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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:45:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>I DON’T WANNA GROW UP / JOHN B. MOORE</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3488/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
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Dropkick Murphys are
as magically delicious as ever. And don't forget The Claddagh Fund which they
recently established. Happy Saint Paddy's Day, everybody!
&nbsp;
Bu John B. Moore
&nbsp;
Aside from maybe The Pogues and The Chieftans, no other band
is more closely associated with St. Patrick's Day in the U.S. than Boston's
Dropkick Murphys.
&nbsp;
According to singer and bassist Ken Casey, the Celtic punk
rock band was never really supposed to leave the basement of the barbershop
where they screwed around blending bagpipes with distorted guitars.&nbsp; So it's as much a surprise to the band as
anyone else that 15 years later they are spending the week leading up to St. Patty's
Day playing night after night to sold out crowds (seven night in all) at Boston's House of Blues.
&nbsp;
For those not able to make the pilgrimage this year to Mecca for the Guinness
crowd, The Dropkick Murphys are releasing a live record (culled from last
year's shows) and DV ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>5 SxSW Highly Useful Tips</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3485/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ ... for those of you heading to Austin next couple of days: 1. For some reason all of the stores at the Austin airport have bankers hours and seem to be closed after dark. So forget grabbing a quick cup of coffee or a snack (if you're the type who likes to head straight from the plane to the party). 2. It's about $25 to take a cab from the airport to downtown. It's a one dollar to take the Austin Flyer (the local bus). The express bus picks up on the baggage level, one-stop the entire way until downtown. From the taxicab area, walk 25 yards directly to the right, you'll see the sign. Plus it's not even really a bus... it's more like a pretty trolley. 3. If you're unlucky enough to be staying at a hotel near the airport, make sure you get the cell phone of the taxi driver who brings you there. Taxicabs are nearly impossible to hail during SxSW. But if you have the celly of your guy, you can make him your bitch all week [...]
&nbsp;

A Triple-A radio programming veteran, Kate has serv ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SONIC REDUCER / CARL HANNI</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3469/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
Jimmy McGriff at the Hammond
B-3
&nbsp;
By Carl Hanni
&nbsp;
Let us now praise Jimmy
McGriff.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
The roll call of great jazz organists is finite but full of
very large characters with very large talents; Richard "Groove" Holmes, "Brother" Jack McDuff,
Johnny Hammond, Charles Earland and of course Jimmy Smith come immediately to mind. But for my $, Jimmy McGriff
is top cat, the baddest of the bad, soul brother #1 of the jazz organ.
&nbsp;
Jimmy McGriff's reputation and standard tag line posit him
being the bluesiest of the great soul-jazz organists of the golden era of the
1960s and &lsquo;70s, and that's a fair assessment. He's definitely brings a hard
blues edge to his work that the others all took turns swinging at, but that in
no way equals any sort of a narrow focus in McGriff's playing; in truth he was
as, or more, diverse than the rest of the Hammond B-3 pack.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
I've only heard a relatively modest amount of McGriff's
quite exte ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Blurt’s Video Game Guide #1</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3457/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
Announcing the first
installment in our "Play For Today" series of video game reviews. This time out
we take on Heavy Rain, Aliens Vs. Predator, Major League Baseball 2K10 and Halo
Legends. Watch out for those screen shots and trailers - some of &lsquo;em will bite
(or bean) ya.
&nbsp;
By Aaron Burgess
&nbsp;

&nbsp;
Game of the Minute: Heavy
Rain
Platform: PlayStation
3
Developer: Quantic Dream / Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
ESRB Rating: M
&nbsp;
A hard rain's a-gonna
fall. Every game has a storyline, but until Heavy Rain, no game did so much to be a storyline. While it's oversimplifying to call the PS3-exclusive
title a digital Choose Your Own Adventure,
the idea that you control the story's outcome is central to Heavy Rain's development. This idea, of
course, prompted some fair questions leading up to the game's release: Would the
serial-killer thriller simply be one big Quick Time Event (a
sort of Dragon's Lair-meets-CSI in 1080p, if you  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>I DON’T WANNA GROW UP / JOHN B. MOORE</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3442/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
Motion City Soundtrack leaves venerable punk label and
winds up making its punkest album ever.
