Wednesday, July 30, 2014

What's Wrong with Music? Well, I'll Tell Ya....

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It's been hard to write. Not only finding the time, but finding the energy. I don't feel like I should be Pollyanna-ish with this bl...
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

CD Review: Kyle Bruckmann's WRACK - ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire

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Kyle Bruckman's WRACK ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (Single Speed) www.singlespeedmusic.org Full disclosure: I haven...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Charlie Haden Remembered

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The anticipation that I feel before doing an interview often has a debilitating effect on me. Bad connections, bad recording devices - both ...
Sunday, July 06, 2014

Pest 5000 - Whatever became of...

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Here's another one for the "What Ever Happened To" files: Pest Five Thousand (or Pest 5000). I bought this single (Har...
Saturday, July 05, 2014

Work

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Last week the total number of visits to this page was 1. And it was probably by me. Since it's been several weeks since the last post,...
Monday, June 16, 2014

CD Reviews: Three by Ivo Perelman

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Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio/Whit Dickey The Other Edge (Leo) Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker Book of Sound...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

CD Review : Marc Ribot Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard

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Marc Ribot Trio Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi Recordings) www.pirecordings.com There simply aren't enough musicians sharp enou...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Tom Rainey & Ingrid Laubrock Hit Pittsburgh

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Last Thursday, Tom Rainey and Ingrid Laubrock played at the Thunderbird Cafe. Tom has been a drummer around New York for years, playing...
Friday, June 06, 2014

GBV and DoS in Pittsburgh - a review

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It took a few weeks to show up, but my review of Guided By Voices and Death of Samantha is now up on the Blurt website: http://tinyurl.com/m...
Monday, June 02, 2014

CD Reviews: Jeff Platz + 3, Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio

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These two discs have been out for a few months. Both have been sitting around, waiting for me to write about them. My brain couldn't wa...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

When Heroes Do Crazy Stuff

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Over time, the musicians you revere can have their image changed in your eyes. Some of the touring underground bands that I admired during m...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Peter Tork Interview Part 2: Nobody Ever Lends Money to a Man With a Sense of Humor

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Tonight is the Monkees show at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, PA. I was hoping to have posted this, the rest of my chat with Peter Tork,...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Peter Tork - He's Not the Dummy. A Monkees Interview Part 1

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Peter Tork's musical career is pretty well known: Former Greenwich Village folkie heads out to California where his friend Stephen Stil...
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Friday, May 23, 2014

"Now THAT'S the way you play guitar"

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The title of this post comes from something I said to my friend Jennifer during Death of Samantha's set at Mr. Small's last week, wh...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The Beauty of Original Pressings.

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Right after John Lennon was shot in December 1980, I decided I needed to get a copy of his Walls and Bridges  album. A neighbor had played i...
Friday, May 09, 2014

CD Review: Eric Revis - In Memory of Things Yet Seen

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Eric Revis Quartet In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed) www.cleanfeed-records.com So far, two of the year's strongest albums...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Looking Back at the Weekend

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It was a good weekend for music in Pittsburgh. Robert Pollard was in town for the opening of an exhibition of his art at the Irma Freeman Ce...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Monk Would Talk to Me, I Bet Ya

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Playing right now: Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 - New York Concerts (This thing is going to blow a lot of minds.) The CD version of the newly ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

CD Review: Blaine Lanehan - Meta Music #27

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Blaine Lanehan Meta Music #27 (Extended) www.extendedrecords.com Guitarist Blaine Lanehan first gained some recognition as part of a fre...

CD Review: She & Him - Two Virgins [Record Store Day release]

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She & Him Two Virgins (Marge) mergerecords.com It's rare that I get around to reviewing something before  it comes out and even ...