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Hello, and Best Wishes to my friends from SUMMER CANNIBALS!

Summer Canniblas is one of "those" BIG TIME bands (ala the great Tender Age) who desire FEWER listeners to thier work, rather than MORE. Of course, as always, I will remove anything from this blog for...

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Bulbous Creation

Another hard/heavy psych one and done from those wonderful early 1970's......another fave of mine, with fairly rough vocals, sloppy (a compliment) fuzz guitar, and unusually good drums and bass (for...

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Jon S with a David Lynch post

(Scott) not terribly familiar, although I did watch "Twin Peaks" many years ago.......anyway, Jon S has yet to steer us wrong, so I will be checking these out. As should you...

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The Doors Part 11 (Of many)

Ho!, You thought I forgot all about these boyos huh? Well dream on, there are a bunch of parts remaining on my hard drive, and Doors fantatics unite! A lot of this stuff IS pretty rare-and has also...

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Jon S with Girls From Dublin

(Scott).....the first line of Jon S's brief summary sums it up perfectly......I LOVE me some girls bands, always have.....these from Dublin I am unfamilar with (which  I LOVE), and these will be heard...

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Nick Drake

Relative to how I am feeling recently, had to be Nick Drake or Elliott Smith today, and Nick had the lesser discography, so let's go that way.....DO NOT expect the usual BigScott Rock-o-Rama on this...

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Young Flowers

(Scott)-This is a John N contribution, sounds great from what I read......this is another one that yer uncles is not exactly familar with, but, fortunately, Ol' John N has provided us with a good write...

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Happy Memorial Day.....let's begin the Talking Heads deluge!

Some bands, of which I am a "fan" rather than a listener (you know what I mean) are really hard to profile here, because I have SO MUCH material...I've NEVER done a Roxy music post/series, despite they...

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Girl Band Completer!

(scott) Jon S, meet John N......yesterday I made a fool out of myself, thinking "The Girl band" was actually a "girl band"......well, I got that straight in my feeble brain, and along comes John N to...

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Souldiggers Band

This is a god album from The Soul Digger's band, ca. 2012....I know they released at least a second effort,but I can't find it/don't have it, so hopefully someeone will come up with it. Why? because...

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Talking Heads Part 2 (an outside submission, somewhat).....

OK, I just couldn't let this go.....I found on Pirate Bay a "labor of love" creation by a Talking Heads fan named "imunionjack"......it's enormous, just his fave stuff from the band, in no particular...

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yet another fab contribution from Jon S, The Metz......totally fab, guys...

(scott) I am not familiar with the Metz, let me say that up front...however, when on of my blog friends sends me in a certain direction, I don't shy away....The Metz are a rockin' trio on Sub-Pop, from...

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Mississippi Sludge

Nearly impossible to find any info on this band, I think this is their only release, 2001's "Biscuits and Slavery"......I used to generally dislike "southern rock" for the most part, but "southern...

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Some New Punk from Max Raptor

John N sends us this one, some really good slammin punk that sounds like it escaped from 1977.....the band is Ben Winnington on guitar, Matt Stevenson on bass, Wil Ray on vocals, and Pete Reisner on...

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Souldiggers Band, Redux

Got several things I'd like to get to this evening, let's see how many I get to.....well, excellent submissions continue to pour in, and I WILL get to them, as soon as possible, and thanks a million...

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Mr Plow

During my taxing work day, I let my I Pod run free, it's a classic edition (160 gb I think) that holds about 1500 albums, which I loaded about ten years ago.....I've never changed it, I listen to newer...

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Talking Heads Part 3

Just a couple of Heads discs today, before we begin the mountain of live shows. Both of these are quite interesting, a set of outtakes, with plenty of stuff from various stages of the career.Next we...

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Part 1 of a Jon S/BigScott X Collaboration

(Scott) when Jon S sent me these fab X boots today, I was simply going to add mine to them and make a mega post, but upon checking I just have too many to make it manageable.....so YOU are the winners,...

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The Associates

From the link machine John N comes another  good one, three excellent albums from 1980's arty Scotish new-wavers The Associates. Best recalled for the unique voice of the late Billy Mackenzie, these...

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Sungrazer

This is a fine contribution from Studkid, whom I have been referring to as "Henrick Morch", because that's what his e-mails say his name is......I suspect an insurmountable language/computer thing,...

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