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• Lux Interiro RIP

  by Jenny February 6, 2009
  Y'all can read by thoughts here: http://elastic-spam.livejournal.com/354278.html
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• Rockin with 90s grunge-song by song

  by Jenny January 11, 2009
  So guess what was on sale for 3.99 at FYE today? The soundtrack to the 1991 classic film Singles. Okay, the soundtrack was probably better known, however, I'd say this album's perfect for dreary months like January. 1) Would-Alice in Chains: I'll be honest:I'm not a big fan of these guys and sort o...
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• Rebelious Jukebox yeah!

  by Jenny December 6, 2008
  So today I purchased Ladies and Gentleman, the fabulous stains making the total of my ever growing punk related dvd collection to..5. Anyway, the young Diane Lane is really good in this,especially the opening scene. The rest is all right and it's fun to hear Steve Jones,Paul Cook,and Paul Simion cus...

• Ever changing album list

  by Jenny November 14, 2008
  Here's the newest one: 1)Quadrophenia-The Who 2)London Calling-The Clash 3)Aladdin Sane-David Bowie 4) Velvet Underground and Nico 5)Iggy Pop-Lust for Life 6)Stop Making Sense-Talking Heads 7)New Day Rising-Husker Du 8)Demon Days-Gorillaz 9)Tom Tom Club-s/t 10)SEx Pistols- Nevermnind the b...

• New blog!

  by Jenny November 2, 2008
  Don't worry, I'll still post music opinions here,but here: http://fortawesome-jm.blogspot.com/ Not much yet though.
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• willy graves and the plot to blow up the eiffel tower

  by Jenny September 27, 2008
  So y'see a few weeks ago this kid named Willy Graves passed away. This young fella was the bassist for the plot to blow up the eiffel tower. Yup, that's the actual band name. Anywho, I downloaded one of their albums avaliable here: http://justanotherkidonthebeat.blogspot.com/2008/09/rip-willy-graves...

• Personality crisis

  by Jenny September 22, 2008
  In my mind, there were three sorts of personality types within the punk/post-punk boom of 77: neurotic sensitive art school kids: Television, Talking Heads, Buzzcocks, Richard Hell, David Bowie (His Berlin period), Joy Division Lovable,sometimes horny dumbbells: Ramones, Dead Boys, The Damned, Joh...

• One of those days

  by Jenny September 14, 2008
  It's rainy, there's no coca-cola, you watched this sketch that made you laugh and cringe at the same time: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281 So what's a kid to do? Why, listen to some live dead kennedys stuff of course! I particulary reccomend this one: ht...

• After today..

  by Jenny August 29, 2008
  Bootsy Collins is my new favorite guitar player; Maggot Brain is a work of beauty.

• Ladies and Gentlemen,

  by Jenny August 17, 2008
  Set your kids in front of the computer monitor because it's time a young man by the name of Ian Mackaye and his good friend Amy taught them about vowels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhNbaMJNA50 And yes, that is real hair on his head.

• stupid disc space

  by Jenny August 7, 2008
  It's making me delete some music files that I may've wanted to listen to a bit more,but then again, I think you can only listen to a Screamers live show bootleg only once (avaliable here: http://commercialzone.blogspot.com/2007/09/screamers-in-better-world-2001.html) I mean, it's awesome,but like th...

• X's Wild Gift

  by Jenny August 4, 2008
  So I've been on a 70s L.A. punk kick lately and discovered that my favorite of X's first three albums is Wild Gift. Oh, Los Angeles is a classic, don't get me wrong,but something about this album makes it so damn good and I dunno what. Maybe it's because it captures the gritty urban environment they...
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• Rock N Roll Theology

  by Jenny August 1, 2008
  The way I see it, Jimi Hendrix is god, Bowie is Jesus, and Sonic Youth is one of their many desciples Here's my little tribute to the Patron Saints of Indie Rock that was written on Thurston Moore's 50th birthday: http://elastic-spam.livejournal.com/325725.html

• Whoooops

  by Jenny July 24, 2008
  I was on vacation last week and I couldn't think of anything music related to post,but now: Best songs off of Richard Hell's Blank Generation (aside from the title song): 1) Love comes in Spurts (I actually like this better than Blank generation honestly) 2) Another World 3) Down at the rock n r...
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• 4 best hardcore albums for the Angry American(A July 4th celebration)

  by Jenny July 6, 2008
  I was gonna post this on the 4th,but never got around to it so here's the list Born Against- 9 patriotic hymns for children/battle hymns of the race war: Pure screaming anger railing against injustice and unfair treatment. My two favorites on these albums are Organ of Hope and Poland. It can be fou...

