Time and again on this site, the continuity, fluidity and co-inky-dink amazes me. More than once I’ve found that my planned topic of the week falls neatly and accidentally into a pattern of the week. Right from the very first week when I wrote about Bobby Conn as the Anti-Christ which I didn’t even [...]
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Aside from the toilet, I’m not entirely sure where the NAP is heading. We’ve had a ton of visits, though most have been those of us that contribute. We’ve had some interesting and well written posts. And the comments section has been the home for some fairly lively discussion over these few months. Having [...] One of my biggest guilty pleasures in life is listening to the Gilles Peterson ‘Worldwide’ show on Radio One every week.* It’s just so much less stressful than the Itunes Radio Electronica stations preferred by my work colleague, Tom. Daily, the earplugs have to go in as Tom gets into the groove of [...] I meant to write about hip-hop this week, but mostly all I want to say is that it’s good and people should listen to more of it (like Blackalicious’s THE CRAFT, should you be wanting a recommendation, just check out this week’s podcast to taste its awesomeosity, yes that is a word) and conversely [...] I recently had the thrill everyone gets when they go to attend jury duty – sit around an entire day waiting and doing nothing. Most people handle this with enough grace but there is always that one person who takes it as a personal affront. This time it was some bearded dude in straight [...] There was a time that I wouldn’t have thought twice about going to see Jeff Tweedy play—with or without his band. That was years ago, though. Don’t get me wrong, I like Tweedy’s music and I liked the last Wilco show I saw, I just don’t listen to that stuff all that much of [...] Also included: Part 2 of The Book of Fables. To Tits McVenom, my favorite metalhead. I guess by now you’ve figured out a bit about the Avett Brothers if you heard one of their songs on the last NAPcast. Still, I’m gonna put them off yet another week. This week, breaking with tradition, I [...] Last week’s New Yorker had a piece by Raffi Khatchadourian (btw my new favorite nom de plume) about Adam Gadahn (aka Azzam al-Amriki, Azzam the American), the kid from rural California who is now an Al Qaeda spokesman. When Adam’s story first broke a couple of years ago, I remember some reference to him [...] Maybe it was the photos of the band, or the sound of their sloppy train wreck recordings. It may well be that I have no good idea why I felt the way I did. What I do know, is that for as long as I can remember, I have had almost no interest [...]
Last week I named The Clarinets at Barbés as best gig of 2006. I doubt that anyone else reading this would have reacted the same way, but hey, I’m not here to convince anyone to go out and listen to anything in particular. At best, I may be able to communicate some [...] |
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