Tag Archives: Music

The Leningrad Cowboys and the Soviet Red Army Choir doing “Sweet Home Alabama”. Nothing has ever been cooler than this, ever.

So I’m kinda thinking, in the wake of the John Peel piece I linked earlier, about doing a music podcast. Nothing too cutting-edge — I don’t have the time to troll around MySpace and MOG looking for new music a whole lot — but just podcasts of stuff I like, old and new, themed maybe. […]

There’s an excellent Poptimist column by Tom Ewing over at Pitchfork about John Peel’s unique position in music history, and why his legacy of educating his audience may never be revived. After Peel’s death there was a general assumption– not much discouraged by the BBC– that there could never be another broadcaster like him. His […]

So I’m probably now 3/5ths done with the album. I’m remixing and re-recording everything one last time. I created a new folder for the final album sessions and copied ‘n’ pasted the bits from all the previous recordings that I liked — good basslines, good guitar bits, the rendered electronic tracks out of Reason — […]

Mike Doughty’s new album Golden Delicious drops today. You may remember Doughty as the lead singer of Soul Coughing, back in the day; I was a Soul Coughing fanatic (thanks, Summer!) and his solo self-released albums Skittish and Rockity Roll rank as some of my favorite music of the last decade. Mike is one of […]

I’ve re-recorded “Scatterlings + Refugees”, or rather remixed it and added some new guitar bits. It’s a lot more rock ‘n’ roll now — in fact, the new guitar solo between the third chorus and the bridge reminds me of something you might have heard on an old Uncle Tupelo album. No, really. Plus the […]

This post over at Torrentfreak.com really pissed me off. So I let fly at all the little assholes who keep claiming peer-to-peer technology is “good” for independent musical artists and labels. And I stand by what I said. Wow, that’s so awesome that p2p is so helpful to minor label artists! I mean, it’s so […]

Wreckless Eric, “Whole Wide World”; I discovered this song via the movie Stranger Than Fiction, and I love it. Ryan Adams, Love Is Hell; Been meaning to pick this up for ages, and it doesn’t disappoint The Indelicates, American Demo; Got an early copy of this from Julia Indelicate, and it’s absolutely amazing. Maybe one […]

It looks like Joe and I are attending SxSW Interactive and Music to do some networking for Volette. Here is a list of the bands I’m going to make a point to see (more as a reminder list to myself than anything else): Alabama3 Billy Bragg (woot!) El-P The English Beat Jolie Holland (whom I […]