• Damn it

  by Jenny June 23, 2008
  The Pogues are so good it hurts.
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• Well excuse me Judge Reinhold!

  by Jenny June 21, 2008
  Dear God, I'm frantic over the recent happenings among the Dead Kennedys: First, the current singer guy leaves over a row about the band's future and according to him, they hired another singer behind his back: http://www.punknews.org/article/28168 And the little comment from David Cruz doesn't hel...
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• A Tom Waits Condumdrum

  by Jenny June 17, 2008
  Okay, so I downloaded and listened to a bit of Tom Waits' storytellers and though I loved the way he talks and very much enjoy his sense of humor, I just cannot get past his singing voice. I want to like him: his pressance is cool, his personality is endearing,but..but.. Ah hell, I guess it's that I...
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• Bestest surf rock since Da Beach Boys

  by Jenny June 14, 2008
  The Kids in the hall is one of my favorite shows of all time and also has one of the most beautiful theme songs ever called Having an Average weekend by Shadowy Men on a shadowy planet and now, you can download two small collections of their output here: http://boppeslag.blogspot.com/2008/05/shadowy...

• Indie journey part 2

  by Jenny June 7, 2008
  Mudhoney: Okay, so I would say Super Fuzz Big Muff is the best record for people who are ignorant of grunge; it sounds more sabbathy compared to Nirvana and much more trippy. As an aside, I'd say the best to way to introduce folks to this genre is to do the following: 1) play them a Black Sabbath a...

• Follow up: Links galore!

  by Jenny June 4, 2008
  links to blogs that have some of the albums mentioned in the article: Fugazi: http://burningdowndreams.blogspot.com/2007/09/fugazi-13-songs.html Rites of Spring: http://burningdowndreams.blogspot.com/2007/08/rites-of-spring-end-on-end-demos.html Dinosaur Jr's Bug: http://hardcorefornerds.blogspot....

• a journey through 80s indie rock pt 1

  by Jenny June 4, 2008
  I'm nearly finished reading Our Band Could be your Life, a harrowing, fascinating biography about the 8os indie rock icons we all know and love the last two chapters are about Mudhoney and Beat Happening. I shall save those for the next post,but here, I shall recap my thoughts on the bands mentioned...

• Okay, I take it back

  by Jenny May 24, 2008
  Rage against the machine's debut is decent. My apologies to Zapista lovers everywhere.

• Pink Floyd

  by Jenny May 23, 2008
  So I' recently downloaded and re-downloaded Pink Floyd's Saucerful of Secrets and Meddle: both are relaxing, fun, and have opening tracks that each have grand guitar work courtesy of David Gilmour. So yes, I enjoy some Pink Floyd. There I said it.
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• Outta school!

  by Jenny May 21, 2008
  So summers here and so far, I've been surveying the music landscape (read sitting at my computer listening to downloads) and here's the insight I can offer for now : Rage Against the Machine is fairly overrated. With the exception of Down rodeo, Bullet in the head, and Know your enemy, Zach De La R...
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• Still alive

  by Jenny May 15, 2008
  I've been busy wrapping up the semester and there's way too many music blogs out there calling my name, so I haven't been tunin into garage punk radio. Sorry. However, I will say I've been into all female rock bands lately, I blame Tank Girl and her ass kicking ways. My two favorites are The Runaway...

