and rich enough to almost make you forget what "genre" of music she's even singing on any particular song. Her vocals and lyrical observations are more central than the actual music to me. There were higher highs on previous albums, but this is my favorite album of hers to listen to front to back. </div>
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14. <b><u>Pissed Jeans</u></b> - <i>Honeys </i>(Sub Pop). Allentown-bred and Philadelphia-based Pissed Jeans returned with another hardcore album. As someone who has gotten into the band only in the last year or so, I'd say this seems more accessible on initial listens than their previous albums. I always found it interesting that the subject matter of their songs is not about the typical punk rock "big things" like politics or global warming, but more about life's mundane annoyances. This perhaps owing to the fact that the band members have families and still have day jobs and often need to take vacation time from these jobs in order to tour extensively. They certainly sweat the small stuff to great effect for good reason. They are the rare authentic working class anti-heroes, who actually are just like the working stiffs buying their records and coming to their shows.</div>
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13. <b><u>Golden Grrrls</u></b> - <i>S/T </i>(Slumberland). A garage rock trio from Glasgow, very similar to label-mates Veronica Falls, but also similar to the Vivian Girls, Parquet Courts, Grass Widow, and going way back I hear a little Beat Happening too. There were probably 100 albums like this released in 2013, so what makes this album stand out for me? The three vocals and harmonies of a two female, one male trio. And it blends well with the music to create the atmospherics lacking in many other similar-sounding bands.</div>
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12. <b><u>Waxahatchee</u></b> - <i>Cerulean Salt </i>(Don Giovanni). From Brooklyn by way of Philadelphia and originally Birmingham, Alabama comes this sophomore alt/folk album by Katie Crutchfield, recording under the name Waxahatchee (the same name as a creek near her hometown). After the break up of P.S. Elliott, she recorded her 2012 Waxahatchee debut in her bedroom and this one is a similar lo-fi DIY-effort recorded in her parents' house. Think Juliana Hatfield meets early Tegan and Sara.</div>
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11. <b><u>Ovlov</u></b> - <i>Am</i> (Exploding in Sound). Hailing from the vibrant Massachusetts scene, Ovlov wear their 90's lo-fi/grunge influences on their sleeves, part Pixies and part Helmet and part "louder" Sebadoh, behind a wall of sound. The album ends up being an audio assault, in a good way. Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz even performs guest vocals on four of the tracks. </div>
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10. <b><u>Alkaline Trio</u></b> - <i>My Shame Is True</i> (Epitaph). This is the biggest surprise of the list. After peaking with <i>Good Mourning</i> in 2003, each subsequent Alk3 album has seemed to decline in quality. So when I gave this some initial listens last spring I was taken aback at how good it was, in spite of the back story of it being the cliched "songs about the end of a relationship" record for Matt Skiba. Perhaps producer Bill Stevenson formerly of the Descendents had something to do with that. The best songs do sound similar to the highlights from their back catalog, but in this case I'll take that as a positive bit of nostalgia. There is something comforting after 16 years for a band to still not only be functioning, but releasing consistently good music following a similar, yet non-suffocating formula.</div>
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9. <b><u>Swearin' </u></b>- <i>Surfing Strange</i> (Wichita). Allison Crutchfield, twin sister of Katie, may not get the ink her sister gets, but her music is equally worthy of the attention. Swearin' is the project started by Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride after their previous twee-rock band P.S. Elliott broke up. This is more of a loud post-punk band, in the spirit of Jawbreaker or the Breeders with some more poppy-sounding influences that recall Liz Phair or Belly. </div>
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8. <b><u>Roomrunner</u></b> - <i>Ideal Cities</i> (Fan Death). The first time I heard this Baltimore-based noise rock band I thought <i>Bleach</i>-era Nirvana meets the Jesus Lizard. That's a pretty great place to be. With so many recent acts seeming to sound like 2nd or 3rd generation Pavement or Pixies devotees, it's nice to hear a more unique take on other great music from the last 25 years.<br />
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7. <b><u>Wavves</u></b> - <i>Afraid of Heights</i> (Mom + Pop Records). While it may not as good as <i>King of the Beach</i> or the <i>Life Sux</i> EP, <i>Afraid of Heights</i> seems more like the next logical progression for the lo-fi surf-rock created by Nathan Williams and company. This record is a little less fuzzy, recalling <i>Nevermind</i>-era Nirvana or Weezer at times. It definitely feels like an homage to all Williams' favorite 90's influences.<br />
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6. <b><u>Kurt Vile</u></b> - <i>Wakin on a Pretty Daze</i> (Matador). Philadelphia's Vile continues making great laid-back folk-rock records in the tradition of Dylan and Springsteen. <i>Wakin</i> is most notable for the length of the songs with most checking in at 6+ minutes. This is the kind of absorbing record you put on while driving or riding a train and get to your destination and don't even realize you were traveling for an hour. </div>
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5. <b><u>California X</u></b> - <i>S/T </i>(Don Giovanni). Another band from the burgeoning Massachusetts scene, cranking out lo-fi, grungey, garage-rock. They recall Nirvana and early Dinosaur Jr., while also recalling the best parts of contemporaries like Japandroids.<br />
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4. <b><u>Speedy Ortiz</u></b> - <i>Major Arcana</i> (Carpark). This is my favorite of the bands from MA who emerged in the last few years. The 2012 EP <i>Sports</i> was going to be tough to top, but the debut LP does and then some. Speedy Ortiz seem to combine so much of the 90s alt/rock music I liked (Sleater-Kinney, Throwing Muses, Pavement, etc.), updated with a new twist and smart lyrics by Sadie Dupuis.<br />
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3. <b><u>Superchunk </u></b>- <i>I Hate Music</i> (Merge). It's pretty rare for a middle-aged rock band to make one of those records about aging and confronting mortality without seeming trite. Superchunk avoids this in a big way with an album full of songs about getting old that never seem to get old for the listener, no matter how many times you hear them. It's an album full of songs about hating music by people who love music and songs about being bored with summer by people who love summer (perfectly summarized on the b-side/bonus track "Sunset Arcade"). And all those complicated feelings and contradictions are presented within a super-catchy batch of songs. Also, now I know about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SszxNsWP9Ao" target="_blank">Jackie Mittoo</a> and the Skatalites thanks to the album's first single - a song about the importance of music in your life and also how inconsequential and inadequate it can be when someone close to you dies.<br />
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2. <b><u>Connections </u></b>- <i>Body Language </i>(Lost Weekend). This is a Guided By Voices-inspired side project (or maybe full time gig now?) by Adam Elliott of Times New Viking and his brother Kevin Elliott of 84 Nash. The <i>Tough City</i> EP (see <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-year-in-music-2013-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a>) released earlier this year was hard to top. When the three releases are taken together from the 2012 and 2013, it's hard to make a case these aren't the best batch of songs by any band in the last two years.<br />
