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Tag: music
The post below about Rob’s immortalization was somewhat embarrassing for me, as I actually own the album in that “compact disc” format your grandparents may have told you about, but
BBC 6 Music has been saved from closure.
Scott already covered the awful news, but if anyone is worth a follow-up post, it’s Alex Chilton. Like most of my contemporaries, I came to admire Alex Chilton through his professional admirers; and like everyone who came of age before the Internet, what I knew about him consisted of a host of believable rumors. I’ve […]
Kate McGarrigle, 1946-2010. Definitely a great one.
The Guardian published the NME’s list of the best 50 albums of the last decade a few days ago, and I’ve been meaning to comment. The Strokes are over-rated — they were highly derivat
Pitchfork brings the snark: For a while now, Tom Waits has been threatening to drop a live album document of his 2008 Glitter and Doom tour on us. And today, Waits’ new website announced all the details. Glitter and Doom is due November 24 from Anti-, and it’ll be two discs, on CD and vinyl. […]
I’m a bit late to the game on this one. Paul beat me to the punch, and got in the obviously good quip in the process. I blame the time zones. Or the healthy moderate drinking that a good f
I see that fresh off a richly-deserved win in the coveted Worst Lyrics of 2008 competition (“You look so much cuter/With something in your mouth”) (although, actually, I might vote for the
Jethro Tull robbed again! See, it’s a meta-joke about the irrelevance of the Grammys that I’m the millionth person to make a 20-year-old joke. It’s like the Oscars, I guess — t