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January 2011 In a year marked by the earthquake in Haiti, Elvis-impersonating Chilean miners and the end of Lost, we are reminded that in the greater scheme of things, it’s only POOP. But while Tea Partyers, one JetBlue flight attendant and Cee Lo explored new ways to express their ire and frustrations, we 29 POmpous and OPinionated patrons of the musical arts embraced the new era of civility in our annual rite of peaceful pontification. No POOP libel here. If you’ve been here before, feel free to skip this paragraph. As usual, I’ve attempted to tabulate the entries and, as…
It was a revolting year, the Teabagging nuts took the Congress thanks to a Supreme Court filled with Nazis like John Roberts, Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas (whose wife is a Teabagger) and Antonin Scalia. Kudos to the San Francisco Giants who won. Wherever my dad may be, I am sure he was smiling. He loved the Giants even long after they left Harlem. Maybe Aston Villa will win the premiership in England. Only one championship since 1910, thus making them the Boston Red Sox of English soccer. Top 10 NEW RELEASES FOR 2010 This is a tough one because I…
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Buy New or Used via amazon 1. Mi Ami : Steal Your Face ( bought this unknowing of the band strictly on cover art. quickly became my favorite grating noisy annoying masterpiece. previous members were “Black Dice” also very good.) Buy New or Used via amazon 2. Wooden Shjips : Vol. 2 (saw them ATP and was enthralled with their trancey Krautrock even though they’re American.) Buy New or Used via amazon 3. John Zorn : Interzone (one of many Zorn releases this year, this one is all over the map.) Buy New or Used via amazon 4. The Sadies…
Buy New or Used via amazon 1. Mi Ami : Steal Your Face ( bought this unknowing of the band strictly on cover art. quickly became my favorite grating noisy annoying masterpiece. previous members were “Black Dice” also very good.) Buy New or Used via amazon 2. Wooden Shjips : Vol. 2 (saw them ATP and was enthralled with their trancey Krautrock even though they’re American.) Buy New or Used via amazon 3. John Zorn : Interzone (one of many Zorn releases this year, this one is all over the map.) Buy New or Used via amazon 4. The Sadies…
ALBUMS Buy New or Used via amazon 1) Titus Andronicus – The Monitor Buy New or Used via amazon 2) Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts Buy New or Used via amazon 3) The Dream – Love King Buy New or Used via amazon 4) Fang Island – Fang Island Buy New or Used via amazon 5) Grinderman – Grinderman 2 Buy New or Used via amazon 6) LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening Buy New or Used via amazon 7) Vampire Weekend – Contra Buy New or Used via amazon 8) Surfer Blood – Astro Coast Buy New or Used…
ALBUMS Buy New or Used via amazon 1) Titus Andronicus – The Monitor Buy New or Used via amazon 2) Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts Buy New or Used via amazon 3) The Dream – Love King Buy New or Used via amazon 4) Fang Island – Fang Island Buy New or Used via amazon 5) Grinderman – Grinderman 2 Buy New or Used via amazon 6) LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening Buy New or Used via amazon 7) Vampire Weekend – Contra Buy New or Used via amazon 8) Surfer Blood – Astro Coast Buy New or Used…
I don’t think I’ll make it this year. I think I’ve heard only one new thing Brian Wilson does Gershwin and Mom said if you don’t have anything nice to say. Oh wait a minute Crowded House “The Intriguer” sounds to me more of a group effort that a Finn project,very polished, melodic with nothing to hang their heads about. There’s lack of pretense and application of proficient chops I found musically satisfying for pop music which is a feeling I didn’t find much for what was presented to me in 2010. I find returning to works like Buster Williams…
Cyberspace and Reds (Deluxe Edition) by The Streets Mike Skinner / The Streets has been on a tear recently. After a year of silence there’s been lots of activity on his blog, leading up to the release of the final Streets album, Computers & Blues. His site includes really interesting videos and other commentary. He’s also recently released a free mixtape – “Cyberspace and Reds”. It was originally released via the iTunes only app “Mike Scanner”, but in a very sensible concession to the majority of his fans who are, as he says, “not subjects of Steve Jobs”, he has…
