March 2009
43 posts
“Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing
1. Listen to the...”
– The always amazing WFMU Beware of the Blog gives us these words of wisdom from the always amazing Captain Beefheart.
Washboard Rhythm Kings, “Pepper...
Jim O'Rourke Learns and Plays the TENORI-ON
“Everyone has a different point at which they arrive at the question “Is...”
– Jim O’Rourke, foreword to Alan Licht’s Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Rizzoli 2007)
More on Hallock Hill.
Danny Guglielmi, “Mosquito Festival,”...
Tennent & Morrison, “Easy Come, Easy...
Deathprod, “Reference Frequencies #3,”...
Greek Theatre (Sven Fröberg, Fredrik Persson),...
Greek Theatre
I think I may have found the music that I have been hearing in my head for the last twenty-five years and have not been able to hear in the real world. Greek Theatre, from Sweden. It is this type of connection that makes the internet the miracle it is. I have spent the last hour listening to this astonishing band, whose range of influences and interests shows breadth and quality, and I am left...
The Acorn, “Crooked Legs,” Glory Hope...
Alela Diane, “Something’s Gone...
Andrew Bird, “Souverian, ” Noble Beast...
Little Jimmy Dempsey, “I Walk the...
Wilco, “I am Trying to Break Your...
The Andrews Brothers, “Trouble Worries...
Dock Boggs, “Pretty Polly”
Boggs is...
The Delmore Brothers, “Broken Hearted...
Mainer’s Mountaineers, “Poor...
“FORM is never more than an extension of content.”
– Robert Creeley
Religion
The birds twitter now anew
but a design
surmounts their twittering.
It is a design of a man
that makes them twitter.
It is a design.
—William Carlos Williams, from “The Orchestra,” 1954.
“Every organic thing, o philosophers, man
plant or animal, containing as seed...”
–
Paul Blackburn, “Pre-Lenten Gestures”
“I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America, from Folsom cave to...”
–
Charles Olson, Call Me Ishmael (1947)
I am slowly and deliberately trying to introduce...
Between and betwixt all of the writing I do about specific songs and bands, and posting of videos and things I like, I begin to outline my perspective of music as I hear it. I.e. it is a language, with a grammar, syntax, purpose of intent. In so far as a poem is written with words, it is as much music. My own writing devolves to concept and fracture. The only true voice today is the telescopic...
Time Has Told Me: "Out of Print & Rarities Blog...
Time Has Told Me stands as one of the single greatest music blogs and listening portals on the internet. Stay in the present, go back in time, whatever you want. This place is loaded with rarities and things you will want to hear.
William Carlos Williams, “The Red...
Robert Creeley, “I Know a Man,”...
“These are my songs. I make them and I get to destroy them and put them back...”
– Jeff Tweedy, in Sam Jones’s documentary I am Trying to Break Your Heart
Larkin Grimm, “Future Friend.”
A...
Robert Creeley, redux
Please go read this again. It is important.
Go out, dig deep, and buy a real three-dimensional record.
“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who...”
– Frank Zappa, quoted in Linda Botts, “Loose Talk” (1980)
Paul Blackburn, “Sunday,” possibly in...
“To make two bold statements: There’s nothing sentimental about a machine,...”
– William Carlos Williams, introduction to The Wedge, 1944.
Hallock Hill, “Erosion,”2008 I see...
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– Check this out. I was listening to the exceptional radio show Betsy Nichols hosted on WFMU on Sunday morning, filling in for Dan Bodah, and she played several tracks off of this disk. The disk is self-described as “Audio Kool Aid from the 70s’ Most Eccentric Cults & Communes.”...
WatchAlela Diane, “My Brambles,” Dumbo Session
Through Pitchfork.tv, Alela Diane brings us her beautiful “My Brambles,” accompanied by her father on mandolin and a pal on guitar. Diane hails from Nevada City, California, home too of Joanna Newsom, and there certainly seems to be something in the water there. Read more over at Pitchfork.
Elliott Smith, “Angel in the Snow,”...
Elsewhere Public Works Agency, “Microwave...