April 2010
2 posts
Oh hey, music nerds. Here's your day. →
somesongsconsidered:
(via daveholmes)
This is The 120 Minutes Archive, and it contains full episodes of the seminal late night MTV show. You know what to do.
OH MY GOD
March 2010
3 posts
February 2010
20 posts
indefensible:
And here, I always thought it was ‘coke’. Oh well. Live and learn. Won’t be the last song lyric I mishear!
Hah, I thought you meant “nose candy,” as must have been obvious. We here at Nuggets Of The Future do not do drugs and don’t like to think about our favorite bands doing them. Yes, I know—still straight edge in 2010? But it’s true.
The Swirlies' entire discography →
fuckyeahshoegaze:
nowherenear:
How many bands offer up everything they’ve ever done for free like this? Aside from MBV, the best shoegaze ever recorded.
Sweet!
I’ll post something more in-depth and organized about this band eventually but for now I’ll merely issue a command:
Download every record at this link that you don’t already have.
I’m not kidding. This...
January 2010
32 posts
I still don't feel like I've nailed it where The...
I probably shouldn’t have tried to write these posts at 3 AM. Sorry guys.
For the record, here’s a much earlier attempt at going over the same ground covered in those last few posts. It might not be any better, but uh, it’s different.
1993
tomewing:
1993 in Britain was the apex of scene-a-week genremaking by the music press: history focuses now on the proto-Britpop stuff (because it ‘won’ and because it was pretty good) but at the time that wasn’t such a sure thing at all and there was a forest of other stuff going on.* Such as!
New wave of new wave - reputationally poor punkiness, aggressive and political (SMASH, These Animal...
Here’s the video for “Fix Me,” one of the three singles from Crush that The Doughboys released. I’m pretty sure the video tag it’s got is from when it aired on MuchMusic, aka the Canadian MTV. Which is fitting. I would have posted the video for “Shine,” the album’s biggest hit, if I could find it. As it is, youtube has multiple videos in which the...
unbornwhiskey:
songsthataregood:
I was watching the video for Sonic Youth’s Empty Page yesterday, and it starts with ageless noise-Fonzie Thurston getting the words “I AM NOT BECK” scrawled on his tshirt. It reminded me of the best interview ever recorded, ever. It took some trawling, but here it is, in all it’s hissy, taped-over-once-too-many-times glory. The best interview ever recorded. ...