OK, that’s enough clarity.
There’s a place, too, for utter mayhem.
Karp, live, Alabama, 1996
Hands down one of the most important videos on youtube
—superdude593, YouTube
serendipity
These tracks brightened a recent Saturday afternoon, thanks to
WFMU-FM (Terre T’s Cherry Blossom Clinic, Sat., 3-6 p.m. [EST]).
The Equals, “I Can See But You Don’t Know” (1970)
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The Eyes, “I’m Rowed Out” (1965)
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The Shades of Night, “Fluctuation” (1967)
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The Kinks, “She’s Got Everything” (1968)
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lagniappe
reading table
[S]itting on the stone wall of the pump house overlooking the reservoir eating my old tuna, jalapeno and “hot” hummus sandwich I had a peaceful sense of NOTHINGNESS and that was what I was going to come to. DEATH is NOTHING. It’s not death that’s sad, it’s life. There is nothing sad about nothing. I had a very strong feeling that I am nothing visiting something. Yes, I am nothing visiting something and returning to nothing.
—Spalding Gray, The Journals of Spalding Gray (2011)
Chrome, “Meet You In The Subway” (1979, record; 1984, video)
So much of our musical experience resists explanation. Take this track, for instance. As soon as it’s over, I want to hear it again. Why? No idea.
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lagniappe
mail: two posts, two messages, same correspondent
Last Monday (Koko Taylor/Louis Jordan):
Great boost!
Yesterday (Brother Anthony Wynn/Sensimo):
what the fuck!?!
only rock ’n roll
Animal Collective, Unitled/“Brothersport”
Live, Chicago (Pitchfork Festival), 7/15/11
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Want to hear the entire set?
Jazz, classical, gospel, rock: the names may be different, but what they offer is the same—a way, pleasurably, to lose your mind.
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lagniappe
In the evening darkness at a place outside New York, an outlook where/you can perceive eight million people’s homes in a single glance. . . ./Schubert’s being played in some room/there and for someone the tones at this moment are more real than everything else.
—Tomas Transtromer, “Schubertiana” (excerpt), trans. Samuel Charters
Here, in an undated audio clip, Transtromer, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, talks about this poem and reads it in this English translation.
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Transtromer suffered a stroke in 1990, at the age of fifty-nine, which robbed him of speech and impaired the use of his right arm. Rather than delivering the customary [Nobel] laureate’s address when he accepts the award, on December 10th, he will play a piece on the piano using only his left hand.
—Dan Chiasson, “Night Thoughts: The poetry of Tomas Transtromer,” New Yorker, 10/31/11
Wild Flag, live, SXSW (Austin, Texas), 3/11
“Romance” (Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop)
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“Future Crimes” (IFC Crossroads House)
Someday an all-female band will seem no more remarkable than an
all-male one.
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lagniappe
radio
A live studio performance,* which I caught part of Saturday afternoon, can be heard here.
*The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T (Sat., 3-6 p.m. [EST]), WFMU-FM
what’s new
Trash Talk, “Awake,” 2011
only rock ’n roll
The Ex, “Waiting,” live (studio performance), WFMU-FM, 2007
Vodpod videos no longer available.Today, in celebration of my son Alex’s 24th birthday, we revisit a few of the many posts he’s inspired.
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I’ve got a song for you to listen to . . .
—my (23-year-old) son Alex
tUnE-yArDs, “Bizness,” live, Austin (SXSW), 3/18/11
Vodpod videos no longer available.(Originally posted 4/30/11.)
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I’ve got a song for you to listen to . . .
—my (23-year-old) son Alex
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, “Say No To Love” (2010)
Vodpod videos no longer available.(Originally posted 12/28/10.)
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The other night, after falling asleep, my older son Alex (now 22) had an unexpected visitor—this guy showed up and began to play.
Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Marcus Gilmore, drums; Stephan Crump, bass)
“Galang,” recording session (Historicity), New York (Systems Two Studios), 2009
(Originally posted 6/30/10.)
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Someday, just as I sometimes do with my own father, who’s been gone for over thirty years, my older son Alex, now twenty-three, will recall occasions, after I’m gone, when he and I went out to hear live music together, like, for instance, last night, when we saw this group, from Africa, who are on their first U.S. tour.
Group Doueh, live, San Francisco, 7/1/11
Vodpod videos no longer available.(Originally posted, with a different clip, 6/27/11.)
passings
DJ Mehdi, DJ & producer, January 20, 1977-September 13, 2011
“I Am Somebody” (feat. Chromeo), 2007
Vodpod videos no longer available.*****
Live (with Busy P), Ireland (Dublin), 2008
#1
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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#2
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
#3
Vodpod videos no longer available.*****
Remix, Architecture in Helsinki, “In Case We Die,” 2006
Vodpod videos no longer available.two takes
“Death Letter Blues” (S. House)
Son House, live (TV broadcast), 1967
Vodpod videos no longer available.*****
The White Stripes, live, France (Paris), 2007
Vodpod videos no longer available.More White Stripes? Here.
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