My recent trip to Ireland followed up roughly 20 hours spent on airplanes and airpots with the worst allergic reaction I've had since junior high school. So it made me particularly happy to come home and see that this blog's favorite Yankee fan (with one...
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Congrats to Darcy and the Secret Society on a well-earned Grammy nomination for the superb Infernal Machines.
Abbey Lincoln, R.I.P.
The post below about Rob's immortalization was somewhat embarrassing for me, as I actually own the album in that "compact disc" format your grandparents may have told you about, but missed the appearance of our blog in the first perusal of the liner notes. I...
BBC 6 Music has been saved from closure.
Scott already covered the awful news, but if anyone is worth a follow-up post, it's Alex Chilton. Like most of my contemporaries, I came to admire Alex Chilton through his.
Kate McGarrigle, 1946-2010. Definitely a great one.
The Guardian published the NME's list of the best 50 albums of the last decade a few days ago, and I've been meaning to comment. The Strokes are over-rated --.
Pitchfork brings the snark:For a while now, Tom Waits has been threatening to drop a live album document of his 2008 Glitter and Doom tour on us. And today, Waits'.
I'm a bit late to the game on this one. Paul beat me to the punch, and got in the obviously good quip in the process. I blame the time zones. Or the healthy moderate drinking that a good friend and I partook in last...