I don’t know how I’ve gone so long not realizing that two of my favorite contemporary musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have collaborated on many musical soundtracks. I at once dived into them all and was not disappointed. This song off the soundtrack to the move The Proposition is so amazingly sublime….
Iwant to keep my skills sharp in the mediums I have a bad habit of neglecting. So here are a handful of sketches done with video, sculpture, writing, music etc. It’s fun to shake things up every now and again. …
A little while back I made a resolution to contact my favorite artists and give thanks. I started with this letter to Heather Phares….
I recently logged my 100,000th song with last.fm,
which has been tracking my music listening since I signed up with the service a few years ago.
(To see what it looked like at 50,000 click here)…
Lead singer Trish Keenan of Broadcast, died today.
One of the best, and certainly my favorite contemporary rock band….
You said I came close
as anyone’s come
to live underwater
for more than a month
you said it was not inside my heart, it was
you said it should tear a kid apart, it does…
Moves like a fist through traffic
Anger and no one can heal it
Shoves a little bump into the momentum
It’s just a little lump
But you feel it…
I was reeling from the hilarity that is twitter.com/Shitmydadsays when I came across this gem:
“What are you listening to?…I know who Hall & Oates are god dammit.
It’s the mustache guy and the gay man.”…
Sometimes I get into a weird music mantra mode where I can’t help but listen to the same track on repeat. I don’t know if I ever went this far though. This week for some reason, the song I couldn’t get enough of was this Knife track, where I just listened to it on loop for 3 days…..
I finally got my record player up and running. After putting so much effort in pairing the right amp, monitor speakers, needle, it’s such a joy to hear my music come out and fill the room. Some of the records I’ve been playing on it are albums I have on CD or digital, and it’s really interesting to hear the difference on the records.
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A little over two years ago I signed up with an English website that is pretty much a one shop stop for anything music related on the internet. Whether I’m looking up info on a musician, lyrics to a song, tour dates/venues, recommendations, editorials etc….
For reasons I don’t understand, I have a real soft spot for poignant Christmas music.
Last week I steeped myself in Low nonstop for three days.
On the third day I found myself continuously repeating two songs off the Christmas album.
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