See/Hear: You and The Night and The Music (and The Police Scanner and The TV Show)
I recently ran across two music/media sources that I cannot recommend enough. The “You Are Listening To” website is really fairly simple to describe in one […]
Live Reports: Banda Magda, The Tallest Man On Earth, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear
Recently the missus and I ventured out of Chez Trapezoid to catch some live music, and I’m happy to report we were three for three […]
Reading Room: Johnny Tales, plus Letters from Bournemouth
Pete Jones: musician, survivor, and man about town (I presume). Pete plays bass for the mighty Department S and is also the ex-bass player for […]
Books Are Music Too: Hip Hop Family Tree
Sometimes it just grabs you that something you are looking at is a real labor of love. I recently ran across two volumes of Ed […]
It’s a Small World: Makunouchi Bento and Kaneel
Long time Trapezoid favorite Makunouchi Bento is back. In one of their final acts of 2014, the Romanian duo of Felix Petrescu and Valentin Toma […]
The Flowers of Hell: The Art of Synaesthesia
Although they are new to me, The Flowers of Hell have been around for over a decade and have quite a discography. I’ll be honest with you; […]
Twitter Feeds: Volume III (or the Grandson of Volume I)
In this edition of my occasional review of wonderful things Twitter has brought to my attention, we have a corrector, a carbie, and the meaning […]
U2 – Songs for Someone…and Everyone
No doubt the biggest music news this week had to be One Direction announcing their new single…no, wait… that’s not even close! Of course, the […]
Calling All Astronauts: Hands Up, Who Wants To Die?
He borrows a famous line from a song by The Birthday Party, but Calling All Astronauts’ vocalist David B erupts with his own take on […]
Paris: Part the First
The Trapezoid family had the opportunity to visit Paris just about this time last year. I had always heard the Paris referred to as “The […]