Your Morning Rock

Really been enjoying this song lately. I need to brush up on my Bob Schneider.

I saw a lot of great live music this past weekend, including two nights of these fellas on their “Evening With Guster” tour in which they played all of “Lost and Gone Forever” in its entirety. Fantastic set of shows. I don’t think I had heard this one live since the 90s myself.

I rather enjoyed the b-sides EP that Modest Mouse put out this year and can’t wait for a new full length.

You can always rely on Letterman for great bands and great performances.

Fantastic footage from 1995 of the Old 97s performing at Lounge Ax in Chicago. Go check out the companion story at:

http://blog.chicagohistory.org/index.php/2009/10/the-old-97s/

Go Go Airstream Driver.

One of my favorite singles of the past year.

Starting today, this should finally be a pretty regularly updated blog again. I think I needed a nice long break from the rough and tumble hardscrabble go-go non-stop world of blogging for approximately 15 or so people.

So, with that said, let’s start it off mellow this week and slowly build our way into something a little more violent.

Happy Monday, folks. I missed you.

For some reason, this album has come thundering back into my rotation in the last couple of weeks. Probably because its great.

Because it’s after lunch and you need an instrumental epic. And because I listen to this album at least once a week.

I hate the term “underrated”, but The Damnwells are quite underrated. I think the whole One Last Century album is still free on their web site. But you should probably go download Air Stereo and Bastards of the Beat sometime soon.

I was a little late to the party on Transmitter Failure, but it’s been one of my more pleasant surprises of 2009.