2024-04-06 00:35
Until, like, last week, I didn't, and actually had never owned any physical copies of Robin Trower's music, or at least with a couple exceptions, I hadn't. My gutar-playing buddies in hig… Read More
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2024-03-25 00:12
Currently making my way through this, and it's a recap of things that were slightly before my time as well as a reminder of goings on that I was in fact a part of. Jon Marlowe (who hasn't g… Read More
2024-03-14 00:43
Despite the fact that it came out in 1987, and on the semi-major label Relativity, Dali Does Windows may be the most obscure album I've ever liked.It's sort of fun to try to pick out the rea… Read More
2024-03-03 03:21
So ten days or so ago, I read Treble's review of the new archival Can live album--Live in Paris 1973--and it sounded good and noisy, so I ordered it.
Received it over the last weekend, and s… Read More
2023-12-01 00:34
Listening to Coltrane's cover of "Greensleeves" for the first time. Nine or ten times over the last two days.
It's got a lot of the same lyricism that "My Favorite Things" does, the same mo… Read More
2023-11-22 04:07
2023-11-05 19:39
But I couldn't help myself Read More
2023-10-31 04:02
After basically being an ostracized dork during elementary and junior high school, I made the social decision to become a stoner in high school. You know, just to have someone to hang out… Read More
2023-09-23 00:13
Been listening to The Great Destroyer all day.
And it's like this movie is playing in my head, this neo-noir hardboiled whodunnit. Not sure how well the lyrics would agree if I broke it d… Read More
2023-05-27 00:14
May 26:
Happy Birthday to the most overrated rock album of all time. It's been 56 years.
"A Day in the Life" is pretty great, and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" and "Good Morning" ar… Read More
2023-05-22 23:00
So, not sure why I would have the gumption to mouth off about Nirvana, and to do so at one of Simon Reynolds' blogs, no less, but that's exactly what I did.
Reynolds reposted or reprinted or… Read More
2023-04-15 22:44
2023-04-14 23:04
This is not necessarily my favorite Primus record, or my favorite covers record, but I think you have to say that it's a pretty sucessful covers record for Primus, if you consider "pretty su… Read More
2023-03-03 23:48
. . . to bombard with microposts, but as an unauthorized Florida blogger, I feel I am obligated to take this opportunity to say Fuck You, Ron DeSantis.You are a metaphorical piece of shit, b… Read More
2023-03-02 23:47
*** Charlie Kaufman's Hipster Bullshit ***---------#Named in honor of the Music for Airports reference in CK's unfilmed script for Eternal Sunshine Read More
2023-01-20 23:42
It's almost three years now since Sleep closed their 2019 tour in Miami. I had been *really* early so I could grab a poster, and therefore had had my fill of the venue and bolted out shortly… Read More
2022-11-24 08:22
An unordered chronological list--The Steve Miller Band in 1967 or 1968, this show looks good! or maybe when they co-headlined with The Doors at the Avalon Ballroom on April `14, 1967The Stev… Read More
2022-10-21 23:00
I dreamt Of a longhair cat His paws tracing sleepy cycloids While Dreaming of a Shimmery goldfish, Which Encased in its transparent Sphere Anxiously swishing Dreamt a… Read More
2022-08-13 14:11
Check this out, on the eternally-relevant My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, from my favorite liberal British news -site.Not as interesting as if, say, they had reinstated "Qu'ran," but OK, cool… Read More
2022-04-30 15:39
Powerful show, if only an hour and 48 minutes long. Not a word was spoken by the band to the audience, speaking of pretense. The finale was a half-hour version of "Blaise Bailey Finnegan I… Read More
2022-04-30 15:38
"People say That I can't do anything without pretense. No arguing with you there, but I would say everything we experience is pretentious. Some would say The Ramones are the most incredible… Read More
2022-03-29 00:12
Well, I saw that big-low-t just came up with a post with some of his favorite album artwork, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no idea so good that it's not worth ripping off, you know wh… Read More
2022-03-13 16:26
So, I'm on Third Man's mailing list and I get an email Friday saying that Jack White is the cover for the new Mojo and did I want to buy the Collector's edition "[a]vailable exclusively at T… Read More
2022-03-12 23:05
