Peaking Lights - 936 - (2011)

One of the best album of the year. The past few years have been a boon for Not Not Fun, with major minor successes like Ducktails and Sun Araw undoubtedly exposing the label beyond its base. A drum machine, and the dub connotations it carries, makes all the difference for 936. Each track has the uncanny ability to drift with Indra Dunis’ lazy, ethereal vocals, yet they still feel tight, despite the long playing times. neo-psychedelic, dub, noise pop

Dump - That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice? (1998)

Whereas Sonic Youth was inspired by  Madonna , here Yo La Tengo’s James McNew lovingly runs through a selection of Prince songs.  The individual tracks range from the acoustically strummed to churning electric guitar backed by distorted ambiance with programmed laptop beats. Originally released in 1998 on cassette, the collection later saw a compact disc release in 2001 with five additional tracks.  

Better than originals.

Cruel Summer - Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells

Great gig yesterday in St. Ambrogio Church, Bologna Italy

THE WRECKING CREW DOCUMENTARY 2011

Lecture: DOOM (Madrid 2011) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

a rare doom moment

Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream

No words. Always Great oh sees

Thee Oh Sees & Total Control / Split 2011

As usual great oh sees..........the one 3 tracks is awesome !!!!!!!!

Public Dims - Vent Somewhere Else

Lo-fi twanger two-piece from southern California. Their lazy monotone vocals and lethargic instrumentation give them some singularity in a relatively crowded sub-genre. free download http://publicdims.bandcamp.com/

Apache Dropout - s/t LP

Apache Dropout is a full on lysergic boogie trio from Southern Indiana who’ve self-released a handful of recordings while touring the sub-U.S. during the past couple years. Finally, their debut LP is here to catch you up with their three-minute-&-less anthems crafted of ‘60s epoch fuzz.

Pow Wows - Nightmare Soda

Debut full-length album from Toronto's up-and-coming garage rock band! Pow Wows' Nightmare Soda was recorded and produced at The House of Secrets in Toronto in 2010.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pow-Wows/146924981990749
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIvaRWmXI

Jessie Mae Hemphill - She-Wolf

one of favourites Sonic Boom Peter Kember album

notes: This compact disc reissue gathers up all the original tracks from Jessie Mae's 1980 debut album for the French Vogue label along with four remixed bonus tracks, all seeing their first domestic release. Recorded by folklorist Dr. David Evans (who also contributes second guitar on 13 of the 15 tracks here) in various locales around Memphis and Mississippi, the music stays down-home and primal throughout. There's a strong sense of rhythm that permeates this record, whether it comes from the fife and drum-derived percussion work of Calvin Jackson and Joe Hicks or simply Jessie Mae's own foot-operated tambourine driving the beat home. Highlights include "Jessie's Boogie" and "Standing In My Doorway Crying" (both sides of her first 45 single, underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts), "Honey Bee," "Boogie Side of the Road," "Crawdad Hole," "Lovin' In the Moonlight," "Married Man Blues" and the title track. The blues, real and raw

Buffalo Springfield Box Set - 2001

Amazing, 10 years ago this box set gave me a new perspective to listen to music. A retrospective of the late 60s folk rock band of the same name, released in 2001, is perfectly built to understand the complex richness of an underrated production during 5 years. Chorus, orchestras, acoustics, eletrics. Few simple things wonderful results. Don't miss it.

Eric's Trip - Forever Again (1994)

Sometimes i fall in the Eric's trip trip. If you like it in the past post there is another Eric's trip lp. Eric's Trip formed in 1990 when musicians Rick White and Chris Thompson of The Forest joined Julie Doiron and Ed Vaughan (who was later replaced by Mark Gaudet of Purple Knight). They took their name from a Sonic Youth song^[2] and emulated the distorted guitar of Dinosaur Jr., the folk leanings of Neil Young, and the lo-fi aesthetic of Sebadoh. Rick White described their sound as "sappy melodic pop music on top of thick distortion." Gaudet's description was more succinct: "dreamy punk". ^{FROM WIKI}

The Great Unwashed- Collection (Flying Nun - The Clean)

In the wake of the 1982 breakup of the legendary Clean, brothers David and Hamish Kilgour continued writing songs together; adopting the tongue-in-cheek name Great Unwashed, they released the 1983 LP Clean Out of Our Minds, a collection of primitive home recordings with a slightly experimental bent. The record was well received by steadfast Clean fans, and with bassist Peter Gutteridge in tow, the Kilgour brothers played a handful of live dates. A five-track double single subsequently appeared, and in mid-1984 the Great Unwashed swelled to a quartet with the addition of Ross Humphries; however, by the end of the year, the group disbanded. (Last.fm)
link: http://www.mediafire.com/?achud3mrkb242np

J Mascis - Several Shades of Why 2011

New J Mascis, still unhearded. A gift. Only for you Followers.

