Archive for November, 2010

This week’s assortment brought you by some really dark thoughts peppered by the realization (again) that perhaps only love and real compassion will pull us through as a species. The recent U.S. elections also float around in this muck, but far wiser folks than me are stumbling to find the right words to describe a time when reason, facts and reasonableness have fallen to their knees. So, I dedicate this mix tape to the various messes we’re in and to the idea that we’ll one day extricate ourselves from the worst of them.

Proof We Listen: A number of folks have commented about the lengthy mixes we’ve been putting up lately, and in the interest of our time-starved readers, we’re trimming Poundings down to a manageable baker’s dozen most weeks to come.

If you experience playback problems, pop over to the 8tracks mix page and it should play fine.

track listing

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Miller's Eye: Dengue Fever

photo: Josh Miller

The sun was dropping quickly and the photo had to wait on few band members to change, or smoke, or do whatever Dengue Fever were needing to do that particular San Francisco afternoon. It came together and Golden Gate Park provided a nice eucalyptus and green background for the shot.

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Our man in Philly, Jake Krolick (as fine a soul as ever we encountered…), caught one of the Impound’s faves, Drink Up Buttercup, at their Halloween shindig and brings us this treat. My lord, these boys look like quite the live experience!

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[amtap amazon:asin=B003ZXQVNO] In our increasingly musically illiterate age, even foundational pioneers are often lost in time; an oft-repeated name and a few songs serving as their soundbite in our information overload lives. It’s a pity because there are rich, original delights to be had by revisiting rock’s ground zero years, particularly the almost too packed mid-to-late 1960s. Case in point, a new quartet of pulsating, utterly switch-on vintage live recordings from San Francisco’s Jefferson Airplane. Four previously unreleased performances from the band’s most evolutionary period is a treasure trove to be devoutly wished and further mythology for the Airplane’s place in the SF Flower Power pantheon. The artsy, go-go booted compatriots to shaggy provocateurs Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane emerged with an inborn gravitas and overtly theatrical demeanor. The weight of being young in turbulent times was not lost on Marty Balin (lead vocals), Paul Kantner (rhythm guitar, vocals), Jack Casady (bass), Spencer Dryden (drums), Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitar) and original singer Signe Anderson, whose sparkling farewell performance is the first in this new archival series.

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