i hate the sound of guitars

Big Dipper
Cloud Cult
Be Your Own Pet
Fugazi
World of Pooh
Sarah Nixey – I’ve been trying to figure out what was playing between sets last time I was at The Abbey Lounge. Female vocals with British (or possibly Aussie, etc.) accent, lyrics not bad but nothing distinctive enough for me to remember by the end of the night, [...]

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Via Steve:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your Spring. Post these instructions in along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening [...]

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Hands on Heads
Slow Jets – This week’s “put out more records, darn it!” Part 1
Crack the Sky
Big Dipper
Brenda Kahn – This week’s “put out more records, darn it!” Part 2. Especially, please, like those improbably hard-rocking, skronk-jazz-colored albums you did for mostly-folk label Shenachie, Destination Anywhere and Outside the Beauty Salon. Also, you’re a [...]

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Iwas on the radio! It was my first set since leaving UMBC’s AM radio station (which doesn’t even exist anymore). Actually, my first FM broadcast set ever.
I was on WMBR’s Breakfast of Champions Tuesday 15 April, from 9-10am with host Ted Young. WMBR (the MIT radio station) broadcasts on 88.1FM from Cambridge, MA; live [...]

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Colourbox – On a bit of a retro kick, obviously. I’m a bit surprised at how dated this doens’t sound.
The Connells – Another retro kick. I know the first 3 or 4 Connells records quite well, but I couldn’t recall a single tune from several of the later discs. Trying to see if that’s them, [...]

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The Ex – Spun an early years best-of. I was pretty much ignorant about The Ex until I heard Ex Orkest (large band arrangements; very Mekons-y); I’ve enjoyed learning more, but nothing else has quite scaled those heights.
The Mekons – I [heart] Mekons. I [heart] I [heart] Mekons. I [heart] Mekons Rock’n’Roll etc., etc.
The [...]

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