December 20, 2007

The Slackers - Henderson Swamp
Urban Blight - Escape From Reality
The Siren 6! - This Can't Be What You Meant
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Alkaline Trio - Goodbye Forever
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Deep Dark Basement
Dillinger Four - #51 Dick Butkus
Four Tomorrow - Better Walk A Little Faster
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Sebadoh - Rebound
Push To Talk - Talk Is Cheap
Touch Committee - Gold Coast
Going Steady - Kakenukete Seishun
Superchunk - On The Mouth
The Queers - She's A Cretin
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J-Church - Cool Guitar Girl
Superdrag - Feeling Like I Do
Seaweed - Losing Skin
Naked Raygun - Home of the Brave
Toys That Kill - All I Care About Is Me, My Rum, and You
Operation Ivy - Gonna Find You
Bigrig - Expansive Heart
Les Savy Fav - Rodeo
The Spandecks - Paranoia
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Calling All Monsters - Lake Wave/So Many
Ging Nang Boyz - I Don't Wanna Die
Blotto - The Guitar Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
Gunmoll - Less Than You Hoped For
Mr. T Experience - You're The Only One
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
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Pizzicato Five - A New Song
April March & The Makers - Try to Cry
The Thermals - Our Trip
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
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Cap'n Jazz - Little League
The Pixies - Broken Face
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Hate & Kill

I'm A Homer

Recently I discovered the wonderful record that is Just A Fire's "Light Up". How did I miss this gem over the last few years?!?! I tried to describe it to someone, and ended up saying that it was like a dubby mix of The Clash and Jawbox. As awful as that may sound, it doesn't! Hooray for awkward sentence structure. This is yet another non-ska record that has been overlooked by the world thanks to being a part of the Asian Man Records roster.

Speaking of, I saw the Andrew Jackson Jihad record in the ska section of Streetlight Records yesterday. Great work there guys! Andrew Jackson Jihad are on tour now, tonight in Santa Cruz, and tomorrow in San Jose, a show that I'm organizing. GO! I'm sure if you read this blog, you probably already know about this show anyway, but if you don't, here:


In summation, most of my favorite records from 2007 were Asian Man releases, Bomb The Music Industry's "Get Warmer" and AJJ's "People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World" actually having been released year, and Just A Fire's "Light Up", which I finally discovered this year. Woohoo!

December 13, 2007

Skankin Pickle - Rotten Banana Legs
Mu330 - Ireland
Los Rudiments - Too Late
Potshot - Since Yesterday
Rancid - Daly City Train
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Good Night - Brights
Your Song Is Good - Shortcake pt. 4
Rx Bandits - Apparition
The Advantage - Ducktails
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The Minutemen - The Glory of Man
Eastern Youth - Bura Bura Bushi
Ted Leo - Little Girl in Bloom
Les Savy Fav - Kiss Kiss Is Getting Old
Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
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Andrew Jackson Jihad - Let Us Get Murdered
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Love My Children
The Weakerthans - Sun in an Empty Room
Nate Kavanaugh & The Replacematts - This Whole World
The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You
Lemuria - Rough Draft
Jawbreaker - Jinx Removing
Mega City Four - Twenty One Again
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Going Steady - Wakamonotachi
Fugazi - Bed for the Scraping
Pteradon - Broadway
Fatal Flying Guilloteens - Hello, Boss!!!
Bear Claw - Stubborn Agenda
Just A Fire - Graduation
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Guided by Voices - A Contest Featuring Human Beings
The Cherry Tempo - City of Squares
Judy and Mary - Over Drive

The type of sound that these young'uns don't know!

December 6, 2007

Sugarhill Downtown Orchestra - Home Made Song
Slow Gherkin - Shed Some Skin
Fishbone - Ugly
The Specials - Gangsters
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Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz
The Buzzcocks - Harmony in my Head
Stout City Rockers - Common Man
Toys That Kill - Bill Buckner
The Misfits - Some Kinda Hate
The Libertines - Last Post on the Bugle
The Unicorns - Les Os
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The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Green Day - 2000 Light Years Away
Busy Signals - Look the Other Way
Japanther - Challenge
The Thermals - Out of the Old and Thin
Ging Nang Boyz - I Don't Wanna Die
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Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do?
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
The Minutemen - Anchor
We Versus the Shark - We Versus the Inevitability of Death
Sparta Locals - Hotaru
Enon - Pleasure and Privilege
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Touch Committee - Blue Glass
Just A Fire - The Source of the Sound
Boilermaker - Hill
Pteradon - Urban Pirate Style
Jawbox - His Only Trade
Andrew WK - It's Time to Party
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The Lawrence Arms - 100 Resolutions
Leatherface - Dead Industrial Atmosphere
Bear Claw - Short but Sweet
The Honor System - Muffled by Concrete
Drive Like Jehu - Golden Brown
Eastern Youth - Freedom
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Sakerock - 2A3l (this title might show up as garbled japanese until I fix it)
My Korean Friends - A Story Like the Wind
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Come Baby Come

Schwachan

I had the pleasure of seeing "Pumping Iron" last night, the bodybuilding movie featuring Arnold Schwarznegger and Lou Ferrigno among others. The direction and soundtrack were executed perfectly to emphasize how meaningless bodybuilding is. The movie also shows pretty clearly how disgusting of a person Arnold Schwarznegger really is.

For further proof, watch this amazing Youtube clip: