When former Replacements guitarist Bob “Slim” Dunlap suffered a stroke in January 2012, it didnt take long for his musical friends and admirers to offer their services to help his family cover the massive medical…
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Can you hear children by the millions screaming for Alex Chilton?
I still haven’t gotten the reissues but Flowering Toilet is showing that the sound quality on the Pleased to Meet Me reissue is actually worse than the original. Have any of you noticed any problems?…
Pitchfork rates Sire Years reissues everything from 9.3 to 6.3
You can read the review here. Y’all will have to tell me if they got it right or wrong. I haven’t heard this batch of reissues, so I have no idea. Also, on an unrelated…
With my boot I signed for us all, or how I’m hearing Finally Here Once
With apologies, I would like to politely disagree with Jim and Jay regarding Finally Once Here. If you go read the comments on that lyrics pages, you’ll see that these er, gentlemen, find this new…
Three things for a Friday — Most importantly how I’m not Paul Westerberg
Hey Gang, first of all remember how I was telling you the other day to go read David Carr’s The Night of the Gun? Well, I am going to up that another notch and encourage…
Three 49:00 reviews for you to read because I got a short story to write
The always delightful Aquarium Drunkard weighs in on 49:00 with a thoughtful review that includes this wonderful summation: As surprising and unexpected as the delivery method is, just as surprising and unexpected is how good…
49:00 garners a 7.1 from Pitchfork
Is anyone as surprised as I am by the 7.1 Pitchfork gave 49:00? I’m having a tough time with this record. I enjoy it, especially the utter rawness. However, I am still wondering if it…
49 thoughts on 49:00
1. Some people love me, they’re creaming (Really, did he say that on Out of My System? If so, I am totally creaming) 2. Proof that Our Man Paul wants me to happy? ANOTHER song…