I watched tonight’s WGN evening news broadcast. (I believe WGN stands for World’s Greatest Network.) The broadcast included the story that Snooki was not arrested in Italy. The broadcast did not address the following: Why does promoting democracy have to include the killing of children and vulnerable people? Why are weapons our number one export? …
Month: May 2011
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. The riverside Siren seems to have attracted more brilliant minds in recent years than the Manhattan Project. While nothing explosive will likely come of it, the rush of settlers to Portland has certainly resulted in a remarkable array of talent. A prime example is Dominic Castillo, frontman of Ravishers, whose eponymous, full-length debut album …
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Gotta love the parrot: http://youtu.be/q9deDHlP8Qw
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Mexican artist, Croatian fans, still everyone speaks English:
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The Jesus And Mary Chain endure as innovators of a huge proportion of what I listen to and much of modern shoegaze. Mazzy Star, of course, are just utterly lovely and have ploughed their own furrow of Paisley underground. To put Hope Sandoval alongside the Reid brothers for this fleeting moment was just a perfect …
You can never count rhymin’ Simon out. In his seventh decade making music, Paul Simon has a new record that, if not revelatory, features songs with incisive lyrics, catchy melodies and lively rhythms. And so what if the bard from New Jersey hasn’t bottled lightning again with “So Beautiful or So What?” This guy released …
Drummer Jimmy Cobb, alto saxophonist Sonny Fortune, bassist Buster Williams and guitarist Mike Stern range in age from 82 (Cobb) to 58 (Stern). Miles Davis, the man they play to honor, would have been 85 on May 26th. Sitting across from me at Seattle’s Jazz Alley, Tom Kipp wasn’t completely sure if four sidemen from …
Another video from the movie Bachna Ae Haseeno (“Be Careful With Me”), this song was filmed in Italy. So cool to see a song for a movie made by the country where we live now but filmed in the country of our last residence. – Robert
Moby states the following opinion of Ke$ha’s and Britney Spears’ music: “”It’s fun, but I don’t think of it as music,” he says. “It’s manufactured. I appreciate it as pop culture phenomenon and some of the songs I like if I hear them in a shopping mall or something, but it doesn’t function as music …
Thanks to Tim Cook for this: