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 Caught in the Carousel "There will be music despite everything"
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The Adventures of Stickboy
1. "I'm Pretty Sure I'm Gay"
2. "Please, Please, Please"
3. "I'm Pretty Sure I Can't Go On Vacation with My Parents Anymore"
4. "Kiss Me on the LRV"
5. "It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands"
6. "I'm Pretty Sure I Want to be a Famous Comic Book Artist"
7. "Brushes with Greatness"
8. "Exterminate the Brutes!"
9. "Kill Cat Stevens"
10. "Strip Club Strip"
11. "O' Come Again, Terrible Summer"
12. "En El Fondo: Pages from an (Anti) Depression"
13. "The $100K Bowl of Shit"
Shawn Brown
The Trews: Canadian Riff Rock With Indie Sprit and a Pimps' Heart
Quit Sellin' Amos Lee Short
Carousel Roundup
February 2011: Have a Heart (It's So Tasty)
November 2010: I See Dead Things
October 2010: I'm Running Away to Join the Circus
September 2010: Almost Strictly Instrumental
August 2010: The Booze Tour
July 2010: Sisters of Mercy
June 2010: Groovy Singer-Songwriters
Composition Breakdown
Brian Vander Ark
Thomas Cooney:
"Another Thing!" (January 2012)
"Another Thing!" (October 2011)
"Another Thing!" (August 2011)
"Another Thing!" (June 2011)
"Another Thing!" (April 2011)
"Another Thing!" (February 2011)
"Another Thing!" (January 2011)
"Another Thing!" (November 2010)
"Another Thing!" (October 2010)
"Another Thing!" (September 2010)
"10 Years of Swing Out Sister's Somewhere Deep In The Night"
"The Twenty-Five Year Seduction: Bryan Ferry’s Boys and Girls"
"Decade in Review"
"The Deep Night Of Day"
The Cyprus Chronicles:
"Life Itself"
Katrina Geco:
"Daydreamer's Holiday - The Clarks and the Sounds of Pittsburgh"
Kevin Griffin:
"The Bass Man"
Kelly Haigh:
"Stage Fright at the Railway Club"
New Crush/Old Crush
Vampire Weekend
War Elephant
Theresa Moorehouse
Kaya Oakes' Miscellany:
"Dylan: He's Just Like Us"
The Roberge Report:
"Just for Openers"
"Jay Walter Bennett"
"Closet Classics"
"Urinal Tour Diary; A Week on the Road with the most Punctual and Polite Band in Punk"
"Room #8, Joshua Tree Inn"
Studio Musician Gossip:
"We Need A Public Option Radio Station"
"Make Out/Make Over"
"Re-Make, Re-Model"
Book Reviews
Got No Secrets by Danila Botha
All You Get Is Me, by Yvonne Prinz
Getting in Tune, by Roger Trott
Hew, Screw + Glue: How Stuff is Made, by James Innes-Smith
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James And The Shondells , by Tommy James
Mingering Mike, by Dori Hadar
New York Dolls, by Bob Gruen
Red Album of Asbury Park, by Alex Austin
Satchmo: The Wonderful World And Art Of Louis Armstrong, by Steven Brower
Stalker Girl, by Rosemary Graham
Stone Roses, by Alex Green
Three Wishes: An Intimate Look At Jazz Greats, by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz
DVD Reviews
Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live
Live Reviews
2011
2011 - Lost Lander
2011 - Bryan Ferry
2011 - Joana and the Wolf
2011 - Jasmine Minks
2011 - Gardens & Villa
2011 - Mike Watt & the Minutemen
2011 - The Royal Bangs
2011 - Dropkick Murphys
2011 - The Decemberists
2010
2010 - English Beat
2010 - Toadies
2010 - Sick Puppies
2010 - Jennie DeVoe
2009
2009 - Forever Young Dylan Tribute
The Meat Puppets
Bob Mould with Juliana Hatfield
Pet Shop Boys
Pixies
Bonnie Whitmore
2008
2008 - The Kooks
The Subways
2007
Big Star
Coachella
English Beat
Sondre Lerche
Placebo
Sonic Youth
Best Of:
Best of 2010
Best of 2009
Best of 2008
Caught in the Carousel's Year's Best for 2009
Matt "MV" Valentine
Musician, MV & EE
www.myspace.com/mveebummerroad
1. Flower - Corsano Duo - "Another, I Couldn't Possibly" from The Chocolate Cities Cdr (Private Press/No Label)
These two are an instrumental unit, yet the sheer vocal narrative of their music is tantamount to a Proustian song cycle. They rip like all the heavies of every era in the DIY / free folk underground but the sound is totally unparalleled, truly radiating the meridian of the east/west divide. Here they are recorded live from the tapers pit, producing this 'miniature' at just over 3 minutes which is a feat unto itself in the raga idiom. Astounding freedom tone humming eternally outside of Top 40 like no other.
2. Woods - "Sunlit" 7 inch (Captured Tracks)
Killer basement blare with a fidelity that is triangulated somewhere between the 13th Floor Elevators' sub-terrain; the elevator sounds you'd wish to hear in a Rudy Rucker novel and garage bands in the global jungle garageband. Catchy without saccharine.
3. Sunburned Hand Of The Man - "Action Figure" from the A L.P. (Ecstatic Peace!)
Pulse jammer that is both ass vibration rural glam and inner city autobahn with a cerebral slant that I can never get enough of. I find myself shakin' it to this entire album with the tone arm on infinite repeat, but it is this particular track that will forever bring my post Kraut vision quest to New England's North Shore.
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