Saturday, June 23, 2012

The Magnetic Fields - "69 Love Songs" (LP Review)

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It has taken me a while to get my head around just how remarkable " 69 Love Songs " is, but the iTunes play count doesn't l...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Mazzy Star - "Common Burn/Lay Myself Down" (LP Review)

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Yeah, I know Mazzy Star never officially broke up and they were just on indefinite hiatus, but I was still surprised to find this new sin...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - "Product Placement" (LP Review)

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" Product Placement " is the 2001 mix LP from DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist and follows their similar 1999 LP " Brainfreeze ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

DJ Shadow - "Preemptive Strike" (LP Review)

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Today's review is about part vs. whole :  DJ Shadow 's 1998 compilation LP " Preemptive Strike " contains in its entiret...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Jim Carroll - "People Who Died" (forgotten song)

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Danette pointed out that memorials were becoming an unfortunate theme as of late (e.g., Ronnie Montrose , Clarence Clemons , Ronnie James Di...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Townes Van Zandt - "Pancho and Lefty" (the song remains the same)

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In my previous post I introduced Ronnie Montrose to illustrate the concept of popular vs. influential. Continuing in that theme we now loo...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Montrose - "I Got the Fire" (forgotten song)

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I wanted to acknowledge the recent passing of Ronnie Montrose , the influential guitarist and founder of the band Montrose . Never heard of...