December 15, 2006 – 8:00 am
We’ve been at this for two years now. Tuneslinger, man of letters and wielder of the golden pen, Michael Keefe, has been writing the music reviews and I’ve been posting ’em on my site. I think I’ve got the easy end of things. Mr. Keefe has been doing all the work. and here it is, […]
December 5, 2006 – 1:33 pm
Man, I love Buffalo Tom. And I’m only posting about them because I want to test out another music streaming plug-in. This one’s called PodPress. I think, with a little tweaking, it could work put better than the last one, which is a tricky pilfering of the Google Video interface I read about here. The […]
December 5, 2006 – 1:39 am
Several months ago I’m returning home from Amoeba. As usual, it’s late and Nocturna is on KCRW. The tune spinning across LA is called “Swimming Places” by Julian Jabre. I find it that night on eBay and place an order. It arrives a few days later, warped, but still playable, from a record shop in […]
November 29, 2006 – 3:25 pm
Just one more plug for my DJ debut tonight at Carbon (see previous post.) In case that doesn’t inspire you to drop by, check out this spellbinding flyer:
November 28, 2006 – 11:31 am
Speaking of excellent DJ’s, I happen to know that there’s a cluster of good ones spinning on Wednesday, November 29th. That’s tomorrow, folks. At Carbon in Culver City. And one of those DJ’s happens to be me, finally participating in DJ Ned Learner’s What The DJ Wants night. I’ll be kicking things off at about […]
November 27, 2006 – 12:22 pm
A couple weeks ago I waxed enthusuastic about the new offering from DJ Sandra Collins. But that was before I picked up the new James Holden comp. People who know me (some of them, anyway) know that I adore Mr. Holden’s work. It’s complex and intricate, and as dance music goes, inaccessible and relatively obscure. […]
November 12, 2006 – 10:21 am
Hey, it’s that time of month again. Actually, it’s a little past that time of month. Grab yourself a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy the latest batch of music reviews from Portland-based music genius, Michael Keefe. This week, he checks out new releases by Beck, Frank Black and my own current fave, The […]
November 6, 2006 – 11:33 am
I swear, I’m the only person I know who’s excited about a new compilation by Sandra Collins. It’s not that no one else thinks it’s good. It’s because pretty much everyone I know in Hollywoodland aren’t into progressive house. It’s a Perfecto release. That’s Paul Oakenfold, for those of you who are in the know. […]
October 21, 2006 – 8:58 am
I can’t stop listening to this album. It’s not exactly a sprawling work, but somehow, perhaps because two of the tracks are multi-part ten minute mini-stories, it feels epic. It’s a concept album with undeniably progressive flavor. Yes, that kind of progressive—Jethro Tull and King Crimson as opposed to John Digweed or Dave Ralph—and there […]
October 16, 2006 – 1:13 pm
“I’m the majesty songbird and this is the butterfly brigade,” says Sufjan Stevens as he steps onto the stage. They’re all wearing wings, gossamer, colorful and engineered (at least in Sufjan’s case) to beat slowly as he rocks back and forth on stage. The Sufjan Stevens show at the Wiltern last week (yes, I’ve been […]
October 14, 2006 – 9:19 am
Tunsemith, Buffy fan and saver of burning buildings from small children, Michael Keefe has checked in with a new batch of music reviews. He’s still slinging adjectives over at Pop Matters these days, but they can’t take all of his opinions all of the time, otherwise there’d be nothing left for anyone else to do […]
September 28, 2006 – 10:43 pm
It’s late and I have a thirteen hour work day ahead of me. Keir’s next to me. He’s got a five hour drive ahead of him. He’s got to go back to Sacramento tonight because he has an 8:30 orientation to attend, where he’ll be getting himself…uh, oriented. For that reason, we’re both drinking water, […]
September 22, 2006 – 10:00 pm
Jennifer Charles is the voice. Oren Bloedow is the music. Elysian fields is the band. “Bleed Your Cedar” is the album. Allmusic sez: The band’s sophomore album Bleed Your Cedar was produced by Steve Albini, but during this time the band’s creative throws began its downward spiral. The label criticized them for sounding too dark […]
September 22, 2006 – 1:11 pm
I can’t remember how I discovered today’s Mystery Band, but when I dropped their debut cd in my player, it was like a giant overstuffed pillow had smacked me from behind. It might have been a listening station at Morninglory music in Santa Barbara, but then I might have heard it at a coffee house. […]
September 18, 2006 – 10:14 am
I’m a bad blogger lately. It’s already the 18th and I haven’t even mentioned what some of you may have noticed: the latest installment of music reviews by staunch Oregonian, hell-raiser and teller of outrageous tales, Michael Keefe, has been up in the review column to the right for a couple of weeks now. I […]
