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POWERS OF PERCEPTION 8 Jul 2013 | 12:51 am
In a July 3 article on NPR’s website, Ann Powers draws attention to recent discussions about Miley Cyrus’s new(ish) video, “We Can’t Stop” (that's it above). She takes an adversarial, even scolding st...
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, SO FAR 14 Jun 2013 | 01:53 am
It's mid-June, so here's what I've heard that might wind up on my year-end list(s), so far... JD Allen, Grace Airbourne, Black Dog Barking* Amon Amarth, Deceiver of the Gods Attacker, Giants of Canaa...
PROGRESSIVE ROCK/REGRESSIVE THINKING 2 Jun 2013 | 06:51 pm
The New York Times Book Review this week has published a review of an anthology called Yes is the Answer: And Other Prog Rock Tales. Unfortunately for fans of prog rock, they gave the assignment to Ro...
WELL, THAT'S...REASSURING 14 Apr 2013 | 11:39 pm
So here's a commercial I saw this morning: What the creeping hell? Wasn't Hugo Weaving's character in The Matrix (there were no sequels, SHUT UP), Agent Smith, supposed to be the villain? And aren't ...
THURSDAY MORNING 10 4 Apr 2013 | 07:10 pm
Rico, "Jungle Music" Napalm Death, "Errors in the Signal" Anthony Braxton, "Opus 23B" Kylesa, "111 Degree Heat Index" Einsturzende Neubauten, "Fur den Untergang" Pig Destroyer, "Terrifyer" ZZ Top, "Av...
2012: LISTS AND FAREWELLS 27 Dec 2012 | 05:21 am
I only had to put together a few year-end lists this year, and where I didn't just give the same Top Ten to multiple outlets, titles still reappeared. There just weren't that many really great records...
RESISTANT CULTURE 22 Nov 2012 | 07:42 pm
In past years, I've posted William Burroughs' "Thanksgiving Prayer" at this time. But this year, I've decided to switch things up and instead share with you the work of the Los Angeles-based Native Am...
YOU KNOW, EXCEPT FOR THE SLAVES 15 Oct 2012 | 07:15 am
The New York Times printed the following paragraph today (in an op-ed by Chrystia Freeland), apparently without irony: IN the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian soc...
FOUR DECADES ON THE CORNER 12 Oct 2012 | 06:03 am
Miles Davis's On the Corner, which is my favorite album by anyone, ever, was released 40 years ago today—October 11, 1972. In my book Running the Voodoo Down, I devote an entire chapter to it; in that...
WRITE A SONG 20 Aug 2012 | 04:58 am
I'm posting this here, rather than on Burning Ambulance, because I haven't posted here since May, and because it's more of a rant than a considered essay, or a review of a specific album. Indeed, it'...