After a cancellation due to Covid that actually worked out quite well, thank you, the Missus and I attended the Rick Wakeman show along his 'Even Grumpier Old Rock Star' US tour at the Amatu… Read More
2022-03-06 16:22
Last night, I dreamed about Lady Bolshevik, a cross-dressing punk rock quartet who fought for the televised Marxist Revolution by playing for free, Hawkwind-style, outside gigs and festivals… Read More
2022-02-15 03:12
My Plans for the evening of April 28 . . .. . . would now be to catch the Godspeed You! Black Emperor show at the Beacham Theatre in historical downtown Orlando.Tickets purchased just now.Ho… Read More
2022-02-11 01:30
After a certain amount of hemming and hawing, copied from my Tumblr. . . . .1. Think of a cover song.2. Assign a number, 1 - 10, as the estimated coolness score of the artist being covered.3… Read More
2021-12-21 01:06
RIP Billy Conway, a drummer for Morphine the band.Cancer got him, which I bet he thought was probably better than a heart attack live on stage, then dead on stage, like Sandman. I didn't en… Read More
2021-11-27 18:36
Jimi Hendrix would have turned 79 today.I've sometimes thought about what might have happened had the guy lived, and it's easy to say that he would have just continued to be a huge star, wou… Read More
2021-11-24 02:13
So, some clown on Quora was talking shit about Wings, and then dropped a quote where Pete Townsend saw an early show and didn't think much of Linda's keyboard work. This I could not abide:… Read More
2021-11-20 00:28
So, think I was saying six months ago or so that I'd purchased tickets for Rick Wakeman's Even Grumpier Old Rock Star tour.And the date on the tickets said yesterday! So my gal Mel and I mad… Read More
2021-10-31 04:59
First came across this on the Spin This Six sampler, from 1995, and found it to be powerful stuff. I immediately started looking for the album. I looked it up, best as I could, back before… Read More
2021-09-26 01:15
Oooh NIN Challenge on Tumblr. Not usually the kind of thing I'd respond to (I'm not very social, even though it's called social media), but Nine Inch Nails are a band who've gotten differen… Read More
2021-07-24 15:54
KC Schawag.Program, and "tour book," actually two CDs and a 24-page full color pamphlet packed in a DVD-style case. CDs feature 40 rarities and alternate tracks from all phases of the band'… Read More
2021-07-20 00:01
So . . . . . the hoped-for reappraisal. Man, have I been on an electric-period Miles jag for the past two weeks or so, with at least another week--just based on incoming purchases--obviousl… Read More
2021-05-22 19:45
For me, Galaxie 500 will always be music for vacuuming your car. When you're newly single again, your schedules can get a little fucked up. If no-one needs you at home at 10:30 PM on a Sun… Read More
2021-04-23 23:49
Having emerged from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which very famously took a lot of their inspiration and their energy from British punk, Iron Maiden, at least initially, probably had… Read More
2021-04-16 23:25
So, I finally received the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor CD on Wednesday and have been listening to it during drive time since. When I first got wind of the record, I'd heard that they wer… Read More
2021-03-05 01:44
So, almost a week ago, Neil Young released another live album in what has become a most remarkable Archive Series. This one was called Way Down in the Rust Bucket, and I haven't bought them… Read More
2021-02-28 22:17
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/genesis-duke/Interesting review, written by an author who I'll say up front knows a lot more about Genesis than me.For somebody who as a kid jumped from… Read More
2021-02-27 03:48
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sportatorium Check it out, click that link, if you haven't before: SoFla's concertgoing Stoner Nation forged a legend out of a leaky, acoustically atr… Read More
2021-01-10 17:33
Sometimes you'll hear a song you like alright in a new way. I heard Rush's "The Enemy Within" this morning and it has raised itself in my appreciation evidently.I even sent a text say… Read More
2020-12-31 17:44
Fuzz - III The weird thing about 2019 for me was that I didn't even hear my favorite album of the year until the end of December. That was poor timing on Duster's part as far as I'm co… Read More
2020-11-01 21:18
1. Eagles of Death Metal2. Cap'n Jazz3. Mogul Thrash4. Metal Church5. Be Bop Deluxe Read More
