Happy Halloween!

Browse around and you'll find lots of festive posts today- including over at Gimmie Back My Head.

Get some Misfits from detectiefvanzwam.

And definitely definitely get this little broadcast- Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater's War of the Worlds. Find out about the broadcast here.

Have a safe holiday! But most of all have fun :)

Misc!

This is just a quick link round up to let you know I'm still alive and will be even more so when midterms are over :p

Grab yer beautiful selves some Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards (Viking and s/t) from Suburban Terror.

And then some "Townes motherfuckin Van Zandt" (as the guy who introduced him to me put it) from Blood on the Tracks.

Cagey Tigers

Reposting the Cure's Greatest Hits, thanks to Caitlin for uploading it :)

Greatest Hits!

And then, we have Shakira, thanks to Jim because for him, it isn't a guilty pleasure :p

Fijacion Oral, Vol 1

OK Oh No Go

Some Ok Go for what is a rainy day over here. Enjoy!

Oh No

Der Likedeeler: Mando Diao - Ode To Ochrasy

The fabulous Der Likedeeler has posted the newest Mando Diao album!

Der Likedeeler: Mando Diao - Ode To Ochrasy

Don't forget to thank the kids over there :)

Blanche

Finally got my ass in gear, made a new post, and then my browser shut down! But I'm a trooper-so here we go again-

If We Can't Trust the Doctors

Blanche ("Gothic indie-country-folk medicine show revivalists") plays haunting, melancholy, gorgeous Americana. NME calls the album "a strange and beautiful delight" and Vanity Fair labeled it "sparkling, elegant, and smart." If the Cure ran smack into Townes Van Zandt, is what I'm thinking right now. You probably saw frontman Dan John Miller in Walk the Line as Luther Perkins, with his wife Tracee as Perkin's wife Birdie. Little Jack Lawrence (the Raconteurs, the Greenhornes) recently joined the band, and Jack White, who was in a band with Miller, appears on track 8.

It's a collection of near-spooky gothic country-blues, dirges for sanity and laments for optimism wrapped in reverb, banjos, autoharp, pedal steel, and dank Poe atmospherics. Led X-ishly by the husband and wife duo of Dan and Tracee Mae Miller, Blanche plays old-timey Midwestern twang with one foot in authenticity and the other in well-versed satire.

If you like it, buy it! And check out the new EP in October and the new album early next year (nowhere near soon enough). I hope they swing by NY, would love to catch them live.

And grab all the PiL you'll need at PunchDrunk! And Direction Reaction Creation (5 discs of the Jam) from All Night Thing!

Joe Strummer!

From the fabulous Jim and his new layout/blog--

Gimmie Back My Head: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Rock Art & The X-Ray

Grab it! Say "thanks" to Jim!

Also grab the Slackers from You & Me on a Jamboree!

Social D!

Go get yourself lots of great Social D boots/rarities from Hangover Heart Attack, including a concert from Germany, promos/demos, EPs- also get the Supersuckers while you're at it.

Here's my current guilty pleasure :)

My Head!

I haven't been online recently, so I finally went on today and found out that it had really happened- but, we've got Gimmie Back My Head, so don't be too sad. Go visit Jim's new project!!