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Rilo Kiley is touring North America. I mention this only so that I can point out that, despite having heard Rilo Kiley probably a half-dozen times, I can never remember what they sound like. Their music falls off my brain like water off Teflon. Despite this fact, I know a lot about Rilo Kiley the […]

I’m reviewing Nine Inch Nails’ new album of instrumental music Ghosts I-IV for CityLife this week, but I’ll just pop in here and suggest you pay the $5 to buy it from Reznor’s site. If you like ambient music or Nine Inch Nails, this is the good stuff. I’ve got more to say about this […]

There’s a bit in a comics script I’m working on, set in the late 1920s, where my protagonist is staring moodily down at a darkened Texas town from his hotel room. On the radio is playing a lonesome cowboy version of the old murder ballad “Down In The Willow Garden”, which you may remember from […]

…when somebody does “Hallelujah” on American Idol. For those of you who really love this song and want more like it, may I recommend you check out Leonard Cohen’s early albums? They are depressing, as you’ll often hear critics point out…but there are moments of absolute beauty on them. “Suzanne” has never stopped being a […]

Rocker Lou Reed takes aim at new technology – Yahoo! News In typically glib and dry-witted form throughout the wide-ranging 55-minute conversation, the bespectacled Reed bemoaned the current state of audio and other digital technologies, noting that “it’s like the technology is taking us backwards. It’s making it easier to make things worse. “Here’s our […]

I added the lead slide and synth bass for “Berlin Floor Show” and a big Sigur Ros/Edge-style fill guitar on “Sleeping In Flame” tonight. The latter is buried in the already full mix, but it adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the song. The former takes “BFS” into a slightly rougher, nastier territory, […]

OMFG, the Gutter Twins album is, like, fucking amazing!!! It’s all noirish graveyard shift rock shit, like you’d expect, but it’s really, really good, with a big sense of grandiose. And my buddy Dave Catching played on and helped record it! And it’s got Martina Topley-Bird, who sang with Tricky and whom Dulli covered with […]

Finishing up the final mix of “Berlin Floor Show”. It’s much more minimal than the rest of the album — just two guitar lines, a distorted drumbeat and maybe a slide guitar line or a synth, I’m not sure which yet, on the choruses. It sounds really low-fi and dirty, the way it was always […]