Friday, July 22nd
summer in the city
Savages, “Fuckers,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/16
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: rock/pop
2016
Monday, July 4th
Happy Fourth!
Let’s celebrate by remembering three giants.
Ralph Stanley, singer, banjo player, February 25, 1927-June 23, 2016
“Little Maggie,” live (TV show), Austin, Tx., 1980
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Bernie Worrell, keyboard player, April 19, 1944-June 24, 2016
Live (with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic), Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 2004
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Scotty Moore, guitar player, December 27, 1931-June 28, 2016
“Blue Suede Shoes” (with Elvis Presley), live, 1956
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lagniappe
radio
Today, Louis Armstrong’s adopted birthday, it’s all Louis all day at WKCR (Columbia University).
2016
Saturday, June 4th
what’s new
Beck, “Wow,” 6/2/16
2016
Friday, April 29th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Dog Faced Hermans, live, Lincoln, Neb., 1994
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh, A Corner of the Asylum and the Garden with a Heavy, Sawed-Off Tree, 1889 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)
2016
Friday, April 1st
only rock ‘n’ roll
Building a Broken Mousetrap (2006), concert film of The Ex
2016
Friday, March 25th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Joy Division, live (“Digital,” “New Dawn Fades,” “Colony,” “Autosuggestion”), Netherlands, 1980
2016
Friday, March 18th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Tenement, live, Philadelphia, 2012
2016
Friday, March 11th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Big Star (with Alex Chilton), “In the Street,” live (TV show), 1994
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Replacements, “Alex Chilton,” live (TV show), 2014
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
[M]y favorite songs . . . make[] me feel more able to go out and live.
—George Saunders, New York Times Magazine, 3/10/16 (on-line)
2016
Friday, February 12th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Savages, “The Answer,” 2015
2016
Wednesday, February 10th
two takes
Ane Brun, “Directions,” 2015
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TORN Remix, 2015
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