I believe very strongly in artistic freedom, but in this case I call for immediate action on the part of the British government. This has to stop. James Blunt might be the king of mawkish music for desperate housewives, but he sure has no business covering a song from one of the most amazing bands [...]
Some days ago, I recommended The Mojo Collection as a good reference book for record collections, but of course there are tons of such lists usually encompassing a selection of 50 or 100 best songs, albums, whatever. The Rolling Stone even has a list of the most important artists, which they named “The Immortals”. Yep, [...]
No, I’m not intending to give advice on such a thorny subject. This will be the title of the new Decemberists album according to Pitchfork Media!
I was tipped off to this marvelous HowTo by Wired: How to bluff a music geek. Being a music geek myself, though of a less arrogant variety than High Fidelity’s Barry, I was highly skeptical this could work. Well, it does. True, the music geek’s universe revolves to some extent around real, unimitable knowledge, but [...]
For all Dylanites like myself this is good news. There will a new new volume of the Bootleg Series released soon and it is rumoured that the second part of his (so far) fascinating autobiography will be out next spring. Bootlegs have always been an important part of the Dylan oeuvre, since even though his [...]