Appropriate enough to take us home on this Friday night is Port Orchard, Washington, classic rock outfit Stone Axe. I found this clip of the band doing “King of Everything” from Rocket Records in Tacoma, which isn’t a store I’ve ever been fortunate enough to shop in, but earns points nonetheless just for having these dudes do an in-store. By way of a cheap plug, there’s a live version of this track on the bonus disc of the Ripple Music reissue of Stone Axe‘s first album, for which I’m honored to have written the liner notes.

If you’ve been keeping up, I have 24 copies of Blackwolfgoat‘s Dronolith left. You can buy that here.

It had been my intention to do a big review of Clutch‘s recent reissues for Blast Tyrant, Robot Hive/Exodus and From Beale Street to Oblivion today, but I just ran out of time. Monday if I can swing it. I figured the Ghost review was timely and I’d promised the Sourvein interview would be up, so that was the way to go. The encouraging comments to both are much appreciated. Thank you for that. It was kind of a hectic week, and that stuff means a lot. I know I say that all the time, but it’s true.

One thing I forgot to mention in this week’s numbers post was the TFFH, the Top Five of the First Half of the year, which I’ll be counting down later on this month. It’s gonna be tricky coming up with a list. I have three records I spin pretty much constantly, but deciding what order to place them in and rounding out a full five is going to be interesting — at least for me, hopefully for you as well. Either way, that’s a thing that’s happening.

I’m in Connecticut for most of this weekend for the Fuzz Fest with Stone Titan, Sea of Bones, Curse the Son, King of Salem and Lord Fowl at Cherry St. Station in Wallingford. If you’re in the area, you should come down and support some good bands. It’s going to be a blast, as you can see from the info on the flier below. Wherever you are, I hope you have a great weekend. I’ll have a new podcast up asap and an interview posted this week with artist David V. D’Andrea, who rules. Good stuff to come.

Tomorrow night:

Tags: Port Orchard, Ripple Music, Stone Axe, Washington

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