Finnegan's Wake Music

Buzzcocks

finneganswakemusic — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:46:25 +0000

Buzzcocks are an English punk band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.

Alongside The Clash, Sex Pistols and The Damned, Manchester’s Buzzcocks can be counted amongst the frontline of first-wave U.K. punk. Spurred on by the glue-sniffing power-pop of the Ramones and the rest of the scene forming around nascent New York club CBGB, the Buzzcocks made its onstage debut supporting the Pistols at a hometown gig in July 1976. Six months later, it became the first punk band to release a record (the Spiral Scratch EP) without the support of a major label, opening the floodgates for every artist who’s gone DIY since…Read More

Buzzcocks on MySpace

Buzzcocks – Boredom … 1980

Y69

finneganswakemusic — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:21:51 +0000

Y69 from Burlington, VT – buzz-saw guitars, drinking songs, choruses of “Oi” and “old school punk rock” define a band that’s all about having a party on stage

Read the Seven Days review of We’ve Got Problems

Y69 live from Tinder box

The Blank

finneganswakemusic — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:28:56 +0000

The Blank are a two-piece (Baritone Guitar and Drums), punk influenced underground rock band from upstate New York (Schoharie County). Read the Razorcake review

The Blank – Black Friday

Q and not U

finneganswakemusic — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:08:41 +0000

Q And Not U, John Davis, Harris Klahr and Chris Richards, formed in the summer of 1998 (along with former member Matt Borlik) and began playing out in November of that year. The band’s first release, the “Hot and Informed” single, came out in April 2000 followed by the band’s debut full-length, “No Kill No Beep Beep,” released in October of 2000. After much touring in support of their album the band parted ways with Borlik and continued as a three piece, releasing the single, “On Play Patterns,” in April of 2002 and their second full-length, “Different Damage,” in the fall of that same year. Q And Not U toured extensively, in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Japan, with friends like Black Eyes, El Guapo (supersystem), Antelope, Erase Eratta, Ted Leo/ Pharmacists, and many more. The band released it’s final album, “Power”, in October 2004 and parted ways one year later…Read More

Q and not U on MySpace

q and not u – wonderful people (nasti.madrid)

Doomriders

finneganswakemusic — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:03:33 +0000

Rock, metal, and punk have long inhabited separate record store sections. But record stores are on their way out, and perhaps so are those distinctions, thanks in part to Nate Newton. His bands Converge and Doomriders feast on knocking down barriers. Converge, in which he plays bass, come from hardcore punk, but add math rock’s angularity and metal’s chops. Doomriders, in which Newton sings and plays guitar, also come from hardcore, but add Thin Lizzy’s guitar harmonies and Motörhead’s high-octane grime. The combination of punk and the 1970s rock it kicked aside might seem odd. But forget the orthodox view of punk as the Ramones/Clash class of ’77; Doomriders are really descendants of the Stooges and MC5… Read all of the Pitchfork Review

Doomriders on MySpace

DOOMRIDERS – Darkness Comes Alive NEW SONG 2009 on Metal Injection

Procul Harem

finneganswakemusic — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:11:00 +0000

Procol Harum are a British rock band, formed in the 1960s, who contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock. Their best-known recording is their 1967 single “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” Although noted for its baroque and classical influence, Procol Harum’s music also embraces the blues and soul…Read more on Wikipedia and check out this bit from The Commitments

Procol Harum – A whiter shade of pale 1967

Ernest Hem’n'Haw and the Shotgun Republic

finneganswakemusic — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:22:36 +0000

With a nod to their fast and energetic punk roots, Earnest’n’ Hem Haw performs songs written about a hundred years ago or more with a 21st century DIY passion, using the traditional instruments and drums. From pig roasts to bar rooms, summer festival stages to remote gas stations, coffee houses to heavy metal clubs, Earnest Hem’n'haw and the Shotgun Republic stomp and holler all the way down the hall with a fire that’ll burn this mother down!

Earnest Hem’n'Haw & the Shotgun Republic (folk-bluegrease-punk)

Planxty

finneganswakemusic — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:15:20 +0000

Planxty is an Irish folk music band formed in the 1970s, consisting initially of Christy Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, guitars), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), and Liam O’Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle). Subsequently Johnny Moynihan, Matt Molloy (flute) and, briefly, Paul Brady were also members…Read More

3 Slip jigs – Planxty 1980

Fairport Convention

finneganswakemusic — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:46:51 +0000

According the Jim Bickhart’s liner notes forthe LP, “Angel Delight,” Fairport Convention formed in 1966 as the Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra, and when it came time to make records, they decided they needed a catchier name. Candidates included the likes of “Electric Rutubaga,” but they finally settled on using the name of the Muswell Hill house they were living in in “Fairport.”

They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement. Their seminal album Liege and Lief is generally considered to have launched the electric folk or English folk rock movement, which provided a distinctively English identity to rock music and helped awaken much wider interest in traditional music in general.

Fairport Convention on Folk Britannia

Beauty Pill

finneganswakemusic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:20:47 +0000

Beauty Pill began playing together as a trio in 1999-formed by Smart Went Crazy survivors Chad Clark and Abram Goodrich and their good friend Joanne Gholl. They released their first EP, The Cigarette Girl From the Future, as a split venture between Dischord Records and Desoto Records in 2001. After the release of the EP the band was joined by Ryan Nelson (ex-Most Secret Method) and began the transformation from studio entity to a functioning live band…Read More

Beauty Pill – Lifeguard in Wintertime (Live, Chicago)