Last week my XM radio preview expired. I feel that I got my money’s worth from the free trial, and I won’t be subscribing. Why? The content blows XM radio might be more properly called B-side radio; big hits are few and far between. Turns out that although commercials are annoying on FM radio, they [...]
Posts Tagged ‘music’
Evelyn Evelyn
I haven’t found a high-quality avant-garde album on the new releases rack since Who Killed Amanda Palmer. No surprise that I had to wait until Amanda Palmer’s next project, Evelyn Evelyn, to hear something that wasn’t just a bunch of stuck up art school grads amusing themselves with tired, inauthentic noise played on deliberately broken [...]
Putting together a good St. Patrick’s Day playlist
Ireland’s greatest cultural contribution has been its music. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that races of people who suffered loss of control over their native soil, imperialism, racism, and hostile treatment in foreign lands end up producing the world’s most beautiful music. Jews, African Americans, and the Irish always spring to mind as people [...]
The Poet Laureate of the Internet
If you still haven’t picked up D.J. Earworm’s “Blame it on the Pop” and given it a listen, make a new year’s resolution to do so right now. There’s a lot of people out there doing mashups, but very few are able to effect the kind of poetry that DJ Earworm does. If you take [...]
Today’s Playlist
I Miss You – Incubus Wait – The Beatles Temporary One – Fleetwood Mac Be Still My Heart – The Postal Service I Believe In A Thing Called Love – The Darkness Simonize – Pete Yorn Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin I Belong To You [+Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix] – Muse The [...]