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1. <b><u>Purling Hiss </u></b>- <i>Water on Mars </i>(Drag City). The Philly-based trio led by singer/guitarist Mike Polizze, released their best album to date. A trio playing fuzzy 90s kind of alt/rock will surely draw the inevitable Nirvana or Dinosaur Jr. comparisons or contemporaries like Ty Segall. And all that is apt, but there are other interesting things going on here as well. <i>Water on Mars</i> is near-perfect album and "Mercury Retrograde" is the song of the year.<br />
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<b><u>Bleached</u></b> - <i>Ride Your Heart</i> (Dead Oceans Records). Sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin (formerly of Mika Miko) debut with this solid pop/punk effort reminiscent of White Lung at times, but also the obvious Vivian Girls and other similar bands.<br />
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<u><b>Dismemberment Plan</b></u> - <i>Uncanney Valley</i> (Partisan). The Dismemberment Plan started touring again about 3 years ago after a 8-9 year hiatus, much to my delight. And weirdly <i>Uncanney Valley</i> is almost exactly the type of album I'd expect from the band at this stage of their lives, and yet I'm a little underwhelmed by it. It's good but it just seems to be missing something. </div>
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<b><u>Face to Face</u></b> - <i>Three Chords and a Half Truth</i> (Rise Records). There were no immediate standout tracks on this as there were on their most recent 2011 release <i>Laugh Now....Laugh Later</i>, but this turned out to be a really solid melodic mid-tempo pop/punk record that got better on repeated listens. It most resembles their late 90's <i>Ignorance Is Bliss </i>release.</div>
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<b><u>Free Energy </u></b>- <i>Love Sign </i>(Free Energy). I know exactly what tricks these guys are using with their Cheap Trick melodies and Thin Lizzy riffs, with some New Wave-ish beats thrown in and I still fall for this guilty pleasure almost every time.<br />
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<b><u>Guided By Voices</u></b> - <i>English Little League</i> (GBV Inc.). GBV have been around for so long doing this lo-fi rock so well, you almost take them for granted. <i>English</i> is the fourth album by the reunited GBV in a little more than a year. And that probably caused about half of this album to be a little less than expected. </div>
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<b><u>Kate Nash</u></b> - <i>Girl Talk</i> (Dine Alone Music). Nash seems to have graduated from a soul-pop sound on her early releases to something more akin to a poppier sounding Raveonettes on many of these tracks.<br />
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<b><u>Surfer Blood </u></b>- <i>Pythons </i>(Sire/Warner Bros.). So many bands whose debut albums I got into 2-3 years ago seemed to release disappointing albums this year. Surfer Blood were an exception. This is a logical more-polished follow up to <i>Astro Coast</i> with lots of nods to the Pixies and Weezer. </div>
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<b><u>Bad Religion</u></b> - <i>True North</i> (Epitaph)</div>
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<b><u>Connections</u></b> - <i>Private Airplane</i> (Lost Weekend) - 2012</div>
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<b><u>Diarrhea Planet </u></b>- <i>I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams</i> (Infinity Cat)</div>
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<b><u>Dr. Dog</u></b> - <i>B-Room</i> (Anti)</div>
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<b><u>The Fresh & Onlys</u></b> - <i>Long Slow Dance</i> (Mexican Summer) - 2012</div>
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<b><u>Grant Hart </u></b>- <i>The Argument </i>(Domino)</div>
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<b><u>Minor Alps</u></b> - <i>Get There</i> (Barsuk)<br />
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<b><u>Kevin Morby</u></b> - <i>Harlem River</i> (Woodsist)</div>
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<b><u>Outside World</u></b> - <i>S/T </i>- EP (Night-People) - 2012<br />
<b><u>Outside World</u></b> - <i>Seaside Nowhere</i> - EP (Night-People) - 2012<br />
<b><u>Polvo</u></b> - <i>Siberia</i> (Merge)<br />
<b><u>Sonny & the Sunsets</u></b> - <i>Antenna to the Afterworld</i> (Polyvinyl)</div>
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<u><b>Swearin'</b></u> - <i>S/T</i> (Wichita) - 2012</div>
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<b><u>Tegan and Sara</u></b> - <i>Heartthrob</i> (Vapor/Warner Bros.)</div>
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<b><u>Those Darlins </u></b>- <i>Blur the Line </i>(Oh Wow Dang)</div>
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<u><b>Toy Soldiers</b></u> - <i>The Maybe Boys</i> (Rocket Science Records)</div>
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<u><b>Uniform Freaks</b></u> - <i>Demo 2012 </i>- EP (self-released) - 2012</div>
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<u><b>The Vaccines </b></u>- <i>Come of Age </i>(Columbia) - 2012<br />
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<u><b>White Lung</b></u> - <i>Sorry </i>(Deranged) - 2012<br />
<u><b>Woolen Men </b></u>- <i>S/T </i>(Woodsist)<br />
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<i>Connections - "Miller's Grove" </i>(skip ahead to about 1:00 mark for song)</div>
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<i>Minor Alps - "Waiting For You"</i></div>
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<i>Outside World - "Paid in Full"</i></div>
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<i>Swearin' - "Movie Star"</i></div>
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<i>Vampire Weekend - "Unbelievers"</i><br />
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<b><u>Jesse Malin </u></b>- 1/16/13 - @ Johnny Brenda's</div>
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<b><u>Wavves</u></b> - 4/9/13 - @ Johnny Brenda's</div>
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<b><u>Pearl Jam</u></b> - 10/21/13 - @Wells Fargo Center</div>
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<b><u>Sebadoh </u></b>- 11/2/13 - @Johnny Brenda's<br />
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<b><u>Best Coast </u></b>- <i>Fade Away</i> (Bratty BC). I know many like-minded indie music fans have soured on Bethany Cosentino and Best Coast in the last few years but I'm not one of them. I enjoyed last year's follow up LP and this EP is another keeper, as Best Coast appears to be transitioning more into Rilo Kiley than the Vivian Girls. You could make the case this is their best release to date.<br />
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<i>Best Coast - "Who Have I Become"</i></div>
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<b><u>Clearance </u></b>- <i>Dixie Motel Two-Step</i> (Microluxe). Do you like Pavement? Of course you do if you're actually reading this and between the ages of thirty and fifty. Well, this band does a pretty good Pavement imitation (in a good way).<br />
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<b><u>Connections</u></b> - <i>Tough City</i> (Lost Weekend). This would probably win "EP of the Year" for me. But basically if Male Bonding tried to sound like Guided By Voices, the result would be something like this. "Cul-De-Sac" is on my short list for "Song of the Year."<br />
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<b><u>Albert Hammond Jr.</u></b> - <i>AHJ </i>(Cult Records). The Strokes guitarist releases his first solo material in nearly five years and it's a solid EP. And aside from that one song the Strokes had on their comeback LP a few years ago, these songs are better than anything else the rest of the band has done together recently.<br />
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<i>Albert Hammond Jr. - "Strange Tidings"</i></div>
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<b><u>Palehound</u></b> - <i>Bent Nail </i>(Exploding in Sound). Another really good retro-90's lo-fi sounding release. This reminds me quite a bit of Speedy Ortiz' <i>Sports</i> EP from last year.<br />
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<i>Palehound - "Pet Carrot"</i></div>
