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Monthly Archives: July 2007

The Phone Call

I’ll keep this brief, the voice on the answering machine tape is real…

enjoy!

TAF…

Becky Stark (Live on KXLU)

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The first time I saw Becky Stark, she was singing and strumming a tiny acoustic guitar, while standing in the tiny guitar’s case. This was in someone’s living room and she was performing as a duet with noise boy John …

The Circuit Side

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Ivor keeps poking me to post this. Anyway The Circuit Side was the greatest metal band that never was. Well they were, just not for very long. After the Need broke up and before Radio Sloan ended up playing w/ …

Cockfight

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So this is basically one of the best albums of all time. Definitely one of my favorites, an IVOR classic. I’ve been playing this fucker since it came out years ago.

Boneyard 2 by Cockfight is a real triumph. Dirty …

Ill Mitch

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More white rapping? I’ve already covered the fantastic Trilambs and the fantastically awful Tarrie B. What’s left? Somewhere in between fantastic and unbearable lies Ill Mitch.

Been listening to this record for quite some time now, thanks to my …

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

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The soundtrack to one of the finer films of all time. As an avid Peaker, I really can’t get enough of the world created in both the series and this film. The two are drastically different in tone, but both …

The Great Kat

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It will take me longer to write this post than it will be to listen to this record while I’m doing it. 7 songs, 11 minutes. A real monster of a record.

The Great Kat is crazy as shit. She …

Friends Forever (Live at the Arclight)

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I have the date for this somewhere, but I can’t locate it at the moment. This is the summer of 2003, that much I am certain.

This is a fine performance by the Denver van-rock trio Friends Forever. By “van-rock” …

Pink & Brown (Live on KXLU)

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Pink & Brown was one of the greatest bands ever. Totally blew my mind every time I saw them. Violent as shit. Homoerotic. Absolutely great.

This is their performance at KXLU, probably back in 2001. I was there. It was …

Hip Hop Across America

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So after living in the ATL for 2 months people keep asking me about the hip hop there. It was mostly annoying people yelling at me to dance. The entire time I was there the best track I heard was …