Must Hear: The Shaky Hands

Come all ye gathered and lend an ear to The Shaky Hands from Portland, Oregon! I promise that ear will be rewarded with songs that are sweet, sweeping, gems of lovely. Their eponymous debut came out earlier this year and you can pick it up at HoloceneMusic.com.    The Shaky Hands – The Sleepless

Backtrack: The Ponys, Laced With Romance

The Bean turned me on to the post-punky, garage sounds of Chicago’s The Ponys two years ago and I absolutely loved their second album Celebration Castle from 2005. Though I had their debut release as well I never listened to it, and I can’t for the life of me think of a reason why. Now [...]

New Band Day: Auxiliary House

Auxiliary House is a band that popped into the 100b inbox long enough ago to be embarrassing. I promptly flagged them for future posting and then forgot to actually post about them. Auxiliary House is a band made up of any members of Trekky Records bands that take an interest – apparently there are a [...]

Poptastic Day: Dr. John, The Night Tripper

Normally, for Poptastic Day we post something closer to the cheezy side of the musical spectrum or something so popular it’s buried itself in our musical memory. However, today, I have someone many of you may not have heard before or realized who you were listening to. Better known as Dr. John, The Night Tripper [...]

Those Zany Charts …

Some songs are so popular that it takes ages for them to get beaten off the number one spot. These singles inevitably become synonymous with the year they came out; there was no 1998 without Cher asking us over and over and over again whether we believed there’s life after love. Most of these songs [...]

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