Move over Tori Amos and Maaya Sakamoto, the original pop music heartthrob of the geeks, Kate Bush, has returned with a new single about—Elvis?
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Jane Child: Don’t Wanna Fall in Love
October 12, 2005 – 11:00 am
A bit of great pop fluff from 1990 one-hit wonder Jane Child. I’m a sucker for those synth arpeggios.
Baby’s got Hack (cough)
October 11, 2005 – 2:14 pm
Catherynne M. Valente’s Baby’s Got Hack is to Sir Mixalot, what Rent was to La Bohème. What’s with that obsession with beautiful, yet doomed women and TB?
Blaspheming Elvis
September 26, 2005 – 9:23 pm
A couple of podcasts of note: Coverville had a special, hour-long show for Elvis Costello’s birthday back at the end of August. I like Blur’s version of Oliver’s Army, and the Bangles’ poppy cover of Tear Off Your Own Head. Jennifer Pelland has a story on Escape Pod, The Burning Bush: funny, and sacrilegious, but [...]
20 Most Underrated Rock Albums
July 12, 2005 – 12:00 am
Okay, I’m strange, but at least someone else thinks Tin Machine was underrated.
London
July 8, 2005 – 12:00 am
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 [...]
Little Boxes in the colo
June 12, 2005 – 12:00 am
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 all run just the same. Appropriate [...]
More on the Fifty Quid Man
April 1, 2005 – 12:00 am
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 [...]
Fifty Quid Guy
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 [...]
16 military wives
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 [...]
pillows at SxSW
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 [...]
Classical Blogs
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 [...]
Followups: Coverville and bashpodder
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.
Coverville
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 [...]