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<b><u>Parquet Courts</u></b> - <i>Tally All The Things That You Broke</i> (What's Your Rupture?). Another really good release from this band. Continuing their Pavement meets Minutemen sound with a little more experimentation on this EP. </div>
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<b><u>The Pixies </u></b>-<i> EP1 </i>(Pixies). Weren't the Pixies supposed to release "multiple EPs" this year, hence the title? Anyway, this is the only one and it's pretty solid and in a weird but good way doesn't sound all that much like vintage Pixies to me. For instance "Indie Cindy" sounds more like Oasis than the Pixies. And "What Goes Boom" has an intro that sounds like mid 90's Soundgarden. I'd be as stoked to hear an updated version of "Wave of Mutilation" as much as the next guy, but this is just different enough to sound like classic Pixies without repeating themselves.<br />
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<b><u>Prince</u></b> - <i>Screwdriver </i>(single). A really great single by Prince featuring possibly his most interesting guitar work in nearly thirty years. Well, just listen for yourself.<br />
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<b><u>The Replacements </u></b>- <i>Songs for Slim</i> (New West). This is an EP of covers to raise money for guitarist Slim Dunlap, who suffered a stroke in 2012. So it's Paul, Tommy, and Chris all making music again (but not on the same songs together). And Chris did the album artwork. It features a pair of Slim solo covers among the five songs. The highlight is "I'm Not Sayin'" - a somewhat obscure 1965 pop song written by Gordon Lightfoot and most famously covered by a pre-Velvet Underground Niko, with pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page producing and playing guitar. The Replacements version sounds nothing like either of the previous versions and it's pretty great. And it's actually a fitting song to begin what hopefully is a reunion with new material, since so much of the early Replacements live shows consisted of somewhat obscure covers that the band kind of made their own. Let's face it, many American indie music fans (me included) in the 1980s and early 90s were probably first introduced to Sham 69, the Soft Boys, and the Only Ones mainly because the Replacements frequently covered their songs live.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Deer Tick performing "The Rock", live at the Union Transfer</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Having never seen Deer Tick live before, but hearing of their live exploits over the years, I went in with pretty big expectations and happily they were met and then some. I didn't get into Deer Tick until 2011 and went back and discovered their older releases. And over the last few years there are few artists I've listened to more than them. It is startling to see their progression from a folky alt/country outfit to, well, the second coming of the Replacements. And the suit with red hearts worn by McCauley and "custom-made from a couch" is definitely something I could see Paul Westerberg <a href="http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/2002-08-15/musicpicks7.shtml" target="_blank">wearing</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Deer Tick are just a great live band and even though the latest album, <i>Negativity</i>, has more contemplative piano-based songs, than their previous few releases, they still translated into a compelling live performance. Negativity is an apt title, as singer/guitarist/keyboardist John McCauley was going through a break up with Nicky Darlin of Those Darlins and his father (and Rhode Island state rep) was convicted of tax fraud. McCauley seems to have recovered OK from the former and is now dating singer Vanessa Carlton, who also appears on the album on a duet with McCauley ("In Our Time"). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Their roughly 105-minute set was understandably heavy on their last two albums, with 5 tracks from 2011's <i>Divine Providence</i> and 9 tracks from <i>Negativity</i>, the former because it is full of the kind of up-tempo songs that translate well live and the latter obviously because it's the new album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the middle of the set they did a Q&A, where they read and answer questions taken randomly from a box at the merch stand. Each member of the band answered a questi<span style="background-color: white;">on. Finally the last question, answered by McCauley, was, "W</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">hy don’t I like your new record at all?” McCauley then asked rhetorically, “Why did you come tonight, idiot?” And then the band started to play “Spend the Night” and changed the words to “Suck My Balls", before playing the song normally.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">1. The Rock </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">2. Main Street </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">3. The Curtain </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">4. Just Friends</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">5. The Dream’s in the Ditch </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">6. Baltimore Blues No. 1 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">7. Big House</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">8. Clownin’ Around </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">9. Standing at the Threshold</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">10. Hey Doll </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">11. Mange </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">12. Spend the Night / I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You) (Hank Williams cover) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">14. Thyme </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">15. Dirty Dishes </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">16. She’s Not Spanish</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">17. Miss K > </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">18. 12 Bar Blues (NRBQ cover)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">19. Trash </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">You can also check out a few videos from the show at my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZqlsM8YoOTwjQHXdXh9O1w" target="_blank">You Tube account</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Superchunk's 20+-year catalog of guitar-driven rock songs still stands the test of time. So I'm always excited to see them live. And their last two releases, the excellent<i> Majesty Shredding</i> and <i>I Hate Music</i> also hold up well compared with the rest of their back catalog. And the thing is they don't really <i>have to</i> do this any more, and that makes me appreciate seeing them even more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With all their other side projects and work running a label, if the Superchunk songs aren't good enough, there's no point in putting out a record and touring behind it. Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance are busy running the label they co-founded 23 years ago - <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spin.com%2Farticles%2Fsuperchunk-merge-records-durham-north-carolina%2F&ei=6jlDUrOsBJHI4APh_4HYCA&usg=AFQjCNEcwFG0XuJR5kHVejZZSvJb6IGCiQ&bvm=bv.53077864,d.dmg" target="_blank">Merge Records</a>, and drummer Jon Wurster (the <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/silver-age-mw0002401714" target="_blank">Bob Mould Band</a>, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-mountain-goats-mn0000480830" target="_blank">Mountain Goats</a> with Ballance's husband John Darnielle, et. al.) and touring bass player Jason Narducy (filling in on the road for Ballance, who suffers from <span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_62 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_63 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_64" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_128" style="line-height: 22.5px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis" target="_blank">hyperacusis</a>, also in the Bob Mould Band and Split Single with Wurster and Britt Daniel of label-mates Spoon, et. al.)