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Stone Telling - s/t (1994, Network Sound)
Some mixed feelings on this one, which I've flirted with sharing almost since I started this page in 2007. So what took so long? Not quite sure, perhaps the timing. Stone Telling sound a bit dated...
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Mystery Date - Zoom 7" (1985, Twilght)
Yet another single I've only been able to procure via ones and zeros. Despite not owning a physical copy, I know that Mystery Date (who were one of numerous bands with the same moniker - go figure)...
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Being this month's model is the best, but you change your mind and heart like...
From 1981. This L.A. institution's oft overlooked third album.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Tubular Face - An Acoustic Disturbance (1984, Closet)
Talk about music that was completely devoid of the prevailing norms of it's era. Enter Tubular Face, a San Antonio, Texas duo (Mike Escamilla and Gilbert Garcia) whose homegrown, DIY penchant didn't...
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00-Spies - demo (1996)
Better known as Double Naught Spies, this L.A.-based quartet made minor ripples in their local power pop sphere, and managed to crank out two albums before calling it quits. Despite being demos, these...
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The Swimming Pool Q's - The Firing Squad For God ep (1987, DB)
Occasionally I share music not based wholly on it's merits, rather on other surrounding factors. Though I'm an admirer of the Swimming Pool Q's I can't profess to being a mondo fanatic of them, yet I...
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I kicked around in the big bad world after you sold all my action figures...
From 2015. This band's sixth but hopefully not final album.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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The Texas Instruments - Magnetic Home (1993, Doctor Dream)
It's been awhile since I dedicated any meaningful space to the Texas Instruments. About a decade and a half, and that's not an exaggeration. I submitted their 1991 album Crammed Into Infinity way...
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I'm on my last brocade, I've been cautiously laid and constantly harmed.
From 2023. A return to this band's gritty roots.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Exploding White Mice 7" (1988, Greasy/Festival)
Demi-legends in Australia's garage-punk underground, the Exploding White Mice often veered to sheer power-punk overdrive, a la the Ramones to careen their point home. The flip side, of this wax,...
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The Blackjacks - Basic Blackjacks ep (1984, Homestead)
Yet more Boston guitar-rawk bluster. The Blackjacks suspiciously remind me of another Beantown bunch, the equally bar-busting Classic Ruins, right down to the vocals in fact. However these guys are...
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From 1980, bundled with a contemporary EP.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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The Stench - Crazy Moon (1989, Running)
Hailing from Salt Lake City, UT, The Stench were SLC punk by default, although the cult movie referencing the near-non existent scene in that sodium-ridden locale wasn't even a thing when this trio was...
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This could be so much different, but it never will.
Seattle indie rock from 1994. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Dose - Singleton 7" (1991, C/Z)
Eugene, OR's Dose made their way onto my ever-lovin radar when they dropped the wonderful "Eyesore" on the Teriyaki Asthma Vol. VIII compilation in 1992. The song in question was a magnificent,...
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Arcwelder - 6/11/09 @ Vera Project, Seattle, WA
I'm not sure how much demand is out there for this but here goes. I haven't dedicated too much space to Arcwelder, simply because most of their catalog is available, perhaps not physically, but at...
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Me and you forever!
What time is it? Time for four eps, that's what! I'm not sure if I've featured any of these artists on Mystery Monday before. Maybe one at most. Have at it. **Please do not reveal artist in...
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PopeAlopes - Yolo County Line: The Good, the Bad, The Ugly (2002, P on the K)
This one has been on the burner for at least a decade and a half. The fact that I had a request for this several months ago was certainly an impetus, but it was almost an inevitability that I would...
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in your painted room, your first cameo.
From 2016.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Seaweed - Beasides
I've had a full week to get my act together and rip some new (or more accurately, used) vinyl...but alas, I never got around to it. Which is why I had to scrounge something up from my hard drive,...
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Nothing left to do but watch the street undo....
Chilled-out, smooth-as-glass pop from 2019.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Human Switchboard - Fly-In ep (1977/2019, Fat Possum)
What better way to commemorate another Record Store Day in the books than with a visit to a preceding RSD release? Perhaps the only reason I never got around to featuring Cleveland's long departed...
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It's April 22, and everybody knows today is Earth Day...
Power pop-adjacent from 1991.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Mission -- The Last Detail (1983, Frantic)
Not to be confused with the British Mission U.K. (in fact, this Maryland-based quartet may have been responsible for forcing them to graft "UK" to the end of their moniker) this crew ironically sported...
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