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Buy New or Used via amazon 1. THE IMAGINED VILLAGE – Empire & Love: The project is premised on the belief that traditional folk music was never intended to be static or relegated to history in the form that a generation finds it. It was meant to be poked, adapted, stretched and reflective of the times and society to be passed on to the future. That apparently includes old Slade songs. Buy New or Used via amazon Buy New or Used via amazon 2. DAVID HIDALGO & LOUIE PEREZ – The Long Goodbye and LOS LOBOS – Tin Can Trust:…
Buy New or Used via amazon 1. THE IMAGINED VILLAGE – Empire & Love: The project is premised on the belief that traditional folk music was never intended to be static or relegated to history in the form that a generation finds it. It was meant to be poked, adapted, stretched and reflective of the times and society to be passed on to the future. That apparently includes old Slade songs. Buy New or Used via amazon Buy New or Used via amazon 2. DAVID HIDALGO & LOUIE PEREZ – The Long Goodbye and LOS LOBOS – Tin Can Trust:…
Is it me or is it getting harder and harder to get my POOP out? Pun very much intended. I know everything seems much harder these days. One of the benefits of being on the other side of 40, I guess. Nonetheless, I somehow managed to get in it, just under the wire. My soft rock tastes of 2010… Buy New and Used via amazon 1. Junip – Fields Can a record be both light and heavy at the same time? Deep and bass heavy with a 70’s pop/rock sensibility. Pop shines though in the lightness and the rock brings…
Is it me or is it getting harder and harder to get my POOP out? Pun very much intended. I know everything seems much harder these days. One of the benefits of being on the other side of 40, I guess. Nonetheless, I somehow managed to get in it, just under the wire. My soft rock tastes of 2010… Buy New and Used via amazon 1. Junip – Fields Can a record be both light and heavy at the same time? Deep and bass heavy with a 70’s pop/rock sensibility. Pop shines though in the lightness and the rock brings…
21st Century Schizoid POOP by Jim Finnigan New Paltz, that’s the place we be livin’ If we ain’t puffin’ blunts, we be chasin’ women Magnum Man & Bighead 2010 THOUGHTS Buy New or Used via amazon A good year for music, I thought. My album of the year is Three Bonzos and A Piano’s Hair of the Dog, and the question is, can Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater and Sam Spoons restore the life and fire that was absent from the Neil Innes-helmed Bonzos reunion from 2007? And the answer is CERTAINMENT, thank you Mrs. Slater. Peter Stampfel‘s Dook of…
21st Century Schizoid POOP by Jim Finnigan New Paltz, that’s the place we be livin’ If we ain’t puffin’ blunts, we be chasin’ women Magnum Man & Bighead 2010 THOUGHTS Buy New or Used via amazon A good year for music, I thought. My album of the year is Three Bonzos and A Piano’s Hair of the Dog, and the question is, can Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater and Sam Spoons restore the life and fire that was absent from the Neil Innes-helmed Bonzos reunion from 2007? And the answer is CERTAINMENT, thank you Mrs. Slater. Peter Stampfel‘s Dook of…
Wish I had something interesting to say; alas, the only news I have is that 2010 was a pretty – I said pretty – good year for new music. These are my 15 fave raves, in some particular order. Buy New or Used via amazon 1. Ted Leo/Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks Buy New or Used via amazon 2. Sharon Van Etten – Epic Buy New or Used via amazon 3. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest Buy New or Used via amazon 4. The National – High Violet Buy New or Used via amazon 5. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor Buy…
Buy New or Used via amazon 1. The Black Keys / Brothers (sounds like: John Lee Hooker + Hendrix + T. Rex). This fuzz-laden, distortion-heavy, heartbroken blues-rock masterpiece hits you like a gut punch. Goddamn. Buy New or Used via amazon 2. The Tallest Man On Earth / The Wild Hunt (sounds like: Dylan + Mississippi John Hurt + Destroyer). Passion, and acoustic psychedelia, via rural Sweden. Truly transformative. (Also a great EP out this year.) Buy New or Used via amazon 3. Spoon / Transference (sounds like: Wire + Pixies). Edgy, punky, percussive alley anthems, self-produced this time with…