Do you have any idea how thrilled I am right now? Well, let me tell you ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night... it was a long complicated dream that involved running around Denver with a bunch of librarians. But most of what I remember was this: sitting down with a stack of vinyl LPs, and finding among them a long-lost Gaia Consort album called "Missionary Man". It was pressed in clear, red vinyl, like that Gregorian Chant LP that ( Read more... )

Following up on my previous post:

Hey all you Ohioans! The fabulous, effervescent, hot piano mama Amy Steinberg will be in Columbus this Sunday evening!

Sunday, May 4, 2008 -- 8-10pm
Victorian's Midnight Cafe
251 West 5th Avenue (at Neil Ave)
Columbus, OH 43201
(614) 299-2295Please come join us! Amy is delightful and amazing, hip, funky, quirky, ( Read more... )

Hey all you folks in: Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Ann Arbor, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, and the Pacific NW

There's all kinds of great music heading your way. I'm particularly thinking of Amy Steinberg, Rachael Sage, and S. J. Tucker. I highly recommend all of these stunning musicians. (And I especially recommend all of them to malanai.)

Ohio ( Read more... )

Hey, Clevelanders! (Clevelandians?)

The amazing and effervescent Sister Steinberg, is going to be playing at The Winchester TOMORROW NIGHT (ie, Wednesday). You know you want to go. She'll be hitting Chicago, Memphis and St. Louis in the next week ( Read more... )

...is Richard Thompson's 1000 years of popular music, covering everything from "Sumer Is Icumen In" to The Mikado to an old labour song to Nat King Cole to Bowling for Soup, by way of "Tempted (by the fruit of another)" and an astonishingly compelling cover of "Oops... I did it again" (which was my first exposure to the project a few years ago ( Read more... )

Hello all. Yes, it has indeed been a short forever since I posted last, and now I've worked myself into believing that I oughtn't post anything until I tell the whole story of October. I'm *not* going to tell the whole story, but maybe offer some Cliff's Notes. I'll probably go back and expand on some of these ( Read more... )

This is too much fun; I must share:

I heard Jonathan Coulton on NPR a few weeks ago talking about his new four-disc album "Thing-a-Week", the results of writing and recording a song every week for a year. Then alternachicklet pointed to his MySpace for the song "Code Monkey" (not just a song for code monkeys! but yes, justbeast you should check it out ( Read more... )

One of the effects of traveling so much this fall was that I had a lot of exposure to myriad, wonderful people who recommended lots of books, and I made very little time to actually read any of it. Along with books to read, there has been new music to listen to, and it's easier to make time for that... especially when the new music is from s00j, who ( Read more... )

On assignment from rjlonaReply and I'll give you a letter and you have to find ten songs that start with that letter and post them to your journal. Try to come up with a list without googling & looking through your collection first ( Read more... )