&nbsp;
By John B. Moore
&nbsp;
There are a lot of assumptions when it comes to Motion
City Soundtrack.
&nbsp;
The Minneapolis
band started churning out records during emo rock's peak so they were lumped in
with the eyeliner and skinny jeans crowd, despite having more in common with
bands like Cheap Trick and Superchunk; they signed to the indie punk rock label
Epitaph, but they were certainly not a punk rock band. While the scene kids
were busy trying to figure out just where these guys fit in, the band was
diligently putting out some of the best synth-backed pop albums since The Cars.
&nbsp;
Their latest effort - and first for Columbia Records - My Dinosaur Life is probably their best
to date. Ironically, it wasn't until they left Epitaph that they put out their
most punk-inspired album.
&nbsp;
Justin Pierre (vocals/guitar) talked recently about the
new album  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>2 WEEKS IN L.A. PHOTO BLOG / SCOTT DUDELSON</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3433/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
&nbsp;
 
Out &lsquo;n' about in the City of Angels with Blurt's
roving shutterbug (2/15 - 2/28).
&nbsp;
By
Scott Dudelson
&nbsp;
(above) Rosie Ledet - Live @ The Mint (www.themintla.com) - 2/15
&nbsp;
(below) Carrie Rodriguez - Live @ House of
Blues (www.houseofblues.com) - 2/16
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Alejandro Escovedo &amp; Carrie Rodriguez - Live @ House of Blues (www.houseofblues.com)&nbsp; -
2/16
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Los Lonely Boys - Live @ House of Blues (www.houseofblues.com) - 2/16
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Alkaline Trio (singer Matt Skiba) - Live @ House of Blues (www.houseofblues.com) - 2/17
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Cursive - Live @ House of Blues (www.houseofblues.com) - 2/17
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Imaad Wasif - Live @ Spaceland (www.clubspaceland.com) - 2/18
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Tinariwen - UCLA Live @ Royce Hall&nbsp; (www.uclalive.org)
- 2/20
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Dinosaur Jr. (J. Mascis)&nbsp; - Live @ The Troubadour (www.troubadour.com)
- 2/23
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Stra ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>LOOK AT LIFE / COCO HAMES</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3434/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
Notes from the road while
on tour in Europe: why the Ettes frontwoman's not eating the bratwurst in Germany this
time around.
&nbsp;
By Coco Hames
&nbsp;
I
dropped out of college after my first semester because it was horrible and I
hated it, and when you do that, not only is it complicated to go back, but you
lose your right to live in the dorms.&nbsp; Yes, it is a privilege to live in
meningitis and crabs infested hellholes with Stachybotrys being pumped through
the filthy air vents so you constantly have bronchitis and insulation so poor
that your bed sheets are always damp and there's a film of cold, dirty water on
top of everything, AND your roommate climbs uninvited into bed with you so you
punch a window and face disciplinary action from the university OR your
roommate is in ROTC and needs wakeup calls from her fellows every morning at
4am, right after you've gotten home from drowning your loneliness at a bar
called BALLS...
