Burl Veneer’s Music Blog

John Wetton: Jack-Knife

2008-03-31T03:01:03Z

I was in the ninth grade when I discovered the "imports" section at the local record store (Waxie Maxie's), filled with stuff that looked downright weird. Even better, though, was the discounted imports bin, and one day when I had five dollars to...

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Bedbugs and Ballyhoo

2008-03-29T05:56:49Z

Just a quickie here: last night I put up the Doors' "Peace Frog" and another song that recycled its rhythm, "The Only One I Know" by the Charlatans. I also wanted to include another of its descendants, Echo and the Bunnymen's "Bedbugs and Ballyho...

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The Doors, funky?

2008-03-28T03:11:05Z

The Doors were accused of a lot of things, but being funky wasn't one of them. So I am naturally surprised when I hear Doors influences in contemporary funk; who'd'a thunk it? Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators (she's from Brooklyn, they'r...

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Modern Sunshine Part 2

2008-03-27T03:26:41Z

I've fallen behind on my sunshine pop theme due to spending last night sorting out the dueling MySpace players problem. Solution: no more MySpace players. If they've got it set to autostart, there's not a thing you can do about it by tweaking pa...

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Keepers of the Sunshine Flame Part 1: Aqualung

2008-03-25T02:46:26Z

Brent Cash has swooped right up to the head of the Sunshine Pop class, pushing aside all those who have been keeping the flame alive (just) for the last decade. And most of those keepers are not really sunshiny at all, they tend toward the cloudy...

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Good Morning Sunshine: Brent Cash

2008-03-22T16:38:01Z

Everything else I have in the queue just got pushed back, because I have minutes ago discovered the brand-new, phenomenal debut album by Brent Cash, How Will I know When I'm Awake. This may mark the first music out of Athens, Georgia, that I've l...

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Brand new Radio 4

2008-03-20T18:06:54Z

Speaking of Radio 4, as I just was, they released a new song today on the RCRD LBL netlabel. Which means it's free! Free to download, free to listen to, and free to embed as long as you use RCRD LBL's ad-supported widget: They're jumping on th...

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Fake Hawkwind and Real Hawkwind

2008-03-20T00:36:52Z

I've been on a low-grade Hawkwind binge since watching the Hawkwind - Do Not Panic BBC 4 documentary last week, and the binge has expanded to include not just Hawkwind and Hawkwind splinter groups, but bands influenced by Hawkwind as well. Which ...

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The Horror

2008-03-18T02:41:44Z

Would Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (1973) have sounded scary without its association with The Exorcist? Would Goblin's theme for Dario Argento's "Suspiria" (1977) have sounded like that without "Tubular Bells"? (Or Pink Floyd's "One Of These...

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Dance-punk mini-roundup

2008-03-16T21:14:42Z

I don't have the resources, the time, or the attention span to conduct a comprehensive dance-punk genre review, but I did find a few bands that I like; and that's what this blog is all about anyway, as it says right up there at the top, "Songs I L...

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