Some songs are so fun and simple it detracts to write about them too much. This is one of the best songs to have in the headphones on a Monday morning. Enjoy.
Essex Green - Don’t Know Why (You Stay)
“Goody Goody” is one of the better breakup songs ever written but only a few artists have really taken advantage of it. The song came out of the big-band swing era and most artists have used it that way - a high-energy track to get people on the floor and let the full band wail [...]
I had the good fortune to get tickets for Neko Case’s taping of Austin City Limits back in 2003. It was a hot, hot night in Austin and the studio at KLRU was not offering much in the way of help in getting out of the heat. Like most people going to a live show [...]
Like Salem 66, the Screaming Blue Messiahs are high on my list of bands I wish I’d been able to see back in the day. Most reviews of their shows used the phrases “incendiary,” “inventive,” and “even better on stage.” I had to make do with their albums - the outstanding Gun-Shy being the best [...]
Mashups are always a crap shoot for me for every twenty I hear nineteen are forgettable, regrettable or both. (I never, ever, ever need to hear another mashup using Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” - seriously, stop it people!) However, over the years that twentieth one has been a lot of fun and found a [...]
I hated Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” with a passion so it was with perverse glee that it became the anchor sample for Nice and Smooth’s “Sometimes I Rhyme Slow.” The opening riff isn’t long enough to fool you into thinking it’s the original (like the damned opening of SOHO’s “Hippie Chick”) but it was enough [...]
Although their catalog is dominated by lush, dreamy songs Japancakes are the architects of the loudest live show I have ever witnessed. My ears still buzz when I think about it today. Five or six years ago they played an in-store gig at the Urban Outfitters on the drag near UT as part of South [...]