This was the third night in a row I saw The Brunettes but the first time where they were the headliner. It was a much, much better show than they put on with Beirut. And I liked them with Beirut enough that I went and saw them in the first place, so that was awesome.
The [...]

So the second night of the Beirut shows was so much better than the first night that it’s hard to even sensibly compare them. Part of that had to do with me and my friends getting there much earlier, which meant that we had a much better position on the floor, but even still the [...]

Last night was the first of the two Beirut shows I’m going to this week. I was super ridiculously excited to finally see them live, with even more anticipation added because it looks like they are breaking up or changing form or doing something random and this is my only chance to see them as [...]

I went to Slim’s last night for Dead Meadow and it was honestly one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. They absolutely blew me away. I like the band’s recordings fairly well, but they are certainly not one of my favourites, but the live show was incredible.
The first two bands were absolutely terrible. [...]

Daniel Tiger is grey today because I believe that it is fair-use for an artist to build on work from the past. We used to have a culture in this country of using the past to build the future, a culture that has scared big business since the beginning and is increasingly being legally attacked. [...]

In the middle of August he came into town
As dry as a bone from the sun beating down
He walked past the tables out back to the sink
He said he was broke, but he’d kill for a drink
Young Janice the waitress she cut him some pie
She said it’s to die for and laughed in his eyes
He [...]

This album is amazing. It’s dark, it’s powerful, it’s fucking brilliant. I originally picked it up cause I had heard ‘Family Affair’ and was blown away by it, and after listening to the whole album I was amazed. Sly and the Family Stone were one of the greatest bands of the original Funk generation, and [...]

Every time I tell some one that I love James Taylor, and get nothing but an odd stare in response, I wonder if anyone has ever really listened to the albums that make him great. This album, along with ‘Gorilla’, and ‘Sweet Baby James’, is an amazing record that if you haven’t heard you really [...]

1972’s Tangerine, recorded for the Prestige label while Gordon was still living in Europe, is one of the finest Bop albums from the period, and still a great record to hear. Gordon, who had relocated to Copenhagen a decade earlier, seeking commercial and artistic success, visited the United States often, to record with Rudy Van [...]

Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard anything off this album before. Ok, now lower your hand if the only songs you can remember are the huge hits like ‘Tennessee’ or ‘Mr. Wendal’. Now lower your hand if you don’t remember what any of the songs were actually about. Anyone left? This is where I [...]