Muddy Creek & Co: Fighters & Lovers

August 29, 2024 Doc Jeffurious 0

by D. Jeffurious Muddy Creek & Co. of the rural “y’allternative” route has returned with a follow-up to their largely successful debut album In Front Of God and Nobody. Recorded at Raise The Roof Studios in Louisville, Kentucky and produced by Steve “Catfish” Wilson, Fighters & Lovers is a great […]

The Pets: On the Furniture

June 8, 2024 Doc Jeffurious 0

by D. Jeffurious From the hurried metroplex of Olney, Illinois. Home of White Squirrels and also a lasting punk legacy located south of Chicago in so many ways from the literal to the figurative, and the philosophical. Those who know, remember the glorious Toucan Slam. The band served as the […]

Music Scenes Just Around The Corner: Muddy Creek and Co. & Rabbit In Red

December 29, 2023 Doc Jeffurious 0

As we have moved beyond the restrictive COVID lifestyle, local bands have been tenaciously working to get their music recorded and out to fans. They have hit the road and are playing gigs. Live shows happen every night somewhere. Combined this with bands choosing to put their music on vinyl means that people are buying music again as they did in the past.

Green Jelly: Garbage Band Kids

February 19, 2022 Doc Jeffurious 0

by Doc Jeffurious Green Jellÿ: Garbage Band Kids – released: June 11, 2021 The band Green Jellÿ has consistently been a group that can launch my broken spirits up away and around the moon, like Alice Kramden eating a PCP infused caramel apple. Their ability to parody the zeitgeist of […]

Nirvana’s Nevermind – A Recollection

February 3, 2022 Doc Jeffurious 0

by Doc Jeffurious Comedian Billy Connolly once talked about life before Elvis Presley. He described a drab, beige flavored reality. Where music was homogenized and tremendously sing-along-able. Connolly said that once Elvis became widely known around the world the entirety of existence suddenly appeared to be in vibrant color. This […]

Celebrating a Half Century of the Music of Frank Zappa

June 5, 2017 Doc Jeffurious 0

by Doc Jeffurious Higgason By the time Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention released their second album Absolutely Free in May of 1967, the group had already fixed itself as a strident, intelligent satirical mirror that reflected back the pretentious aspects of American pop culture. At that particular juncture […]

Chris Harford – The Gonzo Today Interview

May 22, 2017 Doc Jeffurious 0

CHRIS HARFORD The Doc Jeffurious Interview Many words come to mind when talking about Chris Harford. His music has been described as “dark and rocking”, but always brilliant and widely dynamic. There is no denying his reputation in many circles as sort of a singer-songwriter’s, singer-songwriter. His first major record […]

Thurston Moore – Rock N Roll Consciousness

May 22, 2017 Doc Jeffurious 0

  By: Doc Jeffurious Higgason Artist: Thurston Moore Album: Rock N Roll Consciousness Label: Caroline Rating: 4.5/5.0 There exists a universe in which music stills flows organically from the hands of the creator into the waiting ears of fans. A place where music is still intrinsically a language that can […]

Lily Locksmith

May 8, 2017 Doc Jeffurious 0

  by: Doc Jeffurious Higgason Artist: Lily Locksmith Album: 45rpm 7″ Single ‘Player’ b/w ‘No Use But O’Well’ Label: Enviken Records Rating: 4.0/5.0 You take the average American somebody and ask them to name a few things associated with the very proud and noble country of Sweden, most of the […]