Music

Observations and comments about music. mp3’s, live shows (when I get to them.) New stuff, old stuff. Whatever comes to mind.

Sia Furler and Bionic Woman

I got two hours of sleep last night. Insomnia visited my room like a big ol’ buzzard and pecked at me from the headboard. So today’s post is not only late, it’s bound to be a bit cantankerous. But it might have been anyway, really. I caught the pilot of Bionic Woman the other night […]

Sleeveface Flickr Pool

Another reason to love vinyl: Complete Flickr Pool here. There’s some great stuff in the set. I really like this one, too.

Oui, Monade

Monade - Socialisme ou Barbarie

Coachella 2008

Yesterday I said something about how one should not, dear reader(s), be surprised to see British Sea Power at the festivals this year because, “theirs is a festival sound.” And then I linked to the Coachella site. Well, the folks at Golden Voice must have noticed and decided to show me up by actually announcing […]

British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

Dandy Warhols vs Veronica Mars

Yesterday I posted a little more about some of the cool stuff from 2007 that I hadn’t gotten around to talking about yet. One of those little items was actually the Dandy Warhols tune from 2003 that found its way into the opening credits sequence for Veronica Mars. I then went on to hint that […]

Other 2007 Notables

Wrapping things up for the Year in Music here. I can never seem to get these things done before Christmas, which is when everyone else is doing it. I like to let the year truly end before I get into the bests and worsts and, well as in today’s case, the stuff that deserves special […]

Götterdämmerung

Excalibur - art by Bob Peake

Strange Pleasures

Siobhan Donaghy. Do you know the name? I’ve no idea how I stumbled upon her 2007 release, Ghosts. A mention somewhere here, a glimpse of the cover art there; who the hell knows? But I heard “Don’t Give It Up” somewhere and I had to try out the album. Maybe it was at one of […]

Goldfrapp: “A & E” (video)

Hot on the heels of the release of the single, comes the video for “A & E”. It’s a simple affair with the usual singing chanteuse, forest setting, and, um dancing piles of leaves. Marvelous payoff, too. And… I can’t post it here. I had an entry all typed up and coded, embedding the video, […]

2007: More of The Best

So we continue on.One by one we’ve covered my Ten (12) Favorite Tracks of the Year and we totally had fun doing it, right? Those were my very favorites. Those were the ones about which I most wanted to write. But there were others. In fact, at last count there were something like 130 songs […]

Sia – Some People Have Real Problems

Sia - Some People Have Real Problems

Goldfrapp: “A & E”

Alison Goldfrapp

Ten Tracks That Mattered: #1 – St. Vincent

St. Vincent - Marry Me

Ten Tracks That Mattered: #2 – Deerhunter

Deerhunter - Cryptograms