Lynne Kiesling When in the DC area I’ve always tuned to WHFS, and the KP Spouse credits WHFS with contributing to the development of his taste in music that kept us up talking until 2AM on our first date (and many times since!). Although it had gotten to be a shadow of its former self …
Michael Giberson So I was driving home last night, worming my way through traffic and punching buttons on the radio trying to find something to listen to. One of the buttons produced some brand of Latin pop, which surprised me since I hadn?t programmed any such station into the radio. But I just cursed at …
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Michael Giberson Well, it?s that time of year when we assemble the artificial tree in the front room, decorate it with loads of lights and ornaments, and haul out the stack of Christmas CDs, which gets bigger and bigger each year. I suggested to the spouse that the time had come to sort through our …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I said toodle pip, but this is too good … the Scotsman had an article today about Scottish bands that aren’t really Scottish (registration required), including two of my favorite bands: Lloyd Cole In so many ways, he is the archetypal Glaswegian. Rattlesnakes was the perfect west-end Glasgow record, and not just …
RIP, JOE: Joe Strummer, lead singer of the Clash and one of the most formative musicians in my adolescence, has died of a heart attack at age 50.
I share the comments of Virginia Postrel, Jim Henley, and others who are very, very sad to hear of Warren Zevon’s illness. I think that Virginia’s right, that some of his allure is a dark intellectual geek hipness, and that he’s also wry and clever and whimsical. His best-of 2-CD set is always in our …
Many, many thanks to Juan Non-Volokh for posting a link to the lyrics to my favorite Oingo Boingo song. Imagine a slightly edgy, but also synth 80s, beat. I continue to believe that Danny Elfman is a genius.
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