March 21, 2006 – 11:15 am
I’m headed for The Land of Enchantment on Thursday morning. I’ll be taking some music with me. Are you surprised? I’ve got some hip-hop that Deep picked out for me. I’ve got some old-school Joe Walsh (if you scoff I’ll know you’re a Philistine.) I’ve got some stellar progressive house tracks picked up recently from […]
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 […]
March 14, 2006 – 12:52 am
Uh… a little late. The January blog ovehaul messed up a lot of things. One of the casualties was my scheduled posting of music reviews by wandering minstrel, keeper of the flame and spinner of wild tales, Michael Keefe. But here they are, at last, for your enjoyment and edification. Included in this month’s collection […]
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 16, 2006 – 8:21 am
Hey, any of you who’ve been reading along as Michael Keefe’s been reviewing tunes for this site might be interested in the most recent email I got from him. Michael sez: I have been taken on as a CD reviewer for PopMatters, a daily arts/pop culture review site. It is one of the two CD […]
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 […]
January 4, 2006 – 8:50 am
The Lady Mo over at she b mo posts eloquently about the ups and downs of being a DJ: Another really annoying thing, both on radio and in venues, is when people request something totally out of whack with what you are currently playing. On the radio, I could be doing a country set and […]
December 31, 2005 – 8:34 am
(I’ve moved this post to a new page. I took some time to re-work the description of the collection and shoved into its own page. Click here to check it out.)
December 24, 2005 – 9:36 pm
While I’m still putzing around with my own year-end compilation, Portland bookslinger, sonic sage and jack-of-all-tunes , Michael Keefe, has scoured his vast knowledge of music-heavy 2005 and come up with his list of Top Ten Albums from the past year. Check ’em out. Yeah, I know, I know. You’d think he’d come up with […]
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 […]
December 11, 2005 – 9:26 am
It’s that time of month again. Music guru, tunesmith and keyboard tapper, Michael Keefe, has whipped up a new collection of music reviews for your edification. Among them are some tasty reviews of new albums from ex-Libertine Pete Doherty and Kate Bush, as well as a steel-edged carving up of the new dance thing from […]
December 9, 2005 – 2:33 pm
It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s throwing together year-end lists; Best DVDs of the Year, Best Albums of the Year, Best Screenplays That Will Never Get Made of the Year… So it’s time for me to put together my Music Of The Year compilation. This year, more than any other, I’ve got my work […]
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 […]
November 14, 2005 – 1:08 pm
Oh, oh, oh. Here’s a nice new distraction for me. I’m taking a brief break in my ridiculous Monday schedule to point out the cool service at pandora.com. It’s internet radio. It’s song advice. It’s music supervision in a nifty web app. Just type in an artist or a song that you like and it […]
