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Walk On By
I’ve been digging into the Stax again lately and am just floored by Steve Cropper’s versatility and style as a guitarist. His stuff on ANY given Otis Redding song would be the high-water mark for any other session musician’s career. Not that he was just a session musician, mind you. Hardly a journeyman, Cropper stuck [...]
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Warzone
I’ve recently reunited with my record collection after three years living without it. On the one hand, the mass of vinyl has caused some difficulties in living space organization with all the other things I’m reclaiming from storage. But it’s pretty awesome having them back. I remember growing up with my Dad’s large home-made modular [...]
A Slow Jam Christmas
It’s been way too long since we’ve updated this joint. Good lord. Maybe we can get our act together for the New Year. In advance of that possibility, I would like to share the two hottest slow jams of the winter to melt this frigid white Christmas. The first is initially novelty–a cover of The [...]
St. Vincent – Actor Out Of Work
In the time since we started slacking on this here music blog, there were four albums that really got me all at once: White Rabbits’ It’s Frightening, Cymbals Eat Guitars’ Why There Are Mountains, Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest, and St. Vincent’s Actor. The first single to Actor, “Actor Out Of Work” apparently had a video that [...]
Cosmic Sufjan
Well, I don’t know too much about all the hullabaloo for Sufjan’s BQE Suite or Opus or whatever it is. But I can sure feel this FutureSufjan/LoveStevens R&B business he’s conducting. All that echo explodes him from the typical marsh and reed and back-country road compositions into some cosmonautical sweetness. I’m not sure about the [...]
Rock SNL Like A Boss
Great timing, right? Phoenix just performed the two songs I shared in the last post on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live with host Seth Rogan. Reaction? I like them even more now. I love how unassuming and casual the lead singer is. And watch the drummer kill it back there. His kit sounds exactly like [...]
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Heavy Riffage
My friend and poet extraordinaire Tim Ramick just sent me a link to a post on Rick Moody’s blog that mentions him along with a slew of other artists offering a respite from the instant consumption attitude of much of modern art and media. Congratulations to Tim. His work is mammoth. And while Rick’s is [...]
Clipse
I was thinking about these guys today. They’re really good. That’s all I’ve got. Plenty other journalists can write books about their coke-raps and icy deliveries. I just like their music. It’s ill. And it has been so for much longer than people realize. That’s mostly why I’m writing. When I was still in high [...]
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
Aaaaand we’re back! Wow, six months or so is a long while to not post, but after ELK and a new pal maganged to revive me a bit I have returned with a super great album and track to share. Junior Boys are putting out a new album in, well, about seven weeks. Or eight [...]
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