Linkage Matters

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Pogo A Go-Go brings us back in time and everything comes out clean with Bleach!


The latest episode of the great Contrast Podcast is Songs Mentioning Other Songs, Bands, Artists and it's a doozy!


Song, By Toad buzzes over some buzz bands and then delivers a broken new one to our listening ears!


Speed Of Dark delivers another wonderful Time Travel Tuesday, this time T-Rex's Unicorn!


Powerpopulist brings us a couple from Chicago powerpop/glammers The Krinkles - 3: The Mordorlorff Collection!


Spoilt Victorian Child introduces us to MJ Hibbett & The Validators who hail from Derby!


And Before The First Kiss brings us some music magic ripped from those cassette tapes of yore!


Covert Curiosity brings us more good sounds from the land of Austin, Texas!


Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? takes us back to the days of Twisted Sister but with a modern to date story, and it proves that music is timeless!


Kwaya Na Kisser gives us his current favourite new music!


And visit the other quality blogs over there ==> in the blogroll!


mp3 Different Sound

Teddybears - Soft Machine


mp3 Sleepin Around

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped


mp3 This Place

City-State - Monument


mp3 Roll The Credits

Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block


mp3 It's My Way Of Staying Connected

She Sir - Who Can't Say Yes


mp3 Connect The Dots

The Purrs - The Purrs


mp3 Roll Call

Peter Murphy - Wild Birds 1985-1995: The Best of the Beggars Banquet Years

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Saturday Linkage

I am not overly crazy about messageboards, sometimes they can be rough... But there is a new one on the block that is well worth getting involved in. Liz from The Roaring Machine and her beau Simon from Spoilt Victorian Child have started The David Gedge Fanciers Club. Whether you are a Weddoe lover or not, this is a cool place to be!


If you like all things Dreampop and Shoegaze then be sure to check out alternapop!


You need to get over to The Rawking Refuses To Stop!, Dave has the last day of his Elliott Smith Covers series and it is excellent!


Alt-gramma over at Speed Of Dark has a nice review up of Idlewild's new Make Another World!


Head over to The Vinyl Villain and check out the Plastic Fantastic Series of posts, excellent! #5 in the series is here.


Quick Before It Melts brings us 4 for the weekend!



mp3 Lost Together

Consonant - Love and Affliction


mp3 Keep Us Together

Starsailor - On the Outside


mp3 Holdin' On Together

Phoenix - Alphabetical


mp3 Fall Together

Weezer - Maladroit


mp3 Come Together

Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space


mp3 We Are Thrown Together

INXS - Elegantly Wasted

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The Music Blogosphere

I discovered this blog by chance and think it is excellent. Check out Dead Flowers and especially check out the interviews featured: Pete from Adorable, Jez from Swervedriver and Matt from Foreign Born. Excellent blog!


Eric at Can You See The Sunset From The Southside? dug up a nice little gem from Japan. Also, really dig the new blog layout that Eric has going!


Bill at I Rock Cleveland has a nice write on The View And The Fratellis Battle For The Next Best Thing.


Darrin at Page 300 brings us the 20 year anniversary of U2's fantastic Joshua Tree album. My favorite band of all time and a timeless album indeed.


Ekko at Berkeley Place brings us Spoon A to Z, the majority of which are live tracks.


Matt at Ear Farm is currently shooting a US tour documentary for the band Goes Cube and he has daily posts about the tour.


From the guys who brought us elbo.ws, we now have MetaTu.be a TV blog aggregator.


And Pitchfork wins Best Music Blog at the 2007 Bloggies. WTF, I wasn't aware of Pitchfork being a Music Blog........


mp3 With Or Without You
U2 Live - Dublin - 1993


mp3 Everything Comes Around
Devlins - Waves


mp3 Come Around And Love Me
Arab Strap - Last Romance


mp3 Reel Around The Fountain
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

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Monday Link Connection

In The Blogs:

mp3hugger has an excellent post up on What Happened To Slowdive?


Music Is Art celebrates their one year anniversary!


Culture Bully brings us Twin Personas - An Interview Series Spotlighting Twin Cities Musical Personalities.


Spoilt Victorian Child posts about Moe Tucker drummer from The Velvet Underground.


Largehearted Boy brings us this week's new music releases. Arcade Fire (Neon Bible), Air (Pocket Symphony), Robyn Hitchcock (Sex, Food, Death and Tarantulas)and Kaiser Chiefs (Yours Truly Angry Mob) are a few of the notable ones.