2020-10-03 17:01
Any poor soul who's followed me here knows that I'm a big fan of Lavie Tidhar, and By Force Alone, his newest novel, his postmodern interpretation of Arthurian fiction, is as readable as eve… Read More
2020-09-15 23:12
This album is forever associated with a golden day in my mind. Teenagers, Mark and I, again in his shitshaker Vega, smoking a doobie, then driving through Tropical Park with the windows dow… Read More
2020-09-12 21:21
dir. Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin 2012Caught this film over the last couple nights--free with Prime you know--and it's absolutely positively pretty good. It is indeed the story of The Police… Read More
2020-08-04 03:41
Ahem:John CaleSang a Velvety taleAnd the irascible fuckerPlayed rhythm with Maureen TuckerFile under: Practical Poetry Read More
2020-06-29 00:35
One of the few blogs I visit regularly is Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon, the irregularly updated blog named after a Flaming Lips song maintained by the Welsh science fiction writer Ala… Read More
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - "Blaise Bailey Finnegan III" From The EP Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
2020-05-27 22:05
A lot going on here. Now, I'm left wing, but I'm not as left-wing as these Godspeed assholes. And they're radicals, but it may be that they're not as radical as plain-old Blaise Bailey Fin… Read More
2020-04-20 14:35
Heard "No Hidden Path" off Chrome Dreams II yesterday, with that monster monster riff, so I googled the song to read about if anyone else grooves on that riff as much as I do, and that broug… Read More
2020-04-07 08:17
So: I'm like 11 years old, maybe 12, and my buddy Greg invites me to his sister's wedding. Like, alright, sure. So my mother drops me off at Greg's house, and then the idea is to gain tran… Read More
2019-04-03 01:19
Eno/CaleWrong Way UpOpal RecordsBack when it was new--and I was 25 years old--I eagerly purchased this compact disc. Oh, it was a time, man. The CD was packaged in--get this (if you can: m… Read More
2019-03-15 02:35
Copied from my Tumblr of courseI am only just now beginning to recover from a weeklong Eno bacchanal brought on by the viewing of this 2-1/2 hour film. During this last week, I: Listened to… Read More
2019-03-03 23:58
In addition to the promo videos for Helmet's "Give It" and Adrian Belew's "Big Electric Cat," and a bunch of live stuff from the Soft Machine, I watched King Crimson's version of "The Shelte… Read More
2018-03-03 18:25
It began like this: I was following an image search to chase down the truly remarkable Roger Dean album cover for Topographic Drama - Live Across America, the recent Yes live album. And I… Read More
2017-10-02 22:57
The only content here it seems anymore is copied from my tumblr."Mary Jane's Last Dance" ('cause it sounded like something off Harvest) and "Billy the Kid" ('cause it fit in with this 'Peop… Read More
2016-03-12 00:55
I posted this first at my Tumblr.Fuck. RIP Keith Emerson.I was as shocked and as saddened as anyone else by David Bowie's death, but rock music, by its nature, will always have its David Bo… Read More
2015-12-31 05:29
*** A Top Five List *** *** And Then Another Eight In Alphabetical Order After That ***Not that some albums didn't leave me scroggled, and I'll list those out for you shortly, but I th… Read More
2015-12-03 03:13
One of the things that old people who are seriously into music like to do is bitch about the state of commercial radio. We don't do this bitching as much as we used to, because, let's face… Read More
2015-11-24 17:50
I’m walking down the beach with Jack White. It’s a beach in Florida because to our left at the treeline are all these invasive Australian Pines. He’s got surfer shorts on… Read More
2015-11-14 23:06
First posted on my tumblr, but posts here have a permanence which seem warranted in this caseThe first casualty with a name from this act of war. I won’t call it a tragedy–a trag… Read More
2015-07-08 18:35
I re-started my Tumblr since my last post here, and have been fairly active over there, you can check it out at http://lahistoriadelamusicarock.tumblr.com if you've forgotten, and if you wan… Read More
2015-07-08 18:20
And here's one about Mudhoney, more or less: OK, I actually got a story about Mudhoney Hate the Police. At some point after buying SuperFuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles I decide to buy a Mudh… Read More
2015-02-28 18:22
