Tag Archives: Portishead

The British May In Fact Be Coming

Yeah, so our new pres is freakin’ awesome, there’s change in the air, and America has a reason to be proud of itself for once. That’s all pretty righteous, but most of the music on the radio still blows, so we shouldn’t forget there’s a whole world of sound out there to explore. […]

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Three)

  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are another five… Adorably precocious Swedish Indie-Pop chanteuse Lykke Li out-Feist-ed Canadian Indie-Folk femme Leslie Feist simply by being…well…more feisty. The nigh-unpronounceable newcomer’s initially self-released debut Youth Novels […]

Precipitated by Precipitation

As many of you may have noticed, I write about a lot of music. But even writing a daily blog as I do I still listen to more music than I could ever possibly write about. Even so, I keep notes about most of the music that I listen to. I do […]

Records at Random, Vol. 76: Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club

When I was a little tyke my Mom made a habit of taking me out every once in a while for a special lunch at a cool bistro or pub. I assume it was as a reward for exemplary behavior or an exercise in teaching responsibility. I got to order “grown up” food […]

The Alpinism’s Bumpin’, But I Need the Volume Higher

Like many Americans I’m still in a bit of a trance after the momentous events of November 4th. My wonderment at the fact that an overwhelming number of my fellow citizens voted for progress by supporting our first African American president is tempered by sadness that a whole bunch of them in a handful […]