........Sometimes it feels like a dream to contend with....an infinte field of dominoes falling, and a brittle sense of nothing on nothing. The Poet said that April is the cruelest month and another Poet said In Creation One's Nature Neither Honors Nor Forgives. Formless questions whirl about ..... ......And we "stumble blindly through the often tangled maze of starless nights & sunless days".....
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Dance. Dance. Dance.And not to any old beatEver notice how idea-free and lyrically simplistic most super-hot, fail-safe get-'em-moving dance tracks are? I mean, you can hardly help yourself from rump-shaking to C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," but seriously, it's just a series of short, obvious exhortations to a killer beat sequence.That's one of the reasons I r...
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On an evening when the attention of an entire city - and most of the Northeast - was turned to a small baseball game in the Bronx, jamband veterans Blues Traveler returned home to The Filmore New York at Irving Plaza for the first time in over a year. For over two hours, the band treated the packed house to classic covers, special guests, and their own hit singles.Mixing Sublime’s, What I’ve
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The last thing one wants after the fact is too much information. So goes a song that illustrates by example the lesson it preaches in the end (way down below).Chapped lips. Tongue, kissed.[Insert expletive] fluids of a summer night.With slight duress, forced imperativesfind me quoting Pennington.A delicate blend of sweat and menstrual bloodseeping into trampled grass.On one hand, the original b...
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Though Pat McLaughlin may not be on the tip of the average music consumer's tongue, he, for a couple of decades, has been many a musicians' favorite musician. He's even been called the greatest rhythm guitar player on the planet. He plays rhythm — he calls it "chunking" — with some venerated bluegrassers, including Tim O'Brien and Ronnie McCoury. And McLaughlin even got a gig as a rhythm play
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Julian Casablancas has a solo album on the loose and to celebrate, the man will head out on a short tour the UK this December. He begins in Manchester on December 11th, hitting Glasgow, Dublin and London twice at the Forum on the 15th and 16th.
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Stephen Bruton, a Texas musician long admired and much in demand as much for his astute guitar work as for his insights as a songwriter, died Saturday May 10, 2009 in Los Angeles of complications of cancer. He was 60. That he has never made a MOG post blew my mind. I feel a pang of guilt for this unfortunate circumstance. Because I failed to post and because I failed to acknowledge his passing ...
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53 Must Have Tracks For November 2009Paper Tongues - Ride To CaliforniaCavo - CrashRains - Look In My EyesPassion Pit - The ReelingAtreyu - Storm To PassJulian Casablancas - 11th DimensionTaking Back Sunday - Where My Mouth IsParamore - Brick By Boring Brick30 Seconds To Mars - Kings and QueensFoo Fighters - WheelsM’Black - Heartbreak [...]
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Classic Rock Magazine is reporting that Emerson Lake And Palmer will headline the High Voltage Festival, the UK’s new flagship classic rock event, on Sunday, July 26, 2010.The launch of the High Voltage Festival was announced by Classic Rock’s Editor In Chief, Scott Rowley, at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour at London’s Park Lane Hotel this past Monday (November 2).The High Voltage Festival
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Music Video Premiere: Thursday - Circuits Of Fever
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The Pixies have a released a free live EP for their fans. Culled from performances during their current Doolittle tour, the EP has 4 tracks on it and all it takes to get it is an email address. Link is in the widget above.Tracklist:1. Dancing The Manta Ray2. Monkey Gone To Heaven3. Crackity Jones4. Gouge Away
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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...
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On Tuesday (November 3) in Atlanta, Red Bull crowned their 2009 national Big Tune champion after a beat battle featuring 16 talented producers from around the country.The finalists were last year’s runner-up and 3 year veteran Frank Dukes, and New Orleans’ Hannibal the Beat Animal.Throughout the night, Hannibal was the crowd favorite courtesy of a [...]
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Video: Grizzly Bear - Ready, AbleNew video of my favorite Veckatimest-era Grizz song. Directed by Allison Schulnik.
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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
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The Shred Yr Face in-store show set for this Sunday, November 8th has been cancelled due to irreconcilable logistical issues for the three bands. Whilst that one date of shows has unfortunately been forced into cancellation, the rest of the tour is still looking bright, with dates recommencing the very next day at the Farm House in Canterbury on Monday, November 9th.
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After producing an album that's almost guaranteed to go down as one of the best of 2009, Grizzly Bear have now delivered a contender for best video of 2009 coupled alongside Veckatimest highlight Ready, Able. Directed and created by Alison Schulnik, the stop-motion claymation flick is an absolutely unique visual treat as every part of the created scenery and characters twitch with unseen altera...
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It was just two days ago when we wrote on these very pages about the EMI label suing online music site Bluebeat due to them selling The Beatles back-catalogue for as little as 15p per song and with no authorisation to do so.
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Review by Patrick Littlefrom allmusic.comAfter the '70s, Jethro Tull struggled with each album to update their sound, but kept falling short with out-of-place synthesizers and drum machines. Three attempts at harder-rocking albums were followed by the Little Light Music tour in 1992, one which took a step back into a relaxing semi-acoustic setting. This album, a document of that May's European ...
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Before the Fall:Neil Young writes "Love Is All We Need" on the Berlin Wall in 1982On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and Neil Young's song lyrics "Keep on Rockin' In The Free World" could be heard over newscasts of the historic occasion. The song has since been established as a beacon of hope for repressed people throughout the world and a soundtrack for freedom - in it's every
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Gibson Guitar, the world’s premier musical instrument manufacturer and home of the cherished Les Paul guitar model along with the Gibson Foundation has announced a sell-out tribute show in honor of the late, great Les Paul at the historic Ryman Auditorium, former home to the Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville on Thursday, November 19, 2009.Tickets, which were made available to the public on Monday, O.
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