Dies Paschae Hot Links

(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding,
The Holmes Brothers (2006) 2006 cover of Elvis Costello‘s 1979 cover of the Brinsley Schwarz/Nick Lowe 1974 song.

Spares.

Banana.

Tuesdays.

Close calls.

Slippyman.

Deer stand.

Cicadarona.

Dunebunny.

Nice bollards.
Tiny Digs Hotel.

Can’t park there.

Apocaloptimism.

A simple majority.

Moeraki Boulders.

Song of the stone.

Pistachio kalimba.

Steve’s very long walk.

Opening Day at Fenway Park.

A collection [via Thompson, blog].

Denver Man [via Everlasting Blört].

What Florida Man did on your birthday.

Beautiful Things [via Memo Of The Air].

Nancy wants to bang the drum all day.
It’s Bad Manners to bang the drum all day.

[Top image: Baby in Carriage Surrounded by Rabbits, Clara Burd, 1926.
Gouache, watercolor and pencil on illustration board, 12”x  14”.


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Saturday Matinee – Andreas Diehlmann Band, The BluesBones & The Zac Schulze Gang

Andreas Diehlmann Band is a German power trio who crank out Texas blues ala ZZ Top, with vocals to match. This video from 2018 features Diehlmann backed by Volker Zeller on bass and Tom Bonn on drums.

Formed in 2011, The BluesBones are an award winning blues rock band from Belgium, and are the only group to hit No. 1 on the Blues Charts UK three times.

Combine the intensity of Meatloaf with the mania of Chris Farley, give him a blazing guitar with a kickass backup band, and you got The Zac Schulze Gang – serious speed blues rock.

Tomorrow’s porchtime has been superceded by Easter, the holiest of Christian holy days. Have a blessed one.

Keratogenic Hot Links

Big BambooKing Eric and His Knights (1964)
Live at the Windsor Inne’s [sic] BA-MA Room, the band led by “King” Eric Gibson featured vocalist Frankie Adams. “We didn’t press our album full of hopes and dreams and misty eyes. This record was produced because we were flooded with requests for the music of ‘The Knights’ here at the BA MA.”

Pier.

Genie.

Ringtone.

Ugly Gerry.

Dance. Sing.

Knock twice.

Don’t wait up.

A Red button.

More buttons.

Fork fakelifts.

Porky’s eruption.

La Mer de France.

Cheap real estate.

2nd hand bubbles.

Big security guard.

Tailgating deterrent.

Skateboard Prehistory.

Free dieselpunk skooter girls.

For the NOsmo KINGS parades.

Minimum wage [via Bits & Pieces].

Telephone for liars [via Nag on the Lake].

Animals eating stuff [via Everlasting Blört].

Atlanta to Minneapolis in 4 hours 39 minutes.

The unrested elderly of Ft. Bragg [via Memo Of The Air].

Don’t scratch an itch with chopsticks [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Pepe the Weekender installation by artist Jean Jullien (2018),  found here. Photo by Nicole Zezig.]


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Saturday Matinee – BALTHVS, KALEO, and Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado

Formed in 2020, BALTHVS is a Colombian psychedelic funk surf latin jazz rock group consisting of Balthazar Aguirre / guitar; Johanna Mercuriana / bass; Santiago Lizcano /drums.

This blues rock indie band formed in 2012 in Reykjavik, Iceland, but KALEO means “the voice” in Hawaiian. After signing with Atlantic records, they relocated to Austin, Texas, in 2015. [More info on Wiki].

Since their beginnings as a Copenhagen bar band, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado have been dubbed Scandinavia’s premier roots-rock renegades. The septet has performed in Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, the US and Asia for over two decades.

A three day weekend is upon us, with Monday being Unnamed Day due to the recent discovery of Cesar Chavez’ past indiscretions. In celebration, a lot of people nationwide will be hitting the streets, to march around waving signs, chanting Hey Hey Ho Ho mantras and disrupting traffic, all because they’re worried about the US becoming a monarchy or some nonsense. Whatever happens won’t be enough to cancel valuable porch time, so we’ll see you tomorrow at the crack of noon.

Jentacular Hot Links

Underworld, Reg Guest Syndicate (1966)
Pianist, arranger and music director Reg Guest (aka Earl Guest) was Born in Birmingham, England. His album Underworld contains covers of crime/spy/drama themes: The great Reg Guest captured that inimitable late-60s sound with some irresistible instrumentals which are covers of famous James Bond themes and so on. It was recorded circa 1967 and first released in England on the Fontana label. Instruments used here include an inconceivable 12-string electric bass guitar. An unforgettable sound.”

C-17.

Jerk.

OBEY.

Tesla toots.

White stuff.

Pickpocket.

Daxophone.

Hand wiper.

Mouse myth.

rabbit (2007).

You got sneks.

Can’t hide there.

Pikachus from Hell.

Animating Dominique.

Riding the El to Coney.

How to drive a Model T.

Karma [via Neatorama].

Lyrics by a three year old.

Immortality is on the rise.

ROTFL [via Thompson, blog].

Star Shanty [via Memo Of The Air].

600 HP Snow Natural Gas Pumping engine.

Everyone knows it’s windy [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: AC/DC Lane graffiti, monochrome infrared, Leanne Cole 2026.]


