In the roots of The Gnarled Oak, 6/29

People showed up. I swear.

Corduroy 4:39 Pearl Jam Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) [Disc 1]
Subbacultcha 2:10 Pixies Trompe Le Monde
Breaking 3:26 Anberlin Tomorrow's Stars From Sxsw
Gary's Got a Boner 2:29 The Replacements Let It Be
Future Ex-Girlfriend 3:53 Voltaire Boo Hoo
Blister in the Sun 2:24 Violent Femmes Add It Up (1981-1993)
Heavy Metal Drummer 3:09 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Oxford Comma 3:24 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Tougher Than the Rest (Bruce Springsteen Cover, Live on MPR) 3:37 Camera Obscura Live on MPR 6-6-09
Psychotic Reaction 3:08 Count Five Psychotic Reaction
Midnight Blues 2:34 The Detroit Cobras Mink Rat or Rabbit
Daddy's Little Girl 3:07 The Swingin' Neckbreakers Kick Your Ass
The '59 Sound 3:10 The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Sequestered In Memphis 3:35 The Hold Steady Sequestered In Memphis - Single
The Bar In the Back of the Basement 3:42 Birdmonster No Midnight
Factory Belt 3:14 Uncle Tupelo No Depression
Big Brown Eyes 4:23 Old 97's Too Far to Care
Psychobilly Freakout 2:39 The Reverend Horton Heat Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Shame On You 4:01 Indigo Girls Retrospective
Closer To Me 3:42 Dar Williams The Beauty Of The Rain
The Con 3:29 Tegan and Sara The Con
One Big Holiday 5:21 My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
Oceans & Streams 3:26 The Black Keys Attack & Release
Wasted & Ready 3:51 Ben Kweller Sha Sha
Supermassive Black Hole 3:29 Muse Black Holes And Revelations
The pretender 4:29 Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Traffic And Weather 3:37 Fountains Of Wayne Traffic And Weather
I Will Survive 5:11 Cake Fashion Nugget
Ecstasy 5:02 Rusted Root When I Woke
There She Goes 2:42 The La's The La's
Way Down Now 3:50 World Party Best In Show
Chaos 4:55 Mute Math Mute Math: Teleprompt Limited Edition
Gravity's Gone 3:33 Drive-By Truckers A Blessing And A Curse

Christmas in June @ Pin Ups, 6/25

Yeah, the Xmas music, I played it.

In for the Kill 4:08 La Roux In for the Kill - Single
Zero 4:26 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Deluxe Edition)
sweet dreams bbc fm 2009 2:57 Annie Lennox BBC Sessions March 2009
White Christmas 2:57 Bing Crosby Christmas #1's
Back Door Santa 3:49 B.B. King & John Popper A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 5
Do They Know It's Christmas 3:47 Band Aid Christmas Hits
Jingle Bells 3:57 Barenaked Ladies Barenaked For The Holidays
Deck the Halls 2:52 Twisted Sister A Twisted Christmas
Father Christmas 3:44 The Kinks Come Dancing With The Kinks - The Best Of The Kinks [UK]
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 2:21 U2 A Very Special Christmas
Man in the Mirror 5:19 Michael Jackson Bad
Billie Jean 4:54 Michael Jackson History
DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake 3:28 Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan
Fake Tales of San Francisco 2:58 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Fuck Forever 4:37 Babyshambles Down in Albion
Say, Say, Say 5:23 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson All the Best
Rockin' The Suburbs 4:58 Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs
Sick Of Myself 3:39 Matthew Sweet 100% Fun
Birdhouse in Your Soul 3:19 They Might Be Giants Flood
Canadian Rose 4:32 Blues Traveler Straight On Till Morning
Wondering 3:56 Widespread Panic Everyday
Lack Of Water 4:24 The Why Store The Why Store
box full of letters 2:59 wilco a.m.
The Picture 3:26 Son Volt The Search (Deluxe Version)
Crossfire 2:17 Kasey Chambers Barricades & Brickwalls
Friends 4:14 Cracker Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey
Victoria (Live) 4:03 Old 97's Satellite Rides - Bonus Disc
Glory Days 6:16 Phish (with Bruce Springsteen) 2009/06/14 I Bonnaroo, TN

