April 14, 2006 – 11:11 am
I’ve blogged about these guys before. They’ve got a new album out. It’s a positively dreamy set of songs that’s gonna set the tone for my Springtime, I think. Check ’em out. The Concretes – As Four (224 kps mp3) album review at allmusic.com NOTE: To protect my bandwidth, I’ll yank this tune from my […]
Man, what a pain. Now I know this site ain’t exactly boingboing, but I’ve got my fair share of readers. Even so, my bandwidth allotment at ipowerweb, who hosts HOLLYWOODLAND, has never set foot past the 15% mark. Imagine my surprise when I check my stats tonight to see that bandwidth has suddenly jumped to […]
February 20, 2006 – 12:36 pm
Getting back into the swing of things. Might as well talk about music. Valentine’s Day comes and goes this year. I spend the evening at Amoeba with many other single folk. And most of us feign bitterness, but inside we all realize that Valentine’s Day is just a fake holiday, a totally crass commerical ploy […]
January 15, 2006 – 12:38 am
Thomas Newman: Welcome To The Suck (224kps mp3) Thomas Newman: Raining Oil Previous Newman obsessions: Angels In America Men Don’t Leave Speaking of used cd’s, I notice the Buzz section of the most current issue of Los Angeles Magazine contains a mini-grunt about the jobs in LA with the best perks Amoeba is right up […]
January 11, 2006 – 9:27 am
We all have those bands or artists or singers we love to think of as our own. We discover them early, suffer the blank looks and empty stares when we try to explain who it is we’re listening to and wish others would just wise up and figure it out. And then if the artist […]
December 14, 2005 – 10:37 am
LA Record is a magazine. No, no,it’s not a magazine, it’s a poster. It’s a magazine! It’s a poster! It’s a magazine AND it’s a poster. On one side is the cover art. On the other side, the content. I love their “covers,” each edition taking a local band and re-casting them in the image […]
November 22, 2005 – 10:32 am
SFX: Ether Sings (mp3) Way back in July, Craig over at Songs: Illinois posts a thing about Laura Veirs. I had heard the name before but never got around to checking out her music. Since then Ms. Veirs has rocketed to the upper stratosphere of my musical planet. So much so, that a couple months […]
September 15, 2005 – 12:14 pm
Okay, the River Tam notebook gets old quick, doesn’t it? It’s been fun reading the Firefly message boards, though–all the debate as to whether it’s fake or real or viral or not. I suppose I should have expected the doubters. Anyway, before the blood-spatters and the funny cats I posted about how the new(ish) cd […]
You ever fling a compact disc into the void and then have it circle back like a boomerang and smack you upside the skull? I get a lot of music suggestions during the course of the week. Dropping a disc into the player and giving it a listen is a lot like hurling it out […]
It seems to me that all of the recent puritanism over the media and family values is destined for failure. The wardrobe malfunction, the recent web-censorship decrees, the complaints about violence in video games–they remind me of the days of the PMRC and its stance against the overt sexuality of “modern music” back in the […]
Damn. No one told me that it was Curtis Mayfield’s birthday today. If I’d known, I’d have tried to make it to the Curtis bash at Little Temple that LAist mentions here. Oh well. Instead I hang out with Joy and Heather at the Hammer Bash in Westwood, where one of Joy’s Showtime coworkers is […]
It’s late. I should be sleeping. But I just picked up a couple discs from work that you should know about. One, I’ll tell you about now. The other tomorrow or the next day. Diverse producer/sound-sculptor Boom Bip released Blue-Eyed in the Red Room back in March. The track here is the final cut from […]
Taking ecstasy is like this: You swallow a small pill. After anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour you look down at the table in front of you and you think, “Wow. What are all these marbles?” They’re arranged in a neat little pile, glossy, irridescent and shot through with color. Thanks to the little […]
Back in October I waxed rhapsodic about film composer Thomas Newman. Last week I finally manage to track down a high-quality boot of his score for the Paul Brickman film, Men Don’t Leave (Brickman, you might remember, had the musical wherewithall to use Tangerine Dream for his earlier film, Risky Business.) This score even contains […]
I promised a couple of tunes the other day and I got kinda woozy again, so I ended up not posting them. Here they are. I’m posting two of them because they’re so far apart stylistically that it only makes sense they appear together. Lightning Bolt is not so much music as it is a […]
