Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Deborah Lopez Mike Doughty isn't going to kid you: "I can't renounce drugs. I love drugs," he writes early in his new memoir, ' The Book of Drugs .' It's a frank chronicle of the early part of Doughty's career, from working as a doorman at the Knitting Factory in the early '90s to assembling, almost by accident, the musicians who became [...]
Here we go again. For the seventh consecutive year, I will be posting Christmas music here. After so many years, and with so much available music, it's hard to know where to start. But it couldn't hurt to start in the strangest place possible. Ventriloquists are interesting entertainers. You got Jeff Dunham, Shari Lewis, and Paul Winchell. You probably think of them in pairs, like Willie Tyler and Lester or Señor Wences and Pedro . How odd is it that Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy were a big hit on the radio. That's [...]
Mike Doughty and His Band Fantastic played The Independent on Saturday, with support from Moon Hooch.
Musician Mike Doughty discusses his new album, Yes and Also Yes (due out August 30), which features a duet with Rosanne Cash.
Not one, but TWO Theo London jams for your Thursday. "No Particular One" is a cover of the great Jesse Boone soul track Mr. London recently cut with the Budos Band. Fresh. "Wine & Chocolates", excerpted from the "Lover's Holiday" EP from earlier this year, sounds as much Theo London 2011 as it does late 90's alternaelectro. We're hearing Soul Coughing! Timez Are Weird These Dayz is due July 19 Theophilus London - No Particular One Theophilus London - Wine & Chocolates [...]
A perfect song when riding through the lower circles. (Image found on Yimmys Yayo) Soul Coughing - City of Motors
This is simply a personal favorite song of mine. Believe it or not, it has been over 11 years since Mark Sandman - the lead singer of Morphine - passed away. The music that these guys wrote was sometimes haunting, as the song posted today will be a testament to. Rarely was there a true guitar used in their music, as many of their songs simply featured a 2-string bass guitar played with a slide, various percussion instruments, and a drummer. You would occasionally hear a piano or traditional guitar used, but that was rare. [...]
Times are changing so quickly. You want to experience an odd, unsettling feeling? Fire up The Matrix and marvel at how they escape trouble by going through payphones. Movie or not, I'll wager that's the first payphone you've seen in years. The Matrix came out in 1999, and in that short timespan payphones have become [...]
Okay, so I am that guy that hears certain sounds in songs, and my mind clicks and starts thinking of other songs with the same sound. Or what song they ripped off for a sample. Or ripped riffs off from. I mean, I had that sort of moment with that Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros track "40 Day Dream" and how close it smacked of Elton John 's "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues". Seriously. Listen to those two songs one after the other and try telling me they don't sound similar. [...]
I don't know about you folks, but when a great TV show makes a habit of playing great music during its killer scenes that can really lock you in as a fan. One show that absolutely did that for me was Homicide: Life On The Street. The Show ran on NBC for seven seasons between 1993 and 1999. I don't think I missed very many episodes during that time. I found out about it from my friend Stacy who would rave on about it. I probably missed half of season one, but I'm sure I caught them all eventually. It's [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK Radiohead drummer Phil Selway is to perform a solo tour of Europe, beginning in Italy on Mar. 27 -- in support of his as-yet-untitled upcoming album release. The drummer and singer recently penned and sang 'The Ties That Bind Us' and 'The Witching Hour' on Neil Finn 's '7 Worlds Collide' Oxfam fundraiser album 'The Sun Came Out.' He also contributed to other tracks, alongside Johnny Marr , Jeff Tweedy and KT [...]
The Flaming Lips are no strangers to concert theatrics - an average Lips shows features everything from Wayne in a bubble to hand puppets to confetti cannons. For their upcoming New Year's Eve Freakout gig at the Cox Convention Center in their hometown of Oklahoma City, the psychedelic-rock band have have decided to up the ante in a big way by covering Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety after the midnight countdown. Tickets for what is sure to be quite the spectacle are still available , starting at [...]
Soul Coughing - True Dreams Of Wichita flamgirlant says and I agree "One of my favorite bands from the 90s, I can't help but love the mix of jazz, hip hop, samples and spoken-word poetry." Mike Doughty's (the lead singer) solo stuff is awesome too.
i'm gonna get into the batter so the mix might glow ♫ Soul Coughing - Rolling / 1998 Soul Coughing grabbed attention in 1996 with " Super Bon Bon " but despite the song's fresh approach, it is a bit grating and annoying. 1998 saw the band come back with El Oso , an collection of tracks that blended M. Doughty's sing/rap/talk vocals with everything from drum n' bass beats to typical indie guitar and percussion. El Oso is one of my favorite albums of that [...]
i was originally gonna call this post "100 days, 100th post" in honor of President Obama's first 100 days in office and my first 100 posts. those two events almost lined up at exactly the same time back in april. it was gonna be a review of both. but it didn't quite happen. i never got around to actually writing very much until now...(late again) ...but instead, this post is coming on
Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files was the first album released in association with the popular television series The X-Files released in 1996. It contained both music that had been featured in the show, as well as music whose themes were in line with the concepts of the show. The album peaked at #47 on Billbord's Top 200 chart. Producers used the Compact Disc's pregap, so a listener would have to actually manually rewind the first track a full nine minutes to hear the 2 hidden tracks by Nick Cave. This is [...]
Happy Frizzle-day! Soul Coughing: The Brooklynites
Mike Doughty has taken to the road to bless us with the weirdness that is Sad Man Happy Man and is stopping in Louisville this evening to field your every question and request at Zanzabar . That's right, yell out a song request like a belligerent or if you're the quiet type, just go place a question you'd like answered in Mike's jar. Leave no request silent or any question unasked, he's taking them all. Sharing the bill with Mr. Doughty are cellist Andrew 'Scrap' Livingston and Porter Black. Here are the details: [...]
Hold on, as we are about to get all meta-analytical up on this piece. Here are the top 10 best songs about writing. These are the musical musings on the act of making something out of nothing. The tunes about the process of taming the ethereal and tapping into that great big atmosphere of inspiration. Whether it's an attack on grammar Nazis, the beast of burden that is writer's block, or word play and verb flexing put into melody, these are the songs that give us insight into the sometimes self-indulgent struggle that is putting pen to paper. Write on. [...]
so i've just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list - which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list - and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i've decided to do a ten day countdown leading up to my number 1 album choice, vh1 best [whatever] of [decade] style. [100 - 91] [90-81] [80-71] [...]
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