Endless Mike and the Beagle Club

Sundowning will be happen 2-4 Friday afternoons. Listen at www.wuml.org or 91.5 FM if you are in the greater Lowell area.

Playlists will be posted at www.spinitron.com and we are, of course, WUML.

This weeks featured band is Endless Mike and the Beagle Club, a multifaceted folk-punk band hailing from Johnstown, PA.

Last week, my last.fm account saw 217 plays for this band (http://www.last.fm/user/aliface1815). Impossible? Not with this band. "The Husky Tenor" is one of the most fantastic albums I've heard in a long time, filled with perfect orchestraction and politically charged lyrics.

I heard of them when Tyler showed me their song on a 4 way split with Mischief Brew, Wingnut Dishwasher's Union, and Guitar Bomb. "In like and lion and out like a light," is an amazing song, influenzed by an influential article about the ethics of an anarchism. "If Bruce Springsteen's Generation was born to run, my generation was just born to run its mouth," is an example of the plays on words that are very prominant in their music.

"The Husky Tenor" has a number of upbeat and slower numbers which, in my opinion are improperly balanced throughout the album. My favorite tracks are Route 1981, This Machine Kills Pacifists, The Outlaw Trail, and Mr. Miller's Opus.

I am tempted to put this album up for download but I wont because they are local (in Johnstown) and worthy of your support.

You can listen to their music at www.myspace.com/beagleclub and of course on my show on Friday so make sure you tune in!

<3Ali