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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"
4. "It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands"
5. "I'm Pretty Sure I Want to be a Famous Comic Book Artist"
Carousel Roundup
August 2010: The Booze Tour
July 2010: Sisters of Mercy
June 2010: Groovy Singer-Songwriters
Thomas Cooney:
"Decade in Review"
"The Deep Night Of Day"
The Cyprus Chronicles:
"Life Itself"
Kevin Griffin:
"The Bass Man"
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
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
2010
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:
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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