Photography "Forgotten Melodies" by Fidginia Term: tsuruloosies Main entry: tsu·ru·loo·sies Pronunciation: (sü-rü-lü-sēs) Function: Noun Etymology: From the urban slang loosie for a single cigarette or can of beer Date: 2008 1. Individual favorite songs from an album that wasn't [...]
Who: My Morning Jacket When: Friday June 20th Where: Radio City Music Hall More Info Listen: My Morning Jacket - "Wordless Chorus" Thoughts: Considering Radio City has housed at least two of my favorite shows ever, this could be a really stupendous show. You add in the reputation MMJ has for their live shows, the fact that I've never seen them before, and the ambiance of Radio City and you have
"Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, con man extraordinaire, and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman." -Bob Dylan " Pot is Fun" -Allen Ginsberg "I'm not a Hippie!" -Jonathan Richman At the end of "See You Later, Allen Ginsberg," you can hear Bob Dylan start to say, "Let's erase..." (that!) or something to that effect. This track has most of what's great about the lighter tracks on the The Basement Tapes : humor, spontaneity, cannabis, [...]
Shellac - Watch Song Art Brut - Fight Pain - Fight Jonathan Richman - Couples Must Fight
Shopping season has officially started now, and here are a few songs for the occasion from around the world. Enjoy them while you max out your credit cards. MP3s: Jonathan Richman & Modern Lovers - Rockin' Shopping Center (USA) Snatch - Shopping For Clothes (UK) Birth Control - Buy! (Krauts) Otomo Yoshihide & Jon Rose - Japanese Doom Shoppers (Nihon) This post is brought to you by the Tuttle Cottage Cheese Company [...]
The Giraffes!!!! Goes Cube!!! Hopewell!! Mancino! CASH prizes for best costume! From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, EAR FARM, deliver us! -- EAR FARM's Second Annual Halloween Show @ Club Europa in Brooklyn 31 October @ Club Europa Doors @ 8pm 9 - Mancino 10 - Hopewell 11 - Goes Cube 12 - The Giraffes with [...]
I won't bore you with another stuffy review of The Darjeeling Limited ; there are plenty of critics endlessly hashing out their complaints about the Wes Anderson oeuvre rather than genuinely engaging with the film itself. Instead, here are a few brief thoughts before we get to the music: First, I'll echo the film's opening instructions - please watch Hotel Chevalier , further analysis of which is here . It's like all the best parts of Darjeeling , distilled down into a short film. What I like best about [...]
VERSES FROM THE ABSTRACT A Tribe Called Quest The Low-End Theory Jive : 1991 [Buy It] SUMMER ROMANCE The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue Virgin : 1980 [Buy It] LOVE GETS YOU TWISTED Graham Parker Squeezing Out Sparks Arista : 1979 [Buy It] I DON'T LOVE YOU BUT I THINK I LIKE YOU Gilbert O'Sullivan 1975 Available [...]
Mambo No. 5 may get all the press, but don't dismiss Tango No. 9 too quickly. The Bay Area quartet has just released their third CD, entitled Here Live No Fish . They're billed as "cutting edge tango," but not in the way of Gotan Project and the like. No electronics here, just sharp edged pieces played on traditional instruments (well, mostly. Is trombone a traditional tango instrument?). The band is: Catharine Clune - violin Isabel Douglass - accordion & bandoneon Greg Stephens - trombone Joshua Raoul [...]
Greetings from the land of the ill. I made the brutal mistake of rushing to kill the intense burning sensation which accompanies eating hot peppers with a cold glass of milk before remembering that my body cannot digest lactose. I feel like I'm on the brink of an terrible vomit-filled evening. Too bad, I was having a really good day. I hung out in Pasadena for a while, and then almost fell asleep in my notebook trying to write a short story. Have you ever tried to write something while half-conscious? I'll tell you right now, I started on page [...]
Photography by Papel-Amarillo It's finally, FINALLY, friday. Long, busy week.... oy. So, let's keep the fun music rolling, shall we? I think it's impossible to listen to Jonathan Richman without either a) smiling or b) being super annoyed. Obviously, as he's my featured artist today, I'm in the smiling camp. Now, back when I was young, and all into Velvet Underground, it was the Modern Lovers that could do no wrong, but as I moved on and my taste changed, it's was his solo work, his simplistic, [...]
A Hot Summer Day - It's A Beautiful Day Long Hot Summer - The Style Council Summer Breeze - The Isley Brothers This Ain't The Summer of Love - Blue Oyster Cult Make It Through The Summer - The Chamber Strings The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell [...]
Bloody Heads Genre: Rock / Rock / Rock From: California, United States The origins of Bloody Heads can be traced back to a middle school on the Central Coast of California around the year 1992. Thirteen years later, the first of many shows was per­formed to enthusiastic audiences from San Francisco, south to Los Angeles. To this day a strong following remains. Bloody Heads songs deal with the [...]
Jonathan Richman is pretty important. Apparently, he's one of the founders of what we know today as "indie rock" and what was the "college rock" scene of the 80's. As the title of the blog says so, this man needs to get his dues. I'm actually new to Jonathan Richman and his band the Modern Lovers, only first listening to them within the last few months. My friend made me a custom compilation of his material, and I dug that a lot. I still have yet to persue an actual album, but I think the self-titled Modern Lovers album will [...]
Jonathan Richman - Just Because I'm Irish (from You Must Ask the Heart ) Just because it's St. Patrick's Day and we haven't posted anything in a while, here's a cute little ditty courtesy of Jonathan Richman to accompany you as you decide whether or not to crawl through the various Irish-themed bars in your town tonight. Of course, would you expect anything other than a cute ditty from an album that features the always affable, though [...]
yessur. the rumours are true. death from below and my black ass are moving to nyc. maybe you've heard of it. march 12th i'll be kicking it at bbh . Jonathan Richman "Springtime in New York" TALK ABOUT PROPHETIC: Death from the Blues
Tom Waits - Lucinda This song sounds like something people would sing on a chain gang. It's just Tom singing, and then beatboxing in the background for the rhythm section, and a faint guitar line; during the breakdown, there is a harmonica part. It's about leaving home to follow a woman (Lucinda), and going down the path of sin because of her. They call me William the Pleaser. I sold opium, fireworks and lead. Buy Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards [...]
To love flowers one by one, don't point that gun to me again, and shorten the words to mean more puzzling. I really love this, talking about what the music feels. In fact it won't be the same, your feelings change every time or after every new discovery in music. One of the best feeling about this love is that it'll never end, there is always new things to discover. For the first time, i owed to
Ach! Jetzt geht's zurück zu den Tagen der guten, alten Synth-Pop-Duos. Aber nur ein bißchen. Wäre auch unverschämt von mir, Teddy Blanks und Ross Harm derart eng zu klassifizieren. Treue Leser haben ja bereits von the Gaskets hier gehört. Wer den Texten ein wenig Aufmerksamkeit widmen möchte: Lohnt sich unbedingt. Nicht umsonst ist die Nähe zu Jonathan Richman und They Might Be Giants hörbar. mp3: the Gaskets / The easy life mp3: the Gaskets / Left hand remix Technorati Tags: [...]
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