Swinging Singles Club MN

 I'm just pulling shit out randomly without thinking now. Loadstar (1993) The second full length by our loud rock and rolling friends who went by the moniker Superball '63. Can't find anything much to link to and only a vague memory of seeing them in the 7th St Entry once or twice and kind of liking what I heard. Take that as a recommendation. Apparently, since I wasn't paying attention to it, I also have a couple of singles by them which are probably just sitting in the box in the corner.  Someday....

 There's only a couple of posts in the queue so I guess it's time to throw a few into the mix so I can ignore it for a couple of weeks again. I'm making mac and cheese.  I can't use one of those nasty boxes though. Powdered cheese skeeves me out. I make a béchamel and then throw in a bunch of cheese. It's great stuff. The problem is that were bake it, the leftovers would be dry and crusty after the pasta sucked up all the delicious juice. So I keep the two separate and only put them together when I'm ready to eat them. I'm considering doing up a smaller baking dish tonight so I can run it under the broiler and get a little panko crust on top for tonight. Which leads into this set of posts because béchamel is made with Milk.   Ear (1993) Milk. They were. They aren't. There's not much of a digital footprint left of them that I could find with anything particularly pertinent. Partly because they existed in the pre-internet days and were done before the...

  I've been doing some cooking but it's still unbearably hot out. Even now at around 11pm it's still in the 80s. But I did somewhat successfully concoct a Thai inspired cucumber/pineapple salad using some of the leftover roast duck from last week. It works. Made some Japanese green beans with a sesame dressing and have some duck stock burbling on the stove even as I type. It's kind of a cooking win for the day. Especially since I don't feel like I've been all that good about keeping up with the cooking as of late. Which means I should probably work out making some custard base for some ice cream tonight as well.... In the meantime here's some punk rock from Saint Cloud, MN Persnickety (1993) As previously noted the Nothingheads originated in Saint Cloud, MN . For whatever reason this album always seems to rise towards the top of any random playlist when it's on my phone. I can't say whether that's good or bad, but it happens. This is early 90s ga...

  This is a follow up from the previous post from four days ago...     Blood, Smut and Tears (1993) The first full length by the band that was called Smut who were not big fans of the Oxford comma. My initial reaction when someone says Smut (besides a lascivious grin and an appreciation of the use of such an obsolete grandmotherly word) is to think of the great Tom Lehrer   But the band Smut are/were no joke. They rocked. They played hard. They looked better in dresses onstage than a young Bob Stinson did. They are also, at least as far as my experience goes, very nice people that you could introduce to your grandparents. They just happened to make loud rock music. They put out one more full length "Secret Center" in 1996 as a trio but that one has been eluding me for a little bit. In the first part of this century it was small "grunge" releases that didn't sell were the most likely to hit the dumpster behind your local record store when they didn't sell in...

  It seems like a whole lot of my blogging seems to revolve around food as much as music. I also seem to get the urge to type when I'm hungry. Or typing makes me hungry. Or maybe, I just snack a lot when I'm home as opposed to work. Who knows. Who cares.  Have some Smut Wall of Hate (1991) I don't know if it could be construed as irony or synchronicity that I end up posting the band known as Smut on the same day that Larry Flynt shuffles off this mortal coil. But here we are anyway. It should really come as no surprise that Minneapolis like most of the rest of the US at the time had it's fair share of bands that would get lumped in with what was being called "Grunge" by people who had previously never seen a local band before in their life. It should also not come as a surprise that the same place that gave rise to Babes in Toyland might have a few other female powered rock bands around.   Goodness No Grief (1993)    It also shouldn't be a surprise that ...