http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/ en-us 2005-07-24T21:55:03+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000325.html This, too, was on the end of the David Byrne tape like the previous post, recorded from the John Peel show. Its a rough mp3 - the tape is degrading. So who the hell are Candy Machine? Well, they... tom 2005-07-24T21:55:03+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000324.html I found this on the end of a tape of David Byrnes' Rei Mono. Its a fantastic, screeching grungy rock n roll track. The Best Kissers in the World started in Arizona but moved to Seattle around the time... tom 2005-07-18T20:55:05+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000322.html Bivouac were briefly interesting. I certainly liked this track, but seem to remember that the album, Tuber, didn't hold up that well. Further research has suggested the Paul Yeadon of Bivouac is / was a member of AC Acoustics and... tom 2005-07-13T22:28:54+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000320.html This is a great amount of unholy noise - I like this. Maybe I'm turning Finnish - they like to listen to a lot of noise rock / noise metal. Unsane, from NYC, made a bunch of albums from 1991... tom 2005-06-18T23:33:44+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000318.html We used to go and watch the Godfathers at the Hummingbird in Birmingham - well, at least once we did, and they were very cool performers, real 'foot on the monitor' rock'n'roll, complete with windmills. It was at a Godfathers... tom 2005-06-18T19:04:45+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000317.html They're from Bristol and were student favourites. I know nothing much else about the Blue Aeroplanes. I had this one album, Beat Songs, and this is the stand out track on the record. They're still going apparantly - www.blueaeroplanes.com The... tom 2005-06-15T23:25:11+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000316.html Maybe a bit to close to last years tragic news, but this is posted with upmost respect for the great DJ. I found this track on the end of a Voodoo Queens album, taped from John Peels Radio One show.... tom 2005-06-06T22:06:34+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000315.html Around the time of Nirvana were Compulsion, and that is exactly what this track and album remind me of. Its not half bad, quite rousing. Amazingly, Compulsion seem to still be going - or at least by that I mean... tom 2005-06-06T21:47:50+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000312.html Maria McKee's voice is absolutely penetrating on this song and I love it. Formerly of Lone Justice, but with much better work on her own, McKee is coming from the country stable. Indeed Allmusic.com states similar artists as Uncle Tupelo,... tom 2005-06-05T16:44:47+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000311.html I'd forgotten how powerful Mark Eitzels' vocal is, and in fact how good the songs of American Music Club can be. A band with a rocky on/off past which saw seven albums released, they disbanded in 1996 and have since... tom 2005-06-05T16:11:18+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000310.html The 360s are an obscure Boston quartet that I know very little about. This track is from their 1991 Illuminated EP and was recorded at the end of the Magnapop tape - see previous entry. They went on to record... tom 2005-05-26T21:18:16+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000309.html Whatever happened to World Party? I figure I'll be saying that a lot with these tape entries. Karl Wallinger was, as far as I could tell, World Party. Before that he was in the Water Boys (I forgot all about... tom 2005-05-02T11:14:30+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000307.html I had REM, also from Athens Georgia, on the other side of this cassette, and I always wanted to fast forward through it so I could play Magnapop again. This track is from their first record that is a collection... tom 2005-04-25T21:51:01+00:00 http://www.hollowaytyreservice.com/c90/archives/000306.html When I was younger, probably like a lot of people, my friends and I used to lend and borrow our LP records and tape them. In this way, we'd greatly extend our music collections beyond what our meagre cashflow could... tom 2005-04-20T21:40:23+00:00