There won’t be anymore updates this week…

Jun 302009

There won’t be anymore updates this week.

It’s not because of burnout or anything like that though. It’s basically because I don’t have kids.

Apparently, this is a big vacation week for people with children and most of my office is off doing the parenting thing. As a result, I am on the road for the rest of this week sitting in on their meetings and doing their field surveys.

Such is life though. Listen to the podcast once a day and I’ll see y’all next week.

And be safe folks. Cabs are cheaper than DUI’s.

Two Cow Garage – Brand New July

NINEBULLETS.NET JUNE PODCAST:

Jun 302009

Whew! Talk about getting this one in just under the wire. This month was nutzo with 80 Proof Music, a brief break and all sorts of other stuff. No matter though cause we’re coming in on time with some great music to fill your July 4th weekend up with.

I decided to shorten up the nine bullets intro music this month. I’m not very happy with how it ended up and I hope to make a better edit of it in the coming weeks or I’ll just go back to posting the whole song. What do you think? Do you like hearing all of Nine Bullets each month or would you prefer a shortened version of it?

This month’s podcast includes a new track by one of our favorite rock bands, The Whipsaws as well as a track from fellow Alaskan, Matthew Dean Herman which comes from his Evan Phillip’s (The Whipsaws / E.S.P.) produced debut, Blackbird. The album is fantastic and I’ve got a nice little write-up about it I plan on posting next week. As you’ll see in the track listing below there is also a fun little segment of cover songs and we round things off with a rocking/punk-blues segment followed by a set of songs with a more traditional blues sound.

I decided to close the show with some nerdcore hiphop tracks. The Master Onion song is from an old video game called PaRappa The Rapper that I just adored. I followed that up with two artists from Scrub Club Records that have just been blowing me away for the past week. You can download both of their albums over on Scrub Club for free and I’d advise you to do it….they’re doing the whole nerdcore thing on a totally new level.

July is gonna be another crazy month. I am hitting up Nerdapalooza and The Deep Blues Festival in July. I’m sure I am gonna be exposed to (and get) a shit ton of new music and my guess is that the July podcast will be focused on that stuff….I dunno about you, but I can’t wait.

Okay, that’s enough typing, let’s get to the track list and the music:

  1. Ninebullets Podcast Intro [00.00.00]
  2. The Whipsaws – Dr. Please [00.12.03]
  3. Autopsy IV Commentary [04.40.25]
  4. Matthew Dean Herman – Blackbird [05.49.00]
  5. Jace Everett – Bad Things [09.57.45]
  6. Autopsy IV Commentary [12.38.75]
  7. The Takers & Austin Lucas – Mama Tried (Merle Haggard cover) [13.27.50]
  8. Todd Snider – Corpus Christie Bay (Robert Earle  Keene Cover) [15.38.00]
  9. Jon Snodgrass & Cory Branan – Wild One (Thin Lizzy Cover) [19.27.75]
  10. Autopsy IV Commentary [21.22.75]
  11. Little Foot Long Foot – Junebug [22.22.25]
  12. Seasick Steve – Cheap [25.53.00]
  13. The Pack A.D. – Blackout [29.55.00]
  14. Scott H. Biram – Judgement Day [32.27.75]
  15. Autopsy IV Commentary [35.00.00]
  16. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Cootie Starks & Neal Pattman – Prison Blues [35.41.50]
  17. Swampcandy – South County [40.16.00]
  18. Mississippi Marvel & Lightnin’ Malcolm – Black Mattie’s Face [42.13.25]
  19. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, George Butler & The Howlin Wolf Band – Spoonful [44.19.25]
  20. Autopsy IV Commentary [49.36.75]
  21. Master Onion – Chop, Chop [51.19.25]
  22. Kabuto The Python – Open Season (feat. Margaret Thatcher) [53.40.50]
  23. Dr. Awkward – Geekquilibrium [57.30.00]

As always, any suggestions on how to make this thing better are always appreciated. As are any efforts to promote and advertise it….so please, Tweet about it, post links on message boards, post myspace bulletins and force your little sister to listen to it.

