Old 97's : She Loves The Sunset [ purchase ] Groove Armada : Suntoucher [ purchase ] Traffic : Paper Sun [ purchase ] The Pernice Brothers : There Goes the Sun [ purchase ]
The short list for the Polaris Music Prize was announced a couple of weeks ago. The list is as follows. Black Mountain - In the Future Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling Caribou - Andorra Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers Plants & Animals - Parc Avenue Shad - The Old Prince Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour Three things are wrong with this list; The Weakerthans, Stars and Two Hours [...]
Traffic : Heaven Is In Your Mind [ purchase ] Combine the spacey sixties, Brit R&B, three months in an isolated Berkshire cottage and you get Heaven Is In Your Mind. Traffic's one constant over the years is Stevie Winwood, who has been there throughout all permeations of the band. Heaven Is In Your Mind is from Mr. Fantasy/Heaven Is In Your Mind, one of the finest albums of sixties-styled music you can find. If you have a chance, I highly recommend a listen.
A belated Happy Birthday to Catbirdseat.Org's very first really-successful internet meme, Hipster Bingo , which actually turned *5* years old last month. Believe it or not, fresh links to this STILL come in many times each week- it actually accounts for a full 25% of Catbirdseat.Org traffic. I know, I know, you'd think I'd have updated Hipster Bingo at some point, to include "beards," or to replace "ironic trucker cap" with "$50 New Era 'Fitted,;" but thing is, you gotta know when to let something go. You gotta know when to stop. The last thing [...]
la serata di venerdì, con un piede nel fango e un orecchio teso al passato. I Wire stanno dentro benissimo al vestito della reunion, riprendono in mano gli strumenti come se fosse per pochi amici e senza troppi fronzoli tirano fuori il loro meglio. E poi i Pistols, che la loro però non è una reunion. E' il punk, è l'attitudine, è quel farsi fottere ancora una volta da Rotten e tutto quello che gli gira intorno. Con quella camicia da ciccione i suoi fuck e il continuo prenderti per il culo. Ironico, se ne frega. Probabilmente ancora [...]
I posted these somewhere else a while ago, but thought more people might like them. It's a bunch of psych rock in various forms, some harder shit that sounds like protometal and some real stoner sounding shit. The Seeds - Travel With Your Mind Neil Meryweather - Sole Survivor Neil Meryweather - 8 Miles High Traffic - Cloured Rain The Third [...]
Volevo scrivere che in sto periodo non ho tempo per niente e tanto meno per il blog. Ma era abbastanza palese, credo. Volevo lamentarmi delle serata di Traffic appena persa (Tricky, Soulwax, Battles, Fujiya & Miyagi). E fanculo questo, e fanculo quello... Ma poi ho alzato le spalle e ho pensato cazzo me ne frega domani ci sono i Pistols (e i Wire!). L'ho detto come se trent'anni non fossero passati, cercando di non pensare a un potenziale effetto circo che potrebbe creare questa reunion. L'ho detto con l'entusiasmo di un ragazzino che pensava che nella [...]
Si sta diffondendo anche da noi il fenomeno dei secret show, appuntamenti live annunciati all'ultimo momento e in maniera informale, spesso con line-up sconosciuta, gratuiti e riservati agli appassionati più attenti o casualmente di passaggio. La scorsa notte all'interno del Traffic Free Festival di Torino s'è consumato un evento. Senza alcun annuncio sul sito del locale (giusto ieri era comparso un piccolo box sulla homepage del festival ), allo storico Hiroshima Mon Amour il re del trip hop Tricky ha suonato per più di un'ora e mezza per 300 fortunati. Iniziata [...]
Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys [ purchase ] Rickie Lee Jones: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys [ purchase ] EMF: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys [ purchase ] At almost twelve minutes long, Traffic's 1971 laid-back jazz jam anthem is heavy with solos from the various bandmembers, and a tight funk/rock chorus which plays on [...]
