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11/23/07
Something Is Happening Here But You Don’t Know What It Is
Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers “Ballad of a Thin Man” - David Edelstein’s review of Todd Haynes’ new film I’m Not There in the most recent issue of New York Magazine may be positive, but in complaining that Haynes is more concerned with deconstructing Bob Dylan than getting inside his head, he [...]
7/17/07
Pitchfork Music Festival 2007
I didn’t see every artist at the festival, and I didn’t see all of most of the sets that I saw, but here are my thoughts, impressions, observations, etc.
Slint - Spiderland was more of a background thing for me, though I made sure to pay close attention to “Good Morning, Captain,” which I’ve always loved. [...]
6/28/07
Everything Extraordinaire
Pavement “Old To Begin” (Live in Amsterdam, 4/4/1997)
1. In my senior year of high school, I took weekend classes at Pratt. Though Pratt’s campus is located in Brooklyn, the class met at the Puck Building. (People outside of NYC might recognize it as the building that was used for exterior shots of Grace’s office [...]
2/28/07
Fluxblog Interview With Rob Sheffield, Part One
Rob Sheffield’s witty, thoughtful, and heartbreaking new book Love Is A Mix Tape is technically a memoir, but more accurately, it is a passionate testimonial about the way art is meaningless without life, and life is meaningless without art. Rob tells his story in the context of a series of mix tapes accumulated since his [...]
2/12/07
Named After Jazz Songs
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks @ Irving Plaza 2/10/07 (Plug Awards)Baby C’mon / Dragonfly Pie / It Kills / Pennywhistle Thunder / Hopscotch Willie / Jo Jo’s Jacket / Walk Into a Mirror
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks @ Maxwell’s 2/11/07Pencil Rot / Water and a Seat / Merry Go Round / Dragonfly Pie / Real [...]
12/4/06
Until You Can Actually See The Rays
Pavement “Black Out (Wow Out 7″ Version)” - For most (if not all) of the tour for Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, “Black Out” was included on setlists as “New Gold Soundz,” which is fair enough given its general vibe, though this early draft is more along the lines of “New Stop Breathin’.” Interestingly, with its [...]
11/7/06
Finally Getting Back On Track
Lo-Fi-Fnk @ Fontana’s 11/3/2006City / Adore / Wake Up / The End
Lo-Fi-Fnk “City” - Lo-Fi-Fnk’s fourth US show was in the basement venue of a bar called Fontana’s, as part of the Brooklyn Vegan’s series of CMJ day shows. The group only played four songs, and unfortunately “What’s On Your Mind?” and “Unighted” were not [...]
9/5/06
There’s So Many Ways Around It
The following three songs are the centerpiece of a mix cd that I compiled over the course of the weekend. I’m a bit out of practice when it comes to creating mixes. I used to make them for people all the time, but this site has generally replaced/upgraded/expanded my impulse to select and share songs [...]
8/25/06
With Verbs I’ll Attack
Stephen Malkmus “Kindling For The Master (Major Swellings mix)” - There are many strange things about this double 12″ of “Kindling For The Master” remixes, but chief among them is the fact that it seems to be released on a random whim quite some time after Face The Truth came out last year, and [...]
6/19/06
Dani Siciliano “Why Can’t I Make You...
Put Yourself Down, You Don’t Need Me
Dani Siciliano “Why Can’t I Make You High?” - Mixing sultry vocals, a minimal arrangement, and a strange country/folk-by-way-of-Prince-circa-”Kiss” aesthetic, “Why Can’t I Make You High?” is not far off from KT Tunstall’s excellent hit single “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” (aka that kinda awesome song Katherine McPhee [...]
