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Paul 10:15 PM on May 10, 2011
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Nuggets 150 – Thrashy

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Still noodling around getting the mellower mixes ready. Meantime, here is a mix to play loud, or it will be once I get the tracks into the interweb. Some guitar shredding, some C86 girrl bands, and general loud mayhem.

1) Love Fade (Tamaryn) Kiwi living USA – excellent shoegazey stuff. 

2) Julie K (T54) CHCH band named after a tank. 3) Young Pros (Bass Drum of Death) 2 piece from from Mississippi 4) Year’s Not Long (Male Bonding) shop assistants make music. 5) Into The Depths (Soft Moon) Described in a review as “a San Francisco-based neo-post-punk band “

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZMp78s6YCw

6) The Green Goblin (Weekends) 2 young guys from Baltimore, Maryland, lots of feedback.

7) In Between Buses (Las Robertas) Costa Rican all-girl band. Audience is way too cool…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKORseDezHY&feature=player_detailpage

8) With You Alone (Woven Bones) Garage band / surf rock if you like. From Austin, Texas. 9) Veil (Weekend) & 10) Coma Summer (Weekend) Excellent noise makers from San Fran. These tracks from the album Sports. You can hear a ‘live’ studio mix of Veil here.

11) Throw The Water (Flight) Noisy like the end of the world will be, which coincidentally is the theme of their next song – see track 22. Term their sound “2-step / Death Metal”. Buy tunes here. 12) Teacher (Surf City) Excellent, excellent. Looking fwd to seeing them after they finish touring the colonies, appear to be on their way to Calgary in Canada. 13) Burning Mirrors (Lumerians) Hypno-drone space rock – Can meets Cave meets Black Moth Super Rainbow 14) Marianne (Ceremony) More shoegaze from Fredericksburg, Virginia.

15) Young Throats (Parenthetical Girls) Take their music seriously ‘- “Limited to 500 physical copies per EP, the 12″s will each feature original art by renowned Swedish illustrator Jenny Mörtsell, and will be hand-numbered in the blood of their respective band members…”
Also do improv.

I crossed myself before I crossed your lips

16) Hard Drivin’ (Weed Hounds) There is something beguiling about harsh guitars set against sweet yet snotty female vocals. 17) Still Windmills (Sky Larkin) .. and again.. 18) realize really (Lab Coast) 19) Bitchin’ (Cycle Schmeichel) Bristol band making retro noise.  20) Weekend Dudes (Ringo Deathstarr) BBC thinks they are derivative, do I care…? Seems an odd comment since all rock and roll is mining the same ground. 21) Chips Ahoy! (The Hold Steady) Another track from Boys and Girls in America . Seedy in a good way.

i got a girl and she don’t have to work
she can tell which horse is gonna finish in first
some nights the painkillers make the pain even worse
came in six lengths ahead
we spent the whole next week getting high
i love this girl but i can’t tell when she’s having a good time
how am i supposed to know that you’re high if you won’t let me touch you?

22) Real Estate (Flight) The end of the world, but in a tuneful way.

Paul 10:06 PM on March 26, 2011
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Nuggets 156 – LoFi

Nuggets 156 - LoFi

Starts quiet, turns noodling then wall of sound.

Nuggets 156, a mellow mix that hots up towards the end. This is one of my favourite mix’s of recent times, I love the Real Estate and Real Estate-esque run towards the middle, and the wall of sound tracks starting with Big Troubles at the end. The live version of ‘living in america’ is fab, MGMT is just so last week.

The CD cover has Bowie looking dapper.  The thin white duke was snapped in Rochester, New York following the singer’s March 1976 arrest on a pot possession charge. Bowie, 29 at the time, was nabbed along with Iggy Pop and two other co-defendants at a Rochester hotel following a Saturday concert. Bowie was held in the Monroe County jail for a few hours before being released. The Rochester Police Department mug shot was taken three days after Bowie’s arrest, when the performer appeared at City Court for arraignment. See the video below for what happened next….

1) Hit after Hit (Earth Girl Helen Brown) Fake 60’s music. 2) Lord Knows Best (Dirty Beaches) Roy Orbison meets Suicide 3) Slave exchange (Lil Daggers) 4) Baby Don’t You Cry (Fergus & Geronimo) 5) Whatevering (Coma Cinema) 6) Elephant (Vulpes) Galaxy 500 / Real Estate-esque band from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas – get more of their tracks here. 7) Art Fandelet (live in studio) (Real Estate) Here is RE live; when will they come to town? 8) Dance With Me (Demo) (Man The Hunter) Evan Doering from Ann Arbor, Michigan. New to me, good guitar vibe. 9) One Fell Swoop (orig. Chris Knox) (The Calorifer Is Very Hot!) Indie Italian band cover our own Chris Knox. 10) Dolphins (Swimsuit) 11) Autumn (Surf City) A Nu Zeeland band at last. Excellent track, their whole album is good. Touring the US at the moment. Hope they can last the distance. 12) No Future (Speculator) Fun cut up of tv and video games. 13) Kimberly (Junior Low) Shoegazey stuff from Weed Diamond’s guitarist Justin Schweitzer. Japandroids’-esque. 14) Strawberry Dreams (The Numerators) Jungle / Psychedelic / Punk says their myspace page. 15) Old Street (Cloud Nothings) So young, so talented. 16) Sucker Punch (Coma Cinema) LoFi bliss. 17) Maybe Tonight (Demo) (Vulpes) 18) Older Brother (Pepper Rabbit) At last – Banjo’s!!!! Beirut-esque 19) Bite Yr Tongue (Big Troubles) 20) Alright (Sha-La-La) (Burnt Ones) Sound like T-Rex in a good way. 21) Throw Aggi From The Bridge (orig. Black Tambourine) (Dum Dum Girls) Metally noise, wonderful. Great cover. 22) Travelers (orig. Julian Lynch) (Arches) 23) Living In America (live in studio) (DOM) Anthemic rock.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdciK2Axc4A[/youtube] Iggy taught me my best dance moves…