http://youtube.com/v/zN9x6zckn18 Sometimes it’s not that phony rock and roll

http://youtube.com/v/EHEkzLQyG48 I’ve now heard all of her new record. It has its moments, I guess, and she’s in better voice than ever, but Chan Marshall/Cat Power will never top this brief moment with the Dirty Three, the one band born to collaborate with her. So here’s to none of these four people expiring before that […]

Our three-year-old has spoken. This song is good for kids: Jens Lekman – The Opposite of Hallelujia Happy New Year.

I thought Pete Rose was the Hulk, and vice versa:

http://youtube.com/v/nry5hpHGizI I was there. Look for my shadow …

Now with downloads! Act fast, bandits & varmints … Why not just a list? A list of things. No specific number but the one the list leaves. No “top” anything, just the best things, whatever art. A list that functions as only a list. Maybe the confines of a single year will be applied, but […]

Last night I dreamed musicians in this internet-addled age made albums for reasons they no longer could articulate, but knew they needed this sham, the album, to lay onto their moneyed fans as an object, a thing to own, but deep in their hearts they know the album is an artistic vehicle fading faster than […]

Like some, I’ve played records in public for others. Sometimes it’s a blast, especially when in a bar not serving food, with drunks and rock fans, the kind of people who offer to fight you if you play Justice but get blissfully confused if you unleash Aphex Twin’s “Come to Daddy” after Sabbath’s “The Mob […]

For an hour the moon blocked by a monolithfurther darkens this evening apartment.I’d prefer the cool moon’s full absence.Not to mention a fuller compliancefrom the seasons, be it raw freezein January, or heat made permanentby June, rather than this shibbolethof dust and sunburn we call November. I typed this poem down a search enginelike a […]

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