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Dead 100.5
Once again, Birmingham alternative radio has sounded its death knell in the form of automation, which will soon be followed by FM simulcast of WAPI (featuring the likes of Matt Murphy and Sean Hannity). As of 2 pm on Sunday–at the end of Reg’s Coffee House, a show that has been on in Birmingham [...]
First annual BHAM.FM CHRIMUH party tonight!
WorkPlay and yours truly have come together with Through the Sparks, Secret Dangers and Henry Dunkle to put on the flyest Christmas show this side of the decade. It’s an all ages show, but the bar’s open earlier for all those 21+ to get right.
Austin’s Top 25 Albums of the Year
‘Salmost Christmas and I know you’ve been waiting for it. You have been sitting at home, restless in your rockers, just wondering when it was going to come. Well I’m finally here to ease your trepidation, my good friends. I’m here to deliver unto you my list of the Top 25 Albums of 2009. Now [...]
Review: J. Tillman “Year in the Kingdom”
J Tillman, yesterday’s Daily Dose, just recently released a new album, “Year in the Kingdom”. Despite being a moderately successful singer/songwriter for several years now Tillman is perhaps best known as the drummer for the band Fleet Foxes. After listening to this album I can see his influence in a lot of their music. He [...]
Review: A.A. Bondy’s “When the Devil’s Loose”
The new A.A. Bondy record, “When the Devil’s Loose”, is pretty fucking terrific. I was trying to think of a more poetic way to put that, but that’s really what it boils down to. A.A. Bondy is the new project of Scott Bondy, formerly of Verbena, the late-90s grunge band from Birmingham. Except now Mr. [...]
Alas No Califone
A few weeks ago I asked my friend Matt Myrick to do some sort of write up for the upcoming Califone show at Workplay this Wednesday. Unfortunately that show has now been canceled. Still, it would be a waste not to give you this, even if these words do sting a bit now:
Sam, I [...]
Top 20 Songs About Birmingham
One of the first things that I noticed about the list is that only one of the songs (of those listed as of this post) was made in the last 30 years — “Birmingham” by the Drive-By Truckers. That’s a little disturbing to me.
Black Eyed Peas Keep them Booties Bouncin!
(I decided to review this album to make bham.fm legit with the teenyboppers and the Wal-Mart shoppers. But I just couldn’t stomach the idea of listening to this album…even once. Instead, I went down to the local soup kitchen and gave an unemployed journalist the assignment. There were like 60 jobless journalists at the shelter, [...]
Daily Dose: Muffled Thud
Nothing doing tonight, so I have scoured the interwebs for an interesting video. I have selected for your perusal a little number by one Jay Reatard entitled “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me”. This one takes a bit to kick in, but the payoff is worth it:
bham.fm Goes Political
This month, WBHM 90.3 will begin airing a series on political corruption in Birmingham and Jefferson County. I had the opportunity to take part in a roundtable discussion Tweet-up led by Wade Kwon of the Wade on Birmingham blog, and I was joined by Martin Weinberg of the Progressive Electorate blog and John Garrett [...]
