Head east young man, head east.

Well, it has certainly been a while since I have even looked at this page, let alone write a music related blog. Life has been busy, as it is from time to time. The main suck of my time for the past few years has been the pressure of trying to finish a dissertation, and all things related to that. Good news though, the dissertation was defended, successfully of course, and the majority of the nails have been pounded into its coffin.

I am also on the verge of a big move, east to Pennsylvania for a new job. So, I a gratefully leaving the west Texas town of El Paso soon (and I even was able to visit Rosa's Cantina, which was made famous by the Marty Robbins song a few weeks ago, so I can cross that off my list of legendary locations with musical affiliation to visit).

Undertaking this big move and change of scenery has got me thinking about this blog again. It never left my mind since I last posted, rather there was just never time for me to sit and write a post every once in a while. However, hopefully this move will be a good restart point for some more musical musings on a regular basis.

In thinking about this big move across the country, I have been preparing the old ipod for a lot of musical juice for the drive. So, I just wanted to share some of this driving music here in the first new post in quite a while. Some of this is tried and true driving music that I have listened to time and again on such long drawn out drives. Some is music fairly new to me, which I am looking forward to giving a good road test. As I may or may not do some write-ups on these bands in the future, I will just leave you with a sample of each. Enjoy the ear candy!

1. Camper Van Beethoven:



2. Cracker:



3. The Melvins:



4. The Who:



5. Kyuss:



6. Red Fang:



7. Mastodon:



8. Clutch:



9. The Lusitania:



10. Menomena:



11. The Dead Kennedys:



12: Frank Zappa:



13: Fantômas:



14: The Diablo Swing Orchestra:



15: Big Business: