Tag Archives: Music

BBC radio station censors Pogues Christmas hit – Yahoo! News LONDON (Reuters) – British public broadcaster BBC’s Radio 1 has cut out the word “faggot” from an old Christmas hit in a move the mother of the song’s late performer branded “ridiculous.” In “Fairytale of New York,” released 20 years ago by Irish band the […]

I’ve never been a Dan Fogelberg fan, generally speaking. However, my mother is the world’s biggest Dan Fogelberg fan. His music was the reason she became a singer-songwriter, and in fact she reviewed his album High Country Snows for Rolling Stone. I grew up listening to Fogelberg albums (that’s vinyl, folks). So I was really […]

New Red State Soundsystem track, “Clive Owen” (direct link, MP3, 192kbps stereo). This is an instrumental minimal techno track. It’s a lot of manipulated acoustic and electric Rhodes piano. It sounded like the soundtrack to a scene where Clive Owen is moodily contemplating the future from his future car, so that’s where the title comes […]

Ike Turner, rock pioneer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, dead at 76 | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL Ike may have been a mean-ass sonofabitch, but — separate from his own personal life — he was a goddamn musical genius. In his memory, here’s some wallpaper I made a while back: And whether he’s […]

It was this day in 1964 that Sam Cooke was shot and killed in Los Angeles. He’s most known to people for songs like “Cupid” and “Twistin’ The Night Away”, but I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to suggest that the most important song Cooke ever wrote or recorded was one of the […]

I finished a new song today. Well, not a new song, precisely, but an older one that I sort of re-worked. And it’s perfect. The mix is perfect, the notes are perfect, the sound is perfect. It’s precisely what I wanted it to be, no compromises. I can’t stop listening to it. This is not […]

The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Article I don’t know anything about this kind of music, but I love Sam Cooke. I don’t know what it was about his songs, but he’d have some songs, and things on the surface were normal or happy, he’d be singing about having a party, there’s cokes in the […]

German composer Stockhausen is dead – Yahoo! News Stockhausen’s electronic compositions are a radical departure from musical tradition and incorporate influences as varied as psychology, the visual arts and the acoustics of a particular concert hall. I was never a big fan of Stockhausen from a listener’s perspective — his work isn’t very accessible — […]

I never knew they made a video for this: Tricky’s badass cover of Public Enemy’s “Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos” (renamed here simply “Black Steel”). This is one of my favorite tracks of all time: