Tag Archives: Steely Dan

The Sound of Your DOOM is the Roar of the Tiger, No Jive

A couple of days ago the Northern Hemisphere crossed the threshold from Winter into Spring and with the exception of a few locations hit with “freak” blizzards or anachronistically chilly blasts of arctic wind that means ski-mask season is all but over for most of us. I mean that in a strictly meteorological sense […]

The French vs. The British

Like I said yesterday, the search for new and unproven talent–and the flood of wannabes in that respect–continues in a seemingly never-ending fashion. But there are a few established–both very well established and not-so-well established–artists I consistently check for regardless. The name Pharrell Williams–along with that of his partner Chad Hugo–is one of […]

Music To Survive a Robot Uprising To

So far this week’s class of Blogarhythms graduates has included a “keyboard band” that doesn’t play “robot music” and a couple of True-School Hip-Hop revivalists who added synthesizers to their arsenal without sounding like the latest retro-electro bandwagon jumpers. And although one of the latter asked us to “Do the Robot In Cyberspace,” their […]

A Dragon could totally beat a Wolf in a fight, but what if it was just a little Dragon?

Not too long before the start of my conspicuous absence from this space I posted about a couple of “keyboard bands,” proclaiming my love of synthesizers and how I planned on starting a “keyboard band” of my own in the process. Neither of the acts in this post are “keyboard bands” per-se, although they both […]