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Eureka Machines live at Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England on Sunday April 7, 2013

Photos © 2013 Russ Tierney for The Midlands Rocks

Eureka Machines have been and will be supporting The Wildhearts for a short run of shows (additional dates have been announced for June) celebrating the 20th anniversary of Earth vs. the Wildhearts. Read Russ’ full review of the Wulfrun show, and view the entire photoset on Flickr. While you’re there, also check out his photos of the Wildhearts show.

The Wildhearts - “I Wanna Go Where The People Go” (P.H.U.Q., 1995)

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The Wildhearts - “29 X The Pain” (Suckerpunch [EP])

Here sitting in my room
With the Replacements and Hüsker Dü
Like a rebel without a clue
And the Beatles and the Stones
Get to hang out with Ramones
And the Pistols shunning fame
As they sing the old refrain
As they always will again
Like 29 times the pain

I see Starz
And the mood is Big and Black
Well there’s a full Sheer Heart Attack
But the Cheapest Trick of all
Is when I hear that London Called
I need something and I need it fast
I need Jason Scorching past
I need to feel they feel the same
‘cause when they almost know my name

It’s like 29 times the pain, times the pain
29 times the pain, times the pain
29 times the pain, times the pain
Times the pain
But it all ends up the same

Thanks Pink

Kiss my Heart
Like the Damned did from the start
Come on make me feel like me
SLF or BOC

Give me old, give me new
Let me know you feel it too
‘cause with sounds that twist and curls
It’s a brave new world

I’m up, how can I get down,
When I’ve got all my friends around?
And I can be there once again
Oh God, I miss Kurt Cobain

It’s like 29 times the pain, times the pain
29 times the pain, times the pain
29 times the pain, times the pain
Times the pain (And all the gaps in all the gain)
Times the pain (Tomorrow always cries my name)
Times the pain (It makes it all worthwhile again)

The Friday Five: December 14, 2012

I promise I’m not being Scrooge-y (I even watched White Christmas last night!), but I have no Christmas tunes loaded up in the ol’ iTunes library here at work. Anyway, here’s a regular non-holiday shuffle from me. I’ll try to be ready next week.

Liona Boyd - “Spanish Romance” (Miniatures for Guitar, 2004)
Just to prove I’m not cheating, first up today was this Spanish flamenco-ish track that I downloaded years ago for… well… mood music, let’s say. I think that’s about all I’m willing to say about this one.

Beastie Boys - “The Biz vs. the Nuge” (Check Your Head, 1992)
Really, iTunes?! Nonsense filler track. ‘Nuff said.

Accept - “Fight It Back” (Balls to the Wall, 1984)
I don’t know why I keep forgetting how great this album is. Udo’s gravelly scream was such a perfect match for the music.

The Wildhearts - “It’s All Up to Me” (The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed, 2003)
Great track off one of my favorite Wildhearts albums. Ginger is such a great songwriter.

The Jelly Jam - “Ten” (Shall We Descend, 2011)
Album closer from this side-project featuring King’s X’s Ty Tabor, Dream Theater bassist John Myung, and Dixie Dregs’ skin beater Rod Morgenstein. The track is 8:19 long, but if you’ve made it this far into the album, you’re no doubt more than willing ride this instrumental’s slow groove all the way through to the payoff from each of these exceptional musicians. Funny that The Jelly Jam features more of Myung’s bass work than his own band does.
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The Wildhearts - “Under The Waves” (Chutzpah! Jnr.)

The dream is not a dream no more
Just spent desires upon the floor
With tired intent you stand your ground
It opens up and takes you down
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The Wildhearts - “It's All Up To Me” (The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed)

They say the harder they come
They say the harder they fall
This one’s hard as a hand grenade in a cannon ball

High And In Love

Sorry & the Sinatras - “Valencia”

Scott Sorry’s post-Wildhearts band Sorry & the Sinatras released a new EP at the first of the month called Kings of Shambles Street. It contains the track “Valencia,” which also appeared on a diabetes fundraising compilation called Heavy Hearts, featuring rare or previously unreleased tracks from a roster of artists that includes The Wildhearts, Michael Monroe, Eureka Machines, Brijitte West, and Jesse Malin. If you visit the Heavy Hearts Bandcamp site hoping to grab the album, you may be out of luck. It looks like it was only being sold for a limited-time. Oh well, at least you can still stream the tracks.

Kings of Shambles Street is definitely still available, and stylistically it doesn’t stray too far from “Valencia” or from the song “Hated Heart” from a couple of years ago, and it includes what sounds like a decent cover of the ‘Mats’ “Bastards of Young.” If Sorry’s gravelly vocals don’t rub you too raw, it might be worth checking out.

Enjoy!
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The Wildhearts - “Caprice” (P.H.U.Q.)

I spent all day setting up, arranging, and rearranging my new cube in my new workspace in my new building after having been displaced from my former building for a few days as part of a big department move, and this is the first jam that came up on iTunes shuffle. Nice.

The Friday Five: June 1, 2012

Every now and again I get lost in a Friday Five over at Popdose.

Ramones - “We Want the Airwaves” (Pleasant Dreams, 1981)
Alright. Already off to a good start. A slicker, heavier, more polished sound for the Ramones, but good nonetheless.

Mae - “Anything” (The Everglow, 2005)
Wall-of-sound production that is equal parts heavy, sweet, soaring, and shimmery. I can’t talk enough about how much I like this band.

