October 28, 2008
Wayne Coyne, guitar hero (good stuff starts after 2 min mark)....
October 25, 2008
Finally saw Matthew Sweet last night, as he brought his California sunshine drenched music to a gloomy, rainy fall night in Pittsburgh. As is required of anyone of my age group, there was a time in the early nineties where...
October 13, 2008
That's McCain's new song? I get what they are going for, but doesn't picking a song that is older than many of my friends further reinforce the image of McCain as someone who's old, really old, and whose cultural...
October 06, 2008
Over the course of the last couple years I've had a lot of negative things to say about Pete Wentz in conversations with various young attorney/law student acquaintances of mine. Given this, I take it back (well, some of it)....
September 30, 2008
There's always this: March of 1000 Skeletons! Want to participate in this year's March of 1000 Skeletons? Place your order for your admission, costume, t-shirt, and torch package at the Flaming Lips official online store here. Here's a few things...
September 26, 2008
Getting ready for the debates tonight, where the bloodless crew will assemble with friends to document the atrocities. Or try to, unless we have to start drinking massively. To prepare, I am watching the Flaming Lips from last year's Bonnaroo....
September 22, 2008
The Righteous Path: And for my money, the song that best captures the economic anxieties and aspirations voters are feeling now - and the song of the 2008 cycle - is "The Righteous Path" by the Drive-By Truckers. Take a...
September 15, 2008
Baltar emailed me the news earlier today. I couldn't really think about it until now, and I find myself disproportionately sad. I know Syd was the first to die, but the Pink Floyd I loved was the one that...
September 08, 2008
And of course, it was for The Flaming Lips....
September 07, 2008
Tbogg's use of the Hold Steady takes my mind off of all the nonsense and reminds me that in the next month or so I am not only going to see the Hold Steady three times, but also the Drive...
August 28, 2008
Matthew Sweet's new album, Sunshine Lies, came in the mail today. Good shit, nice art and signed to boot. I cannot wait for the Pittsburgh show....
August 11, 2008
Who knew that McCain was such an ABBA fan?...
August 03, 2008
July 31, 2008
Joe Reid says it here....
July 27, 2008
So the leader of the Tories gave Senator Obama some cds - The Smiths, Radiohead, and Gorillaz. I don't know if I'd vote for the Conservative Party if I was British, but it's nice to see politicians who'll readily admit...
July 12, 2008
In the larger scheme of things, Clear Channel Communications is only moderately evil. They don't actively kill people (Zimbabwe, Myanmar), don't actively impoverish them (Monsanto, Dow), nor do they violate anyones civil rights (Bush, Telecom companies). They just took over...
July 11, 2008
I have been guilty of a few of these in my time. Via...
July 03, 2008
FSP talks about the ways in which scientists are - and are not - like rock stars. I've thought about this before, but more in terms of the similarities in being on stage and being public personalities. When I first...
May 01, 2008
Drown Culture is playing Friday night at 123 Pleasant Street in Morgantown, and will be selling copies of their new CD Contest of Human. I've linked to the streaming version before, but now have an advance copy of the CD...
April 23, 2008
Actually I don't remember some of these. But yeah, True Blue was pretty damn unfortunate....
April 09, 2008
Do they scare me? You bet. But they also amuse me. Now they are adapting a classic The Eurythmics....
April 06, 2008
Couldn't go to SXSW? That's OK, you can still listen. And if you don't want to listen, you can still read gems like this: When you were 23 and living alone without many friends and definitely no girlfriends, did you...
April 05, 2008
Last time I mentioned Wheeling's Drown Culture, which is kind of local to us. This time it's a band that has its roots in Tuscaloosa (yeah, I know there's probably some rule against a transplanted Gator having anything to do...
March 25, 2008
Okay, maybe that'd be more appropriately a song of the week in 1987, but I am in even more of a New Order mood than usual lately (which is pretty close to impossible, yet somehow has happened), and this song...
March 24, 2008
I don't know what I'd say the Top 10 are, but this list features some I imagine a fair number of people would agree with. I think the listings of Needle in the Hay and Waterloo are great choices....
March 19, 2008
Drown Culture is streaming their new, er, maybe album. They have posted that the destination is unknown (when you hear the songs, you'll get why that is such an appropriate statement), meaning there is as of yet no actual album....
March 16, 2008
A little meandering brain action...on music, photos, friends....
