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In honor of the fact that im going to a benefit event thing at a comedy club (first time - omg).

this one's for the docta.









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The great Koonaklaster

The YSI group initiated a project where we're all supposed to make mixes, or greatest hits of different artists. I'm choosing Fahey. He was a gateway for me into a lot of great new discoveries, so I figured I'd give him his due. This isn't a greatest hits as much as it is a rough sketch of his career. I don't have everything he released, but I do have a fair amount, and I tried to find something to add from each of them. This mix is not in chronological order, instead I used the schedule of the tides. The Mix was too big to upload as one file with Mediafire, so its split into two zip files. Enjoy.

John Fahey Mix First Half (Mix split into 2 DL's)
John Fahey Mix Second Half

1. Fahey Blows His Nose ; The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
2. Sunflower River Blues ; Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes
3. Jaya Shiva Shankarah ; Old Fashioned Love
4. Special Rider Blues ; America
5. Spanish Two-Step ; On Air
6. Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today ; Red Cross
7. Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt ; The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
8. Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Blandensburg ; The Yellow Princess
9. Christ is Born On Christmas Day ; The John Fahey Christmas Album
10. Night Train to Valhalla ; Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
11. Bean Vine Blues # 2 ; The Voice of the Turtle
12. Go, I Will Send Thee ; New Possibility
13. Fahey Established Rapport With The Tasmanians: A Dissertation on Obsucrity / The Return of the Tasmanian Tiger / Funeral Song For Mississippi John Hurt ; Live in Tasmania
14. March! for Martin Luther King ; The Yellow Princess
15. Jesus Is A Dying Bedmaker 2 ; America
16. Poor Boy ; Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
17. Worried Blues ; On Air
18. Days Have Gone By ; Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
19. Amazing Grace ; America
20. Uncloudy Day ; The Legend of Blind Joe Death
21. Wine and Roses ; The Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites
22. Requiem For Russell Cooper ; Requia
23. Ghosts ; The Mill Pond
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What a week...

I know i havent posted in a little while. I just havent really felt the motivation to do that much lately. Besides, ive been wasting a lot of time with the apartment search. ALTHOUGH, on Thursday, while waiting for the landlord to meet us at a place in park slope, I noticed this guy, walking down the street holding his young child. Mr. Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover fame is pretty much a celebrity sighting in my eyes.


I also went to a show where I wanted to see the last of 5 bands slated to play. I dont want to go into details (too annoying), but after 8 bands played, and it was already 2:30am, and the band i wanted to see still wasnt up next, i said fuck it and left. ugh. dont ask.




ill resume some some shit this week. i promise.

Thee Oh Sees

Thee Oh Sees played in Brooklyn this past Saturday night, and I was highly considering going to the show. I actually spent the afternoon in BK apartment hunting, but was too burnt to stick it out for the show. I kinda regret it, cause I've been really digging their new record on In The Red, Help. Every time Thee Oh Sees get mentioned, the laundry list of bands that front man John Dwyer has played in always get discussed. Since I'm only really familiar with his most famous one, Coachwhips, I'll leave that for the more legit reviewers/blogs.

The whole album is pretty catchy, but I've had the first song stuck in my head the past few days, so we'll stick with that.

Here it is:
Thee Oh Sees - Enemy Destruct


P.S.
Is it just me, or has In The Red been on a fucking roll the past few months??
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WOW

Here's a clip from the Carson (fucking) Daly show that aired Friday night, April 3rd. The musical guests that evening were The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Wow. Fuck. Seriously. The show airs way past my bedtime (10pm....) so I didn't get to see it when it aired. This band's ascension has been craziness T's, straight up. Alex = Born to rock. Here's the clip:


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I have seen the future of ROCK

and its name is DIEHARD.

I got to see their first show ever last night at Union Hall in Brooklyn, and when they're rich and famous, I got the bragging rights sonnnn. Killer indie rock/pop reminiscent of the best bands from the early-mid '90s. Close your eyes, and your at a show in Chapel Hill circa 1994 (that is intended to be a compliment - hopefully it means what i think it means...). Loud, fast, nice guitar work by my man ezRock, and spot on male/female vocals.
I polled the audience completely at random, and asked someone else what they thought:
"The problem with starting is a new awesome band is you can't come back to say your old awesome band is alright" - Shrimp Cracker

The whole set was filled with songs that get the official HBBB stamp of approval, but one stood out to me as totally awesome. Unfortunately, a full band recording of it doesn't exist yet, so I only have a VERY ROUGH DEMO. But either way, the song rocks. This demo sounds cool, but with the band it really kicked ass. They switched off vocals, and it really tied the room together.

Cool Kids (DEMO)

Check out their myspace page for a bunch of songs they've done together. These guys are going places (and im not talking about midnight runs to Scottys....), I think there must be something in the water in Teeneck, NJ (??????????)
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