As you may or may not have noticed, I rarely post to Mog anymore. Well, I rarely even write about music anymore. I used to, quite often, maybe too often. I wrote for dailies, weeklies, websites, and, on fewer occasions, glossy magazines. I received dozens of advance albums a week. I spent many weekends on my back with a pair of headphones and a stack of discs against my right hip. I spent many ...
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Posts by Jenny Tatone
Sonny's Blues
Not So Fast
I don’t have to tell you: These are changing times. Rapidly changing times. Time has officially sped up. And I’m not sure—in the history of al mankind—that it has ever done this. Sure, Einstein would say it’s all relative. To that, I say: Indeed! Relative to the sort of technology you’re using. I don’t have to tell you: We’ve got a lot of technology nowadays. It’s changed our ver
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Black Francis Live In Portland
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Album:Bluefinger
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Track:Captain Pasty
Maybe it was a test. Maybe Black Francis, Frank Black, Charles Thompson—whatever you wish to call him—wondered how poorly he could play Pixies songs and still get away with it. Maybe he wanted to prove that no matter how slow and out of key he strums those unforgettable chords to “Velouria” or “Gigantic” or “Mr. Grieves”, no matter how perfectly lifelessly he mutters lines like “
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Dear The Onion: You kill me
Oh I'm so glad someone wrote "this.":http://www.theonion.com/content/news/pitchfork_gives_music_6_8 Ah-ha!"Music used to be great, but let's be honest, it's a 6.8 now at best, said Los Angeles resident Lowell Radler, 23, who admitted that he just looked at the rating rather than reading the whole review. I seriously might never listen to music again.":http://www.theonion.com/content/news/pitch...
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The Real Tuesday Weld, The London Book Of The Dead (Six Degrees)
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seven out of ten stars Some albums are like love manifested; even when you’re alone they make you feel full. Isn’t it why we listen to music after all? To find love in whatever form we most prefer it? To fill up when we feel empty? “Life is good when you’re feeling love / Life is good when you’re filled with blood,” exalts Stephen Coates—who records under the name The Real Tuesday We
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Les Savy Fav, Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
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Track:Raging In The Plague Age
Six out of ten starsThe new Les Savy Fav album is really good. You should totally check it out. Oh. You’re still here. One of those, eh? Details, details – don’t want to just trust me, do you? You want a full-fledged review, do you? All right, fine then. What sort you looking for? A captivating anecdotal opening? A chronological back-story? A technical review of the musicianship? A cookie cu
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Sonic Youth Live
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I missed Sonic Youth on their many visits to Portland in the early ‘90s. A big teenage fan of Confusion Is Sex, Goo and Dirty, I was heartbroken to see their concert flyers stapled to wooden telephone poles screaming: “Tuesday!” Or “Wednesday!” in a comic book-style Pow explosion. At 15, school nights were designed for staying in; least that’s how my parents painted them. As a teenager
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The Brunettes, Structure & Cosmetics
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