Greets, all. This is 9b techie Trevor, filling in for AIV while he’s indisposed. AIV and I are headed to Orlando’s Nerdapalooza (blog) festival in just over a week, and by chance, there may actually be someone on the heavily Nerdcore-oriented list that you may enjoy. I know I’ve had a hard time not listening to them since first checking them out. I’ll let Wikipedia tell it: The Protomen is an American rock band best known for composing an original rock opera based o... Read Full Story

There won’t be anymore updates this week. It’s not because of burnout or anything like that though. It’s basically because I don’t have kids. Apparently, this is a big vacation week for people with children and most of my office is off doing the parenting thing. As a result, I am on the road for the rest of this week sitting in on their meetings and doing their field surveys. Such is life though. Listen to the podcast once a day and I’ll see y’all next week... Read Full Story

Whew! Talk about getting this one in just under the wire. This month was nutzo with 80 Proof Music, a brief break and all sorts of other stuff. No matter though cause we’re coming in on time with some great music to fill your July 4th weekend up with. I decided to shorten up the nine bullets intro music this month. I’m not very happy with how it ended up and I hope to make a better edit of it in the coming weeks or I’ll just go back to posting the whole song. What do you th... Read Full Story

The other night I was sifting through my dvd collection (I am preparing to sell it all) when I found a cd that must have fallen off the “to listen to” stack and gotten kicked under the bench seat where my dvd’s are stored. That cd was Puritan Rodeo’s 2008 effort The Magic Suit Ball. Feeling bad that the cd had been lost for so long (it’s street date was May of ‘08), I immediately put it in my car cd player and you know what….it’s pretty fucking... Read Full Story

Last night when I heard MJ died my first thought was, “Damn, that sucks for Farrah”. Then I started looking at Twitter and the eulogizing was bordering on hyperbole. Look. I grew up on Mike’s music just like many of you. Thriller was one of the very first albums I owned but that doesn’t change the fact that MJ was fucked up. F.U.C.K.E.D.U.P. Fucked Up. And don’t blame his childhood either…I have a theory that once you reach the age of 25 you’re an adu... Read Full Story

The last time I was at The Ritz was for the fateful Corrosion of Conformity show where (4) people were stabbed with (1) ultimately dying. I’d heard a lot about the near million dollar renovation the venue had gone through prior to reopening a year (really? it’s been a whole year?) ago but I had not seen it yet. What better chance than for their one year anniversary free show featuring one of my favorite songwriters, Grayson Capps? The venue itself is beautiful and the acoustics a... Read Full Story

So, Paste Magazine finally finished the internet’s equivalent of “spanging” and came back into the office in time to discover what the rest of us figured out last year…that the latest Two Cow Garage album is awesome. Congratulation’s Paste. Next month perhaps you can tell us about that awesome new band, Drag The River. All snark aside though…It’s nice to see a “major” press outlet giving Micah, Shane and Co. some props. Two Cow is easily o... Read Full Story

If it seems like it was just last month I was last writing about American Aquarium, that’s ’cause it basically was. I opened the piece about their last album with the following line “American Aquarium come out of Raleigh, North Carolina with an indie-rock sound that has enough country swagger to it to keep this particular blogger engaged.” Dances For The Lonely finds Caitlin Cary returning for backup vocals detail while Chris Stamey (Whiskeytown, Ben Folds Five, The R... Read Full Story

Todd’s eighth studio effort, The Excitement Plan, contains Todd’s signature whimsical, half-drunk vocal deliveries along with pared down instrumentals and another host of misfits and outsiders. It was recorded over 2 1/2 days by Todd and producer Don Was with little rehearsal beforehand. The lack of rehearsal (I assume) helps lend to Todd’s slightly ramshackle sound. There are plenty of people out there much better educated on the back story and discography of Todd Snider t... Read Full Story

You know what they say, “when it rains, it pours”, and such is the case next week with three shows in four days. While I don’t expect anyone else to adhere to such a rigorous schedule I do think you could find something you like in one (or more) of these shows. If you do make it out to any, find me and we’ll tell fish tales over a beer. WEDNESDAY 6/24 @ THE RITZ: GRAYSON CAPPS I am so excited about this show. Honestly, I just assumed Grayson Capps would never come to... Read Full Story