My WorldSometime around 1999 I was living in New Haven, Connecticut and working at Cutler's Music, a local record store that had been around since the 50's. I met a cat there who was working at the raw funk label Desco, commuting to New York everyday to do publicity for them or some such thing. He augmented his income by selling funk y 45's on ebay and was generally a cool cat. After finding...
Póg mo thóin, MOG!(Translation from Gaelic: Good morning, MOG!)As a great philospher once said, "Gee, it's great to be back home, home is where I wanna beeeeeeee". And you know what? On this day, our return to MOG, I couldn't agree more with the young Paul Simon.It's been a long hard summer of stomach operations and screenplay writing (often at the same time); falling about drunk at after parti.
If you haven’t seen hard-touring Birmingham three-piece Johnny Foreigner live yet, you may want to consider getting out more. As if they needed an excuse for another jaunt on the road, they team up with another credentialed-up producer Alex Newport to release Grace And The Bigger Picture. The acid test for this second album, however, [...]
where it all began - "Under the Boardwalk"I'll get to the unraveling a bit later...but, last night I started humming the old Drifters song "Under the Boardwalk" for no apparent reason. I don't recall hearing it anywhere, or even anything related to oceanfront property (although I did post some modern surf music the other day)Still, there I was humming along, walking the mental beaches and almos...
I know, I know. I haven't kept up with your amazing posts. Our son got married, and other stuff. Anyway, here's some relaxing background music for Saturday morning. If someone intrudes into your space while you're listening to it, you can say, "Hold it; let me turn off this noise," but they'll know it's that sort of music that's performed in fancy venues where the audience is a sea of bluei...
Atlas Sound aka Bradford Cox of Deerhunter’s solo project has been around for some time. I never bothered to listen to Deerhunter or Atlas Sound until last year actually, where Nancy was telling me she preferred Bradford Cox’s material. Still, I missed out on a large chunk having only checked out Microcastle which I do [...]Related posts:Atlas Sound featuring Panda Bear Walkabout MP3 Review Ex
My Friends know; say it sounds a bit like New Order / Joy Division and as soon as I drunkenly stagger through my front door at 3:45am, I'll be switching my computer on while trying to eat a bowl of cornflakes with water (I've run out of milk again) searching for the named band and behold! This time it was not a joke........http://www.myspace.com/delphic
Weezer are now writing nothing but unabashed pop songs, aiming for nothing but the top of the charts and hoping you'll come along for the ride to multi-platinum glory. Word of advice: don't.Let's just be honest for a moment: the Weezer of the 21st century has been perpetually dogged with a very simple (and alarmingly frequent) criticism -- that they aren't the same Weezer that emerged in 1994. ...
Hitting the world wide web today is Anami Vice’s latest effort, They Made Me Do It. And it’s free for you to download at anamivice.com. As his facebook page states, “Don’t be that guy/girl who missed it.”The album and it’s eight tracks are following a bit of a different feel from what Anami’s used to: [...]Visit Killahbeez.com for the full post.
(Don't forget to click over to view the photo sets.)Day 1A sea of fluorescent, neon-wearing teens and twenty-something's took over the island on day one. Heavy on the tribal patterns, feather headdresses, and headbands fashioned in the style of Natasha Khan, it was obvious this crowd was ready to party all night long in anticipation of MSTRKRFT and show closer's MGMT.Murs hit the stage and kick...
Carrie Underwood is country music's sweetheart who quickly rose to stardom by playing the American Idol game very well. There's no denying Underwood's vocal talent, but over the years I've found it difficult to know as an artist where she stands and The same is true for her third studio album Play On.Underwood is all over the place on this album with a mixed bag of songs. It's not necessarily a...
There are a few great film/album mashups. Two of the more obvious ones are Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon and Toy Story/OK Computer synchronizations. But rare is the instance of finding a film inspired by and created completely in an album’s image – an album that stands alone, but also perfectly scores [...]
With the release of their latest album "In And Out Of Control," The Raveonettes have now embarked on a strategically placed tour of (first) US cities and then the rest of the globe, as they bring their ever evolving live sound to the people.Having been fortunate to secure entry for their first official show of the tour (they would add one date a night earlier at Maxwell's in Hoboken) at the glo...
Welcome to; Punk Pathetique was initially an attempt to characterize a group of 1980's London Punk bands that embodied Cockney culture with a Dickensian working class attitude. It was all utter bollocks of course (...but funny at the same time)Take Splodgenessabounds (Please.........)......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_Pathetique.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splodgenessabounds
Kid Koala is super entertaining and a delight to be around both on stage and off. He's also talented - from song sourcing to turntable technique, the boy's got mad skills. So, as soon as I saw an online flyer for The Slew featuring Kid Koala & friends: Dynomite D (NYC) and Wolfmother's rhythm section (Myles Heskett on drums + Chris Ross on synths & bass from Australia), I bought tix right awa...
Man, this is some screamin' Cubano style swingin'. Try it, and just try an' sit still!!no more words, this speaks for itself.I dunno who "Ms. Garvey, Ms. Garvey" is, but I'd bet I'd like to.
A few days after Halloween, Monsters finally arrived in Boston at the Orpheum Theatre. Only this group of Monsters were toting musical instruments instead of pillow cases or paper bags and instead of costumes were donning suits [at least for most of the night, Mr. Oberst]. And those in attendance were the ones receiving the treat.Jim James (aka Yim Yames), Conor Oberst, M. Ward and Mike Mogis...
In the past twelve months, you’d think someone would have thought to tell Morrissey that there’s been a recession on; instead, he’s gone about releasing five albums - all, to some degree, redundant.
