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Thursday, June 30, 2005. A DIGITAL DISCUSSION WITH MIKE REP. For thirty years MIKE "REP" HUMMEL. Has been creating and quietly releasing the sort of bent, outsider proto-punk rock that drives collectors and rock scholars wild with glee. His name as a performer and a producer is synonymous with "do it yourself" and "low fidelity", whether he'll cop to it or not. His 1975 single "Rocket To Nowhere" with MIKE REP and THE QUOTAS. Later this year as well, so it's looking to be the right time to amp up the Mik...
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Thursday, February 13, 2003. I AM THE SON OF VOM! Most reports from the olde days on the Los Angeles joke-punk band VOM. Fronted by none other than longtime music scribe Richard Meltzer. He invented rock criticism, you know - as he'd be the first to tell you. Usually contain the words "ghastly" or "terrible". But listening to the recent illegitimate CD-R "VOM- Live at the Mabuhay 4/24/78". Bands - not sloppy! Now it can be declared officially that this may, in fact, be justified. For real, as real. R...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003. JUKEBOX JURY, ROUND TWO. It's time again to revisit some of those rock and roll heroes and mistakes of yesteryear, 1985-89, my - and perhaps your - college days, and find out if they still hold up. If you missed our first installment. In which we put Killdozer. To the test, you can find it here. Or just scroll down). As I mentioned last time, the ground rules are as follows:. Just as in our criminal justice system, these musicians will be judged either INNOCENT. When their first ...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2003. THE DAY THAT LOS ANGELES MET ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS. I received a great re-cap a couple days ago of Sunday's Rocket From The Tombs. Show in Los Angeles from our LA correspondent. I decided to post it in full, since it's unlikely we'll be able to see this reunion ourselves. Here goes:. Last night I saw the first performance since 1975 of Rocket From the Tombs. I guess most of the 1,000 copies UA sold were in the midwest). Posted by Jay H. at 3:42 PM.
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Monday, November 03, 2003. JUKEBOX JURY, ROUND FOUR. This is the fourth and final round of Agony Shorthand’s JUKE BOX JURY. It’s time once again to face down the demons of our past and bring those now-dated bands and performers that marked my (and perhaps your) college-era experience (1985-89) to their final day of reckoning. Did they. Have any relevance beyond the boozing, record collecting 19-year-old demographic? Bring ourselves to listen to their once-unchallenged music in late 2003 with nary a wince?
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003. JUST GIVE ME SOME AS-PIR-IN. Speaking of GREEN ON RED. See post below), they’re finally getting the CD reissue treatment on some long-missing LPs. Sad to sad these are too often found in the $1-$2 bins in record form, but I have a feeling that’s about to change with the new release of their excellent first EP and second long-player Gas Food Lodging paired up on one CD. With extra tracks), and the debut LP Gravity Talks. As it was known in the mid-1980s) this was the shit.
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Friday, September 08, 2006. LAUREL CANYON - THE INSIDE STORY OF ROCK and ROLL'S LEGENDARY NEIGHBORHOOD" by Michael Walker. I asked my wife,. What do you think of when I say 'Laurel Canyon'? Um, Mulholland Drive. Fires. That lame movie we saw". Not bad. Me, my first associations with this Los Angeles neighborhood center around the "cocaine cowboys" of mid-1970s rock, your Eagles. S, your J.D. Souther. A legendary LA club for "singer-songwriters", and later, hair metal bands),. And their place in it all, b...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005. AGONY SHORTHAND PRESENTS GUEST COLUMNIST DINOSAUR MAHAFFEY. JOHN DARNIELLE MARKED FOR DEATH". The late great Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt offers the best ever classification of music:. There’s two kinds of music. There’s the blues and then everything else which is just zip-ah-dee-do-dah. Townes, although unhelpfully micro-classified as a country accented folksinger, played the blues. John Darnielle. Aka The Mountain Goats. Here’s a typical, recent gush from. Ostensibl...
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Monday, August 28, 2006. THE SPRING OF MY WHITE ZOMBIE. Now residing in where-are-they-now files) who was a total success at grabbing these bands from the road and plopping them down for a live in-studio set on my show. One such show was released on vinyl and CD as Radio Cowgirl. By the LAZY COWGIRLS. Though this session actually interrupted someone else’s show, not mine. Stone came to me one day in May 1988 and told me that WHITE ZOMBIE. And their previous mini-LP Psycho-Head Blowout. And wouldn’t look ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2003. I have now finally heard, in its entirely, several times on repeated rotation, the oft-raved-about one album wonder HACKAMORE BRICK. One Kiss Leads To Another" LP from 1971. If you've ever been a reader of Chris Stigliano's Black To Comm. Or Tim Ellison's Modern Rock Magazine. You've seen the name. Here's the original Richard Meltzer review of the album. A hippie Velvet Underground. Fronted by Simply Saucer. Deserve a CD reissue, I'm convinced. Someone get on that, OK?
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