An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens
Fascinating behind the scene stories about one of the coolest legendary punk rock clubs, City Gardens, in the very scenic Trenton New Jersey, spanning the late 1970’s to 1994. DJ Jeff Werz talks for 1:45 and plays lots of music with the authors. Amy Yates Wuelfing and Steven DiLodovico co-authors of “No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes” talk about putting this book together and doing over 420 interviews! The book is named after the large ass sign at the door. This is when punk was dangerous and skin heads ruled the roost and one week you could go see the Circle Jerks and then the next Fishbone or ween. The book will be published March 10, 2013 and is available online at www.noslamdancing.com. We only got thrown out one time for stage diving at City Gardens and that was enough. My back still hurts! Interview and music with the authors of a book on the Legendary City Gardens by Jeff Wertz on Mixcloud Nirvana – City Gardens – Trenton, US 1991 (FULL SET) Ween – Nan – 1992...
Songs about Bacon
Here’s a few ditties about bacon and pigs. I will invent a way to pasteurize and make bacon toast. 01) Bacon Industry MP3 by Karp from their Self Titled LP 02) Kiss The Pig MP3 by Today Is The Day 03) Toast MP3 by Archers of Loaf from Icky Mettle 04) Filth Pig MP3 by Ministry 05) kevin bacon MP3 Movie Sample from Super Bad 06) The Freed Pig (4 track) MP3 by Sebadoh 07) War Pigs MP3 by Unholy Swill 08) Pigmeat MP3 by Leadbelly...
Top 5 iTunes albums for 2013 …the confusion ensues
It’s funny if you strictly go by what I’ve listened to the most this year The top 20 are mostly old bands that have been around for more than 10 plus years. My go to bands. Then again you have to consider on top of me living in a bubble there is a lot of crap out there that never get enough spins to show-up. We’ll try to give you play by play and list the top five here as scrobbled via desktop and now mobile. No Car plays or vinyl were accounted for Same old story but here are the release highlights of the best music of 2013. THE REPLACEMENTS – SONGS FOR SLIM 01. I listened to The Replacements 178 times in the past 12 months. Obsessive maybe. Mostly probably due to the fact they played a couple shows over the summer. We’re always hopeful for a chance to see Paul and Tommy play together in New York but that is not happening yet. So we went back and listened to a bootleg Live at Maxwells that Captain’s Dead Posted. So for all intent and purposes this was our most popular band this year. In that mix was SLIM Benefit. Not sure it got as many plays but Westerberg can do no wrong. [BUY LP VERSION] MY BLOODY VALENTINE – M V P 02. Next up with 168 plays is My Bloody Valentine. And you know what? We didn’t even get a chance to listen to their new one that much except for a few passes on the youtubes at first so these plays don’t even count...
Video of the Day: “BEAR” by Slim Wray
VIDEO OF THE DAY: We like the foo fighter style nerd character thing in the storyline in this rock video co-direct by Slim Wray and Tamara Lee. Pretty funny situation comedy thing not to be undermined by the thick sounding rock duo that they actually are. All bands should have a sense of humor and not take themselves so seriously. If we had to compare the voices on their debut Sack Lunch we could easily say Jim Morrison and not just because they included a Doorish sounding cover of Van Morrison’s tune “Gloria”. Definitely a southern accent kind of thing reliving the rockus days when tube amp rocknroll was the wild wild west. Which is basically what they are going for. We want to believe they are having a good time doing it. Which is not the usual sloppy mess duo’s get away with. The Jack White formula is fairly easy to follow for a bit. RIYL: Jim Jones Review, Chuck Berry,...
Pet Sounds Covered by Mint 400 Records
COVERS: Today in the covers bin is a whole concept. A whole album in fact from front to back of the famous Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. Mint 400 Records presents bands like The Duke of Norfolk, Fairmont, Cropduster, Michael Ambrose, The One & Nines, The Ashes and The Multi-Purpose Solution doing different variations on some wonderful music. Which arguably are all one long song because the production uses similar tricks and vocals approaches it has this amazing sound all on it’s own. So it’s cool to see some bands attempting to repurpose and reconstruct the otherwise brilliant recording. Oh and the best part this shit is it’s free. So here’s a few choice tracks but let that stop you from enjoying the whole thing because the label is just making the whole thing completely free. nice right? That’s Not Me MP3 by Cropduster God Only Knows MP3 by Fairmont [Catch them live this Friday 12/19/13 w/ Eastern Anchors & Tri-State at Rent Party] DOWNLOAD ALL(ZIP):...
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