Jamie Hosley Poop ’10

Well 2010 is done, another year gone by, no pet monkey attacks occurred this year so that was a positive note overall. I started out with a list of 20 that I narrowed down to a core set of 10 albums that I came back to repeatedly throughout the year. Now on to the PoOP. Albums of 2010  Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. High Violet: The National Hands down my favorite album of the year, listened to over and over again, in the car, on the iPod, around the house, could not get enough of these tracks. This…


Remarkable interactive infographics: Year in Reviews 2010 (P4K Edition)

Edward Segel has a very cool infographic at: Year in Reviews 2010 It features all the Pitchfork album reviews of 2010 arranged according to rating and it pops up images and links. I’m sure my statistician sister can tell you what the technical term is for this sort of presentation of data. I think it is “cool”. Note that if you want to get a 10 at P4K it helps to be a millionaire or a deluxe reissue


Michael Hodgkiss Poop 10

Top Ten for 2010 What a year it has been. I actually have more stuff downloaded on my hard drive this calendar year than all years put together, mostly thanks to my brothers ENDLESS CHRISTMAS COLLECTION. Yet, my BEST OF 2010 comes complete with howling guitars, a few jazzbos with one or two twang thangs, so here I go…  Buy New or Used via Amazon 1) The Black Keys – BROTHERS This is the album my brother and I could have made if he would only have let me sing. HOWLIN’ FOR YOU is cool while BLACK MUD has so…


Tim Broun Poop ’10

  Buy New or Used via amazon 01. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way (Daptone)  Buy New or Used via amazon 02. Vic Godard & Subway Sect – We Come As Aliens (Overground)   Buy from Vic 03. Vic Godard & Irvine Welsh – Blackpool EP (Gnu)  Buy New or Used via amazon 04. Orange Juice – Coals To Newcastle (Domino)   Buy New or Used via amazon 05. Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep (Heavenly)   Buy New or Used via amazon 06. Paolo Conte – Nelson (Universal)   Buy New or Used via amazon…


Michael Hodgkiss Poop 10

Top Ten for 2010 What a year it has been. I actually have more stuff downloaded on my hard drive this calendar year than all years put together, mostly thanks to my brothers ENDLESS CHRISTMAS COLLECTION. Yet, my BEST OF 2010 comes complete with howling guitars, a few jazzbos with one or two twang thangs, so here I go…  Buy New or Used via Amazon 1) The Black Keys – BROTHERS This is the album my brother and I could have made if he would only have let me sing. HOWLIN’ FOR YOU is cool while BLACK MUD has so…


Unlikely Sources: The 5 Deadliest Drops Of 2010 : NPR

Of all the unlikely places to hear “deadly drops”, I think that bastion of middle class  bourgeoisie, the NPR website, is the most unlikely. Still, credit where credit is due, this short list is killer: The 5 Deadliest Drops Of 2010 : NPR Dunno if it got on the actual radio network tho… (bonus points for the inclusion of one of this PoOPsters’ favourites of the year)



Captain Beefheart – A PoOPster remembers

An obit from the Guardian, UK   Captain Beefheart, who has died aged 69, was provocative and unpredictable | Music | The Guardian Our fellow PoOPSter, Jim Finnigan, sent along this fine remembrance of the famously prickly Don Van Vliet From: Jim Finnigan Subject: My Captain Beefheart experience Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 11:39 PM I  saw Captain Beefheart perform 4 times but I met him once. It must have been in the fall of 1976, I hitchhiked from Albany to Poughkeepsie on a beautiful autumn day to meet a friend who lived in Po-town and catch a show by Beefheart…



This is what record collectors look like… (well, some of them…)

A fun set of pictures with a wide variety of people and records. This is why the WFMU Record Fair is different. Go here to see all 230 of the pictures: Dust & Grooves Photo Booth at The WFMU Record Fair 2010, NYC. Or here for the project home site: Dust and Grooves: WFMU Or here for the public page in the walled garden of Facebook P.S. At least two poopsters are in the gallery. At least one of those two is showing the wear and tear of a three day record show…



The Grand Slambovians @ Bearsville Theater, Saturday, Nov 27 9pm

Fresh ‘n feisty from triumphantly advancing their contagious and quirky Americana from Glasgow to Penzance in ye olde UK, alt-roots DIY’ers Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams bring their haunting signature songs and sincerity back to the Hudson Highlands from whence it originated.  But myth is a must in the mind-space of  Slambovia, and Woodstock’s Bearsville Theater is pleased to loudly premiere the advent of  “The Grand Slambovians”  which is both the band’s latest reincarnation and the title of their new soul stirring CD. Manically melodic, the bold new songs stitch to the band’s classics like an old…



What’s the Mean Time To Katy Perry?

The excellent Music Machinery (a blog about music technology by Paul Lamere) has worked out the “Mean Time To Katy Perry” over 8 Top 40 stations around the nation. Answer: about 40 minutes. Get the full dataset and mathematics behind the TTKP:   What’s the TTKP?



The Streets coming back to life?

Mike Skinner, aka the Streets, has been very quiet for a year or more. Over the last month or so there have been stirrings from him. He released this song over a year ago and now there is a new video for it. This seems to confirm that the song will be on the new record. right? Here’s another fun one from the recent stirrings:


The Trapps

  Saturday, November 13,  8pm  $10 Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Beacon, NY 12508 914-474-7758 For information and tickets, please visit www.howlandculturalcenter.org Handicapped accessible.                    Limited seating.                        Geo-thermally heated & cooled. New Paltz’s nationally recognized roots band returns to rock the Grand Hall at Howland!


Review – Little Annie & Baby Dee at Joe’s Pub New York

Caught Little Annie & Baby Dee at Joe’s Pub New York on Sunday night 26 September. Good show. Annie was in good voice (and need I mention also nattily attired in a black pantsuit)(and the same shoes she’s wearing on the cover of Genderful) and even managed to go mezzo for a couplea bits – especially her soulful take on Stevie Wonder’s Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer. Other classic covers included Yesterday When I Was Young and her take on Tina Turner’s (+ Dire Strait’s) Private Dancer featuring some new herky-jerky dance moves. Annie’s take on these modern cabaret…


Brooklyn Record Riot, Sunday Sept 26th

at Warsaw 261 Driggs Ave Brooklyn, NY 11222 Hours: Noon-8 PM $3.00 regular admission $20.00 early admission from 10 am-noon Beer! Traditional Polish food. Eight massive DJs led by Phast Phreddie (yup, Phreddie who used to work at Rhino) 50plus tables of merchandise from 30plus cool dealers hailing from the USA and Canada. Public transportation: Warsaw is located near the L and G trains. The L train has a Bedford Avenue stop (the first stop in Brooklyn as you leave Manhattan). Exit on the Driggs Avenue side and make a right on Driggs and walk toward McCarren Park. Warsaw will…


Professor Louie & Special Guests

Friday, September, 24th    8pm     $15 Howland Cultural Center 477 Main, Beacon, NY 12508 For information and tickets, please visit www.howlandculturalcenter.org Handicapped accessible.      Limited seating.                        Geo-thermally heated & cooled. About Professor Louie Tagged Prof. “Louie” by the late vocalist/bassist Rick Danko of The Band, our world travelin’, barrel-housin’ Professor co-produced, engineered and performed on The Band’s last three CD’s, “Jericho”, “High On The Hog” and “Jubilation”. A highly touted multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, other production credits include Danko’s “Live On Breeze Hill” & “Times Like These”; The David Nelson Band’s Visions’ Under The Moon, and “The Sea To The North” by Garth…