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YOU KNOW HOW WE DO TWO OTHER BLOGS?
Well, maybe you don’t – or more likely, you could care less. I rarely do any “cross-promotion”, but maybe once a year is OK, right? So these two blogs are called HEDONIST BEER JIVE and FIRST...
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STATE OF THE KIDS, JULY 2009
It’s time for a rare look at the present tense here at Detailed Twang, as part of our ongoing series of tastemaking we call “State of the Kids”. Great 45s, LPs, CDs and one-off downloads keep coming...
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THREE SLEAZOID ZONKERS FROM L.A. DRUGS
(This is a re-post from early 2007)I missed the one and only LP from Boston's L.A. DRUGS when it came out in 2003 – it existed first as a CD-R and later was put out as a one-sided affair on Twisted...
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LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE FRENCH GIRLS
Two more 1960s “ye-ye” tracks for you today, both as pretty as a poodle. “Le Chevalier” from JIJI is all raw, twinkling guitar and come-hither vocals, and I gotta admit it’s pretty irresistible as a...
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BEAT HER WITH A RAKE AND MAKE HER PAY FOR HER MISTAKE
(Note - this is a re-post "by request" of a song we put up here back in 2007)This is a very classy proto-punk, metal-tinged scorcher from 1978 – an act called THE WEASELS set off all sorts of alarms...
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HOW LIVES ARE CHANGED: THE LAZY COWGIRLS
This post is seriously cribbed from a review of THE LAZY COWGIRLS'masterpiece "Tapping The Source"that I wrote for my old blog, Agony Shorthand, back in 2003. The band - and this record - were...
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BILL DIREEN & THE BILDERS : “ALIEN” 45
(Note: this is a re-post from 2007. The song had disappeared when my old hosting provider did, and I want to make sure you hear it.)I once knew a woman in the early 90s named Sharon McKenzie who had...
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MO-DETTES “WHITE MICE / MASOCHISTIC OPPOSITE” 45
This is another bellwether 45 in my teenage musical education, and for a long time I felt like it was a record that only I knew about. While THE MO-DETTES’ 1980“White Mice” single is fairly well-known...
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OH! THAT HACKAMORE BRICK ALBUM
Back in the 1980s and early 90s me and my pals Grady & Jon took an interest in discovering what one of us, I’m not sure whom, termed “Stigliano bands”. These were groups that, to us, only existed...
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TWINKLE'S OUTSTANDING DEAD BOYFRIEND 45
A couple of weeks back we posted the great 60s girly screamer "Don't Drag No More" by SUSAN LYNN and called it her "dead teenager anthem", before I realized that the guy in the song doesn't actually...
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THE REVILLOS'"MOTORBIKE BEAT"
(Note: I wrote the following on my old blog AGONY SHORTHAND in April 2003. Then I posted the song here on Detailed Twang in early 2007, using the exact same copy from four years earlier. Then I told...
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SHREDDING THE BIG ONES WITH THE TIKI MEN
(Reposted by request)I own exactly one record by a modern instrumental surf band (correction: make that two records), and it’s the raw-ass 1994 EP I’m posted for you here today by Sacramento, CA’s TIKI...
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CANADA SCREAMING
Around the turn of the 21st Century – that is, about nine years ago - I started seriously digitizing my vinyl collection, and even made a quick foray into hooking up my tape deck to a computer. I only...
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THE PRATS BELIEVE IN THE DISCO POPE
(This is a re-post from mid-2008)I discovered THE PRATS, a ramshackle, quintessentially-DIY late 70s/early 80s Scottish group, just this past couple years or so on the “EARCOM 1” compilation. We posted...
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XYX SUMMON THE MICROVIBRACIONES
My favorite record last year by a mile was the debut four-song "Sistema De Terminación Sexual" 7”EP from Monterey, Mexico’s XYX on S-S Records. They make a big, loud, crazed, echo-chamber version of...
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THE ULTIMATE POST-PUNK C-78
When I got big into digitizing my vinyl, it extended my already-crazed obsession with creating personal compilations of music, which started off in the 80s as tapes for potential girlfriends (who...
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MONOSHOCK: FREAKIN’ TWEAKIN’ MECO MEN
Without going into too much detail, the late 80s/early 90s, Oakland-by-way-of-Santa Barbara band MONOSHOCK were both personal friends and a favorite mind-erasing band of mine. Aside from the more...
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ROCKABILLY FIREBREATHING FROM FIREWORKS
(This is a re-post from a couple years ago)Circa 1991-94, no rock and roll label could touch In The Red Records. Most still can’t. I remember tearing up packages that would arrive in the mail from...
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DEMENTED ARE GO – MORTY SHANN & THE MORTICIANS
(This is a re-post from 2007)I’m not the only person to have posted these tracks in the quote-unquote blogosphere, but I’ve lived in perpetual terror for too long thinking that there might be some of...
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ALL SPIT & VINEGAR: THE MEKONS'"NEVER BEEN IN A RIOT"
Like a lot of fortysomethings - as opposed to fiftysomethings - my first exposure to Leeds, England's MEKONS came in the mid-1980s, when they garnered a ton of critical acclaim for their countrified...
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TWIST AND BURN!, VOLUME 1
I mentioned a few posts ago about my 2000-2004 fetish of digitizing just about every piece of 33rpm and 45rpm vinyl I’d ever owned, which back then was pretty considerable. Now it’s paltry, but then...
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GRASS WIDOW & THE SPECTRES OF MINIMALISM PAST
I’d have to vote GRASS WIDOW as my favorite current band right about now. This new San Francisco trio have one-upped themselves on their newest 45rpm 12”EP on the Captured Tracks label, moving greatly...
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THE WHITEFRONTS - "6 BUSES"
(This is adapted from a post I published a couple of years ago in which I posted this song as well).Who were the WHITEFRONTS? Well, when I started college at UC-Santa Barbara in 1985, they were sorta...
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TWIST AND BURN!, VOLUME TWO
The next volume of garage punk 45s and LP cuts I made for myself a few years ago moves partially out of the 1980s and into the first year or two of the nineties. Looking at the assembled lineup here,...
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R.I.P. DETAILED TWANG – COME VISIT OUR NEW SITES
DETAILED TWANG posted music and related ephemera from 2006 to 2009 - thanks to everyone who read about, commented on & enjoyed downloading the music here. Many of the links to music are still...
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