by Fred Pounding headache + training is about to do me in + “coworkers” calling in “sick” makes for a pretty slow blog day. So in case you’re the one person who hasn’t read yet, Peter Gabriel has covered Arcade Fire’s “My Body is a Cage” (context here, hat tip: Stereogum.) I’m not 100% sold [...]
[Stream]Midlake – The Courage of Others
Midlake is set to release their sophomore album The Courage of Others one week from today. But of course NPR has the latest scoop with a stream of the whole album. I’ve listened to it a number of times and while it doesn’t contain any bells and whistles it is still one of the best [...]
NPR on Bowerbirds on NPR
Here. Sorry for the Hit and Run, but not so sorry to say much other than, “gotta run.”
How might this apply to music discovery? How might this apply to music creation?
I’ve made Seth’s Blog a part of my RSS feed for weeks now. It’s slim pickings for the music aficionado, but his posts are always thought-provoking. Always. And I can’t say that about many blogs. His latest dispatch is titled The law of the little shovel and it goes something like this: If you want [...]
It’s never where you look. It’s when you look.
Some hit and runs: Good Morning Destroyer, which I’ll classify as a tMiM Upstart, not a tMiM Exile. Ditto that Graveyard Company. More on our classifications system later. For those of you who are counting, we’re up to page 48 on Pure Volume’s experimental music catalog. I found this while working on the Star Trek [...]
In kinda-sorta music news,
…the phrase “don’t cry for me Argentina” takes on a second meaning: American Political Scandal. But hell, at the end of the day, won’t every phrase take on that meaning somehow? “I have been unfaithful to my wife. I developed a relationship with what started out as a dear, dear friend from Argentina,” [South Carolina [...]
“Twenty Class A” by The Thread
Download it for free here. Both melodic and industrial. Which is to say both analog and digital. I really like it. The other two cuts seem not to have been loaded properly. Time for a letter to the editor?
Would Adam Lambert have won American Idol if he had come out some time before the final vote?
Who knows? Recall that I originally wanted him to win, but now I’m glad he didn’t. Toss it around in the comments section or bring it up to the missus tonight at dinner. I’m riding the fence actually. And I won’t insult your intelligence with a Here’s All the Evidence For/Here’s All the Evidence Against [...]
Krist Novoselic for County Clerk
Former Nirvana bassist, Krist Novoselic is running for County Clerk of Wahkiakum (wah-KAI’-ah-kum) County in western Washington. Novoselic is running under the “Grange Party” which is a civic organization. He is protesting the state’s system that lets candidates say what party they prefer when running for office. He says that’s confusing for voters and lets [...]
Band name of the week
The Unethical Development of Hopeless Romanticism. That’s about all that page has, by the way: a band name. While you’re there, you might check out some other artists on Pure Volume.
