2011 April 17 — Something Else! Reviews

Archive for April 17th, 2011

Steely Dan Sunday: “Midnite Cruiser” (1972)0
/ April 17, 2011 8:01 am

Steely Dan Sunday: “Midnite Cruiser” (1972)

Aside from the pre-Can’t Buy A Thrill promo single “Dallas,” here’s the only Steely Dan song drummer Jim Hodder sang lead on. It wasn’t the first and only time he took the lead mic on a recording, though: his prior band Bead Game make one record a couple of years earlier and he was the primary vocalist on all the [...]

Third International, featuring King Crimson’s Ian McDonald – <i>Beautiful Accident</i> (2011)0
/ April 17, 2011 6:58 am

Third International, featuring King Crimson’s Ian McDonald – Beautiful Accident (2011)

This is a different kind of blues record, one with a joltingly modern menace. The Third International’s Beautiful Accident brilliantly updates a time-weathered genre by focusing on texture as much as lyrical content.

Bad Behavior has blocked 3480 access attempts in the last 7 days.