That's what stands to be revealed in the discovery phase of a suit against the RIAA: Lybeck tells Ars that he'll be digging into agreements between the RIAA, RIAA member companies, MediaSentry, and the Settlement Support Sentry. Part of that...
March 08, 2008
I had forgotten about this video. Alice Cooper and Clint Eastwood! p.s. For the fan geeks, there's a TV documentary call The Madness of Prince Charming, part one here....
March 01, 2008
Anyone? Anyone?: "Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be accounted for," said lawyer John Branca, who has represented Korn, Don Henley, and The...
February 28, 2008
February 27, 2008
Maybe you saw the Groovy Girl dancing to Harder, Better Faster, Stronger or the fabulous Daft Hands. There's a new(er) vid that just crossed my view at Videosift (a delight for the ADD/MTV generation that thinks watching something for 5...
January 29, 2008
But it's a cool meme (or would be if I had better programs than Paint). The reference photo, band name, and title....
January 20, 2008
Yes, it's another review/discussion of the Drive By Truckers. It's (partially) my blog, so I get to do these things. The Drive By Truckers have released a new album (Brighter Than Creation's Dark); it's substantially better than 2006's "A Blessing...
December 03, 2007
This is probably off most of y'alls' radar, but I know we have a couple of readers - at least one across the pond - who will be eager to know that there are now 30 second teasers up for...
December 01, 2007
Just an informational post: I found this website which is keeping track of a whole mess of "best of 2007" lists. Everything from books to music to architecture to stereo components. It's a work-in-progress, so new stuff gets added all...
November 29, 2007
For any of you who don't know, Taxman is my least favorite song in the universe. I loathe it. Hate it. Despise it. Want to break any stereo playing it.So I was bored tonight and came out to the coffee...
Usually. However, even though I agree with the judgements of craptaculence about Do They Know It's Christmas, I think a couple of the criticisms of the lyrics are a bit off. First, the title lyric itself. Some of the critics...
November 27, 2007
... send your money straight to the rockers!...
November 23, 2007
Yeah, I ate leftovers and decked the halls instead of blogging. Some more bands I've enjoyed seeing in the last year or two, below the fold......
November 19, 2007
So today Andrew Sullivan is running an 80's music video poll. Well, 3 polls actually. There's the best, the worst and the best-worst. The worst list is kind of weak - some of those videos really aren't too terrible, and...
November 16, 2007
I think there are probably some missing variables influencing this report, and that we are looking at correlation, not causation: The poll by Harris Interactive, an independent research company, showed that 88 percent of people with a post-graduate education were...
November 07, 2007
But I prefer to think happy thoughts... Confetti, right? Nature's confetti?...
October 29, 2007
But hey, I think it's funny, especially since it comes from Jonathan Adler of all people: what I would describe as a clever-but-juvenile, hard-edged blend of Panic! at the Disco and Bowling for Soup...
October 25, 2007
Last night Baltar and I drove to Cleveland and back (yes, that's a couple hundred miles each way) to see the Drive by Truckers. It was the shortest set I've seen them play yet, and Patterson Hood was in a...
October 19, 2007
Border patrol is keeping us safe from indie rock: The guitarist for indie pop rockers Death Cab for Cutie still expects to release his solo album in January even though federal border agents seized a computer hard drive containing the...
October 04, 2007
If you like cars, F1 racing or Ferraris, you can't help but like this ad. As I said, the old ones sound much better than the new ones......
September 15, 2007
"The way you get to Carnegie Hall is to practice, practice practice!" Leslie Feist said this to the crowd, in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Hall, as she began to lead us in singing three part harmony in accompaniment. Clearly, though, she and...
September 14, 2007
This is a fun post. And of course Don't You Forget About Me has to be on it, and I love the inclusion of the Lauper song from The Goonies - but any such list of seven that doesn't include...
September 03, 2007
So I'm reading papers write now, listening to Radiohead's "Let Down". It's been 10 years since OK Computer came out, right? Well it's been quite a bit of time at any rate. and I've got to say that that song...
August 13, 2007
There has been quite a bit of attention paid to the recent censoring of Pearl Jam's performance. ATT claims that it was an error related to their policy of editing out profanity, but Pearl Jam and advocates of net neutrality...
August 12, 2007
My foray into the world of Doctor Who seems to have sadly come to a close, as it appears that none of the episodes since season 2 have been released on dvd. That's too bad as I am quite enjoying...
August 01, 2007
...this is big country! The whole thread. Hat tip to Shez....
