I don’t remember how I first discovered Huxton Creepers. I hadn’t heard of the Australian band before reaching the college radio station in the fall of 1988, and, as I recall, they weren’t an especially hyped outfit on the left side of the dial either. Their records came and went without anyone paying them much attention. One of their album covers may have been pinned to the studio wall, which was wallpapered with album flats at that time. Maybe I just found their record because my standing default was to go the H section when I didn’t know what to … Continue reading One for Friday: Huxton Creepers, “Rack My Brains”

I’ve lived in three different U.S. states and I’ve felt attached to each of them in different ways. While I currently call North Carolina home, my first thirty one years on this planet (to they day, in fact) were spent in Wisconsin, and part of the proof that America’s Dairyland still has a unique hold on me is that nothing piques my curiosity about a band like finding out that’s the place they’re from. This is true of current artists, but it’s even more pronounced when it’s a band from the past, a band I feel I should have heard … Continue reading One for Friday: The Baroques, “Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon”