Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Blammo!
“Peculiar Way” is from a batch of songs recorded back in the 90s at Kris Woolsey’s apartment in the West Village. In those pre-Garageband days, if someone got their hands on a decent four-track machine you simply had to take advantage. I forget who left the device at Kris’s house, or why, but its very [...]
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
A Little Money Riding On The Maple Leafs
People have been asking me when I’m going to post something about Halifax, but I’m not sure what more I can say other than I felt very much at home there, something I rarely feel in The Rotten Apple anymore.
Halifax is a spectacular city (er, I mean “regional municipality”) — historic, cosmopolitan, grimy, gorgeous, [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
House Calls To Shut-Ins
Sometimes, the the best things you can do while you’re on the road are things you would ordinarily do at home anyway. In our nation’s capital over 4th of July weekend, we delayed a side-trip to Annapolis because we could not tear ourselves away from this year’s epic Wimbledon men’s final (which lasted over five [...]
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Brandy Does Her Best To Understand
Wherever I travel, people always ask me if there are any brilliant new Devastationalist musicians I can recommend, preferably someone they don’t already know about. That’s easy. I always say Natalie Robin.
I first stumbled across Natalie and her music while playing MySpace hopscotch. Irresistibly, the headline quote on her page read:
“If you hate [...]
