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Yup, there’s only this news to report from the Great Orange and Red North right now: Yeah, a whole CMJ showcase featuring…Maine bands. I’m kind of excited about this, enough simply to repost what Bryan Bruchman at Hilly Town has posted. In addition, he put together his own show – which may simply [...] Yes, funk. There was a time and place for funk in my life. Perhaps too long a time and too expansive a place, considering how well funk has held up over time for me. I can see how I might have been attracted to the shiny musicianship of fancified slap bass players and jangly [...] As some of you know because you were there, the tune that stuck in my head on 9/11/01 – simply because it was on shortly after I first heard the news from Carl Kasell that a plane had hit the World Trade Center – was “Swingin’ Party” by the Replacements. I do have some [...] On one hand, the brevity of a single song – how compact it is, how succinctly complete it can be – can be a blessing. 06 Anything You Want 2 On the other hand, my longing lately has been more for the kind of long-form goodness only available to those bands that still care [...] How many people in a band is too many? To me, it is simply a question of how well you can pull it off live. Use as many instruments as you want within the recording process, but when you bring 10 people on the road, please make it rock. So the music [...] I’m just abjectly horrified today, for reasons many others have given lots of space to and that I could do no better in explaining. I will say that I feel completely helpless to stop the sale of what is one of the few remaining gems on the Rice University campus where I spent my [...] Well, there is, but I don’t have it in me. So I will be providing you with my blast of nostalgia from this week, and I don’t care who hates it: I’d like someone to explain to me how the piano ends up making guitar sounds in After the Fire’s version. Also, [...] I’m going to say three rather bland things tonight and regroup for a longer post next week: 1. I just moved and have taken this opportunity to rediscover nooks and crannies of my music collection that have to do with slow builds. That’s for next week. 2. I also like the new Arcade Fire [...] My big brother is a concert pianist. Though my parents are the ones who kind of introduced me to music through a variety of records and enforced lesson schedules, there are few people who influenced the music I liked as much as my big brother until I was about 12, when I turned to [...] I am moving in less than a week. I am moving 20 minutes away, so it’s hard to take the actual moving process seriously. Of course, that’s partly because I hate moving so very much. I hope no one actually likes it. Because it’s the worst. If we don’t all have individual pods within [...] |
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