It Starts With a Birthstone...

I make no great claims for this blog as an act of cultural commentary and significance.

'It's just gonna be carnage....'

Mineapolis Jingle Jangle.

The Womack Sisters eponymous album hits the spot.

Queens of the Stoneage were a Rock & Roll franchise very much in tune with the age of Tarantino, Wes Anderson and The Coen Brothers with a very refined taste and sense of history and where they wanted to fit within it,

Sioux Falls, South Dakota's finest's latest album Can You, (their third by my reckoning), draws an interesting line in the sand.

Eminem happened during my cd years.

Exreme metal band out of Portland Oregon.

Another from Mountain's fine Days album.

I noticed recently that these days I'm generally listening to young bands from Idaho that sound quite a bit like Pavement.

Red.

Low own their sound, which in itself is unusual.

Australians Peking Duk's awaited debut album strikes me as a branch on The Avalanches tree.

'The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things of...'

Unwinds like a hot afternoon on the porch with a pitcher of Pims between old friends down South.

Tricky is hardly a man with anything to prove.