Archive for November 22nd, 2012

Record Store Day/Black Friday 2012 picks: Bob Dylan, Joe Strummer, Miles Davis, My Morning Jacket

Record Store Day/Black Friday 2012 picks: Bob Dylan, Joe Strummer, Miles Davis, My Morning Jacket

Where else will you find, side by side by side, new reissues of Miles Davis’ Porgy and Bess, Nirvana’s 1992 compilation Incesticide, and the Fat Boys’ Pizza Box album — packaged in (yes) a pizza box? You May Also Like: Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Joe Strummer: The Singers andRead More

Vinyl

Movies: Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements (2012)

It wasn’t quite as nihilistically put out as punk, so it had little credibility there. It wasn’t sweetly composed enough to connect with pop fans, either. You May Also Like: The Replacements collapsed in a heap of success with Don’t Tell A Soul ‘Weekly Standard’ Fails in Pitting Yes AgainstRead More

Vinyl

One Track Mind: Jellyfish, “The Man I Used To Be” (1990)

One of the greatest rewards of parenting is when the love you invest in your child is appreciated and paid back. On this day that’s ostensibly about being thankful, I’m thankful that my child does love me back You May Also Like: The Time, “Donald Trump [Black Version]” (1990): OneRead More

Vinyl

Beth Duncan – Come the Fall (2012)

Amazon.com Widgets Beth Duncan’s Come the Fall isn’t the purpled and foreboding project that its title might suggest. If anything, it’s exactly the opposite You May Also Like: The Most Surprising Moment on Alan Parsons Project’s ‘Eve’ Doobie Brothers’ Minute by Minute was more than ‘What a Fool Believes’

Vinyl

Greg Lake – Greg Lake Live (2006)

As Greg Lake continues his celebrated one-man “Songs of a Lifetime” tour through the UK and Italy, I returned to this 2-DVD career retrospective from Image Entertainment/Warner Music Vision. You May Also Like: Greg Lake compares this era to the one that sparked King Crimson: ‘You needed to be original’Read More