Music as Defense Shield Living in NYC, I use music to shut out the screams of the subways, the babble of the endless people, the growling of busses and trucks, the honking of cabs, the hellish sound of air-brakes. Music as barrier, as sonic bubble. When in Hawaii, I rarely feel the need to use …
At the risk of bragging, I do take pride with the wide variety of music I have collected over the years. I know that there are people out there who greatly surpass me both in quantity and variety, but still, I like to think that I do pretty well in finding some nicely obscure bands …
I just finished posting on Pandagon’s Friday Random Ten and didn’t want to stop the random merriment, so for my second random ten tracks: “Kiss of Life” – Peter Gabriel “The Sweater” – Meryn Cadell “The Friend Catcher” – The Birthday Party “Steam Engine” – My Morning Jacket “Above You, Below Me” – Badly Drawn …
This is a quick entry, but I wanted to point you toward two sites that offer a really great way to find new music. iCompositions This is a site that caters to home-recording artists and while it’s specifically supposed to hook into Garageband users, you’ll find a lot of compositions created with other music programs. …
Was listening to Radio Paradise and they played “Strange Boat” by the Waterboys – who never quite got the attention, at least in the US, that I think they deserved. Couldn’t find “Strange Boat,” but came across one of their few hit singles on YouTube. You know, there was a time when I actually liked …
I’m going to try a new structure to the ol’ liminal blog and will be making entries Monday – Friday, with each day given to a different topic. Monday’s will be all about Music. Sometimes I’ll post new compositions, sometimes I may review what I’m currently listening to, and sometimes I may rant, foaming at …
No, really.From Daily Kos: RIAA has secured the right to collect royalties on all songs regardless of who controls the copyright. RIAA operates under the assumption that they will collect the royalties for the “sound recording copyright” and that the artists who own their own copyright will go to SoundExchange to collect at a later …
Back in the mid-80s, Howard Jones was a favorite of mine. Somehow his earnest, New Wave, synth-pop tunes connected to the romantic/idealist that was the teenaged LtL. In particular his albums “Human’s Lib” (Howard Jones) and “Dream Into Action” (Howard Jones). His songs definitely feel dated, almost silly at time, but songs like “Elegy” and …
If you haven’t heard of jim White, I recommend his album “Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See” (Jim White). “Static on the Radio” is one of my all-time favorite songs–you can hear it on NPR’s “All Things Considered” 2004 archive site. Here’s a fun video of a lighter song:
I’m listening to the stream of Wilco’s new album “Blue Sky Blue.” The album will be released May 15, but they are streaming the whole album for a 12 hour period today. I would have written about this earlier, but didn’t find out about until yesterday. You still have a few hours to listen if …