I picked up on Scroobius Pip a few days back because of the name. It comes from the Edward Lear nonsense poem. I love it when I find something that I missed out on in the recent past. This is from 2008 and I don’t know how I missed it. This version, the De La Edit features Posdnous from De La Soul.
Been listening to the album Angles a fair bit as a result. Scroobius has a way with the words.
Categories: 2008 · hip hop
Tagged: (De La Edit) De La Soul, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Posdnous, Thou Shalt Always Kill
The Bronx are a hardcore punk band from LA. In that respect, to my ears, they’re fairly predictable – the sort of thing you’d expect to hear turn up on the soundtrack to a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game.
Mariachi El Bronx though, are their mariachi alter ego. It seems they are their own support act and in this guise they are brilliant. I love those mariachi horns on these songs about jail, murder and hookers.
This is the opening track from their album El Bronx which is pretty much in the same vein. I’m enjoying this album a lot.
Oh and don’t refer to them as a mariachi band, that’s like saying band band.
Categories: 2008 · hardcore · mariachi · punk
Tagged: mariachi, mariachi el bronx, the bronx, cell mates, hardcore punk, LA
Listening to last night’s Radcliffe and Maconie Radio 2 show I heard this for the first time. It’s a pleasant uke based tune.
Embedding’s disabled so you’ll have to go off to YouTube for a listen. Hurry on back after and have a look around.
The eagled eyed may notice a huge gap between this post and the previous one. I can’t guarantee that I’ll post something every day but I’ll try to be more frequent.
Categories: 2008 · Folk
Tagged: Noah and the Whale, Radcliffe and Maconie, ukulele
I intended to go see these at the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings Heath this evening but by the time we’d got ourselves organized it was sold out. Seems I am unlucky with this band. I tried to see them at a pub in Balsall Heath about a month ago, only to get there and find the pub was shut.
I did see them earlier in the year at Moseley Folk Festival and was mightily impressed. They are a Birmingham based bluegrass band. It’s very much a family thing with dad on banjo and national steel guitar and his two daughters on guitar and mandolin. The girls’ vocals harmonize real purty.
This is one of their slower tracks picked mainly because it name-checks Bill Monroe.
Posting this one from my phone so no links at the moment. A google should point you to their myspace where you can take a listen.
Categories: 2008 · Birmingham · bluegrass
Tagged: Birmingham, bluegrass, Toy Hearts
Missed the hype about these early on so only picked up on it in the last few weeks. Great album though.
Categories: 2008
Tagged: Fleet Foxes, Ragged Wood
I’m really enjoying Eli “Paperboy” Reed’s 2008 Album, Roll with You, at the moment. This is the opening track. It would be easy in light of Mark Ronson’s transformation of Amy Winehouse to suggest this is the result of record companies looking for something with an authentic soul sound. I don’t know if that is the case here or not. I really don’t know much about this guy other than how the music sounds and it sounds good.
It starts with insistent drumming that commands attention. Greal soulful vocals, with the full set of yelps and growls, combine with tight brass, stax-like guitar hooks and those little drum rolls to have you wondering if this really was made back in the 60s.
It’s got that sort of production where it’s just on the edge of distortion, almost as if it’s being played out of an old 60s Dansette record player. I think I’ll return to that line of thought in a later post though as that leads me into other tracks.
Categories: 2008 · Soul
Tagged: Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Soul, Stake Your Claim
Today I am mostly listening to…. (last.fm stream)
