GrrlBandGeek

Go-Go's Do E.T.

2011-06-13T14:16:00.000-07:00

Go-Go's to Alien: "Feed Off Of Us!"

The Go-Go's sat down with Entertainment Tonight recently and discussed the 30th anniversary of Beauty And The Beat as well as their just launched Ladies Gone Wild tour in this all too brief clip. Check it out:

Go-Go's Do Hollywood Heartbeat 1980

2011-06-05T23:00:00.000-07:00

GIRLS GONE WILD 1980

With the recent release of the remastered Beauty And The Beat 30th anniversary edition and the kick-off of Ladies Gone Wild!, their first tour in nearly two years, the Go-Go's have been busier than they've been in years. As they themselves allude to in the tongue in cheek name they gave for their summer tour, girls they ain't anymore and it's hard enough for a girl to weather the stress of life on the road, let alone a lady gone wild... This was best illustrated this week when Belinda Carlisle's throat doctor ordered her to take a three-day vocal break, which resulted in the band postponing two shows on the east coast. We send Belinda our best, and wish for a speedy recovery so the Ladies can get back to doing what they do best...no, not putting on red clown noses and simulating live birth with each other, but rocking, and rocking quite harder than I think they ever have if the recent Seeds-esque sounding performances of "We Got The Beat" are anything to go by.

On a related note, check out this early clip from 1980 of the band doing "We Got The Beat" on the TV show Hollywood Heartbeat back when they actually were girls and did all sorts of wild and naughty things for real. Anyways, this was back in that almost mod period the band went through after their initial punk start when they were all about doing the cool jerk and the watusi and hanging out with the Specials and Madness and wearing headbands and day-glo colors rather than trash bags. It's probably the first television appearance the band ever made and certainly one of the few to feature original bassist Margot Olivarria. Enjoy!

The Go-Go's Do GMA (June 3, 2011)

2011-06-04T22:09:00.000-07:00

LADIES GONE WILD 2011

The Go-Go's made an appearance on the June 3, 2011 episode of ABC TV's Good Morning America (see playlist above for all the related segments) as part of the show's 'Summer Concert Series' performing hits "Our Lips Are Sealed", "Vacation" and "We Got The Beat". The band also gets briefly quizzed by GMA-anchor-with-a-porn-star name Robin Roberts about the 2011 Ladies Gone Wild! Tour and the 30th anniversary of the landmark album Beauty And The Beat, which has recently been remastered and re-released with extra tracks (Go here or here to purchase online.)

X - The New World (video re-creation)

2010-12-10T21:37:00.000-08:00

I know it's been forever since i've posted...just been layin' low for the month of November. But fear not...i do have a enormous amount of things i plan on posting soon in the days and weeks ahead as soon as I get my head out of my ass. One thing I have decided is that I need to post more of the videos that i've been uploading to my various accounts on YouTube...I often forget to blog about them, but have decided to stop being so lazy about it and just at least embed the thing here for anyone who might enjoy them.

That brings us to X. Dave Alvin of the Blasters once said that X was like having sex with someone who was really intelligent and also a great fuck. I couldn't have said it better...I always feel like having a cigarette and drinking vodka after listening to X.

Anyways, some lame company that owns the rights to X's recordings from 1982-1986 (i'm looking at you, WMG), has decided to block or mute all videos featuring music from this time period from being available on YouTube, despite the fact that no official X channel exists where fans can view these classic clips. So...here's my attempt (the first of many) at slipping through a small loophole in the copyright policy towards this music, by presenting the official video clip for X's "The New World" (from the classic 1983 album More Fun In The New World) in a slightly edited form, re-synched to the demo recording of the song that is found on the out of print (and entirely excellent) 1997 2-disc compilation Beyond And Back: The X Anthology and for some reason is slightly less regulated than the main studio albums. And this is the first of several....stay tuned.

Go-Go's: Live @ The Whisky a Go-Go 8/17/80

2010-10-29T07:16:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S
Whisky a Go-Go
West Hollywood CA

August 17, 1980

Urgh! A Music War documentary filming

16 tracks total

(nearly complete set - track 15 is missing).

Sound quality: C

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia

(Thanks to the original tapers whoever they may be!)

File type: FLAC (Lossless)

Download is in two parts

(must download both parts to be able to extract files.)

size:

part 1 = 194 MB

part 2 = 126.17 MB

319 MB overall

(RAR Archive)

NOTE: To play these files, you must have the FLAC codec installed on your computer. For more info about the lossless FLAC format and to download the proper codec, please visit http://flac.sourceforge.net/ . To extract the FLAC files from the archive, you must have the necessary software to do so; to download a quick, easy and free application that will do the trick for those with PC's, click here.

DOWNLOAD PART 1

http://www.mediafire.com/?ahf00macfa2v7lm

DOWNLOAD PART 2

http://www.mediafire.com/?r6p5m56cvguccm6

Tracklisting

01. Beatnik Beach

02. How Much More

03. Speeding

04. Lust To Love

05. Tonite

06. Cool Jerk

07. Skidmarks On My Heart

08. You Can't Walk In Your Sleep

09. Surfing And Spying

10. (Remember) Walking In The Sand

11. We Got The Beat

12. London Boys

13. This Town

14. Let's Have A Party

15. (track missing)

16. Automatic

17. He's So Strange

One of the first shows played by the band after returning from a three-month long tour of the U.K.in mid-1980, and notable for being both the show where the Urgh! A Music War performance of the band was shot, as well as being singer Belinda Carlisle's 22nd birthday.

The sound quality on this one is in the fair to poor range...it's extremely rough with a lot of audience noise and talking heard throughout (about ten minutes in I wanted to punch the guy that kept shouting "Show us your tits!" between every song...give it up, man!) The barely tolerable audio is more than made up for by the versions of two classic Go-Go's tracks: "Tonite" and "Automatic" here performed in extremely rough arrangements very different from their final recorded versions (This early version of "Tonite" even has a completely different chorus and chorus melody than the BATB version.) If you enjoy examining the process of songcrafting, you'll dig these - think of them as missing links in the chain of their evolution! Enjoy.

Oh yeah, and sorry - track 15 is missing and I don't know know where it went. :(

Edit this setlist | More Go-Go's setlists

Go-Go's: Live @ The Whisky a Go-Go 3/15/80 (opening for Madness)

2010-10-26T23:43:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S
Whisky a Go-Go
West Hollywood CA
March 15, 1980
(opening for Madness)

7 tracks total

(incomplete set - first track cuts in).

Sound quality: B-

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia
(Thanks to the original tapers whoever they may be!)

File type: FLAC (Lossless)
Size: 104.18 MB (RAR Archive)

DOWNLOAD
http://www.mediafire.com/?6de36y1jy1z3ptn

Tracklisting
01 Cool Jerk (cuts in)
02 Fashion Seekers
03 We Got The Beat
04 Johnny Are You Queer?
05 London Boys
06 Surfing And Spying
07 (Remember) Walking In The Sand

A historical show if there ever was one in the history of the Go-Go's, this one taking place in the spring of 1980 (March 15, to be exact) and recorded at the Whisky a Go-Go supporting British ska superstars Madness. The boys in Madness were so impressed with the girls that following this show, they asked the band to support them on a tour of their native U.K. The girls subsequently hocked everything they owned in order to afford airfare over there for the three-month long tour of duty. Their Madness connections secured them a singles deal through the label Stiff Records, who released their demo versions of "We Got The Beat" b/w "How Much More" in May of 1980 for the girls to sell at shows. While the single did little for their career abroad, import copies started setting dance floors on fire in the States, and the girls returned to the U.S. having an enormous underground dance hit. And the rest is history as they say....

The sound quality of the show is a bit rough but it gives a good representation of the pre-polished spunk of the band at the time. Love the "Is HE really going out with him...?" intro to "Johnny Are You Queer?". Set is incomplete and the first song cuts in.

Edit this setlist | More Go-Go's setlists

Photo credits: ? but many from the wonderful http://gogonotes.blogspot.com/, and the now defunct PlanetGoGos site. Some most likely take by legendary punk photographer Jenny Lens (check out her site at http://jennylens.com/ ) or Theresa K. (http://punkturns30.blogspot.com/) - those two have taken so many pictures of pre-fame Go-Go's they should probably get a credit anytime a pre-1981 shot of them is included. Currently, I can't find the exact credits for the above photos, but if you are a photographer and you find a photo on this blog that you have taken, please let me know and I would be more than happy to either credit you or remove the photo if that is your wish. Heartfelt thanks to those mentioned above for making the researching and designing of this blog what it is - it couldn't have been done without them!

VIDEO: Hole covers "Bad Romance"

2010-09-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

Being no stranger to 'bad romance' herself, Courtney Love serves up an amusing cover of Lady Gaga's mega-hit along with the rest of Hole 2.0.

VIDEO: Go-Go's - The Way You Dance

2010-08-23T06:37:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S

"The Way You Dance"

(SpinCycleMedia Video Re-creation)

VIDEO DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?bizxfsv0f292m9l

Technical stuff:

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media/Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 15.3 MiB
Duration : 3mn 16s
Overall bit rate : 655 Kbps

VIDEO
Format : AVC
Format profile : Baseline@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 539 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 1 608 Kbps
Width : 480 pixels
Height : 360 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.917 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.104
Stream size : 12.6 MiB (82%)

AUDIO
Format : AAC
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 113 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 253 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 2.66 MiB (17%)

(Basically, the file is an MP4 and you must have the necessary codecs on your computer to play.)

Recently, I was watching the video for the Go-Go's "Get Up And Go" - you know the one with the cheesy 1982 claymation in it - and had a good laugh at the scenes of the girls dancing with their claymation counterparts. I enjoyed it so much, that i re-edited the dancing scenes together and looped it, and set it to the song "The Way You Dance" off of the Vacation album. I get a good laugh at all the girls "dances" but i especially love the strange wonky dance that Gina does as well as the retarded enthusiasm Kathy seems to put into hers. Those poor girls...looking back on this they must be mortified. (But we still love you!)

Go-Go's: Emerald City, Cherry Hill NJ 8/31/81

2010-08-21T15:47:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S
Emerald City
Cherry Hill, New Jersey (near Philadelphia)
August 31, 1981

17 tracks total.

Sound quality: A+

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia

Available in MP3 (192kbps) or FLAC (lossless)
MP3 file size: 79.16 MB RAR
FLAC file size: 195 MB and 161.14 MB (FLAC files come in two parts)

DOWNLOAD MP3

http://www.mediafire.com/?kyehjjktiiz

DOWNLOAD FLAC (PART 1)
http://www.mediafire.com/?htrcnsl1w2ir71c

DOWNLOAD FLAC (PART 2)

http://www.mediafire.com/?bws40vrhs1i74e2

Tracklisting
01 Skidmarks On My Heart
02 How Much More
03 Tonite
04 Fading Fast
05 London Boys
06 Cool Jerk
07 Automatic
08 Lust To Love
09 Can't Stop The World
10 This Town
11 Vacation
12 You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
13 Our Lips Are Sealed
14 Let's Have A Party
15 We Got The Beat
16 Surfing And Spying
17 Beatnik Beach

Johnette Napolitano: Sound Of A Woman (Unreleased Solo Album)

2010-08-12T05:53:00.000-07:00

JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO

Sound Of A Woman

(Unreleased 1998 solo album)

File size: 112.28 MB (RAR Bundle)

NOTE: You must have the necessary software to be able to open and extract files from the RAR archive format to access the individual music files. To download a quick, easy and free application (for PC's) that will do the trick, click here.

All music files are in the MP3 format with a bit rate of 320 kbps.

You must have necessary codec installed to play these files.

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?jwztlzmhjru

Tracklisting

01 I'm Your Queen

02 Sound Of A Woman

03 I Can Do Anything

04 Deliver

05 Something Fast

06 Todos Los Santos

07 Firefly

08 Human

09 Closer

10 Sleep

11 Lullabye For Fabiana

Here's the much fabled debut solo album by Concrete Blonde singer Johnette Napolitano that was supposed to have been released in 1998, but never saw the light of day. It remains unreleased to this day. Enjoy!

that dog. - retreat from the sun (GBG deluxe edition)

2010-08-04T12:17:00.000-07:00

THAT DOG

retreat from the sun

(GBG deluxe edition)

Original release: DGC/Geffen Records (1997)

13 original album tracks
25 (!) bonus tracks
7 bonus videos
image gallery
additional multimedia

File size:
part 1: 137.25 MB (RAR bundle): music files, image gallery, additional multimedia
part 2: 125.64 MB (RAR bundle): video files

NOTE: You must have the necessary software to be able to open and extract files from the RAR archive format to access the individual music files. To download a quick, easy and free application that will do the trick, click here.

All music files are in the MP3 format with a bit rate of 128 kbps.
Videos are in the MP4 format.
You must have necessary codecs installed to play these files.

PART ONE

http://www.mediafire.com/?p86vp5nyghbx2kc

PART TWO
http://www.mediafire.com/?dixt70p4y5v8zde

tracklisting

01 i'm gonna see you
02 never say never
03 being with you
04 gagged and tied
05 retreat from the sun
06 minneapolis
07 annie
08 every time i try
09 long island
10 hawthorne
11 did you ever
12 cowboy hat
13 until the day i die

non-lp bonus tracks

14 fuck you

15 little miss riding hood

16 gagged and tied (alternate mix)

kcrw morning becomes eclectic interview and performance with chris douridas 1997:

17 never say never

18 kcrw interview (part 1)

19 retreat from the sun

20 kcrw interview (part 2)

21 i'm gonna see you

22 kcrw interview (part 3)

23 being with you

k-rock 92.3 new york interview and performance with jake fogelnest:

24 k-rock interview (part 1)

25 never say never

26 k-rock interview (part 2)

27 being with you

28 hawthorne (live at spaceland)

the go-go's featuring anna waronker:

29 head over heels (live at the petra haden benefit)

ze malibu kids (featuring anna waronker lead vocals):

30 you're so vain

31 sleep therapy (from the film sugar town)

32 shelly fabares

33 don't go

34 i won't forget you

35 my christmas was in june

rachel haden solo

37 poems, prayers, and promises

petra haden solo

38 god only knows

38 ordinary girl

(theme to the television show 'clueless')

written by anna waronker/charlotte caffey

performed by china forbes

bonus videos
never say never (promo video)
mtv's 120 minutes interview (with matt pinfield)
much music interview (segment #1)
much music interview (segment #2)
mtv's house of style (with pat smear)
never say never (oddville mtv performance)
fuck you (spincyclemedia video recreation)

The third feature in a series of 4 by the Los Angeles based group that dog, and another in my line of 'albums that should get the bonus track and extras laden deluxe edition treatment but probably never will so I did it myself anyways' series, I give you Retreat From The Sun (GBG Deluxe Edition).

