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Wax On!!!: The Poetics Go Digital
Some of you know David Middleton as the author of our Forty-Five Revolutions per Minute series. Each week, David picks out a (usually reasonably obscure) 45RPM record from his collection and talks about it. What some of you might not know is that David is a musician himself, and spent a chunk of the late Eighties and early Nineties fronting the band Waxing Poetics. The Virginia based-group got some face time on MTV, toured the […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #17: Elephant’s Gerald
KILKENNY CATS “Attractive Figure” b/w “Of Talk” (Coyote Records COY111, 1984)
Back in 45 RPM #6, I wrote about the magical impact of the 7-inch on ’80’s indie rock. Well here’s another great artifact from that time period. Even though I was lucky enough to witness their live set a few times, Athens, GA’s Kilkenny Cats have always held great mystery for me. Even to this day not much is widely known about them, which makes […]
The Sunday Seven 12/21/08: Stop Trippin’
Thanks to my buddies Kyle and Paul for the guest columns they provided for the past two weeks. I’m back like spinal cords, however, taking you on another tour through my music collection. It’s keeping me from watching my Giants play, but considering the score right now, that’s OK. Here’s what we get when we shuffle:
Track 1: “Hip Hop” by Mos Def (from “Black on Both Sides”, 1999)
Damn, what happened to Mos Def? He’s a […]