New Band Day: Hospital Bombers

We here at 100b try to go see every band we love that passes through these here parts, and thus we’ve had to listen to a vast plethora of support bands, from the surprisingly excellent to the embarrassingly bad. Whenever we hear that a local band will be playing we can’t help but make a [...]

Poptastic Day: Man Of The Year

So here’s another forgotten one hit wonder from the 90s, but I don’t really understand why these guys were so ignored. It’s true that Len’s one actual hit, “Steal My Sunshine” was sort of typical faux-rap-pop (incredibly catchy, but not especially groundbreaking), but the rest of their 1999 album You Can’t Stop The Bum Rush [...]

Soundtrack Day: A Little Bit Country

I was talking to Bean about how I’ve been listening to Blanche a lot these days. And I mentioned that I also have a new appreciation for Dolly Parton. I always liked her, but the other day I put on her CD Little Sparrow and loved it all over again. Then Bean said that she [...]

New Band Day: Cold War Kids

Tam and I always seem to feel like we’re cheating when we pick a new band, as if our new bands aren’t ever quite new enough. I guess if you set yourself a theme like that, it feels like it better be a brand spanking new band who are still playing in their parents’ garage, [...]

Poptastic Day: Nobody Knows My Name

As Bean mentioned before, we made each other Mix CDs a few months ago themed ‘what we listened to in high school’. We were both in high school in the nineties, so it’s a great overview of what the nineties sounded like. Well, let me tell you that they sounded like fun. One of the [...]