Blogs
More Music in Denver
I’ve written a little about music in Denver in the last few days, but I haven’t written about music at the convention, which so far seems to be at best […]
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money
If there was a lot of money in the room in the Fillmore Sunday night, an engineering and construction firm that has the London Olympics as part of its client […]
More on Music at the Convention
Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney blogs for NPR, and though the dynamics of the blog can get on my nerves, I’m still usually interested. Today she talks about Wayne Kramer of […]
Sunday Night in Denver
As I drove to the New Orleans All Star Jam-Balaya, I passed a small pack of Hilary Clinton supporters half-heartedly waving an upside down “Hilary” sign at passing cars. A […]
A Sense of Occasion
I’m writing from Denver, where the Democratic National Convention starts tomorrow. Tonight is the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, featuring half of the known New Orleans musical world. The show’s a […]
The Words He Couldn’t Say
In today’s Huffington Post, Harry Shearer analyzes President Bush’s speech yesterday in New Orleans: As disturbing as the words he spoke were the words Bush never mentioned: in almost half […]
Making the Invisible Visible
If you don’t see links inside the blog posts, run your cursor over the text. I see them on some computers but not all computers, and our tech folks have […]
The Tubes Are Open
The Internet and I are together again. Sorry for the radio silence, but server issues shut me down for the last week. We’ve been so busy finishing the September issue […]
More on Isaac Hayes
Here’s part of Chuck Eddy’s excellent take on Isaac Hayes: When people say Hayes’ early ’70s recordings anticipated — maybe even invented — disco, this is part of what they’re […]
Isaac Hayes notes
I wonder if it’s now possible to imagine how alien the wah-wah in “Theme from Shaft” once sounded? When I was 12 or 13, a friend and I spent an […]
