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A Day in the Life of Pop Culture 01/24/06

Submitted by Chris DeLine on January 24, 2006 – 2:43 pm3 Comments

a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Hank%20III%20Straight%20to%20Hell.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Hank%20III%20Straight%20to%20Hell.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aIn some of the best music news I’ve read in quite some time, Hank Williams III will be releasing a two cd album entitled span style=”font-style: italic;”Straight to Hell/span. In the last year or so I’ve really come to enjoy the scene he lays down, and even got to attend a concert. Enough about me, here’s some details on the release: It was recorded on Hank’s $400 Korg D-1600, self produced and includes a lot of great tunes that have become fan favorites at live shows and on bootlegs. The first disc has songs like, “Straight to Hell,” “Thrown Out of the Bar,” “Dick in Dixie,” and “Smoke Wine.” The second disc will have one song, a’la Tomahawk, and was described by Hank as an almost “psychadelic experience.”br /br /a href=”http://www.archive.org/download/hw3-2005-02-04.flac16/hw3-2005-02-04d1t01_vbr.mp3″Hank Williams III “Straight to Hell”/a (Austin, TX 02/04/05)br /a href=”http://www.archive.org/download/hw3-2005-02-04.flac16/hw3-2005-02-04d1t02_vbr.mp3″Hank Williams III “Thrown Out of the Bar/a (Austin, TX 02/04/05)br /a href=”http://www.archive.org/download/hw3-2005-02-04.flac16/hw3-2005-02-04d1t17_vbr.mp3″Hank Williams III “Crazed Country Rebel”/a (Austin, TX 02/04/05)br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Cat%20Power.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Cat%20Power.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=culturebully-20l=as2amp;o=1a=B000C0X3ZC” alt=”" style=”border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ /In a totally different genre, Cat Power releases her album a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2path=ASIN/B000C0X3ZCamp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;tag=culturebully-20camp=1789amp;creative=9325″The Greatest/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=culturebully-20l=as2amp;o=1a=B000C0X3ZC” alt=”" style=”border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ / today. Pitchfork writer Amy Phillips gives the album a pretty good review, 7.9, for whatever that’s worth. Take a listen for yourself:br /div style=”text-align: left;”fontbr /a href=”http://www.mikejonze.com/thecameraaspen/mp3/catpower_thegreatest.mp3″ /a /spanp class=”MsoNormal”fontsCat Power “The Greatest”o:p/o:p/s/span/pfont /spanp class=”MsoNormal”fontsCat Power “Lived in Bars”o:p/o:p/s/span/pfont /spanp class=”MsoNormal”fontsCat Power “The Moon”o:p/o:p/s/span/pfont fonta href=”http://www.mikejonze.com/thecameraaspen/mp3/catpower_themoon.mp3″/abr /br /br /br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Bloc%20Party%20Group%20Photo.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Bloc%20Party%20Group%20Photo.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aA new remix. Why? Because I love you.br /a href=”http://exodus.interoutemediaservices.com/?id=cdd7dc83-256b-4a88-81b5-2dee8496cbc9delivery=download” /a /span/spanp class=”MsoNormal”fontfontsThe Bloc Party “Like Eating Glass” (The Strobe remix)o:p/o:p/s/span/span/pfontfont fontbr //span/span/span/divfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontbr /br /br /br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Aphex%20Twin%20Come%20to%20Daddy%20video%20cap.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Aphex%20Twin%20Come%20to%20Daddy%20video%20cap.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //afontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontRichard D. James is releasing a new Aphex Twin twin album, which is, uh, AWESOME! a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2path=ASIN/B00005QD9Namp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;tag=culturebully-20camp=1789amp;creative=9325″Drukqs/a was excellent and I can’t wait to hear what’s next from the man.br /a href=”http://www.thinktoy.com/audio/THINKTOY_Aphex_Twin_Drukqs_Mix.mp3″ /a /span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanp class=”MsoNormal”fontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontsAphex Twin “Drukqs Mix”o:p/o:p/s/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/pfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfont fontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfontfonta href=”http://www.thinktoy.com/audio/THINKTOY_Aphex_Twin_Drukqs_Mix.mp3″/abr /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=culturebully-20l=as2amp;o=1a=B00005QD9N” alt=”" style=”border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Michael%20Graves%20Header.0.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Michael%20Graves%20Header.0.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aFormer Misfits singer Michale Graves is touring in support of a new book released to help the defense of West Memphis 3 figurehead Damien Echols. From what I can tell, this is unlike the tour which Henry Rollins put together in which his backing band, Mother Superior, played old Black Flag songs with the likes of him and Keith Morris to raise funds in order to further the defense. If only to raise awareness of the case, I support it. Please check out a href=”http://www.michalegraves.net/”Michale’s site/a for more information, and the official a href=”http://www.wm3.org/splash.php”WM3 page/a.br /br //span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span

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