NPR’s All Things Considered, when it’s not overwhelmed with tote bags and Nina Totenberg, can occasionally give us something pretty great. A case in point is last Wednesday’s vignette with Regina Spektor (mp3), on the heels of the release of her new one, Begin to Hope (buy). With an accent that suggests [...]
It’s refreshing, if not a bit strange, to hear someone sing passionately and confidently about his irreversible fate. It’s wholly entertaining and a bit fascinating, though, to hear Finnish singer The Mattoid croon “when it’s time for me to die, I’m gonna do it with a smile on my face/I’m gonna be high on [...]
I remember listening to “Lost in Emotion” (mp3) (buy) on 99.5 WZPL, the old top 40 station in Indianapolis, in 1987 when it was pretty huge, and when it looked like Lisa Lisa & the Cult Jam might actually have a chance at being massively big. But while I do remember liking the [...]
Proof, if you need it (you don’t) of the indispensibility of Youtube. From the Carson show in 1980. This isn’t “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” folks.
ALSO: Over at the New Yorker, S F/J demonstrates re: Radiohead why it’s basically him, several carriage returns, and then everyone else.
Radiohead’s gift is in creating compositions thick with intricate harmonies. [...]
Some initial notes about the first Desdemona Music Festival, which took place this past weekend in Cincinnati:
It was a not-for-profit venture by a first time concert organizer (a little dude named Nick Spencer) relying exclusively on volunteer help, and it went off, at least [...]
I’m pleased to have as a guest today Chilly Jay Chill, one of the two proprietors of the new and bound to be great Destination: Out Free Jazz music blog I mentioned two days too early here. He graciously accepted my offer to give his thoughts on Volume I of the Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid collaboration [...]
Since forming the Twilight Singers in the wake of the sort-of demise of the still-not-fully-appreciated Afghan Whigs, Greg Dulli has carved a deep, dark niche for himself as the chain-smoking, leather-and-velvet impresario of elegant sleaze-rock. The irresistable trip-hop encrusted debut Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers set a high bar—one that Dulli almost [...]
There are two new places for you to go now instead of here. Both are highly specialized and monitored by gentlemen with copious levels of talent of different sorts. Both blogs are also new, so stick around and just wait for them to blow up and then thank me for telling you about [...]
While cleaning my mailboxes (including my real live one), I came across some things that are probably old news to most of you but with which I am currently amusing myself. I just really need to put up some of the weird (non-music) Internet detritus that my buddy Mike sent my way while I was [...]
First, a remarkably huge thanks to the delightful, talented and mega-entertaining Hannah for making sure no one was bored while I was gone. And thanks to Matthew for helping her with the technologicals because she couldn’t figure them out while working 900 hours per day, bless her heart. I hope to have her [...]