Tag: music

Mac at Tacitus asks the musical question At that point in your life when you hit the brink of adulthood (college graduation, dropping out, joining the navy, being kidnapped by cult of left-handed redheads, whatever it might be) what was the single most defining album/CD that the largest number of people you knew were likely…

Note to self: get Ween tickets today. Note to self, the second: Sit far enough from the stage to avoid the Poopship Destroyer, if they’ve got it on this tour.

Warren Zevon died Sunday, September 7, at the untimely age of 56. You know one of the things I most admire about the guy is that when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer the first thing he did was hit the studio and record a new fucking album. The man who wrote “I’ll Sleep When…

David Lindley’s ’80s band El Rayo-X reunited recently for some shows and I saw them play last night at the Fillmore with Michael Z. and Suki. What a great show! So many highlight, I’m not sure where to start. Perhaps the biggest crowd pleaser was “She Took Off My Romeo” during which Lindley had the…

Nice VH-1 interview with Warren Zevon on making music in the face of death, witty observations about Hunter S. Thompson and more: The first exchange we ever had was about 10 years ago, when my daughter and I arrived in Aspen. I said, “Dr. Thompson, I’ve got the most terrible headache you can ever imagine.…

Browsing cheesedog (aka, Garret Keogh to those antiwebbers out there reading this), I found a link to the dependable Onion (I have an iPod… in my mind) which cracked me up so hard it inspired this unfortunate urge to post a link to an Onion bit, in lockstep, no doubt, with hundreds of other webloggers.…

Newsflash: Pixies to reunite Predicted reaction from Scot Hacker: ho hum

Off to the Greek Theatre (in Berkeley) today to see a three-act show headed by Beck, whose journal is remarkably ordinary and down-to-earth, for a cockeyed Scientologist art-family rock superstar.

now playing: “Diamond Joe (Previously Unreleased)” by Bob Dylan [Exclusive]

My friend in New Orleans sent me this link to the article about Ornette’s performance at Jazz Fest from the Times-Picayune.

I knew I wanted to have a seat in the Jazz tent for Ornette Coleman’s headlining set, but the question was how far in advance I’d need to squat there to manage it, because there were a few other acts scattered around the other stages that we wanted to see as well, earlier in the…

Scot Hacker is all over the new iTunes store story, dropping wisdom on theory and practice left and right. Caveat: a man who calls OK Computer “Radiohead’s lamest album” is a man who has outgrown cannabis.

The good news is I haven’t had time each day to get online and upload pictures and such and even now I’m just going to dump raw notes and maybe come back to it later: large iced café au lait beignets …to Blues tent to grab seats, then back out for… crab cake and seafood…

Moise & Alida Viator with Eh, La-Bas!, a surprisingly funky creole fusion. I accidentally capture a few seconds of this couple dancing (with crowds streaming between them and the camera): [click pictures for larger shots] When they’re done we head for some large iced café au lait, and b buys some earthernware pottery from Dallas.…

Sue W. reminds me that WWOZ is broadcasting much of the Fest.

…took a bunch of pictures, here are just a few (insterspersed among a quick rundown of music and eats)… large iced café au lait 3 beignets Hackberry Ramblers (Fais Do-Do stage) … their 70th anniversary, fresh back from Europe and the Today Show, their 16th straight year at Fest… some technical difficulties, gremlins, intros, 3rd…

Speaking of Earl King, I was sad to read this obituary for Earl King one of the great New Orleans guitarists. (Times userid: mediajunkie, password: mediajunkie) Most famous outside of NO (and best compensated for) Jimi Hendrix’s cover (as “Let the Good Times Roll”) of his “Come On,” and for the Mardi Gras standard “Big…

So I make this new category for my last entry (“Television”) and what should come up in my iTunes rotation? now playing: "Little Johnny Jewel" by Television [The Blow Up]

Is the academic world ready for the awesome power of a fully operational mothership? Scot Hacker reports that an article he wrote on Parliament-Funkadelic for a book by Pagan Kennedy has inspired a master’s thesis. Now maybe his seminal writings on Liberace will finally get the attention they deserve in the ivory towers of our…

Damn! I subscribe to Mike Watt’s mailing list and wade through tons of announcements for gigs in the southland and then I miss a rare Banyan appearance in an intimate SF room? What’s wrong with me? How frustrating. It’s been too long since I heard my favorite bass player. Scot Hacker was there: To Elbo…