I’m watching Neil Young on TV – on the Palladia Channel which has a boat load of live concerts. He’s playing the Glastonbury Festival last year and he is ripping it up! Burning through “Words” with his classic guitar work. Mr. Young looks stronger than I have seen in some time. [...]
I’m up to 14,600 songs on the iPod – much slower this year than last. So after removing all videos and TV shows and a few records I never listened to, my 80 gig has very little room left. However, my wife’s 160 gig iPod has only 3 gigs worth of music on [...]
I saw my first live band tonight since I came home. Mark it – June 30th. It took me over six months to find someone I wanted to see (the Concertgebouw doesn’t count). I was at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre. This marks the second time I’ve been to the [...]
So a number of months back, my nephew tells me about a website called La La Music where you cannot only buy music online BUT you can actually listen to the CD before you buy it. An amazing idea, isn’t it? I couldn’t take advantage of this site while overseas because it wasn’t [...]
The new M.I.A. video. Is it too strong? Yes… Thank God. Music with balls finally!
M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.
The play is done. It went well (though I wish there had been more performances). It was a really fun part to play and they don’t come around too often. The best part was that my friend Mr. Stevens – from the great state of Vermont – took time away from doing [...]
Yeah – we all know by now. I will admit to being one of those who had heard of Chilton, but really didn’t know the music until the Replacements sang about him. By that time, all Big Star and Chilton records were out of print and CDs re-releases were in their infancy. [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I thought we would talk about an Irish band no one knows about. That band would be Horslips. They never had the following of a Pogues or Waterboys or that band with the silly name – U2. And a friend from Belfast referred to them as Ireland’s Aerosmith (and [...]
“Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow…”
It’s lovely outside. I’m not in the desert, the yard is redecorated with snow and the puppy LOVES rolling around in it. Pretty happy, right now.
So – music. It’s been a while. I haven’t been idle, but most of the add-ons are either [...]
Or not.
Look – you know how crappy I think this past decade was for music. It was so crappy that I have come home after two years and ALL the record stores have closed. People are buying singles again (this time off the Internet) and radio hardly plays music at all. [...]
While we’re talking about music and not my desert existence, let’s do one of my world-famous “blue light” specials!
Many years back, my sister Terry was a DJ for the radio station at the University of Connecticut – WHUS. She did an alternative show there for a while (before switching to Irish music) and sent [...]
Amazing! Three excellent rock records came out in the past month. Who’da thunk it?
Pearl Jam – “Backspacer” I really liked their last record – more than any that came after Vitalogy. But this new one is a different animal. What you’ve got here is eleven short, fast, tight, fun pop [...]
Since I’m quickly approaching 14,000 and have less than six gigs left… it appears I have added a few things. Much of it is a raid on my home collection, but I’ll break it down anyway. Of course, I have continued to add my Songlines CDs of new world music – adding the [...]
While at home, I picked up a few things. First – my issues of Songlines magazine. Two were waiting for me, which meant two discs of new, world music. There were even two of the Duplex Planet’s spoken words CDs for me to upload, including the new “Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time” [...]
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