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March 21, 2005

 

it's perfect madness

"Monk said 'There is no wrong note, it has to do with how you resolve it'. He almost sounded like a kid taking piano lessons. I could relate to that when I first started playing the piano, because he was...
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March 12, 2005

 

sasquatch 2005

has been announced. Tickets are on sale. Memorial Day Weekend. Here's the line-up: Mainstage : Pixies : Modest Mouse : Kanye West : Wilco : The Arcade Fire : Ray Lamontagne : Jem : Bloc Party : U.S.E. Plaza Stage...
Posted by xtop at 12:10 AM | Comments (0)
 


December 10, 2004

 

merry go bye bye

After a five-year recording break, experimental rockers Mr. Bungle are officially done. "I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in...
Posted by xtop at 12:57 PM | Comments (5)
 


October 02, 2004

 

pixies. 10.01.2004

Somehow I wasn't as excited as I should've been. I felt fairly restrained, reading the internet on my phone while The Thrills literally almost put me to sleep. I didn't really feel it in my bones until the lights went...
Posted by xtop at 02:47 AM | Comments (8)
 


September 23, 2004

 

notes on music: 9.23.04

Tom Waits - Real Gone When I bought my first Tom Waits album, Bone Machine, as a freshman in college, I felt so goddamn adult. I remember playing it for my friend Tom in his dorm room, the same year...
Posted by xtop at 12:18 AM | Comments (2)
 


August 14, 2004

 

some notes on music: 8.13.04

The Streets: A Grand Don’t Come for Free It starts with a late fee on a DVD and ends with jeans washed too high, spans from defeatism to acceptance, transforms from a raised eyebrow to a frog in your throat....
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July 24, 2004

 

some notes on music: 7.24.04

Bam Thwok - The Pixies So I commented on Fraction's blog about how massively underwhelmed I am by this song, but really, this song isn't very good at all. Ok, I understand, the Pixies have been gone awhile, so anything...
Posted by xtop at 01:02 AM | Comments (2)
 


May 05, 2004

 

blast of hot air

WFMU, the greatest radio station in the entire free world (who else has 2 hours of Jewish Moments in the Morning every weekday?) now offering a selection of random, rare mp3's. check out the stooges one, at least courtesy of...
Posted by xtop at 11:51 PM | Comments (0)
 


March 30, 2004

 

the return of jackie and judy

Take every Ramones album you've ever owned and bathe it in a solution of rock tumbler whiskey and 30,000 packs of cigarettes. Introduce the result to a carnival drowning in a boiling swamp overseen by Captain Beefheart and what you...
Posted by xtop at 03:25 PM | Comments (0)
 


March 22, 2004

 

tv on the radio. 3.22.04. bottleneck

click. expand....
Posted by xtop at 11:55 PM | Comments (2)
 


February 13, 2004

 

the grey album

"Special interests, including the major labels, have turned copyright law into a weapon," said Downhill Battle co-founder Holmes Wilson. "If Danger Mouse had requested permission and offered to pay royalties, EMI still would have said no and the public...
Posted by xtop at 10:24 AM | Comments (1)
 


January 14, 2004

 

tv on the radio in the blog on the inertnet

dear builder/architect of creation, let me start by saying that i am completely moved by your unabashed use of irregular form.... the crooked sunsets, the stunted trees, human systems of belief... i feel like i am "IN " on your...
Posted by xtop at 11:52 PM
 


January 07, 2004

 

art is the voice of god and he is always speaking and he is never wrong

First Jim DeRogatis writes this review of Ryan Adams' show in Chicago. Then Adams calls DeRogatis' answering machine and leaves him this message, a tirade as deluded as it is sad. DeRogatis then posts it and Ryan Adams responds with...
Posted by xtop at 11:57 PM
 


 

vortis posters

Art by Johnny Los, Vortis by Vortis...
Posted by xtop at 11:42 PM | Comments (0)
 


December 12, 2003

 

thesaurus musicarum 2003

Yes, Pitchfork has finally put together a book! Thesaurus Musicarum: The Pitchfork Year in Music 2003 marks the debut of Pitchfork's annual yearbooks featuring in-depth coverage of each year's greatest albums and singles, as well as the most noteworthy...
Posted by xtop at 07:27 AM
 


December 04, 2003

 

karma in the life

This might seem to go against my rants on popular music just a few entries ago, and I'm willing to suffer a bout of hypocrisy, if only to share this. Go Home Productions' downloads page is worth exploring, no matter...
Posted by xtop at 09:39 PM | Comments (1)
 


December 01, 2003

   


November 19, 2003

 

I've been loving you too long (to stop now)

Otis Redding live at the Monterey Pop Festival, doing one of his staple numbers. Besides the fact that redding has one of the most amazingly hard-edged and soulful voices, oft-imitated but never even approached close enough to not be blinded...
Posted by xtop at 06:17 AM
 


November 17, 2003

 

quoth ray charles

(On his 17 year heroin habit) "No one made me do it. No one hooked me. I hooked myself. And I have no horror stories about it. I don't recommend it to a soul. I know it kills a lotta...
Posted by xtop at 08:44 PM | Comments (0)
 


