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New Old Pop
Some good ol’ guitar-oriented pop: De Novo Dahl: Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound (Roadrunner): I love the Polyphonic Spree-ness of “Shout” and lose interest pretty quickly afterwards. It’ll be […]
On the Road Because …?
This passage by David Freedman from WWOZ’s “OZone” newsletter was brought to my attention this morning: Why does WWOZ go on the road for these remote live broadcasts [at Bonnaroo and […]
I’m Not There continued
More Dylan incarnations: “Down in the Basement” by Sloan on Parallel Play, which turns one musical line from “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and literalizes the phrase to make it about domesticity […]
George Carlin
I can’t remember a comedian who more obsessively dissected commonplace speech than George Carlin. I’m surprised YouTube has so little Carlin from the 1970s – I doubt I’m going out […]
Lil Wayne and the Music Industry
Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III is a hit in a hitless industry, prompting some meditation on how that is. Here’s The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones: I appeared on WNYC’s Soundcheck […]
Lil Wayne’s a Hit
According to the New York Times, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III‘s first week sales are the best this year, selling over 400,000 on the first day and estimated to go […]
Irma Thomas at the Mojos
Monday, Irma Thomas was awarded Mojo Magazine’s Legend Award along with Genesis. Here’s her acceptance speech and here‘s a backstage interview.
Dr. John Sounds Off in Toronto
In the Toronto Star, Greg Quill quotes Dr. John as saying: “I’ll be very blunt,” he says. “At the municipal level, the city fathers, the mayor and the local politicians […]
Read Bob, not Miley
At “Clap, Clap,” Mike Barthel has an interesting essay on Miley Cyrus that dovetails nicely on my thoughts on I’m Not There. He wrote: If the construction of character through […]
I’m Not There
I saw I’m Not There at a press screening with a handful of people. Not surprisingly, Dylan fans loved it, but those who were just there to see a movie […]
