Murals - "Eyes of Love"

This song is fantastic because it's almost 1920's with its school room piano and reverberated sound, but the rest of the song brings you into home, right now.

"Hey" - The Pixies

Wow. Amazing what 25 years does to musical perspective.

Few gave The Pixies the credit they deserved through the '90's as bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc were the ones to become famous with the fast-slow, fast-slow "alternative" sound. Foundational songs like this one were amazing achievements in an era dominated by glam rock and Brit pop.



And here's the original if interested.

"Two Cousins" ~ Slow Club

While the recorded version of this track is absolutely fabulous and brings back great memories, I stumbled upon this live version of the song tonight and was impressed ... and made me think how acoustic slow-downs can make songs better ... maybe because they're that much closer to the original, more composition-close versions of what we hear on our radio and digital feeds, like the personal versions of ourselves, instead of the online, made-up, publicized versions.

Mystery Jets - Radlands

Happy New Year everyone!!

Here's a new track to start off your year.  It makes me miss old times and playing guitar.

Lord Huron - “Time to Run”

Thought you might dig this ditty. From Boingboing.net: 'Lord Huron started as just Ben Schneider, a Michigan-born Navy brat with fond memories of his father playing guitar around a campfire at (you guessed it) Lake Huron. Ben’s since moved to LA and morphed Lord Huron into a 5-piece melodic hootenanny machine. The songs are lush and accomplished and feel perfect for this time of year. “Time to Run” is my favorite song, and the band is giving us a free download for a week.'

The Coup - "Guillotine"

The Coup is a revolutionary communist hip-hop group hailing from Oakland CA. Their outspoken political views have generated heat before, most notably in 2001 when their album Party Music was pulled from a September 2001 release because of the artwork which featured rappers Boots Riley and Pam the Funkstress blowing up the World Trade Centre towers. Bad timing indeed.

Their new album is recently out called Sorry to Bother You. This single mixes French Revolutionary messages with a wacko Wizard of Oz theme (paying tribute to the 70s Motown remake "The Wiz" [featuring Micheal Jackson as the Scarecrow, and Diana Ross as Dorothy.

Never has the revolution sounded so funky.

Lake Side Dive - "I Want You Back"

A jazzy country four-piece from Boston belts out this Jackson 5 classic on a Boston street.