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2007-05-17T08:23:00.000-04:00

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Krucoff.com is going on indefinite hiatus because it's about time (it's about space). Any music-related urges will be posted on YM.

Superchunk - "Martinis on the Roof"

Previously: Laughter Guns

Mid-Day Anonymous

2007-05-02T10:07:00.000-04:00

Jets to Brazil - "Mid-Day Anonymous"

Previously: Lemon Yellow Black

The Farm Team

2007-04-27T10:21:00.000-04:00

Community Gardening at New Lots Ave and Georgia Ave in Brooklyn for Hands on New York Day with East New York Farms.

Silver Jews - "The Farmer's Hotel"

Previously: Project MOOH: Mud On Our Hands and Natchez Trace: Grinder's Halt

40 Shades of Teen

2007-04-19T12:31:00.000-04:00

Police on horseback at Broadway and 14th streets in New York City control crowds during anarchist riots on March 28, 1908. [Shorpy via Dana]

Chriztian writes:

ey please!
can you please send me the song called
C # (Tion) to my e-mail!
please
i have been searching this songggggggggggggg in all the net!!!

Fifteen - "C#(tion)" and "Petroleum Distillation"

Grant Hart: Where Haüs?

2007-04-11T11:06:00.000-04:00

According to his website, Hart is currently recording in Montreal, with a release expected in 2007. He told Britain's Q in September 2006, "I'm working on some stuff with the Godspeed You! Black Emperor people. They've given more of themselves in a few weeks than Bob did in nine years with Hüsker Dü." - Wikipedia

Hüsker Dü - "Charity, Chastity, Prudence, And Hope" and "She Floated Away"

"Warehouse: Songs and Stories" album jacket transcription:

Sometimes you feel real old, older than you are. Check the aches and pains, the hairline, the demands of life. Responsibilities, responsibilities. Worse things have happened to all of us; the circus wasn’t as good as you thought it would be, the movie stunk, etc., etc...

Punching the clock, punching the wall, hating your boss. You can't go if you don't know, and you can't know if you don’t go. And everybody in the world has their own song in their heads. The best songs ever. Problem is figuring a way to get them out and present them to others.

You've got to know where the brakes are. Enjoy life at a realistic pace. You crazy youngsters, what with your nightlife and everything. And it's important to trust other people while putting stock in yourself as well. Reevaluating your priorities, checking yourself daily.

Not everybody is a victim of circumstance; conversely, nobody should feel like a martyr all the time. Problem? It’s hard enough to communicate these days; some of us don't even get the chance. Some others don’t know they have a chance.

When you travel frequently, you find a lot of images. And sometimes, you have to try and make the best of a bad situation: more often than not, we grin and bear it. Other times, you learn to enjoy some small facet of your predicament. Nothing too elaborate, just an attempt to adjust priorities. Revolution starts at home, preferably in the bathroom mirror.

Example? Winter always comes too soon. This year was the worst I can remember, except when I was five years old. Pushed open the front door, got lost in the snow.

Blag Dahlia of The Dwarves: Blood, Guts and Gary Busey

2007-04-06T00:13:00.000-04:00

Blag Dahlia - NINA ...and other delights

I got this as a gift from Dana #1HS the other night. Hermana a Hermano. She says the book is one of the worst she's ever read and I'll take her word on it, but upon initial listening, the spoken word CD has a few shining moments—two to be exact, as this reviewer agrees. Culled mainly from an Invisible Ink radio show, the readings from Blag's "How to Write Good" column steal the blow and snow-cap a bowl.

Blag Dahlia - "How To Write Good: Cocaine" and "How To Write Good: Halloween"

Previously: Theme From The Vicelords, Fuck You Up and Get High, Cat Video, Let's Fuck, Big Balls

One Last Wish

2007-04-02T09:44:00.000-04:00

One Last Wish - "My Better Half" (studio version)

Previously: ROS - "All There Is" and "Nudes"

E-Z Passive Aggressive

2007-03-26T07:02:00.000-04:00

The Promise Ring - "Arms and Danger" and "The Deep South"

V-Ache1: Classic Indie Rock with The Gerbils

2007-03-16T09:59:00.000-04:00

Gerbils and Neutral Milk Hotel on the road

The Gerbils - "Crayon Box" and "Fluid"

Can of Pork

2007-03-08T10:17:00.000-05:00

I got a request for more Downfall and the only other song I have is from Lookout's Can of Pork double LP. Very post-OPIV. I threw in two more East Bay ditties on the compilation for good measure.

Downfall - "North Berkeley"

Pounded Clown - "Bad Trip"

Good Grief - "Why Quit"

This Is a Long Drive for Nothing with Someone to Think About

2007-03-05T09:26:00.000-05:00

It was hearing "Broke" repeatedly on trips to Baltimore in the mid-late 90s that made me a believer. Thanks, DH.

Modest Mouse - "Medication" and "Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative)"

Lemon Yellow Black

2007-03-02T10:25:00.000-05:00

do you know what would be good right here? some yellow
a touch of humility, an original sin or two from you
half the math double the myth they told you to
no aftertaste no residue CHOP CHOP you're through
our good order taker has what it takes to make it
it's up to you
unflinching trigger finger coffee fetcher to the letter
see it through
riddles don't stupefy because at the moment
we want to not know you to better know you
don't be so german
pick it up prick up the usual amount
no fingerprints no proper names our finest scotch to wash it down
good french collaborator, we heard you made great waiters
make us proud
no job too small or messy your lack of feeling pleasing
we'll keep you around
daughters of the revolution you're freezing in your furs
well-heeled atrocity show the finishing school is done
the appropriate responses are wrong for once in you life, man, just think
unemployed war heroes hating the peace time march
that's right these things come back to you

MP3 previously posted here.