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PURITAN RODEO – THE MAGIC SUIT BALL

Jun 262009

The other night I was sifting through my dvd collection (I am preparing to sell it all) when I found a cd that must have fallen off the “to listen to” stack and gotten kicked under the bench seat where my dvd’s are stored.

That cd was Puritan Rodeo’s 2008 effort The Magic Suit Ball.

Feeling bad that the cd had been lost for so long (it’s street date was May of ’08), I immediately put it in my car cd player and you know what….it’s pretty fucking good. It’s like a mashup of, say, Pinebox Serenade and Gil Landry with a touch of The Steeldrivers. It’s a nice tight and well-paced cd that I wish I’d written about a year ago. I wasn’t even gonna write about it now, but a quick search of The Hype Machine proved that nobody had written about these kids from North Carolina at all.

Shame on us all.

So here you go. Check out the album. I think you’ll like it.

According to a myspace blog posting from May of THIS year, it appears the band is back in the studio working on what will be their third album. I hereby vow to write about it on the same year of its release.

Puritan Rodeo – Fool’s Gold
Puritan Rodeo – Put Down The Money
Puritan Rodeo – Waiting

Puritan Rodeo’s Official Site, Puritan Rodeo on myspace, Buy The Magic Suit Ball

SO, MICHAEL JACKSON DIED…

Jun 262009

Last night when I heard MJ died my first thought was, “Damn, that sucks for Farrah”. Then I started looking at Twitter and the eulogizing was bordering on hyperbole.

Look. I grew up on Mike’s music just like many of you. Thriller was one of the very first albums I owned but that doesn’t change the fact that MJ was fucked up. F.U.C.K.E.D.U.P. Fucked Up. And don’t blame his childhood either…I have a theory that once you reach the age of 25 you’re an adult and trying to blame shit on your parents is a fucking cop-out.

Fact: If El DeBarge had the same history as MJ had and he would have died yesterday muthafuckers would have been, “good, one less pedophile in the world”….that’s some undeniable shit.

So. Let’s take the King of Pop crown, pass it on over to Justin Timberlake and let’s hope he stays away from the little kids.

Take me out Katt:

THE ROCK REPORT: GRAYSON CAPPS @ THE RITZ, YBOR CITY

Jun 252009

The last time I was at The Ritz was for the fateful Corrosion of Conformity show where (4) people were stabbed with (1) ultimately dying. I’d heard a lot about the near million dollar renovation the venue had gone through prior to reopening a year (really? it’s been a whole year?) ago but I had not seen it yet. What better chance than for their one year anniversary free show featuring one of my favorite songwriters, Grayson Capps?

The venue itself is beautiful and the acoustics are dramatically improved. Granted, I am judging the latter on one show but Grayson and the Stumpknockers were loud and they sounded great and the reconfigured ball room is infinitely more conducive to live music than it used to be. While this isn’t supposed to be a review of the venue I wanted to mention it cause they did a fantastic job and I look forward to seeing more shows there.

Now, on to Grayson.

Grayson Capps and the Stumpknocker’s took the stage promptly at 8:00 to a sparce (and I am being generous) crowd but what the crowd lacked in numbers it made up for in enthusiasm. One particular concertgoer opted to take advantage of the short bar lines and vacant dance floor to practice his handstands. Grayson & Co. seemed unfazed by the amount of empty floor space between each patron and delivered a tight performance hitting on every song the crowd wanted to hear even going so far as to take requests during their second set. I was pleasantly surprised at how much more of rock band they became in the live environment.

Hopefully the lack of people will not leave a bad taste in the bands mouth and they’ll return some day in the future.

Grayson Capps – Going Back To The Country
Grayson Capps – Ike
Grayson Capps – Mermaid
Grayson Capps – Junior & The Old African Queen

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