So over lunch today I found myself thinking about music releases and the web. It would be incredibly handy, I was thinking, if I had a general way to see when my favorite bands release new albums. Maybe when they were on tour, too. In fact, it would be really extra‐special‐awesome if they would just export the information as a nice pretty data feed ( Read more... )

So I missed the Ladytron show at the Variety Playhouse last week. Too much higher‐priority stuff going on. A coworker made it to the show and said it was excellent, though he unfortunately missed the opener.

I’m really looking forward to the upcoming Raconteurs show (with The Kills opening! Yay!), and I might even make it to Stereolab and The ( Read more... )

Wow. Is she really doing that? Is this really portraying the struggle to retain order in the face of impending violent social revolution? In a song? Is she really tying in the French and Bolshevik Revolutions by quoting Louis XV (in French) and Boris Pasternak (in Russian)? Is that a carefully-twisted reference to the Beatitudes in there? And is it ( Read more... )

One minute and twenty seconds into The Reverend Horton Heat's 1999 release, "Holy Roller", and I think I'm in love ( Read more... )

Last time I posted was from New Jersey, visiting my father for Thanksgiving. It's been so long that prior to today I'd not even seen the new LJ Update page that some of my friends have been bitching about. Contrary to what my silence since then may have implied, I have not died, nor have I been hiding under a rock. I have been really crazy busy.

( I'll try to keep to highlights. )

Oh yeah. So Dresden Dolls show Monday night at the Variety Playhouse. It was an excellent show. The show was emceed (yes, they had an emcee) by this guy Sxip Shirey (pronounced "Skip") who -- in addition to being a better-than-average emcee -- made music with... well... random things. Voice and mouth noises, a few prepared instruments, and various ( Read more... )

Today's Music Menu theme? Weird.

• Sonic Youth -- Sonic Nurse
  
• Double Leopards -- Live at 5000 Strings
  
• Scout Niblett -- Sweet Heart Fever
  
• Whirlwind Heat -- Do Rabbits Wonder?
  
• Be Your Own Pet -- (self-titled)
  
• The Moldy Peaches -- (self-titled)
  

There's some pretty wacky stuff in there. If anyone out there actually finds and tastes this stuff ( Read more... )

Yeah, busy weekend.

Thursday night was Date Night with riff_77. We've been meaning to pick up watching Buffy. I've only seen a teeny bit ever, so it's really a cultural must for me, and a handy excuse to cuddle. Unfortunately, other things keep getting in the way. This time it was the radio, of all things. As I was driving home from work, I was flipping ( Read more... )

Busy busy, so I'll keep this somewhat brief.

Excellent weekend. Saturday was the Atlanta Greek Festival with radiantbaby, wheezinggirl, and oneandonlymatt, followed by muchlygood chatter at their place. Sunday I don't remember, actually. I don't have anything down in my calendar, but I seem to recall it as a time of bills and other home-stuff. Relaxy, getting-things-done day. Good ( Read more... )

Your Honor, I would like it entered into the record that Johannes Brahms has a personal grudge against tenors, and that this grudge is known to manifest in the form of inhumane treatment of the same. I offer as evidence Exhibit A. Ein Deutsches Requiem, sixth movement, from the Allegro at bar 208 to the end of the movement. It starts high, and then ( Read more... )