</span><span id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_146"> are doing double- or triple-duty these days with their other bands. And this doesn't even include McCaughan and guitarist Jim Wilbur's ongoing side project, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/portastatic-mn0000854211" target="_blank">Portastatic</a>, who have been releasing albums fairly consistently since the mid 90's. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Their latest record <i>I Hate Music</i> is McCaughan's way of saying that he sometimes gets bored with new music and wonders what the point of it all is. It continues the theme of the excellent "My Gap Feels Weird" from <i>Majesty</i>, referring to the age-gap the older McCaughan feels toward the younger bands around now and the kids he sees at some of the alt/rock shows. As you get older the things you previously thought were so important become a little less important. It's ironic that they would release an album so good that is titled <i>I Hate Music</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The title came about as a response to the death of a close friend of the band. As McCaughan put in a <i>Rolling Stone</i> <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/superchunk-reflect-at-full-throttle-on-i-hate-music-20130819" target="_blank">interview</a> in August, "<span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_66 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_67 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_68" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_113">If you've assigned music this role in your life, what happens when the other stuff that's happening in your life is much heavier than that, when it just doesn't work anymore? </span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_67 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_68 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_69" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_116">Obviously, we don't hate music, but at the same time it's like, wow, if even this thing that's most important to you – music – isn't helping, or doesn't feel like it's worth anything in the face of what life can bring you, then what good is it?" And he also noted the focus of the album is "</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_68 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_69 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_70" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_120">what role do different things play in your life in different stages of your life?" The opening verse of "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo" from the new album sum up this sentiment nicely: "</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_69 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_70 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_71" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_288" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">I hate music /</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_70 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_71 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_72" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_294" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">What is it worth? /</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_71 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_72 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_73" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_300" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">Can't bring anyone /</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_72 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_73 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_74" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_306" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">Back to this earth /</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_73 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_74 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_75" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">The feeling of space</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_74 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_75 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_76" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_313" style="line-height: 21.328125px;"> /</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_75 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_76 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_77" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_319" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">Between all of the notes /</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_76 yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_77 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_78" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_325" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">But I got nothing else /</span><span class="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_40_1380121660286_77
yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_98_1380125698006_78 yui_3_7_2_195_1380125698006_79" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_328" style="line-height: 21.328125px;">So I guess here we go."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway, as expected the set was a nice mix of old favorites, with seven of their previous nine albums represented with at least one song, and a plurality of songs from the new album (seven to be exact). During an extended slow interlude in "Digging for Something", Mac talked about how he always liked coming to Philly, since Wurster is from Harleysville, PA. And when they were younger, they'd crash at his family's house and eat Tastykakes. The one downer was that the crowd seemed a little less into the newer material than I was expecting. Superchunk also continued their trend on this tour covering local (or somewhat local) obscure bands who hailed from each area they play. So for this show it was Philly hardcore band Ruin and the legendary Misfits (I guess Bergen County, NJ, 100 miles away is considered close enough). And Wurster absolutely killed it on the cover songs. Thunderous.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Setlist:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This Summer<br />FOH<br />Me & You & Jackie Mittoo<br />For Tension<br />Detroit Has a Skyline<br />Punch Me Harder<br />Staying Home<br />Void<br />Out of the Sun<br />Watery Hands<br />Breaking Down<br />Rope Light<br />Driveway To Driveway<br />Digging For Something<br />Slack Motherfucker<br />Trees of Barcelona </span><br />
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<b style="font-style: italic;">Encore:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Proof (Ruin cover)<br />Children in Heat <span class="yiv4396198569cover-artist" id="yiv4396198569yui_3_7_2_126_1380114063215_93">(Misfits cover)</span><br />Skip Steps 1 & 3<br />Throwing Things<br />Hyper Enough </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">And here's a clip of the end of "Trees of Barcelona"</span><br />
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the Vivian girls and Kevin Morby of Woods was much more enjoyable than the
first with songs that sound at times like the Lemonheads, Pixies, Pavement, and
Kurt Vile. With the recent success and higher quality releases as side projects
in the Babies and La Sera, at this point you have to wonder what is the point of
the Vivian Girls. But anyway, the highlights are hard to list because they
are all so strong, but my favorites are “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QqK1OK2ILo" target="_blank">Alligator</a>”, “Mess Me Around”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdcLqa_K54c" target="_blank">Slow Walkin</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-I1pzNEATQ" target="_blank">Get Lost</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbehDeMKYxo" target="_blank">Baby</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ArZxfMNYC8" target="_blank">Moonlight Mile</a>.”</span></div>
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every cliché I hate lately about music and the modern music biz, yet it stuck with me, perhaps because
it also sounds so much different than virtually any other album that was released the last few years. Being from
Iceland, the comparisons to Bjork/Sugarcubes will probably be too overdone.
