Dry Nod

Shameless plug – Dry Nod album out now on bandcamp. 10 tracks, stream, download (pay what you want). 15 years in the making. Nice write up by Peter Voskamp (Peglegasus).

http://drynod.bandcamp.com/

Facundo Cabral

Yesterday they shot Facundo Cabral. Killed by gunmen in Guatemala at age 74. One of the saddest musical news i’ve heard. Right up there with when they shot John Lennon. I grew up with Facundo, he was the poet singer, often talking, usually improvising lines, thru the greater part of his songs before getting [...]

The Ballad of Vince and Celine, Part 1

Beware that there will most likely be things in the text that follows that will be offensive. Celine is offensive, Vince is offensive too. What happens in the story is offensive as well and will only get more so with each posted part. Not for minors. Not for anyone with any degree of maturity [...]

Week ∞: Se Acabo Lo Que Se Daba

Which means, What was being given is now done.

Which means, that this is it for me. I’m done. Over. Finito. El Fin. Adios. Ciao. Last post.

If I was gonna keep doing this, you might have read about things like these:

- The story about going to Mexico and running into a guy [...]

Week 182: Atahualpa Yupanqui 2

I’ve briefly written about Don Atahualpa before. I’m not going to write much about him now. But last night, late, outside with the laptop, looking at videos, surrounded by trees and stars, I found these three videos of him and it reminded me why his music is so timeless.

This one is allegedly [...]

Week 181: New Town Drunks’ Drunk Beer Ads

5 years ago, we had a dream: to have our own brand of beer. But being better drinkers than brewers, and realizing that brewing actually took some effort, we didn’t know how we were going to find the time, in between all the trips to bed, bath and beyond, to make this dream come [...]

Week 180: New Town Drunks vs. The Pneurotics

In the spirit of a previous band battle promo video, we’ve done another one. It’s fun to do these things.

Danny Mason Promotions presents: HELL ON THE HILL The Battle of the Decade NEW TOWN DRUNKS vs. THE PNEUROTICS Cavern Tavern Resort & Casino May Day 2010

Poster by Daniel Snyder. [...]

Week 179: Calle 13 & Puff P Diddy Dirty Money whatever…

I guess Sean Combs is changing his name again… who cares right? I only use it as an excuse to tell you about this Calle 13 song called Pi-Di-Di-Di.

Calle 13 are huge reggeaton superstars and in my view well deserved. I’ve posted about them before when they released “Querido FBI”, a song [...]

Week 178: Week 8

170 weeks later. I recently looked at Week 8 (December 2006!) and the comment thread, at least, is better than anything I can write this week. So here you go. Ultimate lazy. Week 8. I wonder why I was being so mean, not my usual style.

If you’re too cool to look back [...]

Week 177: Élena

How much Catalan have you heard? Here’s Élena, a Catalan band singing in Catalan. Sweet song and a walk through Barcelona in one shot.

Theirspace.

And here’s an older song by Catalan artist Joan Manuel Serrat, also in Catalan, and also a one shot video, though a much shorter and less scenic [...]