Mexican artist, Croatian fans, still everyone speaks English:
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The Jesus And Mary Chain endure as innovators of a huge proportion of what I listen to and much of modern shoegaze. Mazzy Star, of course, are just utterly lovely and have ploughed their own furrow of Paisley underground. To put Hope Sandoval alongside the Reid brothers for this fleeting moment was just a perfect …
You can never count rhymin’ Simon out. In his seventh decade making music, Paul Simon has a new record that, if not revelatory, features songs with incisive lyrics, catchy melodies and lively rhythms. And so what if the bard from New Jersey hasn’t bottled lightning again with “So Beautiful or So What?” This guy released …
Drummer Jimmy Cobb, alto saxophonist Sonny Fortune, bassist Buster Williams and guitarist Mike Stern range in age from 82 (Cobb) to 58 (Stern). Miles Davis, the man they play to honor, would have been 85 on May 26th. Sitting across from me at Seattle’s Jazz Alley, Tom Kipp wasn’t completely sure if four sidemen from …
Another video from the movie Bachna Ae Haseeno (“Be Careful With Me”), this song was filmed in Italy. So cool to see a song for a movie made by the country where we live now but filmed in the country of our last residence. – Robert
Moby states the following opinion of Ke$ha’s and Britney Spears’ music: “”It’s fun, but I don’t think of it as music,” he says. “It’s manufactured. I appreciate it as pop culture phenomenon and some of the songs I like if I hear them in a shopping mall or something, but it doesn’t function as music …
Thanks to Tim Cook for this:
Here’s how Shankar Tucker describes the creation of this video: “This video was shot with the help of a friend who regularly takes care of a group of underprivileged children in Mumbai. We took the kids to Juhu beach, where we ate dosa, flew kites, and even started a dance party in the middle of …
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[Ed. Note: What follows is a work in progress. Tom Kipp is in the process of compiling a list of 1200, or perhaps more, unforgettable songs. Some of these songs will be familiar, others less so. All will be worthy of your attention and Tom will expertly explain why. The presentation below, “What Was in …
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Though he’s one of the hardest-working artists in show business, Dave Alvin is not entirely a self-made man; to a large extent, American music made him. Alvin translated a childhood spent in Downey, CA, obsessing over old records with his brother Phil into a Grammy-winning mission of further exploration. As a solo artist, Blaster or …
There are at least two Little Walters. One is the talented but troubled harmonica player, Muddy Waters’ sidekick, who drifted into brutality and alcoholism. This is the Little Walter of tragic legend. Then there is the consummate musician whose records outsold those of Muddy Waters or Howling Wolf, who fronted one of the best small …
Recorded in 1964, this is the grooviest of all the “Fevers.” According to anonymous internet sources, this version reached #38 on the UK Charts. On Helen Shapiro’s 1963 UK Tour, the Beatles were the opening act.
Like all great art, this is both painful and beautiful.