The Wildhearts - “Tim Smith” (¡Chutzpah!, 2009)
Heck yeah! 3 for 3. This song from the most recent Wildhearts release—and probably the last unless something changes in the near future—is a sort of dedication to the Cardiacs frontman who suffered a heart attack and stroke in 2008. Heavy, thrashy verses and harmony-vocal-laden singalong choruses. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Glen Phillips - “The Hole” (Live at Messiah College in Grantham, PA, 11/15/2003)
Another great bootleg from this Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman. “The Hole” is one of those rare strange tunes that Glen has come up with during his solo career that has a way of digging into your subconscious and coming out when you least expect. I really need to try to get to one of his solo shows sometime.

Ginger Wildheart - “Westward Ho! (A New Reputation)” (555%, 2012)
Second track from the more experimental second set of songs from Ginger’s triple-album PledgeMusic project. This song in particular plays around with an island feel and electronic elements and prominently features vocalist Victoria Liedtke as it builds into a middle portion that sounds like an African tribal singalong with Victoria doing her best black gospel choir imitation à la Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky.” Lots of twists and turns and very enjoyable if you’re up for the ride. I can’t recommend the entire album enough.

Excellent Friday Five this week! Hope you enjoy yours.
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The Sonic Graffiti - “Mystery Number” (The Haiti Project)

Moved to “do something” after learning of the devastation caused by the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010, Ginger Wildheart’s current manager Gav McCaughey fired off a few emails and made a few phone calls, and before he knew it, he had put together a compilation album to help with the relief effort. Featuring music from The Wildhearts, Eureka Machines, Sorry & The Sinatras, and Antiproduct among others, The Haiti Project is a 16-track album released in 2010 and is available as an exclusive digital download from MusicGlue.

The album also features as its lead-off track the one and only song recorded by The Sonic Graffiti, a band Ginger had put together for two Los Angeles shows in July 2009. Billed simply as “Ginger and Friends,” the band featured Ginger, Michael Butler (of Rock and Roll Geek Show podcast fame) on bass, Billy Morrison (Billy Idol, The Cult, Camp Freddy) on guitar, and drummer-turned-modeling-agency-mogul-turned-drummer Scott Lipps. Based on the success of those shows, the group reconvened in August 2009 to record “Mystery Number” at Matt Sorum’s studio. The song was produced by the legendary Mike Clink (whose oeuvre includes Guns N’ Roses, Mötley Crüe, and Megadeth), and it finally found a home when Ginger and the band donated it to The Haiti Project.

The song stands toe-to-toe with some of my favorite Ginger-penned tunes and serves to show just how talented the guy is no matter who he is playing with. And it’s nice to hear Michael Butler’s voice right up in the front of the backing vocals in the mix.

Enjoy!

Now that you got nothing to worry about
What you gonna worry ‘bout now?
The Wildhearts - “Vernix” (¡Chutzpah!, 2009)

I’m Drowning in a Sea of Girls

Ginger Wildheart - “You’re The One, You’re The One, Yeah, I Know You’re The One, You’re The One (Yeah, I Know You’re The One)”

Ginger Wildheart delivered a very special Valentine’s Day treat to the pledgers of his triple album project at PledgeMusic. An exclusive download of a new track is his way of showing his appreciation for the outpouring of support for the DIY approach to his new album. As of this moment, Ginger is currently at an unprecedented 523% of his pledge target with almost 5100 donors.

It didn’t take long for the track to make it onto YouTube, and in typical Ginger fashion, he blessed the effort with the following tweet:

Someone just put the new song on YouTube. In reverse outrage I would emplore you all to RT this link youtu.be/vvmShA2c1TE Thank you x

The track is excellent, and based on this and the sneak peeks Ginger has provided throughout the making of the album, it’s shaping up to be a top-notch release.

So what are you still doing here reading this?! Head over and make your pledge! You only have until the end of the month to get in on the fun! Enjoy!
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Ginger - “Black Windows” (Yoni)
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The Wildhearts - “Under The Waves” (Chutzpah! Jnr.)

The Friday Five: October 28, 2011

I think I’m goin’ blind from shufflin’ IckMusic’s Friday Five!

Rush - “The Spirit of Radio” (Rush in Rio, 2003)
Rush has always been an amazing live band, and this DVD/CD combo helps solidify the fact that the band was as good as ever in the early 2000s. The Rio crowds are crazy fanatical about their music, and this entire concert is a lot of fun.

Coheed and Cambria - “The Velourium Camper I: Faint of Hearts” (In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, 2003)
Comic book rock from the very talented and creative mind of Claudio Sanchez. I just wish all of their stuff was as catchy as this. Heck, I wish the second half of this song was as catchy as the first half. “Koo koo k’choo!”

Dinosaur Jr. - “Goin’ Blind” (KISS My Ass, 1994)
Admirable kover of this klassic KISS kut. Ahem. I didn’t really know what to think of this album when it first came out, especially since it was so closely controlled by Gene and Paul. But then again, what in the KISS circus isn’t?! This is definitely one of the better tracks from this collection that stylistically is all over the map.

The Wildhearts - “Top of the World” (The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed, 2003)
Ginger should be the most sought-after songwriting partner in the world. At the very least, he and The Wildhearts should be a much, much bigger deal than they are. Catchy, well-written songs, great melodies, and crunchy riffs.

Mutual Admiration Society - “Think About your Troubles” (Live at The Bowl at Lime Kiln, 8/17/2004)
I’ve never really cared for this Harry Nilsson cover, but I love the combination of Glen Phillips and Nickel Creek. They recorded and completed their debut album in 3 days, but it took 3.5 years to get it released due to record company shenanigans. The recorded versions of their songs are good, but this collective really shines in a live environment.