July 25, 2007
Remember the scene when Pippin knocks the skeleton down the hole, and then the drums begin, beating a slow, regular cadence that heralds the imminent doom of the journey through Moria? Every summer, summer begins to end with the sound...
July 10, 2007
Interpol's latest video. I've got to say I like it, and I'm happy that people still find ways to do these that are original and interesting. This definitely fits those two categories better than most videos I've seen for, well,...
July 03, 2007
So since the Coup is about to splinter for a bit, how about a friendly music question on this night - the last for a bit when we'll all be in town. Last week Julian Sanchez had a post up...
July 01, 2007
"I want to feel his salvation, all over my face ..."That classic Cartman line repeatedly came to mind as I drove through central Pennsylvania today. That part of the state may or may not equal Alabama. It might (or might...
June 30, 2007
Yeah, it's summer, and I have outrage fatigue. Fucking Supreme Court decisions, corruption, Ann Coulter, blah blah fucking blah. Always something there to remind me......
June 27, 2007
The RIAA - one of my personal favorites - and its lobbying are about to kill internet radio. If you listen to any internet radio at all, check out these links, and contact your representatives in Congress right away. 1....
June 20, 2007
I'm having one of those mornings when I want to listen to "Blocalicious" again and again and again. Maybe that's what's making the cat so extra testy/playful today....
June 19, 2007
So since people are discussing Hillary's choice of a Celine/Air Canada song for her campaign (and The Sopranos spoof she made as an ad for it), I think discussing what we think of as "good" campaign songs is in order....
June 16, 2007
Was this produced on company time? Hat tip to Baltar...
June 01, 2007
Of the guitar variety (wait until the cute monsters start biting into buildings): I have a headache, and can't muster a post on Friday night....
May 30, 2007
Turns out that you no longer have to wonder what that would look like - as Garbage has answered the question in their latest video. I like the song, and it's certainly an interesting video, and I imagine Binky might...
May 26, 2007
Live it up this weekend, and travel safe, wherever the holiday weekend takes you....
May 22, 2007
Whether this is a mark in the "pro" or "con" column of indie rockness, I still haven't decided, but I pretty much missed out on all that early 90s alt rock stuff. For example, as a Flaming Lips lover (shut...
What say you? Some interesting picks, although I think he misses the boat with my band by going too early and skipping the powerhouse from 1999....
May 19, 2007
It's like having Antiques Road Show at your fingertips. There's this guitar that my mom let me take last year, as I was once again muttering about learning guitar. Of all the instruments - normal and exotic - I play,...
April 21, 2007
Via FDL. And hey, when did Donita Sparks start blogging? RAWK!...
April 11, 2007
So here I am in the office listening to The Shins sing "Girl on the Wing", a great song, and I am once again wondering - what the hell is a tidal rabbit?...
April 06, 2007
Rumors have it that Jason Isbell (one third of the guitar/songwriting team of the Drive By Truckers) has left the band (if rumors can be said to be a post on his own myspace page). There is no further explanation...
March 24, 2007
All the cool kids are doing it. And that means by the time I'm getting on the bandwagon, it's probably not cool anymore. Nevertheless, in preparation for the road trip to South Carolina next week:...
March 16, 2007
Would you like some wine with your cheese? Yes, I went ten for ten. Cheesy Rock Ballads Quiz No. 1 Score: 100% (10 out of 10) Hat tip to mister ed....
March 10, 2007
"They were going to start an experimental/math-rock band together. Dan had a really nice Moog synthesizer and an original pressing of the first Squirrel Bait EP."...
March 09, 2007
Or, when mods go bad. At first it seems like a funny joke. Ha ha. Maybe a little passive aggressive trolling. The cool kids picking on the drama club. And then it gets mean. And it probably doesn't feel funny...
March 05, 2007
I sure do like Helio Sequence. Maybe that contributed to me liking Stranger Than Fiction (I spotted a poster for a Rogue Wave/Helio Sequence show posted in Maggie G.'s bakery). Well, I liked that movie regardless - but that was...
February 14, 2007
My intense dislike of this supposed holiday is well known. Is it to celebrate love? Romance? Relationships? Russell Stover? Tacky "cute" teddy bears? Some saint that lost his feast day decades ago? It's a vague mess that makes certain singles...
February 13, 2007
It's always nice to think about summer, camping, and patchouli: The Police - Tool - Widespread Panic - The White Stripes - Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - Flaming Lips - Wilco - Manu Chao - The String Cheese...
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