Not that there's been a huge grassroots groundswell clamoring for new music, but I just realized I'm a little bit behind in putting up some of my Song a Week Podcast contributions.The three (the first one appears here, then the other two will follow quickly with brief commentary) are decidedly uneven and represent some different styles.I'm actually looking forward to when this year is done and ...
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I recently had a complete set of the collector's edition remasters of Joy Division's three albums fall in my lap (yeah, I know ... Still doesn't count much more than Substance does ... tell that to Rhino. Having always been a peripheral fan but not a huge devotee, this is the most time I've spent with Joy Division, well, ever.No one would ever accuse the New Wave's most ironically-named band of...
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I'm tremendously excited ... My current Canadian musical heroes, the Weakerthans, will actually be paying a visit to my fair city (that would be Phoenix, for those of you not in the know) in a couple weeks here.Since I had barely any hope that they'd ever head far enough south of the 49th parallel as to be within traveling distance, it excites me to no end that a quick cross-town jaunt on Sept. 29
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And with THAT incredibly self-serving post title, we come to what really matters ... me!*coughchokesputter*I can't even maintain that level of self-involvement for very long. And truth be told, I always feel a little icky even posting my music here. I guess I don't have the requisite hyper-ego; otherwise, I would probably have a viable music career instead of a day job, after which I moonlight ...
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You probably missed it a few years ago when Simple Minds put out their covers album, Neon Lights. And for a covers album by an all-but-forgotten band trying to make a comeback, it wasn't an entirely pointless exercise. If nothing else, the choice of material was pretty daring, venturing from the Human League to the Velvet Underground to CS&N to Kraftwerk (by way of the title track).I really lik...
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It was my turn to churn out a Song-a-Week song this Monday, and so I did.The first thing I did putting this together was to assemble an electric guitar track consisting of 16th-note power chords over drum loops. Then I added the bass guitar. So far so good, I thought. Finally a song that doesn't rely too much on electronics!OK, so then I added some keyboard pads, mostly to make the bridges stan...
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... why, according to my mogpage, I haven't listened to any music in over a month. I mean, mogomatic seems to be functioning perfectly, uploading, updating and mogifying all the time. I have the most recent version. I listen to music.*grr*Anyway. It occurred to me I haven't posted any music for awhile, so here's my song-a-week contribution from 3 weeks ago. It's weird. It mostly consists of my ...
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I also got my hands on Marc Almond's new album, Stardom Road. It's his first since his serious motorcycle accident in 2004, and though it feels a little trite to say that the near-death experience seems to have changed him, that seems to be exactly what's happened. He's engaged with his material in a way he hasn't been in years, even on his otherwise fantastic album of Russian songs, Hearts on Sno
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Like my friend The Killbot, I'm a huge Marillion fan.Finally got the new album, Somewhere Else, thinking I'd hear something different from what he heard when he listened to it.Nope, I'm afraid not. Boring. Goes nowhere. Not bad, just not very good. Nothing new to see here. Move along. But in fairness, their previous album, Marbles, was an ambitious and largely satisfying double album, and I've ...
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