LE TIGRE
“New Kicks”
I admit, I’ve never really been much of a Kathleen Hanna fan outside of one or two bits and pieces. I’m all for righteous energy and hatred of fools, but that just won’t translate into good music al[…]

1991, refracted — the next in the series of Russian history books I’m reading is David Pryce-Jones’s The War That Never Was, covering the last years of the Soviet Union. The author’s a combative and discursive sort, not quite[…]

Now I’m feeling zombiefied — well, I had a longer blog post here but the computer ate it and I’m sad. But in brief, I come here to praise Alien Sex Fiend not bury them. Everyone so often I have a phase and I’m in one now, pl[…]

Looking for CDs in all the wrong (but mostly right) places — the first time I visited the UK I actually didn’t spend much time in London itself, instead I was in Oxford, Glasgow and somewhere in Devon, which actually created a nice if lim[…]

Expensive, French and in a mall — there’s this place called Troquet located on the fourth floor of South Coast Plaza (and yeah, we all look like the model guy pictured there, of course), which I’d been wanting to try for some time. […]

UNREST
“Isabel”
aka our belov’d site editor’s least favorite Isabel song ever, I seem to recall, and he has reason to take the matter with due seriousness. But for some reason I had only known the version that ended up rereco[…]

The Brick Lane gauntlet — I really didn’t know about it at all, maybe a mention or two here and there, before my last visit to London. But then friend Vinita talked excitedly about Brick Lane and the restaurants that were there in plenty,[…]

From borscht to barbeque — one of the treats about the get-together at my friends Hans and Kathy’s place, besides the excellent range of food (extremely well-marinated steak, excellent chicken, a good selection of salads and so forth) was[…]

Where ARE the trash cans? — it’s a sign of my swaddled and coddled existence being an American that one of the first frustrations I had in London when I started visiting again regularly in 2000 was the lack of trash cans in certain areas,[…]

Recording my new album — so there was this one and there’s this one and then there’s a so-far unreleased one done back in May, but album number four has been completed and I’m listening to it now as I dub a copy to be sent up […]