My friend Lisa Cameron drums on a new single with Mike Watt and Nels Cline and others. It's pretty sweet. It's also a split with Papa M.

Entombed - Wolverine Blues

Still such a fun record.

I like the Yaron Deutsch pieces here...

Wow, actual footage of Tragic Mulatto from 1990.

Heriot - Siege Lord

Enjoyed that.

The Catalyst - Swallow your teeth (2009)

I like me some classic distorto noise.

Yesterday I was listening to Flower, the hologram sky Lp. So good.

Got this CD, Jimi Hendrix's Blues, when it came out. This was about thirty years ago. Little did I know then how well a lot of it would hold up years later:



Also got Voodoo Soup when it was released. It's more of a mixed bag than Blues, maybe, but has a spate of some of the best Hendrix songs that weren't on the official three LPs he did with the Experience.

Namely, we're talking about: "Pali Gap," "Freedom," "Ezy Rider," and "Room Full of Mirrors."

"Pali Gap," is probably the best Hendrix song of all time:



He was a great vocalist, but this one, like the above cover of "Born Under a Bad Sign," doesn't feature any singing. I recommend soaking it up on a loud stereo some afternoon, from a better source than YouTube.

As a guitarist of sorts, I've never been that impressed with Hendrix worship among other musicians, to the extent that they aspired to emulate or conjure his sound, or his "stage energy." There's just something in there that you won't be able to tap into.

I am always going to have a soft spot for the Fiery Furnaces. I think they’re overdue for a wider re-evaluation for what they were, though being a Pitchfork band from that era didn’t hurt business anyways. I like how long and messy their albums are and I never realized how much they shred until I saw some of their live videos on youtube.

Just posting this one because I like the lyrics so much:



And this one, because I also like the lyrics: