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The Free Bird Project: Josh Clark & Tim Bluhm

Josh Clark & Tim Bluhm

Photo: Josh Miller

We like the contrast in styles in this nifty shot. The Mother Hips’ Tim Bluhm (currently on tour with the latest incarnation of The Rhythm Devils) offers bared-teeth intensity and Tea Leaf Green’s Josh Clark gives us a more relaxed, “Yeah, you can go fuck yourself” vibe. Both work for us and we welcome them to our ongoing celebration of the single-finger salute.

Are you interested in giving Dirty Impound the finger? Are you in a band? Well, we wanna see whatcha you got, cowboys (and cowgirls)! Send us your birdie pics and we’ll add them to our archive and make sure folks know you cared enough to raise a middle finger for rock! Send pictures to freebird@dirtyimpound.com

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The Free Bird Project

Comments Off August 31, 2010

Hey Shredder (bass edition): Reed Mathis

Reed Mathis

Tea Leaf Green

No one plays bass like Reed Mathis. Or perhaps more accurately, Mathis plays bass like no one else. His DNA is unique, and unlike many practitioners of the four-string arts, he’s a duck in any water he’s thrown into – an image whose physicality captures some of the rippled muscle and action charge he brings to his instrument and those he plays alongside. Most of the time these days, Mathis can be found rockin’ proper in Tea Leaf Green (and he co-produced their latest album, too). However, he spent 15 years keeping jazz malleable and fresh in the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, and puts in time in numerous projects these days, including a much-anticipated collection of Beethoven re-imaginings that will see the light of day after years of carving with pals like The Slip’s Andrew Barr and Phish’s Mike Gordon and Page McConnell.

read on

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Hey Shredder (bass edition)

Comments Off August 30, 2010

Big High Tour Diary #1

Big High Summer 2010 Tour Diary #1

One of our fave new rock units is Seattle’s Big High. We loved their recently released debut, and the boys are currently on a West Coast tour in support of it.

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Dear Tour Diary

Comments Off August 30, 2010

Mix Tape: Poundings XI

Poundings XI

Thick cut meat ‘n’ taters rock this week, and we do not spare the gravy.

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

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Mix Tape

2 August 26, 2010

ALO Tour Diary #15

Liberation Tourology with ALO #15

Being in a day-to-day environment 100% dedicated to music reminds me of a summer music camp. Everyone talks music, shares ideas, practices together, and then performs a concert at the end of the day. There are jam sessions on tour buses, songs shared and licks traded.

why you should always bring hot sauce

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Dear Tour Diary

3 August 26, 2010

Albums of the Week | August 21-August 27, 2010

August 21-August 27, 2010

In this edition: Mt St Helens Vietnam Band, Boris & Ian Astbury, The Henry Clay People, Blaze Foley, Donovan Quinn & The 13th Month, Nite Jewel, Wavves, Peter Case, Frontier Ruckus and Danzig.

10 more slabs you should be listening to

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Albums of the Week

Comments Off August 23, 2010

Unhip Week: Donna Summer

Donna Summer

Love To Love You Baby

This just sounds like fucking with a phat backbeat, and maybe that’s why this Donna Summer number makes the grade during Unhip Week. Correction: this moist wedge of proto-disco sounds like good fucking. If your pulse doesn’t jump just a hair when Donna turns around to reveal her splendid hindquarters about a minute into this video, then you haven’t been listening to her breathy foreplay very well. The extended version is our fave but the dancers really make this clip.

Bonus Unhipness! Here’s Ms. Summer doing our Manilow pick from earlier in the week at a disco in Germany in 1976. Love your rainbow power muff dress, girl!

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In Your Eye

Comments Off August 21, 2010

Unhip Week: Young MC

Young MC

Bust A Move

Scoff. Go ahead, we’ll wait. Then press play and get up and bounce! To this day, when placed with care in a DJ set, this tune sets it off on the dance floor. The bass line from Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Flea, the near-pornographic cooing of singer Crystal Blake and some damn fun rhyming make for a classic pop song and an Unhip Week all-star. It’s enough to make a man bust out a skinny tie and some polyester genie pants. 1989 seems like a long time ago, eh?