After stumbling upon this the other day, it appears a number of the Under Review DVD series are now available (free) via YouTube. Following the standard Under Review M.O., the Tom Waits: 1983-2006 entry rounds up a number of music scribes (Anthony DeCurtis, Robert Christgau, Barney Hoskyns, etc) asking them to reflect upon the material [...]
Fans of John Schlesinger‘s Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy would do well to check out this piece When You Awake laid down last year discussing the “what could have been” in relation to the film’s official soundtrack. Both scored and supervised by composer John Barry, the film had lined up a number of potential tracks that, for [...]
Aside from his entree into an enduring friendship with the Fabs, Nilsson’s re-arranged cover of the Beatles “You Can’t Do That“ (featured on his sophomore LP, Pandemonium Shadow Show) was also his first hit on the U.S. charts. In true Nilsson form the track is rife with multi-tracked vocals and peppered with twenty-something references to [...]
We’ve noted our love of baseball in the past, so when the former National League MVP Dale Murphy launched a blog recently and used one of his early posts to declare his fondness for Wilco (and some other great bands), we were thrilled. As the best of the AL and NL prepare to clash for [...]
Nothing against the UK version of the Creation’s “How Does It Feel To Feel,” but it’s this—the US version—that really isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty. After all, this is the band that during their brief two-year run (1966-68) described their sound as “red – with purple flashes.” At their best, the Creation banged [...]
As much as I love the mid-seventies proto-punk that Death laid down via (the Drag City Records unearthed) For The Whole World To See, it’s their Detroit brethren Black Merda that I’ve been heavily revisiting of late. Comprised of Anthony and Charles Hawkins, VC Veasly and Tyrone Hite, Black Merda worked a hard driving guitar [...]
Over the past year I’ve been inviting some of my favorite voices online (and beyond) to guest DJ during my weekly radio show on SIRIUS/XMU. For those of you sans satellite radio we’ve been turning the sets into an ongoing mixtape series. This week we catch up with Los Angeles’s own Clifton Weaver, aka DJ [...]
Leon Russell’s take on “If I Were A Carpenter” was laid down in a Nashville jam session in 1974 with a group of friends including fellow Oklahoman J.J. Cale. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say: can someone please release those sessions? Here, the self-described ‘master of space and time’ works up what might [...]
If you attended this year’s SXSW festivities you eventually became increasingly aware of two things: “Jeremiah Weed” is actually a canned alcoholic tea beverage and Hooray For Earth is a band you’re going to run into at least three times a day whether you like it or not. You could throw a rock and hit [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 201: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Pixies – Bone Machine ++ Turf War – Cheers To The Years ++ Bleached – Dazed ++ Yellow Fever – [...]
