Tag: Mclusky

Pack a light lunch and bring your paper money, because Station Model Violence is taking us back in time.

It’s the first night of the year where I arrive at the station in daylight. Also, it’s been unseasonably cool. But neither of those things is as notable as a new album from Toadies which brings up more of that brutal precision fuzz pop that made my ears perk up the first time I heard them over 30 years ago. Elsewhere tonight: a phone call from PJ, on the road, and middle-cased keyboards.

If you visit Los Frankies’ website, you’ll see they describe themselves as influenced by early 2000s garage rock, which spins my head around while ghostly drifting clocks and peeling calendars are superimposed in the background. Great stuff! Also, I changed my mind while I was playing one of the songs, and decided it isn’t actually good. I’m not going to say which one, but I will say I’m sorry.

mclusky knows you’re not going to run far in those shoes.

These Albini Sessions from Fugazi, a release from the band to benefit the late producer’s Letters Charity, is messing with my mind the way a transmission from an alternate timeline would. Elsewhere tonight: look at mclusky strutting around like they didn’t disappear for a couple decades.

It’s a look back at The Year In Music, which I should do every year but in practice only every seven years or so. There is never a shortage of good music to fill an hour or two or three, and I can safely claim that if your head’s on straight and you’re listening to the right sources, every year is the best year in music so far.

You will relish listening to every plot twist revealed by Audio Book Club.

Looks like July will be another three-show month, so I’m preparing lots of audio fireworks. We are delighted to discover Foxwarren and their sweetly trilling “Deadhead,” which features a most incongruous but enjoyable video. Also, Broncho was amazing, read my review on Ink 19.

Mind your fingers when Surprise Chef is in the kitchen, because the knives are sharp and the burners are hot.

Stop accepting all this nonsense and get aboard the Mamalarky.