I just saw the Mint Chicks. They are as awesome as I had hoped. I may go to LI to see them tomorrow, but iI am not sure. They played a lot of old songs, so I was stoked on that.  I still haven’t heard very much of thhe new record, though I did pick […]

After nearly 2 years of patiently waiting, I finally was able to see MMF. The last time I saw them play was actually in my apartment in Allston. They were incredible, super super awesome. It really makes me angrier about all those shows I’ve missed. After their set, some dudes from the other band got […]

I’m guessing this will be my second- or third-to-last post about the Mint Chicks. After my initial infatuation post-Anti Tiger EP, I stormed eBay and got their second EP, their first (and only?) 7″, and their first full length. I got the second EP, Octagon, Octagon, Octagon, on Monday, I think, and it was great. […]

This is a Tuesday I’ve been looking forward to for awhile. The new Modest Mouse came out, the new Ted Leo came out. Out of my strongest sense of moral obligation, I went to the store to pick them up. If you look up Ted Leo’s album on amazon, it suggests that you buy Modest […]

You might kill someone if you listen to them.  Because listening to terrible rap makes you kill people. For more in-depth analysis, head on over to Tiny Mix Tapes… Seriously though, that band does suck…  but that’s annoying.  The whole music->killing people…  It’s more like..  (Nearly everything else in the world that could possibly go […]

In the documentary about the Minutemen, We Jam Econo, Mike Watt spends a lot of time driving around San Pedro, telling stories about the band.  At one point he explains the album Double Nickels On the Dime as being a reference to Sammy Hagar’s “I can’t drive 55”.  He said they saw Hagar as a […]

So iTunes is a pretty great program, I can’t fault it for that. I’ve been doing a lot of musical goofing around today, including download MusicIP, which is a really cool program. You tell it a song you like, and it will make a mix with similiar songs. Today I picked the song “Mi Primer […]

A final note about New Zealand rock music. The Clean’s records came out on Flying Nun in New Zealand, which as far as I can tell is like the Sub-Pop of New Zealand. Flying Nun just/is about to release a 25 year anniversary box set. That’s what I bought from amplifier.co.uk. There its listed for […]

Thanks to a heads-up from a friend in New Zealand, I’ve been listening to a NZ band called The Mint Chicks. I checked out their songs on MySpace, and watched some videos on amplifier.co.nz, which seems to be the cheapest NZ CD store. (Sidenote: There’s a 12.5% tax on apparently everything there. If you ship […]

Nick Cave is Creepy.