56. The Rolling Stones — Hot Rocks 1964-1971 This is where it all began for me. I became a fan of the Rolling Stones about halfway through college, at the end of a late night viewing of Full Metal Jacket in a friend’s appartment. We were both of us familiar with the movie but had not… Read More Rating My CD’s: Hot Rocks
While strong in reality, appear to be weak; while brave in reality, appear to be cowardly. -Sun-Tzu I mentioned this the Twit-spat that Justin Bieber started with Black Keys Drummer Patrick Carney the other day. I only marginally cared because I’m a Black Keys fan, and I never intended to pay it further mind. But… Read More Patrick Carney Trolls the Beliebers, Emerges Triumphant.
Red Sammy — These Poems with Kerosene I wrote about this band before: they’re a tight folk-rock group from Baltimore, and their last album, a Cheaper Kind of Love Song, was a righteous, genre-busting stew. They contacted me a few weeks ago to see if I’d do a review of their new disc. I accept the… Read More Special Review: Red Sammy — These Poems with Kerosene
Having been charged with the sole care of Darling Daughter whilst Wifey is compounding tech week and Opening Night into one day for a one-minute play festival, I resolved to get us both out into the sunshine. Daughter was game, despite describing the environs as “co” (cold) when we finally ventured out. We lasted but… Read More How the Weather Induced Me to Learn About the Bauhaus Movement
Excerpt from his upcoming Memoir, Unknown Pleasures (to be released later this month), in the NYT Magazine: That was the thing about Joy Division, though: writing the songs was dead easy because the group was really balanced. We had a great guitarist, a great drummer, a great bass player and a great singer. Ian would listen to… Read More Peter Hook Remembers Joy Division
55. The Rolling Stones — Let it Bleed I don’t remember if I bought this before or after Their Satanic Majesties Request. I feel like it was after, because my earliest memory of having it was living in my duplex after college, when I distinctly remember putting the ticket from seeing the Stones on the ’99 No… Read More Rating My CD’s: Let it Bleed
54. The Rolling Stones — Their Satanic Majesties Request This album, long drawing question marks and sneers from the taste historians of the 60’s, has recently been undergoing a critical reanalysis. Which is to say, I read some guys in Magnet say some positive things about it in a head-to-head discussion of Beatles and Stones albums.… Read More Rating My CD’s: Their Satanic Majesties Request
One of the things I had in mind for this blog was a combination of my politics blog, Revolutionary Nonsense, with my music blog, Genre Confusion, mostly because writing two blogs was exhausting. And while my political writings shifted over here with ease, the music criticism hasn’t. Genre Confusion was about a lot of things (hatred of trendies… Read More I Write About the Rolling Stones
Apparently so. 91 years old. (via Ace) This is the face of a man entirely happy with his life. The fact that “Take Five” is the best selling Jazz single of all time is one of those things you would never have guessed, but sound completely apt once you hear it. Of course. What else… Read More Dave Brubeck was Still Alive?
My Birthday came and went, as birthdays are wont to do. My most exciting gift I expected least; a shiny new iPhone 4. Why the 4? Because it was free with my Verizon upgrade. And when the 6 comes out, maybe I’ll get the 5. I am well content to follow in the slipstream of… Read More Exciting Toys and Tumblr Follies
