Toad ignorance abounded at this particular show - I basically came because I love The Willard Grant Conspiracy, Robert Fisher's group, but I know very little either of Scottish folk legend Jackie Leven, nor of Michael Weston King, one time lead singer of English alt-folk act The Good Sons. Still, music in the round like this [...]
DreamHost, my domain provider, noticed I was averaging over 60 gigabytes of mp3 transfers a day. For you non-techies, let's just say that's a tremendous amount. So, DreamHost disabled my sound files - can't say that I blame them. The problem was online music providers that found my sound index page and leeched my bandwidth. So, no more index page, you'll have to download the music right here, which is the way it should be. The next few days, I'll be reuploading and editing my older entries, so please be patient. I couldn't possibly upload 500-odd songs, so I'll be [...]
Alors que je prévoyais déjà ce qui allait arriver dès le post de samedi... : I don't want your millions, Mister, I don't want your diamond ring. All I want is the right to live, Mister, Give me back my job again. Now, I don't want your Rolls-Royce, Mister, I don't want your pleasure yacht. All I want's just food for my babies, [...]
What started out as a strange week has just gotten weirder. Tuesday was the fourth anniversary of "the end of major combat operations in Iraq." Also on Tuesday, in Los Angeles the police fired rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters, clubbing and kicking people in the crowd, including a news crew. The president, after weeks of claiming Congress is endangering our troops by not funding his war spending bill, vetoes the bill when it is delivered. It has been a week filled with scandal and tragedy. Thursday's Republican debate should be an interesting addition to the [...]
It's roller derby night! The Boston Massacre goes up against Baltimore's Mobtown Maulers at the Shriner's Auditorium in Wilmington at 6:00 PM tonight. I won't be there, given my general dislike of crowd scenes, but the wife will shouting her support for the local team from the stands. I don't really get roller derby, no matter how many times the principles have been explained it to me. My better half, though, has become a diehard fan of the newfangled, punk rock iteration of the sport. She attends all the local matches, follows the national scene [...]
For Part One, Visit: L.A. Burnout :: Part One of Three For Part Two,Visit: L.A. Burnout :: Part Two of Three ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------ Running the Drunkard has put me in touch, both through email and in person, with some great folks, many of whom have been eager to share their musical best-kept-secrets, and in the case of this post, their excellent themed compilations. The [...]
Lenny Bruce, humoriste américain talentueux et provocateur décède en 1966. Je vous invite à voir le merveilleux film de Bob Fosse, Lenny , si vous désirez le découvrir. Sa mort laissa une cicatrice importante chez les folksingers. Lenny partageait les mêmes cabarets qu'eux, la même rage d'en découdre, la même volonté protestataire. Si bien que trois d'entre eux, et pas des moindres, écrivirent des chansons à sa mémoire : Tim Hardin, Phil Ochs et Bob Dylan. Les deux premiers s'en tirent bien mieux que leur illustre confrère en livrant deux poignants hommages à Lenny Bruce. [...]
Washington White - "I Am in the Heavenly Way" How deep is Washington White? As deep as the Potomac River? As deep as the Georgetown philosophy department? The White Sox bullpen? 1. Greg is studying for his GREs and when I ran into him today, I asked him how it was going. "Well, it's actually pretty hard to make an analogy using words you don't know." "Impossible," I said. "Yeah." 2. My favourite records are to my record player as my conversations with acquaintances are to my mind. 3. So it occurred to me that in my conversation with Greg [...]
C'est pas tout, mais moi je peins ma cuisine, alors, les blogs, c'est beau, mais ça ne rajoute pas une couche de jaune à mon mur... Mais peindre sans musique, ça ne se fait pas... Alors la rasade est cette fois-ci encore un titre de Phil Ochs, et un titre surprenant... Je pourrais passer des heures à vous parler de ce single africain, mais je dois retourner à ma cuisine. Je vous laisse donc
We're continuing to slack around here at Shake Your Fist and have invited yet another guest blogger to do our work for us. But with guests this good, how can you possibly object? Jeannette Ordas is the talent behind the food blog Everybody Likes Sandwiches (which isn't, just to be clear, exclusively about sandwich making). I love Everybody Likes Sandwiches for lots of reasons, but if I had to pick three I'd say, 1) fabulous recipes, 2) writing [...]
Last December, I blogged about the Elektra Records label releasing some of their precious archive material. Well, now these lil' gems are finally available on CD! Elektra's label founder, Jac Holzman , has teamed up with Collector's Choice Music again to release yet another round of rarities. These are both classic albums and long lost recordings by Phil Ochs , The Wackers , Joshua Rifkin , Oscar Brand , [...]
Song, by Toad
snuhthing/anything
Un violon, un jambon
Old Blue Bus
Armagideon Time
An Aquarium Drunkard
Said the Gramophone
Shake Your Fist
CybersMusic
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
Madden Miles Presents The Candace Bailey Beat Tape
REMIX SUNDAYS- May 27th, 2012
