Florence and the Machine, "Cosmic Love"

Video, The Whitsundays, "You Know I Can't Lie"

The Whitsundays "You Know I Can't Lie" from friendly fire recordings on Vimeo.

The National has a new album, High Violet

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By, Part Three

Josh Ritter, "Change of Time" (MP3 courtesy of his website)

Another one of his songs is available free on Amazon

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Josh Ritter - "Change of Time" (Live, Solo Acoustic) at Fingerprints from Doug Rice on Vimeo.

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By, Part Two

The Joy Formidable, "Whirring" (MP3 courtesy of AOL Spinner)

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Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By, Part One

(*Parts two and three may be tomorrow...I'm tired...)

Blitzen Trapper, "Heaven and Earth" (MP3 courtesy of their label)

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Blitzen Trapper get trapped performing in a prom sponsored by The Brady Bunch. I'm just sayin'...there are a lot of primary colors, and the lead singer and the tamborine player have a bit of a fro going...

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By, Part Three

The Middle East, "Blood" (MP3 courtesy of AOL Spinner)

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Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By, Part Two

Bettye LaVette, "All My Love" (MP3 courtesy of AOL Spinner)

This lady is great! Her voice is genuine--no artifice at all. Most modern R & B is so commercialized, and so closely guarded by the record label. Bettye's on -Anti, which is a very prominent independent label.

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Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By, Part One

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By

Cults, "Go Outside" (MP3 courtesy of their label site)


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The Zombie Apocalypse is finally here! Everybody run! Where's my cat? Please don't eat my cat!

120 Minutes

Some girls remember staying up late to watch the Ms. America pageant. Some girls may have watched cooking shows until their eyes were too heavy to take in the creme pie they were being shown prepared.

Me? I wasn't one of those girls...(which explains why all of my food came in a box or a can until recently). I was the girl who fought with my parents to let me stay up until 2:00 in the morning every Sunday night/Monday morning.

Or, perhaps I should clarify. I was the girl who sat directly in from of the TV every Sunday night/Monday morning and put the volume down low in the *hopes* that my parents wouldn't notice the bright light spilling out from beneath my doorway.

Well, folks...my childhood was canceled many years ago, *but* through the miracle of archived internet video, we can watch it again.

I had found the...drumroll...Archived 120 Minutes and Subterranean page. Whoo hoo!

Unfortunately, I don't think it plays the actual show...I just clicked on one of the music videos and it took me to a Youtubed version of the video. I'm sure I can find footage of my man Dave Kendall somewhere...


This is the first video I clicked on from the page(though technically not from my childhood. Though I was still a child when I was 20). Yes, Siouxsie, we are the prettiest of all...


Okay, so this one actually came out when I was a child. I love Kate Bush! And dudes!!! Dawn French and Hugh Laurie are in it! I don't remember that! They were both in stuff I watched (The Young Ones, and in Dawn's case The Comic Strip), but I don't think I became aware of who they were until later in the 80's).