Mixtape 115 :: Born Too Late
Habibi is what happens when you spill solvent on the psychedelic garage / surf music / girl groups section of your record collection.
Habibi is what happens when you spill solvent on the psychedelic garage / surf music / girl groups section of your record collection.
Go ahead and call your band Great Grandpa. You better have something pretty weird up your sleeve.
Prince Buster , the legendary soundmaker, has died. Generoso Fierro recounts his monumental life and career.
Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da (Lucky 7 Records / Koch International). Review by Carl F Gauze.
So This Is Great Britain? (TVT). Review by Jen Cray.
Ska pioneers, The Toasters, are still inspiring kids to skank 24 years into their career. Jen Cray attends a ska triple bill in Orlando and tells us how they manage to do it.
Just One More (Fat Wreck Chords). Review by Stein Haukland.
A brand new column just for you! Follow Gregory Schaeffer and his lil’ film from Japan to Hollywood to madness, and all points in between! Should be quite a ride.
Just the Best Party (Gern Blandsten). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Jools Holland’s Big Band Rhythm + Blues (Rhino). Review by Ian Koss.
Matt Cibula digs into the new DVD of the celebrated film Memento, in which nothing is what it seems. Plus a guy gets a lot of gnarly tattoos.
Madness (Metal Blade). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
For a masochist like myself, living in such a sunny climate might be the end of me…..I would start preaching on street-corners, and recruiting young girls to become my henchmen, my right-hand….well, not men, I guess……right-hand girls, yeah, girls…..my right-hand girls in the most ingenious plans ever laid out!
Universal Madness (Goldenvoice). Review by Julio Diaz
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.
In this latest installment of his weekly series, Christopher Long is betrayed by his longtime GF when she swipes his copy of Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits Vol. II right out from under his nose while rummaging through a south Florida junk store.