New York Times article on Crocs that fails to mention the obvious. Walking any distance at all in these suckers makes your legs hurt.
In other shoe news, a few months ago Doc Martens adsense went a little haywire with their “Dead Rock Stars” campaign. This LA Times article has the scoop.

Marc Broussard

Live Version by Al himself from a WNET-TV show called “Soul” (1973)

Bono from, of all place, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

Psalms and hymns were my first taste of inspirational music. I liked the words but I wasn’t sure about the tunes — with the exception of Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd.” I remember […]

Steve Albini (he of the famous essay) is answering questions about music and poker at the 2+2 forum

A guy who doesn’t want to be associated with the theft of intellectual property sent me a question privately, and I am posting it here on his behalf.
And don’t ask me who it is. He’s already got sand […]

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It seems like everybody’s talking about the end of physical music media. Who knows whether they’re right or not, but Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like. However, Hard Format […]

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I’m trying to parse the new Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley offering “The MoneyMaker”.

Click on the image above for a NSFW (slightly) video featuring interviews/auditions with porn stars as they prepare to star in the video or simply recount how they got into their current line of work. The “music” starts about 9 minutes into the clip […]

All that bass from Spinal Tap Live the other day caused me to think of another bass heavy band from back in the day - Morphine. From a “Rock In Boston” article.
It didn’t take long for Boston to respond to Morphine. Mark once again came up with a trademark sound- in THR he’d used a […]

I’ve been saving this for way too long for many reasons. In lieu of the recent (and entirely painful) Tom Jones cover of the Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” at the P. Di shindig I wanted to dig it out.

Sing it for us Tom J.

About halfway through the first set, […]

too much - best bass ever.

One of the beauties of the iTunes store is that every now and then they actually give you something for free. This week its a rocking new tune by Ruthie Foster (myspace) called “Heal Yourself” - head over to iTunes to download it right away. This tune is from Ruthie’s CD “The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster.”
Here’s […]