10 days and this year is over.
I’m proud (and sickened) to say that I listened to over 120 albums this year. And I mean REALLY listened to them. Enough to pick a song I liked best from each one.
I narrowed 120+ albums to 14 favorites. Why 14? Because that’s how many mp3 albums would fit [...]

First of all, much thanks to Best Week Ever for the love - they mentioned MMM in Monday’s entry! Go here to see the actual post. It was quite the shocker to wake up this morning and see the hits. Thanks and welcome to all of you BWE readers that are visiting me.
My other [...]

Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3, 03 Mar 06, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR setlist: (solo acoustic) The President / Visions Of Johanna (Bob Dylan) / Alright Yeah / Never Stop Bleeding / The Speed Of Things / Long Long Long (George Harrison) / (enter Minus 3, switch to electric) If You Were A Priest [...]

Here’s the Friday roundup; the blogosphere as seen through my eyes:
— Robyn Hitchcock and members of REM (disguised as a Scott McCaughey band called Minus 5) are touring the UK. You can hear them on the BBC 6music this Sunday, January 29th. Program info available here. An mp3 of their musical hijinks plus trombone turned [...]

More mp3 time travels, as we continue with the John & Butch series:
Butch: Phil Ochs - Joe Hill (live in Montreal) — I was going to continue the Pinochet-is-a-murdering-thug theme from last week by featuring a couple of songs by Victor Jara. But then I went to see the movie SLC Punk over the weekend. [...]