Tag: music
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Tunesday: Kickball Katy Goodman
And in the “Why we really love hipsters even though they’re so easy to make fun of” column…. http://bbblack-iiink.tumblr.com/post/69089413076/katy-goodman-out-of-la-sera-vivian-girls-i-like
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My Favorite Christmas Records #20-23
This is Part Three of an ongoing series. Also see PART ONE and PART TWO. Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a…
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My Favorite Christmas Records Countdown #24-26
Once I’ve broken down my wife’s resistance to 24/7 Christmas Music, I jam the old Sony 200-disc carousel full of Holiday CDs in slots 175-200. The day may come when the hearts of men fail and they listen to streaming Christmas Music but, as Aragorn said, “Today is not that day!” That’s right, I’ve got…
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Seether
Veruca Salt. One of my favorite songs from the 90’s–used to play it for my daughters just to show them that girls can rock just like boys. One of my favorite all-time performance videos–the song’s been stuck in my head for a week, and I just thought I’d stick it in yours. too. Starts…
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Friday Morning Rock n Roll Idols: Poi Dog Pondering (video link repaired)
Poi Dog Pondering–I can’t think of a better band to throw out here as we enjoy the first truly warm days of spring. One of the most enjoyable shows I ever saw was in the old Graffiti Lounge in Pittsburgh, late Spring 1990, for a triple bill featuring John Wesley Harding, Poi Dog Pondering, and…
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: The Clarks
I went to college with these guys at IUP back in the days before the days of yore–back when my hair was brown and The Coney was a little bitty hole in the wall along Carpenter Avenue in Indiana, PA. Scott Blasey’s voice still makes me think of beer in plastic cups, because they’d run…
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: Violent Femmes
Like a lot of these videos, this is more brillance from the eighties, which weren’t at all like cheese-eating high schools kids who watch cable replays of “Pretty In Pink” think they were like. The Violent Femmes were a taut little Indie band from Wisconsin who wrote short, sweet, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sly little…
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I (heart) Neko Case
I just re-read an old magazine interview with my very favorite singer, Neko Case, and felt the need to express to all of you the incredible depth and revelry of my love for her. Don’t sweat it, my wife knows. In fact, she’s pretty damned bemused by the whole thing, and thinks it’s “cute.” I’m…
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Uncle Tupelo
I’m sitting here listening to Uncle Tupelo’s landmark album “No Depression” for the thousandth odd time–and I wanted to take a minute to thank Brian R. who introduced me to the band in it’s dying days back–oh–about 20 years ago. It took some urging–I thought Uncle Tupelo was a silly name and didn’t exactly rush…
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