This band is actually a lot more like Arcade Fire, Stars, or the New Pornographers. Anyway, the highlights are: "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgImaBleNw" target="_blank">Dirty Paws</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I" target="_blank">Little Talks</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AiSrCPvpco" target="_blank">King of the Lionheart</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT3HrrrHzII" target="_blank">Mountain Sound</a>", and "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt89cgjfFWk" target="_blank">Lakehouse</a>." </span></div>
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Eat the Factory</i>, <i>Class Clown Spots a UFO</i>, and <i>The Bears for Lunch</i> (GBV Inc.). Yeah
I know these are 3 LP’s, but I’m counting them all as one glorious 61-song
album (I know I didn’t do that with Green Day or Ty Segall. My list, my rules). A few years ago Bob Pollard and the rest of
the mid 90’s lineup reunited for a tour and these subsequent albums, just around the time I started getting into GBV. So many songs of note, but these are some of my favorites: "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfFL5LvSR0U" target="_blank">King Arthur the Red</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t133z9G2-GE" target="_blank">Hangover Child</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCk2XKQqyz8" target="_blank">The Challenge is Much More</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYKamD6_Zg" target="_blank">Waving at Airplanes</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjJgs3qbKPo" target="_blank">White Flag</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVcYBopf3BU" target="_blank">She Lives in an Airport</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7acMPrpa4" target="_blank">Everywhere Is Miles From Everywhere</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duyNvcn-5tM" target="_blank">Class Clown Spots a UFO</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs6aJ4tc_DQ" target="_blank">Keep It in Motion</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiyqCbOSv0w" target="_blank">Starfire</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SBJ96zzKOw" target="_blank">All of This Will Go</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=975Ml2_Klpk" target="_blank">Doughnut for a Snowman</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECwwR4jZ6M" target="_blank">The Unsinkable Fats Domino</a>", and "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brbxgad1eng" target="_blank">Chocolate Boy.</a>" It's a tough call, but I liked their last release of the year, <i>The Bears For Lunch</i>, the best.</span></div>
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This band is just pretty straight forward punky-grunge. It has a raw <i>Bleach</i>-era Nirvana sound to it along with early Mudhoney, but it also has sort of a
Husker Du-esque “wall of sound” around the very straightforward songs. Most of
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>Amps For Christ/Woods</b></u> – <i>S/T</i>
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– <i>Mature Themes</i> (4AD), <u><b>Band of Horses</b></u> – <i>Mirage Rock</i>
(Columbia), <u><b>Certain People I Know</b></u> – <i>S/T</i>
(Count Your Lucky Stars), <u><b>Delta Spirit</b></u> – <i>S/T</i> (Rounder), <u><b>Craig Finn</b></u> – <i>Clear Heart Full
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Nights</i> (Warner Bros), <u><b>Mission of Burma</b></u> – <i>Unsound</i>
(Fire), <u><b>New Multitudes (Farrar,
Johnson, Parker, Yames)</b></u> – <i>S/T</i> (New Rounder), <u><b>A.C. Newman</b></u> – <i>Shut Down the
Streets</i> (Matador), <u><b>Nu Sensae</b></u> – <i>Sundowning</i>
(Suicide Squeeze), <u><b>Joey Ramone</b></u> – <i>…Ya, Know?</i>
(BMG), <u><b>Frankie Rose</b></u> – <i>Interstellar</i>
(Slumberland), <u><b>The Shins</b></u> – <i>Port of Morrow</i>
(Aural Apothecary/Columbia), <u><b>Sic Alps</b></u> – <i>S/T</i> (Drag City), <u><b>Soundgarden</b></u> – <i>King Animal
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">20. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b>The Mighty Mighty
Bosstones</b></u> – <i>The Magic of Youth</i> (Big Rig). After slowly fading and going on
indefinite hiatus in the early 00’s, the Bosstones have quietly returned with 2 very good
albums – <i>Pin Points and Gin Joints</i> released in late 2008 and this current one
released late in 2011, which are both on par with their best releases from
their heyday in the early to mid 90’s. After nearly 25 years they are still
pretty much the best around at what they do. The best tracks are “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCXgyy0edWA" target="_blank">Like a Shotgun</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs726pAwKWo" target="_blank">Sunday Afternoons on Wisdom Ave</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQdBEHV2rcI" target="_blank">They Will Need Music</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_8ge9s-W70" target="_blank">The Horseshoe and the Rabbit’s Foot</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzYBY_9rnuA" target="_blank">The Magic of Youth</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRJabETLQs" target="_blank">The Upper Hand</a>.”</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">19. <u><b>Dr. Dog</b></u> – <i>Be the Void</i> (Anti).
There may be fewer highs on this release than on previous ones, but this may
overall be the strongest album overall from Philly’s Dr. Dog yet. “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzjJKdyMzU" target="_blank">Lonesome</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23BWP5wWVLM" target="_blank">These Days</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSkYulnSC4" target="_blank">Do the Trick</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6khn8oy1Tgs" target="_blank">Vampire</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov4b8jSEHfM" target="_blank">Over Here, Over There</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7wMiWyj5pY" target="_blank">Warrior Man</a>”
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Giovanni). Her voice may be an acquired taste, but Marissa Paternoster plays
guitar and writes songs that recall Dino Jr. or Sleater-Kinney with appropriate shredding throughout. Indie-rock god Steve Albini produced this and you can hear his
influence with the rougher edges in these songs. The highlights include “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ism4J7QvsZQ" target="_blank">It All Means Nothing</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTAnZOKFLr8" target="_blank">Rotten Apple</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuu2bXidj2k" target="_blank">Expire</a>”, “Crow’s Nest”, “Help Me”, and the
seven-and-a-half-minute “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKXFprFX8w" target="_blank">Doom 84</a>.”</span></span></div>
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difficult albums to top and they weren’t able to do that with <i>Handwritten</i>.
