Johnny Flynn – Sweet William EP
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Johnny Flynn – Trains [Rose, Mary, and Time][Audio clip: view full post to listen]Johnny Flynn – Drum Brashness and swagger are necessary parts of the job for Mr. Flynn. The press has him carrying the banner of Anti-Folk in Britain almost singlehandedly. A burden he neither shirks nor disavows. [...]
Back Door Slam – Roll Away
Back Door Slam – Too Good For Me Back Door Slam – Roll Away I saw the Back Door Slam perform at the old Crocodile Café in Seattle, which has since abruptly closed, been sold, renovated, and reopened. As I recall, the band’s drummer (Ross) was celebrating his twenty-first birthday that night. He was the [...]
The late, great Steve Marriott
Got The Old Grey Whistle Test, Vol. 3 the other day from Netflix, and the highlight of the disc was definitely this performance by Humble Pie, Steve Marriott’s band with Peter Frampton after the former left the Small Faces. For the most part, I prefer Faces to Humble Pie and the Small Faces to both, [...]
The magnificent vocoder (not to be confused with Peter Frampton’s talk box)
I felt like listening to a little Imogen Heap today, and since I never got around to digitizing my CD and it’s buried in some box somewhere, had to resort to YouTube: This led me to ask Keith….other favorite vocoder tracks? Here are a couple others that come to mind, both from around 25 years [...]
The Rumble Strips
Rumble Strips – Time Rumble Strips – Alarm Clock There are certain things I’ve come to expect from underdog Brit bands. Vaguely classical bridges, obvious accents, some horn assistance, and a focus on the girl that should have been. In these aspects, the Rumble Strips give Dexys Midnight Runners the best go for their money [...]
David Bowie swings Low
David Bowie – Sound and Vision David Bowie – Warszawa In January I went to an awesome jazz concert here in Seattle. This post has nothing to do with jazz. However, after leaving the concert I walked around with a friend I had invited and one of his friends whom I met as we stamped [...]
Belle And Sebastian
Belle And Sebastian – The Blues Are Still Blue Belle And Sebastian – Another Sunny Day There was a time, not so long ago, when Belle and Sebastian were my band in roughly the same way that Jane Austen was my writer. I could listen to one of their albums almost without thinking and find [...]
Hard-Fi
Hard-Fi – Cash Machine Hard-Fi – Tied Up Too Tight Is Hard-Fi good? Not really. Are they fun? Heck yeah. As the imitable Kieron says: ‘Hard To Beat’ is an incredible pop record that has me walking like I’m heading out on the pull even if I’m just going to buy a stamp down the [...]
Nowhere
For fans of My Bloody Valentine’s 1992 masterpiece Loveless (like myself), Ride’s Nowhere has been proclaimed by at least a few to be the nearest runner-up among the records released during the shoegazing wave of the early 1990′s. That said, it’s definitely worth listening to all these years later. Taste and Vapour Trail remain two [...]
Limitations
This song was inspired by the film Magnum Force, the second film in which Clint Eastwood plays bad ass loose cannon San Francisco Police detective “Dirty” Harry Callahan. The title is a line that Callahan says to his corrupt boss Briggs (played by Hal Holbrook!) before he drives off in a car that explodes at [...]
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