September 6, 2006 – 10:00 pm
Special bonus points to those who remember Magnapop. After taking almost nine years off, they’re back. Mouthfeel was their last album. It came out in early 2005. According to their website they toured, they had a good time and now they’re hard at work on a new album. Nice to have them back. Magnapop – […]
September 6, 2006 – 10:12 am
Yay! It’s Musiquiz time again! Today for some reason I’m thinking about a band that’s last album was released about a year and a half ago. That’s not so interesting in itself, and it’s hardly a clue. But what’s strange is that their previous album came out in 1996, so it was their first album […]
September 5, 2006 – 1:22 am
I just can’t get Snowden out of my head. On the way back from the Sierra I must have played track six (“Between The rent And Me” about twenty times. I would play it once, then play it again, them again. Then I’d fake out the world and play something else for about three minutes […]
August 18, 2006 – 10:00 pm
Yeah, it’s “Believe” by Dig. Remember Dig? Not many people do. It’s unfortunate. Head honchio Scott Hackwith put together a band that often struck a fine balance between hard-edged rock and lyrical beauty. They were never well-received by critics, who wrote them off as sort of Jane’s Addiction redux, perhaps aping the pioneers of grunge-art […]
August 18, 2006 – 11:03 am
I’ve got some music I want to share with you. but I want to make it kind of interesting. I’m gonna give you an mp3. You tell me who it is. If you can. name that tune At exactly 10:00 PM I’ll post the answer. And another tune. This band opened for Garbage one night […]
August 11, 2006 – 10:28 am
Daredevil, man of letters and hero to harp seals everywhere, Michael Keefe, has checked in with yet another cluster of excellent music reviews. If you’re wondering about the new Thom Yorke album, wonder no longer. If you’re jonesing for a Libertines fix, Dirty Pretty Things is on shelves now. Click here to plan your next […]
I’d like to know what’s up with the white plastic. I mean, I know what’s going on at Sunset & Vine in the old “Earthquake” building, but why the white plastic? Is that to keep the dust from demolition from spreading across the intersection like so much asbestos fallout? It’s interesting. In an effort to […]
The night before, I’m up until 3:00 AM, spinning vinyl, tweaking mp3’s, setting the last details of my set in place. And at 8:00 A.M. I roll out of bed and drop the first track onto my turntable. Almost exactly an hour and a half later the last notes of the complete mix die away. […]
When it comes time for a break, most of my coworkers at Amoeba step outside and have a smoke. I don’t. In the interest of balance, when I take a break I do cancer research. . . . Sorry it’s been quiet around here. But between the jobs and the writing I’ve had very little […]
Interesting article over at downhillbattle.org (whose t-shirt I love and wear regularly) about iTunes and the accounting behind their “artist-friendly” business model. Before I got the Amoeba job I used to use iTunes to get some of my music. I don’t think I’d go back. DRM issues aside, my main gripe is the sound quality […]
Stuntman, purveyor of stolen art and man of letters, Michael Keefe, weighs in on some excellent recent music releases. Included in this batch are reviews of new music by RHCP, The Sounds, As Fast As, Buzzcocks and Hank III (who could beat up Billy Ray Cyrus any day.) Check em out here. Or caress the […]
I have to post something before I head off to work, if for no other reason than to push down that crazy Black Rider image that greets me every time I fire up the ol’ browser. So I’ll rant about Devin Davis for a moment. Why is this man not more famous? His album is […]
It’s my day off, but I still drag myself out of bed, hop into my shoes and traipse down Sunset to work. Today is the occasion of a rare morning in-store by none other than Jack White The Raconteurs. I want to see how many people show up. People were calling the store yesterday asking […]
Daredevil, Verbal Skeet Shooter and Defiler of Chocolate (I’m really reaching here) Michael Keefe has weighed in with a collection of exellent reviews for May. Included in this batch are new discs by Gnarls Barkley (natch,) The Zutons, Neil Young and my own personal faves, The Charlatans UK (though I might give them a slightly […]
I’m writing. I’m writing a lot. I’m just not writing here. In two weeks I’ve cranked out 45 pages of the new script. HOLLYWOODLAND suffers as a result. I’ve got some things to post, if for no other reason than to keep the top photo changing. I was getting sick of looking at those wind […]
