I never considered going to watch Zevon play live. I never thought to pay attention to what he was up to. I didn’t hurry to read the gossip in Rolling Stone, and only paid passing attention when he was yuckking it up with his best buddy Letterman on the late night shows. He seemed like […]
MoreI have a secret vice. I like listening to Jim Croce. He could have been bigger than James Taylor, if it wasn’t for that fatal 1973 plane crash. I call it a vice, I guess Croce was never hardcore, he was never edgy, he flirted with easy listening, but that just makes him nice, and […]
MoreI’ll just leave this here. It makes my heart glad to see this. Go Girlz! Forget about ‘not hating men’ – when men as a group deserve respect, deserve being liked and respected. When men stop hurting, killing women, mocking and being racist sexist misogynistic jerks then maybe things will be different. Until then..DESTROY THE […]
MoreI like Soko, she ranges from Gallic manic-depresso-girl-punk with Nico-esque deep drone vocals al the way to alt-folk with an electro edge, and a deep soulful command of lyrics and melody. The accent doesn’t hurt her charm either. The last time I had an electric guitar in my hands and a headful of booze and […]
MoreI admit I had never heard Death Cab For Cutie before. From the band’s name I was expecting some screamo nordic deathe metal meat-rock, instead I fire up youtube and get…the Clancy Brothers with less fish. I am a huge admirer of the NPR Tiny Desk Series, I have never met an episode that I […]
MoreLenker is violently vulnerable as she ever was. I can’t tell you how much I love this band. The pandemic clipped their touring wings, and as much we have been left waiting for life to come around again, they seem to have been desperate to get back to stealing the show once more. The drummer, […]
MoreBy all accounts Townes Van Zandt was a difficult person when he was drinking, which was much of the damn time. The trouble with living a solitary life cut off from the rest of society, no friends close by, no roots or links is that the people you read and you listen to become your […]
MoreChris Whitley never made it as big as he should have. He never fulfilled his potential. He was meant to be the next Big Thing, a new Bruce or a Dylan or a Neil Young, instead his star never really ascended despite Sony/Columbia Records pushing him heavily when he was launched as a major artist […]
MoreLook, I don’t want to be an iconoclast, I don’t even much care about who or what other people choose to worship, even if that is Bob Dylan. What does bother me are phoneys and Dylan is the biggest phoney that ever won a nobel prize for literature. He is even a bigger phoney than […]
MoreRomany Gilmour and the other Gilmore offspring scattered over the Pink Floyd Website while Roger Waters is locked out is just shameful. Now from Gilmi, embarrassingly, yet more highly privileged rich dude pushing of his kids into the music world in some Fairport Convention-esque grimness. It’s just awful. No, really…it is legitimately fucking terrible. It’s […]
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