So since I’ve only been posting a lot of music here on Thursdays, my playlist today is a series of other things I’ve been “diggin” lately. And I suppose some music. Here follows a rather personal peak into some of my recent pleasures. Be kind. Shows: Top Chef (Season 5) – Nothing to say, it [...]
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Thursday Playlist: Sunday Morning Mix
Sunday mornings are lovely, no? Around these parts, there are few things that we enjoy early on a Sunday more than than a hot french press of strong coffee, the Sunday Times, and a decent soundtrack. To be honest, we never really listened to these songs all together, much less in this sequence. But they [...]
Thursday playlist: Bach, Bach
This week’s playlist forces me to write about something I know very little about. That’s not entirely unusual, of course, since this is after all a blog, but I want to be clear that I’m not even remotely an expert on this subject. The subject is how different musicians interpret Bach in performance. OMG, you [...]
Thursday playlist: Best of 2008–Music for making dinner with friends
Happy New Year! And what a glorious New Year. Hooray for our new President! And for the mad possibility of a better world. More love, less fear. Dare we say, hope and progress one last time? We do dare. We are near drunk with it. Damn the hangover. And it’s time once again for that [...]
Thursday playlist: When we get together, it’s always hot magic – Mix ’08
It’s that time, it’s that time! Time for a year-end mix. Download is here. Everyone I know has her or his own special way of making one of these. To paraphrase a poet close to Governor Blago’s heart, “They work their work, I mine.” I like to make a mix that sounds good to my [...]
Rachel’s holiday mix: Best of ’08 edition
This year-end mix is titled “Stimulus Package.” Got no money? Got no job? Dancing is still free! 1. Va-Va-Va -Findo Gask 2. Happy Rabbit -Breakbot 3. Never No Dollars -Black Devil Disco Club 4. Repetition Kills You (ft. Damon Albarn) -The Black Ghosts 5. Dancing Choose -TV On The Radio 6. Strange Overtones -David Byrne [...]
Thursday playlist: We go BOOM
So Nathan and I were practicing the other day (practicing what? Read on!) and he started telling me about a new show he’d heard on WFMU, The Acousmatic Theater Hour, and a performance poet they’d played, Caorline Bergvall. She’s French-Norwegian and really fantastic, as you’ll hear in the piece we’ve included in this playlist. It’s [...]
Thursday playlist: Being an incomplete and admittedly haphazard survey of violin jazz
The download is here. The violin isn’t a typical jazz instrument, but it’s got a lot of versatility, as easily used for soloing as it is for comping (plucked or bowed for staccato punctuations). It’s particularly well used in interplay with another instrument, and this is how it entered the jazz idiom, and generally how [...]
Thursday playlist: The music business suffers, babe, but the music thrives
1. Medley: Thine Alone, etc. — Al Payne 2. An Astro Nation of the United Worlds of Outer Space — Sun Ra 3. Mr. Tough — Yo La Tengo 4. Metche New — Mahmoud Ahmed 5. Wedding Dress — Sam Amidon 6. Horsetail Feathers — Final Fantasy (Download here.) So here’s some of what I’ve [...]
Thursday playlist: Fighting depression
Summer is ending. Just typing those words depresses me. This post is about depression. I get depressed a few times a year and I’m sure most of you probably do too. It’s happening to me again. The days are getting appreciably shorter and the light is changing. Our tree is already losing its leaves. Nights [...]
