omebody had to do it. Velvet Revolver begged off immediately and The Rolling Stones are just too old. So doing a cover of Nirvana’s “Rape Me” as a lounge act is none other than Richard Cheese.
Richard Cheese? Who the heck… I’m kind of repulsed enough by the song (having listened to it 3 times) that I can’t bring myself to Google him for a bio.
The song is from Cheese’s album Lounge Against the Machine, a title I found to be amusing.
He begins the song by announcing “This one’s for the ladies.”
It’s not Bright Eyes, but it sure sounds like it. “It” would be the new eponymous solo release by Conor Oberst. I’m a huge Bright Eyes fan, as this blog would attest to, but I had no idea this record was coming out.
I’m usually up on these things. For example, I waited three agonizingly long [...]
Once in a while a song comes along that just grabs you and won’t let go. You listen to it over and over, pissing off whoever you live with.
That’s what happened to me with the song “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz. The first time I heard it, I had no idea who was singing but I was thinking, “How could I have missed this before?”
What’s better than kicking back and playing a little acoustic guitar? Playing that guitar on film with amazon.com advertisements to help make you a less-starving artist.
I recently enjoyed watching the classic ’80s movie Highlander again, the film that spawned all those rather rotten TV spin-offs. The movie, however, is the real deal. Definitely the best sword fighting among immortals ever to grace the screen. Christopher Lambert deftly plays the lead role, and Sean Connery shows up as an effeminate, ageless tutor for Lambert’s character.
If you’re into beheadings (and who isn’t?) this movie is for you. The immortals, like Lambert, can die only by losing their head. They live for centuries, duking it out until only one is left standing. And the big ol’ bad guy, Kruger, is seriously bad-ass.
The best part of the movie, however, is the soundtrack by Queen. The songs are simply perfect for the action and the mood. It is Freddie Mercury and the boys at their finest. Strangely enough, it is an unofficial soundtrack, but the songs show up on Queen’s album A Kind of Magic.
I wish I had a clever way to celebrate this momentous achievement for any music collector — an astounding Nineteen-thousand nine-hundred sixty-one songs in my digital music collection. If those songs were played one after the other it would take 53.9 days to finish listening to all of them (my iTunes tells me so).
Jeff Tweedy looks a little bit like Bobby D, especially when scruffy. In fact, Tweedy looks more like the rock ‘n’ roll icon than Dylan’s own son, Jakob. Imho, if I may…
Maybe it’s me, or does every project Tweedy touches turn to gold? The Woody Guthrie records Wilco recorded with Billy Bragg were stellar. Not entirely polished, but raw and raucous and introspective and fun. The soundtrack to the Dylan flick “I’m Not There” is a compilation of some rather outstanding covers.
Stephen Malkmus begins this song by jokingly name-checking R.E.M., but this is a Pavement classic from the compilation album No Alternative, which was a benefit for AIDs years ago. Probably early ’90s. I can’t find this record anywhere and I’m bummed out because there were a bunch of standout tracks by some good bands.
Evan Dando, singer/songwriter/guitarist for The Lemonheads, is definitely a lemonhead. And an unabashed stoner.
Still, he and Julianna Hatfield made a damn good album in 1992 called It’s A Shame About Ray. The record was recently reissued with a bunch of bonus demo tracks that were recorded during the making of the album.
The original album already [...]
There’s been a melody softly soaring through my atmosphere, reminding me that the new Death Cab For Cutie record is near. So near, in fact, that the band’s released a single to promote the full monty (download below, then download the album at amazon.)
Ahh, yes. I new blog theme, too. Still working on an appropriate [...]