In 1997, that dog returned for their third album, Retreat From The Sun, a pop masterpiece of epic proportions, and while the band's name is still not capitalized on the cover, the band itself is all grown up. The backstory: Retreat From The Sun began life as a proposed solo album for lead singer/primary songwriter Anna Waronker. After the relative disappointment of the performance of 1995's Totally Crushed Out! and the exhaustion that came with the promotion and touring for that record, Waronker was ready to take a small break from the band, and the fruits of her most recent songwriting sessions had been sounding much more pop-oriented than what that dog had been known for. It was Luke Wood, her A&R rep at Geffen Records, who convinced her to try recording the material with the band instead. While initially bashful at showing the rest of the group songs that to her, sounded like 'show tunes', she found that they were incredibly enthusiastic in proceeding in this new direction. Additionally, an outside producer, Brad Wood (who had produced records by Liz Phair and Ben Lee) was brought in to co-produce the entire record with band. With the exception of a couple of tracks off their second album Totally Crushed Out!, this was a first for the group, who in the past had done most of their recording with Tom Grimley at Poop Alley.

The mixture of Waronker's finely crafted songs with Brad Wood's polished sheen yielded what is certainly the most cohesive album of that dog's career. The album gently begins with "I'm Gonna See You", a 'love letter to the band' according to Waronker, that touches on the touring life and leaving loved ones behind for the duration. Next up is "Never Say Never": a shimmering combo of synthey new wave chords and crunchy guitar sounds propelled forward by a hook that wont stop, a violin solo way cooler than any guitar part could ever be, and guest synthesizer courtesy of singer Anna Waronker's future sister-in-law, Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's. "Gagged and Tied" is a sexy collaboration with S&M overtones between Waronker's then-boyfriend, future husband and Redd Kross bassist Steven McDonald, who wrote the lyrics to a full-band composed tune. Pillow talk, but this ain't your Rock and Doris kind. Title track and album centerpiece "Retreat From The Sun" is propelled forward by doot-doots, surf guitar, hand claps and lalalalalas brilliantly masking the lyrical content which appears to be about extreme depression. Fan favorite tune "Minneapolis" contains the quintessential girl in band-likes-boy in band rhyming couplet: "So we'd said we'd write or call, cuz i'll be touring in the fall..." and could very well have fit nicely on previous concept album Totally Crushed Out! due to it's subject matter. Charlotte Caffey makes another guest appearance here, this time playing guitar. (For those curious about the song and some names mentioned: 'The Jabberjaw' is the name of the tiny coffeehouse all-ages venue where that dog played their very first show and the Randy mentioned in the song is none other than Randy Kaye, long-time L.A. punk rock scenester, A&R rep for Slash/Warner Bros. Records and habitual Jabberjaw regular. (Rest in piece, Randy. You are missed!) "Long Island" also could have thematically fit on Totally Crushed Out! and in fact was actually titled "Totally Crushed Out!" before being changed at the last minute to avoid confusion.

Three Non-LP studio outtakes from the sessions with Brad Wood are included here as bonus tracks: "Fuck You", from the Japanese edition of Retreat which pears to be a 'fuck you' (both figuratively and literally) to DGC, their record label at the time (making it no surprise as to why it wasn't made more widely available); "Little Miss Riding Hood", a b-side from the "Never Say Never" promo single; and an unreleased alternate 'violin' mix of "Gagged and Tied", which got shelved in favor of the album version.

Tracks 17-23 come from an appearance the band made on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic on April 8, 1997. While the interview segments are a bit rushed, host Chris Douridas is charming as ever and playfully interviews the band between songs in their on air set which includes "Never Say Never", "Retreat From The Sun", "I'm Gonna See You" and "Being With You". Following that (tracks 24-27) the band is interviewed on WXRK 92.3 FM New York (or K-ROCK as they were known) by SquirtTV star Jake Fogelnest, and the band performs "Never Say Never" and "Being With You", while a rendition of the song "Hawthorne", written by Waronker after visiting the hometown of beau Steve McDonald, and recorded live at Spaceland in Silverlake on December 23, 1996, follows.

While the decision to record the songs originally conceived of as a solo effort at first appeared amicable amongst the band members, it ultimately made everyone unhappy, and greatly added to the inner turmoil the band had already been experiencing. In late 1997, after the promotional and touring duties for Retreat had been completed, singer Anna Waronker called the other members from Europe (where she was traveling with boyfriend Steve McDonald) and anounced she was leaving the group, putting that dog to sleep for good. Waronker would, however, remain on good terms with most of her former bandmates, even performing at a benefit for Petra Haden in late 2000, joining a Belinda Carlisle-less Go-Go's on stage for a rendition of their hit "Head Over Heels" (track #29). (The insurance-less Haden had been hit by a car earlier in the year, and the benefit was to raise money for Petra's medical and rehabilitation fees incurred.)

The first post-That Dog Waronker songs that would make their way to consumer ears would be as part of the supergroup Ze Malibu Kids which consisted of Waronker, her husband Steve McDonald and his brother Jeff (both from the band Redd Kross), as well as Astrid McDonald, Jeff's ten-year old daughter with the Go-Go's Charlotte Caffey. Although originally credited to just Anna Waronker, the first taste of Ze Malibu Kids came in the form of a cover of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" in 1998 via a Scandinavian Polygram Music Publishing compilation called Chartbusters: 20-I-Toppar, which featured contemporary artists and their renditions of classic from the Polygram Music Publishing catalog. The following year, the Jeff McDonald-penned "Sleep Therapy" featuring vocals by Waronker found it's way into the Allison Anders film Sugar Town (which also featured a small acting part by McDonald). Not counting a free download release of the Waronker sung "My Christmas Was In June" via Redd Kross's official website just prior, The first official release as Ze Malibu Kids was the double A-sided single "I Won't Forget You"/"Your Bed" in 2001. A full-length album Sound It Out followed in 2002 which included both A-sides of the single; the previously mentioned "You're So Vain" and "Sleep Therapy"; as well as new Waronker-penned and sung songs "Shelly Fabares" and "Don't Go". In 2002, Waronker issued her debut solo album Anna By Anna Waronker on her and Charlotte Caffey's own label Five Foot Two Records and her long-delayed second solo offering California Fade is finally set for release later in 2010. She (along with frequent collaborator Caffey) composed the music for Lovelace: A Rock Opera, a musical based on the life of porn star Linda 'Deep Throat' Lovelace, and has become in high demand for her work in writing and composing music for television and films, a field that that dog drummer Tony Maxwell has also seen some success in, working as a composer/music consultant for the films Star Maps (1997), Chuck & Buck (2000) and The Good Girl (2002).

Following the demise of That Dog, bassist Rachel Haden focused on performing with other artists including The Martinis, Jimmy Eat World, The Rentals and Todd Rundgren, and appeared on recordings by Ozma, Dntel, Lucky Pierre, Fightstar, Neil Hamburger and Asian Kung-Fu Generation. As a solo artist, she contributed a strikingly beautiful cover of "Poems, Prayers and Promises" to Take Me Home: A Tribute To John Denver on Badman Recordings in 1999 and continues to work on a collection of solo demos. Currently, she is playing bass and singing back-up vocals for long-time inspiration and Dead Can Dance member Brendan Perry on his 2010 Ark tour.

Meanwhile, Petra Haden (here represented with her solo acapella rendition of the Beach Boys classic "God Only Knows"), probably the most prolific of former That Dog members, has not only appeared on recordings by The Twilight Singers, Beck, Mike Watt, Luscious Jackson, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Victoria Williams, Tegan & Sara, Yuka Honda and The Gutter Twins, but has also released 2 solo albums (Imaginaryland in 1999 and Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out in 2005), 2 albums with Miss Murgatroid (Bella Neurox in 1999 and Hearts & Daggers in 2008), a collaboration with Bill Frisell (Petra Haden & Bill Frisell, 2003) and a collaboration with Woody Jackson (Ten Years, 2008). She is currently working as vocal coach/arranger for the upcoming NBC acapella reality tv show, Sing Off, scheduled to air in December.

As a bonus, i've included "Ordinary Girl", the theme to the television series Clueless and an early collaboration between Waronker and Charlotte Caffey. Here it is performed by China Forbes (in an extended arrangement from the original single release), but it very well could have been performed by that dog. When the song had been accepted as the theme to the show, Paramount executives offered Waronker the chance to record the song with her band. Waronker declined the offer, but a quick listen to the song and one can imagine the band performing it.

Bangles: Live In Glasgow 3/01/86

2010-08-02T22:15:00.000-07:00

BANGLES

QM Union
Glasgow, Scotland

U.K.

March 1, 1986

16 tracks total.

Sound quality: A

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia

File size: 121.8 MB (RAR bundle)
LOSSY
Format: MP3
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?nmdynwozjju

Tracklisting:

01 In A Different Light
02 Live
03 Restless
04 Walking Down Your Street
05 James
06 September Gurls
07 Not Like You
08 Manic Monday
09 He's Got A Secret
10 If She Knew What She Wants
11 Return Post
12 Let It Go
13 Going Down To Liverpool
14 Angels Don't Fall In Love
15 I'm Not Talking
16 Hero Takes A Fall

Go-Go's: Peppermint Lounge 1981

2010-07-27T15:16:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S
Peppermint Lounge
New York, July 1981

14 tracks total.

Sound quality: B

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia

File size: 87.62 MB (RAR bundle)
LOSSY
Format: MP3
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?zomngngyomk

Tracklisting

01 Beatnik Beach
02 How Much More
03 Our Lips Are Sealed
04 He's So Strange
05 Can't Stop The World
06 You Can't Walk In Your Sleep
07 Cool Jerk
08 Lust To Love
09 Surfing And Spying
10 (Remember) Walking In The Sand
11 Skidmarks On My Heart
12 We Got The Beat
13 This Town
14 Let's Have A Party

The Go-Go's play New York's famed Peppermint Lounge in July of 1981. This is a great place to start for those interested in hearing the 1981 Beautify America Tour story, as it captures the band less polished and pre-fame in an intimate venue only a month or so away from becoming stars. Dig in.

that dog. - totally crushed out! (GBG deluxe edition)

2010-07-21T11:50:00.000-07:00

THAT DOG
totally crushed out.
(GBG deluxe edition)
Original release: DGC/Geffen Records (1995)

13 original album tracks
16 bonus tracks
4 bonus videos
image gallery
additional multimedia

File size: 196.48 MB (RAR bundle)

NOTE: You must have the necessary software to be able to open and extract files from the RAR archive format to access the individual music files. To download a quick, easy and free application that will do the trick, click here.

All music files are in the MP3 format, most encoded at 192kbps.
Videos are in the MP4 format.
You must have necessary codecs installed to play these files.

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?9hiftuc81tus5sl

tracklisting
01 ms. wrong
02 silently
03 in the back of my mind
04 he's kissing christian
05 anymore
06 to keep me
07 lip gloss
08 she doesn't know how
09 holidays
10 side part
11 one summer night
12 michael jordan
13 rockstar

non-lp bonus tracks
14 ridiculous
15 explain
16 we must bleed
17 midnight at the oasis
18 silently (acoustic)

featuring special guest beck on banjo
19 one summer night

(alternate version)
20 laverne & shirley theme

(live in milwaukee 1996)
21 you'll do it again

(live in milwaukee 1996)
22 adam in june

performed by june blake
23 steve threw up

performed by beck with members of that dog.
24 piss-bottle man

performed by mike watt with evan dando and members of that dog.
25 i just threw out the love of my dreams

performed by weezer (featuring rachel haden)
26 friends of p.

performed by the rentals (featuring petra haden)
27 move on

performed by the rentals (featuring petra haden and rachel haden)
28 waiting

performed by the rentals (featuring petra haden)
29 totally crushed out!

(later titled 'long island')

bonus videos
he's kissing christian (promo video)
ms. wrong (spincyclemedia photoshow)
friends of p. (promo video)
waiting (promo video)

we hope you enjoy some highlights of this fine compilation below.
however, when you're done, don't forget to scroll down for more info on the songs you have heard. thanks

The second in a four-part that dog. series: I present you with that dog's second album Totally Crushed Out!, given ye olde GBG (GrrlBandGeek) Deluxe Edition treatment - 13 original album tracks, 16 bonus tracks, 4 videos, loads of high quality album artwork scans, band photos, magazine articles, and much much more. (Well, not really much more than that, but I think that should be enough to entice the canine lovers among you.)

Let's get right into it: the original release of that dog.'s second album Totally Crushed Out! dropped on July 18, 1995 on Geffen Records and was a somewhat schizophonic affair being stuck somewhere between the neo twee-punk sound of their debut and the uber-polished power pop of their third, and final album, 1997's Retreat From The Sun. While some numbers such as "Anymore" and "Side Part" certainly evoke the quiet simplicity of their debut release, they fall short of those songs quality, leaving the impression that some of Totally Crushed Out! is comprised of cast-offs from the first album sessions. Of these type songs, only "Holidays" and the haunting "She Doesn't Know How" are worthy successors to the bands earlier work.

