Saturday, May 28, 2011

Will the funeral be televised? Gil Scott-Heron RIP

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Playing right now: Kirk Knuffke & Jesse Stacken - Orange Was the Color (SteepleChase) Last night as I was brushing my teeth, I had WJAS...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Recent articles in other publications

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Since my posts have been limited to about one a week lately, here are links to things I've been writing elsewhere. I filed a couple revi...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Beatles take a hack song and make it better

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I have this scenario in my mind that from 1963 to sometime in 1965, Brian Epstein or one of his mates that was close to the Beatles (Mal Eva...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

CD Review: Honey Ear Trio - Steampunk Serenade

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Honey Ear Trio Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven) http://www.foxhavenrecords.com/ The trio of Allison Miller (drums), Erik Lawrence (saxophones) ...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

Vijay Iyer takes Pittsburgh

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Vijay Iyer came to the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild last Friday and after his first show, I felt like I was ready to start a religion ar...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

CD Review - Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Prophet

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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble The Prairie Prophet (Delmark) http://www.delmark.com/ One of the best things about musicians assoc...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

CD Review: Kermit Driscoll - Reveille

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Kermit Driscoll Reveille (19/8) http://www.nineteeneight.com/ A few months ago I got a copy of Miles Davis' Live at the Fillmore East (M...

Remembering Billy Bang

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As I was getting ready to leave the house on Saturday to go to Paul's CDs (see previous post), my friend Toby texted me, telling me that...

What's up with that?

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Everyday, the review of the Bizingas CD that I posted in January gets a spam comment that's written in some language made up of symbols ...

National Record Store Day - A Recap

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I worked all weekend, and yesterday and today are my days to watch the kid alone. (He's on Spring Break this week.) So only now am I fin...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Watt Makes a Man Start Fires

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It’s been a week since City Paper ran my “5 Questions with Mike Watt” piece but when it did, I still thought there was a lot of good commen...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Weekend of Rock

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Just wrapped up a weekend in rock, with three very different definitions therein. Friday night, the Harlan Twins played at the Thunderbird C...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Charlie Parker Never Gets Old

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Last week I lucked into a used copy of the Charlie Parker 8-disc set that combines everything he recorded for Savoy and Dial, along with a f...
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Saturday, April 02, 2011

Formatting is Everything

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Jiminy crap, I've just spent the last 30 minutes re-formatting the last two CD reviews. I can't tell if I learned something or if I...
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CD Review - Endangered Blood

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Endangered Blood (Skirl) Little did this writer know that Skirl, the label whose CDs come in an oversized, 5"X8" soft-cover sleev...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

CD Review: Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans - Electric Fruit

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Weasel Walter/ Mary Halvorson/ Peter Evans Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear) www.thirstyear.com Talk about a meeting of the minds. Drummer...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Responsibility

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Playing right now: The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America (Not sure how I feel about this one. I keep imagining a sea of baseball caps....
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

More talk about bands and lives

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Since I wrote about Trotsky Icepick last week, a few things happened. I played Carpetbomb the Riff , which sounded three times as vicious as...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Trotsky Icepick Remembered or Our Life Could Be Your Band

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Playing right now: Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Prophet (Delmark) (Love his this album has gone from consonant, n...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Work?

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The music editor of Pittsburgh City Paper wrapped up his tenure with the paper this week and it just so happens that a day or two earlier, I...