The Zydepunks is an ambiguously European folk-punk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 2003, they play a wide variety of music, including Cajun, Zydeco, Eastern European music, and Punk Rock. Their instrumentation includes violin, accordion, electric bass guitar, and drums. The Zydepunks appeared at the Lake View House (Summit, NY) in the Summer of 2006.
The Zydepunks – Bwamba’s Rambles
Tagged Cajun, Euro-music, folk punk
Show of Hands is an underground folk band from England … read more
Show of Hands – Roots (the Stand Up Bass player “rocks”)
Formed in Dayton, Ohio in the early 1980s, Guided by Voices began their career as a bar band working the local scene. As lineups and day-jobs shifted, however, song-writer Robert Pollard moved the band towards a studio-only orientation. Guided by Voices’ recording career began with a stream of self-financed, independent releases including Devil Between My Toes, Sandbox, Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia, and Same Place The Fly Got Smashed. With only a few hundred copies of each album being pressed, these tended to circulate only among the band members’ family and friends…Read More
LISTEN: New Guided By Voices — GbV’s ‘classic’ line-up has recorded new material.
Guided By Voices – My Valuable Hunting Knife
fIREHOSE was an alternative rock band consisting of Mike Watt (bass, vocals), Ed Crawford (guitar, vocals), and George Hurley (drums).
fIREHOSE was formed in 1986 after the death of D. Boon brought an end to The Minutemen. Watt and Hurley teamed up with the then 22-year-old Crawford, a guitarist and Minutemen fanatic. Crawford was from Ohio, and started the band when he found Watt’s phone number in the phone book and called him, saying he wanted to play with Mike and George in California.
Albums by fIREHOSE
Riddle of the Eighties
One of the most radical rock bands of the 60s, and certainly one of the loudest, the MC5 solidified their anti-establishment reputation by being the only band to agree to play at a festival organized to coincide with the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
MICHAEL DAVIS BASS PLAYER FOR THE MC5 R.I.P.
MC5 – Ramblin Rose
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Tagged back in the day, counter-culture, proto punk, underground rock
The Dirtbombs are a garage punk band based in metro Detroit, Michigan, notable for blending diverse influences such as garage rock, punk rock and soul while featuring a dual bass guitar, dual drum and guitar lineup. The Dirtbombs were formed by Mick Collins (of the influential garage punk band (The Gories) as a side project and started recording songs by 1995. Read more on Wikipedia
Candy Ass
Preston School of Industry is an indie rock band formed by Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) in 1999, following the dissolution of his previous band, Pavement.
Preston School of Industry – Line it Up
The Minutemen was an American punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Comprising guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, the Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon’s unexpected death in December 1985. They were noted in the Californian punk rock community for a philosophy of “jamming econo”: a sense of thriftiness reflected in their touring and presentation…read more
Check out Mike Watt’s page
Albums by The Minutemen
A TRIBUTE TO “WE JAM ECONO”
an original moment in time, man!
written by
in the winter of 2007/8
From the jump, even their name is ambiguous. Fine. In heavy scholarship ambiguity is a key to lasting art. Was the name denotative of small, short, revolutionary, or what? In physics a minute is often used in the span of time to bring scale…and the minutemen? Bacon, Goethe, and Emerson, or whoever said, “Art is long, Life is short, Judgement difficult, Opportunity transient.” Could the answer be found in San Pedro High School? ...Read More
The Minutemen – WE JAM ECONO – History Lesson Part II
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For over two decades, Victorian trio Nomeansno have journeyed the globe, recorded over 10 albums, and spawned a cult side group, the Slapshot and the Ramones inspired Hanson Brothers. A band that has the tenaciousness to cover both a Ramones and a Miles Davis song on the same release deserves a scrupulous perusal. Read the review: Nomeansno: but Yes means Yes
Albums and Information about NOMEANSNO
Nomeansno – I’ve Got A Gun
Tagged punk rock, underground rock
“Somewhere north of the green strip of market gardening (when there was such a thing), a bunch of malcontents came together with borrowed equipment and indulged in that common and altogether unremarkable suburban habit – they formed a shoddy punk band.”
Monday, June 11th
The next concert in the Middleburgh Public Library Concert Series will feature Lee Murdock - 7:00PM
7:00PM - Suggested donation is $10.00
Middleburgh Public Library
323 Main Street, Middleburgh, NY 12122
Any questions? 827 4953
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