Luckily for the listener, the band decided to move beyond their comfort zone on TCO! which result in the treasures of this release. The youthful punk rock zest only glimpsed in previous songs like "Old Timer" are given full reign in songs like "Lip Gloss" and "One Summer Night", two key tracks which pump some much-needed life into this release right when needed most. And then anchoring the album are three of the band's finest songs: the one-two punch of should-of been a single album opener "Ms. Wrong" and "Silently" and first single "He's Kissing Christian". It's interesting to note that these three songs are the first attempt by the band to work with a larger, more established producer (in the case of "Ms. Wrong" and "He's Kissing Christian", it was red-hot at-the-time Green Day producer Rob Cavallo) and their experimentation fully pays off yelding something that would go on to form the template sound of their third album Retreat From The Sun.

Onward to the bonus tracks: First up is "Ridiculous", the shortest song in that dog's repertoire clocking in at one minute and seven seconds from the now ultra-rare 1995 WIN Records compilation album The Poop Alley Tapes: A Compilation of 31 Los Angeles Bands. Poop Alley was an integral part of the early that dog sound, as most of those recordings were made at the studio with Waldo The Dog Faced Boy member/Poop Alley owner Tom Grimley behind the console. "Explain" was recorded in late 1994 for the Jabberjaw - Good To The Last Drop benefit compilation on Mammoth Records when original selection for that release ("This Boy") had been tacked onto the end of that dog's debut album at the last minute instead. (Jabberjaw was a coffee-house/art gallery/all ages venue in Los Angeles where that dog played their very first show - the compilation was produced to raise money to assist the club with their expenses to stay open - unfortunately the club closed it's doors in 1997.) "Explain" is also one of only a few that dog songs that singer Anna Waronker does not sing lead on - here violinist Petra Haden takes center stage for a change.

In 1994 original Germs guitarist and Nirvana/Foo Fighters member Pat Smear befriended That Dog after seeing them open for Beck at the Troubadour. So enamored of singer Anna Waronker's songwriting ability and craftsmanship he asked her to produce his next solo album. With the rest of that dog backing him up, Pat and company (or 'Pat Dog', as they semi-jokingly called the band) recorded six songs which for whatever reason were shelved and still have not surfaced to this day. Most likely, "We Must Bleed", from the Germs tribute compilation Lion's Share: A Small Circle Of Friends date from around this time if not these sessions. That Dog perform the song to the tune of their own "Old Timer", whose chorus melody does bear a striking similarity to the original Germs track.

"Midnight At The Oasis" was a cover of the 1974 Maria Muldaur hit, taken from the 1995 benefit compilation album Spirit of '73: Rock For Choice. Spirit of '73: Rock For Choice was put together by the activist group Feminist Majority with proceeds going to support the Becky Bell/Rosie Jimenez Campaign "to lift consent laws and federal funding restrictions that are forcing young women to turn to back-alley abortions". The compilation's title is inspired by the Janu+ry 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States and the songs included are all contemporary artists of 1995 covering songs that were popular in the early 1970s. The band also had a more personal reason for covering the song: singer Anna Waronker's father Lenny Waronker had produced the original, so this in a way was a tribute to her Dad.

Good band-friend Beck plays banjo on the acoustic version of "Silently" included here, a song that was released as a b-side to the promo single of "Never Say Never" in 1997. An uncredited Beck actually wrote the banjo part he plays in this song, which would later be 'sung' live and on the album version by violinist Petra Haden, an expert at mimicking the sound of certain instruments with only her voice. (Originally the track was to be published as a Beck Hansen/Anna Waronker co-write, but Beck declined credit on the tune, possibly as a gift to his longtime friends and sometimes back-up band.) That Dog returned the favor on "Steve Threw Up", a Beck single released via Bong Load Custom Records in 1994 that featured Anna on bass, Rachel on drums and Petra on fiddle on vocals.

TCO!'s song "One Summer Night" bears the distinction of having been recorded and released in some manner three different times, more than any other that dog song. The first time it was recorded was for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio in January of 1993 (aired: December 1993 - and can be found on the deluxe edition of that dog.'s debut album here), while the second version (which is denoted here as the 'Alternate Version') was recorded with Tom Grimley at Poop Alley Studios in late 1993 specifically for Volume 9, a periodically released U.K. magazine/compilation CD. This version bears a different arrangement than the first or third/album version of the track (also included here), instead employing a more dancey drum beat and bass sound, with some nice breaks that bring out the charm of the song. Fun fact: future SNL star and longtime band friend Maya Rudolph can be heard as one of the talking voices amidst the din heard towards the end of the song.

If you missed that dog live during their heyday, here's your chance to experience some of the joy: two songs recorded on March 28, 1996 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Perhaps inspired by the city in which they were playing, the band does a wacky cover of the theme to the Milwaukee-situated TV show Laverne & Shirley complete with the opening American-Yiddish hopscotch chant "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" ("Schlimazel...what the hell does that mean?" Waronker asks the audience). "You'll Do It Again" - a rare unrecorded original That Dog song follows.

Rounding out the GBG deluxe edition bonus tracks, are some examples of That Dog members moonlighting: Anna Waronker tests the water as a solo artist under the pseudonym of June Blake on the song "Adam In June", also featured on The Poop Alley Tapes compilation from 1995. (The song is featured here in an edited form.) The band backs up Beck on the aforementioned "Steve Threw Up"; Anna, Rachel and Petra sing back-up vocals on Mike Watt's "Piss-Bottle Man" (also featuring lead vocals by Lemonheads singer Evan Dando); Rachel performs guest lead vocals on the Weezer Pinkerton-era b-side "I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams" and both Petra and Rachel contribute to Weezer bassist Matt Sharp's side project The Rentals' album Return Of The Rentals, here represented by Petra's appearance on violin and vocals on the singles "Friends of P." and "Waiting", and Rachel's harmony vocals on the album track "Move On". (Also included in this package are the two Rentals promotional videos for "Friends Of P" and "Waiting" which both feature Petra prominently - the latter even including an extended stunt bike scene by Petra's character before she bursts into the studio to perform her violin solo and a cameo by Rachel as a production assistant at the beginning of the clip. Great stuff!)

And the final bonus track for this set is, strangely enough, a song from the next that dog album 1997's Retreat From The Sun. While the band was finishing up their second album, a popular phrase amongst the band was 'Totally Crushed Out!' due to rampant discussion about crushes that they all had on various people. Inspired, singer Anna Waronker wrote a song called "Totally Crushed Out!", which the band quickly decided would also make a great album title as well. The problem? Well, the song was written too late to be recorded for the release, as all final tracking sessions for the album had been completed. Undeterred, the band decided to move forward with naming the album Totally Crushed Out!, figuring they would be in good company with bands like The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Queen, who all had albums named for songs that would appear on a later album (Waiting For The Sun, Houses Of The Holy and Sheer Heart Attack, respectively). It wasn't until after the song had been recorded for their next album Retreat From The Sun, that the band decided to change the official title of the song to "Long Island" at the last minute to avoid any confusion. Fun facts!

Next up: that dog decides to Retreat From The Sun ...

Bangles: Bad Taste Ball, Warwick University, Coventry UK 2/8/86

2010-07-18T08:56:00.000-07:00

BANGLES

Bad Taste Ball
Warwick University

Coventry U.K.

February 8, 1986

20 tracks total.

Sound quality: A

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia

File size: 153.87 MB (RAR bundle)
LOSSY
Format: MP3
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?joi2m2m5of0

Tracklisting:

01 In A Different Light
02 Live
03 Restless
04 Walking Down Your Street
05 James
06 September Gurls
07 Manic Monday
08 Not Like You
09 He's Got A Secret
10 I'm In Line
11 If She Knew What She Wants
12 Return Post
13 Let It Go
14 Going Down To Liverpool
15 Angels Don't Fall In Love
16 I'm Not Talking
17 Hero Takes A Fall
18 Dover Beach
19 7 And 7 Is
20 Want You

Great sounding show from the Bangles early 1986 European tour to promote their just-finished second album Different Light. Just prior to the massive fame that "Manic Monday" would bring, it's interesting to hear the band in such an intimate environment, completely unaware of what was to come. These early 1986 shows are also notable for being the only time Different Light album closer "Not Like You" was performed. Check it out...

that dog. - the self-titled debut album (GBG deluxe edition)

2010-07-14T12:09:00.000-07:00

THAT DOG

the self-titled debut album

(GBG Deluxe Edition)

15 original album tracks
19 bonus tracks
3 bonus videos
image gallery
additional multimedia

File size: 195.56 MB (RAR bundle)

All music files are in the MP3 format, most encoded at 192kbps.

Videos are in the MP4 format.

You must have necessary codecs installed to play these files.

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?ij2wqoywhoznzen

tracklisting

01 old timer.
02 jump.
03 raina.
04 you are here.
05 just like me.
06 she.
07 angel.
08 westside angst.
09 she looks at me.
10 punk rock girl.
11 zodiac.
12 family functions.
13 she looks at me (reprise).
14 paid programming.
15 this boy.

bonus tracks

16 buy me flowers.
17 untitled.
18 grunge couple.
19 i invented a head.
20 campfire.
21 sit on the floor (peel session).
22 one summer night (peel session).
23 grunge couple (live).
24 old timer (original 7" version).
25 raina (original 7" version).
26 she (original 7" version).
27 westside angst (original 7" version).
28 angel (original 7" rip).
29 jump (original 7" rip).
30 paid programming (original 7" rip).
31 she looks at me.

performed by matt sharp
32 angel.

performed by waldo the dog faced boy
33 cherry llama.

performed by salamander
34 hand glides.

performed by salamander

videos

old timer. (promo video)

you are here. (SpinCycleMedia photo show)

paid programming. (SpinCycleMedia photo show)

In a continuing line of albums that I believe should get the expanded bonus deluxe edition treatment, but never will, I give you that dog. - the self-titled debut album (grrlbandgeek deluxe edition).

That Dog (or that dog. as they styled themselves upon arrival) were an L.A. pop band active from 1992-1998 that featured Anna Waronker (daughter of record mogul Lenny Waronker), Rachel and Petra Haden (two of jazz bassist Charlie Haden's triplet daughters) and Tony Maxwell on drums. They gathered alot of buzz upon their debut given their high-profile pedigrees, but it was their unique sound, centered around Waronker's simple pop meanderings backed by the Haden sisters pitch-perfect harmonies that really got the conversation started. Someone once called them a punk-rock Roches, and for this record anyways, I can't think of a better description. Their first release - a double 7" single on the Hawthorne based Magnatone Records - quickly became the buzz record of the moment generating lots of airplay on local college stations KXLU and KCRW. The latters Chris Douridas, host of Morning Becomes Eclectic brought the band to the attention of DGC/Geffen Records, who immediately began wooing the baby band with a deal.

Just as the band was about to sign with Geffen, they got word that Ivo Watts-Russell, the head of 4AD International had heard the group's single on the John Peel Sessions show on BBC Radio and was also keen to ink the band. This presented a serious dilemma for the band - 4AD had been one of the most important labels to the band members growing up, but they had already preliminarily entered into a contract with Geffen. What to do? In a unique tale of record label collaboration, Geffen agreed to allow the first album to be released by Guernica (an imprint of 4AD) in the territories outside of North America, while DGC would release it within the States through the alternative distribution channel RED. This allowed for two separate releases of the same record, with two different artwork designs in early 1994. The Guernica/4AD release featured a design that was beautiful and sleek in line with much of the other 4AD packages of the time, while the DGC release featured basically the same artwork as used by the band on their debut single (albeit in an expanded capacity). The record itself was pretty much a re-issue of their debut single, with some additional songs thrown on for good measure. The songs "Raina", "She" and "Old Timer" which had all appeared on the debut single had been re-recorded, while "Westside Angst" had been slightly edited (the dialing sound at the beginning of the song was cut). The songs "Jump", "Angel", and "Paid Programming" all appear on the album as they had initially appeared on wax. (All of the songs from the debut single are included here as bonus tracks - forgive the quality - they were mastered from the original test pressing which wasn't in the best shape.)

One impetus for getting the Guernica release was the additional 7" single that came with the vinyl edition of the album. The two songs featured on it "Buy Me Flowers" b/w "Untitled" (both included here as bonus tracks) are quite rare and showcase the early sound of the band. "Grunge Couple" was another early song that just missed being put on the record, so it was instead assigned for release on the 1994 compilation DGC Rarities, Vol. 1. The band later released this version (the studio version) of the song on a 7" single b/w "I Invented A Head" that was only sold at shows. "I Invented A Head" and a live version of "Grunge Couple" (also included here) were also featured on the "Old Timer" promo single that was sent to radio in late 1994. Also in late 1994 came the split 10" with Waldo The Dog Faced Boy, which featured that dog covering Waldo's "Campfire" on one side (#20) with them returning the favor on the reverse side with a cover of the that dog song "Angel" (#32).While that dog's cover tends to be more straight forward, Waldo The Dog Faced Boy's rendition is more of a mash-up with their own original song turning it into an 8-minute long opus.

"Sit On The Floor" (#21) and "One Summer Night" (#22) both hail from a John Peel Session for BBC Radio, recorded in January of 1993 but not aired until December of that year. ("One Summer Night" did well enough to chart at #26 in John Peel's Festive Fifty list for the year of 1994. The band would go on the re-record this song twice - once for the CD compilation Volume 9 in 1994 and then again for their second album Totally Crushed Out! in 1995.)