• Listening to the dead kennedys

  by Jenny April 21, 2008
  I've said before that The Germs were more closer to the Sex Pistols then, say, the sex pistols, but I'd put the dead kennedys in the sex pistolls category too. Sure they were more in depth politically than the pistols, but there's the same sarcastic anger that John Lydon possessed too.
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• Urgent message!

  by Jenny March 21, 2008
  So here's what I want y'all to do for me: 1) go here: http://chrisgoesrocks.blogspot.com/search?q=happy+trails 2) download the album from one of sharebee's four audio file choices 3) listen to the magic. There is a bit of a lull in How you love, but it picks right up after that.
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• Torgo. you're the laziest man on mars aka the movie poster installment

  by Jenny March 19, 2008
  So lemme ask you this: 1) what's your favorite b-movie poster (It can be a horror one or one of dem biker movies) 2) If you've seen it, what's your favorite episode of Mystery science theatre 3000? as for me, I think wasp woman is pretty neat looking: http://www.impawards.com/1960/posters/wasp_w...

• Still alive

  by Jenny March 3, 2008
  I've just been busy lately with college and stuff. I confess, I haven't been listenin to you folks' podcasts as much as I should: there's just too many music blogs with deliciously fascinating music that are calling my name. Speaking of the podcasts, out of all the awesome lil logos that represent ...

• Charlie don't surf!

  by Jenny February 19, 2008
  all right, I'm all jazzed from the amazing epic that was Apocalypse Now and I've decided to make a list of the four best military themed punk songs 1) World At War-Black Market Baby: Basically sums up Apocalypse Now in about a minute and that's exactly why I love it 2) Commando-Ramones: silly and ...
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• Guess what?

  by Jenny February 6, 2008
  Throbbing Gristle repetitiveness kinda sucks, but the good news: the original version of search and destroy is still somehow beautiful in all its muddied, muted glory.
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• Perhaps the most sincere, personal political song Jello Biafra's ever written

  by Jenny February 3, 2008
  Bozo Skeleton- Lard from 1990 Here today, gone tomorrowDon't need my self rememberedBut what I help create and leave behindIs important to meTo dent the comfortably numbWith constructive satireMake my life one big prankOn a society I hateall that we are when we're on a stageIs Vaudeville jester for ...

• punkish movies and documentaries

  by Jenny January 28, 2008
  Okay, here's the official tally of punk documentaries and films the excellent: This Is england: a recent drama about a young schoolboy who joins a skinhead gang in the 80s that gets into hot water when a racist teen takes over. Punk rock movie: excellent account of the late 70s Uk scene with all the...
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• 1 2-3-4! Best Punk books (and then some!)

  by Jenny January 20, 2008
  If you're like me, you're not only fascinated and love punk rock, but are also fascinated by how it all started and what were the musical inspirations for it, so here's some good reads in no particular order 1) England's dreaming:a great account on the 70s punk movement in England. Yes, it focuses m...
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• rap picks (and a lil electronica too!)

  by Jenny January 14, 2008
  I'm puttin the well known, able to get stuff first (the one's I've sat down and listened to on my computer) 1988-1989: NWA- Straight Outta Compton: If the Sex Pistols did rap, this is what it'd sound like Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique: A million miles better than the overly goony Liscence to ill and...
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• right right right..

  by Jenny January 11, 2008
  sorry for lack of updates, I just haven't gotten around to it. Today, I have some more radio favorites of mine to give to you. First up, Little Steven's underground garage: http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/play/archive.html Yes, I know it's had coporate sponsors in the past, but this is...
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• podcast favorite #3

  by Jenny January 3, 2008
  Beastie Boys + radio= what could be better? http://littleradio.com/shows/show/31 Yeah, the recording's a little wonky and crackles a bit, but still pretty enjoyable in my eyes

• podcast favorite #2: The Sound of Young America

  by Jenny January 2, 2008
  okay, the site's down right now, but if you go here: http://www.maximumfun.org./ and click on Listen, you'll find a bunch of great radio interviews with musicians, writers, artists, and most of all, comedians. There's also a Never Not Funny-like show on there called Jordan Jesse Go starring the host...

• okay...uh

  by Jenny January 1, 2008
  I post all my other thoughts and such on my livejournal, I've had a myspace, but sorta abandoned it and my facebook is still sittin there.. not doin much, but anyway: I'll post the podcast sites that I enjoy here and reccomend em to the good folks here: First up: Never Not Funny: http://podcast.jimm...