Category: Music

Here’s an experiment that you can try at home: Take one afternoon, just as dusk is falling. It helps if it’s a little cold, and ominus looking dark storm clouds are rolling in. Get in your car, and put on some heavy metal act from when you were a kid. I’d recommend Dio, Holy Diver,…

OK – I know it’s a little weird that this is going to be the third entry in as many days mentioning Chris Butler. I swear I’m not cyber stalking the guy or anything, but here’s the thing. He just sent me an e-mail to thank me for buying his CD. Of course it was…

Picked up a bunch of new CDs tonight including: Bishop Allen, Charm School (really outstanding judging by the preview tracks); Deb Talan, Sincerely (all that listening to “Tell Your Story Walking” had me wanting to hear more); Chris Butler, I Feel a Bit Normal Today (natch – see post below this one); Tracy Spuehler, Six…

It seems the sum total of my internal dialog is being scripted by Chris Butler today. Sure, it’s all out of context, but still – I don’t think I’m quite ready to “X” my “BFD-ing”, so I’d like it all to stop please: Stop! Damn! Reverse the wires Switch the ground! Something’s crazy here We’re…

Are you really going to listen to the song, “Tell Your Story Walking”, by Deb Talan again for the 873rd time today? Yes. Yes I am. Do you have a problem with that?

Ooh, now that’s lovely. More like Venus Hum please. But, you know not on MCA or one of the other major labels so I could actually buy and enjoy it. OK?

Holy crap – somebody else listens to Jonatha Brooke (I’d link directly to the entry in question but her archive pages turn into HTML source code in mozilla for some reason). I could have sworn I was the only one that listened to Jonatha Brooke. Actually, that’s not true except that it sort of is.…

This: Others said the explosion of new music — partly driven by digital music production technology and the Internet — has made it easy for bad music to proliferate throughout cyberspace. “There’s an incredible amount of mediocrity,” said musician/songwriter Eric Bazilian, formerly of the rock group The Hooters. …has got to be one of the…

I need the Internet with me where ever I go. This afternoon I had a song in my head, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember which song. All I could hear over and over again was just the line “Punk Rock Red White and Blue” repeating itself in an endless loop –…

It was explore new music night at the Raleigh homestead. Take a look at: Lygia Ferra, Fez Dispenser, The Alice Project, Bird York and a final special call out to The SIBL Project – Songs Inspired By Literature. Proceeds from The SIBL Project go towards promoting adult literacy. Important Note: All independant artists, so I…