🎧 Downbeat.fm Vol. 6 Track 10
The latest edition of Downbeat.fm features songs from Pool Kids, Peach Fuzz, ALINA, Penfold, Weakened Friends, and more!
October marked the 30th anniversary of one of my all-time favorite albums, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. I wrote about the album and my love for both it and the song “Tonight, Tonight,” which is also an all-time favorite song of mine.
Check out my article on I Have That On Vinyl. I’d love to know what you think about it.
Also, this month, the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere came out. This movie is a look at the time shortly after The River Tour ended, and while Springsteen was writing what would become Nebraska. The movie focused much more on Springsteen—his health, his relationship with his father, and his depression during this period—than on the music, but the music is still there. If you're a hardcore or a casual fan, I'd recommend checking it out.
October's Playlist
This playlist features songs from Pool Kids, Peach Fuzz, ALINA, Penfold, Weakened Friends, and more!
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Quick Listening and Other Links
Someone posted audio on YouTube of Nirvana performing at Waterloo Records in Austin, Texas in October of 1991.
Another Austin story, a bookstore started hosting concerts, helping Austin live up to the "Live Music Capital of the World" title.
Info from the video:
This was a fully acoustic record store performance.
The band arrived late and said they could not play without equipment.
The band thought the store were going to provide amps and PA but they did not. One of the employees had to run to the music store to borrow an acoustic guitar.
Kurt asked the audience if anyone had a guitar and a fan handed his guitar to him. He later changed acoustic guitars with Krist and he smashed it at the end of the concert.
Dave improvised a makeshift drums with a snare and plastic trashcans.
The band briefly jammed on "Sweet Home Alabama" after someone asked for "Freebird". Includes the band doing a raffle after the show was over.
MTV is shutting down its last music channels—something I did not know still existed.
Rufus Wainwright slightly changed the lyrics to O Canada, Canada's national anthem, at the World Series in Toronto as a protest of some of the dumb shit that Trump has said. We need more of this.
This dude has an awesome boombox collection.
Pitchfork goes back and reviews older albums from before the site was created, and they recently reviewed Korn's 1994 self-titled album.
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