Cigarettes and Coffee

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 [...]

Spinning: Van Morrison, Magic Time
That Van the Man link up there? Click it. Unless you’re some kind of asshole, you’ll dig this album. His best in a decade or more.
If I ever write a country song, which I won’t, it will be called “I Set Myself Up To Let Myself Down.” I just like how [...]