Besides this one, what’s the worst blog ever? We hear so much about amazing blogs, even suffer books purporting to collect excellent blog writing (aka, a good agent tricks old media into a healthy advance), but I’ve never read anything with a big enough set to chance collecting those blogs effectively serving as the equivalent […]
http://youtube.com/v/KoNEspmcknc It makes the hairs on my neck standup
A friend and I have been backing and forth-ing about the current and final season of the best series ever produced for television. Reams have already been written (some better than others), but I’ll add: Few novels come close to the storytelling skill, importance, and breadth of the Wire. I almost want to call it […]
Here’s the third track from the Japanese version of the new Boris album, Smile, entitledBoris – [][]!(at least that’s what it’s called in bad windows translation of Japanese text. But the exclamation mark is theirs. The language of love persists.) I bring you strong enthusiasm for this track. What sort of badassness allows one to […]
http://youtube.com/v/bb14rWGRYp4 “Ibitsu,” From Boris’s Akuma No Uta (PS – I have Boris’s forthcoming Smile. Not immediately impressed.)
There’s been alot of talk about the next song, maybe too much talk. Sorry. But it seems true that Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” is seeing a resurgence, most due to the political season, these primaries (and later the general election) being our current chance to put the country back on track after […]
If I had the mental power today, I could maybe count on one hand all the tribute albums I find worth hearing, or maybe on two fingers. I do have the mental power today to suggest reasons for tribute albums’ general suckitude: labels forcing the participation of shitty new sign-ees, lackluster efforts on the part […]
The indie rock TO, a friend involved with the Mission Creek festival in Iowa emailed me this morning with a heads up about their exclusive scoring of a newly sanctioned mp3 leak of “Run,” from the new Gnarls Barkley album The Odd Couple, due out whenever the whole thing leaks, since I’m guessing only about […]
http://youtube.com/v/zN9x6zckn18 Sometimes it’s not that phony rock and roll
Beach House – Devotion Surprisingly affecting, more focused and less meandering than the debut, but then again I was only looking for some background music while I washed the dinner dishes.“Gila” Sons and Daughters – The GiftMuch better than expected, thanks to S&D adding some fine new ideas to their chugging sound which, on the […]
Stop Loving Everything 