When asked who their favorite band in L.A. was in 1993 just prior to signing their record deal, Weezer unanimously answered "That Dog". Track 31 is a cover of "She Looks At Me" by Weezer bassist/Rentals leader Matt Sharp, recorded in early 1994. At the time Sharp was putting together a band called "That's Incredible!" that also featured Rachel Haden on vocals. (That's Incredible would eventually become the The Rentals - albeit with less involvement from Haden who was committed to That Dog's recording and touring schedule at the time.) His take on "She Looks at Me" is a genuine and heartfelt take on the innocent love song.

Rounding out the bonus tracks here are two songs from Salamander, a band that featured Rachel & Petra Haden along with Scott & Sean Wheatley, Evan Hartzell and Haden triplet sister Tanya on cello and existed (at least initially) simultaneously with that dog. When That Dog got signed to DGC/Geffen Records in 1993, they unfortunately had to leave the group to devote more time to that band, signaling the demise of Salamander as a group. The two tracks here: "Cherry Llama" and "Hand Glides" clearly show the early 4AD influence on the girls who both cited such bands as Lush and the Cocteau Twins as inspirations.

Next up: the GBG Deluxe Edition treatment of the second That Dog album Totally Crushed Out!...

Go-Go's: Live at The Keystone, Palo Alto CA 7/23/81

2010-07-10T02:06:00.001-07:00

GO-GO'S

Live at the Keystone Palo Alto

Palo Alto, CA

July 23, 1981

17 songs on 16 tracks

(first track contains 2 songs).

Sound quality: B

Artwork: MaxPericles/SpinCycleMedia

Originally found this one via Gle-Gle Blogspot

Praise be to they

File size: 78.76 MB (RAR bundle)
LOSSY
Format: MP3
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?oztnuigmkej

Tracklisting

01 Surfing And Spying/

How Much More
02 Our Lips Are Sealed
03 Fading Fast
04 Tonite
05 London Boys
06 Automatic
07 Lust To Love
08 You Can't Walk In Your Sleep
09 This Town
10 Can't Stop The World
11 Cool Jerk
12 Skidmarks On My Heart
13 Let's Have A Party
14 Beatnik Beach
15 We Got The Beat
16 (Remember) Walking In The Sand

Bangles: Live at Bierkeller, Bristol U.K. 2/4/86

2010-07-09T21:19:00.000-07:00

BANGLES

Live at Bierkeller

Bristol U.K.

February 4, 1986

20 tracks total.

Sound quality: B+

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia

File size: 148.85 MB (RAR bundle)
LOSSY
Format: MP3
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?45t0yqznfyw

Tracklisting:

YOUTUBE: Hole - Petals (Live in Houston TX 7/6/10)

2010-07-07T18:00:00.000-07:00

HOLE

"Petals"

live from the House Of Blues

Houston, Texas

July 6, 2010

Courtesy of YouTube member OfficialTonyTerror.

Despite her statement at the beginning of this clip, this is the first time "Petals" has ever been publicly performed. A rare treat from the current 2010 'Hole Evolution' tour.

Go-Go's: Earthlink Live! Atlanta GA 2/9/05

2010-07-07T12:00:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S

Earthlink Live!

Atlanta, GA

February 9, 2005

22 tracks total.

Sound quality: B+

Taper: Marc Kim
Source: Neumann AK40 > LC3 > KM100 > MV100 (Burr Brown Mod) > M1
Location: 40 ft. center

Compiled by George Wang

Artwork & upload by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia

File size: 146.42 MB (RAR bundle)
LOSSY
Format: MP3
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?jj35gnnmqhf

Tracklisting

01 (Intro)
02 This Town
03 Our Lips Are Sealed
04 Get Up And Go

05 You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
06 How Much More
07 Automatic
08 Cool Jerk
09 Head Over Heels
10 Throw Me A Curve
11 Surfing And Spying
12 Beatnik Beach
13 Vacation
14 Tonite
15 Stuck In My Car
16 Skidmarks On My Heart
17 We Got The Beat

18 (Encore Applause)
19 Fun With Ropes
20 X-Offender
21 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
22 (Outro)

Decent sounding audience recording from Atlanta in 2005...the highlights here are the last three: Fun With Ropes and two covers: Blondie's X-Offender and the Ramones Sheena Is A Punk Rocker.

Go-Go's Live @ The Roxy, West Hollywood CA 2/01/81

2010-07-03T08:34:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S

Vicious Circle

Live at The Roxy On The Fabulous Sunset Strip

February 1, 1981

18 tracks total.

Sound quality: A (90/100)

source : unknown mic > unknown recorder
transfer from first generation cassette

taper: brian s
tape provided by: mystical crow
transfer: markp

(Thanks guys!)

File size: 79.81 MB (RAR bundle)
LOSSY
Format: MP3
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

DOWNLOAD SHOW

http://www.mediafire.com/?hztymbge3ry

Tracklisting

01 Tom Jones Intro
02 Beatnik Beach
03 How Much More
04 Our Lips Are Sealed
05 Can't Stop The World
06 He's So Strange
07 Speeding
08 Cool Jerk
09 Lust To Love
10 You Can't Walk In Your Sleep
11 Skidmarks On My Heart
12 Surfing And Spying
13 (Remember) Walkin' In The Sand
14 London Boys
15 We Got The Beat
16 This Town
17 Let's Have A Party
18 Vicious Circle

VIDEO: Bangles - Manic Monday (Extended California Version)

2010-07-02T09:34:00.000-07:00

BANGLES

"Manic Monday"

(Extended California Version)

VIDEO DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnyav5mq4m5

Technical Stuff:

Format : MPEG-4 (MP4)
File size : 24.6 MiB
Duration : 5mn 7s
Overall bit rate : 670 Kbps

VIDEO
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 539 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 882 Kbps
Width : 480 pixels
Height : 360 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.104
Stream size : 19.7 MiB (80%)

AUDIO
Format : AAC
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 129 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 231 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

Video remix by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia, 2009.

VIDEO: The Go-Go's - Vacation (MultiMix)

2010-07-02T08:13:00.000-07:00

GO-GO'S
"Vacation"
(MultiMix)

DOWNLOAD VIDEO
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2jgjhbmzk2

Format : AVI
File size : 44.4 MiB
Duration : 4mn 35s
Overall bit rate: 1 350 Kbps
Codec ID : DivX

VIDEO
Bit rate : 1 112 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.121
Stream size : 36.6 MiB (82%)

AUDIO
Format: MP3
Mode: Joint stereo
Bit rate: 224 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

Video Remix by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia, 2009.

Free To Fight! (Candy Ass/Chainsaw Records compilation)

2010-07-02T07:40:00.000-07:00

FREE TO FIGHT!

Self Defense For Women & Girls

compilation, Candy Ass Records/Chainsaw Records 1995

File: 76.69 MB RAR

15 songs by different artists + 13 instructional tracks = 28 tracks total

Comes in a RAR archive file, so you must have the necessary software (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP, etc) to open and extract files from them already on your computer. All tracks are encoded in the MP3 format (bitrate varies), so you must have each necessary codec installed to play.

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?wo3zbjymuoy

Tracklisting

01 Sarah Rides The Greyhound
02 Monster Snack Performed by The Third Sex
03 Definition of Self Defense
04 Song for Anne Bannon Performed by Team Dresch
05 Sleep'n wit' the Enemy Performed by Mizzery
06 Violence is Violence
07 Killing Your Clone is Still Murder Performed by Sue P. Fox
08 Carnation Red Performed by Rebecca Gates
09 Body Language
10 Don't Performed by Fifth Column
11 Yelling
12 Real Defense Performed by 151
13 Make a Scene
14 The Martyr Performed by Containe
15 Assertiveness Practice
16 New Terror Story Performed by Nikki, Jen, Rueben
17 St. What's Her Name Performed by The Lois
18 Alice's Story
19 Primary Targets
20 Target Practice
21 Striking
22 Disgracias Performed by Cheesecake
23 Laura Sister Nobody Crosses the Street
24 Daddy's Crazy Performed by Axteca X
25 Get Out of My Head Performed by Heavens To Betsy
26 Sylvia Gets Fancy
27 Forever Fired Performed by Excuse Seventeen
28 Lucky One Performed by Nikki McClure

Titles in bold are the musical tracks or artist-specific spoken word pieces;

those that are not in bold are the instructional tracks.
For detailed track information, click on the images underneath the YouTube player below.

The Lois "St. What's-Her-Name" from Free To Fight:

Cake Like - Goodbye, So What (GBG Deluxe Edition: LP + Bonus Track)

2010-06-30T19:22:00.000-07:00

CAKE LIKE

Goodbye, So What

(GrrlBandGeek Deluxe Edition)
Original LP release - Vapor Records (1999)

File: 33.23 MB RAR
12 album tracks + 1 bonus track = 13 tracks total + image gallery
Comes in a RAR archive file, so you must have the necessary software (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP, etc) to open and extract files from them already on your computer. All tracks are encoded in the MP3 format (bitrate varies), so you must have each necessary codec installed before being able to play.

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/?llyw1ucmoqd

Tracklisting:

01 Lucky One
02 My Guy
03 Don't Tell
04 Ashley
05 Dead To Me
06 Getaway
07 Superstore
08 Swell
09 Blacked Out And Blue
10 God's Alright
11 Frequent Flyer
12 Miss You
13 Love Charm (Non-LP Bonus Track)*

*Originally appeared on the 1998 compilation Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan (a tribute to the T. Rex singer)

Ah, Cake Like. I love 'em. For those who don't know, Cake Like was the all-girl rock band fronted by writer/actress/comedienne extraordinare Kerri Kenney-Silver from MTV's The State sketch program, Comedy Central's Viva Variety and probably most notably Reno 911, which I believe she stars in to this day. The group got it's start when Kenny-Silver met Nina Hellman while both were attending NYU's Experimental Theater department in the early 1990's. The two decided to work together on a creative music project and soon enlisted Hellman's roommate fashion designer Jody Seifert to play drums with them. Despite none of them having ever played their instruments before (or perhaps because of it), they developed their own unique style, fueled by Kenney-Silver's natural comedic style of storytelling combined with the trio's minimalistic, improvisational style of playing. Initial gigs with friends like Soul Coughing and Shudder To Think got the buzz started; at one of these early shows jazz saxophonist John Zorn saw the group and was so impressed asked the band to record an album (1995's Delicious) for his Avant Records. A Ric Ocasek-produced single "Mr. Fireman" followed, after which the band became the subject of a major-label bidding war eventually won by Neil Young's Vapor Records. Their second LP Bruiser Queen was issued in 1997, with Goodbye, So What (their third and final album to date) appearing in the summer of 1999. While all of the Cake Like albums have some standout tracks, this release is probably the most song-based record they have - with more focus on traditional song structure and melody, albeit with their own unique spin.

Sadly, Cake Like is now pretty much defunct, as the band members high profile dayjobs have proven to be much more successful than the band ever was. Still, I hear word there may be a re-issue of this record along with Bruiser Queen on one CD in the not too distant future, and that the band may be preparing some new material for it. Fingers crossed.

Key Tracks:
LUCKY ONE
MY GUY
ASHLEY
DON'T TELL

Non-LP Bonus Track:
LOVE CHARM
(cover of a T. Rex song from a Marc Bolan Tribute album.)

Check out Cake Like "Lucky One" below:

The Murmurs - Pristine Smut (+ Extras)

2010-06-28T11:05:00.000-07:00

THE MURMURS

Pristine Smut

(GrrlBandGeek Deluxe Edition)

Original LP release on MCA Records (1997)

File: 162.21 MB

11 album tracks + 12 bonus tracks = 23 tracks total + 3 videos + image gallery

Comes in a RAR archive file, so you must have the necessary software (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP, etc) to open and extract files from them already on your computer. All tracks are encoded in the MP3 format (bitrate varies), and videos are in the MP4 format, so you must have each necessary codec installed before being able to play the respective file type.

DOWNLOAD
http://www.mediafire.com/?zgotmodgo4q

Tracklisting:

01 Big Talker
02 I'm A Mess
03 Toy
04 Underdog
05 About Nothin'
06 Genius

07 Squeeze Box Days

08 Don't Lie

09 Sucker Upper

10 Country Song
11 Sleepless Commotion

BONUS TRACKS
12 La Di Da (Bonus Blender Track)
13 Misfit (Bonus Blender Track)
14 Smash (Bonus Blender Track)
15 I'm A Mess (Blender Version - Bonus Track)
16 Underdog (Live in Chicago 1998)
17 Sucker Upper (Live in Chicago 1998)
18 Don't Lie (Live in Chicago 1998)
19 Big Talker (Live in Chicago 1998)
20 Genius (Live In Chicago 1998)
21 Misfit (Live In Chicago 1998)
22 What's Wrong With Me (X cover) (Live In Chicago 1998)
23 One And Only (Live in Chicago 1998)

BONUS VIDEOS
01 I'm A Mess/La Di Da (Live at Disneyland 1998)
02 Smash (Live at Disneyland 1998)
03 Smash (Live on The Roseanne Show 1998)

What we have here is the long out-of print third album by The Murmurs, Pristine Smut, given the special 'GrrlBandGeek Deluxe Edition' treatment with 12 bonus tracks, 4 of which are from the Blender re-packaging that this album was given a year later, as well as 8 live tracks recorded in Chicago in 1998. Plus, a few bonus clips for good measure.

L7 - Slap-Happy (LP release - 1999)

2010-06-23T19:35:00.000-07:00

Slap-happy

(Wax Tadpole/Bong Load Records, 1999)

File size: 85.02 MB (RAR file). Full album = 12 tracks.
Album comes in a RAR archive file, so you must have the necessary software (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP, etc) to open and extract files from them. All tracks = 320kbps MP3

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?mmo3eeyydmi

Tracklisting:
01 Crackpot Baby
02 On My Rockin' Machine
03 Lackey
04 Human
05 Livin' Large
06 Freeway
07 Stick To The Plan
08 War With You
09 Long Green
10 Little One
11 Freezer Burn
12 Mantra Down

Sixth (and final) studio album from the chicks "who got so much clit they don't need balls...". Key tracks: Crackpot Baby, Freeway, Human, Freezer Burn.

