When you take a day off, get up early. Believe me. You’ll be happier. Again time to reference the New Amsterdamer, in that the included short story by Edward P Jones delivers unlike most; depth, moving, entertaining, skillful like a stained glass window; not groundbreaking, as its style owes much to Garcia Marquez, but what […]

No time today. But momentous events: J Frank’s comments section receives the first defensive maneuver from a musician he reduced! We love this thing. Fire away! The Changes have politely requested I remove their new tracks. Done. Nicely enough, they compensated with another track, which I will not post, that was better. Didn’t see that […]

J Frank got some leakage straight from the source. But biz before plez: Nice little piece on the Boredoms in the Neu Jorker this week, although J Frank scooped his fact checkin’ cuz SFJ about, oh, five months ago. And I made the Alice Coltrane connection before him. Nyah-nyah. Although I did enjoy Yamatsuka Eye’s […]

Sorry for the radio silence. Thickness of events in the life of J Frank’s ghostwriter. Doesn’t mean that J Frank couldn’t meanwhile surf the web. Now then: thanks to former New Yorker Bill for putting me onto the debut, North Pole, by The Primary 5, an offshoot of Teenage Fanclub by TF’s former drummer Paul […]

They’re not as lost as most, but lost more than they deserve. To my knowledge, Big Dipper records are out of print. Sporting alums of the Volcano Suns, the Embarrassment, and Dumptruck, Big Dipper’s never received the reissue treatment afforded those bands. After dropping two of the best mid-eighties indie pop records, the inimitable Heavens […]

Just saw the Long Blondes. When they come through your area, you’ll have few, if any, suitable reasons to miss them. Trust me. Bedtime.

All links removed at the request of money. I had one of those arresting thoughts this morning during the commute, the kind you don’t want to have, but have anyway: Would I still love the Replacements if I first heard them today, at my age, with all the music I’ve already enjoyed behind me? Yeah, […]

Saw a Real Fight in Manhattan this morning, although nothing came of it, no knockdown, just the spectacle of one Lost Soul wildly high-kicking another Lost Soul who, after throwing a few punches,( one landing) gave up in face of effective self defense and some gigantic dude who broke it up. Best was the looks […]

The Smiths on a kids’ show circa 1984. This is what you sometimes get when you type the names of bands into the search field at YouTube. The best track on Night Ripper, the mash-up set of the moment by Girl Talk, is “Summer Smoke.” I will post it tomorrow if the mood strikes. Recently […]

A report on the Os Mutantes show: Webster Hall has even worse sound than Irving Plaza. Like being at a High School talent show. First, when you have a set of musicians as expert as OM, you do not need to pump the volume to Gwar levels. Who’s going to talk during a set by […]