I stumbled upon a live studio recording of Elbowperforming a song called“Kindling” from the Little Fictions album with a guestvocal performance by a guynamed John Grant. Who’s this person, I wondered. And I concluded, if he’s a friendof Elbow’s, he’s a friend ofmine, and then I watched thatvideo. Whoever this JohnGrant person was, he wasContinue reading “#721: G is for Grant, John”
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#720: G is for Grandaddy
Before streaming, but longafter the days of asking a record store clerk to play something on the shop systemthat one was interested in hearing, there was the new tech developmentof the in-store listeningstation, some crazy multi-discplayer with a user interfaceand a decent pair of headphones,it gave you the perusal powerof a dozen or two dozenContinue reading “#720: G is for Grandaddy”
#719: G is for Gorillaz
These “guys” have been on my radar forever but something has prevented mefrom taking the plunge. Did I listen to some stuffthat I didn’t like? Was the cartoon character motif too much for me, like if I couldn’t identify the musiciansas real people I wasn’t able to take a chance? Even after I discoveredthat thisContinue reading “#719: G is for Gorillaz”
#718: G is for Goat Girl
They call this post-punk, this all-female band from South London calling themselves Goat Girl. Not sure how I came by them, aboutfive years ago; likely, that early in my experience streaming music, I stumbledupon them, as one does, shuffling through“things you might like.” Apparently, I liked it. I liked it enough to buy thisrecord, although,Continue reading “#718: G is for Goat Girl”
#717: G is for Glaspy and Glavor, Margaret and Hannah
It sounds good to say their namestogether, for one, and for another, they’re both extraordinarily talented singer-songwriters and equally mean guitarists, and look at them there, right next to each other in the alphabet,as if it was just meant to be. The first song on Margaret Glaspy’s Echo the Diamond is a rocker called“Act Natural.”Continue reading “#717: G is for Glaspy and Glavor, Margaret and Hannah”
#714: G is for Gang of Four
Maybe their only hit songcomes from the Songs of the Freealbum and has the rousing chorussung by the new bass player, Sara Lee, and a few other female voices, “I Love a Man in a Uniform,” while lead singer Jon King laments in the versesabout how girls aren’t paying him proper attention and so decides to jointhe armed forces. It’sContinue reading “#714: G is for Gang of Four”
#713: G is for Gabriel, Peter
It took me years after hearinghis music for the first time and becoming a fan to figure out that Peter Gabriel was the firstlead singer of Genesis! In this regard, I was born yesterday, or living under a rock. It was 1986, and I think So was my first, and then I went backwards almostallContinue reading “#713: G is for Gabriel, Peter”
#712: F is for Future Islands
In 2014 Future Islands appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman. Imagine your nerdy high school math teacher as the lead singer in a rock band. We all had one, mostly, not in rock bands, but maybe sometimes. I think of a colleague of mine, a mathteacher, one who will, for the purposeof thisContinue reading “#712: F is for Future Islands”
#710: F is for Freelance Whales
I love the name of this band. I like to think of whales out therefreelancing, as opposed to the otherwhales out there working for the manor some corporate interest. It’s funny. In so far as whales have jobs to do, you know, other than living as whales, I’d much rather champion the freelancers. It’s beenContinue reading “#710: F is for Freelance Whales”
#709: F is for FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks)
It took a collaboration with Sparksto get me interested in Franz Ferdinand,this alt rock group from Glasgow, now into their twentieth year or more as a band. This record, the only album I have of theirs,is titled simply FFS. Not officially a FranzFerdinand album, but rather a new supergroup collaboration with a new super groupname.Continue reading “#709: F is for FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks)”
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