Yesterday I went to a very different kind of show than the musical variety I frequently ramble on about on this page. I was in the audience for the most watched political show on the BBC, Question Time. They normally shoot in different parts of Britain, but this week they had a special U.S. episode [...]
I have to confess: I’m kind of obsessed with this song by The Cool Kids at the moment. I have trouble explaining why. The beat is minimalist, the rhymes are clever but not amazing, and the “chorus,” if you can call it that, is just a slowed down voice saying, “With a little bit of [...]
The world is a better place with Sufjan Stevens in it. He’s such a talented musician, and he’s kind of wacky too. This live version of “For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti” is off of his Greetings from Michigan, The Great Lakes State, the first of two albums he wrote about [...]
I wrote some extensive praise for TV on the Radio‘s new album, Dear Science, in a previous post. This song, track 3 on the album, is my favorite on the album, and is in the running for my favorite new track of 2008. It’s a new direction for TVOTR. They’ve always been energetic, but this [...]
As anyone who reads this blog regularly can see, I’ve been to a lot of shows lately. I love music more than anything, but going to shows so frequently was getting sort of tiresome. So, naturally, I wasn’t extremely pumped to go see Billy Bragg, an artist I respect greatly but have never become a [...]
