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• Podcast Segemnts

  by Eric Reanimator April 28, 2012
  I have been out of the loop with blogging and posting an blog like sites for a while……. but it might be of interest to some that I have been sending in segments about music to a couple of podcasts. First Outside the Cinema has been including me in their feedback segment since last October. I have m...

• Stupidity & The Canasta's 2 July 2011: Goodnight Gracie’s Ann Arbor Michigan

  by Eric Reanimator July 3, 2011
  2 July 2011: Goodnight Gracie’s     Despite the storm which ripped though Ann Arbor around 9:00 PM, washing away some of the heat and leaving some amazing skies I did head out to see some rock and roll and wasn’t disappointed.   Up first was SUBOURBON SON a one-man band playing honky tonk Rockabilly...

• show review: Aaron Dresner & Van Houten

  by Eric Reanimator April 25, 2011
  Aaron Dresner Van Houten Hiss (who didn’t get to play)  23 April 2011      It’s been a while since I was at a small show, and a longer time since I had seen the debut of a new local band. Saturday night I was among the medium sized audience at a party in one of those small weird spaces in town. It a...

• Cock Sparrer: Riot Squad

  by Eric Reanimator May 14, 2010
  Once upon a time I had a back and forth with ex- Gang of Four member Dave Allen about my having written about the the band Cock Sparrer and Oi! music as related to the issue of racism (read the exchange here)... So let's get that whole thing out of the way, I find racism ugly, lame, dangerous, and u...

• Icehouse: The Heartbreak Kid by Icehouse

  by Eric Reanimator April 13, 2010
  Icehouse: The Heartbreak Kid by Icehouse It's said in many circles that there are three main reasons that people kill- Money, Madness and Passion. It could also be said that those are the three main reasons that people write songs, so it should be no surprise that those three themes show up as topic...

• Crime Tune March 2010: Drivin N Cryin- Legal Gun

  by Eric Reanimator March 13, 2010
  Drivin N Cryin- Legal Gun Amsterdam in 81 Monty walks alone Coming in a five fifty night Disconnects the phone Oct in 81 Sara-a-gue walks alone Coming in another night She disconnects the phone Because he's just a legal gun And she's just a legal whore He just guns them down right She just asks f...

• Country for Garage Punkers #2: James Mc Murtry live in Aught-Three

  by Eric Reanimator February 27, 2010
  Country for Garage Punkers #2: James Mc Murtry I gotta blame Stephen King for this one. I picked it up after he raved about it in a column he wrote for Entertainment Weekly. It's been on my mind ever since. The political statements, the working class ethos, and the passion carry this live album ...
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• Leningrad Cowboys -Thru the Wire

  by Eric Reanimator February 8, 2010
  Starting off with the sombulistic Sax and the sound of the rain, The Leningrad Cowboy's tune Thru the Wire is a crime drama more in line of the down and out damned than anything involving cops and crooks. It drips with a midnight of fear and a need to escape, building slowly from that initial shimme...

• Eilen Jewell: Sea of Tears

  by Eric Reanimator January 26, 2010
  Do you know those opening dirge like moments of the song Endless Sleep by Jody Reynolds? If you don't it's a dark mix of rockabilly balladry and sparse shadowy twang. Most of the album Sea of Tears by Eilen Jewell has that feel, and from the moment I heard the title track I had to hear it all. That ...

• Stan Ridgway: The Big Heat

  by Eric Reanimator January 12, 2010
  From my main blog: restlesskind.blogspot.com When it comes to Detective Narrative in pop music, I always end up turning to Stan Ridgway and his 1986 tune The Big Heat first. The title track from his first solo record Ridgway, who had just finished up his tenure with the New Wave group Wall of Voodoo...
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• In the Digital Dust Bin

  by Eric Reanimator July 1, 2008
  So I was thinking about this while writing my monthly Playlist Post.... in this age, of the MP3 and the Digital Dustbin... what' going to happen to all those great songs that people have written that never caught on, or that had a moment of minor I was thinking about The Earps, and made some commen...

• 6/2008 Playlist

  by Eric Reanimator June 30, 2008
  Each month, since Feb of 2006, I start a playlist in my iTunes of the tunes that catch my ear that month. I started off writing a post to my Mog page with a short review or comments of each track, not only to keep a running diary for myself, but also to hopefully point others toward these tunes. In ...

• 1/2008 Playlist

  by Eric Reanimator January 31, 2008
  Each Month, I start a file in my iTunes that is a playlist for the tunes that catch my ear that month. I have been doing this since Feb of 2006, and each month I write a Mog post covering what I have been listening to each month… I am starting to post this write up in other spaces beyond my Mog (and...

• My top 25 most played tunes added in 2007 according to iTunes

  by Eric Reanimator December 31, 2007
  Way back at the start of the this year, I set up a playlist that would collect the 25 most played songs that I added to my iTunes in 2007. I did this mostly so that I could look back and see what really caught my ear, and as sort of a companion to my monthly lists of what I had the urge to drop and ...

• 2007: The new releases that I bought!

  by Eric Reanimator December 3, 2007
  I didn’t buy a whole lot of records this past year. It was a combination of lack of funds, a lack of desire to store (or move) any more records, but in all honest it was also a lack of there being a whole lot that I was really interested in enough to buy. What I figured I would do with this post is ...

• 11 2007 Playlist

  by Eric Reanimator November 30, 2007
  Each Month, I start a file in my iTunes that is a playlist for the tunes that catch my ear that month. I have been doing this since Feb of 2006, and each month I write a Mog post covering what I have been listening to each month… I am starting to post this write up in other spaces beyond my Mog (and...

• 10 2007 Playlist

  by Eric Reanimator October 31, 2007
  Each Month, I start a file in my iTunes that is a playlist for the tunes that catch my ear that month. I have been doing this since Feb of 2006, and each month I write a Mog post covering what I have been listening to each month… I am starting to post this write up in other spaces beyond my Mog… cau...

• 9 2007 Playlist

  by Eric Reanimator October 9, 2007
  I've been busy and totally forgot to re-post this entry here from my mog page www.mog.com/iren also my Oct Music Writing Project this year is 31 posts about the Nordic Hi Energy Rock and Roll scene, and you can find links to those posts on my Mog page as well... It’s that time of the month again, ...

• 8 2007 Playlist...

  by Eric Reanimator September 12, 2007
  It’s that time of the month again, the start of a new one. It’s also coming up on the start of fall, the start of school, and in many places a new fiscal year… for me the start of a new month is a time for me to look back at my monthly play list that I generate of the tunes that have caught my ear o...

• 7 2007 Playlist

  by Eric Reanimator August 4, 2007
  As I stated in my past posts, I do most of my music writing over at www.mog.com/iren... and one of the things I write every month is a play list of what has caught my ear the previous month... so here is my post for July 2007 (if you check out my mog post it has links for some of these bands) If yo...

• My first two times..... a Tale of two Soundtracks

  by Eric Reanimator July 10, 2007
  I was gonna say something about my first time getting garage rock... but I then I remembered that this is the Garage... Punk..... hideout, so maybe I should say something about my first time with the garage punk... It was the late 80's and I was a teenage...and my brother and I had rented this flick...
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• Out of the Black Eyed Mansion

  by Eric Reanimator June 30, 2007
  Just by way of introduction a little info, and some music chatter... I've been a music fan since my teen years, first discovering punk, metal, alternative, and alt country via the soundtrack to a movie called Dudes (a punk western). Over the years I have followed all sorts of music and been a fan o...