[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Don’t let their San Francisco roots fool you. The Flamin’ Groovies are no flower power band – they are raw power, more in line with the early 70s’ proto-punk Detroit scene. Even as early as their 1970 sophomore [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Blue Cheer are perhaps the best of the forgotten 60s power trios. They only really had one great album (which makes them perfect for this column), but that album did nearly as much for the evolution of [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
R&B and soul music has an interesting and rather unique tradition compared to other pop subgenres in that reinterpretations of older songs is not only accepted, it is expected, and can even substitute new material. A rock [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Not all influential bands holds up to the test of time. King Crimson is one of those bands. But they are still worth mentioning here, if not for a song that spelled the birth of a whole subgenre [...]
B. Lance’s Rollin’ Man album (from A List of the Lost)
Bad Veins perform on WOXY
Bad Veins did a Daytrotter Session
The Buddy System live at Caledonia on 07.11.09 (from Southern Shelter)
Delta Spirit live on KEXP (from FMA)
Floating Action did a Daytrotter Session
Hola Halo live at Tasty World on 07.14.09 (from Southern Shelter)
The Ironclads live on KEXP [...]
John Darnielle has officially announced, via The Mountain Goats website, that a new album, The Life of the World to Come, is forthcoming.
The album has a pretty overt biblical slant that Darnielle is already addressing (the first track has been available less than 24 hours!). All of the track titles are named after Bible verses, [...]
1. NYC Taper posted recording of a recent Tortoise performance in New York at (le) Poisson Rouge. It’s a pretty solid recording, but even the worst hiccups are worth it for what was a pretty stellar set. The set opens with “Prepare Your Coffin” from their new disc Beacons of Ancestorship, which might be my [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Tom Waits could be the official poster boy for a column like mine, so I guess I found it a little too obvious to include one of his albums up until now. But I notice more and [...]
Sam Roberts Daytrotter Session
Michael Zapruder Daytrotter Session
Curumin Daytrotter Session
The Handsome Family Daytrotter Session
Blind Pilot Daytrotter Session
Suckers Daytrotter Session (this is pretty awesome)
We Versus the Shark live at Morton Theater 06.26.09
Wavves live at Bowery Ballroom in NYC 07.15.09
Sigur Ros live in Lisbon 07.16.09
An album titled forgiven from A List of the Lost
We here at f10 posted a little bit about the debut album from Rain Machine last week, the slightly pornographic cover and all. The band is the new side/solo-project from TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone. The album is going to be released on September 22nd through Anti-.
Yesterday, Pitchfork posted the first aural samples of [...]
