Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

The first LP released by Orange Juice with the band's original lineup. This album is full of delicious twee/post-punk jams and youthful Glaswegian energy. A nice midpoint between the other bands apart of scene then like: Josef K , The Pastels , and Scars. I dig the rest of the band's and Edwyn Collins' work but this album is the closest to my heart. The keyboards are subdued, if not nonexistent and the guitars are bit more sloppy and jangly. 

Have a listen

Ahh, the old times, when things and people were still classy...

I'm an early bird now?

Bradford Ramone

Dig A Pony

The fact that a song from a band so over saturated in my life and in the culture around me can still make my eyes teary is just amazing. That has to say something about the power that all those individuals together produced. More powerful than selling records and merchandising. More powerful than the opinions of the listeners. It's nice to just shut off my mind and bask in the glow of it. 

Bros

Ghost - Live With Me

I'm really on a Japanese Psychedelic and Metal kick right now. This band is just the tits. Their sound has a little for everyone depending on which album you choose. Anyways, trip out on this song which is the absolute best Rolling Stones cover ever recorded. A triple threat of Engrish, Xylophone and Michio Kurihara's guitar work. 

There's nothing wrong with you....

....it's that mental poisoning .

Boris!

Getting my face melted off again by this band next week!

Romancing The Band

I'm feeling all sappy-like, so this one is going out to all of the couples in bands together, past and present.

Neil Hagerty & Jennifer Herrema ~ Royal Trux

Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan ~ Yo La Tengo

Amadeo Pace & Kazu Makino ~ Blonde Redhead

Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin (weren't technically a band but fuck it..)

David Berman & Cassie Berman ~ Silver Jews

Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore ~ Sonic Youth

Damon Krukowski & Naomi Yang ~ Galaxie 500 / Damon and Naomi

Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz ~ The Talking Heads / Tom Tom Club

Alexei Perry & Dan Boeckner ~ Handsome Furs

Laetitia Sadier & Tim Gane ~ Stereolab

Paul Mccartney & Linda Mccartney ~ Wings

Siouxsie & Budgie ~ Siouxsie & The Banshees / The Creatures

Lux Interior & Poison Ivy ~ The Cramps

Bilinda Butcher & Kevin Shields ~ My Bloody Valentine

John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Neil Halstead & Rachel Goswell ~ Slowdive / Mojave 3

I smell some bad gris-gris on your clothes

Mindless hippies fucking with my flow at the farmers market. 

Feelin' that Halloween spirit

Runner's High

Began jogging today. Yet another thing I've started this year that would have knocked my past self over with giant bolt of disbelief. Feels great...but , ouch I'm sore. 

Madchester Hip Shakers

O.G. Aussie Goodness

"Rock Music in the Seventies was changed by three bands- The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, and The Saints."   Bob Geldof

Not that I give two shits about what Bob Geldof thinks, but he was correct about one thing in that quote: The Saints changed things up. This Australian group refused to be marketed and pinned down by the Punk/ New Wave label that a lot of bands were cast into at the time. And I'm not going to do that to them now in trying to explain their sound. All I'll say is that It's eclectic, good and timeless, just how I like my jams. 

Check out the albums Eternally Yours and Prehistoric Sounds.

Never as tired as when I'm waking up

Why, why, why! has no one invented a silent lawnmower and other power gardening tools? What the fuck science? Catch up with the future so a guy can sleep and still have a prim and proper lawn. 

T-minus two months till the radio station and magazine launches!