The Gits - Seafish Louisville (2000)

2010-06-22T13:01:00.000-07:00

THE GITS

Seafish Louisville

(Broken Rekids, 2000)

File size: 61.41 MB (RAR file). 16 tracks.

Album comes in a RAR archive file, so you must have the necessary software (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP, etc) to open and extract files from them. All tracks are encoded in the MP3 format with a bit rate of 192kbps (must have necessary codec to play files.).

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?zihjwzmtedm

Tracklisting:

01 Whirlwind (Never Released)
02 Seaweed (Unreleased Version)
03 Absynthe (Live)
04 Another Shot Of Whiskey (Live)
05 Insecurities (Live)
06 Slaughter Of Bruce (Live)
07 Precious Blood (Unreleased Version)
08 While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing
09 A (Unreleased Version)
10 Social Love (Live)
11 It Doesn't Matter (Never Released)
12 Kings And Queens (Unreleased Version)
13 Wingo Lamo (Live)
14 Here's To Your Fuck (Live)
15 Second Skin (Live)
16 Daily Bread (Never Released Instrumental)

Frightwig - Wild Women Never Die (compilation)

2010-06-21T16:05:00.000-07:00

FRIGHTWIG

Wild Women Never Die

(Southern Records compilation, 1993)

File Size: 74.94 MB (RAR file) 21 tracks total
Album comes in a RAR archive file, so you must have the necessary software (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP, etc) to open and extract files from them already on your computer. All tracks are in the MP3 format with a bit rate of 128kbps (with the exception of track 7, which is encoded at 320kbps).

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?z5tzninzmlu

Tracklisting:
01 Wanque Off Song
02 My Crotch Does Not Say 'Go'
03 Jeri's Song
04 I Got Lost
05 Hot Papa
06 A Man's Got To Do What A Man's Got To Do
07 Vagabondage
08 Only You
09 Take This And Fuck Yer Head
10 I'll Talk To You And Smile
11 Tomorrow Never Comes
12 Something's Gotta Change
13 Beverly Hills
14 Crazy World
15 Big Bang
16 Punk Rock Jail Bait
17 Manifest Destiny
18 Booby Prize
19 American Express
20 I Don't Want To Be Alone
21 Freedom

tracks 1-12 from the 1984 album Cat Farm Faboo
tracks 13-21 from the 1986 album Faster Frightwig: Kill! Kill!!

While not a household name, raunchy and rockin' San Francisco-based all-girl band Frightwig, were highly influential on the likes of Courtney Love, Kat Bjelland and Jennifer Finch who individually would go on to be a part of some of the most notable girl rock bands of the 90's. Bands with dudes in 'em liked 'em too: Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More and Nirvana were all fans of the troupe (A Frightwig shirt can even be seen on Kurt Cobain in their MTV Unplugged performance), and Jeffrey and Steven McDonald from Redd Kross were so enamored with the 'Wig that they not only produced 1989's Phone Sexy EP, but also covered the bands song "Crazy World" on their 1993 Phaseshifter album.

This album is a compilation of their first two LP's, 1984's Cat Farm Faboo and 1986's Faster, Frightwig: Kill!! Kill!! and is definitive listening for anyone interested in the evolution of Grrl Rock. Key tracks: "My Crotch Does Not Say 'Go'", "A Man's Got To Do What A Man's Got To Do", "Crazy World", "Punk Rock Jail Bait", "Booby Prize"

The Graces - Perfect View (LP + Bonus Tracks)

2010-06-17T13:45:00.000-07:00

The Graces

Perfect View

(A&M Records, 1989)

Full Album Release + Extras

File: 117.23 MB

10 album tracks + 3 bonus tracks = 13 tracks total + 2 videos + image gallery

Comes in a RAR archive file, so you must have the necessary software (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP, etc) to open and extract files from them already on your computer. All tracks are encoded in the MP3 format (bitrate varies), and both videos are in the MP4 format, so you must have each necessary codec installed before being able to play the respective file type.

DOWNLOAD via MEDIAFIRE

(updated 9/21/10)

http://www.mediafire.com/?lafc3xs11ltw8m8

DOWNLOAD via HOTFILE

(added 9/21/10)

http://hotfile.com/dl/70875029/6e02d54/TG_-_PV_(Deluxe).rar.html

TRACKS

01 Lay Down Your Arms

02 When The Sun Goes Down

03 Perfect View

04 Fear No Love

05 Time Waits For No One

06 50,000 Candles Burning

07 Should I Let You In

08 We Never Met

09 Tomorrow

10 Out In The Fields

RELATED NON-LP BONUS TRACKS

Lay Down Your Arms [Belinda Carlisle's version]

Should I Let You In [Belinda Carlisle's version]

Guardian Angel [1976 Charlotte Caffey Demo]

BONUS VIDEOS

Lay Down Your Arms

Perfect View

Rizzo - Phoning It In (LP + Bonus Tracks)

2010-06-09T10:42:00.000-07:00

RIZZO

Phoning It In

(Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2000)

Full LP Release + Non-LP Bonus Tracks

File: 179.52 MB RAR

13 album tracks + 7 non-LP bonus tracks = 20 tracks total + 2 bonus videos

All tracks are encoded in the MP3 format, bit rate of 320 kbps (with the exception of track 20 which is encoded at 128kbps). Videos have been included in the archive in both the flash (.FLV) and MPEG (.MPG) formats for your convenience .

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?yzokgwiwoft

tracks
01 The Joke's On You
02 Long Gone Bon
03 Apple Pancakes
04 Cathy
05 Lifetime Guarantee
06 Spin This
07 Peter's Sick
08 Noise Boy
09 I Know It's Late
10 Right Side Of The Tracks
11 Let It Ride
12 Baby, You Fucked Up
13 Raspberry Beret

NON-LP BONUS TRACKS
14 Allie
15 Rental Raccoon
16 Shymaster
17 Road Song
18 Cathy's Song
19 Made Of Wood
20 Allie (Live)

"Batman, Superman....can't freak your shit out like Rizzo can!"
-Rizzo
from the song "Long Gone Bon" from the album Phoning It In

Someone once described Rizzo as the indie rock cheerleaders of the Los Angeles music scene in the mid-to-late 90's, and I thought that was the best description if any. Even before they formed the band, Jen Abercrombie (vocals, guitars) and Sarah Dale De Angelis (drums, vocals) were always making the scene at indie rock shows in town, known for their exuberant personalities and cheering on their friends in bands (both local and from afar). They knew EVERYBODY and everybody loved them. And before you even go there...NO, not like THAT. Unlike many annoying scenester girls who just wanted to bag a future rock star, the Rizzo girls were genuine music fans who always brought with them a joyful, positive energy that was infectious and extremely hard to find in a musical landscape that was known for it's cynical, hipper-than-thou attitude. Whereas most indie rockers were known for their music snobbery and looking down their nose at those they deemed unhip or uncool, Sarah and Jen defied that sterotype by being extremely exclusionary of all - in grade school they would have given valentines to everyone equally and genuinely, even to the "pee girl" in the back who got picked on at recess. Sleater-Kinney, the Bartlebees, Madigan, Tullycraft, Team Dresch, The Need, Mocket and more all spent downtime with the pair playing badminton or shopping for vintage clothes when their tours rolled through town. The song "Radio Agony" by L.A. compatriat buddies Longstocking, even features the line "If I could dance like Sarah Dale, and play the drums..." a shout out to the Rizzo drummer. Musically speaking, Rizzo bears a passing resemblance to some of the mid-1990's twee pop girl sounds coming out of the Pacific Northwest such as Tiger Trap, Go Sailor, Cub and Lois Maffeo, whose minimalistic, stripped down sound of only guitar and drums may have been the ultimate inspiration behind the group. Some have categorized Rizzo as a "riot grrl" band which is not accurate - while certainly tough in their own way and all about female-empowerment, Rizzo's songs are much more personal and romantic in nature than the more serious hard-edged sounds of that movement. If asked where Rizzo should be placed stylistically in one's record collection, my answer would be to file under 'pure fun'.
'Pure fun' or not, the group had never been conceived of as a possible career type vehicle by the duo, and by 2002 the group had amicably split to pursue other interests in life. However, before they officially called it a day, they were approached by Long Gone John of Long Beach based indie Sympathy For The Record Industry about doing something for the label. Figuring it would be a great way to cap off their music career, the girls agreed to a full-length release made especially "for the fans", a compendium of all their best-loved songs, a "Rizzo's Greatest Hits" if you will. (The title Phoning It In is an inside joke that pokes fun at their self-perceived 'just for fun' attitude and laissez faire approach to making the record.)

So this then is that record, which along with several bonus tracks, comprises the bulk of the band's recorded output. A non-stop dance party from the first notes of album opener "The Joke's On You" to the final number, "Raspberry Beret", a joyful cover pf the Prince hit,
Phoning It In does a good job at capturing
the heart and soul of what the band embodied. And, if you've made it that far, you'll undoubtedly like the additional non-LP bonus tracks that follow: "Allie" from the 1997 Cher Doll Records compilation Something Cool; "Rental Raccoon" (inspired by Weezer bassist Matt Sharp's side project The Rentals), from the split 7" single with Tullycraft on Harriet Records (1997); "Shymaster", "Road Song" and "Cathy's Song" all from the Rizzo 7" single Shymaster on Cher Doll in 1998 (Of these three, "Road Song" and "Cathy's Song" would later be re-recorded by the band for Phoning It In under the titles "I Know It's Late" and "Cathy", respectively. "Road Song" is also notable for being recorded by Jimmy Tamborello of The Postal Service.); "Made of Wood", originally released on the compilation Inbred: Sounds Of The San Joaquin Valley; and finally an unreleased live performance of "Allie" that closes out this collection. As a double bonus, check out the two video clips of Rizzo also included here: "Shymaster" and "Lifetime Guarantee".

sample some of the Rizzo Rawk:

VIDEO: The Go-Go's: Beauty Talk 2001

2010-06-06T23:40:00.000-07:00

The Go-Go's: Beauty Talk 2001

DOWNLOAD VIDEO
http://www.mediafire.com/?tezdgkomt12
SPECS
Format : MPEG-4 (MP4)
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 51.5 MiB
Duration : 10mn 49s
Overall bit rate : 665 Kbps

VIDEO
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 540 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 992 Kbps
Width : 480 pixels
Height : 360 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.917 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.104

AUDIO
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 123 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 218 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R

Video rip and edit by MaxPericles for SpinCycleMedia, 2010.

Original version from the 2001 DVD The Go-Go's Live From Central Park.

As the Go-Go's prepare for what they claim to be their final tour, a brief two week jaunt in July in between promotional duties for Belinda Carlisle's new tell-all memoir Lips Unsealed (NOTE 7/5/10: Due to Jane Wiedlin's recent injury, the band has had to cancel their farewell tour. It is up in the air at this point if they will make these dates up next year, or if we've already seen the last of the Go-Go's as a performing band. Time will tell...), i've decided to roll out some fun extras from the Go's 2001 DVD Live in Central Park to remind us all of a time when the band was full of excitement and promise, just off the release of their first album in 15 years God Bless The Go-Go's.

In this first segment, which i've dubbed "Beauty Talk 2001", the band is interviewed while getting their hair and make-up done prior to the show. Jane hams it up as usual, playing to the camera and sharing some amusing anecdotes about the girls first few times in New York while Charlotte proudly talks about her daughter Astrid's love of art and the sounds of classic rock. Surprisingly though, Gina is the star here, who comes off as extremely likable, humble and above all else funny, talking about the early days of the band and clowning around with her stylist. In contrast, Kathy Valentine and Belinda Carlisle - who both obviously declined to be interviewed directly on camera during the filming of these extras - suffer from their lack of camera time and come off as cold and aloof compared with their bandmates warmth and charm here. (A lesson to be learned, ladies?)

The HOLE Truth: A Comprehensive Collection Of B-sides, Outtakes & Other Rarities v1 (1985-1991)

2010-05-24T01:13:00.000-07:00

THE HOLE TRUTH:
A Comprehensive Collection Of B-sides, Outtakes & Other Rarities (v1) 1985-1991

Size: 165.61 MB (RAR File)
36 tracks, all encoded in the MP3 format (bitrate varies), then bundled into a RAR archive for download.

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?wyezzzjtmne

Tracklisting:

01 My Dream* (1:54)
02 Best Sunday Dress Sugar Baby Doll/Pagan Babies Demo (2:22)
03 Girls Can Play Football Too* (1:15)
04 Cold Shoulders Sugar Baby Doll/Pagan Babies Demo (2:32)

05 Kat Bjelland (:57)

06 Quiet Room Sugar Baby Doll/Pagan Babies Demo (1:52)

07 Bernadine Sugar Baby Doll/Pagan Babies Demo (2:54)

08 I Was Desperate* (:48)
09 Hole In Your Head Live at Nightmoves, Huntington Beach 11/11/89 (2:53)

10 El Diablo Live at Nightmoves, Huntington Beach 11/11/89 (4:01)
11 In The Endless Night Of The Alaskan Winter* (:40)
12 Johnnie's In The Bathroom (2:18)
13 Filling A Hole* (:38)
14 Turpentine (4:00)
15 Phonebill Song (1:48)

16 Long Gone John* (:50)
17 Retard Girl (4:46)
18 Every Man Live at Club Lingerie, Hollywood 10/10/90 (4:32)

19 The Void In All Of Us* (1:03)
20 Burn Black (Jack Endino Mix) (4:57)
21 Dicknail (Jack Endino Mix) (3:38)
22 Teenage Whore (2:57)
23 Drown Soda (4:50)

24 On Hole in 1991* (:18)
25 Garbadge Man (Unreleased Alternate Mix) (3:04)
26 The Only Rape I Know Live at La Cigale, Paris 11/26/91 (1:47)
27 Want It So Bad Live at Bierkeller, Bristol, England 8/19/91 (1:11)

28 Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Live at the Rose Club, Koln GER on 12/4/91 (1:53)

29 Chad Live at Doornroosje, Nijmegan HOL 11/24/91 (1:53)

30 I Am (early version of 'Doll Parts') Live at Tower Records, Cambridge, MA 11/6/91 (1:32)

31 Doll Parts (Peel Sessions) (2:21)
32 Violet (Peel Sessions) (3:36)
33 Forming/Hot Chocolate Boy (Peel Sessions) (1:32)

BONUS TRACKS

34 Do You Fake It? Live at The Rivoli's, Toronto 11/1/91 (1:39)

35 Drown Soda (Peel Sessions) (3:51)

36 The Complete Kat Bjelland* (2:07)

*Non-musical segment/interlude.

