#the blasters

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1982

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The Blasters - Just Another Sunday (1985) Dave Alvin / John Doe from: "Hard Line" (LP)

Roots Music | Roots Rock and Roll | Americana

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Personnel: Phil Alvin: Vocals / Guitar Dave Alvin: Lead Guitar John Bazz: Bass Bill Bateman: Drums

Produced by Don Gehman

Album Recorded: @ Ocean Way Recording Hollywood, California USA 1984 - 1985

Album Released: on February 25, 1985 Slash Records

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Los Lobos Live Show Review: 12/14, Cahn Auditorium, Evanston

BY JORDAN MAINZER

The Chicago area was a fitting stop for east L.A. Chicano rock band Los Lobos on their current 50th anniversary tour. Sure, Los Lobos is one of many bands not from the Windy City to call it "like [their] second home," as did David Hidalgo on Saturday night at the Cahn Auditorium in Evanston. But Los Lobos, especially, have been influenced by and increasingly seem to absorb the aesthetic of the various music scenes within Chicago, big and small, from Chicago blues to alt-country. Even their most recent album Native Sons (New West), a covers album of entirely musicians from L.A., has a secondary Chicago feel to it: I can imagine Jackson Browne and The Blasters rubbing elbows, played on WXRT or booked at the Old Town School of Folk Music, back-to-back. In Los Lobos' direct and indirect embrace of Chicago, music fans here have espoused them right back.

Oh, and it certainly helps their case that whether they're playing their original material or others', Los Lobos expand their songs such that the studio or original versions sound like ditties in comparison. Folks were dancing in the aisles on Saturday to everything from the dynamic "The Neighborhood" to ripping psychedelic jams like "Chuco's Cumbia". The band found new ways to elevate well-known songs. On the beloved "Kiko and the Lavender Moon", Hidalgo's accordion, Steve Berlin's keyboard delay, and Cesar Rosas' guitar distortion congealed into a dub-like haze, emphasizing the groove above all else. And for their encore, they threw a bone to not just the Chicago area but the Midwest in general, inviting on stage to play with them Milwaukee-based guitarist/singer-songwriter/bandleader Paul Cebar and Chicago jazz and blues guitarist Dave Specter, who opened the night. They played, as expected, Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba", interspersed with The Rascals' "Good Lovin'" (as Los Lobos are known to do), but it was the preceding performance of "Buzz, Buzz, Buzz" that caught my ear even more. Los Lobos covered the 50's doo-wop song, originally recorded by The Hollywood Flames, for their 1995 collaborative children's album with Lalo Guerrero, Papa's Dream. Given the President-elect's cabinet's promise to make Chicago ground zero for mass deportations, there was perhaps no better time than now to pay tribute to the late Guerrero, a farm labor activist. I don't know whether or not the political connotation of the song's inclusion in the set was intentional. That, however, is the richness and magic of Los Lobos, who have five decades of songs and albums about Mexican-American life, struggles against oppression and joy and thriving in spite of it.

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The Blasters - "American Music"

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Needed the Blasters today. No reason, just do.

SONG OF THE DAY - Sunday, March 23, 2025

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Ahh the brick that is Soundwave. Sometimes I just like to ponder his cassette player mode; as such cases, a handle? I figured it would kinda make sense 😌 but alas also makes him a very maneuverable thing, I’m sure those two most definitely are aware. But yknow? Being used to bash the face of your rival in is not the Worst thing to ever happen. It’s like a cat being held by the scruff if you think about it. Basically deactivates all movement cuz the mama is holding them

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Grooves & Cuts – December 2024

Grooves & Cuts – December 2024 @itsmrcross @jacobjohnsontunes @brooksandbowskill #americanamusic @americanahighways @mitchwoods88 #johnapice @bluemoonmarquee @bennyturnerbass @theblasters @tindersticks_uk @omadrecords @john_surge @theflamingroovies #newmusic2024 #musicreviews

Grooves & Cuts – December 2024 – #5 Part Two: Here are the real names of several older major artists. Some wisely changed their names for the sake of their entertainment value & others could’ve kept their birth names. Lady Gaga is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta; Madonna is Madonna Louise Ciccone; Tony Bennett was Anthony Dominick Benedetto; Bobby Darin was Walden Robert Cassotto; Bobby Rydell…

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had a vision

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The Blasters

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Sweet mournful song from the amazing Knitters. If you haven’t listened to the Knitters, get on it. The Knitters are John Doe, Exene Cervenka, DJ Bonebreak, of X and Dave Alvin of the Blasters. They play magical versions of a bunch of country standards. Don’t miss them.

SONG OF THE DAY - Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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I like to think that when they get startled, they’d instinctively transform into their alt modes like turtles or pangolins cuz they’re much more compact and sturdy and smaller targets 😌 also maybe possibly I am secretly a sucker for bloominglegumes’s jazterwave stuff so I wanted to make something with them too 🙄 but I’ll never tell. Also this is my first time drawing Jazz, so I hope it’s good for the Jazz fans out there

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sound systems 🎶

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Music Reviews: George Harrison ‘Living in the Material World’ (Anniversary Edition), plus the Blasters and More

Music Reviews: George Harrison ‘Living in the Material World’ (Anniversary Edition), plus the Blasters and More @georgeharrisonofficial @thepinkertonraid @theblasters @billevansofficial #jeffburger @twangtownparamours @theinnocencemission @americanahighways #americanamusic #americanahighways #musicreviews

Music Reviews: George Harrison Living in the Material World (Anniversary Edition), plus the Blasters and More George Harrison was dubbed the “quiet Beatle,” but he began his post–Fab Four career with a bang, releasing 1970’s chart-topping three-LP All Things Must Pass, which some fans and critics consider the best solo album ever released by any member of the quartet. He followed that with…