MARIANNE FAITHFUL – “Sliding Through Life On Charm” Everyone knows Marianne Faithful: She was the Stones Number One Groupie She was found with a mars bar up her cunt and/or wrapped in a white fur rug in a drug bust in the country h[…]
I’ve found my self drinking in dives for the last few months. Not working class pubs, but really honest dives. The ones w beer stained carpets, laminate tables, and chipboard walls. The ones where you only drink beer in bottles, and you only dr[…]
Britney is done. She had a good run, some great singles ( and this is really the only thing we judge pop on anymore) and an attempt to change her sound and image. Losing her Virginity was a career move. Going from Lolita to Lola was a p.r stunt . […]
Steve Earle-John Walkers Blues It has had controversy, and then controversy about that controversy and then call outs about how the artist is doing this for the publicity, which makes Steve Earle’s John Walkers Blues an official meme. I have […]
The Waifs -Tangled Up In the Blue (heard live at the Edmonton folk fest) There is none of the irony that settles through the Dylan original, none of the anger that strikes you and none of the bitterness. The only thing left is a handsome man and tw[…]
THE BUGGLES – “Video Killed The Radio Star” Cheap Eighties Nostalgia right? You listen this to remind yourself of high school. But it is deeper then that, it is about the relentless push forward modernism. He listens to the wireles[…]
Coming back yesterday from Elk Island with my friend from Victoria, we sang “Blake’s Jerusalem” and “Should I Put My Sail to Rest” in the Kingsfold Tune and other hymns. She has a lovely crystalline alto, and it is a pl[…]
Alan Lomax Dies Alan Lomax,The Music Collecter who saved the entire history of American Folk Music on his reel to reel, has died at the age of 87 at a Sarasota Flordia Nursing Home. This was the man who recorded not only the Carter Family, Woody Guth[…]
MOMUS – “King Solomon’s Mines” I have been reading a fair amount of Near Eastern Erotic Verse for a class. Reading Sumerian, Tamil, Egyptian, Hebraic and Greek variations on the same themes get repetitive, and this song plays […]
The Meaning of Country Music If the top twenty on Country Music Video is any indication, concern about a pop invasion is a fuss about very little. These songs, and the images that accompany them, are comforting in their nostalgia for a world of conse[…]