Some people go with no introduction. I've been a fan of Paul Collins Beat since the album first came out in high school. It was a staple on my turntable through college, and it's never left. Needless to say, I had to fan myself like an excited schoolgirl about to meet the cast of Twilight, when Paul Collins stopped by, plopped himself on the red leather interview couch and talked a spell. When I was a kid, [...]
Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal showcases The Plimsouls at the height of their power, tearing the roof off and on the verge of starting a riot on L.A.’s old Sunset Strip. Recorded at the Whisky A Go Go on October 31, 1981, this previously unreleased 18 song live album includes many of The Plimsouls’ classics as well as plenty of surprises. It has been stunningly remastered,features previously unpublished and gorgeous photos by renowned photographer Bob Matheu, and also includes three pummeling tracks (“New Orleans,” “Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!” and “Run Run Run”) with special guests [...]
PETER CASE ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, AT MCCABE'S GUITAR SHOP, 3101 PICO BLVD, SANTA MONICA. 8PM / $20 / ALL AGES. MCCABES.COM
This is from a 2007 release, Vanguard Visionaries, Peter Case. The album has ten songs, eight of which Case wrote. This one is a story. MP3 File yousendit
When Laura Ann Masura's longtime friend Josiah Mazzaschi heard she had been injured in a motorcycle accident, he didn't sit on his hands. He got on the phone. Mazzaschi, the frontman of local indie-rock band Light FM , has organized a benefit concert, Jam for Laura Ann, on Sunday at the Echoplex to help Masura, a fellow musician and also a bartender at the downtown's Redwood Bar, defray some $15,000 in medical expenses. The 5 p.m. show ($12) features a heady cast of performers, including the Backwards Clock Society, featuring Billy Corgan along with Kerry [...]
[A quick happy 70th birthday to Judy Collins, and a happy May Day to you. Other responsibilities are going to force me to be very brief with this update — see Duke for a bigger rundown.] Tonight: If I'm still standing by this evening, it will be Wolfmother and the Ruby Sons at First Fridays at the Natural History Museum, then a quick jaunt to Spaceland for Eagle Winged Palace and Useless Keys . ... You might be into the Black Lips [...]
[Random news items from my inbox ...] Friends are rallying en masse in support of Peter Case , the L.A. icon who underwent emergency open-heart surgery on Jan. 15. A fund, Hidden Love , has been set up to help defray the medical expenses of the former Plimsouls frontman, 55, who had no health insurance and is expected to make a full recovery. And a three-night benefit May 1-3 is planned at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica — the $50-per-night shows feature Loudon Wainwright [...]
I'm scooping myself a bit here as I'm focusing on the story behind this event for my Wayward Son column next week, but I wanted to give you some early word regarding the Victoria Williams concert and ... Continue reading "Info on the Victoria Williams' Sweet Relief benefit concert next weekend." >
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 [...]
Tour Journal: On the road with the Paul Collins Beat and Gentleman Jesse and His Men.
Taken from his slick album Downtown , "Lesson Number One" is a gentle '50's style ballad with jangly guitars, soaring harmonies, and some sinewy guitar lines snaking underneath the layers of instrumentation.
There is no justice in this world. If there was, then I wouldn’t be writing this review, because everyone on the planet would already know about the absolutely wonderful, frenetic, powerpop of the The Beat . But last I checked, they're still a few people unaware, so that means I got work to do. In [...]
Ever since I chose teaching as a career, Labor Day has been doubly relevant for me: an annual return to the classroom-as-job-site marked by a national holiday in celebration of the organized workplace. This year, however, after leaving a teaching position that just wasn't working out, and subsequently spending the summer carrying hope from one interview to the next, I find myself in a bit of limbo. Which is to say: for the first time in over a decade, labor day looms, and I don't have plans to be anywhere the day [...]
This one is from 1992's Six-Pack of Love. MP3 File
This is from 2007's Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, a title inspired by blues singer Sleepy John Estes. MP3 File
This is from 2007's Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John. MP3 File
This is from Peter Case's latest album, Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John. The title is a reference to Sleepy John Estes though this is not a tribute album. The album has the great sparse sound I always think Peter Case has. His words tell strories and none more than this song about people living on the streets. This is Carlos Guitarlos accompaning Case on this song. MP3 File
Its not like we are slackers or anything.... Yeah I guess we are sometimes, sorry for another thirsty Thursday on a Friday. Today my paste magazine came in which means I got some tracks that are going to make up for the 3 hour lateness, lets jump in. Chicago indie-rock band Office released their fifth album September 25 and its a damn shame that I had never come across the group before. The music is great, the lyrics are great, collaborating bass, drums, and guitar pound together for an enjoyable song rhythm, a guitar [...]
Such impressions have been put in more general terms in Anderson's only successful novel, Poor White: All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built, and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities [...]
THIS WEEK'S FINDS Sept. 16-22 * Be on the lookout for a new section on the main Fingertips web site entitled "The Record Shop": a page of links taking you directly to where you can buy some of the albums mentioned here week to week (and support Fingertips in the process). This should be up by week's end, if all goes well. * Likewise be on the lookout for a new contest, to be posted later in the week. The prize this time: Canon , the nicely-packaged two-disc Ani DiFranco retrospective. [...]
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