Puff and Stuff, @ The Gnarled Oak

Lovecraft In Brooklyn 3:49 The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride
Journey of the Featherless 3:07 Cloud Cult Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
Twin Cinema 2:59 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
In for the Kill 4:08 La Roux In for the Kill - Single
Zero 4:26 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Deluxe Edition)
sweet dreams bbc fm 2009 2:57 Annie Lennox BBC Sessions March 2009
Summertime Clothes 4:30 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Melatonin 4:05 Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Dead Sound 3:33 The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust
Hang Me Up To Dry 3:39 Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) 3:34 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand
Pretty Girl From Cedar Lane 3:21 The Avett Brothers Mignonette
Hipster Girl 3:45 MC Lars Hipster Girl - Single
The Geeks Were Right 2:56 The Faint Fasciinatiion
Shake It 3:00 Metro Station Metro Station
Kooler Than Jesus 4:12 My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult Confessions of a Knife
Bizarre Love Triangle 6:42 New Order International - The Best of New Order
Permanent Scar 3:34 O+S Saddle Creek sampler 2008-2009
Lisztomania (Yuksek Remix) 4:10 Phoenix IM // UR
Daybreaker 3:55 Beth Orton Daybreaker
When Doves Cry 4:02 The Be Good Tanyas Hello Love
Electric Feel 3:50 MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Soul Singer In A Session Band 4:14 Bright Eyes Cassadaga
My Last Mistake 3:12 Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid
Friends 4:14 Cracker Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey
Victoria (Live) 4:03 Old 97's Satellite Rides - Bonus Disc
Wednesday 4:05 Drive-By Truckers A Blessing And A Curse
High Lonesome 3:05 The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Most People Are DJs 5:51 The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me
Murder Incorporated 3:58 Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits

Gig Update

No Pin Ups gig tonight... I'm swapping this week and will be rocking your Friday night at 7 p.m. SLT for Roaring 20's night... or a Flapper Friday if you will. Hope to you see you and your friends then. Bring lots of requests!

The Gnarled Oak, 6/15

A set of songs that make you want to floor the accelerator

Movie Star 3:34 Cracker Kerosene Hat
Angels Of The SIlences 3:39 Counting Crows Recovering The Satellites
Cruel To Be Kind 3:05 Spacehog Resident Alien
The '59 Sound 3:10 The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Constructive Summer 2:56 The Hold Steady Stay Positive
Miles Away 3:34 Spacetrucker Demo
Hysteria 3:48 Muse Absolution
Chaos 4:55 Mute Math Mute Math: Teleprompt Limited Edition
Nowheres Nigh 4:36 Parts and Labor Jagjaguwar 2008/2009 Sampler
Naive (live lounge cover of The Kooks) 3:51 Lily Allen Jo Whiley BBC 1 Live Lounge
No Myth 4:09 Michael Penn March
King Of Spain 2:59 Moxy Früvous Bargainville
Anna Molly 3:47 Incubus Light Grenades
Nearly Lost You 4:08 Screaming Trees Singles
Bullet With Butterfly Wings 4:20 Smashing Pumpkins
Maybellene 2:19 Social Distortion Greatest Hits
Anarchy In The U.K. 3:32 Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks
Sick Of Myself 3:39 Matthew Sweet 100% Fun
Brian Wilson 4:45 Barenaked Ladies Rock Spectacle
Song for the Dumped 3:40 Ben Folds Five Whatever & Ever Amen
Birdhouse in Your Soul 3:19 They Might Be Giants Flood
Back to Me 3:31 Kathleen Edwards Back to Me
Dance With Me 2:38 Old 97's Blame It On Gravity (Bonus Video Version)
Graveyard Shift 4:45 Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology
Sabatoge 3:00 Beastie Boys Beastie Boys Anthology - The Sounds of Science (Box Set)
The Geeks Were Right 2:56 The Faint Fasciinatiion
Mistaken For Strangers 3:31 The National Boxer
Me and Mia 3:31 Ted Leo/Pharmacists Shake the Sheets
Daddy's Little Girl 3:07 The Swingin' Neckbreakers Kick Your Ass
Bad Girl 2:30 The Detroit Cobras Mink Rat or Rabbit
Stupid Girl 4:19 Garbage Garbage
Revolution 4:17 The Cult Pure Cult: The Singles 1984-1995

Caveman Night @ Pin Ups, 6/11

Lots of animal skins, clubs and people camming to see if I was wearing underwear.

