Sorry for the lack of updates. Not much happening in this part of my life really. However the fall is going to see lots of reviews which I plan on putting up here. Anyway, apologies for the lateness of posting this particular entry. Busy week and all that.
I wasn’t really that excited about seeing We [...]
This is a bit out of character for this blog (completely in character for my other blogs), so I apologize if it sounds less than scholarly. This past fall, while taking Rock/Soul/Progressive, one of the books we were required to read was Flowers in the Dustbin by James Miller. Everyone in the class agreed that [...]
I’m nearly done reading On the Radio: Music Radio in Britain and, taking into account that the book was published in 1989, this is my conclusion: Blandness creates blandness. The author often sights the British public’s complaint of radio being bland and not offering enough variety. Radio, including BBC and ILRs, then retort that the [...]
I know, as shocking as this, it’s a real review of the White Rabbits show last night. Brace yourself.
It’s not often a band can fool you into thinking their penultimate night of touring is actually their first night of touring. But given the amount of energy the White Rabbits had last night (about the same [...]
Author’s Note: All apologies for the possibly poor quality of this entry. My brain is mush, but if I don’t write this now, I never will. “Hi, this Nora (My last name) calling on behalf of Gloria Minott at WPFW…” “News/Public Affairs Nora (my last name) speaking…” Around the same time I really started getting [...]
Music critics are some of the most pretentious pricks known to man. Here is my reasoning: In effort to broaden my horizons while also following the rules of the radio station, I’ve decided to feature one new album a week. For this week I was thinking of featuring Los Campesinos! who are a Welsh band [...]
This past summer I giddily read that Panic! at the Disco was no more. Of course the writer’s at Drowned in Sound were just playing with my mind and the band had merely gotten rid of the exclamation point and had not, as I thought, disbanded. Little less than six months later here I am, [...]
There is currently something of a soul revival occurring in the UK right now. Granted this statement is based on data from the imperfect British singles/album chart(s) and only based on this weeks charts. Also I’m basing most of the above statement on the popularity of exactly two artists who fit the classic description of [...]
There’s this neat little thing you can do in Microsoft word that’s called “autosummarize.” This nifty little gadget will take the seven-page research paper you’ve written on the Kinks and summarize the thing to your specifications. For instance you can ask the auto summarizer to summarize said paper to less than 500 words and it [...]
This past week celebrated the beginning of festival season. Yes folks, this past week/end was South by South West or, as it’s lovingly called, SXSW (which translates to the first name given, which is what everyone says when referring to the second.) Anyone who is anyone, or wants to be anyone, in the indie music [...]