Howdy!
Welcome to my little storehouse on the internet. I’ll post here anytime I have something to share, but also check out my other outposts: Bandcamp, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Rateyourmusic, My articles at Pitchfork ✌️
Howdy!
Welcome to my little storehouse on the internet. I’ll post here anytime I have something to share, but also check out my other outposts:
✌️
Now & Then
So, this new Beatles song, “Now and Then”. It was pieced together over a period of almost 30 years, using AI to clean up Lennon’s demo vocal, and remove the piano. That kind of stuff is easily doable these days. It’s not perfect, but artfully mixed, and AI solutions for fidelity problems are totally valid […]
RIP Neil Peart
Rush found me in high school, through an older friend who knew of such things. We were band nerds together, but he was also into coding, RPGs, elaborate pranks, scaling walls and going on abandoned mall raids. He drove us around in his Jeep, had an attic where we could bash out rock covers, and […]
New Album: DAD ROCK!
Hi you, I haven’t written in awhile, mostly because I don’t have much news to report unless you’re into my toddler’s nap schedule. Which if you are, may need you to get off my list. But I do now: a new album!!!!!!!!!!! It’s called DAD ROCK — totally unironically, as I am now a dad […]
Liszt: Via Crucis
Wanted to share this fantastic recording of a late-period Franz Liszt setting of the Catholic depiction of Jesus on the day of his crucifixion, for choir and piano. I’ve also heard it with organ, solo piano, and read that he wrote an arrangement for harmonium as well, though the piece itself wasn’t performed until over […]
Wherein I Live-blog the New McCartney Record
Because you demanded so fastly and furiously…. Egypt Station by Paul McCartney [Capitol; 2018] First listen! Opening Station – Intro track, nice ambient choir and train station noises. 40 seconds. I Don’t Know – Piano soft-rock. Mac’s voice sounds like it has recently; old. Still, the groove is classic P-Mac, a little like the stuff he was rocking […]
On Steely Dan and Dad Rock
Much to my surprise, have been listening to a lot of Steely Dan lately. Of course, those guys are hardly strangers to me, because I basically grew up on classic rock, and every one of their (many) hits were played (and overplayed) on the radio. In truth, I never hated them, always thought “Dirty Work” […]
McCoy Tyner
Listening to McCoy Tyner, who I knew as the pianist in John Coltrane’s 60s quartet, with Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison. I love it! Full of energy, bright, hits hard (especially because he’s playing with amazing drummers like Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Elvin Jones), and the heads are actually really cool, uplifting & melodic, like […]
On AFX (and Not Finding Stuff Out Until Way After Everyone Else)
Apparently, I’m a late-in-life Aphex Twin fan. I’d always avoided this guy, mostly because everyone else was talking about him in such reverent tones — it was an easy turn-off for a perpetual hype skeptic like me. Now, after years of listening to electronic dance music, and after AFX is no longer the focal point of […]
#CHILL
I’ve got a #CHILL playlist on my phone. It gets about five times as much play as any other playlist, and I’ve heard all of its songs so many times that they’re a part of me. Forever. It’s got some classical music, some float-y ambient, light psychedelia, maybe a super minimal techno track or two. […]