I'd been a poorly-informed fan of Casper and the Cookies ever since I randomly downloaded "Sneaky Snake" sometime last year, but their release this year, The Optimist's Club, sealed the deal. MP3: Casper and the Cookies - Krötenwanderung After doing on on very short notice, Jason emailed me back and said that ...
It's that time of the year again, and tomorrow as soon I get back from work I'll be loading the car and then off on a five or six hour journey to a rather small ski resort called Supper Besse in the Massif Central where the family and me will be holed up over the holiday period. Bad luck means that I must be back in Nimes Thursday and Friday, before returning to my family and the snow drenched peaks for another long week-end, what this does mean is that me having no internet access on the ski slopes there [...]
The past two years have seen some of my favorite bands get crazy productive and even more prolific than normal, and Michal Nau of Page France ranks right up there with the best of them. 2007 saw the release of three Page France EPs, as well as the re-release of ...
Editor's Note: This post was written by Neil Thompson of San Francisco's Low Red Land . It is part of a series of posts that the band will be writing for the site today. At the bottom of the page, you can find the links to the rest. When we (Ben, Mark, Adam, and me) were driving here, I could feel the east grasp behind me. The same cities dangling their fingers, their old faces and buildings, their beaten roads. And then, the [...]
Si l'on cherche souvent l'originalité dans une reprise, certaines chansons sont aussi bonnes chantées à l'identique, ou presque. Cela est d'autant plus vrai lorsque la chanson est parfaite. En matière de chansons parfaites, il y a un spécialiste nommé Randy Newman qui en a écrit un nombre absolument incroyable, du moins pour le fan absolu que je suis. Parmi ses merveilles, I'll be home a une place à part. Il l'a enregistré lui-même très tard (1977, même si une version Live est parue en 1971), bien après nombre de "reprises" dont celles-ci (1970-1973). Voilà donc un post avec [...]
One year after Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, and things are still a mess. Bush the Lesser made a photo-op trip to a carefully selected red state enclave in Mississippi to proclaim that things have improved since he was there last. (“What, fewer minorities and poor people living there?†my wife acidly responded to his assertion.) Of course, when the situation last year featured the inundation of a major urban core and dead bodies floating in the streets, there’s no place to go but up. My sister-in-law was in New Orleans a few weeks ago for [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Yellow Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington, Yellow Days. Frank Sinatra, The Moon Was Yellow. Zhang Ruei, Song of the Yellow River. Oregon, Yellow Bell. Syd Barrett, Golden Hair. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Yellow Coat. The Ventures, Yellow Jacket. Yo La Tengo, Yellow Sarong. Peggy Lee, Golden Earrings. Cab Calloway, Yaller. Leadbelly, Yellow Gal. Gene Autry, The Yellow Rose of
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