Archive for the 'Music' Category

What If: Our Founding Fathers Were A Hair Band?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Jeremy Clarkson, Rock Star

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Musical Roots

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Boing Boing just ran an excellent series on cultural roots of music and how blind most are to them. It runs fifteen parts, each illustrated by a video and covers country, soul, blues, bluegrass, classical and each is worth watching. I love following the roots of music, as a society we ignore so much excellent [...]

Kate McGarrigle Has Passed Away

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Singer Kate McGarrigle has died, she is well known to folk fans, but less known to the general public. Her Matapedia album, done with her sister Anna, is in my top five folk albums of all time.

For Once I Agree Completely With Jeremy Clarkson

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Jeremy Clarkson goes to see Mama Mia at the theater. I did this once as well. Once. Via The Flibbergibbet

Beatles Cover

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Big shout out to my Beatles fan peoples out there! Via Boing Boing

Friday Culture

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Two quick videos from around the webs for Friday: First up Swedish Death Metal Bluegrass: The the long forgotten 1951 version of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

Elvis Meets Cthulhu, Who Knew?

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

This Elvis song could have easily been written by HP Lovecraft. Via the Trollsmyth

SXSW Samples

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

I am about one quarter of the way done listening to the SXSW samples for this year. The ones I like best so far can be found here. It is a real mix of genres, with a lot of Rock, some Hip-Hop, some Electronic, and a fair bit of Folk. Folk and Country are at [...]

Sita Sings the Blues

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

If you haven’t seen Sita Sings The Blues you really should. It is very good and available for free. I have heard good things about it for quite awhile, but finally watched it yesterday and was very impressed. You can watch it on some streaming sites or download a HD file and watch it with [...]