Austin Music Scores--Guadalcanal Diary
I was in Austin, Texas in late October and visited the great Waterloo Records, which is one of the best record stores I have ever visited. While I was there, I barely made it past the used CD section. I bought Meat Puppets' Monsters , The Lemonheads' Lovey , Guadalcanal Diary's 2x4 , Bob Mould's Workbook , 10,000 Maniacs' The Wishing Chair , and Sloan's Pretty Together . When I was able to venture beyond the used CDs, I found The Rolling Stones new album Hackney Diamonds (which I had not been able to find in Lansing), and Alejandro Escovedo's A Man Under the Influence . All of these albums have been on heavy rotation in my car the last few weeks since we returned. I suppose my favorite of the eight--so far--is the Guadalcanal Diary album. I've written about GD in here before and I love that band. Superficially, they are R.E.M.-like, but lead singer/songwriter Murray Attaway comes off as way more agitated than Michael Stipe (and Attaway...