Yellow Ostrich - Discogrphy 1st part

Here a part of Yellow Ostrich discography. Posted months ago with the incredible Morgan Freeman Ep, a mini concept based on the wikipedia page of Morgan Freeman now other 5 titles: Yellow Ostrich, The Mistress (see the pic), Fade Cave, Serious Kids, Wild Comfort. Hope to see them soon here in Italy. Enjoy it.

V/A - Winter's Bone Original Sound Track

Real freaky "meth" America! Where the Dream falls down. One of the best film saw recently! Gut wrenching. One hour and a half of wonderful anxiety. Here the music where stands Mrs. Marideth Sisco "http://maridethsisco.com/about/" a singer with incredible voice. Movie and Music HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Earl Sweatshirt - Earl

About months ago i posted this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_loMbmKJ8&feature=player_embedded, asking myself too much questions. Finally the album.
Enjoy it

The Go Team - pre Beat Happening 1989

I discovered pre Beat Happening stuff when the first of Go! Team single came out. i wrote Go! Team not Go team. Hard Times!

The Go Team got compared to Beat Happening a lot, largely due to the obvious similarities: Calvin plays in both bands, both recorded for the K label, both hailed from Olympia, and they both cranked out their songs with an infectious, hey-kids-let's-play-band enthusiasm. But there the similarity ends, for as good as Beat Happening are (indeed, one of my very favorite bands), they have never come anywhere near the depth and diversity of the Go Team. Part of it might be due to the revolving-door lineup changes, and myriad guest stars, on each release. Each song sounded completely different. One moment they were crashing through three-chord slices of pure pop, the next moment it was several guitars interlocking and creating a quiet tension, followed by crushing, near-industrial textures.

The first Go Team project, Recorded Live at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, was literally a tape of construction sounds as recorded by Calvin, who lived across the street from the theater as it was being built. Your Pretty Guitar, with Calvin and Steve Peters, and Donna Parker Pop, with Calvin and Tobi Vail, were more song-oriented. But it was Archer Come Sparrow, released early in 1989, that really turned my head around toward the Go Team--pure, direct and utterly addictive, all for less than half the price of a CD.

Complete article here: http://www.appelstein.com/cif/goteam.html

MATTHEW MELTON - "Still Misunderstood" [2010]

Maybe you know Snake Flower 2 and the equally fuzzy and jangly Bare Wires, both fronted by Mr. Matthew Melton, a long haired, leather jacket clad rocker, albeit one with a pop heart wrapped in prickly fuzz, which is precisely what we find so magical about Melton's songwriting.
These thirteen unreleased tracks transcend genre classification, their raw originality setting them outside the bounds of any recognizable category. Yet this originality coincides with an eerie familiarity that reflects Melton’s acute awareness of what makes great music, regardless of time or trend. sounding almost like the musically wiser big brother to the current crop of lo-fi garage poppers like Thee Oh Sees and the Sic Alps and Ty Segall. Melton's songs just sound more world weary and experienced, there's still a youthful exuberance, but it's a bit tarnished, a little gritty and grimy, and it just suits the sound and the songs. Still Misunderstood collects early tracks and demos from Melton that predate both Bare Wires and Snake Flower 2, and while it seems even back then his songwriting was fully formed, it is still developing in some ways, the influences of early rock and roll is way more obvious, the Kinks, the Who, the Flamin' Groovies, sixties and seventies garage pop, big choruses, clean jangly strum, tambourine, simple pounding drums, swirling wah guitar, a little psychedelic, a little lo-fi, but awesomely propulsive and fuzzy and rocking. Enjoy It.

THE WEDDING PRESENT The (classic) Steve Albini Recordings 1990-1991

Collection of songs that the Wedding Present recorded with Albini - . Starting in 1990 with the re-recorded "Brassneck" (originally recorded and released on the 1989 LP Bizarro) backed with three other tracks (including a song written by then-unknowns Pavement "Box Elder", a track discovered by Weddoes bassist Keith Gregory when visiting New York City in 1989, before virtually anyone had heard of Pavement), Albini went on to engineer the vast majority of Wedding Present sessions up to and including their third LP Seamonsters, released in 1991.

So first we have the "Brassneck" EP with its associated B-sides. Then, we get the "3 Songs" EP which introduced the classic "Corduroy" to the world - a re-recorded version would feature later on the LP. Then, we get the B-sides to "Dalliance" (the lead single off their forthcoming LP), and then we get the Seamonsters album proper. Then we have the "Lovenest" single in its entirety, and then lastly two more covers also recorded by Albini.

This collection of material is stunning in its breadth and power. The Weddoes, in your humble blogger's opinion, never bettered this material featured here - I'm even including their most recent record that has the Weddoes name on it, and was recorded by Albini, but doesn't rate at all. enjoy it play it loud.