Sweet Sixteen Buy New or Used through amazon Amadou & Mariam – Welcome to Mali Buy New or Used through amazon White Denim – Fits Buy New or Used through amazon Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic Passion Pit – Manners Buy New or Used through amazon Dave Perkins – Pistol City Holiness Buy New or Used through amazon Riverside – Anno Domini High Definition Buy New or Used through amazon Sarah Jarosz – Song Up in Her Head Buy New or…
The women in Poughkeepsie / Take their clothes off when they’re tipsy But in Albany, New York / They love the filthy way I talk – Elvis Costello, Sulphur to Sugarcane TOP TEN 1 Jeb Loy Nichols tie Jeb Loy Nichols & Ian Gomm Parish Bar AND Only Time Will Tell 2 Michael Hurley & Ida Ida Con Snock 3 Various Artists Fire in my Bones Raw + Rare + Other-Worldly African-American Gospel [1944-2007] 4 Mary Anne Hobbs & various Dubstep artists Wild Angels Wild Angels 5 Various Skull Disco w/ Shackleton, Appleblim Skull Disco – Soundboys Gravestone Gets Desecrated…
POO9 …a communique from the front… this is a declaration of WAr. their reign over our humanity, over our minds aand spirits is at an end. no longer will we be their consumers, their worker s, their voters, for we will no longer clean the trash fromm their gutters. we will atttack their systems, culture, government and all they build up, we will tear down. our soldiers are alreadyin their homes and schools, crouching in the dark corners near jukeboxxes in bars, behind the counters of local stores, pouring out into the streets of cities. everywhere. our bulllets are words,…
Another year, another list, eh? Well, I have to say that on the verge of my 40th year, I may have finally reached the age of the curmudgeon. I don’t know if I’ve just lost my taste for new music, or if, as I suspect is true, new music really is just getting worse. Of course, there will always be good new music out there; it just seems it’s getting harder and harder to find. As the year wore on, I found less new music that interested me, and so I retreated back into a long forgotten love … reggae…
I thought that 2008 was probably one of the best years in music over the past decade and judging from a lot of other people’s comments, I was just about the only one who felt that way. I’m not sure what people thought this year, but for me 2009 was a year of great expectations and equally great disappointments although maybe I’m just generalizing from everything else that has been happening. Oh well, here it goes: Buy New or Used through amazon VARIOUS ARTISTS – The Soul of Spanish Harlem: Superb collection of songs recorded in NYC between 1967…
Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic 1. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE : Merriweather Post Pavilion (early entry in ’09and loved it all year) Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic 2. GRIZZLY BEAR : Veckatimest Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic 3. DIRTY PROJECTORS : Bitte Orca (all of the above from Brooklyn NY … what’s in the water? ) Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic 4. YO LA TENGO : Popular Songs Buy New or Used through amazon 5….
