Exciting things...

So, Tindersticks are touring in North America and are going to make me very happy in March since I'll be seeing them in Montreal and Toronto. They're a band that I slowly grew to love and now can't find wrong in anything they do... I kind of figured that I'd never get to see them live and was thinking about flying to London to see them when they were playing all of II at ATP. That didn't pan out and I'm already setting my expectations ridiculously high for the shows. The Montreal show could be extra fun since there's a good chance Lhasa De Sela will make an appearance, I know she did when Stuart Staples was touring solo. Anyway, here's some good stuff from them... there's been a fair bit peppered throughout this blog in the past too if you go digging.
Tiny Tears (BBC Session)
A Sweet, Sweet Man
No More Affairs (Instrumental)

Heartless Bastards have a new album called The Mountain coming out next Tuesday (feb 3rd). I'm looking forward to this though I'm not too happy that they're not coming to Toronto on the first run of touring for their album... Here's the title track that leaves me wanting to hear the rest of the album right now. The Mountain

And here's some other goodies that put a smile on my face...
Mickey & Sylvia - Dearest
The Night Marchers - Who's Lady R U
Mark Eitzel - No Easy Way Down


And this is insane... thanks for turning me onto this sweet girl Dave.

blahg

I don't come around much anymore. I guess I'll just have to make sure when I do that it's a sweeter deal to get people to drop by.

Anyway, I'm curious to hear more of this...

another year

Well, it's 2009 so it's time to put up a bunch of my favorite stuff from the last year...

Woven Hand - Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
The Saturday Knights - Patches
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Frank, AB
The Gutter Twins - The Stations
The Breeders - Night Of Joy
The Black Keys - Remember When (Side A)
South San Gabrel - Kept On The Sly
Sigur Ros Við Spilum Endalaust
She & Him - Sweet Darlin'
Portishead - Magic Doors
Menahan Street Band - Make The Road By Walking
Magnetic Morning - Out In The Streets
Land Of Talk - Got A Call
Kyle Fischer - Thousand Points Of View
Hayden - Where And When
Hauschka Ginsterweg
Frank Black - When They Come To Murder Me
Fantasy Bar - Much Drinking, Little Thinking
Dr. Dog - 100_Years
DeUS - The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider
Calexico - Man_Made_Lake
Breathe Owl Breathe - Sabertooth Tiger
American Music Club - Decibels And Little Pills
Adem - To Cure A Weakling Chile (Boy Girl Song)

Tis the season

I posted these last year, but I've got a special someone with me I've had no time for the old blog..

Murder City Devils - 364 Days
Rocket From The Crypt - Cancel Christmas
Supersuckers - Christmastime
Junkyard Dogs - Brand New Bike
Bruce Cockburn - Joy To The World

Also, here's the last Fireman album, I like it better than the new one...
The Fireman - Rushes

Dulli on Doug Sahm tribute

(from Tripwire.com)

On March 24 of 2009, Vanguard Records will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm to celebrate the Texas Tornado's unique career and influential legacy. This collection will include new renditions of Doug's most indelible songs from his days as "Little Doug" through his time with the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados, performed by artists such as Levon Helm, Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Dave Alvin, Augie Meyers, Jimmie Vaughan, Alejandro Escovedo and Doug's son, Shawn Sahm. As a first look of what we can expect from Keep Your Soul, here is Greg Dulli's (Afghan Whigs, Gutter Twins) take on "You Was For Real"

MP3 Stream - "You Was For Real"

thirty

I turned 30 yesterday. Not a big deal really, but boy do people like to make you feel like it is.

Heartless Bastards - Done Got Old

It's a good time to remember to age gracefully and don't try and cling to your youth... and don't show up to Twilight screenings alone.

the end is near...

For the sake of not putting things off any longer... and to get one under the gun before I sneak into a new decade...

Woven Hand - Not One Stone
Land Of Talk - It's Okay
Kyle Fischer - Hey, Sweetheart
The Whispertown 2000 - Mountain

And a little something I came across today...

novembre

That's how the French say November...

So, Obama won to my surprise... I guess I expected a stronger showing for the ignorant portion of the US population, though it was McCain & Palin all the way in the south. Looks like the US made up for that huge mistake 4 years ago and picked the right Mr. November

Anyway, that's the whole of my political commentary cause there's a couple new releases that I've been waiting for. They both aren't going to win too many new fans but will play well for those who've already bought in...

Greg Dulli - Tonight
From the first official live release he's ever put out Live At Triple Door. At times his vocal limitations are put in the spotlight but it's still a pretty great collection with Petra Haden and Shawn Smith showing up....

Matthew Sweet - Feel Fear
I loved Living Things and Kimi Ga Suki Raifu a few years back, I think they were showing him at his best in terms of songwriting. There's some songs up to that par here but there's a few very weak links and the production sounds pretty amateur at times.

all hallow's eve

since I've slacked off I figured I'd do a big dump of Halloween themed tunes to try and make up for it... there are some gems here for sure.

American Music Club - I Know That's Not Really You
Wax Fang - Halloween (Misfits cover)
Afghan Whigs - Big Top Halloween
Primal_Scream - Zombie_Man
margot & the nuclear so and so's - vampires in blue dresses
Dog Day - Zombie
Grandpaboy_- Vampires And Failures
Ponty's Camper - Astro Zombies (Misfits cover)
Holly Golightly - Devil Do
Turbonegro - I Walked With A Zombie
Supersuckers_- Sleepy Vampire
Low Pop Suicide - Zombie
Venom - Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)

a special mix

In the days of manning the counter at a used CD store a guy who was a bit slow once tried to sell me a mix CD he made. I told him I couldn't buy it but he left it anyway... and I now present it to you. Enjoy.

Melvin's Music - Rock Line
1 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
2 Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
3 Heart - Barracuda
4 Santana - Black Magic Woman
5 Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son
6 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
7 Ram Jam - Black Betty
8 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby
9 Boston - More Than A Feeling
10 Guess Who - American Woman
11 Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
12 The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
13 April Wine - I Like To Rock
14 Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
15 Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
16 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
17 Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

Also, Here's some RFTC from All Systems Go 3 that later showed up on the Free The West Memphis 3 cd with some different lyrics
Rocket From The Crypt - Total Bummer
and to answer a question: The Four Tops - What Is A Man