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December 2008
18 posts
Suzanne Vega - New York Times article →
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Suzanne Vega recently has been writing some good articles for a New York Times blog. This one is about her song, “Tom’s Diner”, and it’s travels through culture and technology. By accident of history, it was a popular, a cappella, rhythmically interesting but simple song at the time when remixing and the audio compression (ie mp3) were first becoming broadly useful to...
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The Grateful Dead - Live in...
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The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour...
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The Old Hippie
Youngsters came with...
Various Artists - foehn006 →
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This is a great compilation which lala recommended to me based on my interest in The Books. At times it seems the compilers, at Spanish label foehn records, have hit an iceberg of Bookish music
(for example, Youdee) - but then there are a number of spare folky tracks. There’s also some borderline generic electronica.
It’s a good listen with only a couple of echh tracks and...
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Times New Viking - Live at Modified...
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The Talking Heads - “Listening...
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Daytrotter...
The Books - Music for a French Elevator EP →
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Perfect for late night drive-through radio. That is, you’re driving through a town, the radio is on static, it gradually coalesces around this - that time before you understand what is happening. That moment is perfect humanity.
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Madeline - “Sleeping Dogs”
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Madeline - The Slow Bang (hear “To...
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Worship the Turkey
Happy anti-eagle...
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Truncate
Ten Ten Chinese Buffet. ...
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Smoosh - “Rad”
Enunciation has...
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Smoosh - She Like Electric (listen...
November 2008
58 posts
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker →
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My sister is pretty happy about this band.
Emily introduced me to Sonic Youth, King Missile, Killdozer, The Skatalites, and basically everything beyond The Police and They Might Be Giants.
Because of Sonic Youth, I learned of Glenn Branca. Because of King Missile, I learned of Kramer and Shimmy Disc Records, on which label was also Eugene Chadbourne, who I witnessed (on VHS)...
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy →
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Hm. There’s no songs. Axl Rose spent 15 years working on nothing. It’s not hard to do, really. You make some little thing of no consequence. You want to hear what it sounds like, so you record it. Listening, you think of another part or two that you can just put in there, so you add. You add. At some point, you develop a sentimental attachment to the work invested in the...
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Dominic Duval’s String Ensemble -...
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
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Nick Drake has a great album, and two very good albums. Without Pink Moon, the first two are like dogs walking without a master.
People often unwittingly produce things which are dress rehearsals for the future. It is not the same as making the same album or song (or painting of a chicken) over and over again, a very common practice I find boring - it is drilling down into a...
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago →
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I can see why people like this. I don’t hear the words. He sings very high notes all the time. I like the sound of the acoustic guitar. He’s from LaCrosse, Wisconsin - just a couple of hours from where I used to live. He sounds like he’s a decent fellow.
Mostly these aren’t exactly songs, in that they seem inseparable from his performances.
I don’t hear the words, but I...
Don Byron - Tuskegee Experiments →
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This is what I like to call early 90’s jazz. At that time the current of jazz’s irrelevance to mainstream culture seems to have intersected with its acceptance of outside playing into inside circles, in a way which enabled all sorts of freaky normal stuff to happen. Bill Frisell makes an appearance here, which is fitting because early 90’s jazz is the thing he did best - it’s...
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Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for...
Matador Records - Intended Play →
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I would guess that this is Matador Records’s riot squad here, the big smear across the face of the music industry which they hope will place cursors on links and people somewhere within 5 miles of a record store.
What is most pressed into my spirit at this point is the horrible, horrible acoustic guitar sound on Lou Reed’s live track. Granted, up until this century acoustic guitar...
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Mogwai, “The Sun Smells Too Loud”...
Madonna - Madonna →
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Amazingly consistent production from track to track on this album. Reggie Lucas found a sound he liked, and that’s not easy. “Everybody”, the one track produced by Mark Kamins sounds drastically different. It being the track which earned her a record deal, the difference is particularly striking. The record label must have felt they dodged a bullet when she came back with...
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Mark Cyst, Ma Slim, and Zoe Shalist...
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Various Artists vs. Disinformation...
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Free Kitten - Inherit (listen to...
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Fugees - The Score (listen to...
David Bowie - Low →
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If I ever choose to listen to one album at the end of every week, to set myself back to right, let me hope it’s this one.
Every chance, every chance that I take I take it on the road Those kilometers and the red lights I was always looking left and right Oh, but I'm always crashing in the same car Jasmine, I saw you peeping As I pushed my foot down to the floor I was going...
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The Evens - The Evens part 2 (read part one below first)
…hmm - MacKaye obviously has a voice which carries conviction, which is a prime cause of his success… but anyway…
“Shelter Two”
went out route seven, stopped at samadi sweets we stood at shelter two and listened to the trees went to arlington hardware to buy some electrical tape you went to tulsa and I’m going to wait ...
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The Evens - The Evens (listen to...
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The Pogues - “I’m a Man you don’t...