The band Flip Nasty played together in various configurations from about 1988 to 2000. They recently reunited for a live show and now the recording of that show has been made available.

Stream/buy/download the concert at bandcamp and get 9 bonus songs not on other streaming platforms!

It’s so great to hear these three guys together again after so many years! Cody on drums with Johns Speranza (guitar) and Fried (bass) made this an immediate purchase and listen for me. (What is it about bands with t...

I talked to this dude one time at a GUH show who was, like, the booker for that venue and I told him how much I was into Trip Shakespeare's latest album, Volt. He laughed a bitter laugh and said he was at the sessions for that album trying to help them pull it together and that "they should have called it 'Floundering'!"

I guess those sessions were fraught, and indeed the band immediately went on a hiatus that never ended, but that's not what I took away from that conversation. What I took away...

Let me strongly encourage you, especially if you live in Minnesota, to write a letter like this to your representatives. I wrote to my state senator, my state representative, and the governor. You can cut and paste from my letter below, replacing the parts in ALL CAPS with your own personal experience.

Here is where you can find contact information for your state representative and state senator: https://www.gis.lcc.mn.gov/iMaps/districts/

Here is how to contact the governor: https://mn.gov/governor...

Put this on streaming in a separate window and then come back here and read about it:

https://ellida.bandcamp.com/album/walk-in-the-sun

This is a project that I am just thrilled about. In 2003, my musician friend Evan Johnson made a sprawling 5 disc anthology of the music he had created before he started playing his singer/songwriter material with Karl and I in the mid '90s. I found the discs fascinating, personal, and alternately driving and poignant, like the best instrumental music is.

The CDs...

I remember in about 1992 a young woman I knew at college used a name that was very close to her own to get a ton of free music from one of those exploitive record clubs. She really turned the tables on them.

Our school had small post office boxes in the same building as the cafeteria. The people who sorted the mail just put the CDs with the fake (but close) name she used into her box. Maybe they figured the sender had gotten it slightly wrong by accident.

She got all the "free" stuff, of course,...

15. Accelerate

Can't really hear it. Might be great. Victim of the loudness war. Probably is great, as I like how some of the songs sound on the Live at the Olympia in Dublin album.

I woke up and it was only 4:08 a.m. Dreamed I was peeing like you do and just managed to stop myself.

14. Collapse Into Now

Again, brick wall mastering just crushes any life that might be there on this album. I feel like with this and Accelerate, if I somehow got a hold of the Pro Tools session and audio files, I myself co...

George Martin, the Beatles' producer, believed their eponymous 1968 double album with the famous white cover should have been edited down to a single album.
"I really didn't think that a lot of the songs were worthy of release, and I told them so. I said 'I don't want a double-album. I think you ought to cut out some of these, concentrate on the really good ones and have yourself a really super album. Let's whittle them down to 14 or 16 titles and concentrate on those.'"
-quoted in The Beatles R...

One day Mitchell asked John, "Did you see those birds and dragons at Arlen's house yesterday?"
John answered in a language unlike anything Mitchell had ever heard. It sounded like his tongue was no longer shaped quite like a human tongue.
"Gdrrrahhhhrrrksszz. Mrrrdbdbdzziiieeealloyusskhrd."
Mitchell looked directly at the reader and said, "Something very strange is going on. If I see eight such events, I will surely lose my mind. I have already seen two - Arlen's house and John's speech - How man...

Seventeen large birds are perched on the roof of Arlen's home. If nine dragons fly out of the sky and eat one bird each and Arlen wets his pants in fear and wonder, how many large birds will be left to smell the pee pee pants after the dragons vanish, leaving no answers as to their origin, purpose, or destination?
Correct answer (number and label) in the comments here at the blog gets the next quesion.

Update: 2. is now.

Climate change, which is now irreversible, will render huge swaths of the Earth uninhabitable.
Ebola or some such virus will painfully kill some very large percentage of the human race.
Innocent children are enduring life in poverty, squalor, and cruelty, only to die young and in pain.
Fox news.
We will all be facially and retinally recognized by the computer, relegating anonimity and privacy to the realms of memory.
Gaza, Israel, Hamas.
The very wealthy will continue to get richer until the economi...