Why Hadn't I Seen This Movie? Given my fascination with science fiction, and given my facility with (desktop) computers, and given all my transhumanist friends*, it shouldn't be s… Read More
2015-02-09 21:51
Sir Joseph PriestlyActed quite beastly Huffed laughing gasDuring Christmas mass Read More
2015-01-01 14:33
Not much coming to me this New Year's morning, as a brutal headache (not even drink-induced) is debilitating me, but I did want to at least acknowledge what I thought was the best release of… Read More
2014-12-31 23:45
So, true story, I found out that Parquet Courts had scheduled a show in Gainesville for the last Friday in January, and had also booked one in Tampa for the following night. Then I saw they… Read More
2014-12-30 23:43
Thou are a three-piece progressive doom/drone/sludge band from Baton Rouge,Louisiana, and you'd think at the very least just based on their hometown that they were notable. They've had a… Read More
2014-12-27 16:34
It's that time of year again, when I look at the arid wasteland of this blog, and wonder whether I can post anything before the end of the year that will make the thing slightly less arid a… Read More
2014-12-27 16:33
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?The idea that the good stuff is over by the time you've heard of it will be a familiar one to anybody who came of age during the Bush presidency, but… Read More
2014-12-22 00:03
Another book review I posted at Goodreads, if you can stand itSpoilers of a sort:I have long been a major fan of Reynolds' short fiction, but I've found his novels to be more hit-and-miss… Read More
2014-12-21 08:14
I know it's a snare and a stupid one at that. I know it's just clickbait, I know it's designed by soulless cynics to do exactly this to me; I know I should not allow myself, simply because I… Read More
2014-12-03 02:22
So, Melanie and I were trying to figure out something to watch Saturday night, and because Netflix streaming kind of sucks, and perhaps because we both would have rather been reading, but we… Read More
2014-11-29 13:56
Feel like Jim Morrison, all badass, sorta: Woke up this morning and made myself an Oyster Shooter. Had several Friday, too. And it goes without saying that I partook of three or four on T… Read More
2014-10-18 21:54
Just wrote what I thought was a decent review of this book at Goodreads, and given the dearth of new material here, thought I might crosspost, expecially since Goodreads gave me the option o… Read More
2014-10-06 06:32
Love living on the northwest corner of the intersection of pop culture components. It's not just like that Heavy Metal Burger Joint in Chicago you've heard about*, or like that not-quite-as… Read More
2014-08-30 19:28
Just read on CNN that Paul McCartney signed the open letter asking the Scots to vote to stay in the UK. The article mentions "Mull of Kintyre," but fails to mention another… Read More
2014-08-23 03:49
Boing Boing directed me to an interesting article at The Atlantic about the use of the definite article in orchestral and popular music band names. The history lesson it gives going back to… Read More
2014-07-16 16:09
Notes on how complicated things have gotten: Stumbling about the internet yesterday, I became aware of a letter to Neil Young that Roger Waters had written, and then when he got no reply, po… Read More
2014-06-23 18:42
Sheldon Pearce at Consequences of Soundoverstated, I thought, the amount of critical shit Led Zeppelin took in their early days. So I posted something. John Mendelsohn and Rolling Ston… Read More
2014-02-06 08:32
First time I'd been to the Fillmore and first time I'd seen QOTSA. Sometime during the show, Josh Homme said that it'd been 11 years since the band had played South Florida, which means tha… Read More
2013-12-26 20:00
MBV by My Bloody Valentinehttp://www.mybloodyvalentine.org, 2013 If you thought I was all agog with Bailterspace for making a great record with their second album into a comeback, then wait… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sunbather by DeafheavenDeathwish Records, 2013 While I've been absent from this site for sixteen months or so, it would be a mistake for any hypothetical reader to assume this means that I'… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Trinine by BailterspaceFire Records, 2013 2012's Strobosphere was the first new album in 14 years for these self-described atmospheric noisesters from New Zealand. The remarkable (and germ… Read More
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