MY SECOND EVER POOP DISC-CLAIMER (disc-lamer?): Last year I blamed my musical malaise on my distraction with the election. This year the malaise continues and I really don’t have a convenient explanation for it. I had more time on my hands than ever this past year, and I probably listened to less music. I’m starting to hear myself sound more crotchety (I’m still a few years away from cantankerous though). I am no longer willing to snuggle up to this year’s model, whatever that was. More and more I am finding my solace in old musical friends (or newer artists,…
TW – POOP LIST FOR CALANDER YEAR 2009 – COMPILED and SPEIL-BEDECKED 1/20-7/2010 Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic 1/ Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 2/ Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion It is with a slight spine-shiver of embarrassment that I present this pair of perennial year end front runners as my Top Two. I would love to cover my tracks and affect some contrarian shtick to keep up appearances (by the way, has anyone else noticed that some versions of Word…
Ramble site LIVE #1. Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble Which was even more exciting than i had assumed it’d be. Hours of non-stop music and what a venue too, the barn is so inviting and the sound is perfect, a great home to this event! My favorite moments were when Levon was singing! The Organiks and Donald Fagen were the special guests. Fagen did King Harvest, it was great! Ronnie’s Site LIVE #2. Ronnie Spector At the Bearsville Theater. WOW, just WOW. the show was called " Beyond the Beehive" she read from her book over a great slide show interspersed…
Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do A collaboration between Diplo and Switch and a whole bunch of others (Nina Sky, Ricky Blaze, Prince Zimboo). This was my favourite by far this year. A completely mad mix of Jamaican dancehall, techno, cheese, judiciously applied Auto-tune (yes, yes, I know, I know) and other assorted flotsam and jetsam of dance music from the last 5 years. Diplo has been at the top of the game for the last five years at least here he combines it all into…
THE BEST OF 2009 Buy @ amazon OR @ eMusic 01. The Reigning Sound – Love and Curses Buy through amazon OR through eMusic 02. Black Hollies – Softly Towards The Light Buy New or Used through amazon OR through eMusic 03. Wau Y Los Arghhhs!!! – ¡¡¡Viven!!! Buy through amazon OR through eMusic 04. The A-Bones – Not Now! Buy through amazon OR through eMusic 05. King Khan & The Shrines –What Is?! Buy through amazon OR through eMusic 06. Ty Segall – Lemons Buy through…
Buy from amazon OR @ eMusic Ray Barbee meets the Mattson 2 – s/t Buy New or Used through amazon The Embassadores – Coptic Dub Download from eMusic Emilie Proulx – La Lenteur Alentour Buy through amazon OR @ eMusic Lhasa De Sela – Lhasa Buy New or Used through amazon Lay Low – Farewell Goodnights Sleep Buy through amazon OR @ eMusic John Doe & The Sadies – Country Club Buy through amazon OR @ eMusic Ceu – Vagarosa Buy through amazon OR @ eMusic Jeb Loy…
2009: The Year In Muse-Ick 2009, you are barely three weeks past in the rear view mirror of life and I’m already getting sentimental over you. Not that you were a very good partner, just that 2010 has started out no better than the miscreant year that was. Okay ’09, in your defense, you were only miserable for a few months. You provided some massive highs – an Obama inauguration, lots of great music, lots of great times spent with friends, and on some magical evenings a combination of the two that reminded me why we’re all here in the…
Buy New or Used through amazon Wilco WILCO THE ALBUM By far the best recording of the year,and Wilco’s best not only for this year but in quite some time. Burned a few copies for my car, home, iPod, alarm clock, etc. Had the sucker on constantly and never got tired of listening to it. Buy New or Used through amazon Rosanne Cash THE LIST Geez, I remember getting lists from my parents too, but my album would be filled with songs like MOW THE LAWN YOU LAZY SOB, or the famous MAKE SURE THERE IS GAS WHEN…
Now that the stamps are officially released, here’s a good page showing all ten of the stamps. Also includes details of the custom franking you can get. Classic Album Covers – British Design on stamps 7 January 2010- from Norvic Philatelics Amazingly, I have a quarrel with only one of the choices. can you guess which one? Which ones would you argue with? Brief discussions of the project and each of the covers here (www.independent.co.uk)
Buy New or Used through amazon OR @ eMusic 1. Avett Brothers/I and Love and You: These shaggy bluegrass underdogs make some questionable choices, going for big production and an even bigger sound, and somehow come up with a kind of a masterpiece. Chock full of fantastic songs – epic piano ballads and twangy rockers – this album sounds like they’ve been planted, tended, watered, blossomed, and grown ten feet high. Stunning. Buy New or Used through amazon 2. Wilco/Wilco (The Album): Every hipster critic’s favorite target, this lean, muscular pop-oriented set stands up to anything…
What I Listened to in 2009 I just can’t do this anymore. Music seems to have lost most of its relevance. I listen to almost no new music, i.e. music by new artists. I only listen to new and old music from the old fogies I mostly grew up on. Why? I suppose it is meant to be this way. Today’s music does not speak to me for the most part. Is it a quality issue? Maybe. Is it older age? Probably. I am amazed at the shelf life of the music of the 60’s and 70’s. Not only for…