Charlie Watts died, and the articles about him were pro forma: great drummer, great bloke, much miss, wow. I briefly considered that this would be the end of them. Charlie was a founding member: how can you have the Rolling Stones without him? How silly I was. On August 4th, the band announced that Watts,… Read More The Branding Stones Roll On
Abandoning the old Rate My CD’s project earlier this year gave me freedom to listen to my music whenever the hell I wanted. Not having to listen to one old blues album after another, dreaming of the day I’d make it to my tiny Hip-Hop collection, was a positive pleasure. Now I can actually just… Read More In Praise of Sleater-Kinney’s “The Woods”
I like Nada Surf. They’re a band. And I like them. I own precisely one of their records, an EP. So why do I say that I like them? Honestly, it’s because I like the name. Nada. Surf. What does it mean? The absence of surfing? A specific kind of anti-surfing? The surfing of the Great Nothing?… Read More Nada Surf and the Importance of Band Names
Including a picture taken by the missus.
Went to see them at the Verizon Center in DC last night. The Arctic Monkeys opened, and they sounded good enough for me to want to check them out. The Black Keys, on the other hand, were off the chain. The kind of show that makes you feel like you saw something special, like Zeppelin… Read More If I Look Different, It’s Because the Black Keys Melted My Face
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