Monthly Archives: September 2006

A blast from the past on this chilly Saturday, with a couple tracks from California punk icons Face to Face. Disconnected From their first album Don’t Turn Away. That record came out in 1992, which leads me to ask: can … Continue reading →

Douglas Adams might be my favorite writer, but he’s also been pretty important to me musically. It was he that turned me onto Dire Straits, and the way he talked about Bach in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency convinced me … Continue reading →

Tilly and the Wall, whose Wild Like Children was the first record released on Conor Oberst’s Team Love label, have a new record out for 2006. Bottom of Barrels took a while to percolate into my brain but is now … Continue reading →

Around the blogs: I Am Fuel, You Are Friends has an update about Brandi Carlile. I Guess I’m Floating has an update (and a new song) from We Will Build. Idolator raises a ruckus about wiki-plagiarism on My Old Kentucky … Continue reading →

Back in town. Anybody else read this article from the Times UK about Nirvana? Pretty weak sauce. Some quotes:“Stone Temple Pilots and Live — bands who, a decade ago, were clearly marked as the diluted, corporate answer to Nirvana but … Continue reading →

For those who don’t know, my job is to coach debate at Dartmouth. It’s not worth getting into all of that right now, but it does have some significance for the blog, since tomorrow we leave for the first tournament … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to post about Graham Lindsey for a couple months now, and today is finally the day. He resides in that pleasant intersection where folk, country, and twang meet. But with an edge. To be honest, more than … Continue reading →

I know very little about The Ballet. I picked up their song “I Hate the War” a month or two ago but didn’t listen to it for such a long time that now I have no idea where I actually … Continue reading →

One band that I haven’t seen almost anyone talking about is Bombadil. I “discovered” them a few months ago via I Guess I’m Floating, but they’ve been pretty far off the blogger-radar other than that. Which is a shame because … Continue reading →

That Aberdeen album I mentioned a week ago showed up in the mail and it’s everything I was hoping for. More dreamy tunes, more wispy vocals, and more jangly guitars. I’ve talked about them quite a lot in the last … Continue reading →