Collapse Board Whatever happened to the music press?

Added on May 29, 2014 Lee Adcock album review , Anthony Fantano , BADBADNOTGOOD , hip-hop , Jazz , Lee Adcock , Vince Guaraldi

BADBADNOTGOOD – III (Create/Control)

BADBADNOTGOOD – III (Create/Control)

Finally, time to be positive about somethin’ again. Scratch that. Time to be ECSTATIC. Since their debut in 2011, smashing Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD have been ripping up the back pages of jazz standards. “Fuck that shit,” said one of the boys at the end of BBNG when asked about John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”. “I don’t […]

Added on November 15, 2012 Wallace Wylie Albums , Cinema , Elvis , iPod , Jazz , Nik Cohn , Poetry , pop , Popular Culture , Rock n Roll , Singles , The Beatles , Wallace Wylie

The iPod and the Function of Music

Unless a particular artistic discipline has massive popular support then it ceases to become culturally relevant.

Added on November 18, 2011 Wallace Wylie blues , Blur , Britpop , Cab Calloway , Chunka-Chunka , Elliott Smith , Jazz , Louis Armstrong , Mamie Smith , Motown , Oasis , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Kinks , The Move , The Small Faces , The Supremes , Wallace Wylie

English Blues – The Untold History of the Chunka-Chunka Song

It was The Supremes’ ‘Baby Love’ that really brought back that Chunka-Chunka feeling

Added on February 21, 2011 Wallace Wylie Bill Withers , Brian Eno , Dan Bejar , David Sanborn , Destroyer , Guided By Voices , indie , Jazz , Kaputt , Leonard Cohen , Merge Records , New Order , New Pornographers , Pavement , Pitchfork , Roxy Music , Tapes 'n' Tapes

Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)

Kaputt is a dark city with no easy escape routes. Washed-out horns blow sorrowfully into the night.