Free Lint Radio

2007-02-26T09:23:00.000-05:00

Here's another nod for Transplants = Tim Armstrong's B.A.D. Current mood: mini-retrospective, T&A style.

Operation Ivy (Energy) - "Bad Town"

Downfall - "New Regulations"

Rancid (1993) - "Outta My Mind"

Rancid (Let's Go) - "7 Years Down"

Rancid (...And Out Come the Wolves) - "Junkie Man"

Rancid (2000) - "Antennas"

Pug Sounds

2007-02-22T00:51:00.000-05:00

Millennium New Year. Olympia. The other one. Phone books meant more when stacked. Your fever burned a hole through the z's. The Reef and Tekla. Better time if we get lucky next. What could have been wasn't half as fun as being had. The hospital. Sleater-Kinney Road. I felt cheated, life scissored death. When the message over the intercom broke the silence - "Justin Trosper, please come to the pharmacy counter" - I knew we were golden.

Unwound - "Dragnalus" and "Corpse Pose"

The Sympathetic Sounds Of Toe-Rag

2007-02-20T00:01:00.000-05:00

Ludella Black - "I've Just Seen a Face"

Previously: Gray Matter cover and Beatles original

Fantastic Planet

2007-02-16T10:24:00.000-05:00

From the Very Small Records compilation "Four Two Pudding":

Soup - "Hangin' Out With Myself"

Sewer Trout - "Holiday In Romania"

3 Finger Spread - "Pisstoy"

Previously: Sewer Trout for President

Circle Jerks: Group Six

2007-02-15T10:36:00.000-05:00

It's no Group Sex but I always thought the Circle Jerks VI album was their 2nd best.

Circle Jerks:
"Patty's Killing Mel"
"Casualty Vampires"
"All Wound Up"

Like the Shoe

2007-02-14T09:38:00.000-05:00

Slint - "Rhoda"

Previously: "Nosferatu Man"

Screwed Screwed, Chopped Chopped

2007-02-08T06:34:00.000-05:00

If Rancid deserves comparison to The Clash (and at times it does), then the Transplants' first album is Tim Armstrong's natural hair extension to Big Audio Dynamite. You already know the shampoo commercial song but the rest is pretty good too. I never checked out their follow-up release but apparently it was the first rock album to be screwed and chopped. No help from Nate Hill.

Transplants - "Sad But True"

Previously: Tenderloin and Junkies Runnin' Dry

Sometimes he looks exactly like Evan Dando

2007-02-06T09:36:00.000-05:00

Crofton legend living in Wilmington, NC and carrying a gun.

Guided By Voices - "Dragons Awake!" and "Teenage FBI"

Paul Weller: Fuck The Public

2007-01-30T21:53:00.000-05:00

"Absurd anticipation" best sums up how I felt before seeing Paul Weller perform last night at Irving Plaza which was billed as a set of songs by The Jam. It was supposed to be a rare experience since he only mixes in a few Jam songs when he plays solo. "Disgusted disappointment" best sums up how I felt after seeing Paul Weller perform last night at Irving Plaza which was billed as a set of songs by The Jam.

I paid an insane amount of money for the tickets on eBay, too ashamed to admit how much, and I feel completely robbed by Weller. (My companion for the evening, Maccers, robbed me too but that's another story.) He knew the build-up around this and how much scalpers were getting. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally on board with artists who don't want to play songs from their past, that's cool, but this was billed as a night of The Jam and I went to hear The Jam. I never got into any of his other stuff and I wouldn't normally go to one of his solo shows. This was different because THEY FUCKIN' MARKETED THE SHOW AS BEING "THE JAM NIGHT." (I keep repeating this as if it justifies my pre-show exuberance.) Over 2 hours he played just eight Jam songs, which felt more like five honestly. Ultimately, "Man in the Corner Shop" was the highlight.

Others are not as bitter as I am (besides the people "in the crowd" giving him the finger towards the end of the show) but they probably didn't pay as much as I did.
The public gets what the public wants?
Paul Weller at Irving Plaza (night 1) NYC

Oh well, fuck it, don't buy his greatest hits. Here are some of the songs I wanted to hear. Two. More. And these...

"Aunties and Uncles (Impulsive Youths)"
"The Place I Love"
"The Butterfly Collector"

Blipster On The Television Screen

2007-01-30T12:58:00.000-05:00

Bad Brains - "I Against I"

Previously: "Banned in DC"

New Radiant Storm King

2007-01-22T00:54:00.000-05:00

NRSK in 1995: Peyton Pinkerton, Garrett Fontes, Matt Hunter.

In 2004: "Although they were part of the same early 90s indie-rock explosion as Pavement, Sebadoh and Guided by Voices, New Radiant Storm King never enjoyed that level of success, instead enduring numerous lineup shifts, label snafus, and the death of one founding member. These days, the group's core keeps busy with other projects (Peyton Pinkerton plays guitar in the Pernice Brothers; Matt Hunter has played bass with Wharton Tiers and J Mascis), but NRSK lives on."

Pinkerton and Hunter have also been Silver Jews from time to time.

New Radiant Storm King - "Combat Chair"

Previously: "The Kind Ghost"

Fifteen: Swain's First Bike Ride

2007-01-17T09:52:00.000-05:00

This is somewhere in my top 100 albums.

"Definition" and "Sweet Valentine"

Previously: Jeff Ott

How To Make An American Quit

2007-01-12T10:31:00.000-05:00

Wynona Riders - "Bang, Bang, Orangutan"