Nonetheless it’s still a good album. The highlights are “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTf0JwJxic" target="_blank">45</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-rEslupnY" target="_blank">Handwritten</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR4-F-P-Y6Q" target="_blank">Mulholland Drive</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMmb4Oylmpg" target="_blank">Keepsake</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZGDZGtqiMQ" target="_blank">Too Much Blood</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-7xwh8Z6I" target="_blank">Howl</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OARhcWObglg" target="_blank">Blue Dahlia</a>.”</span></span></div>
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2012, but I really enjoyed this one a lot. Think John Lennon with fuzzy guitars
or Jay Reatard I guess. My highlights include “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMSYRgRdAo" target="_blank">Thank God For Sinner</a>s”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtYQHGBgzig" target="_blank">You’re the Doctor</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BukP2GJ2qKY" target="_blank">Inside Your Heart</a>”, “Would You Be My Love”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GutRR9FYTw" target="_blank">Love Fuzz</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CfrWWtgRw" target="_blank">Handglams</a>.”</span></span></div>
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kind aged similarly with me. I sort of like them at first but put them on the
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they don’t stick with me longer than most. Then at year end, I find them higher
on the list than I had figured they’d be. This is one is no different, but a
notch below their last 3 releases, but still very solid power/pop. The
highlights include “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKz2xQ9WcdU" target="_blank">Clear Eye Clouded Mind</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10oh5Knqixo" target="_blank">Waiting For Something</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6f7gcl6Dc" target="_blank">Teenage Dreams</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQZgQ0hIPNc" target="_blank">Looking Through</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcfsbmuNQeE" target="_blank">No Snow on the Mountain</a>.”</span></span></div>
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recalling the indie/pop/rock of Pavement (particularly <i>Crooked Rain</i>) or Nodzzz or
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Being Pure at Heart way with an indie punk sound reminiscent of Sebadoh or Dino
Jr. I even hear some Afghan Whigs on some of their groovier songs. The
highlights include “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwAtOhZsGv0" target="_blank">Kid Tested</a>”, “I Can See the City”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRMQAjsj4s" target="_blank">Tidal</a>”, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCS7GcGzABE&playnext=1&list=PLC0F61E4FCBF50C25&feature=results_video" target="_blank">Uphill Fight</a>", and “Excited”. </span></span></div>
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heavy and raw-sounding their songs have more melody and groove to them than many of their peers' output. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On s</span></span>ome of their songs they take a while building up to the
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they are one of the most underrated bands of the last 30 years. And after you
hear this record you think “where have these guys been?” This is probably their
best album since <i>Let Your Dim Light Shine</i>. Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy are still
writing really solid guitar-based pop/rock songs. Michael Bland is the
official semi-permanent drummer and Tommy Stinson is now the official semi-permanent
bassist (at least in the studio), a role he’s served for the most part since original bassist Karl Mueller began his fatal battle
with cancer in the early-aughts.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>The best tracks are “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347wVuCWoNU" target="_blank">The Streets</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ouOarNXUyE" target="_blank">Take Manhattan</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdBi7PqHI8w" target="_blank">Let’s All Kill Each Other</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4owIqDqN8Y" target="_blank">Into the Light</a>.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">34. <b><u>Diamond Rugs</u></b> – <i>S/T</i> (Partisan). Diamond Rugs is a collaboration between John McCauley of Deer Tick, along with other members of Deer Tick, the Black Lips, Dead Confederate, and Los Lobos. The result is similar to the <i>Middle Brothers</i> release last year. The highlights include “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB7erMIKmu8" target="_blank">Hightail</a>”, which opens with a riff similar to “La Bamba” and then goes into a rollicking country rock number, along with “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpQU4ZYwbo" target="_blank">Gimme a Beer</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6LaAxMXA-8" target="_blank">Call Girl Blues</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJPpTpwVmU" target="_blank">I Took Note</a>.” Since becoming a big Deer Tick fan a few years ago, this record along with the <i>Tim</i> EP was a nice placeholder until the next proper album.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">31. <b><u>Ben Kweller</u></b> – <i>Go Fly a Kite</i> (The Noise Company). This is a bit of a comeback record for Kweller, after he did his “country” record in 2009, which kind of lost me a bit. This recalls his earlier releases more with a mix of finely-crafted pop/rock songs and some rockers. The highlights are “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HMBbbMPy54" target="_blank">Mean to Me</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_x8t9dCQPE" target="_blank">Jealous Girl</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nk5BZI0ABk" target="_blank">Free</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xd4zmwFWGU" target="_blank">Time Will Save the Day</a>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">30. <b><u>Best Coast</u></b> – <i>The Only Place</i> (Mexican Summer). I have listened to this album quite a bit because I still have a soft spot for Bethany Cosentino. I wanted to like it more than I did. Yeah I know the lyrics are kind of weak at times and the “verse, verse, chorus, repeat lines in verses” formula in virtually every song gets redundant. It was produced by pop/rock wizard, Jon Brion, who has collaborated with Rhett Miller, Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, and Spoon, among others, in the past. So the setup was there for a huge sophomore record, and it just didn’t live up to expectations. Brion smoothed out the lo-fi rough edges and you were left with an album that just seemed to lack the punch of the first record. And that might have been ok if the lyrics had been better. Nevertheless, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y18C089tt9Y" target="_blank">The Only Place</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Q0MWrFELg" target="_blank">Why I Cry</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICioM0ytZAs" target="_blank">Better Girl</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kgdbL-yrTM" target="_blank">Let’s Go Home</a>” are catchy and sugary-sweet enough to have the harshest critics humming along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">29. <b><u>Metz</u></b> – <i>S/T</i> (Sub Pop). Overall, I haven’t been as down with the newer hardcore bands, but this record was pretty good. The songs on these albums tend to start running together for me, unless I’m listening to a mix of different records. Throughout the year I was checking out various singles and EPs from this band and then was flabbergasted when I heard they were putting out a debut LP that quickly on Sub Pop. Anyway, my favorites are “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcZsBpMKcA" target="_blank">Headache</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krGDNbT4CSE" target="_blank">Wet Blanket</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x99BNRhy27g" target="_blank">Wasted</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGF3qH1FOfc" target="_blank">Negative Space</a>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">28. <u><b>Rhett Miller</b></u> – <i>The Dreamer</i> (Maximum Sunshine). You won’t find any more finely-crafted collection of twangy pop songs than this collection. While it lacks the high highs of previous solo records, from front to back this may the most consistent solo record from the Old 97’s frontman. It also sort of sticks to the same musical thread giving the album a feeling like Rhett and a cast of friends could have banged these songs out in his garage in one night. “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2YlQjHd1M" target="_blank">Lost Without You</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFGfM7bodjM" target="_blank">Long Long Long</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHwc3Eups4" target="_blank">Out of Love</a>”, and “Picture This” are the highlights of the usual pop/rock ditties. “Swimmin’ in Sunshine” and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xgmSvCAZpM" target="_blank">Marina</a>” are the kind of songs you could listen to on repeat all day, the latter with just mainly Miller and his acoustic guitar working their magic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">27. <b><u>Green Day</u></b> – <i>Uno!