January 2010

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  • 01.31.10
    Tom’s Tall Tales Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Tom Waits Glitter & Doom Live (Anti) Call it steampunk roots music or Brechtian blues or Chautauqua hall performance art or whatever the hell you want. Anyone who caught the tour will tell you Glitter & Doom Live is about three stops beyond the terminus est of pop music, and could just as easily be reviewed as theatrical event. Spin the wheel and take your pick. The opening 'Lucinda/Ain't Goin' Down' is Pantera trapped in Angola State Pen. 'Singapore' has Electric Picnic-thick muck on its boots. 'Such A Scream' and 'Metropolitan Glide' are recast with add-on James Brown guitar parts and spin-on-a-dime dynamics. 'Fannin ...
  • 01.30.10
    Melancholy Uncategorized | Comments Off
    ...and the infinite sadness. Gorecki's holocaust poetry. An excerpt from the master's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/miLV0o4AhE4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 01.28.10
    For Pete’s Sake Uncategorized | Comments Off
    We interviewed the venerable Willy Vlautin this week about his beautiful new book Lean On Pete. Here's the trailer. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ddmyEuNrXD4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 01.22.10
    The Black Diamond Express to Hell Uncategorized | Comments Off
    And we're back!!! All aboard the Black Diamond Express to Hell, as driven by Rev AW Nix... [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/xQbQeGKscOE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]