Im a big fan of the documentary film format, in general. Over the years, there's been a number of excellent "Rockumentaries." I hate that term for some reason, but no point in trying to think of anything new. Here are some good ones I've seen over the years.Woodstock - This is just a great documenatary, period. I love the seque into the Who's scene as well as "Villanova Junction" by Jimi H...
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Apologies in advance if someone else aready posted this, but there's a really nice article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Playing in Fog. Basically it's a story about how a music lover turned from a fan into a respected club booker/promoter in San Francisco. I'm sure there are many among us who have similar daydreams. It's inspiring and online at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c...
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I caught the film “One Day in September” on IFC the other night, which contains the song “Its Not Too Beautiful” by the Beta Band. And thus, I started thinking about The Beta Band and realized that I miss them. They’re a band, in my opinion, that still had some greatness in them at the time they called it quits. Yeah, I was pretty disappointed by Heroes to Zeroes, but only because I
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First things first. Coachella 2006 was a blast. But I’ll be honest and admit that I wasn’t fully prepared to appreciate the music of Coachella as I could have. I didn’t use Coachella as a weekend to discover lots of cool music and artists I wasn’t familiar with. The music I checked out at Coachella was bands that were already in heavy rotation within my music collection and even some b
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One of my cherished live bootleg tapes is a Pearl Jam show from April 1994. Loved listening to that tape. I saw "loved" - as in past tense - because my tape deck hasn't been hooked up for years and my box of tapes occupies the back of a closet in my house. I now consider it a "box of memories that defines ages 12-28 of my life." If my wife makes me toss it, I'm making her toss her youth gy...
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In the spirit of "High Fidelity", here are baby Mason's "Top 5 songs that didnt make me cry this past week".1) "Such Great Heights" - Iron and Wine (from Garden State Soundtrack)2) "Sonne Mond Und Sterne" - The Starseeds3) "Human Highway" - Neil Young4) "Tennessee Stud" - Johnny Cash5) "What Deaner was Talkin' About" - Ween
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One of my favorite activities is stumbling upon a garage sale with crates of records. This morning, I went to check my mailbox and saw the neighbors selling off some stuff. Heres is some of what my good fortune got me (for 50 cents a record)Let it Be - The BeatlesSly and the Family Stone's Greatest HitsThriller - Michael JacksonRegatta De Blanc - the PoliceNeil Diamond's Greatest HitsCrosby S...
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I've gotten pretty hooked on lala.com the past few months. Between lala and mog, the web is a cool place for music lovers again. It hasn't been this simple to get new music since the thriving days of Napster. Im all for finding music in Bit Torrent files, but the whole process of finding a torrent file, downloading the torrent, then unpacking it into itunes and my ipod was too time consuming fo
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My baby boy, Mason, was born 9 days ago on August 2, 2006. To get me started contributing to the world of Mog...here's a short list of the some of the music Mason "listened to" when we was still in mommy's womb:* Bob Marley (disc 1 from Songs of Freedom and the Acoustic Medley from disc 2)* Lots of classical music (his mom's favorite)* "Yesterday", "Yellow Submarine" - The Beatles* "Wishful Th...
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