It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl

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It's raining here in S.F. on what is supposed to be the end of the world day.  I've got two parties to go to, so if the world does end I'll be leaving it the same way I entered it: confused, bloody and vomiting on myself.

Here's my third rain comp for this blog.  Mediajerks deleted my old ones from their server, but oh well.

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Raniac

Best albums of 2012!

first off, Stereogum's top 40 Metal list. It's a pretty good list with a posted song per band (that automatically plays the next band's song once you start which is cool).

http://stereogum.com/1215082/stereogums-top-40-metal-albums-of-2012/franchises/listomania/

As for me, this is my top 10 list of 2012:

SWANS - the Seer
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory
(AND Guided By Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO)
Occultation - Three & Seven
Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on the Sky
Windhand - Windhand
Aldebaran - Embracing the Lightless Depths
Owl - Owl
Taurus - Life
Blue Cross - I Am Death

Also been digging the UZULA , the Dawnbringer, and Golden Void LPs

Happy holidays, everyone!

The End

Seems like the glory days are behind us.  Googling album name + mediafire leads you to filestube and you're lucky to find a working link and half the time when you do it goes to some BS thing where you have to download a mysterious downloader onto your computer.  Many of my files have been taken down, and I don't re-up them (90% of the time) figuring it was breaking some kind of law. I'm not here to get fined or shut down.

If you're here for free mp3s, feel free to browse the back logs but don't report dead links. Otherwise, I'll just be posting some youtube and bandcamp links of stuff I'm digging lately from time to time.  I might not even talk about the bands, because I'm sure most of you don't read this crap anyway!

Cheers!
Mike.

Speaking of bands, my friends and roommate's band OWL (S.F.) is on a tour of the States!  check out their debut LP here:

OWL at Bandcamp

Another buddy plays in the Bay Area's Glitter Wizard and their upcoming 2nd LP sounds AMAZING!  Check it out here:

Glitter Wizard at Bandcamp

Happy MLK Day!

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And to celebrate I've uploaded one of the most enjoyable records I can think of. Last Poets member Jalal Mansur Nuriddin takes on the persona of "Lightnin' Rod" and is backed by a slew of talented artists (including Kool and the Gang and session bass player Chuck Rainey, who played on Aritha Franklin's amazing "Amazing Grace").
Lightnin' "raps" about hustlers, cocaine, cards and dice. It's funny, soulful and both of the time and ahead of its time. If you don't DIG IT then go home and listen to your Don "No Soul" Simmons record, you jive ass turkey!

Spoon

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