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Last winter, something, and I don’t remember what (maybe Winehouse at the Grammys?) got me digging around to see what Nikka Costa was up to. I spent a few pleasant evenings sampling and listening to whatever good videos I ran across, wondering if she had anything coming out or would be touring around. I’m not [...]

Back Door Slam, Gotta Leave

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I finally, finally, finally got to hear Back Door Slam live this week in Denver. Since catching them by chance on the radio last April, I’ve been listening to their debut (and only) album in steady rotation, blogging about them [...]

Rhythm and wit. That’s always been the essence of John Hiatt for me, never more so than after hearing him live recently for the first time. Interviewed recently in Acoustic Guitar Magazine about his most recent album, “Same Old Man”, Hiatt compares his current recording approach to his first demo tapes:
“…this record reflects the same [...]

A pile up at work and an addiction to political blogs has me way behind in posting on some shows coming and going. But instead of catching up, I’m just in the mood for something easy, so I’m throwing out some ‘tubes that have crossed my path and are helping me do some much needed [...]

The 2008 MacArthur grants were announced today. Instead of seeing turntable vibration as something to be suppressed, Walter Kitundu sees it as a musical resource. Let the sensitive buggers vibrate to all sorts of stimulus and amplify it to its heart content.

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The last couple of weeks have been an interesting combination: a lot of good live music coming my way, perfect fall weather of warm sunny days and cold nights, and a very annoying but fascinating string of political events. All conspiring to keep me elsewhere. So I’m going to toss up some things here over [...]

The last week I’ve been consumed with election events. Wow. Just wow. Well, also, a little: wtf? I’m sure there will be more of that. In the meantime, I did manage to get to a great concert recently: Keb’ Mo’. First time hearing him in concert and he was fantastic. He had a small band [...]