&nbsp;
When
I came back ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>LETTERS FROM THE ROAD: Jim Boggia</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3484/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Serving up another edition of LETTERS FROM THE ROAD, our guest post series where we invite musicians we are utterly nuts about to take over and write whatever they like. 2 rules: it has to be in the form of a letter, it has to have something to do with music. This week's LETTERS FROM THE ROAD guest author is a friend and brilliant singer-songwriter who we adore, Jim Boggia: Dear Taylor Swift, We need to talk. I want you to know up front that I really tried to find someone else to write to - someone else who could ease my pain, someone else who might not make me feel so bitter. But I am bitter, Taylor - bitter about things you're probably too young to understand and that you probably, to be fair, are not so much responsible for as you are representative of. You know where this is going. Yes, it's the Grammy thing. That performance. You can't sing. You took home four Grammys . . . . and you can't sing. There's a moment in the first chorus of 'Rhiannon' where you can see Stevie Nicks is v ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>IN SHORT: February 2010</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3483/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ You know the drill. IN SHORT is our monthly hodgepodge selection of stuff we think's worth mentioning... sometimes it's about music, sometimes not. This month, it's about live music (what's that? We kid, we kid), the interwebs, sort of: SxSW Interactive, Film &amp; Music Festival Every year it seems someone is always questioning the validity of music conferences. And for good reason. Mostly they suck. The music panels especially. A bunch of know-it-alls who live at 30,000 feet and just like to hear the sound of their own voices --- seemingly never doling out any practical, useful advice. Sadly, the music panels at SxSW are generally no exception. But now that I've started going to the Interactive portion of the festival beforehand, I could care less.  SxSW Interactive, that's where you actually learn things. And generally, there's less drinking (then during SxSW Music) which makes for better brainwork. You remember people's names. Business cards actually find their way into your suitca ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>2 WEEKS IN L.A. PHOTO BLOG / SCOTT DUDELSON</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3381/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Out &lsquo;n' about in the City of Angels with Blurt's
roving shutterbug (2/1 - 2/14).
&nbsp;
By
Scott Dudelson
&nbsp;
 (above) Audible Mainframe - Live
@ The Mint (www.theroxyonsunset.com) -
2/3
&nbsp;
&nbsp;David 55- Live @ The Mint (www.theroxyonsunset.com)
- 2/3
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Megan Slankard - Live @ The Mint (www.themintla.com)
- 2/3
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Dave Rawlings Machine (Dave Rawlings &amp; Gillian Welch) - Live @ Troubadour (www.troubadour.com)
- 2/4
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Dave Rawlings Machine (Dave Rawlings &amp; Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine
Show) - Live @ Troubadour (www.troubadour.com) - 2/4
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Dave Rawlings Machine - Live @ Troubadour (www.troubadour.com) - 2/4
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Zigaboo Modeliste (of The Meters)&nbsp; - Live @ The Mint (www.themintla.com) - 2/5
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  Jacob Jazz Fred Odyssey (Brian Haas) - Live @ The Mint (www.themintla.com) - 2/6
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
  James McMurtry - Live @ The Mint (www.themintla.com) ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NOW PLAYING: February 2010</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3482/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Highlights of what's been running through the speakers here at OUTLANDOS HQ the last month or so: 1. The Silver Seas, Chateau Revenge  So I've talked about these guys a billion times and in fact will be featuring almost this entire record on THE DAILY DOSE all next month... it's that good. This is their third release, the other two are equally brilliant. They had to change their name in the middle of everything which was a slight bummer, they used to be The Bees (US). Either way, I love them. I bet you will too. Daniel Tashian (son of Barry Tashian, of legendary New England garage rockers The Remains) et al. 2. Jets Overhead, No Nations  Canadian outfit, this is their sophomore effort. It took little while to grow on me [...]
&nbsp;
A Triple-A radio programming veteran, Kate has served as Music Director of the Loft at XM, Midday Host at WYEP, Evening Host at both WNCS and WUIN, as well as Content Supervisor for Pump Audio. Currently, she's the CEO of Outlandos Music, a new-music disc ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>LOOK AT LIFE / COCO HAMES</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3357/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
Too far gone: friends
don't let friends become nannies.
&nbsp;
By Coco Hames
&nbsp;
Sometimes people will ask us, "What is the worst job
you've ever had?" and for each of us, the story is different, and
sometimes it changes. &nbsp;Worst how? &nbsp;Meanest boss? &nbsp;Longest hours?
&nbsp;Shittiest pay? &nbsp;Depending on the mood we're in, we can site any of
the many crappy jobs we've had. &nbsp;Jem will tell you about the bloody pumps
he had to clean at the hospital, Poni maybe being accidentally drugged at a
club and then hallucinating that she's being stabbed to death by hundreds of
small flying knives. &nbsp;Maybe getting smacked in the kitchen of a terrible New York restaurant that
I'd quit not for the smacking but the fact that they made you clock in with a
thumbprint... But one of the most annoying, I think, is the one I never got.
