October 21, 2006 – 8:58 am
I can’t stop listening to this album. It’s not exactly a sprawling work, but somehow, perhaps because two of the tracks are multi-part ten minute mini-stories, it feels epic. It’s a concept album with undeniably progressive flavor. Yes, that kind of progressive—Jethro Tull and King Crimson as opposed to John Digweed or Dave Ralph—and there […]
October 14, 2006 – 9:19 am
Tunsemith, Buffy fan and saver of burning buildings from small children, Michael Keefe has checked in with a new batch of music reviews. He’s still slinging adjectives over at Pop Matters these days, but they can’t take all of his opinions all of the time, otherwise there’d be nothing left for anyone else to do […]
September 22, 2006 – 10:00 pm
Jennifer Charles is the voice. Oren Bloedow is the music. Elysian fields is the band. “Bleed Your Cedar” is the album. Allmusic sez: The band’s sophomore album Bleed Your Cedar was produced by Steve Albini, but during this time the band’s creative throws began its downward spiral. The label criticized them for sounding too dark […]
September 22, 2006 – 1:11 pm
I can’t remember how I discovered today’s Mystery Band, but when I dropped their debut cd in my player, it was like a giant overstuffed pillow had smacked me from behind. It might have been a listening station at Morninglory music in Santa Barbara, but then I might have heard it at a coffee house. […]
September 6, 2006 – 10:00 pm
Special bonus points to those who remember Magnapop. After taking almost nine years off, they’re back. Mouthfeel was their last album. It came out in early 2005. According to their website they toured, they had a good time and now they’re hard at work on a new album. Nice to have them back. Magnapop – […]
September 6, 2006 – 10:12 am
Yay! It’s Musiquiz time again! Today for some reason I’m thinking about a band that’s last album was released about a year and a half ago. That’s not so interesting in itself, and it’s hardly a clue. But what’s strange is that their previous album came out in 1996, so it was their first album […]
September 5, 2006 – 1:22 am
I just can’t get Snowden out of my head. On the way back from the Sierra I must have played track six (“Between The rent And Me” about twenty times. I would play it once, then play it again, them again. Then I’d fake out the world and play something else for about three minutes […]
August 18, 2006 – 10:00 pm
Yeah, it’s “Believe” by Dig. Remember Dig? Not many people do. It’s unfortunate. Head honchio Scott Hackwith put together a band that often struck a fine balance between hard-edged rock and lyrical beauty. They were never well-received by critics, who wrote them off as sort of Jane’s Addiction redux, perhaps aping the pioneers of grunge-art […]
August 18, 2006 – 11:03 am
I’ve got some music I want to share with you. but I want to make it kind of interesting. I’m gonna give you an mp3. You tell me who it is. If you can. name that tune At exactly 10:00 PM I’ll post the answer. And another tune. This band opened for Garbage one night […]
I’d like to know what’s up with the white plastic. I mean, I know what’s going on at Sunset & Vine in the old “Earthquake” building, but why the white plastic? Is that to keep the dust from demolition from spreading across the intersection like so much asbestos fallout? It’s interesting. In an effort to […]
I have to post something before I head off to work, if for no other reason than to push down that crazy Black Rider image that greets me every time I fire up the ol’ browser. So I’ll rant about Devin Davis for a moment. Why is this man not more famous? His album is […]
It’s my day off, but I still drag myself out of bed, hop into my shoes and traipse down Sunset to work. Today is the occasion of a rare morning in-store by none other than Jack White The Raconteurs. I want to see how many people show up. People were calling the store yesterday asking […]
I’m writing. I’m writing a lot. I’m just not writing here. In two weeks I’ve cranked out 45 pages of the new script. HOLLYWOODLAND suffers as a result. I’ve got some things to post, if for no other reason than to keep the top photo changing. I was getting sick of looking at those wind […]
In the time I’ve been gone (almost a week now) I’ve gotten mostly better. The steamboats are gone. The noise in my head has calmed down. In the time I’ve been gone I completed the first draft of ELEMENT. That’s Number Two in the Six in 2006 plan. And I haven’t slowed yet. I just […]
In preparation for a weekend in the sun at Coachella I’ve picked up a couple shifts this week. That’s seven nine-hour shifts in a row. Add that to the usual three shifts at the photo lab and that leaves me with very little time to write. Then today I wake up with a nasty sore […]
