Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS , channel 26 Left Of Center , can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 42: […]
Year: 2008
The Watson Twins :: Just Like Heaven/Fire Songs
While I’ve always found the music of Rilo Kily to be tepid at best, I did enjoy Jenny Lewis’s country-tinged side project, from 2005, Rabbit Fur Coat . I have Fur Coat to thank for introducing me to the music […]
The National :: White Sessions (Paris, 2007)
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The Basement Tapes (Columbia Records, 1975)
Hardcore Dylan-phile nitpicking aside, there is a lot to love about the (official) Basement Tapes . While many of these recordings (from 1967/68) were originally known on the bootleg circuit from the unofficial comp The Great White Wonder , a […]
Chris Mills :: Living In The Aftermath
In three short years Chris Mills has gone from living the dream to living in its aftermath. I loved Mills last album, The Wall To Wall Sessions , and distinctly remember listening to album’s first track, the tragically beautiful “Chris Mills Is Living The Dream […]
Mission of Burma/Joy Division/Channeled By Moby
Moby is a curious cat. After breaking techno wide open in the early ’90s, he dabbled in industrial-lite dance music, only to wind up the hero of Pure Moods compilation makers and the people who make in-store soundtracks […]
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds :: Dig! Lazarus Dig!
Those who saw last year’s gritty Grinderman side trip as a return to form need look no further that The Bad Seeds new full length Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! . Like the Grinderman project,
Nine Years Later :: Black Foliage: Animation Music
Has it really been an entire decade since the Olivia Tremor Control released their Black Foliage album? Almost, as the album hit retail shelves in 1999. Sonically both an epic, psychedelic collage, as well as a reverent paean to Sixties […]
Heading Down The Atlanta Highway
Last week The B-52’s released Funplex , their first album in sixteen years. After three decades together, they haven’t lost it. We’ll discuss Funplex further at a later date, but right now we’re gonna go back a couple […]
Without You :: Pete Ham (Solo Version)
In response to my Badfinger post from last month, Duke sent me this solo version of “Without You” that can be found on the Pete Ham collection Golders Green . Elegant minimalism and simplicity. Download: MP3 . . […]
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin :: Pershing
Springfield, MO: both the home of Americanized Cashew Chicken (yes, true) and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — both, also, very tasty. Pershing , SSLYBY’s sophomore album, is an uncomplicated, yet excellent, pop record – the kind that won’t leave your […]
Jim James/M. Ward :: SXSW, St. David’s Church
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John Cale :: Paris 1919
Tuesday, while walking through the hallowed halls of Capitol Records’ studios, in Hollywood, surrounded by decades of recorded musical history, I had a conversation with a friend regarding album art: the power it can wield, […]
The Kills :: Midnight Boom
SIRIUS Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS , channel 26 Left Of Center , can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 41: […]