“Living Of Love”

For just one chance to find
Love was someone that you loved to find
For just the sense to try
To walk ahead and leave the pain behind
If the days aren’t easy and the nights are rough
When they ask you what you’re thinking of
Say love, say for me love
Say love, say for me love
Your heart says […]

Everything surrounding “Once” which I wrote about back in July.
“Falling Slowly”

On the musical commentary section of the DVD the director compares this song to the sexual dance of foreplay and consumation, The first chorus is the first kiss. By the end of the song they are “****ing like animals”. An odd assessment given the chaste […]

We wrote about Victoria previously.

Back in Boston in the late 80’s early 90’s my friends Todd and Brian struggled to do what musicians all over do - “make it”. In fact, they had some success signing with Enigma as “The Cavedogs” and releasing some very cool power pop inspired rock music.
Behold the power of the Internet as I searched […]

Twenty years ago The Cowboy Junkies recorded “The Trinity Sessions” in Toronto, ON. One microphone, direct to tape - the atmospheric vocals and sparse instrumentation were the perfect setting for Margo’s voice and the low moan of the guitars.
Earlier in the summer 1987 I met M. and R. in Salzburg, Austria at a hostel […]

From the WTMD blog

Image via Dino Perrucci Photography
James Brown, ‘Sex Machine’
The Band, ‘The Basement Tapes’
Bob Dylan, ‘Blood on the Tracks
Rolling Stones, ‘Sticky Fingers’
Led Zeppelin, ‘Led Zeppelin IV’
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”
The Who, ‘Who’s Next’
George Harrison, All Things Must Pass’
Radiohead, ‘The Bends’
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, ‘Time the Revelator’
Not too […]

“The Victorian freak show never went away,” Millman rails in a soliloquy that serves as a climax of the “Extras” final episode and a moment of redemption for the character, whose life and friendships have been corrupted by fame. “Now it’s called ‘Big Brother’ or ‘American Idol,’ where in the preliminary rounds we wheel out […]

Walk Hard – The Beatles EXTENDED on FunnyOrDie.com
Jack Black as McCartney? Pathetic - still, funny. Plus - Jenna Fischer! Yowza, put this one on the fake girlfriend list.
Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story

Cat Power in the Studio via Matador Records.
A recent cover you might recognize mama.

Plus, The New Yorker does a writeup
The album’s highlight is Marshall’s version of James Brown’s “Lost Someone,” a slow dance that she allows to build to a peak without ever overreaching or trying to shout herself out of the heartbreak. “Never go […]