According to Friday’s on-line edition of Rolling Stone, U2 will have a new album out in the next six months or so: U2 are recording a new album with Danger Mouse, and they plan on releasing early next year. “We have about 12 songs with him,” Bono told The Age . “At the moment that [...]
I’m going to let myself slide today with some more-or-less random thoughts in lieu of truly concluding yesterday’s post. The first of which is, I’m now wondering whether broadcast TV isn’t itself in a somewhat analogous position to our imperiled “print media” friends. That is, does the “broadcast” of Mad Men on Sunday evenings on [...]
I spent the 4th of July post singing the praises of Rolling Stone magazine, and suggesting that their investigative reporting, arguably the only remaining vital component of the magazine, has served mightily over the pas decade in the service of American liberty. I still believe that, but today I wanted to wonder with you about [...]
No time for a long post today, Dear Readers. Just a modest proposal: That on this Independence Day all who love our democracy take a moment to give props to that most unlikely of patriotic magazines, Rolling Stone. of course, got its start as the standard bearer of the counter-culture in 1967, with its famous [...]
Changes in the format and delivery of music—in both technology and packaging—would seem to have spelled the death of context for contemporary popular music, liner notes being only one element of that context. Our music has become much more a part of our multitasking lifestyle, only rarely indulged in as the sole focus of our [...]
[It's late Thursday, and tomorrow's post should be a Mystery Science Auditorium post; and ordinarily, I don't post until 5:00 a.m. PST. But I have exciting news today, big enough to break both of those self-imposed rules, just this once. So here's Friday's post, on Thursday night.] For reasons both professional and personal, it’s a [...]
[Confession: I’m so new to Twitter, and Facebook, that I don’t yet know all the insider lingo. I’m sure I’ve made a hash, or perhaps hashtag, of it: I’m grateful for corrections. Teach me your secret language, O my Twitter and Facebook masters!] I spent last weekend in Seattle, at the Experience Music Project’s annual [...]
Let’s get finished with Valleys of Neptune now with all due dispatch. “Mr. Bad Luck”: forgettable (given the proviso, ventured yesterday, that all of these tracks bring something of value). Let’s move on. Hendrix’s almost seven-minute instrumental version of “Sunshine of Your Love” is the track (after “Valleys of Neptune”) that’s been getting the most media [...]