Popdose (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Multiple choice time on Popdose, kids. Make sure that pencil is a #2 and don’t forget to fill your circles completely. Your future depends on how you do on this test (snicker, snicker.) Okay, let’s begin! 1. The Alan Parsons Project was: a) a pop / prog band from the late 1970s to the early 1990s b) an [...]
Hip-Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Oh, yeah! I have a blog! Almost forgot... "It's been a long time..." What with school kickin' off again (this is my last semester of college), I'll be pretty busy over the next few months. Fear not! I'll still be around... just not quite as frequently. Lately, I've been doing nothing more than following the conventions and listening to music. By chance, I was listening to Fat Jon's album Lightweight...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
THE ROCK annals are littered with rubbish band names, from the Beatles onwards. But there's been strong evidence recently that the monikers are getting worse.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
THE ROCK annals are littered with rubbish band names, from the Beatles onwards. But there's been strong evidence recently that the monikers are getting worse.
Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The battle goes on for NASA. Isaak closed his full length show with a poignant, acoustic amir of quot. For NASA’s Constellation programme, using year old Space Shuttle flight proven systems seemed like a good idea for the agency’s new Moon rockets. To reduce stress around the joints of the motor’s five segments, NASA [...]
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
"I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You". The Alan Parsons Project.
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
It sounds like a cliche to say it, but they just don’t write em’ like they used to: the soulful melodies, the crisp acoustics ringing out across murky lyrical lines. The Alan Parsons Project was an experiment in creating perfect, somewhat sinister, pop. With Eye in the Sky they succeeded, then added in an extra [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
By now it’s a cliché, though often a useful one, to allow a particular song to remind you of a certain time or place – that summer fling at the beach, that interminable drive to your grandmother’s, that drug-addled suicide attempt… Usually in those situations, you can actually remember both the time and the song. [...]
Brennig Jones (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust is the fifth album from Iceland’s sigur rós. Their previous album takk… took off so unexpectedly successfully it must have been a daunting release to follow. You’ve heard clips from it. Even if you never listen to the radio but only watch BBC television, you’ve heard so many excerpts from takk… Many [...]
Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Turns out we might see more actual "records" in our music retailers soon: Retailers giving vinyl records another spin It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl [...]
gorilla vs. bear (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
We Make It Good dropped this awesome new mix from Chris Devlin of Spank Rock / Fully Fitted / Devlin & Darko / BBC Soundsystem fame. Less an all-out dance mix than a weird, tripped-out 40-minute excursion that WMIG describes as "kind of like if Animal Collective were DJs instead of a weirdo, hippy, hobbit family," in the vein of that stellar James Pants mix I posted up a few weeks back. mp3: Devlin...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Foxboro Hot Tubs, “Stop, Drop & Roll” [MySpace] It's Green Day. OK? It's Green Day. I mean, surely you figured it out by now. Was anyone fooled? It was like going to a masquerade party with a mask made of Scotch Tape. Bun B, “I Love That” [MySpace] One year after the awful, untimely death of his [...]
Word Around the Net (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Words and music (my only tools) Communication -Mother Love Bone, Man of Golden Words For a long time now I've been posting lyrics and thoughts about songs and artists that I enjoy. Whether this is of much interest to readers or not I am unsure, yet it does provide me at least a half dozen hits a day from search engines and a few links from other sites, so it is useful from a business sense. The
Havering On (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Obscure, that's one word that describes Christopher Rainbow’s Home of The Brave , brilliant is another. I bought it back in 1975 as a result of loving his singles that Kenny Everett played to death on Capitol Radio. Give Me What I Cry For and Solid State Brain were both wonderful pop records that both deserved to be hits but for some bizarre reason weren't. This album was produced by Malcolm Cecil...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Tara Altebrando's second young adult novel, What Happens Here, is a stunning example of the current...
