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The best Heartless Bastards post, ever
From my home state of Ohio come the Heartless Bastards, a band still currently active (although, for my money, past their "sell by date").....they did turn out a pair of pretty decent semi-hard/semi...
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The best Ridge post ever
Another of those bands of which it is difficult to track down much information, thees guys from Sweden released (to the best of my knowledge), simply this one very good album "A Countrydelic And Fuzzed...
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The best My Bloody Valentine post, ever
Back to mega-post mode, and this one will be kind of difficult considering the recorded history of this particular band......incredibly, they have released a new album VERY recently, their first since...
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The Jewws
After the work I put into the My Bloody Valentine post, I'm going to take it way easy with this one, the one and only full length from Houston's Jewws, "L'Explosion Du Son De Maintenant". They...
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The best Comets On Fire post, ever
We have acquired tastes, and then we have REAL acquired tastes....Comets on Fire falls into the latter category, I know people who HATED this band venimously, myself I found them farily original and...
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The best Von Bondies post, ever
Some great Detroit garage/blues from the White Stripes/Black Keys school.......they in fact opened shows for the early White Stripes. Raw, stripped down, some fine primal garage rock for thoe of you...
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The best Kings of Frog Island post,ever
From Liecester England we have The Kings of Frog Island, who have released four (including one brand new) really fine albums of heavy-stoner/psych......good efforts all, stoner fans will like these....
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Every One a (Punk Rock) Classic
I like comp series like these, we'll see what the reaction is cause I have a BUNCH of them (the enormous "Bloodstains" series, the extensive "Punk Goes...." series, featuring pretty much obscure punk...
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Very special "Friend of the Blog" post
One of the many great "friends of the blog" has kindly donated the missing third album from 1313 Mockingbird Lane, titled "Triskaidekaphobia".......as I've said so many times before THIS is how a SHARE...
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Punk Goes........Part 1
I had fun yesterday with the "Every One a (Punk Rock) classic series, I think I'll play around with another couple of off the wall comps of unknown punk bands....."Punk Goes....." series, actually...
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Punk Goes......Part 2
Pretty good response to Part 1 of the series yesterday, also the "Everyone a Classic" series, so I guess there is a bit of demand at the moment for super-obscure punk. So today, part 2 of "Punk...
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Another "Friend of the Blog" comes through!
I'm going to start the totally bitchin' "Bloodstains" series yet today, you should love it if you love obscure punk, but one thing I asked the minions about the last couple days was the album "Chipmunk...
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The "Bloodstains Across" series Part 1
This is a really cool comp series if you enjoy obscure punk, there are maybe 30-35 discs in the series, what makes them interesting is they are divided geographically so one can get a very good feel,...
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The "Bloodstains Across" Series, Part 2
This kick-ass series of geographically diverse unknown punk bands continues today with three discs of stuff from Belgium, one of bands from Chile, one from Spain, and one from the Canary Islands. This...
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The "Bloodstains Across" series Part 3
The "hits" just keep on comin, as we visit six more corners of the globe today. How are you liking this stuff thusfar? Things don't get a LOT more obscure than this, and those of us that love obscurity...
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Why this happens sometimes I'll never comprehend, but when I published it, published out of sequence, thusly if it were not for this explanation, the FIRST thing you'd see on the page would be...
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Part #4 of "Bloodstains Across......."
My head is spinning as I had a few hours to kill today and tried to get a bunch of these done so I could take it easy for the next week or so.....typing all these titles in tonguesother than my own is...
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Part 5 of "Bloodstains Across...."
Today we will focus strictly on the UK, four discs from the cradle of punk rock. As with the rest of this series, it is obscure, unknown, and cool as hell. Please continue to let me know what you think...
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PART 6 of "Bloodstains Across...."
Three discs today concentrating on the wonderous land of Sweden, home of so much wonderful music of various types over the decades, and three fine discs full of flat out punk. This will complete the...
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Part 7 (the LAST part) of "Bloodstains Across"
Today we wrap up this fine series with discs from the greatest country on the planet, the United States of America......the set is broken down regionally, and the differences are quite intersting...in...
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