October 29, 2003

 

figure 8

From the Japanese version of 'Figure 8,' a short little Elliott Smith number. Cover of the Schoolhouse Rock meme driven into every brain that came of age within 20 years of its existence, it's disquieting, melodic, entrancing and sad. For...
Posted by xtop at 08:53 PM | Comments (1)
 


October 22, 2003

 

you fucking idiot

good luck....
Posted by xtop at 09:37 AM
 


October 12, 2003

 

the world isn't fair

Oh god, here I go. My friend Timmy rolls his eyes when I start talking about Randy Newman, which I've been doing with a lot more frequency these days than I ever in my most self-doubting moments assumed I...
Posted by xtop at 11:57 PM | Comments (3)
 


September 28, 2003

 

spread

Andre 3000 has somehow crafted one of the greatest sexpop songs ever on one of the most oddly compulsive mutations of genre in a good long while. Tourretic backbeats, echoing falsettos, Aladdin Sane-esque piano rolls, bleating horns and stutter...
Posted by xtop at 02:43 PM | Comments (4)
 


September 14, 2003

 

the girl from the gum commercial

the girl from the gum commercial / says i'm sexy when i'm high fetch my coffee and get these clicking / insects off me 'fore i die...
Posted by xtop at 11:52 PM
 


 

moustache camp videos

The White Stripes and Michel Gondry fetishize the jump cut. Andrew W. K. and Alexander Kosta fetishize the Steinway....
Posted by xtop at 02:40 PM
 


September 12, 2003

 

j.r. 1932 - 2003

it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', drive on...
Posted by xtop at 06:50 AM
 


September 10, 2003

 

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

The Pixies are back....
Posted by xtop at 07:21 AM
 


August 22, 2003

 

new pornographers. lawrence, ks. 8.21.03

i screamed out "july jones!" and they played it. then i got drunk and later fell down....
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August 19, 2003

 

mister grieves

It makes a certain kind of sense, both in how original it is and how faithful it remains. Pixies by way of streetcorner doo-wop. Of course. The rest of TV on the Radio's Young Liars EP sounds pretty much nothing...
Posted by xtop at 12:08 AM
 


August 07, 2003

 

timorous me

I've talked some smack on Ted Leo in the past, actions I sheepishly rescind right now, after a week of listening to nothing but. 'Hearts of Oak' is the current Ted Leo & the Pharmacists album I'm playing and replaying...
Posted by xtop at 02:27 PM
 


July 21, 2003

 

death of potential

From Pitchfork. I'm honestly stunned dumb and much sadder than I thought I'd be over a dumb little band I liked: At approximately six in the morning yesterday, Matthew "Matt Lock" Fitzgerald, Adam "Baby" Cox, and Jeremy "Kid Killer" Gage...
Posted by xtop at 05:15 PM
 


July 13, 2003

 

Chart Sweep pts 1 & 2

From 1956's inaugural #1, "Memories are Made of This" to Whitney Houston's 1993 "I Will Always Love You." Covering a complete era of the 45, beginning with the dawn of the age of pop charts and ending when major labels...
Posted by xtop at 05:43 PM | Comments (3)
 


June 30, 2003

 

making teenage faces

Stereo equipment is missing from places/ rocking in my room, making teenage faces The Exploding Hearts own my fucking soul....
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June 20, 2003

 

thee michelle gun elephant

          ...
Posted by xtop at 09:39 AM
 


June 16, 2003

 

submarine #3

Don't swallow my heart....
Posted by xtop at 04:46 PM | Comments (2)
 


May 18, 2003

 

maskil

jewish music for a bleary sunday stupor...
Posted by xtop at 12:36 PM
 


May 16, 2003

 

ipod. random. 5.16.03

my ipod's decision on a work soundtrack for today. odd tenuous connections and from out of nowhere embarassments abound. this represents maybe a gig's worth out of 20, so don't judge me too harshly do - white stripes odorono -...
Posted by xtop at 06:49 PM
 


May 01, 2003

 

back where they started

ray davies interviews elliott smith interviews ray davies...
Posted by xtop at 10:28 PM
 


April 25, 2003

 

stroke

Fuck you, Billy Squier....
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April 23, 2003

 

thunder road

Acoustic guitar, mini amp, microphone, DAT recorder. Live in the Boston subway for a crowd of tens....
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April 18, 2003

 

the subterfuge of frank black

Juxtaposed in each moment's sight Everything that I ever saw And my one delight Nothing can strike me in such awe Mouth intricate shapes the voice that speaks Always it will soothe Rarer none are the precious cheeks Is the...
Posted by xtop at 12:30 PM
 


April 13, 2003

 

Say Goodnight

Skeleton Key is the bad penny in my musical world. Especially when they surface with junk rock dirges like this....
Posted by xtop at 08:05 PM
 


March 18, 2003

 

dreamboat

music for a quiet morning...
Posted by xtop at 09:51 AM | Comments (1)
 


March 13, 2003

 

july jones

I have listened to this song 4,000 times in the last 3 days....
Posted by xtop at 11:24 AM | Comments (4)
 


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