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  • Over the seven hills and far away

    Nat Johnson & the Figureheads – Roman Radio The skinny: Skate, rattle and roll, you dirty rotten souls! The review proper: Deceptively urgent. That’s the “pretentious lazy journo” term I’ll be using on this one. Sure, it’s mostly acoustic and in the pop side of the spectrum, but Roman Radio rocks. Maybe not so obviously…

  • Wake up song for today – 133

    From one of the best Neil Young albums (Tonight’s the night), this live version rocks. If you haven’t seen Live Rust, get it on DVD or get a feeler for it right here. And then buy it. –Sam

  • Primordial (noise) soup

    Retro Soup – EP The Skinny: Some free noise for you all lovely people. The review proper: Well, if the cliché about currents and trends repeating every 20 years is true (and sometimes it feels), then some bit of a throwback to the Industrial genre is due.

  • What we learnt from Twitter – 3

    Who: Courtney “I’m the spawn of Satan” Love

  • Wake up song for today – 132

    Fictional bands go a long way. I’m okay with this film, not my fave by Cameron Crowe, but still a good one, and hey, can’t go wrong with a band with the awesome Mark Kozelek.

  • Shaking off the rust

    Lumiere @ Traffic Bar, Naucalpan, México. After a less than stellar night in a house party (more of a case of “wrong band for the wrong audience”), Lumiere played at the garage-like Traffic Bar in Los Remedios, deep in the wild (!) heart of Naucalpan. Kicking off with ‘Vertex’ (one of their heaviest numbers), the…

  • Wake up song for today – 131

    Gotta be honest, we had better months, but asi es la vida de jacarandosa. Go for a beer and relax at the house of your best friend. It worked for Eddie Vedder.

  • Bolita bolita bolita!!

    Dinosaur Pile-Up – The most powerful EP in the universe The skinny: Some fuckin’ excellent grunge from Leeds. The review proper: Who cares if grunge seems to be extinct? We’re due for a revival! And hopefully part of this attack of the Seattle flannel ‘n’ sardonic voice combo will include Dinosaur Pile-Up (no relation to…

  • Wake up song for today – 130

    Relics from the 90s still making music today. No overcompression, no pandering to Trident-wielding websites. Rock ’em and Sock ’em with Seven Mary Three

  • Looking back at … Gregory and the Hawk

    Gregory and the Hawk. Just floating in the air (a sensation I get when I really dig music), then a sweet voice calls my attention. It was coming from that online radio program I listen to every Sunday, Antifama. The words, the title, ‘The Bolder Thing to Do’; a very little known gifted voice and…