I first met Turner Cody in 2000 at the famed Balloon Heaven studio in Jersey City, where many an antifolk record was cut. He had a session before me, a cute girl with him, and sunglasses in the late evening. From his first record, Turner’s music was always pure poetry over music, almost like Leonard
Wolfmother demands a passion for guitar tone, meaningless lyrics
I remember seeing a Wolfmother video about five years ago and thinking, that’s some kinda guitar tone. I’ll have to look into them. A couple weeks ago I saw that they had a new album out and thought, now I should check out their first album. (I usually like to be about five years behind
Billy Corgan tickles the ivories, tries on some country
I can’t decide which drippy news source to link to, so I’ll just let you Google “billy corgan jessica simpson” and see what you come up with. And who wouldn’t have an opinion on that one? But let’s get down to it, we don’t care about the elusive link between John Mayer and Smashing Pumpkins,
Modest Mouse video is creatively disturbing
There’s a lot of talky writing about this Modest Mouse vid over at BoingBoing, including a link to the making-of, but I’d just say watch it and appreciate all the very creative and very disturbing things happening here. I, for one, am a sucker for any cross-section of earth that belies all the stuff hidden
Fred Van Vactor: Everything Good All At Once
Well, recently I saw Fred in Eugene, and he told me his first album was almost ready, and that he’d send me a copy. I’d only been home a few days when it arrived, and I love it. “Leaving Eugene” was my anthem for a while towards the tail end of my time there, and
20 Questions with John Shipe
I want to publish interviews with bands and musicians I love here, but I am a terrible interviewer. As gifted as I am with writing in “spin,” I stink as a straight journalist. Having made my peace with that, I decided to try to come up with a generic list of interview questions that I