The Drums - The Drums Ep

Think i was dead? Sometime i am, and when i wake up i need coffe. I don't know anything about this ep. First track is really good. NO (i ve listened many times) SORRY is GREAT

Maureen Moe Tucker - Playin' Possum

- It’s one of my favorite albums - J Mascis
Maureen “Moe” Tucker, the Velvet Underground’s drummer. Her style — mallets, not sticks; no snares on the drums; very few cymbals; all to a Bo Diddley–influenced beat — was even more vital to the VU’s sound than John Cale’s viola. After the Velvets broke up, she moved to Texas and got a job at Wal-Mart, and concentrated on raising her large family. She finally went back to music in 1981, when she recorded her first album, Playin’ Possum. She recorded it in her living room (“between diaper changes”, she says) over a period of six months, overdubbing every instrument, and the result was quite odd; it doesn’t really sound like anything else. SHe said: Im very proud of this record!! I recorded it alone-in my living room-on a four track. I spent months on it since at that point I had 5 kids, four of them under 6 and one brand new.

V. A. - The Tell Tale Signs of Earworm

First sample for the wonderful label named earworm. Absolutely a Must-ear!!!

The Stairs - Mexican R'n'B

The Stairs were an English rock band formed in Liverpool during the early 1990's by vocalist and bassist Edgar Summertyme, and included Ged Lynn on guitar, Paul Maguire on drums, and Jason Otty on harmonica. Together they released one full-length album and a clutch of ep's and singles. Their influences were Beat music, Blues Rock, Psychedelia, and Garage Rock.
In spring 2008, it was rumoured that The Stairs were on the verge of reforming but when frontman and founding member Edgar Jones was approached, his only response was 'Teradactil Rovers'. It was released in 1992 on Go! Discs in the United Kingdom and, in a shorter format, on London in the United States. The album was issued in the following formats: 12" vinyl LP, cd, and cassette. It is now long-deleted.

2 words on GO Disc label. Go! Discs Records was a Hammersmith, London based record label, launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley Symons. With artists like Billy Bragg, The Housemartins and later The Beautiful South, it became a prominent label. Go! Beat Records was launched as a subsidiary for dance artists like Beats International, Gabrielle and Portishead. In 1992 Paul Weller signed for the label.
In 1996 MacDonald resigned when PolyGram acquired a majority stake in the label, and the label folded not too long afterwards. However, Go! Discs' dance offshoot Go! Beat Records, continued and became a unit in the Universal Records group.
Go! Discs had the dubious honour of sponsoring the Fulchester United team, club of Billy the Fish in Viz comic. Various blatant plugs for Go! artists were often spoken by characters in the strip and Fulchester's home ground carried adverts for Go! and various releases from them. Equally dubiously in the late 80s the label employed Essex comedian Phill Jupitus as head of publicity.

Jessie Mae Hemphill - She Wolf

"This song is my idea of the blues" Sonic Boom said talking about I'm So Glad You Don't Know What's On My Mind .
Jessie Mae Hemphill (October 18, 1923 – July 22, 2006), was a pioneering electric guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist specializing in the primal, northern Mississippi country blues traditions of her family and regional heritage. Jessie Mae learned how to play guitar as a child by watching her relatives perform. Throughout the '60s and '70s, she sang with various Mississippi bar bands. In the early '80s, she decided to pursue a solo career. Hemphill began playing solo dates, supporting herself only with an acoustic guitar and percussion. In 1981, she released her debut album, She-Wolf, on the European record label, Vogue. In 1987, her first American record, Feelin' Good, was released. In 1987 and 1988, she won the W.C. Handy Award for best tradtional female blues artist. Hemphill abandoned a recording career after the late '80s, but she continued to perform into the '90s.
Jessie Mae Hemphill, outfitted in a sequined hat and shiny purple halter top, stood out onstage for her age as well as her appearance. With a wink in her eye and a gold tooth flashing, Hemphill played guitar, bells attached to her legs, her foot tapping a tambourine.The folder contains a bonus ep.

The Telescopes - Altered Perception

Starting with "The Perfect Needle" and "Sadness Pale", one can sense that the Telescopes were a vibrant energetic band in the early to mid 90's. These two songs show an aggressive mix of Jesus and Mary Chain guitars married to the droning straightforward nature of Spacemen 3. The thing is, these two songs could live up to pretty much anything in either of those bands' catalogues! They are perfectly druggy and rocking at the same time. All in all this is a fine portrait of a band that started super strong and sort of tailed off by the end of their 90s career. Like all compilations and best of's, it's a hit and miss situation, but definitely worth hearing and owning for any shoegaze/spacerock music fan.