Music From Heaven
So, the other night the girlfriend and I attended a work-related (hers, not mine) shindig at the Denver Zoo. There were refreshments. Yes, there were refreshments. And then we got to wander around the zoo and take in a preview of their Zoolights exhibit, which doesn’t officially open until next week. [...]
Nineteen Eighty-Won
Pet Peeve of the Day: My musical hero Scott Miller thinks that 1981 wasn’t a very good year for music. He especially singles out the “new romantic” movement, saying it was all about hair and fashion and “thin, washy synthesizers”. So I guess Scott’s not a Duran Duran fan. Their first album [...]
Digital Download Blowout
My friend Miles (who has a great new blog), recently reactivated his eMusic subscription and was asking me the other day for download suggestions. Rather than reply to him, I’d thought I’d make a blog entry out of it. Here’s stuff I downloaded from eMusic in 2008 that I enjoyed. Some of [...]
Unknown Pain
I missed Movie Review Sunday, so here we are with Movie Review Thursday!
I finally got a chance to see Control, the biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in 1980 at the age of 23. Though I have their albums and recognize how hugely influential they were, I was never a [...]
The Musical Albatross
Pet Peeve of the Day: Too much good music to listen to.
Boo hoo! Cry for me! Cry for the whiny little baby! I have too much music! I’m not buying very many CDs anymore – heck, I’ve only bought nine in 2008 so far, and five of those were Kayak CDs. No, the [...]
The Deep Cuts Are The Firstest
Forgive me if I’m treading on already-covered ground here, but this is something I’ve only just heard about, and it really intrigues me.
Paul Westerberg, a notoriously Internet/computer-shy musician, has released a new album that is only available as a single file MP3 download. It’s bizarrely called 49:00, even though it’s 44 minutes long. It [...]