Hello Music Lovers Everywhere! This post will take you back… back to the early rock ‘n roll days when rockabilly first bloomed. This week I really looked at the genre with an historical eye and consulted allmusic.com and found out quite a bit, and even cleared up a few mysteries and made a few [...]
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I miss Michael Jackson. Here’s why: On the 6-hour drive to NYC this weekend for our band’s Brooklyn debut, I was able to punctuate every song on the radio with a toneless “dah!” without a self-conscious moment. At the Brazilian dance club underneath the Williamsburg Bridge, where I found myself somewhere along the lines [...] Via Metafilter, comes a comprehensive survey of saxophone solos from the 80s: I realized about 5 years ago that at some point in the 80s, lots of the popular music started incorporating saxophone solos into their songs. Some of them are fine, but most of them are ridiculous to have in the songs. Below, [...] Several months ago, I watched the Joy Division documentary* and was set to thinking when Peter Hook mentioned that Ian Curtis sang in an American accent. This is something I’d never really thought about before. I guess being an American teenager when I was first introduced to Joy Division, it didn’t sound unusual to [...] Calle 54 is an old music doc by today’s standards. It came out in 2000 so it’s no longer news. But I just watched it recently and there were some clips in it that were just mind blowing. The doc is very nicely put together, it’s object is to present in one group [...] Anybody experimented with electronically amplifying a violin? Tell me about that. Fooling around at the studio last night, we attached a guitar string through two plastic cups using bottle caps as locks. Any noise made btwn the two cups, on the string and so forth was picked up quite nicely with a microphone. The [...] Maybe next time we’ll have another chat with him. I thought it was kind of fun. However, as his work is rather chaotic this week, and the store needs a lot of attention, the poor guy kinda just passed out after eating a hamburger and watching Sponge Bob. I had thoughts that I’d wait [...] Went to see Elvis Costello do a free in-store at Amoeba SF at noon. He was performing there, then was to fly down to LA to do an in-store at Amoeba Hollywood in the evening. Walking to the store, we debated how crowded it would be. I figured, mid-day, on a work day, he [...] On August 6, 2004, I went to see Wilco play at the stately but long-neglected (and still neglected) State Theatre in Portland. My band at the time had had, over the few months before the show, thoughts of a nonstop campaign promoting our suitability and perhaps inevitability as the local opener for Wilco. It [...] |
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