PopTodd

I saw Steve Gunn opening for Dinosaur Jr. He was really good. Outstanding guitar player with an overall sound like The Sea and Cake meets My Morning Jacket, with a bit of post-reunion Television and Grateful Dead thrown in for good measure. I would recommend him too, if I were more familiar with his recorded work. But, just based on his live show and the couple of recorded tunes that I've heard, still, I agree with that. He's good.

Yeah, but the music's great.

Going with my 17-year-old son to see Dinosaur Jr. at Metro!

Sly & The Family Stone • If You Want Me To Stay • Que Sera, Sera • Family Affair • Just Like a Baby • Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf)

ROCKPILE - HEATWAVE FESTIVAL 8/23/1980 A halfway-decent bootleg recording of an absolutely scorching performance from one of the best live bands that there ever was.

"GIRLS ARE FOREVER" A compilation of girl band obscurities from the 50s and 60s that was put together for me by a friend of mine who is a girl group obsessive. With the exception of one or two (The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes), there is not a single name on here that I recognize, and not one song. It's all pretty solid stuff, though. Really digging it. Hooray for the obsessives! Especially when they like to share!

Let's see... so far today: Ultimate Painting - Dusk Burnside Project - Syntax & Semantics Brian Eno - Another Green World Cate Le Bon - Crab Day Echo & The Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymen

The Tao Te Ching The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Taj Mahal - The Natch'l Blues Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not The Band - The Band Brinsley Schwarz - Cruel to Be Kind

Omni - Deluxe My first one published in a long while. Some pretty great post-punk from former members of Deerhunter and carnivores. http://active-listener.blogspot.com/2016/09/omni-deluxe.html

Like their own personal parking lot.

That's it! Thank you!

Who does his voice sound like? A little Malkmus, sure. But there is someone else that he sounds like even more... And it's killing me trying to figure out who.

Still working my way through the catalog for the first time, so this will probably change over the next couple of weeks. But I feel like I still wanna do this one. Paul Heaton/The Housemartins/The Beautiful South Happy HourGet Up Off Our KneesJust Checkin'SheepBaby Please GoThere is so much great stuff!!!