Hate her or LOVE her, one can't deny the astronomic will power and determination of the former Courtney Michelle Harrison, especially in regards to her music career. Determined to be a "rock star" no matter what, her first attempt at fronting a band came at the tender age of 16 when she briefly fronted an early version of Faith No More. Although she had star potential (apparently getting the job by being willing to light her hair on fire on stage), Courtney's strong persona soon was at odds with the band's "democratic" nature and she was ousted after only a few months. While this was a disappointment for Love, it also freed her up to focus on what she had dreamed about ever since she saw the first Runaways single at The Crystal Ship record store in Portland, OR - to have a female band that was as big as the Beatles. (Love subsequently shoplifted that record.)

Back in Portland, Courtney heard about a cool, new girl in town that played guitar and had similar ambition - Kat Bjelland. Bjelland and Love hit it off immediately and together began to plot their ascension to the top. On a hunch that the next big music explosion would happen in San Francisco, Courtney and Kat headed south in search of fame and fortune, eventually settling into a large house on the corner of Fillmore & Oak. There, inspired by a recent performance of Frightwig, San Francisco's outrageous all-girl rock troupe, the two invited Courtney's friend from L.A., Jennifer Finch, up with the prospect of starting a similar project, initially dubbed Sugar Baby Doll. This phase of the band was extremely short-lived with Jennifer sticking around only long enough to record a four-track demo with Love & Bjelland, before returning to L.A. to join L7, a band she would be a part of for a decade to come. Love & Bjelland then found bassist Janis Tanaka and drummer Deirdre Schlatter to complete their musical line-up, and christened themselves the Pagan Babies. Seeing as the tracks were all Bjelland/Love compositions, the band frugally recycled the Sugar Baby Doll tracks for their own demo, creating some confusion for years to come as to who to attribute the songs to. While they had been recorded by the Love/Bjelland/Finch incarnation of Sugar Baby Doll, the only actual demo tapes produced from this time bore the name Pagan Babies, so I suppose it is up to each individual as to where they would like to alphabetically file them in their collection.

And the tracks themselves: "Best Sunday Dress", "Cold Shoulders", "Quiet Room" and "Bernadine". Apologies for the horrendous quality of these, I've tried some minor remastering on a few to make them sound slightly less god-awful. Less aggressive sounding than what would later come from both Bjelland and Love, these tracks borrow heavily from Love inspirations Echo & The Bunnymen as well as ethereal 4AD band the Cocteau Twins. "Best Sunday Dress" would be re-written and re-worked by Love and recorded as a Hole b-side in 1998, while Bjelland would eventually turn "Quiet Room" into an instrumental for her band Babes In Toyland. "Bernadine" apparently was the first song ever written entirely by Love herself and was about Bernadine Mann, a great mentor to Love and the mother of Jeffrey Brent Mann, a boyfriend of Love's from the mid-1980's. A recent Twitter post by Love herself about these tracks:

"Jeffrey Brent Mann! The only ex boyfriend who is living and who doesn't talk to me, he's the guy who blows shit up; if you ever see "Tropic Thunder" he's the demo guy on that (that's the guy "Malibu" is about mixed with Kurt).

He never believed i would make it, his mother Bernadene Mann (trainspotters, look for the sugar babylon/baby doll song named for her) is one of my great mentors and loves along with Hal Wilner, Bono, Stipe, Panos, Billy and a few others. Look for the song me, Kat Bjelland and band did called "Bernadene", it was the first song i ever wrote. "Cold Shoulders" was a sophomoric attempt at a Cocteau Twins vibe with lyrics you could hear, funny we deconstructed.

Me, Kat and Jennifer Finch, it's really scratchy, there's no master but we turned into rock monsters from trying to do a sophisticated version of an all girl band that could take on Cocteau Twins, Echo and the Bunnymen and Bauhaus to desontructing entirely. Kat and i entered into primal scream therapy as a living, but i could write a hell of a good R.E.M. song during "Pretty on the Inside". Why the hell did we do that? Do any of you know what i'm talking about? In Liverpool, Julian Cope called his band with Ian Mculloch "Crucial 3"; i always felt me, Finch and Kat were the "Crucial Three", we were sooo good man we could've taken over the world seriously. Listen to "Best Sunday Dress", it's lost, it's so decayed you can't even hear the song so i finished it twenty years later."

While the Love/Bjelland combo had promise, there was little discipline and after only two gigs, the band disintegrated in early 1986. Love focused on a new lifetime goal - that of becoming a movie star - and aggressively pursued the role of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox's film Sid & Nancy. While she did not win that role, her charm and talent impressed the filmmaker enough that he cast her as Spungen's best friend in the film. While all of that was going on, Bjelland, who had grown weary of playing with drama queen Courtney, quickly got out of town, moving to Minneapolis to further her musical passions, eventually forming the hard rockin' femme group Babes In Toyland. Love didn't quite get the hint however and soon joined Bjelland in her new town, rehearsing with Babes on bass a few times before Bjelland again gave her the heave ho. Cut adrift again, Love returned to stripping, an occupation made more frustrating by the fact that she would often have to dance to her old band Faith No More, who had scored a top ten hit with their song "Epic". Still bitter about her dismissal from the increasingly popular Babes In Toyland and with her 25th birthday looming ahead, devoid of all the success she craved, Love had an epiphany: she would start her own band, her own way...and nothing would stop her from becoming a star.

While Bjelland may have been guilty of copying Love's smeared lipstick and babydoll dress look (a style Love had picked up from Australian pop star and Divinyls singer Christina Amphlett in the early 80's), it is apparent that Love's brief time in Babes In Toyland would be the primary inspiration for the raw primal sound of early Hole. With a blueprint in mind for her own version of Bjelland's brainchild, Courtney found guitarist Eric Erlandson through an ad in local punk 'zine Flipside. Along with Lisa Roberts on bass, drummer Caroline Rue and former G.G. Allin guitarist Mike Geisbrecht this first incarnation of Hole started gigging in the fall of 1989. The two tracks here, "Hole In Your Head" and "El Diablo" (titles actually unknown) are from the third show ever performed by the band. The addition of Lisa Roberts vocals and Geisbrecht's extra guitar certainly lend a unique flavor to these songs, never officially recorded by the band. Freewheeling, chaotic and sludgy as all hell, they certainly capture the exuberance of a band being born.

However, that initial incarnation of Hole didn't last long: soon Roberts was out (apparently the band only had room for one loudmouth) and a personality clash with Love forced Geisbrecht to flee the combo early on as well. Finding bassist Jill Emery really was the spark that made the early Hole sound gel, and due to problems with finding a suitable additional guitar player, Courtney focused more on her guitar playing and the band line-up finalized at four. Ever the promoter, Courtney stalked L.A. tastemaking DJ Rodney Bingenheimer and secured play on his Sunday night show "Rodney On The ROQ" and convinced Long Gone John, owner of hip indie label Sympathy For The Record Industry to release the first Hole single, "Retard Girl" b/w "Phonebill Song" and "Johnnie's In The Bathroom" in the spring of 1990. An outtake from this session, "Turpentine", is an excellent example of the early Hole sound, Erlandson's heavy guitar licks slowly grinding forward amid Love's stream of conscious lyrical wailing. Also included here is a live rendition of "Every Man" another early Hole song never recorded.

Initially, the band seemed like a joke to most, often referred to as the band with the 'Retard Girl' singer, but anyone who saw them live couldn't deny Love's dynamic and charismatic stage presence which was performance art at it's highest. Word of mouth grew and Love's own personal guerilla style promotion of the band paid off with Love securing a Sub Pop Singles Club deal with the hip Seattle label in early 1991. "Dicknail" b/w "Burn Black" (both included here in their original Jack Endino mixed form) was an enormous indie success positioning the band at the front of the 'no wave' college rock movement. Simultaneously, Love befriended British music journalist Everett True who raved about Hole's performance in an NME article in late 1990, sparking a huge amount of interest in the band overseas which culminated with the release of the Kim Gordon produced debut album Pretty On The Inside. Soon after, the first single, "Teenage Whore" (with it's simmering b-side "Drown Soda") went to number one on the U.K. Indie Singles Chart. In the U.K. at least, Hole's star had risen.

A successful tour of the U.K. and Europe followed, dominating most of the latter part of 1991 for the band. The shows were the stuff of legend - one never knew what Love might say or do, and oftentimes she would do free-form poetry on the spot to the band's tunings/jam sessions that flowed from her as if she was speaking in tongues. Two of these improvs are included here: "Want It So Bad" (sometimes also referred to as "Shinner") recorded live in Bristol, England in August of 1991 and "Do You Fake It?" taken from a show in Toronto later that year. These improvisational bits are important in understanding how the creative process of songwriting in the band worked, as sometimes they would yield a finished original song by tours end, other times Love would refine lyrical ideas used in them for later use. Other highlights of the 1991 tour included the unrecorded original "The Only Rape I Know" (here recorded in Paris 1991), as well as a haunting cover of Leadbelly's "In The Pines" here called "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?", later more famously covered by future husband Kurt Cobain and band Nirvana for their MTV Unplugged in late 1993. Strangely enough, Courtney vocals eerily mirror Cobain own unique howl on parts of this recording, enough so that I had to double check the source information just to make sure Cobain wasn't in attendance that night. The rarely performed "Chad" (also included here) was an early songwriting collaboration between Love and Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan, who she was dating around the time of the recording.

Capping off this overview of the early years of the band, we have the sessions recorded for the John Peel Show in November 1991: "Doll Parts", "Violet", "Drown Soda" and "Forming/Hot Chocolate Boy". The Peel Session version of "Doll Parts" is preceded by a skeletal version of the track simply called "I Am", which contains incomplete lyrics from Love for the song and offers another view into her creative process.

Kat Bjelland on the early years with Courtney:

NEXT: New bassist, new drummer and the road to "Live Through This"....

OtherStarPeople "Diamonds In The Belly Of The Dog"

2010-05-15T05:22:00.000-07:00

OtherStarPeople
"Diamonds In The Belly Of The Dog"

Released: August 1999

Label: A&M/Interscope

Tracklisting:

01 Drip 2:43

02 I Could Never Be Wrong 1:52

03 The Half Of You I Love 3:27

04 Go To 2:50

05 Then There's None 3:25

06 Locked Out 2:23

07 Oceanway Sunday 3:21

08 California Shine 3:46

09 Shut Up And Show Me 2:22

10 Blown Away 3:02

11 Sun & Sky 4:21

12 Goodbye To You 3:05

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker

Recorded by Todd Burke

Mixed by Nick Didia
Mastered by Dave Collins

OtherStarPeople:
Jennifer "Precious" Finch - vocals, guitar
Xander Smith - vocals, guitar
Todd Phillips - drums
Junko Ito - bass, additional vocals

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?tjmdymqwwje

OtherStarPeople was a short-lived L.A. based guitar pop band active from the years 1997-2003.

Founded by Jennifer Finch, the former bass player for all-female metal-grunge band L7 in 1997, the band was a far cry from what many anticipated to come next from the L.A. punk rock scene veteran. Embracing the nickname “Precious”, switching to guitar and sharing lead vocals with suave, charismatic (and male!) guitarist Xander Smith, Finch confounded expectations by leading a band that mixed elements of punk, alt-rock, pop and new wave. A milion miles away from the femme-grunge sound of Finch’s former band, OSP spotlighted more of Finch’s nuanced songwriting/crafting talents that had been hidden within the belly of the wail of L7, while still featuring her heavy rock chops front and center. To round out the band, Finch and Smith recruited Todd Phillips on drums (formerly of The Juliana Hatfield Three) and later, neophyte Japanese bass-player Junko Ito.

Keeping a low-profile initially in order to avoid being snapped up by Slash Records (L7’s label, which legally had first right of picking up the band under a leaving member clause in Finch’s contract), the band held out and after successfully evading that contractual mess, the band signed a high-profile deal with A&M Records in 1998. The band quickly went into the studio with 70’s superstar producer Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, Journey, Foreigner) to record “Diamonds In The Belly Of The Dog”, just prior to the music industry imploding with the gigantic Universal/Polygram merger that basically closed down A&M Records (for all intents and puposes) for good. Surprisingly, their debut album was one of the few that survived the transition and earned an August 1999 release date during a time when most well-known Universal/Polygram artists were still trying to figure out whether they had a deal or not.

Sadly, probably due to Universal/Polygram still figuring out their internal marketing division, the record didn’t find the audience it deserved and after only one record, the band and A&M/Universal parted ways, with the group disbanding not much later in 2002. “Precious” went on to perform with Betty Blowtorch and formed the band The Shocker in 2003. She has also concentrated on her photography and in 1996 had a L.A. Weekly sponsored art show of her work called “14 and Shooting” on display at the Aidan Ryley Taylor Gallery in Hollywood.

