Over my 3 year subscription to Paste Magazine, this year I’ve watched it fall from its status of an enlightened Entertainment Weekly to becoming as vapid as Entertainment Weekly, but without the topicality or access. They also now take about 8 minutes to read cover-to-cover.
First, there was the layout change. If used to be staid, at least it [...]
November 21, 2008
Categories: album reviews . Tags: best albums of the year, best of lists, Black Mountain, Bon Iver, Cormac McCarthy, Deerhunter, Evil Urges, Girl Talk, King Kahn, Lambchop, Mount Eerie, My Mourning Jacket, Of Montreal, Paste Magazine, Reigning Sound, She and Him, Skeletal Lamping, Stay Positive, Thao, The Dodos, The Hold Steady, The Kills, The Ruby Suns, Vampire Weekend, Vivian Girls, Wolf Parade, Zooey Deschanel . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 7 Comments
My ladyfriend and I traveled to Chicago for my 5th consecutive attendance to the Hideout Block Party in Chicago. The Hideout is the coolest bar/musical community behind a Home Depot. I didn’t get to see everything and had to leave early. I am only a man.
SATURDAY
Giant Sand (Yay)He’s much jazzier and Billy Bob Thortonlike than [...]
September 25, 2008
Categories: concert reviews . Tags: Black Mountain, Block Party, Chicago, Concert Review, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Dark Meat, Devil in a Woodpile, Giant Sand, Hideout, Honey Boy Edwards, Little Cow, Monotonix, Mucca Pazza, Neil Hamburger’s Drunken Spelling Bee, Neko Case, Plastic People of the Universe, Rhymefest, Robbie Fulks, The Jon Rauhouse Sestet, The Uglysuit, Tim Fite . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 3 Comments
I buy a godawful way-beyond-my-budget amount of music. It’s becoming a problem. I’m on a 90-track monthly subscription to eMusic*, but even that does little to satiate this hunger for sound. I’ve already bought over 200 songs this year, and they were like so many cocktail weenies down a well**. I need to appreciate more, unless my hyper-consumption [...]
March 5, 2008
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, album reviews, compulsive behavior . Tags: Ra Ra Riot, Basia Bulat, Blanche, Little Amber Bottles, Oh My Darling, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Scribble Mural Comic Journal, Mark Lanegan, Bubblegum, Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago, Some Racing, Some Stopping, Headlights, High Places, 03/07 - 09/07, Beach House, Devotion, Puerto Muerto, Songs Of Muerto County, Black Mountain, In The Future, Breathe Owl Breathe, Ghost Glacier EP, Evangelicals, The Evening Descends, Devendra Banhart, Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds, Sally Shapiro, Disco Romance, Cat Power, Jukebox, Scary Mansion, Every Joke Is Half the Truth, The Aluminum Group, Little Happyness, Times New Viking, Rip It Off, Tiny Vipers . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 4 Comments