Monthly Archives: July 2008

Hooray – Delays Alright, I know I’m supposed to be skeptical of the any music that comes with this kind of glossy sheen, but I just can’t help myself. The new Delays album Everything’s The Rush is overwrought, appeals to … Continue reading →

Geraldine (radio edit) – Glasvegas I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the name Geraldine. There’s lots of reasons but most significantly, it was my first girlfriend’s name. So I’m glad its now turned out to be … Continue reading →

I’m Amazed – My Morning Jacket Okay, so I think the new My Morning Jacket album is…to put it bluntly…not very good. If you ever heard the Violent Femmes album New Times, you know what I’m talking about – the … Continue reading →

The Gardener – The Tallest Man On Earth Wispy and folksy – like a cross between an old Dylan record and a Page France song. This is the kind of track that is just begging for a cutesy old-fashioned video, … Continue reading →

Alright, it’s clear that I’m a little bit too busy to approximate my usual pattern of posting. There are two options. I can choose to simply ignore the blog for the next 6 weeks while I’m working, traveling across the … Continue reading →

I think most anyone who would care already knows that George Carlin died a few weeks ago. I meant to do a post the day it happened, but (as these things often do) I never quite got around to it. … Continue reading →

A little bit of my regular life intruding on the blog today… This summer I’m working at the debate camp here at Dartmouth. Debate camp, as you might imagine, is pretty much the coolest place around. And, as if it … Continue reading →

I think it’s safe to say: Anna Ternheim is to this decade what Beth Orton was to the 90s. There was a brief era when it seemed that folk-influenced trip-hop was going to be the next big thing. It faded, … Continue reading →

Many songs, even some of the greatest ones ever made, are simply too dense – too full of possibility – to reveal themselves completely the first time through. But then there are the ones that you hear once, and immediately … Continue reading →