Hey folks, I've been on VACATION! Yeah, it's been a year now since I got a full-time grown-up job, so I finally decided to cash in and take a week of paid vacation. Lemme back up a bit and be honest. I didn't just go nuts and check out for awhile, I went nuts and impulsively bought tickets to the Friday night show of the Norton Records 25th anniversary celebration at the Bell House in Brooklyn! I just couldn't miss the Reigning Sound, Mark Sultan, the Great Gaylord, Jackie and The Cedrics, Mighty Hannibal, Andre Williams, and an all-star band led by Mick Collins on guitar. What a lineup! After a five day weekend in NYC that involved much record shopping (original pressings of the second New York Dolls LP AND PiL's Flowers Of Romance, YES!), a midnight show at the KILLER Spectacle Theater, a trip to Coney Island for a Nathan's Famous, and a few moments of clarity in a garden on top of a seventeen story building, I'm back and proud to present Random Old Records Podcast #37, which also happens to be the third anniversary show!
Yep, I've been doing this podcast for a solid three years now and it might seem easy, but it can get hard as hell to scour the bins and blogs for a monthly hour of fresh jams sometimes. Luckily, the fall has coughed up a whole bunch of sizzling slabs that I can't stop spinning, and the springboard was a killer weeknight show at local dive The Comet, featuring Davila 666, Jacuzzi Boys, and Barreracudas. You'll hear a track from each band on this episode, kicking off with Davila's modern classic "El Lobo." Elsewhere, there's bubblegum-catchy glammy power pop punk junk from Italy's Giuda, Bare Wires, Video, and White Faces, another track from the AMAZING new Strange Boys LP (the best American rock n' roll band since the Replacements, for real), dark mysterious pop from Captured Tracks heroes Blouse and The Soft Moon, noisy Ramones worship from Terry Malts, noisy 90s slacker-rock worship from Heavy Times, and a whole helluva lot MORE!
I know that I say it every time a new episode comes out, but seriously, THANK YOU for reading this blog and listening to the podcast! Whether you've been here since the beginning, or just found this site while searching for Mediafire links to the new Bad Sports LP or whatever and decided that REAL old school music writing still had merit in 2011, I'm glad you came along for the ride. Every time I think about quitting and settling into old age and complacency, my mind is blown by another bunch of kids with guitars and the cycle starts all over again. If going to the Norton bash taught me anything, it's that real, passionate rock n' roll still pokes through the cracks in this monolith of Internet cultural saturation every once in awhile, and it's no less vital than it was back in whatever time and place you decide is THE DAY. Hope you dig episode #37, and here's to three more years!
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Random Old Records Podcast #37
Released 11/15/2011
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1. Davila 666 - "El Lobo"
(Davila 666, In The Red 2011)
2. The Strange Boys - "Punk's Pyjamas"
(Live Music, Rough Trade 2011)
3. Bare Wires - "Ain't Worth Walkin' Away"
(Cheap Perfume, Southpaw 2011)
4. White Faces - "Star Of Bright"
(White Faces, Windian 2011)
5. The Barreracudas - "Don't Roll Your Eyes"
(Nocturnal Missions, Douchemaster 2011)
6. Giuda - "Don't Stop Rockin'"
(Racey Roller, Dead Beat 2011)
--record collectors suck.
7. The Penetrators - "Gotta Have Her"
(Gotta Have Her 7", Windian 2011)
8. Heavy Times - "Let It Die"
(Jacker, HoZac 2011)
9. Terry Malts - "Something About You"
(Something About You 7", Slumberland 2011)
10. Bad Sports - "Can't Just Be Friends"
(Kings Of The Weekend, Dirtnap 2011)
11. Video - "Eyes"
(Leather Leather, Play Pinball 2011)
12. Spider Fever - "Back To You"
(She's No Saint 7", Cave Punk 2011)
--muscleheads on a muscle beach.
13. Jacuzzi Boys - "Cool Vapors"
(Glazin', Hardly Art 2011)
14. Reading Rainbow - "White Noise"
(Prism Eyes, HoZac 2010)
15. Super Wild Horses - "Enigma"
(Fifteen, HoZac 2010)
16. Bad Banana - "Teleport Tonight"
(Cry About It, Puzzle Pieces 2011)
17. Colleen Green - "Jesse Has A New Girl"
(Cujo, AF 2011)
--Bob Ross, just painting some trees. NBD.
18. Half String - "Evergreen"
(Tripped Up Breathing, Independent Projects 1994)
19. The Soft Moon - "Alive"
(Total Decay, Captured Tracks 2011)
20. Blouse - "They Always Fly Away"
(Blouse, Captured Tracks 2011)
21. Wax Idols - "Grey Area"
(No Future, HoZac 2011)
