Monthly Archives: May 2010

Alejandro Escovedo | Street Songs of Love

Written by . Posted on May 20, 2010. Filed under music we dig. Tagged . No comments.
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  Alejandro Escovedo is a songwriter’s songwriter who has a deep catalog filled with songs shot through with unflinchingly honest, raw emotion. Early albums Gravity and Thirteen Years deal with a failed marriage and the death of a former lover, and 2001′s A Man Under … Read More →

Sex and Music #6: the Gypsy Way

Written by . Posted on May 19, 2010. Filed under music we dig. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
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Across the smoke filled room he could see her sitting at a small side table with her friend. The hat and gloves attempted to disguise her but he could feel her presence by the tilt of her head coupled with the way she held her … Read More →

R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio

Written by . Posted on May 17, 2010. Filed under music we dig. Tagged . No comments.
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The Man on the Silver Mountain left this mortal coil on Sunday, May 16. Raise your hand in a devil’s horn salute to the heavy metal pioneer whose mighty wail led such bands as Elf, Rainbow and Black Sabbath before he went solo, forming Dio in … Read More →

Family Band | Miller Path

Written by . Posted on May 14, 2010. Filed under music we dig. Tagged , . No comments.
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Here’s a new favorite– Family Band’s Miller Path. Just heard about this self-released album from Family Band, out of Brooklyn, from the good folks at Other Music. Check out their great write up of it here. It’s an exciting new find for me, this album–dark and weird and on its own … Read More →

Phosphorescent | Here’s To Taking It Easy

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When Matthew Houck arrived as Phosphorescent in 2003 with A Hundred Times or More, he was too often dismissed by critics as a sort of low rent Will Oldham with a cracked warble and an affection for off-kilter folk tunes, or as yet another chaser … Read More →