Jordan at Said the Gramaphone wrote a very nice post about Swan Lake's amazingly good song, All Fires [MP3].
Stacy Schiff wrote a nice article in The New Yorker about Wikipedia.
Amazon.com shoppers have fun. With milk.
All Songs Considered posted shows by Sleater-Kinney [MP3] and Drive-By Truckers [MP3].
Jennings at rbally published the first of two posts regarding Radiohead/R.E.M. and he also posted a Neko Case show.
The Racountours are streamable on Morning Becomes Eclectic.
Hero Hill reviews the upcoming Mountain Goats album.
Swan Lake shows us a claustrophobic but high-ceilinged room (everything's soaked in reverb), unknown creatures crawling (the panning trill of treble-free guitars), and a Heraclitus-like refrain ("All fires have to burn alive to live") that if anyone said to you, you'd probably start crying. What they don't explicitly show us is that they're in it together - the three of them understanding and taking as normal what we cannot.
Stacy Schiff wrote a nice article in The New Yorker about Wikipedia.
There are Aspergian Wikipedians (seventy-two), bipolar Wikipedians, vegetarian Wikipedians, antivegetarian Wikipedians, existential Wikipedians, pro-Luxembourg Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who don’t like to be categorized. According to a page on the site, an avid interest in Wikipedia has been known to afflict “computer programmers, academics, graduate students, game-show contestants, news junkies, the unemployed, the soon-to-be unemployed and, in general, people with multiple interests and good memories.” You may travel in more exalted circles, but this covers pretty much everyone I know.
Amazon.com shoppers have fun. With milk.
I washed my car with this product and it really looks great, but it has a terrible smell and everyone thinks I left some cheese in the trunk.
All Songs Considered posted shows by Sleater-Kinney [MP3] and Drive-By Truckers [MP3].
Jennings at rbally published the first of two posts regarding Radiohead/R.E.M. and he also posted a Neko Case show.
The Racountours are streamable on Morning Becomes Eclectic.
Hero Hill reviews the upcoming Mountain Goats album.
Now we reach Get Lonely. John went another route on this record. Although the recordings are professional and he still use layers of strings and percussion, the songs are stripped down, slower and focus more on John's voice and his guitar. The sound is perfect. He revisits the rawness and emotion of his earlier work without returning to the low quality sounds and somehow manages to satisfy every one and alienates no one (well except for the fans that are hoping to hear another This Year).
