The Mystery Jets have a new album coming out. Here's a cool video (with Laura Marling) from a couple years ago. Wow, Laura Marling has sure changed from her whole waif thing a few years ago.
swimming freestyle
Mostly this. A bit of that. A Weblog by Jay McDonough
Music
June 14, 2010
June 12, 2010
Music for Saturday night
The Noisettes. "Never Forget You"
June 11, 2010
Waka Waka
Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) by Shakira was chosen as the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
June 10, 2010
Obama's kicking ass; the autotune version
It's amazing how quickly these things show up.
June 07, 2010
Elton John: It only takes a million
Here's a particularly unenlightened quote from Rush Limbaugh:
"...let's say we discover the gene that says the kid's gonna be gay. How many parents, if they knew before the kid was gonna be born, [that he] was gonna be gay, they would take the pregnancy to term? Well, you don't know but let's say half of them said, "Oh, no, I don't wanna do that to a kid." [Then the] gay community finds out about this. The gay community would do the fastest 180 and become pro-life faster than anybody you've ever seen. ... They'd be so against abortion if it was discovered that you could abort what you knew were gonna be gay babies."
OK, no big news there. But how does a mega-rich, gay rock star justify signing on to perform at Limbaugh's wedding?
Singer Elton John received a $1 million fee to perform in front of 400 guests celebrating radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh's fourth wedding Saturday night, People Magazine reports. (Link)
This reminds me of that famous Groucho Marx story. It ends with "We've already established that. Now we're just quibbling about the price."
June 04, 2010
Some Friday night music
Minus the Bear. "Throwin' Shapes"
May 31, 2010
'The Ballad of Penny Evans'
As it's Memorial Day, it's appropriate to honor not only those that made the ultimate sacrifice, but also those who they left, family and friends forced to endure their own pain and loneliness.
It's always seemed to me that this song, by the late, great Steve Goodman, manages to pay honor to that unbounded sorrow.
May 28, 2010
Friday night music
I've been meaning to post something by these guys for awhile. Here We Go Magic. "Fangela"
May 27, 2010
The Black Keys 'Tighten Up'
The always great Black Keys official video, directed by Chris Marrs Piliero.
May 26, 2010
Patty Griffin's 'Up To The Mountain'
Last night were the last performances of the American Idol finalists. The two, Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze, sang three songs each and were, as expected, very good. I've been rooting all season for Bowersox - she seems to me the most authentic and the contestant with the highest probability of actually turning into someone who can sell records and fill up concert venues.
Bowersox's last performance was "Up To The Mountain" and, as good as it was (and it really was very good) it's hard to beat the songwriter's beautiful version.
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