</i> (Reprise). This legitimately seemed a like a back to basics, return to roots kind of record for Green Day, similar to <i>Warning</i> or even the Clash’s <i>Give ‘Em Enough Rope</i>. It would have been fine and my preference if they had stopped here, but then they went and released two more records afterwards, neither of which is as solid front to back as this one. When you are going the “back to basics” route, the key is to release 10 or 12 songs that kick people’s asses and leave them wanting more, not flooding the market with similar-sounding albums. Back in the 90’s and early 00’s when Billie Joe had a lot of extra songs, they’d wind up being released as complimentary “side projects” under the names Pinhead Gunpowder or Foxboro Hot Tubs, but I guess these days the pressure is there to release everything as “Green Day”. If you prefer the sound of the band pre-Punk Operas, this will be more to your liking. Check out “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHmSyGjf6BA" target="_blank">Nuclear Family</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biX3qHbzcUg" target="_blank">Stay the Night</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipMqRvAdIpE" target="_blank">Carpe Diem</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-4FHizyrw" target="_blank">Sweet 16</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWwMqa-_210" target="_blank">Oh Love</a>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">26. <b><u>Now, Now</u></b> – <i>Threads</i> (Trans). This full-length debut album from the re-named Now, Now reminds me a little of Tegan & Sara but also fits nicely in with other similar female-led indie-pop bands like Stars or even Seapony. Some of these songs are just hauntingly beautiful. The highlights are “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QUPwMdqxjw" target="_blank">Prehistoric</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSWaQENqvQk" target="_blank">Lucie, Too</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3aExKOipoM" target="_blank">Dead Oaks</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJ3CZO4Ab8" target="_blank">School Friends</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfi_WUxfKP4" target="_blank">Thread</a>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">25. <b><u>Dinosaur Jr.</u></b> – <i>I Bet on Sky</i> (Jagjaguwar). Even as much as I love the guitar-playing of J Mascis and the overall talent of Lou Barlow, the Dino Jr. reunion albums in retrospect were probably not quite as good as we thought at first. You could argue that sonically they were basically like the 90’s Dino Jr. output, but with the original lineup back in the fold to add more interest and more fawning “return to basics” coverage in the music world. That being, said, no Monday morning QB’ing here….I thought the first reunion album was great, the second was good, and even this third album, while kind of covering the same territory is still pretty darn good. The Lou songs are really good and J’s guitar playing, while similar to other recent songs, is still J. I have a feeling this could be one of those albums we’ll revisit in like 5 years and be like, “Wow, that was a lot better than I remembered it.” The highlights include, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsGcnLEZbk" target="_blank">Watch the Corners</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiBQAmjNml4" target="_blank">Pierce the Morning Rain</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXDxcI7CI7c" target="_blank">Recognition</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uVJwezKBmM" target="_blank">See It On Your Side</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8HQVi6TYTE" target="_blank">Almost Fare</a>", and "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faX6XjEbBuM" target="_blank">Rude</a>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">24. <b><u>Seapony</u></b> – <i>Falling</i> (Hardly Art). Hot on the heels of a 2011 debut album that I really loved, Seapony returned in 2012 with a sophomore effort that’s just a tad disappointing. It covers the same ground with songs that are a combo of redundant or just not quite as good as most of the songs on the debut. You could probably write that about 90% of follow up albums I’ve heard in recent years (see Best Coast and La Sera previously). The highlights include “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY6yHWl8t9M" target="_blank">Outside</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfuhcKbyHIg" target="_blank">Tell Me So</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Q9L5YnMp0" target="_blank">What You Wanted</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRsnyUeSaZM" target="_blank">Never Be</a>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">23. <b><u>Woods</u></b> – <i>Bend Beyond</i> (Woodsist). Another year and another good album from Woods. While I think <i>At Echo Lake</i> and <i>Sun and Shade</i> were stronger, this was still a really strong release. The highlights include “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9RHUpJWTY" target="_blank">Bend Beyond</a>” which sounds like something from late 70’s Neil Young, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SuI7BqKP0" target="_blank">Cali in a Cup</a>”, “Find Them Empty”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYXishxwtLo" target="_blank">Size Meets Sound</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lgr-bqvQ-4" target="_blank">Impossible Sky</a>.” Like with most of these genre of records, the whole album sort of works together, so the highlights or lowlights aren’t as obvious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">22. <b><u>Jimmy Cliff</u></b> – <i>Rebirth</i> (Sunpower). I’ve heard this album compared to Johnny Cash’s recordings with Rick Rubin and it makes sense. A legend beginning a “rebirth” of sorts being produced by someone who idolizes him, in this case Rancid’s Tim Armstrong. Cliff is now 64 but you wouldn’t know it as his vocals are still as strong as they ever were. Shortly after getting this album, I went back<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and listened to some of his bigger hits from the 70’s and it’s amazing how similar the vocals sound. The album is a mix of originals and covers (“<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuctJuF6Dg" target="_blank">Ruby Soho</a>” and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt10xjeIKlY" target="_blank">Guns of Brixton</a>”) and some songs co-written with Armstrong. The highlights include the </span>aforementioned covers, along with “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdaWf2JnjiI" target="_blank">World Upside Down</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAGIG5gORtI" target="_blank">One More</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXUUuXtp708" target="_blank">Outsider</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPbpjkkd6J8" target="_blank">Ship Is Sailing</a>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">21. <b><u>Japandroids</u></b> – <i>Celebration Rock</i> (Polyvinyl). For awhile this year this record was hovering in my top 5. But then better albums came along. It’s basically more of the same – driving post-punk guitar rock from the Vancouver noise rock duo. Even though they are covering similar ground “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzQs550NLcc" target="_blank">The Nights of Wine and Roses</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_CIc3hXOkM" target="_blank">Evil’s Sway</a>”, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6Ptx4CV6k" target="_blank">Younger Us</a>”, and “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVCtbfuDqw" target="_blank">The House That Heaven Built</a>” will still have you playing air guitar with the best of them.</span><br />
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temple of the bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17459912623771632550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972559440193292487.post-1599520621256864302012-12-27T14:57:00.002-05:002013-01-23T11:48:36.313-05:00Year in Music 2012 - Part One<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I probably listened to more
new music this year than I can ever remember thanks to <a href="http://bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Band Camp</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/deadradiosound" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">D</span>ead<span style="font-size: small;"> R</span>adio<span style="font-size: small;"> S</span>ound</a>.
