John Althouse Cohen goes there: the top 200 songs of the decade. This list may not be your list, and some of his picks are, indeed unbearable. (“Fidelity” by Regina Spektor takes the whole enchilada? No-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!) But these are his stories. All 200 of them. And he’s sticking to them..
Regina Spektor – 10K hits and SNL
This weekend had a few big accomplishments for Regina Spektor. She made her first appearance on Saturday Night Live for one, but screw all that. Most importantly this post had it’s 1o,oooth view. I expect to be getting a phone call from Regina any day now confessing her love for me and the blog. I’ll [...]
La tarea de Fred, or, All apologies to our host in advance
I flung corn at Patrick. He turned around and flung some back. I liked his answers. He’ll hate mine. Assignment: listen to The Cave by Mumford & Sons. Assessment: harmless strum-strum music with a raspy-voiced singer and a good producer. Assignment: listen to Don’t Haunt This Place by The Rural Alberta Advantage. Assessment: Terrible band [...]
La tarea de Patrick: Turning my homework in
In response to my homework assignment. Have it be noted that I have decided to take this homework as a single track review and not a band review. Therefore I will be listening to the track assigned and nothing else from the same artist to compare against. So I hope you gave me each artists [...]
tMiM Reviews: Regina Spektor – Far
Regina Spektor’s first major label release, Soviet Kitsch, was recorded in a 10 day time period and presents itself as just that, a recording from a label that was looking for the Tori Amos of the 21st century but was unwilling to put much risk or effort into the album. Upon the success of Soviet [...]
Stream – Regina Spektor’s Far
As part of their “First Listen” series, NPR is offering up Regina Spektor’s highly anticipated album Far for preview a few days before you can buy it in stores. Although almost half of the songs have already been released via other websites and blogs I am still left with enough songs unheard to keep interest [...]
More Regina Spektor
At the rate she’s going at we’ll have heard every track of the upcoming release Far by the time it hits the shelves on June 23rd. Regina added the new single “Folding Chair” to her MySpace page just the other day as well as a video for the track “Eet” and “Dance Anthem of the [...]
Something to Tide You Over
It’s a very busy day at work at the moment, so as to not leave you completely hanging without a post today here are a few videos of what has been going on around the musical cosmos. First is a video of The Decemberists covering Heart’s “Crazy On You” in St. Louis last Sunday with [...]
Regina Spektor – “Blue Lips”
Apparently there are quite a few Regina Spektor fans out there that are anticipating her upcoming release June 23rd. After we posted the release of her first single “Laughing With” we got all kinds of visits. So to keep everyone up to speed with the release of Far here is the latest single “Blue Lips“, [...]