Tom Bombadil was always one of my favorite characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship Of The Ring . Even though the characater has been hotly debated by those with more time than me , I always thought of him as an enigmatic nature spirit who was in love with the concept of life. A cult of personality, minus the cult and the funny mustache. The real Neal Cassady of Middle Earth. Bombadil is an enigmatic group of musicians who obviously love what they are doing. Their debut album, [...]
stevie winwood gets a little help from his old blind faith mate & recent concert partner, god, on this new track from his forthcoming album, nine lives ...definitely an throwback to winwood's early seventies heyday & on par with the material off his previous effort, 2003's about time , which was one of his best in quite a while... nine lives will be available april 29th & winwood will be on the road this summer with tom petty & the heartbreakers. download: steve winwood ft. eric clapton - dirty city [...]
This weekend was the 5th annual Extreme Beer Fest in Boston. I couldn't go, seeing as how I'm living 3,000 miles away now, but I remember fondly the last time I attended what could only be described as a huge, nerd-filled drinking contest. It was two years ago, and I drove up to Bristol, Rhode Island, where my friend Ian attended law school. I described the entire weekend in detail here on the blog, but I'm sure it wasn't my finest moment as a writer seeing as how I was intoxicated pretty much from the moment I arrived on Friday [...]
Seeing as how there are no other important stories occurring either in America or abroad, ABC News has run a story on paper cuts, and why they hurt so much. Yes, you read that correctly. Lauren Cox from the ABC News Medical Unit vividly details the act of receiving a paper cut while "opening the mail," and "rummaging through notes," only to report that, "Nobody really knows the answer" as to why they hurt so much. Fucking genius. I would love to have been in the room with her and her editor when she walked in smiling -- perhaps even [...]
I feel like such a waste of life. I got absolutely nothing accomplished this weekend. This is like a dead zone or something. Ken and his lady-friend Katie have flown out to LA from Jersey and are here staying with us for about a week, but all we've done is thrown a big party for Nicci's sister, played some music with Ilya, gotten really wasted and sat around giggling or napping. I think I've been caught in one of those phases where all the days run together to form a linear system of increasingly hazy moments. It's kind of fun [...]
Hello my loves. I'm currently scribing from the kitchen, where Sari is preparing a massive Sunday afternoon spread that includes homemade bruschetta and all sorts of yummy snacks. We're several bottles in, and it's been a generally beatific day. Not sure what the plan is tonight, but I have to be asleep at a reasonable hour thanks to another voluntary airport run in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Hopefully this won't happen again for a while. Now here's the music. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, I give birth to [...]
This is the title song from Traffic's 1970's album. I find the song amazing with that flute and those guitars and Steve Winwood's voice, perfect for this song. This is an old British folk song and was already in print in the early years of the seventeenth century. It has been widespread among folk singers including The Watersons, Steeleye Span and Martin Carthy. MP3 File
Lately I've been experiencing a bit of a posting block. I've no problem saying my two cents worth at other blogs and journals, but the genesis of many posts I've sitting in my head haven't been making their way to my keyboard. I'm having a Barton Fink moment, I'm afraid, so I figured the next best thing to do is to devote a post to writer's block. Here's to being stuck in thought, a deer frozen in the headlight of the mind. Traffic: (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired [...]
Sorry about the lack of posts lately, I have been very busy this week, and my commute home today was two hours. Crappy Maryland traffic... Has anyone out there in Internet land sat in traffic for two hours to get home? Insanity is sitting in expensive cars motionless on roads made for rapid movement. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche [...]
According to Alexa , nialler9 is now more popular than hotpress.com. Eoghan is right , online subscription services are dead. There is no way that a magazine with a 30 year history should be trailing behind a one man operation 2 year old blog. The search engine hits alone should easily raise their traffic above this blog's traffic. Click the image to see the chart in full. Tags: hot press , nialler9 , traffic , [...]
I definitely do not recommend attempting this , especially in DC traffic, but I figured what the hell.... It all started around noonish last friday when I decided to leave work early to beat the DC Beltway traffic. Boy was I in for a surprise. Because of all the out of state idiots hogging up all four lanes (license plates from Ohio to Ontario all over the highway) traffic was stop and go the whole way home to my fair town of Parkville in North Baltimore. During the 2.5 hour commute I decided to switch my Video [...]
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