Saturday, December 5, 2009
Here I go again with another “now-Brooklyn-based” band. Look out, hypocrisy, here I come! So I reverted to the purist, classic-rock approach for a while — and it worked. Now it’s time for me to ease my way back into modern music, carefully. I’m not completely selling out: until Real Estate’s Wikipedia article becomes longer [...]
“I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,
But I didn’t see that the joke was on me, oh no.
I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,
Oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.
I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
And I fell out of bed, [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
“I’ve been in this town so long that back in the city
I’ve been taken for lost and gone
And unknown for a long long time”
I fear that few of my generation know the story of Smile, and only because I was late to be educated. 4 am, somewhere on tour in rural Utah, when a bandmate [...]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
“Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette”
If TBTV were album-based, I would have already written about The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars — it’s taken me a while to choose a worthy track. I could have gone [...]
Don’t get me wrong, Animal Collective makes great music. That being said: there’s a time and a place for electro-pop. And though that time and place isn’t now, my solution isn’t too far away.
Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear), a co-founder of Animal Collective, makes that sort of melancholic but cheery music you crave on inclement [...]
Saturday, September 26, 2009
“Sexy Sadie, what have you done? | You made a fool of everyone
You made a fool of everyone | Sexy Sadie, ooh what have you done?”
It ain’t easy to write about the Beatles, you know? First and last time. Probably. I could write about the chiastic verses or some story involving the Maharishi and a piece of [...]