Message In A Bottle 4:50 The Police Every Breath You Take: The Singles
Brown Sugar 3:50 The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
I'm Goin' Down 3:32 Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A.
In a Cave 2:49 Tokyo Police Club Saddle Creek sampler 2008-2009
Mistaken For Strangers 3:31 The National Boxer
Map Of The Problematique 4:18 Muse Black Holes And Revelations
Bastards of Young 3:38 The Replacements Tim
Alabama 3:06 Birdmonster No Midnight
Nowheres Nigh 4:36 Parts and Labor Jagjaguwar 2008/2009 Sampler
Welcome To The Jungle 4:34 Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction
Severed Hand 4:30 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam
Sex Type Thing 3:39 Stone Temple Pilots Core
Hey Ladies 3:49 Beastie Boys Beastie Boys Anthology - The Sounds of Science (Box Set)
Another Postcard 3:25 Barenaked Ladies Everything To Everyone
My Best Friend's Girl 3:47 The Cars Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology (Disc 1)
Evil Angel 3:39 Breaking Benjamin Phobia
Summer of 69 2:21 Mxpx On the Cover
King Of New Orleans 4:08 Better Than Ezra Friction Baby
I Want You to Want Me 3:45 Cheap Trick At Budokan (Live)
Fat Bottomed Girls 3:23 Queen Stone Cold Classics
Up Around The Bend 2:43 Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1
No Sleep Tonight 2:59 The Faders Plug In + Play
Mono Man (featuring Dr. T) 3:45 Faderhead FH2
The Geeks Were Right 2:56 The Faint Fasciinatiion
Show Me How This Thing Works 2:51 Cracker Sunrise In the Land of Milk and Honey
The One 4:06 Old 97's Blame It On Gravity (Bonus Video Version)
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 3:56 Manic Street Preachers Send Away the Tigers
15 2:51 Rilo Kiley Under the Blacklight
Ball and Chain 5:43 Social Distortion Greatest Hits
I'm Gonna DJ 2:08 R.E.M. Accelerate
The Best Of Everything 4:03 Tom Petty Playback (2) Spoiled & Mistreated

The Hype Machine is Ruining My Productivity

This music blog aggregator keeps digging up all this cool-assed stuff. Like an example for today, Uncle Tupelo covering The Rolling Stone's Dead Flowers.

The Gnarled Oak, 6/8

Discussions of Unhip, and Weird Al.

Just Another Day 2:46 Good Old War Only Way to Be Alone (Deluxe Version)
Gillian Was A Horse 3:21 Damien Jurado Secretly Canadian 2008/2009 Sampler
Taking The Farm 4:00 The War On Drugs Secretly Canadian 2008/2009 Sampler
Keep the Car Running 3:29 Arcade Fire Neon Bible
No Lucifer 3:27 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music?
Breaking 3:26 Anberlin Tomorrow's Stars From Sxsw
Funky Céilí (Bridie's Song) 4:01 Black 47 Fire Of Freedom
Waxies Dargle 1:58 The Young Dubliners Real World
Streams Of Whiskey 2:33 The Pogues The Best Of The Pogues
Lovecraft In Brooklyn 3:49 The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride
The Angels' Share 3:46 Ted Leo/Pharmacists Shake the Sheets
Alabama 3:06 Birdmonster No Midnight
DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake 3:28 Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor 2:54 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
I Got Mine 3:59 The Black Keys Attack & Release
Massive Nights 2:54 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls In America
Little Things 3:53 Ladyfinger (ne) Saddle Creek sampler 2008-2009
Ghosts Under Rocks 4:27 Ra Ra Riot Barsuk Records: 2009 Amazon Digital Sampler
Mad Staring Eyes - King of Pub Rock 3:13
Fuck Forever 4:37 Babyshambles Down in Albion
Nowheres Nigh 4:36 Parts and Labor Jagjaguwar 2008/2009 Sampler
Hot Knives 4:14 Bright Eyes Cassadaga
Lolita 3:38 Throw Me The Statue Secretly Canadian 2008/2009 Sampler
Borneo 3:35 Firewater The Golden Hour
Polkarama! 4:17 "Weird Al" Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood
Never Stop 4:14 The Brand New Heavies Delicious Vinyl Sampler
Shutter Buggin' 3:27 Buck 65 Situation
Different 3:15 Sage Francis
Pagan Baby 6:24 Creedence Clearwater Revival Pendulum (2008 40th Anniversary Edition)
Lack Of Water 4:24 The Why Store The Why Store
The Late Greats 2:31 Wilco A Ghost is Born
The Backseat 4:15 The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
In a Cave 2:49 Tokyo Police Club Saddle Creek sampler 2008-2009
Zero 4:26 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Deluxe Edition)

Best in Blue @ Pin Ups 6/4

All sorts of bluish stuff. And randomness.

