Supraluxe: Surf Music

Tokyo on Surfline!

Supraluxe on Moozone

Music for cows, apparently.

Review: Powerpopaholic

9 out of 10.  "After a few albums finding their sound, this Minnesota band has found its sweet spot."

Review: Absolute Powerpop

The Super Sounds of Supraluxe

Every Little Piece

Light In Your Veins

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Podcast: Filmed But Not Forgotten

Supraluxe on Filmed But Not Forgotten

Podcast: Radio Orphans

Supraluxe on Radio Orphans

Podcast: Indie Music Sampler

Supraluxe on Indie Music Sampler

Podcast: For Immediate Release

Supraluxe on For Immediate Release

Podcast: North Star Radio

Supraluxe on North Star Radio

Podcast: Jaan's World

Supraluxe on Jaan's World

Supraluxe on BandCamp

Where It's At

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Back To The Land

You Are A Winner

The Super Sounds of Supraluxe

The Super Sounds of Supraluxe is out now. Visit supraluxe.com to preview, watch videos, purchase, etc.

The Super Sounds of Supraluxe - Studio pics

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The Super Sounds of Supraluxe

New music news! The third album is almost done. The Super Sounds of Supraluxe will make an excellent stocking stuffer.

Podcast!

Supraluxe appears on Phil Coyne's new show, Midsweep, on Rhubarb Radio.

http://www.rhubarbradio.com/programmes/midsweep.aspx

Podcast!

Supraluxe appears on the new Artist Review podcast! Catch it at: http://tinyurl.com/nf8p84

There's life in the old tunes yet..............

Snowboarding. A good fit I think?

New CD almost done

We're putting the finishing touches on the new CD, and we're aiming to make it available shortly. Jim is finalizing vocals, Bob is busy producing and arranging, I'm singing some background vocals, and Bill will be working on CD layout, etc.

Stay tuned here for details.

Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

1. Listen to the birds.
That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.

2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod.
Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.

3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen't shake, eat another piece of bread.

4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.

5. If you're guilty of thinking, you're out
If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.

6. Never point your guitar at anyone
Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.

7. Always carry a church key
That's your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He's one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song "I Need a Hundred Dollars" is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he's doing it.

8. Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument
You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.

9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When you're not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.

10. You gotta have a hood for your engine
Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.

Nerds never throw away their Topps cards

Kona

Goodbye old friend.

Another Supraluxe Christmas

The sweetie on the right oughta give you necrophiliacs a boner.

Why I like Wikipedia

From the Peanut Butter entry:

"Many people derive amusement from feeding peanut butter to their dog. While most dogs appear to like the taste of peanut butter, they appear to lack the ability to eat it with anything resembling traditional social grace."

The Future Is Now

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Roll Tape

New Supraluxe sounds are on the way.

I woke up this morning

with Shandi stuck in my head. That may be the only time anyone has ever uttered those words. I must be regressing.

I cannot believe

the Mountain Goats are a sincere band. I expect they'll issue a press statement one day to that effect. We'll all have a good laugh and people will pretend they were in on the joke all along.

World's Tallest Woman

Sandy Allen has died at age 53. She stood 7'7" tall. I knew who she was only by virtue of the Split Enz song Sandy Allen, from Time and Tide. RIP

Oates

He's Mustachioed.