Hole "Pacific Coast Highway" (Live from O2 Academy, Brixton U.K. 5-5-10)

2010-05-10T14:08:00.000-07:00

Recorded May 5, 2010 at O2 Academy, Brixton, London by YouTuber Holyblop, this is one of the better performances from the current 'Hole Evolution' tour.

BREAKFAST WITH COURTNEY LOVE

2010-05-02T02:03:00.000-07:00

In 2004, to celebrate the release of her debut album America's Sweetheart, Courtney Love did this highly entertaining promo with Los Angeles radio station KROQ called Breakfast with Courtney Love. Broadcast live from The Viper Room on February 17, 2004 as part of the 'Kevin & Bean Show', BWCL (as I like to call it) was part interview, part live performance and part meet and greet, with Courtney seeming extremely lit for the duration of the show. (I don't know what everybody else there ate, but Courtney must have had crack cocaine and pills for
breakfast that day.)

Courtney and band 'The Chelsea' perform "Mono" and "Hold On To Me" (from America's Sweetheart), Hole classics "Plump" and "Celebrity Skin" (the latter with a wacky over-the-top reprise that consists of Courtney singing the song acapella with the fans urging them to 'Help me out on this, guys!'), as well as a bizarre cover of 'Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry" that veers on karaoke territory with Courtney badly humming some of the lyrics, only jumping in on the lines she remembers. She fields questions from the extremely enthusiastic audience, and also shares some personal thoughts and stories including an encounter with Creed singer Scott Stapp and her thoughts on Hole drummer Patty Schemel vs Hole drummer Samantha Maloney. All in all, Courtney dishes up some wicked grub to dine upon - dig in!

BREAKFAST WITH COURTNEY LOVE
Recorded live at The Viper Room by KROQ 106.7 FM Los Angeles for 'The Kevin & Bean Show' on February 17, 2004. Check out samples from the show in the YouTube playlist below.

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?tmyn5ynozz0
File: 56.55 MB RAR
RAR contains 27 tracks all with the following properties:
Channels 2 (stereo)
Sample Rate 44.1 KHz{CR}
Sample Size 16 bit
Bit Rate 160 kbps
Encoder: LAME 3.98r
Encoder Settings Constant Bit Rate 160 kbps
Audio Quality Medium (Lossy)
Contains Album Art, ID Tag [ID3v2.3 (UTF16) & ID3v1.1]
Type MPEG Layer 3 Audio [.mp3]

Tracks
01 Mono (Live)
02 Most Profound Moment*
03 Patty vs Samantha*
04 Childhood Fantasy*
05 Amazon Planet Of Girl Bands*
06 We Missed You Courtney*
07 Q: What Inspired You To Become A Musician?*
08 Q: Are You Writing A Book?*
09 I'm Gonna Say The 'W" Word*
10 Q: How Are You Coping?*
11 Plump (Live)
12 Q: Are You Still Friends With Eric & Melissa?*
13 Q: What's Next?*
14 Q: Are You Doing Any Acting Soon?*
15 Q: What Bands Are You Into Now?*
16 Voices Carry (Live)
17 Q: What Women In Rock Do You Admire?*
18 Q: Do You Watch Any TV?*
19 Creed Story*
20 The Deviant's Advantage*
21 Celebrity Skin (Live)
22 Celebrity Skin (reprise)
23 Q: What's Your Opinion on Britney?*
24 Q: What Did The New Album Do For You?*
25 Q: Would You Do Anything Differently?*
26 Q: Who Inspired You?*
27 Hold On To Me (Live)

Bold indicates musical performance
*indicates Q&A with Courtney, Courtney rambling on, or someone else talking about Courtney. Non-musical segment.
Italics indicates a Q&A with Courtney

Courtney Love "Left In The Dark: The 'America's Sweetheart' Sessions"

2010-05-02T01:36:00.000-07:00

COURTNEY LOVE
Left In The Dark
The America's Sweetheart Sessions: B-sides, Outtakes & Rarities

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?mjyinhntdzm
File: 89.08 MB RAR
Tracks: MP3, varying bit rate

01. Mono (Alternate/Early Version)
02. Fly (Mono single b-side/Japanese album bonus track)
03. Sunset Strip (Non-U.S. Version)
04. Sunset Strip (U.S. Version)
05. Left In The Dark (Outtake)
06. Hold On To Me (Acoustic Demo - Radio Session)
07. Dark End Of The Street (with Ryan Adams) (Live on MTV2 2002)
08. Life Despite God/Chris Classic 1 (Demo - Rehearsal) (Ventura, 10/26/01)
09. Life Despite God/Chris Classic 2 (Demo - Rehearsal) (Ventura, 10/26/01)
10. Voices Carry (Live in Japan 7/31/04) ['Til Tuesday cover]
11. Cod'ine (Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco CA 10/26/04)
12. House Of The Rising Sun (Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco CA 10/26/04)
13. Mono (Clean Version)
14. Love Love Love (from the film Adam and Steve)

While many have written off Courtney Love's first solo record America's Sweetheart as a self-indulgent, awful mess (Love herself even calls it 'Le'Disastre'), in my opinion, this album gets far more shit than it deserves. Yes, it was slightly self-indulgent and completely drug-fueled, but isn't that what we have come to love about Ms. Love? History (and Love's subsequent legal troubles) have clouded most people's judgement about the LP and well, the truth of the matter is the album got really great reviews upon it's initial release in 2004. Unfortunately, around this time CL had become way too polarizing a character for radio to even give it a shot - and it's a shame because unheard tracks like "Hold On To Me" and "Sunset Strip" could have been massively huge across the board.

In four years, it's doubtful Virgin will be putting out a special bonus track-laden deluxe edition of America's Sweetheart to mark the ten-year anniversary of it's release, so instead i've decided to gather up this collection of what might have been on it. B-sides, outtakes & rare live tracks culled from the time period CL has now dubbed "The Letterman Years" - songs that were literally "Left In the Dark".

Courtney Love "The Rehab Demos"

2010-04-22T00:28:00.000-07:00

'Hole Lotta Love' week continues on as we approach the official release date for Nobody's Daughter - the first new Hole album in over 12 years. There has been some controversy over Courtney Love's use of the name Hole on the record, since she is the only original band member returning for the new album, a recording that began life as her long-delayed second solo album How Dirty Girls Get Clean. The artist name change from 'Courtney Love' to 'Hole' is but one of many changes and twists the project underwent since it started a month after Love emerged from 90 days of court-appointed drug treatment in 2006. With most of the songs being written during her 'lock down', Love dubbed the initial recordings "The Rehab Demos", and almost immediately set out to record the album with superstar songwriter/producer Linda Perry and old chum Billy Corgan. This then, is the story, told through interview clips, recording outtakes and the final studio demos themselves, of those early sessions - rebuilding the Queen of Rock - one track at a time.

COURTNEY LOVE

The Rehab Demos

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?ydjloz2zmog

File size: 151.13 MB RAR

RAR contains 38 tracks, encoded in the MP3 format, most with the following properties:

Channels: 2 (stereo)

Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz{CR}

Sample Size: 16 bit

Bit Rate: 192 kbps

Encoder: LAME 3.98r

Encoder Settings: Constant Bit Rate 192 kbps

Audio Quality: High (Lossy)

Note: Tracks 13, 27 & 34-38 are encoded 128Kbps and track 21 encoded 320Kbps.

Tracks
01 [You Can't Keep A Good One Down] (1:39)
02 [Pacific Coast Highway - Recording Outtake] (:43)
03 Pacific Coast Highway (Final Studio Demo) (4:39)
04 [Songs About Disasters] (1:12)
05 Dirty Girls (Filth Version) (Studio Demo) (5:07)
06 [Producer Linda Perry] (1:21)
07 Letter To God (Studio Demo) (4:06)
08 [Things To Teach My Children] (1:51)
09 For Once In Your Life (Studio Demo) (5:03)
10 [Relations With Her Parents] (:37)
11 Nobody's Daughter (Original Version) (Studio Demo) (4:45)
12 [On 'Sunset Marquis'] (:38)
13 Sunset Marquis (Full Band Studio Demo) (5:47)
14 [It's A Sexy 'I Hate You Asshole'] (:28)
15 Standup Motherfucker (Full Band Studio Demo) (4:44)
16 [Food Is For Peasants] (:57)
17 Loser Dust (Studio Demo) (2:57)
18 [Hillcrest School Student Review] (:58)
19 Dirty Girls (Candy Version) (Studio Demo) (3:24)
20 [April 17, 1994] (:26)
21 Car Crash (Studio Demo) (3:25)
22 [On Grieving For Kurt] (:45)
23 Happy Ending Story (Studio Demo) (4:30)
24 [On 'Never Go Hungry Again']
25 Never Go Hungry Again (Studio Demo) (4:30)
26 [The Recording of 'Samantha'] (1:22)
27 Samantha (Original Version) (Studio Demo) (3:59)
28 [One Shot Left] (:38)
29 Sunset Marquis (Piano Demo) (3:48)

BONUS TRACKS
30 Never Go Hungry Again (Acoustic - The Times Online Podcast) (4:43)
31 Standup Motherfucker (Solo Acoustic Demo) (5:23)
32 Pacific Coast Highway (Rough Mix - Outtake/Excerpt) (2:45)
33 Sunset Marquis (Acoustic - Radio Session) (3:53)
34 Samantha (Live @ The Roxy 7/17/07) (3:51)
35 For Once In Your Life (Live @ The Roxy 7/17/07) (5:08)
36 Letter To God (Live @ The Roxy 7/17/07) (4:02)
37 Nobody's Daughter (Live @ The Roxy 7/17/07) (4:47)
38 Never Go Hungry Again (Live @ The Roxy 7/17/07) (4:23)

Brackets [ ] indicate track is an interlude composed of interview excerpts or recording outtakes; Click image below for notes & information on each individual track.

This is a fairly comprehensive overview of the Linda Perry recording sessions that kicked off work on what would become the 2010 Hole record Nobody's Daughter. Tracks from these sessions began to leak to the public in 2007 and were incredibly positive, with many comparing the results to Marianne Faithfull's Broken English and Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks. In mid-2007, while Love was putting together a backing band to road test the new material, she discovered 18-year old guitar virtuoso Micko Larkin, formerly of short-lived British Thamesbeat band Larrikin Love. Love meeting Larkin was the spark that transformed the project she was working on from subdued solo project back to the primal, rock nature of her band Hole. With Larkin on retainer, Love became inspired and co-wrote at least ten more songs for possible inclusion on the record; feeling the songs required a more epic, polished feel Love decided to hire Michael Beinhorn, the producer behind her platinum selling Celebrity Skin album, to re-record most of them. With the exception of "Letter To God" and "Never Go Hungry Again" (which appear on Nobody's Daughter in remixed form), the Linda Perry sessions remain unreleased to the public.

Hole - Shepherd's Bush Pie (Live in London 2-17-10)

2010-04-22T00:23:00.000-07:00

As we lead up to next Tuesday's official release of "Nobody's Daughter", the first "official" Hole album in over 12 years, i'm going to be posting a 'Hole Lotta Love' in celebration (I'm sorry I couldn't help it...). The first is a recording of the first live performance that the new Hole did post-'Evolution' (Love refuses to call it a reunion of Hole but rather an 'evolution' since no other former members of the band are partaking). Recorded at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London UK on February 17, 2010.

HOLE

SHEPHERD'S BUSH PIE

Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire

London UK

February 17, 2010

DV(M) > DVDR(1) [5.8mbps MPEG-2/48kHz PCM] > WAV [48kHz] > WAV [44.1kHz] > FLAC [Level 8]

The whole show is split between three different RAR files. File sizes:

Part 1 (Tracks 1-9): 188.94 MB

Part 2 (Tracks 10-14): 170.3 MB

Part 3 (Tracks 15-18): 160.72 MB

DOWNLOAD:

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?nommimnmt1m

Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?iz2yuqmzt1u

Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?nzltnmmtnzd

tracklisting

01. Intro

02. Pretty On The Inside

03. Sympathy For The Devil

04. Skinny Little Bitch

05. Miss World

06. Honey

07. Violet

08. Letter To God

09. Pacific Coast Highway

10. Reasons To Be Beautiful

11. Nobody's Daughter

12. How Dirty Girls Get Clean

13. Malibu

14. Celebrity Skin

15. Samantha

16. Doll Parts

17. Northern Star

18. Never Go Hungry Again

YOUTUBE: Mary's Danish "Yellow Creep Around"

2010-04-13T05:19:00.000-07:00

In 1892, The New England Magazine published "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilmore, a 6,000 word short story that in time would be hailed as an important work of early feminist literature depicting attitudes about women's mental health issues in the 19th century. While that may evoke a collective yawn from most of you, don't let it put you off from reading the novella, as it's also a fine example of gothic literature, a tale of subtle horror on par with the best of Edgar Allan Poe. And it's 'creepy' as hell.

A copy of the complete story from the pages of The New England Magazine is available online to read here: The Yellow Wall-paper, A Story

In 1991, nearly 100 years after the publication of "The Yellow Wallpaper", SoCal eclectic alternative rock band Mary's Danish released their second album Circa, which led off with the track "Yellow Creep Around", a song based upon Gilmore's famous novella. Masterfully crafted by the band (and producer Dave Jerden), the song is simply a pop masterpiece of epic proportions from the radio tuning samples at the beginning to the final lalalalalalalalalalas that close the tune. If this is the sound of a fragmented mind's descent into madness, sign me up! (Oh wait, too late...)

YOUTUBE: The Muffs "Beat Your Heart Out"

2010-04-02T09:43:00.000-07:00

Brilliant cover of the (punk rock) Zeros song "Beat Your Heart Out" that originally appeared as the flipside to the Sub Pop Singles Club release from the band in 1992. Written by Robert Lopez, the man now known to the world as 'El Vez', the Mexican Elvis.

