Graham Parker And The Rumour: Tarrytown ( 2012-11-24)

Graham Parker (more HERE) and The Rumour's re-union has finally manifested itself in the form of the band's new album, the hideously-packaged but excellent Three Chords Good. and the new tour, from which we have a recording of their very first gig in Tarrytown, New York thanks to larryrulz.





Setlist:
01 stage entrance
02 Fool's Gold
03 Stop Cryin' About The Rain
04 Nothin's Gonna Pull Us Apart
05 Snake Oil Capital Of The World
06 intro to Get Started. Start A Fire
07 Get Started. Start A Fire
08 Watch The Moon Come Down
09 intro to Old Soul
10 Old Soul
11 Hotel Chambermaid
12 Live In Shadows
13 A Lie Gets Halfway 'Round The World
14 intro to Jacksonville
15 I'll Never Play Jacksonville Again
16 intro to Long Emotional Ride
17 Long Emotional Ride
18 Discovering Japan
19 Nobody Hurts You
20 Protection
21 Thunder And Rain
22 Coathangers
23 Local Girls

Encore 1
24 You Can't Be Too Strong
25 Passion Is No Ordinary Word
26 applause

Encore 2
27 Don't Ask Me Questions
28 Soul Shoes

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Channel 3: Land of the Free 7" (2012)

Few predicted 2012 would see SoCal punk come back into view but between OFF!, Redd Kross and now Channel 3, that's exactly what's happening! It almost seems like these grown men have realized that something they pioneered when they were kids was not so fleeting as it once seemed. So, now, rather then just leave their legacies lie fallow, they've each decided to bring the thing back to life. The striking work we're hearing from these not-young men demonstrates that their music wasn't just an ash heap of adolescent angst but a gritty feature of America's cultural landscape, like the Badlands but with more shouting and trebly guitar!





As for Channel 3 (much more HERE), though they might not have signed to as a high-profile label as Vice or Matador (those in the know do revere their new label, Hostage Records) they have taken this late-date to put out one of the best works of their career. While Land of the Free is technically a single, due to the two songs on the vinyl, the download card that comes with the record fleshes it out into a seven-song EP.

And what an extend play it is! Those who need speed, will thrill to the band's ripping paean to the bottle, "This Calls for a Drink" and the ferociously mournful "A Life Remembered" (released previously as a B-side). Those who revere the band's mastery of the mid-tempo, guitar-powered sing-along will be no less satisfied here. Tracks like "Another Day" and "In the Meantime" recall the band's more tempered phase, circa 1984 classic, "Indian Summer", while "Land of the Free" carpet bombs the current political landscape with Clash-level precision and "Make It Home" slows things down just enough to power-up the big chorus.  Even with the twenty minute duration of this trip, there's room for a detour, in the form of the band's charming cover of Sonny Bono's "Little Things" featuring the return of Maria Montoya-Kaye who first sang with the band on their debut albums 30 years ago! Land of the Free finds Channel 3 considering all the twists and turns they've made on their ramshackle voyage and deciding they've only just begun.

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The Fastbacks: Alone in a Furniture Warehouse...10" (1996)

Alone In A Furniture Warehouse Scaring You Away Like A Hotel Mattress  is a 10" EP (and CD) that was released by Spain's Munster Records in the last couple of years of the Fastbacks (more HERE) career. I've only recently begun to appreciate how the band stayed solid right to the end, and this 10"  is fine proof of their perserverance.


Tracklist
1         No Information     2:43    
2         The Ladders     2:03    
3         The Buried Treasure Was Crap     1:43    
4         All In Order     3:01    
5         Wait It Out     2:20    
6         Sign Of The Times     3:12    
7         Eyes Of A Child     3:12    
8         Alone In A Furniture Warehouse     3:15

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The Fastbacks: And After All (1996)

Did Fastbacks' (more HERE) guitarists Kurt Bloch just write too damn many great songs?





Tracklist
A     And After All     2:18    
B     Marionette     4:53    


So,do you think Mr. Bloch's awesome prolificness worked against him? Or did it just work out well for the rest of us? Let us know in the COMMENTS section!


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The Fastbacks: Wait It Out (1994)

Seattle's masters of power-punk, The Fastbacks (more HERE), rip out two more killer tracks on this 1994 Munster Records single.





Tracklist
A Wait It Out (Al Bloch)
B The Jester (Rusty Willoughby)
(Outside spine on gatefold reads: that was PRETTY GOOD now how 'bout some ROCK N ROLL!)

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