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Today’s terrific tune is a classic electro-pop song from dark synth-meisters Depeche Mode. It’s their moody pop-goth semi-ballad “Enjoy The Silence”. This is one of my favorites of theirs. It creates a nice electronic groove and has their trademark vocals with some cool lyrics. It was a big hit and is still played every now [...]
Today’s terrific tune is a track from the one-of-a-kind singer songwriter Tom Waits. The track is “Downtrain Train”, made semi-famous by Rod Stewart, and this is Tom’s official video. Bet you didn’t see it on MTV. Waits is a unique talent and sometimes people either love him or hate him. He’s got a gravely voice [...]
I love the Beatles so much. And I love their film “Yellow Submarine”, having seen it some 20 or 30 times. But so what? you say. Well, many years ago Eric Idle and some of his Pythonesque friends got together and filmed a mock biography of a very Beatles-like group, The Rutles (learn more). Where [...]
We recently spent a week in Indio, in Southern California. Petra’s parents rented a house there and let us use their nearby time-share for a week, with friends Larry and Robin there for five of the seven days. And now the photos are on the web site! Check ‘em out here and leave a comment [...]
The other night we saw the play Avenue Q (official site). I had heard there were puppets, kind of like Sesame Street’s muppets, but that did not prepare me for what I saw. Not at all. First, let me say I liked the play quite a bit. Now, here is the description from Time magazine, back in [...]
Today’s tune is from a band I discovered a few years ago at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle. It’s the band Metric doing “Dead Disco”, an older song of theirs but I still like it. (Check YouTube for more recent videos and clips of them). This track shows their sense of slighlty off-kilter but still catchy pop-rock. The [...]
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- Update: The new Bumbershoot web site for 2009 is online as of March 6. Check it out. The first group of performers will be announced later this month, so they say, with more to follow… – Second update: I can die happy now. Bumbershoot itself commented on this post [see below] and on their [...]
Yes, right here in our freedom-loving country, a 33-year-old classic rock song has been censored! Is it a rock classic or is it just more evil from the devil’s workshop? Do you even like The Eagles? Well, maybe. But of all the rock song lyrics that people could censor, this one seems pretty tame to me. [...]
Today’s tune is a powerful anti-war song that uses reggae as a backdrop to a message about the terrible loses that war causes. “They take our girls away, they take our boys away” and “those who build wars never fight them”. So sings Michael Franti with his group Spearhead in the song Time To Go [...]