Things are tough all over. Even legendary recordist Steve Albini, the famed audio technician behind classic releases from Nirvana, Liz Phair, Bush, Bedhead, Built to Spill, Bottomless Pit, Cheap Trick and dozens of others is having trouble paying the mortgage on Electrical Audio, his impeccably designed analog studio. Tim Midgett, guitarist, bassist and songwriter for …
Month: September 2010
This from John Moe via Facebook: “Norwegian Recycling is the mashup king. Survivor, Gnarls Barkley, Britney, so much here. Survivor? Survivor.” .
Well, I was a rather poor 6-10 vs. the spread last week. We’ll see if I can do any better this time around. Lines are from Danny Sheridan’s USA link and are accurate as of Wed. PM. Home teams are in caps. TENNESSEE 6 1/2 Denver The Titans pass D is playing well and the …
Thanks to Colette Moran for the link. The improvised comic prose is East Portland’s alone (Colette would never jest about energy drinks.): . “In Archie, Obama v. Palin – PATRICK GAVIN | POLITICO CLICK Obama is dubbed “The Chicago Kid” while Palin gets named “The Thrilla from Wasilla” on the new Archie covers.” Complete story …
The Gift-Giving Season is upon us, and here’s a classic stockingstuffer. Thanks to Kristen Anderson for this Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gifting suggestion… ‘The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids’ “The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids,” published by Really Big Coloring Books of St. Louis, purports to be a “teaching and learning tool.” But many of the …
For name alone, I’ve always wanted to love Gogol Bordello. Rumored to be best heard live, they’ve got a big time video out now, “Immigraniada (We Comin’ Rougher).” I’ll leave it to you to decide if there’s a phenomenom aborning here, a Ukrainian Pogues, or just Yakov Smirnoff with a backing band. If Imigraniada strikes …
Not a bad clip at all. I wish that I had something enlightening to say but I don’t. I’ve got nothing against blues/rock encounters except that in my experience, rock always wins out. Not surprising when you consider the economics. The intermingling of the blues with rock is such a complex theme, with so many …
When “With or Without You,” 1987, was released in advance of The Joshua Tree, several years after this lesser known, 1985, Wide Awake in America, gem, longtime U2 fans derided “With or Without You” as a mere reworking of this, supposedly superior, song. Because The Joshua Tree and “With or Without You” went on to …
This is the story that keeps on giving. If we concentrate on KP and Elmo long enough, we won’t have to think about upcoming elections, insane religious wars, the second great depression, Brett Favre… A children’s themed Katy Perry video, recorded with Elmo, was struck from scheduled Sesame Street airing recently because it showed too …
. Seeing this clip, i’m more worried about the shitty music being thrown at kids before they can understand it. [Look and click below to see what Sesame Street was jammin out to in the 70s.] Do we really want to live in a world populated with musicians reared on Katy Perry’s music? Also, when …
The recent Katy Perry vs. the latte-drinking, Volvo-driving, PBS liberals at Sesame Street brouhaha does nothing if not remind us that the quality of musical guests in Oscar Von Grouchland, the Street of SezMe, has gone way down in the last 35 years. This version of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” sounds like a live take right …
Or at least she didn’t read, the dress code, for entertaining children in the home of the brave. Katy Perry’s video, below, was removed from Sesame Street because it shows too much creamy white cleavage. Full story is here. . . . . . . .
[Thurs 9/23/2010, 8am Pacific Time.] This is the current line from Danny Sheridan, USA Today. Home teams in caps. The following information is provided for entertainment only. Don’t blame Ron for overleveraged bets you can’t cover. Gambler’s Anonymous may be reached via their home page: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org Chicago’s newest handicapper, Ron Swanson, will provide his weekly …
Although this clip looks as if it had been filmed at a Chicago Blues club, it actually took place at the Newport Folk Festival in 1966. The folklorist Alan Lomax had set up a faux juke joint where he could film blues players in a “realistic” club setting. Performers included Skip James, Bukka White, and …
An old time camp meeting hymn: .
This is the best 34 seconds of gospel music on network television ever. The harmonies tend to suggest Appalachian shape note singing, as they should, if the show was to be accurate in relation to its’ mountain setting. Griffith, a fine musician and singer in his own right, is joined by the Dillards, a sterling …
Probably one of the last songs Doug Fieger recorded. Fab pop song, and teaming up with Jeffrey Foskett is always a good move for anybody. – Bill Larson and Rich Horton .
. I just had the thought, now that I’ve had some time to digest Ian Hunter’s release from last year, that Ian Hunter is probably my favorite for best rocker of the 21st Century. Who’d’ve thunk it? All three of his releases this decade have been way above average and OK, if I want to …
I heard this song for the first time when i was a 15 year old freshman in high school- it’s still one of my favorite songs in the world! – Chona Kasinger .
Paul Dorpat, of Seattle Now & Then fame, and Jean Sherrard, an old friend of mine, and a French woman named Berangere Lomont, have put together this fine blog called Dorpat Sherrard Lomont, which is found at http://pauldorpat.com and is not always, despite what the advertising scan below might suggest, about lingerie/corsets/curvaceousness… .
Stiff Little Fingers was a great band — probably the second-best Irish punk band from the classic punk era, behind only the Undertones. SLF was a bit like Northern Ireland’s answer to the Clash, only less eclectic and more uncompromising. Below is one of their better-known songs, “Suspect Device. Their other popular song in the …
I’ll admit to having that strange passive fascination with the Lady of Ga. Her music is interesting, she has the chops of both Ferrante and Teichner, the flamboyance of Captain Fastastic, and the craziness of any pop diva on the planet. That said, I don’t own her music and don’t actively seek her out. But …
I have a soft spot in my heart for John Lee Hooker, though I never saw him play. I liked him best when he was young(er). Early Hooker is scarce, and even though we’ve mined the AFB vein enough– he was great here in ’65 performing Hobo Blues. Despite an ocean of booze, he lived …
. . Johnny Depp has been forever typecast as Hunter S. Thompson. Even when, as here in new film, The Tourist, he sweetly coos tender Euro intrigues with Angelina Jolie, you can still hear echoes of the crazed voice of Thompson ranting across Las Vegas: . . The Tourist TrailerUploaded by teasertrailer. – Classic TV …
Vandals deface Mormons’ new meeting house in West Linn “From the nature of the graffiti, I’d have to say it wasn’t a terribly well thought-out attack on the church. You’d think if they really had something against Mormons, they’d at least know how to spell it” -Sgt. Neil Hennelly on anti “Morman” graffiti sprayed on …
Here’s a gem of an understated “Mojo” from 1963. Any videos of Sonny Boy Williamson II are scarce indeed, since he died in the summer of 1965. That’s the American Folk Blues Tour again, with Otis Spann, Matt Murphy, Willie Dixon, and Bill Stepney (very rare to see him) on the drums. Locale? Britain or …
Yes, a film crew released 100 cats into an English IKEA store and allowed them to roam free all night long:
Ed. Note – This is just in from Ron Swanson. As it is extremely rare to hear from Ron during football season via any communicational modality, we can assume the subject here is of extreme importance and the quality of the recording, insurmountably good, since Ron chose to put down the remote and educate us …
Hound Dog has a bit of a history. First recorded by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in 1952, it became a huge hit for Elvis Presley three years later. Presley has often been criticized for stealing Thornton’s thunder, but his version was based on another cover of the original, by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, …