But ultimately I found myself liking the new releases by older veteran
favorites of mine to that of most of the cutting-edge stuff. And in many ways it was
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<span style="font-size: small;">Generally, my list goes from
around November to November. So anything that comes out in November and December
of the previous year works its way into the next year’s list. That holds true
this year with a few late 2011 releases on my 2012 list. But here are other some
notable earlier 2011 releases that I didn’t discover until 2012<span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><br />
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confuses a lot of people.<span style="font-size: small;"> And this was a bit catchier to these ears than anything White's done himself in <span style="font-size: small;">the last few years.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b>The Darlings</b></u> – <i>The New Escape</i> (Gadsen). If you mixed Bad Religion and I dunno - Blink 182? - they may<span style="font-size: small;"> sound like the Dar<span style="font-size: small;">lin</span>gs. This was one of these albums I found<span style="font-size: small;"> organically, ju<span style="font-size: small;">st from <span style="font-size: small;">iTunes recommendations a<span style="font-size: small;">nd<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>a few m<span style="font-size: small;">entions<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>in reviews and enjoyed it during<span style="font-size: small;"> a</span> time wh<span style="font-size: small;">en very few new albums <span style="font-size: small;">were in my <span style="font-size: small;">rotation</span></span></span>. Then I realiz<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span> they <span style="font-size: small;">were sort of being pushed by KROQ in SoCal. You can d<span style="font-size: small;">efinitely imagine the<span style="font-size: small;">ir<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>sound</span> being pop<span style="font-size: small;">ular<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>on modern rock radio in the late 90's/early 00'<span style="font-size: small;">s, as they meet most pop/punk cliches, right down to the band members all ha<span style="font-size: small;">vin<span style="font-size: small;">g</span> the last name "Darling." Overall, it's a d<span style="font-size: small;">ecent album. It might have <span style="font-size: small;">even been a huge hit in like 200<span style="font-size: small;">1</span>. B<span style="font-size: small;">ut most likely <span style="font-size: small;">these guys are probably destined for like <span style="font-size: small;">2</span>:30pm slots on the Warped Tour until the end of time.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b>Hanni El Khatib</b></u> – <i>Will the
Guns Come Out</i><span style="font-size: small;">. (Dine Alone/U<span style="font-size: small;">niversal). Khatib plays a brand of funky blues-ba<span style="font-size: small;">sed garage rock that would fit nicely next to the first White Stripes record. And Khatib even branches out into sort of a rock/R&B hybrid on a few tracks. I heard this music in<span style="font-size: small;"> a few commercials and actually thought it<span style="font-size: small;"> was the White Stripes at first. "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x7UaAMn9Qw" target="_blank">You Rascal You</a>", "I Got a Thing", and "<span style="font-size: small;">Fuck It, You Win"</span> <span style="font-size: small;">are the highlights.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Billy Bragg<span style="font-size: small;"> & </span>Wilco</b></u> – <i>Mermaid
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>California X</b></u> – <i>Sucker/Mummy</i> 7”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Deer Tick</b></u> – <i>Tim</i> EP (Partisan). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Old 97’s</b></u> – <i>Too Far to Care</i>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Roomrunner</b></u> – <i>Super Vague </i>EP (Fan Death Records).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Paul Westerberg</b></u> – "My Road Now"
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>The Rest of EPs<span style="font-size: large;"> and</span> Single<span style="font-size: large;">s</span> </u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Biters</b> – <i>Last of a Dying
Breed</i> EP<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Free Energy</b> – "Dance All Night"
(single)<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Free Energy</b> – "Electric Fever"
(single)<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Heat Dust</b> – <i>S/T</i> EP<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Chris Mars</b> – "When I Fall Down"
(single)<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Metallica</b> – <i>Beyond Magnetic
</i>EP<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Quilty</b> – <i>Masonish</i> EP<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>The Raveonettes</b> – <i>Into the
Night</i> EP<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>theHell</b> – <i>Sauve Le Requins</i> EP<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Those Darlins</b> – "Pet You and
Hold You" (single)<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Those Darlins</b> – "Summer’s Dead"
(single)<span style="font-size: small;">, </span><b>Wye Oak</b> – "Dance My Pain Away"
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<span style="font-size: small;">Next: <a href="http://templeoftheblogs.blogspot.com/2013/01/year-in-music-2012-35-to-21.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Albums 3<span style="font-size: small;">5</span> to 21 in the countdown</span></b></a> </span></div>
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