THIS IS A CROSS-POST WITH OUR “BLOGGER OF THE WEEK” FEATURE OVER AT BREAK THRU RADIO. BE SURE TO CHECK THAT OUT ALONG WITH OUR INTERVIEW/PODCAST! Quite simply Aloha’s “That’s Your Fire” is responsible for me being able to appreciate subtlety in musicianship vs. the brash bombastic sounds and heart on your sleeve emotion that had dominated [...]
In 1975 Maxine Nightingale released the disco-tinged “Right Back Where We Started From,” which eventually peaked at #2 of the Billboard Hot 100 — taking center stage was her vocals and a string arrangement which was put together by two members of ELO. The percussion, which seems more or less to be composed entirely of [...]
Mos Def gives a his playlist to NY Times and Fucked Up’s Chemistry of Common Life shows up on it. As an aside, I enjoy that the Times now simply prints their name as ********. Devon’s favorite record last year gets co-opted to sell what we are told is really terrible beer. The Shins’ line-up [...]
An open letter to the Pixies, “Pixies – Why are you giving your deluxe box set its own name? We all thought it was going to be a new album. We’re not even sure what to do with a Blu-Ray of your catalog, but we’ll probably buy it anyway. Regards – CMI” If the space-time-continum [...]
John Davis has become a staple of the DC indie scene, and is someone whose music (Corm, Elusive, Q and Not U, Georgie James) I have been into since I first discovered it . From the post-punk/DC hardcore of Q and Not U to the classic pop sounds of Georgie James, I have certainly played a few [...]
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