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
I was living in Los
  Angeles, I think I was working as a receptionist at a
hair salon, barely getting pa ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Zombie Option</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3341/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ "The Zombie Option"FAX THIS TO YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND DEMAND THAT THEY INTRODUCE ITIN THE 112TH CONGRESS!!!A CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONA Concurrent Resolution to establish a National Day of Ceremonial Voodoointended to expunge the treacherous misdeeds of centuries of narcissists,dilettantes and special interests; to awaken a hunger for fresh souls withinthe pits of Hell: and to engorge the shaft of Democracy with the coursingblood of Liberty.WHEREAS: The United States Congress freely and openly recognizes thatzombies are real.WHEREAS: A Zombie, properly and necessarily conjured by the People of TheUnited States, in their wisdom, would be cool to see.WHEREAS: A Zombie, properly conjured and endowed by it's creator with aninsatiable hunger for the flesh of Oligarchs, Plutocrats, Charlatans,Philistines, Lying Power-Whores, Spineless Dilettantes, Gutless Narcissistsand otherwise Empty-Suited &amp; Ideologically Bankrupt Pussies of all stripes,would necessarily be seen by the people as ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lefsetz-Fan Reply of the Week</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3481/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Of all the things Lefsetz does that drive me crazy, you gotta admit, his shameless posting of even the most negative feedback is semi-endearing. A recent excerpt (re:The Who/Super Bowl):
Sorry Bob, your interesting and semi-relevant posts, which make up about a fourth of all your ramblings just aren't worth the other three-fourths in which you do nothing but remind us what a complete and utter asshole you really are.
The Who were not great. But your overstatement is just one more example of you trying to be bold and brash by overstating something and just being downright nasty. At some point, at your age, one would think you would have grown up and realized when you're just being an ass.
Let me see if I can put it another way.....if you were Roger Daltrey (and thank God you are not) you would have sang "Who the FUCK are you?" just to somehow prove you were still hip and relevant. (Which by the way, you are not.) [...]
&nbsp;
A Triple-A radio programming veteran, Kate has served as ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>2 WEEKS IN L.A. PHOTO BLOG / SCOTT DUDELSON</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3316/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
Out &lsquo;n' about in the City of Angels with Blurt's
roving shutterbug (1/15 - 1/30).
&nbsp;
By
Scott Dudelson
  (pictured above) Alec Ounsworth
(of Clap Your Hands &amp; Say Yeah) - Live @ The Wiltern - 1/23
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;
  Cold War Kids (singer Nathan Willett) - Live @ The Wiltern - 1/23
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;
  Ted Nugent - Live @ The Canyon Club (www.canyonclub.net)
- 1/24
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;
  That One Guy - Live @ The Mint (www.themintla.com)
- 1/26
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;
  Jason Boesel&nbsp; - Live @ The Bootleg Theatre (www.bootlegtheater.com) -
1/27
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;
  Jason Boesel (of Rilo Kiley / Mystic Valley Band) &amp; Nik Frietas (of Mystic Valley
Band) - Live @ The Bootleg Theatre (www.bootlegtheater.com)
- 1/27
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;
  Z. Berg (of The Like) &amp; David Rawlings - Live @ The Bootleg Theatre (www.bootlegtheater.com) - 1/27
&nbsp;
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;
  Alex Greenwald (of Phantom Planet) - Live @ Th ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Leaf Blowers and the Infinite Universe</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3308/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Its
grey today but I know the sun will break through and burn away any hopes of
rain and the smell of a new world rain always seems to bring.&nbsp;
Fucking
leaf blowers. I watch from the 13th story of my building as one tiny little man
with a motor on his back blows around a bunch of dead leaves. Does he get paid
to do this? If I were a leaf blower man, I would be a bad leaf blower man. I
would walk into banks, high on gas fumes and seven eleven coffee and blow the
shit outta that place. No one wants to fuck with the hostel, dirty air of a gas
powered leaf blower, or the dead soul operating it. Has the world always been
this silly?
