Blood Ceremony – My Demon Brother: Great album.
Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – Ritual Knife: Also a great album, came out on CD-R. Copies of the subsequent limited-to-150 vinyl have sold for >$500!
Red Fang – Into The Eye: Hopefully these guys show up on Portlandia season 2.
Mastodon – Stargasm: The tightest metal band of late?
Wolvhammer – Shadowhorn: Nasty.
Dark Castle – Seeing Through Time: I thought their first record was meh, but they’ve improved a LOT.
Tombs – Silent World: Lots of heat for Tombs. I hear echoes of Fugazi.
Hammers of Misfortune – The Grain: Beautiful song. Melodic metal from SF.
Nine Inch Nails – Theme For Tetsuo The Bullet Man: Okay, so NIN isn’t really metal. Still great though.
Blood Stain Child – Stargazer: Out of nowhere Japanese metal/techno fusion band internet peeps are going crazy for. Heavy J-Pop component. RIYL Spawn OST.
Wolves In The Throne Room – Permanent Changes In Consciousness: The album is as good as Pitchfork says.
Alcest – Percées De Lumière: Epic French band, new album due out in 2012.
Moonsorrow – Huuto: Possibly even more epic Finnish band, their new record is their best.

Anyway, this is a roundabout way of saying I found a bunch of pristine WDRE tags and ‘DJ’ed’ a block of cheesy modern rock songs I love, complete with vintage commercials and concert announcements for local bands (Love Seed Momma Jump, holla). The conceit is I’m filling in for another night shift DJ at 2am in 1997. My girlfriend’s in law school, what can I tell you.

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01 Bush – Greedy Fly
02 Cop Shoot Cop – $10 Bill
03 The The – Dogs of Lust
04 Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Grey Cell Green
05 Screaming Trees – Nearly Lost You
06 Dinosaur Jr. – Start Choppin’
07 Salt – Bluster
08 Soundgarden – Pretty Noose
09 Alice In Chains – Again
10 Stone Temple Pilots – Tumble in the Rough
11 The Posies – Dream All Day
12 Pearl Jam – Hail, Hail
13 Toadies – Possum Kingdom
14 Queens Of The Stone Age – If Only
15 Nine Inch Nails – Physical
16 Catherine Wheel – Black Metallic (KROQ edit)

If you need more 90s, go dl Nick Catchdubs and Mr. Ducker’s crazy rad and aforementioned Radio Friendly Unit Shifter series.

WTC Pause Tape 3 by litwack
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1: Meth, Ghostface & Rae – Mef Vs. Chef 2 from Wu-Massacre
2: Rae, Meth and Redman – Troublemakers from Apollo Kids
3: Ghost, Roc Marciano and Killa Sin – The Black Diamonds from Legendary Weapons
4: RZA, ODB, Masta Killah and Killah Priest – Snakes from The Mastermind
5: Bronze Nazareth & Rae – The Bronzeman 2 from School For The Blindman
6: Meth, Ghost, Ica da Don & Inspectah Deck – All Flowers from Return of the Wu and Friends
7: Streetlife and Killa Sin – Face Down from The Swarm pt. 3
8: ODB & GZA – Take It Back To Brooklyn (demo)
9: Meth – Freestyle on Tim Westwood
10: Inspectah Deck – Thundercats freestyle on Stretch Armstrong
11: Cappadonna – Cuban Link Kings from The Pilgrimage (forthcoming)
12: Rae and Twin Sister – Wu Daydream mashup by The Hood Internet
13: The Wu-Tang Clan and Fuzagi – Sleep Rules Everything Around Me mashup by Doom-tree
14: Ghostface – Save Me My Dear (The Dirty Sample remix)
15: Rae, Ghost and The LOX – Wu-Block from Wu-Block (forthcoming)
16: Cappadonna, U-God, Ghost, Masta Killa – Winter Warz from Ironman
17: Rae, GZA and Killah Priest – Wu Crime from Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang
18: Masta Killa – Loyalty from Loyalty is Royalty (forthcoming)
19: RZA – 1, 2, Here’s What We Gonna Do from Meta-Historical

Bobb Trimble!

Helter Skelter, Paul vocal only – jesus christ, how do you go from this to Say Say Say? I love MJ but come on.

The 1977 version of my favorite 80s song.

I do the Bill Haverchuck dance while listening

Anyway, I was thinking, maybe there’s a world with a dairy that calls itself Neutral Milk because their milk production is carbon-neutral, all sun and batteries. And in that world they have a lodge for tourists who want to make a weekend out of visiting their farms – the Neutral Milk Hotel.

just a thought

One great pleasure of the song is when (murderous, unsupportable) Sam McBride insists that once he gets rich and moves to Hollywood he’ll get to FUCK BROOKE SHIELDS.
Anyway, I recently read Tina Fey’s Bossypants, which is great, and watched clips of her on late night talk shows promoting it. And Letterman wanted to talk about her late exit from sexual girlhood

…and he cites a copy of US Weekly, which apparently included a list of celebrities who gave it up late, and on that list is Brooke Shields who Judy Bloomed at age 22.

The Money Will Roll Right In was recorded in 1982. BROOKE SHIELDS WAS A VIRGIN UNTIL 1987. God bless you, reality.

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1 Intro
2 The Soft Boys – I Wanna Destroy You: Deathless.
3 The Ponys – I Wanna Fuck You: Not necessarily conflicting impulses. First heard posted by Finny over at El Stence. I change one word and sing this to my cat – “I wanna pet you! I wanna put my hands all over you!”
4 Warm Ghost – Without A Dancer: I guess “ghost” is the new whatever the thing after “wolf” was for indie bands. Kompact-y.
5 Nicolas Makelberge – Dying In Africa: Don’t let the synth fool you because this is a bitter, bitter jam.
6 DJ Elmoe – Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man: This track, the first off µ-Ziq’s Bangs & Works compilation, really opened my eyes to juke/footwork. The sample is Vangelis.
7 Childish Gambino – Freaks and Geeks: Troy from Community stepped up his rap game – punchlines from a comedian, surprise! The casual misogyny is pose – let’s remember this is a dude who takes his fellow female castmembers to APC for style emergencies.
8 Lil B feat. Tony Yayo – #based: I’m still working on understanding the Based God. Meanwhile, Yayo turns in the most interesting verse of his career.
9 The Books – A Cold Freezin’ Night: The video for this is bzzzonkers. Found audio arrangements are close to my heart.
10 The Reborn Identity – Black Hole A Go Go: Mashups are mayflies but this one stayed, at least for me.
11 Sly and the Family Stone – I Cannot Make It: I’m not saying shit about this slice of molybdenum gorg except if you don’t have the album go get it.
12 Gene Chandler – Rainbow ’65: Gene Chandler is great on record and everything but his live performances are solid gold. In Chicago he was bigger than the Beatles.
13 Trap Them – Scars Align: I heard about this record on NPR, of all places. Superficially metallic but punk; “GOOD LUCK pause LETTING GO” cf. Hot Snakes.
14 Metal Mountains – Silver Sun: Yoga cooldown.
15 Lani Hall – Love Song: Naive but charming.
16 Console – Cutting Time: A “band” from the Notwist programmer.

Via Ken-Tonio Yamamoto (not safe for uncool workspaces), who did the most recent and bitchin’ Acronym promo.