OK, couldn’t help it. There was just too much good stuff this year…
SIDE A
1. James Blackshaw - “Gate of Ivory” from Litany of Echoes
2. Grails - “Reincarnation Blues” from Doomsdayer’s Holiday
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - “Moonland” from Dig Lazurus Dig!!!
4. Constantines - “Our Age” from Kensington Heights
5. Mogwai - […]

Well it’s the end of 2008, the surf sucks and I’m battling a token seasonal cold. So what better time to recap this year’s highlights in music?
Selections are broken up like any piece of vinyl: SIDE A and SIDE B. Though there’s no hierarchy, SIDE A would be more of the fire and […]

 
 
Up by 276 and counting. Go Stuart!!!
[UPDATE] 1:15 PST - down to 241, but still holding.
[Update 2] 1 vote for Lizard People ic
 
 
 

As a form of closure on this whole 8 year debacle– to recap, reboot, and move on– last month i picked up and read Frank Rich’s 2006 book The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth. Boston University Film Professor Ray Carney gave this appraisal which made me go to the […]

well, speaking about playing yer acoustic guitar..and american folk/roots/blues….
there simply isn’t anyone better than Kelly Joe Phelps..
you heard about that deal Robert Johnson made at the crossroads with Bethelzebub..?
some say Kelly must have done something similar.
A heavy favorite of Steve Earle, Bill Frisell, and my man Martin Simpson..he knocked me out the first time […]

Did the Republican’s really just push us deeper into recession because they hate Unions and want more foriegn and cheap labor in the South?  
These guys are complete assholes.
I hope Bush feels just enough guilt to allow a bridge loan out of the already approved $700b.  He’s already the worst ever, but maybe he’ll add […]

Picking up on the Dr.’s educational and excellent last post, I got to thinking about the contemporary crop of acoustic guitar players. People like Glenn Jones, Sir Richard Bishop, Steffen Basho-Jung, Harris Newman… all exceptional musicians outright, but each more importantly are guitar sculptors of architectural space and sound. Like Fahey and Kottke […]

here’s a song that reflects a genre of story telling in which a whole culture, or way of life..has been turned on it’s head..
up is down..black is white.. we sit backwards upon our horse.. and dust quenches thirst.
this is in essence a protest song from way..way..back in the history of the British Ilse’s..
it […]