My daughter is fascinated with Justin Roberts. On Wednesday she started grabbing my finger and walking me over to my laptop. She then does her Stevie Wonder side bops and then says, "Willy Willy." This is my cue to play Willy was a Whale for her. When that finishes, she says, "Pop. Pop." This is my cue to play Pop Fly. By the way, if you have a boy who is a baseball nut, this song...
25 UNRELATED IRRELEVANCIES ABOUT MYSELF 1. On the rare occasions when I have uncommitted time to myself I sit on the sofa and stare into the middle distance idly pondering what I might usefully do during the brief period ahead....
http://www.mediafire.com/?jnhz2tz0ni5 Rules for Jokers is a varied album of mostly acoustic music, and Gilmore’s obvious influences are Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, and Tom Waits. Her lyrics are acerbic, funny, and witty, and her melodies strong and engaging.
Jim Lauderdale will be on Austin City Limits tonight, Nov. 7th with Elvis Costello. The show was recorded on Aug. 31st and will be televised on PBS stations. Please check your local listings for times, channels, etc. For complete info on all ACL shows, go to www.AustinCityLimits.org In case you didn't already know, Jim was part of Elvis' "Secret, Profane and Sugarcane Tour" and sang harmony...
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 1 - 7 in PDF format This week's TV Movies FUNNY LADY: Wanda sykes launches a new comedy/variety show "The Wanda Sykes Show" at 11 p.m. on Fox. SERIES...
Thea Gilmore Breaks New Ground This Season with her Holiday Debut Strange Communion The critically-acclaimed UK singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore has just released a holiday collection 'Strange Communion' via Rykodisc.
By the time would record its second album, Goat, the band had built a sound perfectly suited for Albini's engineering methods. McNeilly’s loud, disciplined drumming worked wonders with Albini's custom drum mikes, and the band's unity meant live studio recording sounded infinitely better than individual tracking ever could. It all came together on Goat, widely considered the Jesus Lizard’s...
OK, so I guess I should go back and listen to Neko Case's "Middle Cyclone" a few more times. It didn't make all that big of an impression on me when it came out in March. But now it sits on top of Amazon's Best Albums of 2009 , one of the first year-end lists to hit the web (they do, after all, need to sell stuff). The top 10 is: Neko Case Yeah Yeah Yeahs Phoenix The Pains of Being Pure...
More than ever on the concert circuit, nostalgia is the move. With everyone from Liz Phair to Public Enemy to The Pixies (and those are just the P's) devoting gigs and sometimes entire tours to reviving their seminal albums in sequence, lots of long-lived performers — particularly those strugging to get even their cult to embrace their new music — have glommed to the trend. Travis are...
We sat and chatted last night over a cold beer as chilly weather began to make its presence outsife, talking of tombstones for pets that were discovered by Dirk Diggler, politics and the local college, and how we would be lost without it. The bar was too smoky even for me, and someone played some [...]
So anyway, I've been trying to be a bit better about the exercise -- my tricky work schedule and caring for the boy in the afternoons make it tough to get my favorite exercise, walking, in. But the other day I jogged/walked around a local lake and was feeling very pleased at the manly exercising. Then I realized somewhere along the way my driver's license, that I'd slipped in my shorts, had fallen...
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will perform one of the new cuts from their latest album 'Speed of Life' (NGDB Records/Sugar Hill) as well as their classic "Mr. Bojangles" on the CBS Early Show on Saturday, November 21. Later that night, the group will bring their "deceptively masterful playing" (Washington Post) up north to play Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble in Woodstock, NY - a fitting...
Another fun post from the archives. Back in 2005, in response to a challenge by Shotgun Daddy , I made a list of my ten "life-changing" albums: 1. The Banana Splits The first album that I can remember owning. I still have it somewhere. There was nothing better than sitting my 5-year-old self down in front of the TV on Saturday morning and watching hour upon hour of mindless entertainment....