Alan Lomax Collection

Friday 4/20

Available  at the website, http://research.culturalequity.org/, there is a vast collection of Lomax's recordings from the US and Europe, as well as several photographs, videos, and radio shows.  Below are two recordings by Alan Lomax on a trip through Alabama in 1959.  The first is a commentary on the recording, the second is a recording of WROS Old Time Religious Hour.  Enjoy.


Commentary by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins by Kuboa

alabama radio wros by Kuboa

Recent Musings

Friday, April 13th
Indie rock is all very vague. You never know what the fuck anyone is talking about and you can’t even relate to anything in it. - King Tuff

The Coathangers - Smother
Davilla 666 - Obsesionao
Black Lips - Dance with you
Bass Drum of Death - I wanna be forgotten
The Tough Shits - Heard she kisses on the mouth
Ty Segall & White Fence - I am not a game
White fence - King of the decade

Hollis Brown - Spoonful (feat. John McCauley)
Screaming Females - Expire
Chiquita Y Chatarra - Motorbike
Grass Widow - Goldilocks zone
American Sun - American sun
Beach Fossils - Plastic flowers (The Wake)

Lee Fields and the Expressions - You're the kinda girl
Bo Diddley - I don't like you
Yaphet Kotto - Have you ever seen the blues
Mauroks - Susan

Tobacco/BMSR - Spraypaint
Lilacs & Champagne - Babling broke
Each Other - Sit still
Clipd Beaks - All the way evil
Alan Watts - Africa bats

Night Beats - Puppet on a string
King Tuff - Bad thing
Turbo Fruits - Where the stars don't shine

Bored with extra time:
Friends - Mind control (radio mix)
Paul Simon - Kodachrome
Beach House - Myth
Davilla 666 - Callejon
FIDLAR - No ass

Under the Covers

Friday, March 30th

Alex Chilton - Jumpin' jack flash (Rolling Stones)
Bjork & PJ Harvey - I can't get no satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
Earl Scruggs - Honkey tonk women (Rolling Stones)
Mikal Cronin - Give it to me (Troggs)
Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Fame (David Bowie)
Ty Segall - Buick Mackane (T. Rex)
David Bowie - See emily play (Pink Floyd)

Dum Dum Girls - There is a light that never goes out (Smiths)
Wye Oak - Stranger (Kinks)
Bill Callahan - So long marianne (Leonard Cohen)
TV Torso - My fair baby's coming for me (Paul Kane)

Cardigans - The boys are back in town (Thin Lizzy)
Dropkick Murphy's - Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy)
Black Tambourine - What's your game (Ramones)
Freelance Whales - Girl u want (Devo)
Yo La Tengo - Gates of steel (Devo)
Devo - Head like a hole (NIN)

Sonic Youth - Computer age (Neil Young)
Pixies - Winterlong (Neil Young)
Dinosaur Jr. - Lotta love (Neil Young)
Charles Bradley - Heart of gold (Neil Young)
Chromatics - Into the black (Neil Young)

Black Crowes - Tonight i'll be staying here with you (Bob Dylan)
Tashaki Miyaki - If not for you (Bob Dylan)
Harry Nilsson - Subterranean homesick blues (Bob Dylan)
The Chocolate Watchband - It's all over now baby blue (Bob Dylan)
Fleet Foxes - Waterfalls (TLC)
Wreckless Eric - The crooked beat (Clash)