Flexible Vinyl – The Best Pre & Post Punk Rock and New Wave
We dig our old pal Sluggo; a former bartender and booking guy at the Court Tavern in New Brunswick NJ. Although he goes by The Slugger on his weekly Radio show on WRSU radio show (Thurs 6-7pm 88.7fm). His friends call him Doug. In this cast he plays a solid set of some pretty awesome Pre and Post punk rock and New Wave. Every week is something different though and he does NOT take requests. Basically if you’ve ever put a quarter in jukebox at the Court is what listening to this show is like. Almost. Except for the drunks breathing on you at the bar and the old movies playing on VHS on the old TV. A education none the less with tunes by Butthole Surfers, Devo, Captain Beefheart, Jonathan Richmond, The Cars, Mission of Burma, Roxy Music, The Sparks, Peru Ubu, The Damned, XTC and a ton shit I’ve never heard ever before except by name and some more popular tunes. Follow him on Facebook and also check out his band Mr. Payday. Also a education in what punk rock should be like. Flexible Vinyl radio show 1.16.14 by The Slugger on Mixcloud MR.PAYDAY direct from a New Brunswick basement is the new Jack Kevorkian sound track It's Payday!!! by Mr. Payday Related Articles: Interview: An Oral History of the legendary City Gardens Jeff Wertz interview the authors of the new book “No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes” Documentary: How Vinyl Records Are made (1956) RCA Victor...
Free Electronic and Indie MP3’s of the Day
This is a seriously mixed bag of tunes with semi jeff magnum homages, loud and jangly indie bands and some electronic based musiks but you’ll get the drift as we hip you to some cool stuff for your downloading and listening pleasure. We try to give you at the very least a incomplete sentence about each band. Gloom Balloon – Summer Buzz And Summer Fervor MP3 by the dude named Tape Flemming from the band The Poison Control Center. Uplifting band name too. This tune is like joyous part of Christmas in a very Flaming Lips kind of way. It’s about celebration of living. Check it out. RIYL: Neutral Milk Hotel. Band Website / twitter Dead Waves – Over Me MP3 from the EP Take Me Away. This is a trio based out of Brooklyn with two brothers from Queens. RIYL – early jesus and mary chain mixed with the thermals and some melviny screaming into the mic antics. Totally worth checking out in our humble opinion. Actual rock music with zero keyboard bullshit. Bandcamp / twitter Tri-State – Hawk in the Fog MP3 from a self titled EP from a bunch of dudes from Maplewood NJ area. One of the members was in the band Dune Buggy. Which we have one of their 7″s somewhere in the stacks. This is a pure and adulterated “jangly” pop tune alla Real Estate (not sunny day). Super catchy. Like them on the facebooks. Futuristic Blast – TheDifference-MachineMP3 from The Psychedelic Sounds of the Difference Machine This is total DJ Shadow shit here but we love it. Comprised of Dr. Conspiracy and...
Free Indie MP3s of the day
Here’s a mixed bag of goodies from the interwebs spanning the US and Denmark. Totally check out JADEIT from Copenhagen, Denmark. Computer laptop guys gone mad. NØMADS – In The Mend MP3 from Free My Animal Buffalo Tom – Jersey Girl(Tom Waits Cover) by Bill Janovitz [Bonus] Never Talking To You Again MP3 (Husker Du Cover with Grant Hart) Tim Larson6 MP3 from the album Vargar. The National meets Bauhaus. TIM LARSON LIVE: 01/16 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird 01/17 Champaign, IL @ Error Records 01/18 Milwaukee, WI @ Frank’s Power Plant 01/21 Nashville, TN @ Basement 01/24 Madison, WI @ Mickey’s Jadeite – jadeite-Electricity MP3 – Captain Beefheart meets can. Very weird shit from Copenhagen, Denmark Slippertails – Hip New Jerk MP3 from There’s A Disturbing Trend on Fleeting Youth Records – Rad bass driven yipster duo rock from New Jersey. Reminds me a lot of Lync. Related Articles: More Free Electronic and Indie MP3s of the Day SINGLES: Songs About Bacon Single of the Day: “Bird” by Tim Foljahn via Kiam Records …the confusion ensues: Top 5 iTunes albums for...
How Vinyl Records Are made (1956) RCA Victor Film
This is a really old technicolor film made by RCA Victor Corporation in 1956 which demonstrates how music goes from performance to how actual vinyl records are made. Going into a step by step examples of the production process which is totally riveting. Starting with a live instrumental recording being taped, how a lacqour master is made (The Grandfather), the duplication of the master, how a mold is created, and getting the duplication of the mold ready for mass production of your latest audio masterpiece. The biggest take-away is that Loud passages need more space between grooves. Lower passages need less space between the recorded grooves so there are definite rules on much music should go on each side of a album. The cutting stylus is a small piece of sapphire which is heated. This is pain staking operation and in time you will have a laquor master for which you can mass produce records. Nothing but the highest fidelity standards here kids in this...
What is Dreamgaze, Psych and Peyote jams by Wreaths
MUSIC REVIEW: Dreamgaze or psychgaze by any other name is a long jam and the WREATHS own it. Led by maestro’s Shaun Towey and Ralph Nicatro who are old bros from back in the day before there was a back in the day from Hoboken and New Brunswick, NJ. They have been making this type of noise under different names; even using Chicago as a front-office (yes the whole town) these Wreaths are the one’s that’s been sticking over the past couple years. If you’ve wanted to have a lo-fi trip without the help of a lot of booze or blow listening to this music might just do the trick in kick starting the bends. We won’t promise it will keep you safe from the corner drug dealer though. You are on your own there. Last year they had a couple releases that captured their sound on a self titled and self released CD (currently sold out) and also a exclusive 10″ that was put out by Little Dickman Records (not that you currently will see anything on their site about it we’ll keep wreathsgate out of this review). One thing we like about the guys is you can always tell it’s their flyer and with that slight element of danger. So the band branding is consistent in many ways and reflects their thing as this wall of controlled chaos. You might not be able to hum a tune right way but you will feel it like a hangover the next time. They have tunes called “Coke Straw” not that they use one. They use hundies and tunes like...
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