Dangerous Birds: Alpha Romeo/Smile on Your Face (1982)

Before Thalia Zedek was in Live Skull, Uzi, Come or performed as a solo artist, she co-led early-eighties new wave band Dangerous Birds. I will leave it to the vociferous Thalia Zedek following to tell you more about her later more "violent" music but I'm gonna quickly rave about "Smile on You Face". That song is Zedek's half of the sole Dangerous Birds release. The A-Side, "Alpha Romeo", is a pleasant pop tune in The Bangles vein (written by bandmate Lori Green) which later appeared on the D.I.Y. Boston compilation, Mass. Avenue. However, Thalia's intricate, psychedelic but hook-laden B-side, which showed up on on Sub Pop 100 four years after the fact, is the real colossus here.




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V.A. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Seven

This thirty volume series features artists covering Bob Dylan songs. All of the tracks are recordings of independent origin (ROIO) and hence officially unreleased.

It's ladies night at the Dylan Club and while surely I'll be glad if Norah Jones, Edie Brickel or Ani Difranco never darken the door of this blog again, I'd welcome the return of Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith and Dolly Parton (Don't get me started...) anytime and in fact I will return to the underknown Thalia Zedek very soon.

01 Tangled Up In Blue – KT Tunstall (11-4-05, Later with…Jools Holland / BBC2 London)
02 I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – Norah Jones (2-28-02, KCRW Studios, Santa Monica, CA)
03 Make You Feel My Love – Joan Osborne (10-29-02, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA)
04 I’ll Keep it with Mine – Richard and Linda Thompson (5-17-82, The Bottom Line, New York, NY)
05 Visions of Johanna – The Walkabouts (1-19-01, Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA)
06 You’re a Big Girl Now – Thalia Zedek (10-06-04, Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany)
07 Like a Rolling Stone – Barb Jungr (9-26-05, The Barbican Theatre, London)
08 You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go – Madeleine Peyroux (2-18-05, KCRW Studios, Santa Monica, CA)
09 Most of the Time – Ani DiFranco (8-28-97, New World Theatre, Tinley Park, IL)
10 Don’t Think Twice – Susan Tedeschi (11-03 -06, The Ram’s Head, Baltimore, MD)
11 Hard Rain – Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians (4-26-91, Bronco Bowl, Dallas, TX)
12 Dark Eyes – Patti Smith (6-05-01, Village Underground, New York, NY )
13 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Tracy Chapman (10-6-05, Roseland Theater, Portland, OR )
14 Masters of War – Lucinda Williams (11-21-03, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA)
15 Blowin’ in the Wind – Dolly Parton (10-06-05, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO)


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Spunkstains (1977-1979) : Volume Six

One of a fifteen-volume bootleg series from the early aughts full of raw punk noise from the likes of: Panic, The Cigarettes, Cybermen, The Exits, X-S Energy and FX.

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Off! Live!

Speaking of punk rock vets on the comeback warpath, Keith Morris (BLACK FLAG, CIRCLE JERKS) has, alongside Steve Mcdonald of REDD KROSS, Dimitri Coats from the BURNING BRIDES, Mario Rubalcaba of HOT SNAKES, ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT), started a pummeling new band called Off! (which would make for Morris' second band named after a domestic pesticide).

Here's a live set from the FYF Festival in L.A. on September 10th 2010 to whet your appetiate for the 7" to come in October on Vice Records and the boxed set of singles to follow that!


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Jello Biafre & The Guantanamo School of Medicine

Jello's back and making some of the sickest, creepiest music of his career. For proof here's a scathing live performance (including three Dead Kennedys songs) from a 2009 show in Hamburg.

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