Carbon/Silicon: That Mick Jones sure stays busy.
Since his time playing in THE greatest band of all time early in his career, guitarist Mick Jones has stayed very busy with many varied […]
Homage to Pillows & Prayers
The cover of the Matador sampler on the left appears to be a nice little homage to the famous Pillows & Prayers compilation on the right (issued […]
Jim Carroll: “All my friends are dead dead dead!”
A few years ago (OK…quite a few years ago) I was visiting NYC. It was a beautiful and sunny Spring Monday and I wandered around […]
Lee “Scratch” Perry
I was really excited to catch the legend LSP on his tour earlier this year and got right up front. Behold… The band brought out an […]
Bad Bat Records
I took some time to poke around the Bad Bat Records catalog today and, for no reason I can really fathom, decided to express my impressions in […]
Double Double – Aeons and Monuments and James Lawrence Wolf & Raven Bauer Durham
Double your pleasure, double your fun; I’m sharing to two, two-track releases today that I’m stuck on. First up is “Helios” by Aeons and Monuments. This features […]
ritaleite – “PBIUDS”
Everything about ritaleite is a mystery to me. It starts with their enigmatic Twitter feed which averages less than one tweet per month over the last six […]
Whettman Chelmets – “Giant Eyes & Infant Steps”
I laughed when I saw this in my timeline: Then I had two thoughts. First, this sounds right up my alley (they had me at […]
Ceylan – “Les ages sombres”
One of the tags on the page for this release by Ceylan is “ambient” but the title (“The Dark Ages”) and cover art (perhaps calming, but with […]
Noise, Manipulation and Non-Trad-Jazz
Let’s start off with a little noise; well, actually, a lot of noise in the form of “Demagogues and Charlatans on the Lash” by WeaklingChild. If […]