One More…
Forgot one of my New Year’s Resolutions:
* Complete some frickin’ songs!!
Latre.
Somebody Told Me
My friend Sue recently beat me to commenting on the Grammy nominations, and seemed to express surprise at Green Day being nominated. American Idiot is a fairly awesome album. But that nomination did catch me a bit off guard too, as did nominations for other bands whose albums I actually own and like, such [...]
The Origin Of Storms
As most of those who have known me for more than a few years can attest, I was really into the band Blue Oyster Cult for many, many years. They were my favorite band from around the late 70s to the late 80s. I saw them in concert many times and eagerly awaited [...]
The Importance Of Keeping Your Clothes On
2004 has been a great year for new music. It’s going to be hard to narrow things down for my year-end best of list. Although at least this year I feel that I’ve kept up with new releases better than I have the past couple of years. It’s impossible to hear everything, [...]
Drink It Dow Ow Own
The Ted Leo show last night was very good – Ted is an amazing performer with a great stage presence, and the songs really sound good (and faster) in a live setting. I wish he had done “Ballad of the Sin Eater”, but I guess you can’t have everything. There were problems, mostly [...]
Not If You Were The Last Band Reunited On Earth
Last night, I watched the documentary DiG!, recorded from the Sundance Channel. (Which was strange, because I thought it was still playing in theaters.) For those of you who don’t know, it’s the 7-year story of two bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and their respective frontmen, Courtney Taylor and [...]
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