Carolina Blues 4:44 Blues Traveler Straight On Till Morning
Manic Depression 3:37 Jimi Hendrix The Ultimate Experience
Lie to Me 4:11 Jonny Lang Lie to Me
Sucker Train Blues 4:28 Velvet Revolver Contraband
You're Crazy 3:17 Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction
London Calling 3:21 The Clash The Singles
The Sky Is Crying 4:38 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble The Sky Is Crying
Stone Crazy 7:12 Buddy Guy Buddy's Blues - Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
Every Day (I Have the Blues) 2:50 B.B. King The Best of B.B. King, Vol. 1
Computer Blue 4:00 Prince & The Revolution Musica fataldelonuestro - Joan
In The Garage 3:56 Weezer Weezer
That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate 2:05 Mission Of Burma Matador Records - Intended Play Spring 2008
Insane Asylum (With Willie Dixon) 4:22 Koko Taylor What It Takes: The Chess Years
Mannish Boy 5:21 Muddy Waters The Story of the Blues (Columbia)
Cookie Jar (feat. The-Dream) 3:36 Gym Class Heroes Patches from the Quilt - EP
Blue 2:49 LeAnn Rimes Blue
The Ballad of Love and Hate 5:21 The Avett Brothers Emotionalism
Rusted From The Rain 4:12 Billy Talent
Blue Monday 7:26 New Order 12"
Alcoholics Unanimous 3:36 Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan
Barfruit Blues 3:36 The Hold Steady A Positive Rage
Dubs Says True 3:31 The Bouncing Souls Dubs Says True - Single
Great Expectations 3:05 The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Wind It Up 4:27 Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Nowhere Man 2:44 The Beatles Rubber Soul
Alabama 3:06 Birdmonster No Midnight
Lovecraft In Brooklyn 3:49 The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride
The Sons Of Cain 3:59 Ted Leo / Pharmacists Living With The Living
box full of letters 2:59 wilco a.m.
Gravity's Gone 3:33 Drive-By Truckers A Blessing And A Curse
Angels Of Mercy 4:11 The Badlees River Songs

Your Musical Thought of the Day, 6/2

When the sun goes down the armies of the voiceless
Several hundred thousand strong
Come out without their bandages
Their voices raised in song
When the streetlights sputter out
They make this awful sizzling sound
I cast my gaze toward the pavement
Too many bloodstains on the ground

---The Mountain Goats, "Lovecraft in Brooklyn"

Americana stuffs @ The Gnarled Oak, 6/1

Call it alt-country, No Depression, Americana, Cow Punk, Outlaw Country, whatever you want. Just dig it.

Mr. Wrong 4:37 Cracker Cracker
Waiting For The Sun 4:21 The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall
Sinkhole 3:30 Drive-By Truckers Alabama Ass Whuppin'
Indianapolis 3:29 The Bottle Rockets Live in Heilbronn / Germany July 17, 2005
Red Headed Stepchild 3:08 Golden Smog Down By The Old Mainstream
Tangled Up Roses 3:25 Shooter Jennings The Wolf
Pretty Girl From Cedar Lane 3:21 The Avett Brothers Mignonette
Fight 2:55 Ben Kweller Changing Horses
Blue Sunshine 3:12 Blue Giant Target Heart
Cocaine Blues 2:49 Johnny Cash Murder
Graveyard Shift 4:45 Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology
Revenge 2:43 Whiskeytown Faithless Street
Maybellene 2:19 Social Distortion Greatest Hits
Matchbox 2:05 Scruffy the Cat Live @ TT The Bears
box full of letters 2:59 wilco a.m.
The Picture 3:26 Son Volt The Search (Deluxe Version)
Crossfire 2:17 Kasey Chambers Barricades & Brickwalls
The Cheapest Key 2:42 Kathleen Edwards Asking for Flowers (Bonus Track Version)
Pineola 4:04 Lucinda Williams Live at the Fillmore
The Day We Met 2:29 Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles The Day We Met Single
Bad Reputation 2:26 The Reverend Horton Heat Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Going Down Swinging 2:25 Nashville Pussy Get Some!
Designs On You 3:49 Old 97's Satellite Rides (Disc 1)
Love Is Hell 3:20 Ryan Adams Love Is Hell
All Thine 2:44 Trailer Bride High Seas
Up to My Neck in This 2:35 Jon Langford And His Sadies Mayors of the Moon
Cheap Motels 2:22 Southern Culture on the Skids Liquored Up and Lacquered Down
Alright Guy 4:30 Todd Snider Songs For The Daily Planet
Jealousy 2:15 Emma-Lee Never Just A Dream
Black T-Shirt 3:14 Slaid Cleaves Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
You Never Even Called Me By My Name 5:17 David Alan Coe
Thrown out of the Bar 2:07 Hank Williams III Straight to Hell Disc 1
Bloody Mary Morning 2:47 Willie Nelson The Essential Willie Nelson
One More Beer - The Rimshots 3:00 The Rimshots Rockabilly Hall Of Fame Vol. 3
Windfall 2:58 Son Volt Trace