Grammy Thoughts (Besides “Yawn.”)

Were there any surprises among any of the winners? I don’t recall a single one. I suppose some will think Adele beating the Jonas Brothers was a surprise . . .
Interesting thing about Adele’s win for best new artist; the talented young singer who should have been accepting that award had just finished singing with [...]

Glen Hansard

I remember listening to a band called The Frames DC, Glen Hansard’s band, at the old Tower Records listening station back in 95. I thought the record Fitzcarraldo was one of the best records I heard that year. I sat back and folded my arms, waiting for the rest of the world to catch [...]

Super Tuesday and music

pimping my Tuneinmusiccity.com blog. Here’s a post about the involvment of music celebrities in electoral politics this season.

I forgot a record

On the 07 list:
Fink — Distance and Time. I describe the record experience as sitting in a hash bar in Amsterdam just before the dead of winter and just after the death of fall. Your mind is blown from the dark memories the blast of THC has unleashed and you have to walk back to [...]

record reviews and such

Abbreviated versions of a couple of my reviews including the new Lupe Fiasco are in print today, however somewhere in the labyrinth that is the tuneinmusiccity.com  blog and the Tennessean Web site you’ll find the full versions.
working on a year end best list, coming soon. I’ll post the all-genres list here and the urban list [...]

Alanis Morissette Once Again Unintentionally Redefines Irony

If Madonna, the original Hipster, refined the use of irony in modern pop music, Alanis Morisette redefined it, unfortunatelywith poor grammar. Now Alanis has a video taking a pot shot at the Black Eyed Peas unintentionally funny song “My Humps,” in which she slows the song down to her speed, the funeral dirge, so that [...]

My Top Ten Records 2006 version

Not much in the way of an intro. I don’t listen to much rock these days, mostly because I cover urban music, however partially because there isn’t much I get a blast from these days. So if the list seems skewed. That’s why. First is best, then the rest in no particular order.
The Roots – [...]

download it

For post election blues or late night meanderings or your favorite personal encounters, dig the late night music mix. (big file, but 70 minutes of music) http://rapidshare.com/files/2367693/latenight2.mp3
tracklisting.txt
TITLE “Late Night Mix”
PERFORMER “DJ Gandalf Mantooth”
TRACK 01 Presenting . . . the Late Night Mix
“DJ Gandalf Mantooth”
TRACK 02 Sleepless Child
Bonnie Pink
TRACK 03 Fat Girl
Count Bass D
TRACK [...]

So much easier

to be productive when I had this computer in a private room. Can’t seem to find the time to properly record my voice overs for the podcast. In lieu of that, I can do something I used to do a couple of years ago, post quick hits from my mailbox.
Good stuff: Alice Smith. I don’t [...]

music review: Snow Patrol – Eyes Open

Snow Patrol — Eyes Open (A&M)
Snow Patrol’s last album Final Straw spawned some singles that got heavy rotation on various TV dramas and reality shows whenever they needed to insert some false drama. The songs that didn’t get a lot of play were gems, like “Spitting Games.” Consequently, the follow up kept the middling melancholy [...]