I High school kids these dayshave what they call “lip sync”competitions, wherein two dozen students or more choreograph complex dancenumbers while a smaller group of young people pretend to sing the vocalalong with the elaborate moves. When I was a kid, a “lip sync”was called an “Air Band,” and consisted of smaller numbers of studentspretendingContinue reading “#598: A is for Angel City”
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Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XVII—Here Comes Everybody into the 21st Century
Note: All of the albums mentioned in this blog post are streaming on your favorite streaming services, but if you are a person who truly supports and loves independent music, and you’d like specifically to support Michael Jarmer and Here Comes Everybody, these albums are available for purchase HERE. Prologue: In February of the yearContinue reading “Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XVII—Here Comes Everybody into the 21st Century”
Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XVI–The Impactful Album Challenge
What follows, dear reader, is a revised and slightly expanded version of my participation in the Facebook Album Challenge that’s been making the rounds of late in this merry, merry month of May in the year of our pandemic, 2020. I include it here so that it’s all in one spot for quick reference forContinue reading “Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XVI–The Impactful Album Challenge”
Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XV–Here Comes Everybody Survives the 20th Century
Back again so soon? I’ve got about a day and a half to fulfill my Pre-New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve resolution of writing about the entire Here Comes Everybody catalogue before 2018. In case you’re just stepping into the fray, in short, it has been my project over the last three years or soContinue reading “Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XV–Here Comes Everybody Survives the 20th Century”
Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XIV–31 Years of Here Comes Everybody
Oh my. It’s been almost an entire year since the last time I added an installment to this series. Maybe I will make a New Year’s Resolution not to wait another year before the next one! I did not intend to write about my own music in this series, only tangentially as it related toContinue reading “Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XIV–31 Years of Here Comes Everybody”
Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XIII, Letter H
This job of writing about my music cd collection by artist in alphabetical order wouldn’t be nearly so difficult if I would just stop acquiring new music! What has occupied my listening habits over the last several months has been mostly vinyl of the David Bowie variety, but there’s also been the new Suzanne Vega,Continue reading “Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XIII, Letter H”
Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XII, Letter G
Forgive me, music blogosphere, for I have sinned. It’s been three months since my last music blog, the continuing saga and silly self-challenge of listening to and writing about every single artist represented in my languishing cd collection. I got stuck in the F’s. There were a lot of them, first of all, two blogContinue reading “Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume XII, Letter G”
Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume VII, Letter D
Ahh. The letter D. D is for Dali’s Car. D is for Miles Davis. D is for Death Cab for Cutie. D is for the Decemberists, Deerhoof, Destroyer, Devo, Neil Diamond, Thomas Dolby, The Doors, and Mike Doughty. Taking up only two small shelves, four little cubbies of the ikea compact disc cabinet, the DContinue reading “Notes Toward a Musical Autobiography: Volume VII, Letter D”
Notes Toward A Musical Autobiography: Volume I, Letter A
I have often thought of my record collection, now mostly a compact disc collection, supplemented by the occasional download and maybe 100 vinyl LPs, as a kind of musical autobiography. Listening to records for me has always had the same kind of effect as looking through a photo album, or reading old journal entries. TheContinue reading “Notes Toward A Musical Autobiography: Volume I, Letter A”
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