Tag: Music
Out July 12, 2019 This album was born on the streets of Queens. I've been in New York for only two and a half years, and already I am a changed person. Am I a New Yorker? I dunno. Probably not. But this is a New York record. It's about aging, I guess. But aging … Continue reading Listen With Headphones, Between The Notes
Oh, with fantastic shivers, run Beside a candle dripping upon The table 'neath the shelf above A chair you sit, too dear It's backward, yet sincere And for the forgotten, it's been said There's nothing more to distinguish in it A portion of reconciled air Of putrid soil and debonair Stares You whittle off a … Continue reading To Havens Racked
Our life is not a movie or maybe. Beyond what contrives to be able to be a cold wreck of dawn when the cities were towns. Just forget what's begotten aloft and brought down.Unless it's kicks you gave me. Unless it's tricks you played me. Unless it's patter with the crowds. Unless it's mixed to shame … Continue reading The Greatest Album of All Time: The Stage Names by Okkervil River
Visit Compound Pictures to discover the world and film (The Red Skulls) which inspired the above album, which was originally recorded some time in the last 8 years, I dunno. album credits: Cory (guitars/vocals) - as Tito Jared (vocals/keys) - as Jack Kevin (vocals/percussion/keys) - as Lester Laura (vocals) - as Jess Michael (vocals/guitars/chordette) - as … Continue reading The Red Skulls Shock Opera (remastered)
A live album recorded a little over five years ago in a basement in Portland, Oregon. Free to listen to and download; $1 for a download of an essay that tries to explain its creation. @bandcamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY I'm a white man who's never been a black man. I will never know what it's like to be Donald Glover, putting this all together. But I will say that I just watched this video again, and I suddenly take away two things: 1. The song itself, which, importantly, is very very good and … Continue reading Another Analysis of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America”
Scott Hutchison's body was found last night. As of the last I read, an actual cause of death hasn't been revealed - or known, perhaps - but it isn't too difficult to come to a conclusion. That no matter how it happened, why it happened is that he wanted it to. It's a sort of … Continue reading Remembering Scott Hutchison
