Cigarettes and Coffee

From 1995-1999 I worked at WWVU-FM, attending college in my spare time. U92, as it’s more commonly known, is the college radio station at West Virginia University. The first day of the fall semester was always our biggest day of the year - we’d set up a big tent in front of the student union [...]

Sorry about the crappy shaky-cam footage, but it should at least suggest the kind of energy Springsteen shows can still generate. Bruce is 58 now, and his shows still stretch past the three-hour mark. “Badlands” closed the main set, so this was shot after about two and a half hours of solid rocking, and nobody [...]

Between preparations for a vacation next week and a big move in September, blogging time has been scarce, but right now, I can’t even think about those things. My mind is focused solely on tomorrow night’s big Springsteen concert at Giants Stadium - the last show of a three-night stand in his home state. I’ve [...]

Jarvis Cocker put on one hell of a show last night at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Bill has a more detailed write-up over on Sound Bites, but I need to take a second to tell you how awesome this show was. The big music war in 1990s England was between Blur and Oasis, but [...]

My friend (and fellow U-92 alum) Bill Pearis knows as much about music as anyone you or I have ever met. He covers new music and NYC shows on his blog, Sound Bites, and he also writes a column for the hugely popular Brooklyn Vegan, which is both a blog and a person. Bill just [...]

Yesterday I gave you my favorites from the game, so today we’ve got three songs I would’ve liked to see make the cut. To qualify for consideration, songs had to be appropriate for extended car chases, ultra-violent urban crime sprees, or both simultaneously. In the spirit of the game, they also had to include at [...]

Mix-tape apps seem to be the hot new thing, and while I’ve already talked about (and really like) Muxtape, I’m also having a lot of fun with Mixwit. My main complaint about Muxtape is that it doesn’t offer any kind of widget for off-site use, but Mixwit’s got that covered. It lacks some flexibility - [...]

It’s been almost ten years since I first saw Tom Waits in concert. I was in the back row of the Beacon Theatre here in New York, and at the start of the show, Tom burst through the back door - not five feet away - screaming through a megaphone and tossing handfuls of glitter [...]

Muxtape is a site that lets you upload your own mp3 files and create web-based mixes. The servers are getting hammered pretty hard, so you’ll run into some snags when you’re uploading, but it’s a lot of fun to play around with. And I love the interface for the mix - gigantic and minimalist all [...]

Spinning: Super Furry Animals, Love Kraft
So last night, after about eleven years of waiting, I finally got to see one of may all-time favorite bands play: Super Furry Animals. And even though they were thoroughly awesome and completely rocked the house and dressed up in electric fireman hoodies and played absolute classics like “Something 4 [...]