Archive for 'Music'
Dr Pepper to Make Good on Chinese Democracy Stunt
Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Brad.
The long awaited Guns N’ Roses Album Chinese Democracy is nearly here and there is something to drink in it for you. While I can’t say I am not impressed with free Dr Pepper, I really hope Chinese Democracy is more impressive than getting something for free.
As a long time GnR fan I have always [...]
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Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Brad.
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As a long time Death Cab for Cutie fan, I was ecstatic to find out they were releasing a new album and even more excited to get my hands on a promo. Narrow Stairs is by far the best album I have heard in a while. It is not my favorite Death Cab album, as [...]
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Dead Musicians and Old Choral Works
Posted on 12. Jan, 2010 by Brad.
It might seem a bit odd to put dead rock musicians on the same list as old choral pieces but that is exactly what I am doing today. At Zeenium they are pushing a list of The 10 Most Tragic Deaths in Rock and Roll History. I agree that these are ten tragic [...]
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Songs of The Week
Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Brad.
[ad]In light of the fact idol is keep karaoke hacks on instead of great performers, it is time to bring you music that didn’t cost more than you will ever make to produce and twice that in marketing to tell you it is good. Every weekday NPR has a song of [...]
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I Fell In Love
Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by Brad.
When I first heard James Blackshaw’s music several years ago I literally fell in love with his 12 string guitar. There are so few who really play the instrument well, even those that play it in the genres it developed in. James however pulls out the most beautiful music in a thoroughly modern [...]
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Wynton and Willie: Two Men with the Blues
Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Brad.
Willie Nelson has been singing, and recording, the blues since the 1960s, as an integral part of his country sound. Wynton Marsalis, born into a musical family, has been playing and recording blues, jazz, and classical music since 1980. Between Nelson and Marsalis, you can hear dozens of albums’ worth of classic blues [...]
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Jack Johnson
Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by Brad.
Jack Johnson is a plain ordinary name for a very complex voice. Stunning melodies compliments a heart pulling guitar. I stumbled onto Jack’s music through my Pandora feed and instantly was hooked with Traffic in the Sky off of On and On. I was taken with how his native Hawaiian sounds infiltrate [...]
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Portishead's Third
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Brad.
I am pleased to bring you another great pre-release review today that almost never happened. My friend Scott after seeing the exposure I got for Death Cab for Cutie, a band he doesn’t think is as good as Portishead, revealed he had an advance copy of Third from Portishead. After revealing my ignorance of the [...]
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Circus or Freak Show
Posted on 29. Nov, 2008 by Brad.
Having been handed a demo of Britney Spears upcoming album Circus I was loathe to actually listen to it and really didn’t want to review but this was the first bit of pre-release I have had in my possession for a while . I was actually surprised I liked the first track Womanizer. The song [...]
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The Power of Music
Posted on 15. Nov, 2008 by Brad.
Yesterday on NPR’s Talk of the Nation I heard and interesting story on the effects of music you love on your heart. This isn’t the first time I heard of head-heart connections, but it was the first time I have ever heard it qualified with music. The study in the story basically found if you [...]
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The Gits
Posted on 23. Aug, 2008 by Brad.
In between trying to finish a collection of short stories and novellas, editing another novel, and the general depression that has been hounding me like a bad hangover I have found myself falling back in step with my second musical awakening, a period between 1990 and 1994. Facing my own mortality of late, I [...]
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Wish Someone Would Rain On Their Parade
Posted on 19. Jul, 2008 by Brad.
All I can say is Heather, at least you grew out of your awkward bee phase.
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I Kissed A Girl Too
Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by Brad.
When I first heard this song a couple of weeks back I only heard the name and thought she was going to cover the Jill Sobule song of the same name. I have always liked Jill’s version so I was apprehensive no matter how hot Kate was standing around in a short yellow skirt. [...]
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Teenage Dreams and Divine Wonders
Posted on 17. Jul, 2008 by Brad.
I was first introduced to Wipers this morning from Carrie Brownstein’s Top 5 Driving Song list featured on NPR. As I listed to their featured song, Taking Too Long, off the Youth of America album I was captivated immediately. This was music that took me back to my original musical awakening the early [...]
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Stereolab
Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by Brad.
NPR.org, July 16, 2008 – No matter how hard they might try to deviate, some bands just invariably sound like themselves. It might be a fundamental consistency of sound and vision, but it can also have the effect of ironing out the highest peaks and the lowest lows, making the music easier to dismiss as [...]
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Mates of State
Posted on 01. Jun, 2008 by Brad.
Bumped into a new ppiece of music today from the Mates of State, called Now. At first I thought this myst be some eighties gen tham I somewhow missed growing up. but was pleased to find out just how new it was. It is off Mates fifth and latest album Re-Arrange Us. [...]
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New Artist Choices You Probably Haven't Heard Of
Posted on 09. May, 2008 by Brad.
I need to shout out to Claudia. This morning she sent me a list of new artists, at least new to me, and I just needed to share a few of them.
First up is Marie Digby who I apparently missed somehow a while back on Weekend Edition. If you liked Brooke White on [...]
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Myanmar Benefit Concert
Posted on 07. May, 2008 by Brad.
As long as I can remember really being into music there has been the great benefit concerts. No Nukes Concert, Live Aid, Farm Aid, Drug using hypocrite rockers in Moscow getting stoned, 9/11 Tribute, the Tsunami concert, Live 8, Live Earth have all come about when there was something big in the news. My question [...]
