If Willie Randolph wasn’t my fave player when I was a kid, I’d make more fun of them. Anyway:Procrastination! Channel surfing on youtube will fix that, right? Of course. But only if you look for alternately stupid and golden videos from your now-relatively youthful days: Sublime teenage memories (Blue Nile’s “Tinseltown in the Rain): http://youtube.com/v/YhiQ-a8CkPY
And that makes me think of this: Whichever ’08 candidate who uses The Long Ryders’ “Looking for Lewis and Clark” as their campaign theme will get my immediate vote. This song made it through the wire to me at an early age, late at night on classic rock radio: “I thought I saw my president […]
No doubt by now Radiohead’s well-telegraphed decision to release their new album on their own, via the web, has reached above indie-rock channel-consciousness, if to be inferred by the New York Times’ placement of the story (if only via blog) on a front-page link today. First of all, didn’t Prince do this already? Maybe with […]
You can sing the chorus to Tommy Tutone’s “867 -5309 (Jenny)” over the opening riffs to Bruce Springsteen’s new single “Radio Nowhere.”
While I think Zach Baron is right about many things in today’s review of Oakley Hall’s I’ll Follow You (re: they’re the best in NYC at what they do), he disses Oakley Hall by belying his ignorance of the band’s artistic reference points. From this review, I’m almost sure Baron might not know what honky-tonk […]
Finally. Some justice for Skywave, albeit via Oliver Akcermann’s new outfit A Place to bury Strangers. Of course, it takes a move to Brooklyn for Pitchfork to notice Ackermann’s now ten-year-old assault and revitalization of the shoegazing genre. Kevin Shields might be a Goddish shoegaze personality, but he’s made only one album. Ackermann’s made a […]
Stop Loving Everything 