From the 13th story of my building I watch the hand of god compose me a
song of jaded ambulance sirens hauling off the dead or near dying, hundred
thousand dollar cars honking at hundred dollar cars. Neon churches of fried
meat and disciples of bad style litter the landscape below as cops on bicycles
roll up on unsuspecting lovers smoking crac ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>LETTERS FROM THE ROAD: Tim Easton</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3480/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Serving up another edition of LETTERS FROM THE ROAD, our guest post series where we invite musicians we are utterly nuts about to take over and write whatever they like. 2 rules: it has to be in the form of a letter, it has to have something to do with music. This week's LETTERS FROM THE ROAD guest author is one of our favorite singer songwriters, Tim Easton: Dear Young Songwriter Who Wrote Me on MySpace or Facebook and asked for advice: I have so much to tell you but I should probably distill it down to the basics. This is what I would tell any young artist or student who stands in front of me wondering what to do in this massive and confusing world of art and commerce.  Basically, I can explain it in three chunks: 1. Read and listen to everything that came before now. Films too. 2. Leave home. Travel. 3. Bring something new to the tradition of your craft. I would have to advise you to read and listen to anything you can get your hands and ears on.  Poetry: you should read it every da ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Billy Corgan’s Mash Note to Jessica Simpson / Scott Crawford</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3295/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
The below
correspondence was forwarded to us via an "unnamed source" so we can't vouch
100% for its accuracy, but in light of the recent - and verified - news of Corgan and Simpson recording together with longtime Corgan associate Kerry
Brown producing, it certainly has the ring of authenticity.
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
Hey Jess-
&nbsp;
Taking a break from the tracks we've been working to just
drop you a quick note. This is seriously some of the best material I've written
since my solo album The Future Embrace.
And our version of "These Boots Are Made for Walking" is going to make you a
huge favorite among the Pitchfork crowd (that's a popular website all about "hip" music). I think even Nancy
Sinatra would approve.
&nbsp;
Honestly, I haven't had this kind of chemistry with somebody
in the studio since Courtney Love and I first did crystal meth for 2 weeks
straight and I wrote most of Live Through
This&nbsp; for her.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
I remember
the first time I saw you ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Tape Fetish</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3288/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ An
analog recording session with the band Flaming Fire at my place. You can see the big tape machine in the back under the window   Musician walks into the control room of the recording studio - where the band
listens back to their 1st performance of the day - and exclaims; OMG ! listen
to that TAPE ! And he takes on a look of profound satisfaction and relief. And
he owes this aural salvation to ..tape -- as opposed
to digital.  &nbsp;What's wrong with this moment ? (I wouldn't mention it had it not been
tellingly repeated with other musicians and artists). Basically, tape got all
the credit. My countless technical and creative choices were not the easy and
comfortable explanation for the excellent sounds -- ahem.  Some things come with the territory. &nbsp; Many musicians claim better results at analog/tape studios. Is it the gear, or
the people and ears running the gear ? Older, more experienced engineers, or
engineers with certain sensibilities at those studios might be th ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SONIC REDUCER / CARL HANNI</title>
<link>http://blurt-online.com/blogs/view/3276/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;
 
The Grease Band - Grease Band
&nbsp;
By Carl
Hanni
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
The
Grease Band: you've probably heard them, whether you know it or not. At least,
if you listened to any British rock &amp; roll in the 1970s.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
The
Grease Band's self-titled debut was released in 1971, on Leon Russell's Shelter
Records imprint, home to Freddie King and JJ Cale among others. A second one
came out in 1975; I've never heard it, or even seen a copy. They were five
Brits, vocalist and guitar ace Henry McCullough, guitar player Neil Hubbard,
bass player Alan Spenner, drummer Bruce Rowlands and keyboard
player/arranger/producer Chris Stainton, for some 70s reason listed as "Phil
Harmonious Plunk" on the credits. Stainton also shares production credits on
the record, along with the band and Nigel Thomas.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
By the
time of this release The Grease Band had been working as Joe Cocker's back up
band, appearing piecemeal on his debut With A Little Help From My Fr ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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