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Jay Reatard with Dark Horse and the Carousels and The Tough Shits - Johnny Brenda's (Philadelphia, PA) - Monday, July 14, 2008
15 July 2008I never got to see BAD BRAINS or D.O.A. in their prime, but this must be similar.
Mudhoney with The Cynics - The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Friday, June 6, 2008
9 June 2008Sub Pop’s greatest band still breathes fire
When a Listener Becomes an Audience, Must a Recording Act Become a Performer? (Notes from a Radio Orphan, Part I)
12 December 2006It’s more common and generally easier for a lower-class musician to develop a local reputation through live shows than it is to develop a mass-cultural reputation through recordings. Conventional wisdom claims that the former is a pre-condition for the latter. The success of my old band, THE SILVER JEWS, is
a rare exception to this, yet, lacking such fortune that allows me
access to the cultural middleman of mass culture, I now feel that in order to continue to make music, I must forget about the solitary listener, alas, and with it, the ideal of the well-crafted song—-at least for the time being
Nikki Corvette and the Stingrays - Trash Bar (Brooklyn) - Friday, June 23, 2006
9 July 2006While Corvette made a successful return to the spotlight in 2001, she has only recently released her first new material in decades on the LP Back to Detroit. Now playing as NIKKI CORVETTE AND THE STINGRAYS, she and her band floored me on the Brooklyn stop of their recent promotional tour.
The Box Tops with The Shadows of Knight - Toyota Arena West (York, PA) - Saturday, May 27, 2006
7 June 2006Alongside the requisite hits they included unexpected surprises, like their version of Memphis standard “Green Onions.”
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of August 17
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Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti)
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Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell (deluxe edition) (Epitaph)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Yep Roc)
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Billie Holiday – Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs (Columbia/Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Everest – Ghost Notes (Vapor)
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Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses (double CD) (Fontana/UNI)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)