Song of the day – 673: Britney Spears
Judging Britney the same way you’d judge Dylan or Elliott Smith is like taking a baseball bat to a cricket game.
Blanche Blanche Blanche – Breaking Mirrors (Wharf Cat)
Blanche Blanche Blanche may be the most creative, original-thinking, band out there right now.
of Montreal – lousy with sylvanbriar (Polyvinyl)
It’s Dylan at his dandiest, the least earthy version of Dylans, the one least covered in dirt, self-applied or otherwise.
Ghost In Every Town – The Haunting Of Elliott Smith
Smith’s songs were populated by back alley losers, moving in a moonlit world of cashed checks, track marks, and bad luck.
Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals (Mom & Pop)
I’m not saying Sleigh Bells are visionaries. I just think they’re paying very close attention. They push the logics of consumerism/consumption/celebrity to their breaking point, a grotesque extreme that would qualify as parody if it didn’t feel so real.
Jeff Pollack | An Open Letter To Music Fans
Critics have been falling over themselves to praise their special brand of retro R&B mixed with retro MOR and it will surely only be a matter of time before teenagers find out about them too.
Bob Dylan – Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia)
There are no simple truths here. There is just a millionaire recording artist with time on his hands, recording songs that he enjoys singing.
Song of the day – 626: Courtney Barnett
I actually thought that great Australian music begins and ends with the twin cultural hotspots of Hobart and Brisbane
Some random thoughts on ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ and Paul Simon in general
This appears to be the opposite of crazy. It’s mundane. Why would somebody describe their encounters with normal everyday situations and then call themselves crazy? Why indeed. They’d have to be delusional.
