November 2008

While the dawn of the internet age has benefited the music fan in more ways than we can count on two hands, there’s one thing missing from the good old days: the countdown. For years, the highlight of the day used to be racing home from school to plow three Coke Classics and gear up to see if Patience would maintain the number one position on Dial MTV or if Skid Row would overtake GnR. Somewhere between then and now, album reviews became omnipotent, but highlighting the great individual songs – the hit single if you will – faded away. Besides, Adam Curry was the man.

So anyway, it’s with that in mind that we decided to churn out the HT Occasional Countdown – a top ten of sorts consisting of some of the best new songs across a variety of HT friendly bands. There’s no real basis upon what makes the list, besides what gets the most play on our respective iPods, but hopefully you will enjoy the selections.

10) Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit – Wayne Rooney from A Larum

There’s no way a song dedicated to one of footy’s top-selling Wallbangers doesn’t crack the top ten.

9) Lotus – Bellwhether from Hammerstrike

It’s about time somebody responded to the ubiquitous request for some more freaking cowbell.

READ ON for more of the first HT Occasional Countdown…

Was it just me or did the air smell a little sweeter when you woke up this morning? We’ll see if President-elect Obama actually changes anything, but I feel good

We’ve seen some terrific shows thus far this fall, and one of the best was Page McConnell tearing it up with PBS at B.B. King’s on September 26. [Photo by

With Election Day upon us, I just wanted to use this opportunity to implore everyone to exercise your constitutional right today and go out to the polls and vote in

No big surprise, after we looked at six covers of And It Stoned Me last week – the Jerry Garcia band version was the clear winner. Jerry’s soulful late-JGB style vocals are pretty damn hard to compete with.

For Election Day, I figured we’d throw together some covers of Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World. Much like Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA, the song’s seemingly patriotic chorus is contrasted with negative imagery and politically themed verses.

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READ ON after the jump for a collection of contestants that are included via YouTube videos and not on the IMEEM playlist…