was the title of an essay I never wrote about Clear Channel’s banned songs list after 9/11/2001. That phrase appeared in a list of songs that were not to be played on Clear Channel stations. Rage was the only band to be completely banned. Though I imagine there wasn’t a lot of Jefferson Airplane or …
Category Archives: Music
Bluetile Lounge–Half Cut
just came on over the headphones as I was writing that post. I listened before and it didn’t do a lot but it’s just perfect right now. Very mellow. Very 90s.
Taco Alert + Music
When Carrie and I left Pittsburgh, we said we were giving up three things other than our dear friends: 1. Home ownership 2. DVR power 3. The NFL Sunday ticket It turned out that in Canada DVRs are called PVRs, and that 2004 was the first year the NFL Sunday ticket was offered as an …
Part Deux
Okay, perhaps it’s boring to read a post about the parking lot near (I hesitate to say “at”) Ikea. But it’s the internet. So I get to write it, and you get to skip it. Onto rock music, rivers and apples. Sunday night found us back in the apartment, predictably lethargic after our outing. But …
Sitting and Rocking
So it turns out that La Tulipe has my two favorite things in a rock club these days: seats and air conditioning. By rock audience standards, this means unequivocally that I’m old and lame, but then rock always was an ageist undertaking and it’s just something we’ve got to live with. As we were going …
Latest CD Acquisitions
Study of Speech and Hearing at Bell Telephone Laboratories: The Fletcher Years Technical Memoranda Issued by Acoustics Research Laboratory, Harvard University 1947-1971 Let me tell you, there are some smoking tracks on these releases. — Tomorrow, I may actually break the country barrier and purchase a Neko Case CD. Technically, it’s already broken since we …
In other news
The new Tool album comes with a stereoscope. The pictures are kind of gnarly but I like the idea.