Other Stuff:

FCC Payola Probe Boosts Indie Music


The End Of Internet Radio As We Know It


In Search Of The Perfect Pop Song


Uncut Magazine's New Music Blog


Tuneage:

mp3 Super-Connected
Belly - Sweet Ride: Best of


mp3 I Got Connected
For Stars - We Are All Beautiful People


mp3 Missing Link
Curve - Cuckoo

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Train Mix

pic courtesy of here


Trains are interesting things. I have this reoccurring dream about a train. I've packed my bags, bought my ticket and am waiting at the station. But the train never comes; I wait and wait but nothing. Finally, after waiting so long I decide to take a nap, only to wake up later to see the train leaving the station without me on it. I quickly get up, grab my bags and proceed to chase the train. I run hard but I am not fast enough and I watch the train move out into the distance. The train is gone and once again I am by myself wondering who I am, where I am and most of all where am I going. Lost.


mp3 I Often Dream Of Trains (Robyn Hitchcock cover)
Firewater - Songs We Should Have Written


mp3 This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers
Augie March - Strange Bird


mp3 Fear Of Trains
The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip


mp3 Misery Train
Suicide - American Supreme


mp3 Ghost Train
Justin Sullivan - Navigating By The Stars


mp3 Train In Vain
The Clash - Clash On Broadway


mp3 Last Train To Satansville
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head



mp3 The Getaway (Lonesome Train)
Ray Davies - Other People's Lives


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Other Places


For you Shoegaze lovers, check out this excellent post and mix from my Scottish Brother at And Before The First Kiss. Awesome!

Gdansk

Two of my favorite bloggers, one here and the other one here, introduced me to a new Scottish band by the name of Gdansk. Yeah, you got it right, a Scottish band with a Polish name. Go figure. They got a nice 80's sound (think Joy Division) with a little shoegaze influence thrown in for good measure. They are currently without a label right now but expect that to change pretty quickly.

mp3 The Auteur

mp3 Kicking A Television

Gdansk MySpace (more tracks available, if MySpace will cooperate and let you download them)

Gdansk Homepage (Doesn't seem to be up at the moment, though)


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Other Places

Sixeyes has the mp3's from last nights SNL Arcade Fire performance.


Chris over at Music Of The Moment has a nice Flashback Friday Dance Mix posted, check it.


Stytzer over at Hits In The Car introduces us to Bubblegum Lemonade (think noise pop, jangling guitars and 60's inspiration). Good stuff.


Covert Curiosity introduces us to the nice sounds of Baltimore quartet Thrushes.

Elika

Elika are a Brooklyn duo (Evagelia Mazavelias and Brian Wencheback) who are responsible for producing some wonderful sounds. Falling brilliantly into the Shoegaze category (or some will call it New-Gaze or Synth-Gaze); the music is subtle, shimmering perfection. Evagelia has a beautiful voice that rides on top of blissfull beats and fuzzy, droning guitars. This is shoegaze done the way I like it best.


mp3 You're Not Safe At All

mp3 Fire

Elika - S/T
thisquietarmy records (2006)


mp3 A Moment

Unreleased and B-Sides


Elika MySpace


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Other Places


The Bomb Shelter is running a contest where you name your favorite Simon & Garfunkel tune. Check it out here.


Circa 45 is a new blog featuring reviews of vinyl 45's brought to us from the same dude who runs the So Much Silence blog. Good stuff.

CALLA - Strength In Numbers

The new disc by CALLA "Strength In Numbers" will be released February 20th on the Beggars Banquet label. The lead off track "Sanctify" (stream it on MySpace) proves that the New York by the way of Texas band are in fine form delivering moody, dark, distorted tunes that this listener loves. I have been a fan of the band from the first self titled 1999 release and am glad to see that their brooding style of rock 'n roll has not been abandoned.


mp3 Bronson

CALLA - Strength In Numbers


mp3 Awake And Under

CALLA - S/T


mp3 The Swarm

mp3 Promendade (U2 Cover)

CALLA - Scavengers


mp3 Televised

CALLA - Televise


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Other Places


Good Weather For Airstrikes brings us Hotly Tipped For '07: The Bands To Watch (Part I). Excellent and looking forward to Part II.


Culture Bully, one of my favorite blogs these days, pens a nice review of The Good, The Bad & The Queen.

Hammock

It's not hard to imagine why Hammock's 2006 release "Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop An Echo" did not make it to anyones best of 2006 list. The point is it should have but unfortunately didn't. It's a subtle mix of electronic ambience and neo-Shoegaze, something that easily falls under the radar in the indie rock/pop world.

2005's "Kenotic" firmly established the Nashville duo's take on the Shoegaze world with a keen crossover to Ambient, Post-Rock, Drone and Electronic sensibilities. "Raising Your Voice..." does little to detract from this path, continuning nicely in the vain of cascading layered guitar washes, strings, piano and ethereal vocals intact.

This is music for the head and one that requires a careful listen.


mp3 Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop An Echo
Hammock - Raising Your Voice... Trying To Stop An Echo


mp3 Wish
Hammock - Kenotic


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Other Places:

Yeah, you miss the "Let's Kiss And Make Up" blog as much as I do. Well, no need to wallow in misery because Colin is back with his new blog "And Before The First Kiss".
One of my daily reads of course!


And you have got to go checkout and download Ear Farm's Easy Cheesier Valentines Day Mix. A good mix of Big Hair and guitar solos.


The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2007 Lineup is announced


How The iPod Changes Culture