The Necks‘ 2006 release Chemist is just like every other album the band has done. Then again, it’s completely original. Every release by this band is unmistakably The Necks. Each album completely improvised and organic. It just so happens that Chemist was my introduction and remains a personal favorite. The perfect safe-space to explore this …
Listen to this playlist and other gems today on Mark Lager’s radio show ‘Thursday Trips’- streaming online Thursdays 7-8 P.M. (Mountain Time) at: http://www.primcast.com/radio/610946 “Change of the Guard” (Kamasi Washington)An accurately named opening track from the equally appropriately named mammoth, monolithic triple record The Epic, this is incredible jazz for a new generation. Bandleader Kamasi …
Listen to this playlist and other gems today on Mark Lager’s radio show ‘Thursday Trips’- streaming online Thursdays 7-8 P.M. (Mountain Time) at: http://www.primcast.com/radio/610946 “Place at the End of the Street” (Cotton Jones)Perhaps the standout song on the band’s 2010 record Tall Hours in the Glowstream, “Place At The End of the Street” best epitomizes …
He never really felt comfortable anywhere. He never got comfortable with himself. Always worried that it was his role or maybe his destiny to feel alone. Even among friends and those that said they loved him, Daniel was difficult and and he was difficult to understand. For this reason, he seemed to always be on the move. Most of …
…And The Circus Is Back In Town And with it, endless joy and a big magical sack full of wonderful riffs and ideas paired with a rare playful masculinity and crude mischief is back in music. The new Desert Sessions Vols. 11+12 are pure adult fun pervaded by lunacy and sincerety, and it is like …
Still can’t get his face out of my mind. All these years later. I can still see him there… Daring me to react. It’s personal. Throughout the 1980s and into the 90s you could depend on only two things in the United States: A foreign policy of relentless military intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations across the …
Like a vampireYou would wake up a dead personAnd your bite is worth all melee, Worth all the stretches, all tangos of time Benjamin Biolay, Glory Hole French master-composer Benjamin Biolay’s second album Négatif (2003) is a devastating demonstration of his divine elegance, but also of his substance. It is an undeterred response to his …
I miss those days when I would walk into a record store and scan the wall of new releases. Sometimes looking for nothing more than a sleeve that grabs my eye. That one cover that jumps at me, with no or limited knowledge of the music or musicians within those grooves. The art of album cover design …
Right now as I write this, and recall to a date that meant more to me than I ever thought, I reminisce in an Irish interior bar in the south of Wisconsin. To my left there’s a projector nailed to a beam playing local television on a projector screen. Always uneven. I order a locally …
Others wanted to hold hands, the Stones wanted to fuck. I was 17 and still in high-school when this record came out. But I was already thinking about taking the consequent step into showbusiness and music- and at that point that album was a big thing for me. This here must have been the second …
