I love that feeling that washes over me when a piece of music is so screwed up that I (at least initially) have no idea why I'm enjoying myself so much. That feeling will be the driving force behind most of my WTF?! entries. From Merzbow to Peter Brotzmann, me a fellow noise cohort S. Victor Aaron have this mysterious [...]

Monday Music's the one post per week where Some Of It Was True! abandons its London-only rule. Here it comes: Austra - Lose It ( mp3 ) When I was at my saddest, I'd suddenly start crying while walking around. One time I could scarcely see for the tears and walked out into a road; a car beeped - loud and distant - and I jumped back, shaken, feeling dumb, even more upset. Everything felt so fragile, like incredibly thin ice audibly buckling. The yearning and forlorn hope of this song by Toronto trio Austra sounds [...]
i am going to try to post a mim mix every month for the rest of this year. that would make 11 in 11 if i get it done. afterall, this blog intends to rock you, the reader/listener/browser. so let's get to rockin! please come back monthly if you wanna hear some tunes that you may not have heard before by some of my favorite artists. these songs are just for listening not for download. some people actually listen to music the old way, on vinyl records. for the kids out there, those were [...]

Pat Metheny Group - Slip Away I'm slipping away for a little holiday in the sun. Back Monday. Here's hoping that everyone has a spacious Thanksgiving. P.S. Watch for a sound quality upgrade on this track next week...

Pat Metheny : Guitars Michael Brecker : Tenor Saxophone Dewey Redman : Tenor Saxophone Charlie Haden : Acoustic bass Jack de Johnette: Drums I know this follows pretty quickly on from another '80/812 band show but there were requests for this show that I mentioned in that post and as we're going [...]

Pat Metheny : Guitars Michael Brecker : Tenor Saxophone Dewey Redman : Tenor Saxophone Charlie Haden : Acoustic bass Jack de Johnette: Drums 80/81 is still one of my favourite albums and this live recording is a total treat! Not as long as the more common Hamburg set but very well recorded and everyone's on fire . I've been to an awful lot of Pat gigs over the [...]

Black Sabbath - Changes Saxon - 747 Gary Moore - Empty Rooms (Long version) Within Temptation - Mother Earth Alice Cooper - Only women bleed Ian Hunter - We gotta get out of here Gino Vanelli - People got to move TC Matic - Oh la la la Status Quo - Hold you back Pat Metheny - Last train home [...]
Good Girls Don't - The Knack Footstompin' Music - Grand Funk Railroad Racer X - Big Black Lover I Don't Have To Love - Bright Eyes Baby, Don't Apologise - Big Audio Dynamite Pass The Hatchet - Roger & The Gypsys (if you don't know this song, [...]