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Thanks for the suggestion last week, Bip! Hope you all like what I came up with. "AC/DC" - Sweet "Sweet Talker" - Sister Double Happiness "Happiness Ltd." - Hot Hot Heat "Hot Night in Dallas" - Moon Martin "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" [live] - David Bowie "With David Bowie" - Veruca Salt "Sixteen Saltines" - Jack White "My White Bicycle" - Tomorrow "Tomorrow Night" - Shoes "Run Shoes Running" - The…
Take off to field recordings, library music, dream pop, dub, prog, Congolese industrial, and for the first time on "Radio Not Radio," one of my own songs, "The Hague"! John Cameron-“Half Forgotten Daydreams” Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy-“Cloudburst” Phoebe Bridgers-‘The Governor’s Waltz” Ichiko Aoba & Taro Umebayashi-“Shiranui” John Cage, performed by Richard Bernas and Carla Bley-“Forever…
There's a Hard Land, Hard Rain boxset coming late 2026 (never thought this would happen!), but the designer needs a little help: Quote Mark Case An introduction: I'm a graphic designer working on a project for Warner Music Group to re-release the classic High Land Hard Rain album - it will be a multi-disc set including a Dolby Atmos remix and a 64pp hardback book. Unfortunately, due to disputed or…
Richard Lloyd has bile duct cancer and needs help. [ www.gofundme.com ]
I've revived my blog for the purpose of posting original articles detailing some of my more uncommon musical observations.. Starting off with a controversial topic, but I very carefully considered the points I raised . Lots of revisions! Still, I kinda put off actually publishing this for a bit. You know how those "internet people" are... [ musicformaniacs.blogspot.com ]
Drummer for ZZ Top. Billy Gibbons is the last Top standing.
Seeing references on social media that critic Dave Marsh has passed away. His critical interests didn't often overlap with mine but he was an important voice in the space. I'm a pretty dedicated Springsteen fan although I don't think I ever read his early (1979) book "Born to Run" (not Springsteen's own autobiography!). Here is an obituary today: [ variety.com ] This was a tribute done a few years…
"The Carol Taylor Song" - Plrls "Waiting for the Weekend" - The Vapors "Hey St. Peter" - Flash and the Pan "Where You Get Love" - Matthew Sweet "Me and the Boys" - NRBQ (for Terry Adams' birthday) "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions (for Bruce Thomas' birthday) "Bones" - Anastasia Elliot "Kaleidoscope" - Procol Harum "Blue Collar Suicide" - The Refreshments "You Got…
[ www.nme.com ] "The news of Brownson’s passing comes as the band revealed recently that they were wrapping up work on a new 14-song album earlier this summer."
Here. I wrote a story for Goldmine 25-odd years ago.
"Ready, Steady, Go" - Generation X "Chinatown" - Romeo Void "The Atom Age" - Bill Nelson's Red Noise "Fame Is Dangerous" - Gary Myrick "Don't Look Now" - Torch Song (R.I.P. William Orbit) "Talk to Me" - 22-20s "Doomsday Twist" - First Boy on the Moon "It's Martini Time" - The Reverend Horton Heat "Paradise Skies" - Max Webster (by request) "Next Big Thing" - False Advertising "Bright Yellow Gun" -…
The new collection of pieces from Trouser Press is out this week. Available from us at Trouser Press Books -- ask for yours to be inscribed! -- and all the usual places. We've got author events all the over the place: 13-Aug Book House (Millburn, NJ) Tim Sommer presents Dispatches From the Kingdom of Outsiders with Evan Davies (WFMU) 16-Aug Orpheum Cinema (Saugerties, NY) Tony Fletcher presents…
Mikaela Davis Songbyrd Music Café, Washington DC, July 20, 2026 Not all heroes wear capes, as the aphorism says — but wait, actually, Mikaela Davis was wearing a full Supergirl cape and tights as she sat astride a massive harp during her band’s set at Songbyrd last month. I'm not exactly well-versed in her music, but dang, this was good stuff. At the outset, this was a set of … harp…
Drummer for The Teardrop Explodes. Per an announcement from Julian Cope.
