This is a letter from Joe Strummer to a magazine when he was asked what he thought about The Boss.
More letters, including ones from Sinatra, etc.
Great stuff.
1 hour ago
The Besnard Lakes — Are the Dark Horse (2007)
Queens of the Stone Age — Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Radiohead — Kid A (2000)
Radiohead — Amnesiac (2001)
The Libertines — The Libertines (2004)
Jay-Z — The Blueprint (2001)
Arcade Fire — Funeral (2004)
Coldplay — A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
Ryan Adams — Cold Roses (2005)
The National — Boxer (2007)
Kanye West — Late Registration (2005)
The Strokes — Room on Fire (2003)
Outkast — Stankonia (2000)
The White Stripes — Elephant (2003)
Wilco — A Ghost is Born (2004)
Bloc Party — Silent Alarm (2005)
Josh Ritter — The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (2007)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Fever to Tell (2003)
Yo La Tengo — I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass (2006)
Death From Above 1979 — You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine (2004)
Dirty Projectors — Bitte Orca (2009)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead — Source Tags and Codes (2002)
Broken Social Scene — You Forgot it in People (2002)
Wolf Parade — Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
Beck — Sea Change (2002)
Bon Iver — For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
My Morning Jacket — Z (2005)
The Futureheads — The Futureheads (2004)
Gorillaz — Demon Days (2005)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)
System of a Down — Toxicity (2001)
Kings of Leon — Aha Shake Heartbreak (2005)
Deftones — White Pony (2000)
British Sea Power — The Decline Of…. (2003)
Glassjaw — Worship and Tribute (2002)
Nina Nastasia and Jim White — You Follow Me (2007)
The Chemical Brothers — Come With Us (2002)
TV on the Radio — Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
The Roots — Phrenology (2002)
Queens of the Stone Age — R (2000)
Danger Mouse — The Grey Album (2004)
Common — Be (2005)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Low — Drums and Guns (2007)
The Black Keys — Rubber Factory (2004)
Tom Waits — Alice (2002)
Mclusky — Do Dallas (2002)
New Pornographers — Twin Cinema (2005)
The Dirtbombs — If You Don’t Already Have a Look (2005)
Life Without Buildings — Any Other City (2001)
In this month’s 225, I talked with Neil Werries of Elsah. Great band, even better story.
Check it.
1 day agoIn the December issue of 225 Magazine, I talked to LSU offensive lineman Lyle Hitt and asked him to reveal the top 5 things many people didn’t know about him.
1 day agoIn December’s issue of 225 Magazine, I look at a house that’s a blemish in the sweet Spanish Town neighborhood.
1 day agoWhen I become bored in my hometown, I pull up Garage Band and just loop some random stuff together.
Here’s my “beat” from Wednesday, 9:45 A.M.
Enjoy.
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4 days agoJessica Baxter, in her review of Twilight: New Moon for Filmthreat.com.
Couldn’t agree with her more.
1 week agoThe Sounds of Sniffling
By 8 a.m., I would have blogged more than usual, eaten breakfast and used a roll of toilet paper to combat my sniffling nose.
Yeah, it’s winter. I woke up to a pounding headache and a reminder of the season’s change. My head is hungover and hazy, even though I haven’t partied in months. It’s gonna be a drowsy day. How about some drowsy tunes as well?
I’m getting pretty sick and tired of these recently crowned “Best New Music” bands. Real Estate is yet another in a string of bands that have come out of nowhere to be given the lofty status: worthy of your ears’ time.
These guys make Grizzly Bear seem like the fucking Stooges.
Look, I could put on my wayfarers all day, roll up my sleeves and bob along to these half-assed tropical tunes—sure, it’s pleasant and all and I’d probably get laid more often, but I’m growing tired of these “different” sounds.
Face it, this band is copping sounds from other, better bands just like the myriad other bands that have been defined “amazing” as of late.
I’m drowsy and all, but this eponymous debut gives a new meaning to the word boring.
If I’m gonna go all in with this hazy playlist, I’m going to have to consider Bradford Cox’s latest album as Atlas Sound.
On Logos, Cox continues to unabashedly wear his predecessor’s sounds on his shoulders and wax nostalgic for those sunnier days.
But this album is the definition of winter music—full of echoes and slow-motion guitar strums. I don’t so much mind the first two songs. They are OK headphone experiments, but I’d much rather Cox pushing the boundaries of his songwriting abilities on songs such as “Walkabout,” “Quick Canal,” and “Sheila.”
For about five songs, Logos captures my attention because it doesn’t sound as forced. And yes, “Quick Canal” might be the best song Stereolab never wrote.
Then, it’s back to winter hums for Cox for the duration of the album. Pleasant sounds for some, but my brain can only take so much.
As much as I want to hate OneRepublic, the song “All the Right Moves” (of the band’s sophomore album, Waking Up) has one of the best drum beats I’ve heard in a pop song in awhile.
I don’t care for the rest of the album—this is The Fray with balls—but this beat is worth a listen.
Finally, The Cribs try to extend their winning streak taking tips from Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr on the new album Ignore the Ignorant.
The thunderous strums of the opening licks of “We Were Aborted” is the sound of a band vying and dying for attention.
The Cribs are something of a guilty pleasure. Leave it to an English band to make the best emo album of the year. But the band might have lost some of their quick wit and snap from the previous album. This might be Marr’s doing, being that he was in the most emo band of all-time.
But, right now, I don’t mind this album at all. It’s fresh compared the aforementioned blurs of “albums.”
Ignore the Ignorant is a well-produced rock record. This sneezy morning, I’d rather this than those other kids forming a band, recording in their mom’s basement and sending the product off to Pitchfork to be proclaimed the next best thing for two months.
