It looks like Brakes will be my last post of 2005, so you’re gonna have to suck on this one until next year.  I reccomend throwing this record on while you’re trying to consume as many substances and as much alcohol as possible tonight on New Years Eve, simply cuz it’s "fun".  Yeah, I said fun.  Sixteen songs in under thirty minutes from the keyboard player of British Sea Power, prefect for people with little or no attention span (like me).  Plus they dish out a cover of Johnny Cash’s "Jackson" (with Leila Moss of The Duke Spirit lending some vocals) and a cover of The Jesus & Mary Chains "Sometimes Always" as well, and you know you can’t fuck with that.  Happy New Year otters.

(Download - "The Most Fun")

(Download - "Heard About Your Band")

(Download - "Jackson" Johnny Cash)


(Download - "Sometimes Always" JAMC)

Fuck yeah!  Finally I get something cool in the mail.  New Mudhoney biotch!  Here’s the press release.  Dig on this: "Mudhoney is a four-piece rock group from the old, weird Seattle. For 18 years they have plugged into wall sockets all over the world, proving to be one of the most consistently electrifying acts to survive the grunge implosion, whatever that was. The wolfish howls of singer Mark Arm, soulful splatterings of guitarist Steve Turner and frenzied fills of drummer Dan Peters have produced 9 albums to date, most of which are considered neo-garage classics. In addition, they have had two bassists over the years, Matt Lukin, who retired in 1999, later replaced by the inimitable Australian Guy Maddison. Under a Billion Suns is the band’s new long-player and it’s performed with the same amplified urgency of their previous work. While history has shown musicians to be a largely unreliable lot, Mudhoney has never swayed in its vision of making really loud rock music and this album is no exception. Produced with the help of three notable knobsters (Phil Ek, Johnny Sangster, Tucker Martine) and boasting a blaring horn section, Under a Billion Suns exposes a more snidely political-fueled side to our shaggy heroes, but one revealed through the invariables of the Mudhoney recipe: thick, soggy punk riffs and underrated guitar dynamics, psychedelic tangents and snot-nosed finger-pointing. It is loud, it is fierce, and it is here for our world right now. Lucky for us, so is Mudhoney." They’ve re-recorded "Hard On For War" off of "Gimme Skelter" and it sounds even better.  The first song on here, "Where Is The Future", has horns on it and I’m not scared to say that "I’m grooving to it".  Don’t get scared of the horns kids… think "Funhouse", The Stooges did it, it’s ok.  This record hits stores March 3rd 2006.  In the meantime go buy the new Mojo that has "The Story Of Grunge" and NIrvana on the cover, it rules.  I’m so grunge I don’t shower.

(Download - "Where Is The Future") 

(Download - "Hard On For War") 

I’ve been on a huge "Replacements-kick" lately.  Seeing as how I already posted some songs off "Let It Be", I figured it would make sense if I now passed some "Tim" your way.  And while I’m at it, I might as well drop the comp "All For Nothing" in your lap as well.  The comp is one disc that’s the "best of" all the major label records and another disc of b sides, shit goes off!  "Waitress In The Sky" is one of my favorite Replacement jams ever and it was written after Paul Westerberg got into a argument with a flight attendant ("big deal you get to fly, you ain’t nothing but a waitress in the sky").  "Here Comes The Regular" is another slow jam all about being a dude… "Well, a person can work up a mean mean thirst, after a hard day of nothin’ much at all".  "Left Of The Dial", "Bastards Of Young", and "Dose Of Thunder" are all killer too.  Fuck, the whole record is pretty killer.  Oh and here’s a b-side called "Beer For Breakfast" simple because I’ve been feeling this one lately… mmm beer for breakfast.

(Download - "Waitress In The Sky")

(Download - "Here Comes The Regular")

(Download - "Beer For Breakfast")

I’ve been getting really into this record lately, I guess it fits my mood the past couple days.  You’re gonna hear these guys get compared to Neil Young and probably even Tom Petty, but Magnolia Electric Co. have their own steeze going on.  Seeing as how I don’t know much about this band, it’s time for a pointless story that will fill this page up a bit…. here goes: This morning I was driving north on the 101 freeway, listening to this record when I saw a semi truck and a Honda Accord smash into each other about four car-lengths in front of me.  It was some scary fucking shit!  If I wouldn’t have slammed on my brakes and spun my non-power-steering wheel to the right, this would have been the soundtrack to me getting sliced in half by a ton of metal or at least getting really fucked up.  I’m glad that wasn’t the case, cuz now I can still enjoy the music these dudes make without bumming on being sliced in half.  Make sure to check out their live show archive where you can download a bunch of their live shows for free… shit goes off!

(Download - "The Dark Don’t Hide It")

(Download - "Leave The City")

Apparently the Swede, Jose Gonzales, has started to hit stateside. Before he was doing a solo thing he had a little band called Junip. Well after Junip’s short hiatus while Jose did his own thing they have picked things up again with a new EP released on a Swedish label. Some great dark tunes and a nice interaction of sonics with the strumming of a nylon string acoustic guitar and a solid rhythm section. I saw them play at Pustervik a year ago and they were great! Had the crowd hypnotized in a haze of vibe. Moody and dense.

(Download "Black Refuge" mp3)

(Download - "Ghost of Tom Joad" mp3)

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