MUSiC NEWS - Columbia Records will release Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Volume 9 – The Witmark Demos on Tuesday, October 19 , in conjunction with Columbia /Legacy's release of Dylan's first eight long-playing albums in a box set titled Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings . Both sets have been long sought-after by collectors and fans around the world, with The Witmark Demos seeing their first commercial release nearly 50 years after they were first recorded, and The Original Mono Recordings returning to the marketplace for [...]
Don't forget: Logo submissions due Monday! Enter now to win prizes! When creating this post I wondered whether it was irresponsible to post songs about cocaine. Going through my list though, my worries faded. These songs are uniformly negative! One guy shoots his wife under the influence, another gets locked up in a room with padded walls, and a third wrecks a train. So no arguments about glorifying the rock and roll lifestyle please because, yeesh, sounds terrible. [...]
Look up. No, not at the ceiling, at the top of this blog. See that masthead? It's ugly. I know you've been thinking it every time you visit here but were too polite to say anything. For that I thank you. Still, it's time for an upgrade. For that, I need your help. I am no artist, but I'm sure some of you are! Whether your medium is paint or Paint™, photos or Photoshop, I'm looking for someone to design a logo, a masthead, a title image to replace that [...]
The fortieth anniversary of our moon landing has generated a good deal of buzz (pun intended). Much of it is bemoaning the current state of N.A.S.A. which, without the Soviets around the keep them on their toes, hasn't done a lot of late. They're currently saying by 2020 we can get somebody to the moon. Again. Umm…yay? I understand that with the current economic and political climate we've got larger priorities, but with the current climate climate we can't forget about the rest of space entirely. Earth's only got so long. [...]
Lyrics are important, but it's a shame the art of the hit instrumental seems to have been lost. Turn on oldies radio and from Booker T. to the Ventures, instrumental guitar jams pop up and now and again. The instrumental is on death's door, but certain segments of the indie aesthetic are trying to revive it. Explosions in the Sky is an all-instrument post-rock band (whatever that means), and Andrew Bird released an instrumental disc to accompany his recent Noble Bird . While we wait to see whether the instrumental makes a comeback, let's take [...]
The grammar police will be on your back if you use a double negative, there ain't no doubt. But from my brief days a linguistics major, I learned that "grammatically incorrect" language like this, when used widely enough, takes over. It's how language evolves. So "whom" Nazis, give it up. The double negative is a unique "mistake" though, as it seems socioeconomically based, and racially some too. So I can't tell you whether it will ever become an "acceptable" for of speech. What I do know though, is a lot of great tunes [...]
--Note: Check out the poll on the right-hand side to let me know what type of post you prefer: full album (like last week), artist focus (this week), or general theme (two weeks ago). Though I can't promise the answers will change what I post – I can't do more than one full album a month – I'm curious what people like.-- While his contemporaries like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan became famous, Warren Zevon remained under the radar his whole life. Though famous fan David Letterman gave him plenty of air time, "Werewolves of London" [...]
Grateful Dead : Friend of the Devil [ purchase ] Lyle Lovett: Friend of the Devil [ purchase ] Bob Dylan: Friend of the Devil (live '99) [unpurchase-able] Counting Crows: Friend of the Devil [ purchase ] Last Fair Deal: Friend of [...]
The music world lost a legend last week when Bo Diddley passed. Creater of the famous Diddley beat and player of the almost-as-famous square cigar-box guitar, he never got the respect of his peers Little Richard and Chuck Berry, but his music lives on. And if The Raconreurs did it on Conan , we can here, paying tribute to both the man and his beat. The Animals - The Story of Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley) One of those covers that does way more than the original, Eric Burdon [...]
The original theme for this post was Motown, but I was more interested in the sound than who was officially on the Motown label, so to avoid controversy…girl groups, whatever label they were on. In great song lists, these often get overlooked as being to simple or syrupy, but these are high-quality (if not to lyrically stimulating) songs. The production on the originals, often courtesy of Phil Spector, was superb, but these covers stand on their own without all that orchestrated sound. We Are Scientists - Be My Baby (The Ronettes) [...]
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