Tag: punk
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Tunesday: The Minutemen, Corona
If you kids ever wonder why we olden shits scoff at your Beeber and all that empty Disney crap, it’s because the music we played to make the double-hung windows shake was unimaginably awesome. You know nothing about the 1980s–Patti Labell and Duran Duran? I never once saw a girl wearing leg warmers on the…
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(Spooky) Tunesday–Girl In A Coma
Tunesday is back, on a Wednesday of course, with a Halloween theme: Girl In A Coma, “Cemetery Baby.” This band is so damned fantastic, you owe it to yourself to listen…. Ladies, please come to Pittsburgh!
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Tunesday: X, True Love
Damn. Never saw this before, and it’s awesome–though something tells me the band didn’t take making videos too seriously. And a bonus because I love you:
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Tunesday: 1988 Throwing Muses–Juno, Bright Yellow Gun & More
Kristen Hersh and her band, Throwing Muses, have been among my very favorites since I initially heard the song “Juno” from their first full length album, House Tornado, grind it’s way out of my stereo speakers back in 1988. I’ve begun to realize what a magnificent year that was for my musical tastes–maybe there was…
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Tunesday: Violent Femmes–Gone Daddy Gone
I was in tenth grade. Xylophone solo? Hell, yes. This song is even better now than it was 30 years ago. I used to listen to these guys for hours.
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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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Sleater-Kinney
What are you doing on this cold winter’s night? I’ll be making sure my ears ring in the morning. http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2015/02/26/Long-gone-grrrls-Reunited-Sleater-Kinney-returns-to-Pittsburgh-after-19-years-away-on-No-Cities-to-Love-tour/stories/201502260022
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Friday Rock and Roll Heroes: Lone Justice
Lone Justice. If you don’t recognized the name of the band, you’re not alone–they burned bright and brilliant for a few short years in the mid-1980s, an edgy country-blues-pop band that defied the classifications of the time, too hard edged and rock and roll for Nashville, too country for pop, and eventually too commercially viable…
Old Road Apples 