I'm actually going to see them tonight in New Haven. I'm sure it'll be a blast. I look forward to reading your impressions of the show. The show as excellent. Opening act, Slow Pulp, was impressive, too. College Street Music Hall is a cool venue. Sound was fantastic and the show was very well atten...

For those not on FB, the topic of ordering items through Wes' website came up there not long ago. The word was to simply be patient as there is a lot of sorting and gaining access to accounts that need to be done before orders can be fulfilled.

I'm a casual Alvvays fan. That was my first spin and I thought it sounded nice. I like their particular twist on the power pop genre. I'm all in but it's mostly based on their debut. I keep listening to Blue Rev and love it but it's not moving the needle for me in the same way as the first album. I...

Twitter is supposedly imploding but I've honestly never been all that invested in it. Well, at least not until more recent months. Still, if it crashes and burns as is being predicted, I'm not really in search of a new platform. A tweet a few days ago about current female country artists led me to B...

Saw the Greensboro-based Old Heavy Hands at the Backstreet Pub in Beaufort, NC last weekend. This is a band that's been highly recommended to me over the past couple years that I never got around to checking out. Better late than never. They have the goods. I definitely put them in the DBT's/Lee Bai...

https://alvvays.bandcamp.com/album/blue-rev Even though I'd been aware of them for a while I didn't get on the Alvvays train until around this time last year when I became addicted to "Archie, Marry Me." I can't say that I'm disappointed in the new album. More like, I've found myself becoming much ...

When I first saw this post I thought "uh oh don't tell KG" (who believes the year ends 12/31) but then I thought about it and I realized it's not even Thanksgiving yet, and just like the commercials that have already inundated the airwaves, it's too soon. I've already started putting together a lis...

I recently saw Charly Lowry (Dark Water Rising), Caitlin Cary and H.C. McEntire as part of the Southern Songbirds series at the NC Museum of History in Raleigh that's happening in conjunction with The Power of Women in Country Music exhibit that runs until February. It was my first time seeing Charl...

https://alvvays.bandcamp.com/album/blue-rev Even though I'd been aware of them for a while I didn't get on the Alvvays train until around this time last year when I became addicted to "Archie, Marry Me." I can't say that I'm disappointed in the new album. More like, I've found myself becoming much ...

https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music126/v4/a6/33/57/a6335741-2746-0292-3261-aa8fdc168d42/5056495225881_1.jpg/1200x1200bf-60.jpg The album is from last year but Mylee is a relatively recent discovery for me thanks to the excellent Post to Wire website. They also have a social media presenc...

I saw Margo Cilker w/ Gabe Lee at Cat's Cradle - Back Room in Carrboro back at the end of September. Margo was one of my most eagerly anticipated shows of the year and she didn't disappoint. Nor did Gabe Lee, who I was not the least bit familiar with. Something about him gave me a John Prine vibe. T...

I'm going to do my best to catch Patterson at Motorco in Durham. As it so happens, Tift Merritt is doing a rare show the night before so they both fall under the "can't miss" category. The night before, Bonny Light Horseman is also at Motorco. I'd love to see them as well but at this point it is out...

Anyone know if Wes' book is out of print? I recently placed an order which appeared to through fine but haven't received any notifications of it being shipped or being in transit.

I never had the good fortune to meet him, though it was a day I long looked forward to. He crosses my mind often, usually when a topic comes up I know he could weigh in on with his level of expertise or if I hear something I wonder what he would think of. I've been getting into Sammi Smith in the pa...

Go see the Beths if you can. They were excellent live. All really good musicians & the songs (& band) are charming. I like everything I've heard by the Beths so far and am looking forward to their new album but the band I'd like to see most at the moment is Alvvays. Unfortunately, their only NC sho...

Unless something knocks my socks off between now and the end of the year, it's a battle between this and the Big Thief record for album of the year. Neither are better than the DBT record. Not even close I love the DBT record, and it's right there with those albums, but both the Big Thief and Lee B...

https://i.ibb.co/dc8cqyH/BFB2-F958-0-EBC-4315-A11-A-31-DBEAD6-CF0-F.jpg Thoughts: fuckin' a. Unless something knocks my socks off between now and the end of the year, it's a battle between this and the Big Thief record for album of the year. Neither are better than the DBT record. Not even close I ...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1PYm5ShzrL._SS500_.jpg The latest album from Becky Warren. She has tackled some tough subjects in the past such as war and homelessness. On this one, it's a bout of crippling depression that kept her off the road and in her house during the release of her previo...

I've finally got around to streaming again which is most likely going to be the norm from this point forward as all of my physical media (CD's, vinyl, cassettes, books, DVD's, magazines) is in storage due to my present living situation where space is limited. As mentioned previously, I may be lookin...

Drive-By Truckers with Wednesday this Sunday at Greenfield Lake Ampitheatre in Wilmington, NC. This will be my third show since January of 2020. Technically, the fourth. I attended a show back in May by Into the Fog but it was rained out about 30 minutes into their set. This also stands to be the th...

From Geoffrey Himes for Paste. This is among my favorite articles I've read on the new album.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/dri ... club-xiii/

I saw this yesterday, my first movie in a theatre since 2019. I haven't read the book and I only read a little about the movie before seeing it. I enjoyed it but it also felt good see a movie in a theatre after so long. I know in this day and age we can get much the same experience by watching a mov...

This was uploaded yesterday to KINK 101.9 FM's YouTube channel.

https://i.discogs.com/V5QNkmntrDlytBm3X5SZIHu9ZjgN8HW4v6YT6SsKA_4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:537/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwODQy/OTc3LTE1MDUyMDc1/OTgtMjM1NC5qcGVn.jpeg Alvvays - Antisocialites https://buymycomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/big-thief-eco-vinyl-a-e1644724480920.j...

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:23 am

Zip City wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:12 am

Sad to see that Wilder Days hasn’t been played since homecoming. Seems like it’s already been shelved.

That's too bad. One of the standouts for me.

From last night. First time since Homecoming?

New Big Thief Tiny Desk Concert.

New video for "Spanish Moon." The Super Deluxe edition of Waiting For Columbus arrives on Friday, July 29th.

https://omnivorerecordings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Old-97-Too-Far-To-Care-OV-45.jpg Too Far to Care is 25 today. I was a couple years late to the album. I had seen them on Austin City Limits in 1998 with Whiskeytown and liked what I heard but didn't check them out. At that time, I was still ...