As a kid my earliest music video memories are of Schoolhouse Rock, a series of educational shorts that used songs to grab a generation's attention and educate them on multiplication tables, U.S. history, and grammar rules. To my young ears she was simply the unknown winsome voice singing "Unpack Your Adjectives" and "Figure Eight". When I started doing song research for my own shows one artist's
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Today in LA, it's a rare rainy day. The weather suits the day's events, as today's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" on the Santa Monica College radio station, 89.9 FM KCRW, was the last live broadcast with Nic Harcourt as its host and as KCRW's programming director. While he will be staying on as host of a live show on Sunday nights, I for one will miss having breakfast with him directing the indie-insp
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I just saw this headline, and the news saddens me to no end. Esbjörn Svensson, a brilliant pianist and composer, died yesterday in a scuba diving accident near Stockholm. He was only 44 years old.http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2285789,00.htmlWhat a great loss to the musical community. The Esbjörn Svensson Trio was a group whose evolution I was hoping to follow for many years to come. Le
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Thanks to last night's last minute posting by fellow MOG'er Robin Danar, I was able to catch the Direct TV broadcast of X in concert at SXSW this year. I haven't seen them in a while, and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time - sometimes I forget that live, they're instrumentally a trio, and yet - they pack so much punch, even all these years after the songs were originally recorded. I'v...
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I heard this line in this song for the first time a few years ago, at a live show by Richard Julian at the Living Room in NYC. It's affected me to this day, as I ask myself: is it better to shoot pictures and violate the intimacy of a human moment, or just let it occur undocumented, and preserve it internally, where it may be romanticized and distorted in any way possible - for better or for worse
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I’ve always thought of Joe Jackson as a fascinating contradiction: geeky but cool, abrasive yet tender, punky and jazzy…you get the idea, and if you have heard any of JJ’s repertoire, now reaching back about 30 years. you know what I am talking about. I’ve had several years being out of touch with this artist’s work, so it was a pleasant surprise when I was able to attend his concert...
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Hi Moggers,Thanks for the friendly response to my last post of original music! Here's another song from the record: Vegas. A little upbeat than the last track I posted...This time you'll hear dueling guitars by Ann Klein, who opens the track with her driving rhythm guitar; and James Maddock, who told me he was channeling Paul Kossoff from Free in the solo section. The funny thing is, the answer t
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Heard the Ting Tings for the first time on KCRW here in LA and I boogie every time I hear this track. So darn catchy! maybe because it's easy to sing along with a chorus that is monosyllabic. And yet, somehow it's smart.There are a few very danceable remixes floating around for this song also, equally contagious and head-bob inducing. haven't caught them live yet but am amazed to hear that they pe
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Well, I've been shying away from doing this but what the heck - thought I should get something up here after being fortunate enough to be mentioned in Robin Danar's post-of-the-day.This is one song from my album, "Sailor's Daughter" which I recorded in NYC. It was 100 degrees in LA today - with weather like this I feel a million years and miles away from the winter day in my Queens apartment wh...
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