Earlier this fall Seattle’s Rosie Thomas put the finishing touches on her new album, These Friends of Mine, featuring a bevy of guests including: Sufjan Stevens, Damien Jurado, Denison Whitmer, Dave Bazan, and Jeremy Enigk. The sessions yielded some fine collaborations with each gentleman adding his own stamp to the material. The album is being […]
Archive for December, 2006
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
As far as we’re concerned, blog-wise, Big Rock Candy Mountain is the place to be during the month of December. For three years now, every December, the site steadily offers up obscure quality Christmas nuggets you won’t hear at the mall or Starbucks. What’s more impressive is the fact none of the tunes have been […]
Friday, December 8th, 2006
Allow me to, again, gush over another Pretenders reissue. This time it’s their 1981 second album appropriately entitled Pretenders II. The short-lived band led by guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and Chrissie Hynde sadly only lasted for these first two albums (after Honeyman’s death The Pretenders name simply became a vehicle for Hynde) so these reissues, with […]
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Part Two of our Year In Review…Part One can be found HERE.
The following list is comprised of my favorite 12 albums released in 2006. Take note that this list is in flux, and could be very different a month from now. For example, last year I declared Sufjan Steven’s Illinois as my top album of […]
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Best 2006 Reissue :: Pavement - Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition)
Matador continued their excellent Pavement reissue campaign in ‘06 with the Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition. Like it’s reissued predecessors, the Sentinels reissue brings the goods making itself truly essential to Pavement fans. The two disc affair gathers the outtakes, BBC Sessions, demos, b-sides, […]
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Veteran readers will note this one is a long time coming. Last February I posted the first half (1967 - 1971) of the Neil Young soundboard derived live collection, A Perfect Echo Volume 1, and recently a kind soul, and A.D. reader, sent me the second half (1974 - 1976) to complete the set. As […]
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Phil Spector’s wall of sound meets the North Pole on this 1963 Christmas classic. At times a surreal look at the Holidays in balmy Los Angeles, A Christmas Gift for You nails it on every track. This, along with Elvis’s Christmas album, is the epitome of the tasteful “rock & roll Christmas album” without sounding […]
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Ho ho ho….seasons greetings? Folks, it’s about 80 degrees in Los Angeles right now. It could be June if it wasn’t for the calendar on the desk.
The radio blog to the right has been updated with holiday music so get the spirit on if it moves ya. These holiday tunes will remain throughout the […]
Monday, December 4th, 2006
Until this week I hadn’t listened to Kurt Wagner’s collaborative EP with Josh Rouse, Chester, all the way through in a couple of years. I’m happy to report it holds up extremely well seven years after it’s initial release. This five song mini-album works on multiple fronts: It benefits from Wagner’s (of Lambchop) unique brand […]
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
It’s (somehow) December again…a quick year indeed. For the first Holiday post of many, let’s begin with Vince Guaraldi’s classic score for the 1965 Peanuts TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Nostalgia inducing holiday instrumental jazz at it’s best, this CBS soundtrack is as familiar as the cartoon itself.
Not only does this reign as my […]
