Here is a link to the Gogol Bordello video for Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher) on youtube. It gave me chills. Many thanks to inahandbasket for first posting this on his journal.

While you're at it, check out the band's official website. My favorite parts thus far, discovered a few months ago, are the band's history page and Eugene Hutz's thoughts on touringI ( Read more... )

During my sophomore year of college I lived next door to an otherwise nice woman who had the maddening habit of listening to one song on repeat for days and weeks at a time. Besides the fact that we had very different taste in music, I couldn't understand how she didn't get so sick of those songs that she never wanted to hear them again ( Read more... )

After a conversation about the Wallflowers first, self-titled album, W. discovered that he owned it and lent it to me. I loved this album in high school, but the tape crapped out ages ago, so I hadn't heard it years.

It's fantastic, so much better than Bringing Down the Horse, the album for which they are generally known. I don't mind that one at ( Read more... )

One particular question from a survey atomgal did on Friday stuck in my mind and kept joeyjojoshabado and I occupied for part of the drive to my parents' house this weekend.

If you were only allowed to listen to 5 of your CDs for the rest of your life, never adding anything else, which 5 could you listen to & be content with?It's a difficult question, but here's what I ( Read more... )

MorboPod won't turn on this morning. It was fine yesterday afternoon, but this morning, there's just nothing. I thought the battery might have died, but i plugged in the charger and there's still nothing. The little charging icon doesn't even show up on my computer ( Read more... )

I didn't have a CD player in high school, so all the music i listened to then was on tape. In the intervening 10-14 years, almost all of my tapes have worn out or been lost in one of my many moves. I'm very slowly starting to replace some stuff i really miss, and today i got R.E.M. Document in the mail. I've been craving Exhuming McCarthy lately, ( Read more... )

Um...i just typed half an entry about the Flogging Molly show. I minimized lj for one second and the whole thing's gone. Ggrrrr ( Read more... )