• 100 Words,  Country

    100 Words on “Rattlin’ Bones”

    There is a misnomer that the sugar laden pop with a twang that passes for country music these days is the real deal but leave it to a duo from far across the pond to serve up a reminder of…

  • Live

    Review: Jason Mraz at Radio City Music Hall

    Despite listening to him since his days at Java Joes, Friday night was my first experience seeing Jason Mraz live. I was not alone in my first experience as it was Mr. A-Z’s first show at the legendary Radio City…

  • Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: October 10, 2008

    This week was almost the first Five-less week since the inception of the shuffle happy column. I’m a bit under the weather this week and am saving up my energy to go and see Jason Mraz tonight. Rather than cancel…

  • Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: October 3, 2008

    Is it October already? I swear it was just August a few minutes ago. One thing that I’ve found since I started The Five is that I am hyper-aware of the passage of time. And time in the final week…

  • Rock

    Digging the Virtual Crates: Faith No More

    While we anticipate Pete’s no doubt exhaustive coverage of the Austin City Limits festival (and the trip home) I thought I’d dig back in the virtual crates to deliver some video-gasmic love for the brilliant Faith No More. I was…

  • Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: September 26, 2008

    When the world seems set to implode on itself we look to different forms of media to distract, entertain and overall escape from the reality of our situations. Whether personal or global, no problem is too big or too small…

  • Rock

    Nighttime Missives with Kings of Leon

    Rarely, if ever, does Saturday Night Live inform my music choices but this weeks episode did manage to serve as a reminder that a.) Kings of Leon just released a new record that I hadn’t picked up yet and b.)…

  • Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: September 19, 2008

    The mark of a truly great song is the ability to make minutes seem like seconds making time itself seem almost irrelevant. When used as a tool to make time fly it not only serves the purpose, but makes it…

  • Soul

    Real Soul Food: The Way I See It

    Raphael Saadiq is Neo Soul plain and simple. His latest The Way I See It is the record that he’s been leading up to since his days in Tony! Toni! Toné!. The opening rave up “Sure Hope You Mean It”…

  • Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: September 12, 2008

    Ah Friday it’s time to relax and you know what that means a glass of wine, your favorite easy chair and of course the Friday Five shuffling on your home stereo. So go on indulge yourself, that’s right, kick off…