New music that is worth a listen!

Not new, but new to me.  I heard of it while listening to an interview with rockabilly guitarist Ben Vaughn on the radio yesterday.  A 90s collaboration with Vaughn, Alan Vega (of Suicide) and Alex Chilton (of the Box Tops):

Thor wrote: ^  Sounds right outta '62.  I kinda like it.

That whole early/mid 60's retro sound is back in vogue these days.

I think maybe Amy Winehouse had something to do with that.

Thor wrote: Not new, but new to me.  I heard of it while listening to an interview with rockabilly guitarist Ben Vaughn on the radio yesterday.  A 90s collaboration with Vaughn, Alan Vega (of Suicide) and Alex Chilton (of the Box Tops):

Started out sounding pretty cool but then it lost me about a minute in.

Got kinda repetitive.

PaWolf wrote: Jimbo wrote: Thor wrote: ^  Sounds right outta '62.  I kinda like it. That whole early/mid 60's retro sound is back in vogue these days. I think maybe Amy Winehouse had something to do with that. These are great days - I love the resurgence of the 'White Boy R&B/Blues' that we're experiencing from Brit cousins - especially that which is fresh & original. You're right about it all coming back strong around the time of the O.D.Queen making her splash.

Back around the mid 80's, there was this great but short-lived cops & mobsters show that was set in Las Vegas in the early 60's, and was called "Crime Story".

Might have been Dennis Farina's first TV starring role.



Anyway, great show. But what I really liked was their choice of theme music.

I started developing an interest in that era right around then, and I think this show, along with a book about Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgewick I had been reading around that same time period, had something to do with it.

And then in '87 I saw this....





Off topic, but that clip is just another example of why there was never a late night talk show or talk show host as cool as Letterman and probably never will be ever again.

...in March, another 'old friend' & fellow devout cyclist has a new album coming out - 'American Utopia'

...for the classy, upper-crust, better than most anyone else types, or maybe just the rest of us mellowed-out boring as f**k with no desire to offend or argue nursing-home worthy people destined to become forgotten names on rocks...

...not really all that 'new', but I bet it is new to most listeners - purists and Texans may very well remember this band.

I hate groups that record albums with *1* song I can listen to.

...well, maybe not so new (album is 7 years old)...but easy to listen to when working late at night...bet very few have heard of it. They've been around for years - the newest album of 'dreamscape' music is titled 'In Transit' (about 90 minutes long) and is great for background music, or music to float away to...