The song is unique in the Muffs catalogue of songs in that it features a full duet between guitarist/main muff Kim Shattuck and drummer Criss Crass. While Crass also sings lead on a cover of the Saints "Do The Robot" (which was released as the b-side to the "Big Mouth" 7" single), and shares vocals with bassist Ronnie Barnett on the early b-side "You Lied To Me" and first album cut "Stupid Jerk", this is the only Muffs song that features both Shattuck and another vocalist. Crass left the band in 1994, and was eventually replaced by Roy McDonald, Crass' former boss at the Wherehouse in Orange County who still occupies the drum seat to this day. While McDonald is an ace drummer, there was never a replacement for the male harmony vocals that Crass supplied, a key element to the early sound of the band, which is evident in full effect here.

YOUTUBE: Redd Kross covers the Runaways "American Nights" with the Fastbacks Kim Warnick (audio, 1992)

2010-04-01T05:55:00.001-07:00

*HQ AUDIO*

To celebrate the release of the major motion picture 'The Runaways', here's an excellent version of their classic tune "American Nights" as performed by Redd Kross with a little help from the Fastbacks/Visqueen's Kim Warnick on lead vocals. This was recorded live in Vancouver BC on April 30, 1992.

YOUTUBE: Rodney Bingenheimer interviews Redd Kross 1987

2010-04-01T05:53:00.000-07:00

Rodney Bingenheimer interviews Jeffrey & Steven McDonald of Redd Kross on his influential radio show "Rodney On The ROQ" on KROQ 106.7 FM in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 29, 1987. (Part 1 of 4).

In this amusing audio outtake from the program, Rodney and the brothers McDonald discuss amongst other things, the origin and former lineups of the band, their fascination and love for Annette Funicello (immortalized in their classic song "Annette's Got The Hits"), their ultimate dream of a Runaways reunion, as well as plugging their then-new album "Neurotica".

Show: RODNEY ON THE ROQ
Station: KROQ 106.7 FM
Place: Los Angeles CA
Airdate: Sunday, March 29, 1987
Host: Rodney Bingenheimer
Interviewed: Jeffrey & Steven McDonald of Redd Kross
Music played: "Rodney On The ROQ" by Brian Wilson (Snippet - not from original broadcast); "Annette's Got The Hits" by Red Cross
Songs performed: None.
Show ID's: Brooke Shields 'Rodney On The ROQ Intro' (not from original broadcast); Annette Funicello 'Redd Kross Intro'
Discussed: Neurotica album, record release shows & upcoming live performances, band origins & lineups, The Runaways, Jackie Fox, Lita Ford, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Cherie Currie, Annette Funicello, "Annette's Got The Hits"
Mentioned: Patricia Krenwinkel, Posh Boy, Fishbone, Cher, Bon Jovi
Trivia Question: What is the name of the only female drummer Redd Kross has ever had?
Commercials: None included.

JANE WIEDLIN: The Acoustic Album Sessions

2010-03-27T15:44:00.001-07:00

JANE WIEDLIN The Acoustic Album Sessions

The first eight tracks here are from the so-called 'Acoustic Album' by Jane Wiedlin, songs that were recorded for reasons unknown by the Go-Go songwriter/guitarist sometime in the early nineties. It's possible that they were recorded during the same sessions that yielded her acoustic rendition of "Our Lips Are Sealed" that appeared on her 1993 retrospective "From Cool Places to Worlds On Fire: The Very Best Of Jane Wiedlin", however the origins of the recordings for now remain unknown.

Along with the eight mysterious 'acoustic album' tracks, i've added in some other 'acoustic' or 'stripped' down versions of songs by Jane herself solo, her mid-nineties band froSTed or with the Go-Go's. See below for tracks and notes on each (To sample some of the songs in the collection, check out the YouTube playlist directly below.).

JANE WIEDLIN

The Acoustic Album Sessions

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?i5dmeoznyt2

File: 148.44 MB RAR

21 tracks - all encoded MP3 stereo, 128kbps-320kbps (bit rate varies)

01 Our Lips Are Sealed (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

02 Mercenary (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

03 100 Years Of Solitude (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

04 Flowers On The Battlefield (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

05 My Traveling Heart (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

06 Tangled (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

07 Give! (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

08 Paper Heart (The Acoustic Album Sessions)

09 Our Lips Are Sealed (acoustic) (From Cool Places To Worlds On Fire)

10 Call Me Crazy (acoustic)

11 My Boyfriend (Borders 2000)

12 Icicle (Borders 2000)

13 Vacation (Acoustic) (Radio Session 1994)

14 The Whole World Lost It's Head (Acoustic)

15 Mercenary (acoustic - Live 1990)

16 Lust To Love (Piano Version 2005)

17 This Town (Star Lounge 2006)

18 Fading Fast (Star Lounge 2006)

19 Tangled (Acoustic) (World On Fire Matchbook Single)

20 Vacation (Stuck! Acoustic 2009)

21 Our Lips Are Sealed (acoustic) (80's Hits Stripped)

Tracks 1-8: From the so-called "Acoustic Album" of solo and Go-Go's songs that Jane recorded in the early 1990's. Details are few but these may be outtakes from the session that resulted in her acoustic rendition of "Our Lips Are Sealed" which she included on her 1992 compilation album "From Cool Places To Worlds On Fire: The Very Best Of Jane Wiedlin".

Track 9 is from the 1992 compilation album "From Cool Places To Worlds On Fire: The Very Best Of Jane Wiedlin". This acoustic rendition was recorded especially for the retrospective and was produced by Robin Hild.

Track 10: Acoustic version of the froSTed song "Call Me Crazy" which appeared as a b-side on the single edition of "Call Me Crazy" in 1996, as well as being included as a bonus track on the digital download re-release of the froSTed album 'Cold' in 2009. froSTed was a pop-punk band fronted by Wiedlin from 1995-1997.

Track 11: Acoustic rendition of the froSTed song done by Jane Wiedlin live at an in-store apearance/performance at Borders Books and Music in Los Angeles in 2000. froSTed was a pop-punk band fronted by Wiedlin from 1995-1997. "My Boyfriend" originally appeared on the one and only froSTed album 'Cold' (DGC Records, 1996).

Track 12: Recorded live at an in-store appearance at Border Books and Music in Los Angeles in 2000. "Icicle" was the first radio single released from Jane's fourth solo album "Kissproof World" (Painful Discs, 2000).

Track 13: Performed by the Go-Go's. Recorded live for 96.5 FM's 'Acoustic Cafe' program in 1994 - previously unreleased.

Track 14: Performed by the Go-Go's. Recorded live for the Howard Stern Show in 1994 - previously released as a b-side on the cassette version of the Go-Go's single "Good Girl" (I.R.S. Records, 1995).

Track 15: Performed by the Go-Go's. Recorded live at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles in December of 1990. Previously released on the double CD retrospective 'Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's' (I.R.S. Records, 1994). Original version of the song appears on the Go-Go's album 'Talk Show' (I.R.S. Records, 1984).

Track 16: Performed by the Go-Go's. Recorded live in Las Vegas in 2004 or 2005 (exact date unknown).

Tracks 17-18: Performed by the Go-Go's. Recorded live for 'The Star Lounge' on 98.7 FM Los Angeles in 2006. Original versions from the Go-Go's album 'Beauty And The Beat' (I.R.S. Records, 1981).

Track 19: Acoustic version of the title track for Jane's third solo album 'Tangled' (EMI-Manhattan Records, 1990), that also appeared on the 'Pretty Woman' soundtrack of that year as well. This version was released as a b-side on the 'World On Fire' CD maxi single (known as the 'Matchbook' single since the sleeve is a mock cardboard matchbook, including real striking surface and the disc is housed in a slip-sleeve that has a graphic print of matches.) Produced by Gary Hellman.

Track 20: Recorded on the set of the 2009 film 'STUCK!' as Jane sang the song to the cast and crew during a break. (Song cuts in slightly at the beginning.)

Track 21: Acoustic version recorded for the compilation album '80's Hits Stripped' (Sidewinder Records, 2006).

BANGLES: Live in Berlin 2003

2010-03-23T21:44:00.000-07:00

BANGLES: Live in Berlin 2003

Great sounding (A+) show from the 2003 'Doll Revolution' world tour, this one was recorded live at Kleine Columbia-Halle in Berlin, Germany on April 8, 2003 for a German FM radio broadcast. Contains rare performances of the singles "Something That You Said" and "Tear Off Your Own Head" as well as great renditions of "Hazy Shade", "If She Knew..." and most of the other big hits (only complaint being that they left out "In Your Room". Sigh.).

I've kept the show in it's original FLAC lossless format, so the tracks from the show have been split into two RAR folders to download; only convert to mp3 for personal use, please do not re-share converted mp3 files to others as this will help prevent any degredation of sound quality over time. To check out samples of the show, check out the YouTube clips below in the playlist. Enjoy!

UPDATE 3/27/10: Due to a problem with one of the files in the second RAR which has now been corrected, i've had to split the second RAR into two, making for a total of three RAR's to download for this show. The information below has been corrected.

UPDATE 10/29/10: Uploaded a new part 3 and double-checked it (link has been updated) - hopefully that will fix any previous problems we've had with corrupt files, or download problems. And if not, then it's obvious that the universe doesn't want you to hear Eternal Flame ever again. :-)

BANGLES

Live @ Kleine Columbia-Halle

Berlin, Germany

April 8, 2003

Sound Lineage: FM > JVC DAT > wav (Wavelab) > CDR > FLAC

Part 1: 185.15 MB RAR

Part 2: 181.50 MB RAR
Part 3: 32.42 MB RAR

DOWNLOAD

Part 1 (tracks 1-7): http://www.mediafire.com/?uemntkzwqwn

Part 2 (tracks 8-13): http://www.mediafire.com/?nun4hz4tmd5
Part 3 (track 14): http://www.mediafire.com/?hza82r8ouglx6b0 *updated 10/29/10*

01 Hazy Shade Of Winter

02 Something That You Said

03 The Rain Song

04 If She Knew What She Wants

05 Here Right Now

06 September Gurls

07 Manic Monday

08 Single By Choice

09 Stealing Rosemary

10 Tear Off Your Own Head

11 Between The Two

12 Walk Like An Egyptian/Mrs. Robinson

13 Hero Takes A Fall

14 Eternal Flame

DOWNLOAD: The Bees Knees: Voice Of The Bee-sides v3

2010-03-22T23:54:00.000-07:00

Here's the third, and final, volume of rare tracks from 80s pop group Voice Of The Beehive. Covering the rest of the bands recorded output including demos, live tracks and remixes, it serves as an excellent supplement to any Beehive collection. The first twelve tracks were previously released on the album 'Bee-sides', which was self-released by the band and sold exclusively via their website and at live shows in 2003, and is no longer available. Of these twelve tracks, the first four are never before heard songs that rank up their amongst the best the band ever recorded; it's a shame that the band disintegrated before ever being able to fully realize these. See below for a tracklisting at a glance, a video player where you can sample any of the tracks in question and below that more detailed notes about each one. For my post about the first volume, which covers the years 1987-1989 click here, and the second volume, covering the rest of the bands recordings 1991-1996, click here.

VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE

THE BEES KNEES: VOICE OF THE BEE-SIDES, volume 3

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?mxg2adtnycq

files are all encoded joint stereo, 44100 hz MP3 112kbps-320kbps (bitrate varies)

Bundled in a RAR folder for download

RAR file size: 149.79 MB

(You must have software capable of opening RAR files and and the proper codec or equipment to play MP3's.)

01 Stupid Boy (Demo)

02 Baby Don't Stay (Demo)

03 Doriah (Demo)

04 Modern Heart (Demo)

05 Playing House (Demo)

06 Only If You Want To (Demo)

07 Waitress (Demo)

08 Pocket Sized (Demo)

09 Cupid (Demo)

10 Shine Away (Demo)

11 Heavenly (Demo)

12 Perfect Place (Demo)

13 Beat Of Love (Live at Town & Country Club 6-23-88)

14 7 Shocks (Live)

15 There's A Barbarian In The Back Of My Car (Live)

16 Trust Me (live)

17 Just A City (Live)

18 I Say Nothing (Live)

19 Independence Day (Live at Town & Country Club 6-23-88)

20 VB - Goddess Of Love (Vocal Mix)

21 I Think I Love You (Orgy Mix)

22 I Say Nothing (Clean Radio Edit)

Tracks 1-12 previously only available on the 2003 album "Bee-Sides", self-released by the band via their website and at live shows.

Tracks 1-4 were never re-recorded for official release making them unique amongst these songs.

Tracks 5 & 11 are demos of songs that would later find release on the 1996 album "Sex & Misery"

Tracks 6-8 are demos of songs that would appear on the "Monsters & Angels" Single release in 1991.

Track 10 is a demo of a song that appears on the cassette only version of the 'Perfect Place' single in December 1991.

Track 8 is a demo of the 'Honey Lingers' album track "I'm Shooting Cupid" that is different in song arrangement than the final version.

Track 12 is a demo of the 'Honey Lingers' album track.

Track 13 & 19 recorded live at the Town & Country Club June 23, 1988. Previously unreleased.

Track 14 & 15 recorded live at Glasgow Art School July 15, 1988 courtesy of Radio Clyde. Both previously released on the 'Man In The Moon' single released December 1988.

Tracks 16-18 recorded live for BBC Radio One 'In Concert'series aired October 19, 1991. Previously available on the 'Perfect Place' single released December 1991.

Track 20 & 21 are remixes of "I Think I Love You" that appeared as b-sides to the "I Think I Love You" single release in September 1991. "Orgy Mix" by Harding & Curnow, and '"VB - Goddess Of Love" remix by Mike Edwards (of Jesus Jones fame).

Track 22 is the clean radio edit of the song that radio was serviced with. This version contains changed words different to the original version - unlike the "single version" which simply omits the first verse of the song.

Enjoy!