And you Don’t Stop with Afrika
Boing Boing had a cool post today about a web site full of late 70’s/ early 80’s hip hop fliers, which prompted me to immediately head for my record collection and pull out a 1985 12″ Afrika Bambaataa single, “Funk…
The Sadies and Mister Williams break it on down
If you have a spare 6 minutes and 32 seconds, listen to this snippet from NPR’s American Routes. It’s a short interview with the Canadian band the Sadies (with some clips of their tunes). The Sadies are a mix of…
Discovering Kaki King
Has anyone checked out Kaki King? Kaki is a young guitar virtuoso, who counts Michael Hedges and Alex de Grassi among her biggest influences. I saw her video last night (“Playing with Pink Noise”), and was impressed. She plays guitar…
Gettin’ Magnetic on ya…
Another band I’ve come across recently in my ever-expanding tastes for indie pop/rock is Magnetic Fields. Yes, friends, the picture above is a magnetic field (from the NASA web site). Their All Music bio lays out that Magnetic Fields is…
Freaky and Clandestine: It’s Double Oh-Oh
I finally got my turntable and computer talking to eachother again, so I’m finally able to bring you some of my choice LP cuts! I bet you’re really excited. One of the first albums I pulled out today was George…
We’re Gettin’ Root Down
Since I just took off the Jimmy Smith track from last week, I feel obligated to include another JS gem. As I mentioned before, I didn’t find out about the greatness of Jimmy Smith until last year. Little did I…
Curits Mayfield’s I’m So Proud
I’m not sure who out there has VH-1 Classic, but on Friday, they played a great semi-recent Curtis Mayfield club show from somewhere in Europe. Hey how’s that for detail?? (Hey, I tried finding info on the VH-1 Classic web…
I’ve Stood on the Street Corner – Bruce Cockburn
It’s a dreary, rainy holiday weekend here in the Arizona desert, so I’ll kick it off with something on the mellow side. For some reason or another, Bruce Cockburn – who is well known up north in his home country…
Discovering Lucky Dube
Here’s another artist I discovered courtesy of my wife, who lived in Seychelles all of her life until that fateful day we met in 2001 while she was visiting Arizona. So she introduced me to Lucky Dube. I said “Lucky…
Hot off the Presses – Springsteen’s Devils & Dust
Bruce’s new album, Devils & Dust, due out April 26th! {Yahoo News}Here’s the track list: I’ll have a tune for you all soon. Just wanted to share what I consider to be fantastic news….
