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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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