One thing I missed in 2009 was the new Bob Log III album My Shit Is Perfect. Here’s the title track, a delirious mix of slide guitar, old school rhythm, and DIY ethos. This guy is pure fun and, brother, there’s always a need for that.
MP3: Bob Log III – My Shit Is Perfect
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Warp Records has released their 2010 compilation and it includes this fabulous track by The Hundred In The Hands, a fresh summer song run through an electro wringer and mashed into an amalgamation of all around goodness. Plus, could Eleanore Everdell be any more adorable in that band picture? She looks like a [...]

I’ve been into music longer than there have been MP3s, which has left me with hundreds of compact discs gathering dust on a closet shelf. The time has come to clean them out – but which ones are worth keeping and which are best left to the Donation box? Let’s take ‘em one by one:

Doubt
Jesus [...]

Corinne Bailey Rae probably finds herself lumped in with the Duffy’s and Amy Winehouse’s of the world, though she’s not mining soul as blatantly as those two. Not that doing so is such a bad thing – I happen to be a fan of both of them. But CBR seems to be going her own [...]

James Cameron is an easy target. Why? He makes himself an easy target. He delivers Oscar speeches like this. He apparently inflicts a sort of borderline torture on his actors (at least according to Kate Winslet, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ed Harris, Sigourney Weaver and…well, I guess anyone that’s made a movie with him). He makes [...]

Occasionally there are albums I’ll listen to and think “wow, I should tell someone about this!” but don’t necessarily have time or patience to write a full blown review. So I created the First Impressions category, which is, as the name would suggest, my first impressions of an album based on a single listen. [...]

I hope everyone got to enjoy a few days off for “holiday relaxation,” a term which usually means crowded airports, awkward family encounters, and stupefying boredom. So nothing relaxing perhaps, but hopefully there were also a few magical moments that made it all worthwhile.

No better way to get back into the swing of things [...]