Bonnaroo, Review Thursday
After getting our bearings in the campground it became evident to me that things were going to work out wonderfully. I was woefully tired due to my inability to sleep (or relax) on airplanes and subsequently kind of eager to get everything set up to relax. After setting up camp and taking a quick nap, [...]
Bonnaroo, review #1
So, its been a while since I arrived home from Bonnaroo. In the meantime, I’ve moved all of my belongings across town. I had meant to write this earlier, but I knew that it would have to wait until I, one, digested Bonnaroo, two, moved, and three, had some time to think about the Grand [...]
so it goes…
Life sure can be funny sometimes. I’m sitting in my basement listening to the new Preons tracks on my headphones through myspace. We started recording that album about 6 months after I moved into this house. Now, a year and a half later, 40% of that band is gone and the new iteriation is going [...]
says who?
How does music become popular? It seems there is no rhyme or reason for something to gain the all important buzz. The all-important buzz can be the difference in an album from being a 1k pressing from discmakers to a guitar players retirement. If the answer is, these bands are more talented and they music [...]
Alabama
Here’s a beautiful version of John Coltranes’ tune, Alabama. It’s so simple and so moving. It is the quartets reaction to the 1963 bombing of the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama. The KKK planted dynamite in the basement of the church attempting to instill fear in the civil rights movement. Four young girls [...]
We Were Good News for People Who Like The Sinking Ship News
Modest Mouse start off the new album sounding very much like the last one. That’s a good thing. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank starts off with the romping four on the floor sound that we’re all accustomed to. The biggest news about the band in the last six months was the news [...]
Vegoose – Saturday
Saturday was a great day at Vegoose. The weather was perfect, the atmosphere was awesome and the music killed. Here’s a quick run down. I’ll go more indepth later. I started the day out with watching Praxis. They are they super-group comprised of Buckethead, Bill Lawswell and Primus’ drummer Brian. Buckethead is an interesting guy [...]
Why Birth of the Cool?
Did it all start with Birth of the Cool? No, hardly. Miles Davis’ classic recording from 1949-1950 was not his start, It isn’t even his best album. What about that recording makes it cool? Miles, fresh from his stints with Bird goes off and does his own thing. He is very much of a New [...]
Welcome to my music blog
Here it is. After being inspired by the movie Almost Famous, I decided that I wanted to have a corner on the internet dedicated to writing about music. I will focus on everything from current releases, classic albums, lost gems, the business of music, and whatever else sparks my interest. “I’ll play it first and [...]