Blogs
For the Love of LaBelle
Saturday night at Essence Music Festival, the evening closes with a tribute to Patti LaBelle including a Labelle reunion with Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx. I’m sure their reunion has […]
James Brown and Brian Eno
Two quick things: 1) Shout! Factory’s new three-DVD set, I’ve Got the Feelin’: James Brown in the ’60s, is a valuable corrective. Just as the final, bloated Elvis became the […]
A Cry for Sanity
Boy, Metacritic‘s scorecard suggests there is some seriously overheated love in the critical world for the reissue of Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue. I don’t remember the album being anywhere near […]
Credit Where Credit’s Due
In one of my posts about Kidd Jordan, I wrote that none of the city’s cultural organizations besides Anxious Sound had paid proper attention to Jordan. Cree McCree reminded me […]
Space is the Place
Lil Wayne has often referred to himself as an alien (as in Martian), and doing so on Tha Carter III has prompted writers to revisit the theme of the Afronaut, one […]
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 […]
