It has been, essentially, since the meteoric rise of My---ce (in which I have been involved more heavily than I'd like to admit of late) and also since the advent of my local music blog for workwhere was I going ( Read more... )

What else is there?
http://ozgood.typepad.com/a_damn_shame/2005/11/farewell_show.html
Download the two tracks.

It's four in the morning. I've spent all evening, all night, all morning so far writing an article on the Tragically Hip. I'm down to the very, very end -- just need that final cap on it -- and outside, I can hear Canada geese honking as they fly south for winter. If you don't get the power of that coincidence, then you need to go out immediately ( Read more... )

I didn't ( Read more... )

The new Kanye West album is good -- well, it's OK -- but THIS is even better.

Anyone who loves music is a music lover.

Anyone who can spontaneously lecture on music for more than 25 seconds is a fecking geek.

Start a music blog? BASTID.

Write a book on producer Jack Nitzsche that's mostly about yourself? A-HOLE

I Flickrd myself today, to see what other J---H---'s were up to.

There was only one, and this is what he was doing.


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This program is both dedicated to the faithful and presented to the falsehearted to encourage their renewal of temperance and virtue.
What is it? Cheaters, bitch ( Read more... )

I really don't mean to transform this into a music blog, because I simply don't have the energy to pay attention to all the changes in Britney's gut sizes and Coldplay's efforts to make the anarchists fall in love with life at the Live 8 whateveritisoverthereinScotland, but I must insist that we take a moment to celebrate the songwriting skills of ( Read more... )

If any of you are in the market for hip-hop, or rather, for the ONE hip-hop album you can buy that will carry you a great distance, for months on end, like a team of sled dogs that require neither sup nor rest and have the buttocks of rap video dancers bobbing and sweating as they propel you across the tundra of l.c.d. rap, then I HIGHLY recommend ( Read more... )