Although it's received a mixed bag of reviews since it opened a couple of weeks ago, I'm still looking forward to seeing the latest movie to be based on a novel, Feast of Love . It boasts a strong cast of actors including Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear. Accompanying the movie is a soundtrack that also boasts a strong lineup of musicians including The Frames , Corinne Bailey Rae and The New Mastersounds , M. Ward , Jeff Buckley , Cary Brothers , and others. Cary showed up on [...]
Last Friday afternoon, it was raining again. That in-and-of-itself was not so impressive, as it's been pouring pretty routinely for the last month or so. But the weather set a decidedly mellow mood, and caused me to bum a ride back from work (which will get far more exciting after I return to NYC this weekend). I was listening absentmindedly to the radio, and I was pleasantly surprised to hear a breakbeat, which eventually coalesced into what could easily be described as trip-hop, complete with that female vocalist. I did some research, and apparently I was [...]
Like most of you, I visit music blogs for the sole purpose of finding free new music. Let's not kid ourselves; you arrived here via a Hype Machine or Elbo.ws search for some particular piece of music which you hope to acquire at no cost, not to actually read some clown's slef-serving opinion of the music itself. I ignore most of that nonsense, myself (probably one of many contributing factors to the suckiness of this blog). But I do browse this scene enough to know that there is a LOT of contrived music blogging going on out [...]
Que serait l'existence sans le bruit et la fureur ? Hein, William... Que serait une vie sans concerts ? Fade et sans relief, assurément. Deux concerts très différents cette semaine, l'occasion d'être recouvert, abruti, innondé de décibels et de libérer une énergie qu'on croyait perdue. Tout cela est bien primitif mais c'est tellement bon. Commençons par le très talentueux guitariste, Eddie