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Saturday Matinee – Vintage Trouble, Toronzo Cannon & Jonathon “Boogie” Long

Soul / blues / R&B band Vintage Trouble formed in Los Angeles in 2010.  Their debut album The Bomb Shelter Sessions (2011) hit number one on Amazon‘s music charts in the UK, and they won the Best New Band prize at the 2011 Classic Rock awards. In February 2024, the group announced an indefinite break “to focus on individual and family endeavors”.

Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 22, but he picked it up fast.
“Gary Clark, Jr. declared, ‘Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up,’ and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, ‘Toronzo’s a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality.’ ”

Jonathon “Boogie” Long
From his website: “He began his career at the age 18, invited by BB King to tour with him. Shortly after, he was awarded Guitar Center’s “King of the Blues”, besting over 4,000 other contestants. Since then, he’s taken the short road to Louisiana legend, already a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, and Baton Rouge officially designating January 4th as “Jonathon Long” day.”

R.I.P Chuck Norris, sorry about your legacy Cesar Chavez, nice work Nick Shirley, Gavin Newsom is still a douchebag, and tomorrow is Porch Time.
See you there.

Dipleidoscopic Hot Links

May I, Bill Deal & The Rhondels (1968) Blue-eyed soul band from Portsmouth, Virginia, formed in 1959 and had a 24 year run until Bill Deal left the group in 1983.

OE.

Foiled.

Subway.

Jar World.

Derthalina.

Joel’s song.

Lighthouse.

Duck Radio.

Little boxes.

Snip ‘n’ Smell.

Sleeping seals.

Pretty & pissed.

Robert the Useful.

The Ides of March.

The Evening News.

Soup Proper Good.

How to save a drunk.

Make lots of tiny circles.

On Y2k, booze & Skeezer.

He’ll save you some time.

March 16 – Saint Urho’s Day.

Any time is a good time to panic.

What happened to Star Wars Kid.

Pole Lickers [via Memo Of The Air].

Three short illegal dumping stories.

Rickles’ & Adams’ Midnight Cowboy.

Sitting on top of the plug [via Thompson, blog].

Charged with murder, then won primary for Sheriff.

500 cardboard portraits in pencil [via Everlasting Blört].

Dynamite ain’t like what you see on TV. [via Bustednuckles].

[Top image: original source unknown, dates to 2013; recently reposted by Club Cranium on FB.]


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Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Eliza Stark & The Dappers, Missioned Souls & Bad Manners

Tom Waits being Tom Waits. Video from 2012 is reminiscent of the digital animation template showcased here.

Eliza Stark & The Dappers:
The only rockabilly band based in Montenegro. A classic trio of guitar, drums and hot chick slapping double bass and regular guests of national TV and festivals, they also well-known for their true and original music far beyond the borders of Montenegro.” – ES & The D Facebook Page

In 2024, Filipino family band Missioned Souls covered Bad Manners‘ 1980 ska cover of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs‘ 1965 classic.

One of the top ska bands of the UK, Bad Manners are still performing (and celebrating their 50th year). It appears that frontman Buster Bloodvessel chose to sit this one out.

I got the porch if you got the time. Be there or be an equilateral rhomboid.

Rubiginous Hot Links

Blues de Bernadette, Lost Bayou Ramblers (2012)Formed in 1999 in Pilette, Louisiana, LBR plays an eclectic mix of Cajun / creole / country swamp rock with an ear for traditional music preservation.

Rock.

Op Ed.

Crane.

Drove-In.

Think dirt.

Dirty Shari.

Sushi belt cam.

Cakes of the pan.

Hose style toons.

The speed of poop.

Stretchy ceramics.

Felines of the ancients.

WWII Russian POW story.

Around the Webb Bridge.

The Psyops of Revolution.

Clerk’s got a dinosaur shirt.

Electric Pac-Man [h/t Jaime G.].

Papaoutai [via Memo Of The Air].

Iceman Fred [via Thompson, blog].

1st Female Pilot [via Everlasting Blört].

Army Surplus mobile machine shop for sale [via Bustednuckles].

[Top image: The meme dates to at least 2015. Photo of Slavic(?) family dates to early 1900s, first appeared online around 2007.
h/t Sol R. L. via FB.]


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Glumiferous Hot Links

Right Now, Jeff Beck (2016) The song features the vocals of Rosie Bones.

Same.
Same.

Tunnel.

The Bug.

Eat smart.

The Watcher.

Loony Toons.

Art in the Box.

Look. It’s a lion.”

Road to Inishowen.

Song of the Nostrils.

Goodbye Weaver D’s.

Abandoned mansions.

7,000 bots [h/t Paul Y.]

These are my parents…

She’s got it, now he does.

Honey under a microscope.

Spilled pepper [h/t Pam M.].

Rudiments and paradiddles.

James Paterson’s machines.

The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979).

Vamos a La Playa [via Sloth Unleashed].

How the birdies go [via Everlasting Blört].

Amazing r/c planes [via Memo Of The Air].

The worlds oldest buttprint [via Thompson, blog].

2 hours of instrumental stoner space rock [via The Feral Irishman].

[Top image: Australian skyline, long exposure photograph
by Leanne Cole 2026.]


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