The Ministry Of Truth (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
1. There was a reason why I liked fig rolls 25 years ago: they taste really nice. 2. There was, however, also a reason why I stopped eating fig rolls 25 years ago……. 3. Christmas songs sound so much better a week after all that Christmas bollocks is done – viz. Death Cab For Cutie’s Christmas (Baby [...]
Kiss & Make Up (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
I did my second turn at the Vauxhall Griffin's Sunday Supplement last weekend. More or less, here's what I played over four and a bit hours. Charlie Brown Theme – Vince Guaraldi I Had To Tell You – 13th Floor Elevators Life On Mars – John Keating No. 1. (Lent Et Douloureux) – Isan Ocean Rain – Echo & The Bunnymen Rainy Day – Susan Christie I Can't Wait Until...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A consortium wants half a billion in U.S. Stimulus money to create 2,000 Chinese jobs making turbines in Shenyang for a wind farm in West Texas. We’ve outsourced factories, technology and jobs. We must hold the line at off-shoring our tax dollars.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
words & photos by Jacob Blickenstaff Eli 'Paperboy' Reed and Barbara Lynn @ The Bell House The 1st Brooklyn Soul Festival was a great success. Sell out crowd on the 1st night and nearly so on the second. The crowd...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
The Mighty Hannibal @ McCarren Park Pool Party 2006 (heartonastick) "When soul singer the Mighty Hannibal invites you to his birthday party, it's wise to take him up on it! The Atlanta-born Hannibal--who has been making records for 50 years...
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 03/29/2009
What on earth would I do without the totally indispensable Reverend Billy's Rhythm Revival !? Last night, he played an amazing singer I was only marginally aware of, South Carolina's own Baby Washington . Immediately, I knew Dead Air has been waiting all this time for her wonderfulness. Let's hear it for husky-voiced, alto girls! (I am one, too.) Just take a listen to this. The old-timey drive-in visuals...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
Rhino Handmade is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Atlantic Records with a series of 4-CD boxsets devoted to the label's different musical styles, including this new Atlantic Soul 1959-1975 CD boxset. Opening with Ray Charles' Come Rain Or Come Shine...
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