My "save for later" list is so long that I've been thinking about just upgrading already, for Christ's sake.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Jan 24, 2006 12:59:07 pm PST #1996 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Jon B. - Jan 24, 2006 4:47:12 pm PST #1997 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Some food for thought from Patrick Monaghan, owner of indie distributor Carrot Top, and a great guy: [link]
Hayden - Jan 24, 2006 8:10:30 pm PST #1998 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hey, I haven't asked: is anyone coming down for SXSW this year? Li'l Sphere's got the week off, so I'm planning to take him to a bunch of day shows.
tommyrot - Jan 24, 2006 8:11:27 pm PST #1999 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Bubblegum alert!
Last year, England's RPM record label reissued a great album by a little-known American bubblegum glam band called Milk'n'Cookies. Upon reading a review that I'd written when the disc came out, a friend of mine told me that as a teenager he'd owned a cassette of the band playing live at CBGB. Recently, he found the tape and passed it along to me.
With a bunch o' mp3s.
DavidS - Jan 24, 2006 9:07:34 pm PST #2000 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've got some Milk N' Cookies on my iTunes. One of the writers for the magazine Creem was in that group. The guy who did the notes for the Kink Kronikles....John Mendelsohn?
tina f. - Jan 25, 2006 10:42:07 am PST #2001 of 10003
So, Jenny Lewis' (singer for Rilo Kiley aka tina's favorite band) first solo album Rabbit Fur Coat came out yesterday (my unlistened but opened copy is sitting on my desk as I type). I was a bit sad to see it get a pointedly lackluster review from pitchfork - but oh well. I was beside myself with jealousy, however, to see that on her upcoming tour she is playing a date with M. Ward (aka tina's newest favoritest singer-songwriter omg he's so good). Sadly - this show is in NYC and not Chicago (02-05 New York, NY - Angel Orensanz Foundation).
M. Ward is like everything you love about rambling, gravelly voiced guitar players plus everything you love about smart, literate indie pop guys. With an emphasis more on the "this sounds like it's an album from grandma's attic" than "this sounds like something the record store clerk that only wears ironic t-shirts likes."
And Jenny is infamous for being a badass live. AND on the album she and Ward do a Traveling Wilbury's cover that I'd bet you'd get to see them do live.
She is coming to Chicago - and to a swanky place at that - but I don't know who will be opening but I'm betting it's not going to be M. Ward.
Hayden - Jan 26, 2006 5:43:12 am PST #2002 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I guess it's public, so here's this.
Tom Scola - Jan 26, 2006 5:48:21 am PST #2003 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
WOOO HOOO!!!
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2006 5:50:34 am PST #2004 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Congrats to Mr. Hec! Well done.
edit: Any other Buffistas on the list?
Hayden - Jan 26, 2006 5:53:53 am PST #2005 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'm writing about Shoot Out The Lights.