Okay, I’m strange, but at least someone else thinks Tin Machine was underrated.
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As Warren Ellis has all but threatened Americans who become too maudlin or jingoistic about the London bombings with locking us in a trunk hooked to an iPod playing Candle in the Wind on a loop, I’m editing this post.
Instead, I’ll point to Ken MacLeod insulting the Al Qaeda fanboys who may or may not [...]
John Cowan recycles Malvina Reynolds:
Little boxes in the colo,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a Dell one and a Sun one
And a Blue one and a Compaq one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they [...]
Mark Bernstein does a better job than I in getting to the point about the Fifty Quid Man that I mentioned last night.
Meanwhile, it’s a big world. Lots of people listen to lots of music. There’s a much bigger opportunity now — people who have real, individual taste and passion and intelligence. People who have [...]
March 31, 2005 – 12:00 am
In an article on music in the current issue of Tekka, Ed Ward mentions The Fifty Quid Man as a force driving the music market not in rotation on Clear Channel.
I searched for an origin of the term, and found a weblog entry from March of 2004 citing an article in the Guardian describing middle-aged [...]
March 29, 2005 – 12:00 am
Kip Manley linked a video of 16 military wives by the Portland indy band The Decemberists. I recalled that Merlin Mann’s mad about that band, but he’s also gaga over Kelly Clarkson at the moment, so I didn’t know what to expect.
I watched it, and loved the song and the Rushmore-insipred video.
The band and the [...]
February 28, 2005 – 12:00 am
The pillows, the rock and roll outfit responsible for the soundtrack to FLCL, are playing at South By Southwest: Friday the 18th at Caribbean Lights on 6th.
The SxSW people put up a copy of Ride on shooting star from the closing credits to FLCL on their site. Do not be afraid, this is not J-Pop.
The [...]
February 20, 2005 – 12:00 am
I don’t know classical music: I can’t tell Hayden from Mozart. The extent of my symphonic music collection is Glass and John Adams.
Fortunately, the Mercury News ran an article on local classical music bloggers today. My friend Lisa Hirch’s blog was mentioned, but they missed my friend David Bratman’s Live Journal, where he reviews local [...]
January 20, 2005 – 12:00 am
J.T. Lynn remembers XTC’s Skylarking and Shriekback’s Big Night Music. Yeah, I also played the hell out of those two albums back in 1987.
And I’ve managed to lose where I found this link. So if you were the one mentioning. Let me know so I can credit you.
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January 11, 2005 – 12:00 am
Dan Lyke of Flutterby writes about the item on Coverville:
http://www.coverville.com/index.xml works for me for enclosures with
bashpodder.
Dan mentioned the script last November.
It’ll collect the audio links from the URLs you configure it with. From there you can use a bit of AppleScript glue to drop the files into iTunes.
January 8, 2005 – 12:00 am
I love covers of songs. It’s always a treat to hear someone’s take on a Elvis Costello classic. And while I do not own a single Grateful Dead album, I have several album’s worth of covers of the Dead.
Thus, it was a great pleasure to discover Coverville, a podcasting site that puts out several half [...]
December 16, 2004 – 12:00 am
My Secret Santa gift arrived today. Thanks to whomever sent a copy of Tony Head’s Music for Elevators from my Amazon Wish List!
I’ve taken care of the presents for the name I drew, but don’t want to spoil the surprise.
November 16, 2004 – 12:00 am
I don’t remember who turned me onto Jimi Tenor, but thanks.
Tenor composes luscious, indulgent, funk-laden space jazz. This is the stuff DJs and remixers use as feed stock. Tenor’s website provides downloads.
Hypnotic Drugstore and Beyond the Stars will give you an idea of what he’s about.
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October 27, 2004 – 12:00 am
John Peel, the most influential DJ I never heard, died this Monday in Costa Rica.
Nick Currie, aka iMomus, has an appreciation of Peel in his Live Journal.
By Nick’s account, Peel was a grounded sort of guy. He quotes him talking about Elvis Presley:
“‘I used to believe that if Elvis had come and lived with us [...]
September 25, 2004 – 12:00 am
My coworker Allen introduced me to The Dresden Dolls, a duo who call themselves a Brechtian punk band.
They make cool music, and I’m sad that I missed their show at Cafe Du Nord. Meanwhile I can console myself with a QuickTime video of their song Coin Operated Boy.
Their web site has MP3 versions of Coin [...]
