Then I am totally coming. Is it 21-over?
I'll check on that.
Do you need to prebuy tickets, or will there be some at the door?
And I'll check on that, too.
Have you bought your ticket to DC yet?
Not yet.
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.
Then I am totally coming. Is it 21-over?
I'll check on that.
Do you need to prebuy tickets, or will there be some at the door?
And I'll check on that, too.
Have you bought your ticket to DC yet?
Not yet.
The Magnetic Fields are coming to Northampton! Whee!
Yeah, iTunes is slowly getting more comprehensive, but indie stuff and some big names aren't giving up the goods.
And their oldies selection is quite weak.
Bloodshot rekkids are available on iTunes. Go forth! Spread the gospel of the honky-skronk!
Also, CDBaby.com, an indie distributor, is having a big ol' clearance sale.
I got more new CDs on half.com and Amazon last night. (I'm on a Must Diversify! Now! trip.) The CDs I bought were:
Between that and an LJ mix trade I'm participating in, I expect to be in New! music! heaven! for quite a while.
"Fragments From a Rainy Season," John Cale
For some musicians (Neil Young is one), my rules are:
1. Live beats studio
2. Acoustic beats electric
3. Solo beats band
And those rules certainly work for me in this case. A bunch of Cale's best songs (and one of Cohen's) performed simply and minimally. I love this album.
YMMV - some people get bored with Cale's piano playing.
One more thing: moonlit's Bonus Australian disk - LOVE it.
Not quite music-related, but: HEY! JOE! Marc Maron is listed as the primary host for the new progressive Air America's morning show, "Morning Sedition" on their website. AM 1190 in NYC, 6-9 AM.
Interesting Neil Young interview on Fresh Air yesterday. I'll take him electric, preferably with Crazy Horse, over acoustic any day.
It Takes a Nation of Millions... is astonishing, probably one of my "Desert Island Discs". Took a while for me to get into, but once it clicked it was mind blowing. Unbelievably dense. I'm tempted to advocate its status as Greatest Production Ever. The Bomb Squad (Chuck, Hank & Keith Shocklee, Bill Stephney, Eric Sadler) are the real stars. "Louder Than a Bomb", "Rebel Without a Pause" and "Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos" are favorites, although, the whole thing is great. Adore the back to back clips of Malcolm X ("It is time for us to do whatever is necessary to defend ourselves") and George Clinton ("Ain't nuthin' but a party, y'all!"); who says agitprop can't be fun?
Thanks, Misha. Spent yesterday afternoon listening to Robert Smigel's Fresh Air appearances (working hard the whole time, of course...) -- see the new tag. Had tears rolling down my cheeks, laughed hard enough to aggravate my asthma, but it was so worth it. For his most recent appearance search "Triumph". That's the one in which he parodied Bill O'Reilly's Fresh Air appearance.