Every Friday night my brother is at Joe Pop’s in Ship Bottom putting his own spin on Frank Sinatra. When he’s not there, he’s at the Quarter Deck and at 11, after all the other karaoke stints are over, he’s at Kubel’s where the clients are as old as the paneling on the walls [...]
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Hollywood vs. my brother
Posted in Commentary, Music, Pontification, tagged Bon Iver, britney Spears, Clem Snide, Damien Rice, EMI, Frank Sinatra, Glen Hansard, Hollywood, Joe Purdy. Ray LaMontagne, Josh Ritter, kubel's, Long Beach island, Martha Wainwright, Music, The Damnwells, Wilco, XPN on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I quite fancy this radio station and would like to share their likes with you. The chef’s recommendations this evening come from the “Most Recent Archives,” a veritable buffet of choice musical meat for your commercial-free enjoyment. http://wfmu.org/ Freshness abounds.
A Short Thought
Posted in Commentary, Music, tagged fairies, gay pride, Music, punk, travel on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I just got back from two and a half weeks on the road with Hermit Thrushes. We went to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, etc. The best part about traveling is seeing great music communities and meeting interesting, thoughtful people from all over the place. There were moments when I’d [...]
Very Short Reviews Of Stuff I Have Encountered In The Last Week
Posted in Books, Commentary, Music, Pontification, tagged Curated Links on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Battlestar Galactica Series Finale: great the first time it ended, then fairly disappointing. The Walking Dead, Issues 13-59: so much better than what you’re reading right now. Dawn Of The Dead (The Old One): worth your two hours of staring, if only because you would want to get away with that kind of stuff in [...]
The Self-Aggrandizing, Hyperlink-Crazy South by Southwest Blog
Posted in Music, Pontification, tagged Athens, Austin, autoharp, blogging, Gater, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sam Tremble, South by Southwest on March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m writing this blog from Dallas, Texas. I’ve been on the road touring with Hermit Thrushes (I play guitar) since Friday, March 13th. So far so good. We had shows all the way down to Austin from Philadelphia, plus an in-studio radio set with KXUA and a newspaper interview in the Fayetteville Flyer, both in [...]
HEY JUDE, THIS KID IS FREAKING ME OUT
Posted in Music, Uncategorized, tagged Music, Performance, Poetry on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from a deliciously “molto bene” week in Italy (“We make pizza of evening!”) and now I’m off to the University of Pittsburgh. Haven’t been back since I graduated, Spring 2000, but my first poetry teacher, Jeff Oaks, completely hooked me up and holy moly assigned my book to his Intro to Poetry class. [...]
Devendra Banhart
Posted in Music, tagged devendra banhart. music, hippies on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I came upon a youtube video of “Little Yellow Spider” last week and it opened me unto the world of Devendra Banhart. I guess the first thing that came to me was, is this what would happen if Jim Morrison and Charlie Manson had a baby? Obviously a revivalist of both, Banhart’s style ranges from [...]
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Listen to This: Broadway
Posted in Commentary, Music on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Media scholar Jonathan Burston has been doing some fascinating work on Broadway mega-musicals—you know the kind: Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast. His focus is not merely the Disneyfication of Broadway theater (which is its own rich, wicked topic—get it? Wicked?). Burston is also interested in the transformation of the [...]
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