Tag Archives: Talking Heads

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 […]

A Miracle of Modern Science

As proven by yesterday’s post (and my support for Barack Obama) I love a good (and possibly t-shirt-ready) slogan. As it happens, today’s featurees, Brooklyn-based avant-garde Rock quintet TV On the Radio, happen to have (unwittingly) provided me with a striking, and unprecedentedly practical, slogan a few years ago. During late Summer of ‘06 I […]

Ur Filthy Cute & Baby U Know It

After two posts in a row discussing the merger of acoustic instrumentation, electronically-generated sounds, heartfelt human emotions and mechanical bio-rhythms I wondered whether I was developing some sort of unintentional theme for the week. So after clicking “post” on yesterday’s entry I made a conscious decision to approach today’s post from a different […]

Eff a Heat-Index, I Need a Beat-Index

So those hundred-degree heat-indexes which were forecast across the eastern seaboard for this week were no joke after all. I learned as much Monday afternoon when I hit the streets to run a couple of errands and enjoy some outdoor activity accompanied by my own personal media player-spawned soundtrack. Trooping up the block with m. […]