01/31/2008
Name Me Another Career Musician Who Has Recently Released An Awesome Album
After my last post, I got to thinking about other life long musicians who have recently released boring albums. 10 records came to mind from extraordinarily talented, albeit senescent artists. 1.Joni Mitchell, Shine, 2007 2.Paul Simon, Su ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/31/2008 4:38 PM EST in Editorial | Permalink
Hey Paul and Ringo! Please Stop Releasing Solo Albums!
When I think of all the successful musicians who died an early death, I understand that yes, it is a terrible shame they didn't live longer but on the other side, at least they didn't live long enough to record maudlin major label adult contempo ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/31/2008 12:29 PM EST in WTF? | Permalink
01/30/2008
Look What Heroin Did To Nico
It is fairly ironic to hear Nico cover Bowie's "Heroes" with such zonked out disregard. Her "we could be heroes, just for one day," delivery is soaked with seemingly oblivious recollection. It is almost as if she is paying homage to the glorio ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/30/2008 5:44 PM EST in Rock, YouTube | Permalink
01/29/2008
A Stereolab Musical Family Reunion: Four Favorite Cousins
If the band Stereolab were ever to have a musical family reunion, I can imagine heaps of bands, all relatively familiar to their pioneering elder, mingling about games of horseshoes and eating deviled eggs. Were I lucky enough to be invited ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/29/2008 12:01 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Electronic | Permalink
01/23/2008
Dead Prez Want To Make Sure You Eat Healthy
I'm tickled to know that militant Afrocentrics, Dead Prez, are subjectively such well balanced lyricists. These MC's can write a track about sticking up a pizza man and pulling off credit card fraud, ala "Hell Yeah (Pimp the System)." While at ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/23/2008 11:34 AM EST in Hip-Hop | Permalink
01/22/2008
The Better Beatles Make The Beatles Better
Omaha, Nebraska has always been (in my mind) a breeding ground for Mid-Western abstraction. Whether it is something in their Omaha steaks, or their air, I don't know, but there must be an explanation as to why the same city produced Manheim Ste ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/22/2008 11:13 AM EST in No-Wave, Lo-Fi, 80's Punk | Permalink
01/17/2008
High School Art Shows Have Come A Long Way
I don't care for Joanna Newsome's music, which is fine. But this video for her song "Bridges and Balloons," made by a high school student, is enough to make me forget I'm listening to Newsome's nymphish fairie chirp. Congrats to Jovana Sarver ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/17/2008 5:59 PM EST in Experimental, Folk, YouTube | Permalink
A Proper Mitzvah with Bob Dylan and Harry Dean Stanton
Bob Dylan has said time and time again that he subscribes to no organized religion. He isn't interested in rabbis, or preachers, or evangelists. For him, the spirituality of the music is all that matters, he believes in the songs. Perhaps t ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/17/2008 4:38 PM EST in WTF?, YouTube | Permalink
Swamp Rock Alligator Poaching with Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed wrote a song called "Amos Moses" about a Cajun boy who likes to club alligators over the head with a tree stump. Apparently, Amos' bitterness was traced back to his father's abusive parenting. See, when Amos was a boy his father wou ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/17/2008 12:45 PM EST in Country | Permalink
01/15/2008
Get Skronked Up With The Beakers!
"Look to the past for your new ideas," cries the Beakers lead singer Mark E. Smith (not to be confused with the Fall's singer of the same name) on their song "Thinking Postmodern." I suppose he could have also yelped the classic adage, "everyth ...
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