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Arthur Lee - “Vindicator”
I’ve been on a serious Arthur Lee kick lately… The first three Love records: Love (my favorite), De Capo, the legendary Forever Changes have been in constant rotation as of late. I’ve also been getting into Vindicator too, which was…

Ne-Yo arrives (Newsday)
Traditional R& B like it used to be as soul singer, 24, angles for a sound with stay power. The soul singer known as Ne-Yo has had a good year. His album “In My Own Words” (Def Jam) opened at No. 1 and yielded two smash hits, the ballad “So Sick” and the follow-up single “Sexy Love.” He co-wrote Beyonc ’s chart-topping “Irreplaceable” and Rihanna’s “Unfaithful.” And he’s co-headlining a lineup …

Ever Since I Can Remember I’ve Been Playin’ Mancala

No Frontin’

Please Kill Me Negli ultimi mesi dell’anno ho sen…
Please Kill Me
Negli ultimi mesi dell’anno ho sentito molto parlare del bel saggio di Simon Reynolds Post-punk 1978-1984 (ISBN Edizioni). Non mi sembrato che altrettanta attenzione sia stata riservata a Please Kill Me, di Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain, pubblicato in Italia da Baldini Castoldi Dalai prima dell’estate. un peccato, perch i due libri sono del tutto complementari, e l’analisi di Reynolds prende le mosse proprio l dove la narrazione di Please Kill Me giunge a un epilogo, quanto meno di significati, se non ancora di… read more

Jim Reid - “Dead End Kids”
So I heard that Jim Reid is starting a new band with the drummer from Ride and a couple other dudes. I don’t know what it’s called or what they sound like but I like the idea…. Anyone know what’s…

Global Culture Books

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Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz Dec. 6 2006 (Scoop.co.nz)
Let The Festivities Begin It s December and that means Christmas. Two festive hits join the Singles Chart just to freshen up the caroling this week. However, both are remakes and very definitely aimed at the younger market.

“About A Son” trailer
They’re making a movie called About A Son about Kurt Cobain using interview clips that Michael Azerrad audiotaped for his book Come As You Are. Which is kinda weird cuz Kurt told a lot of fibs in that book… either…

CHESTNUTS, ROASTING

Merry Christmas to all those who are so celebrating. & Happy Christmas if you live in the UK, because that’s what they say instead.

I don’t have any festive music for you today; just music for slow-moving afternoons, which is the way my Christmas usually passes. I hope somewhere out there there are some humbugs, jews and travellers in a similar boat: slide around the floors with me, socks on.

Shearwater - “If You Stay Sober”. A lovely lop-sided song from Shearwater’s first album, from the band’s first winter. From when the narrator’s me-and-you was an easy thing, able to wash away the memory of dark times: “two days in ‘95″ when he “wanted to die”. With swing of drums and guitar, Jonathan Meiburg singing like he’s swaying from a star, then a fiddle to underline the heaven come to earth - the way joy does sometimes just appear. [buy]

Christine Fellows - “Paper Anniversary”. Tomorrow will be a post about death so today let’s let it be about love. (Easier said than done. But seriously, wait, let’s stay in the parentheses; it’s easier here. And on “Paper Anniversary”, Christine makes true love sound simple as punch, no harder than piano keys struck-and-echoing, a wheezy out-of-key organ, a statement of the things that Simply Are: “There’s no better time than the second time, of anything, with you.” It’s a song that jolts with sentiment strongly felt, that jumps with the gladness of a moment shared. It’s a yay.

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Amy at Shake Your Fist’s best songs of 2006 has lots of very great things.

RIP James Brown. [photo (c) diane arbus]

Irene
White Christmas in Sweden? When would it not be a white Christmas in Sweden? Guess that’s why Labrador Records’ Christmas present to us is the wishfully-titled “Christmas on the Beach” from pop masters Irene. I say pop masters since Irene’s songs display pop from every decade since the 60’s, no doubt honed and perfected on many a white Christmas Day while dreaming of warmer climes…
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You Would Know If I Were Finished

Silver Jews - “Night Society”

“Across from him the Dane and his companions had ordered luncheon. Abe did likewise but scarcely touched it. Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”

A passage from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night. I’ve never read it. I assume the Dane must be Hamlet, and Abe must be Abraham Lincoln, because with those characters, the passage becomes quite pointed. But if my life and my whole damn aesthetic has any marching song it’s “down with context”, so let’s just let the words fade in and out like passing by a fist-fight while riding in a cab. In a way, that’s what this year has been like. A lot of heavy rumbling, some loud thunder, and a great big night that just turns the volume up and down on the sun. [the vinyl is cheaper]

Ramblin’ Jack Elliot - “Woody’s Last Ride”

Shhh… if you’re quiet enough, the whole year will just fall fast asleep and we can get out without any more hassle, without any more favours. [Buy]

The ZimCali Pop of Chris Berry & Panjea (CD Review)

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Anyone think they should write for this blog?
Well if you think that you should be yapin’ your trap on here, this your chance sausage fingers. If not, you’re bummed cuz that’s what this whole post is about. So anyways, a while ago people started complaining that the…

Blitzen Trapper
File this one under my favorite band that I completely missed in 2006. This despite the fact that plenty of fine sites have been trying to hit me over the head with Blitzen Trapper’s simultaneously spacey and homey sound. “Texaco” is a straight up country joint, the whining of a slide guitar punctuating the wavering vocals while “Summer Twin” floats and hovers about like one of XTC’s psychedelic efforts. The two tendencies come together on “Pink Padded Slippers.” Pure listening satisfaction. Don’t miss “40 Stripes,” a throwback to solid AM-worthy, classic rock standards and the electro-funk of “Love I Exclaim!” The band’s two self-released albums are available on CD Baby where a fan beautifully sums up Blitzen Trapper: “[they] sound like they’re trying to paint the Sistine Chapel with a box of crayons.”
sean

2006 in review
This year we;
- got a banjo for xmas
- got fined fifty quid for littering
- rode the Paris tube one hot summer night, listening to Burial on headphones
- helped arrange a workshop at the Tate Modern (and then failed to show up)
- signed on
- didn’t have a sauna
- paid tuition fees late
- got fatter
- got chatted up on the Leeds-Kings Cross train
- got some kittens
- went boating in Cornwall
- got a violin for xmas (and broke the string already)
- got punched for being foreign (we’re not)
- used a bottle as a… read more

The Cassettes - ‘Neath The Pale Moon (podcast)
As I mentioned here on this site before… I’m really excited about The Cassettes’ record we’re putting out called ‘Neath The Pale Moon. The band just put together a really cool podcast called The Cassettes’ Radio Hour, which is just…

Neil Diamond - “Early Classics”
This record is a great place to start if you don’t have any Neil Diamond in your collection… and trust me, you NEED some. Don’t be scared of Neil! Homeboy has laid more pipe in his lifetime than an army…

Ne-Yo arrives (Newsday)
Traditional R& B like it used to be as soul singer, 24, angles for a sound with stay power. The soul singer known as Ne-Yo has had a good year. His album “In My Own Words” (Def Jam) opened at No. 1 and yielded two smash hits, the ballad “So Sick” and the follow-up single “Sexy Love.” He co-wrote Beyonc ’s chart-topping “Irreplaceable” and Rihanna’s “Unfaithful.” And he’s co-headlining a lineup …

Paris Hilton: Critics’ Fave? A Look At Amazon Users’ Top 10s (MTV Music Television)
Music critics’ year-end top 10s tend to be pretentious and deliberately obscure. Amazon users’ top 10s are anything but. Here are some of our favorites.

Great success for Rihanna and Zedstar - Waleg.com