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I forgot to mention that I got my Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings tickets in the mail--front row, baby! So let's watch Sharon show Janet Jackson how it's done*: But where do you get your retro funky soul if you live in England, now that Amy Winehouse can't string two syllables together before...
British sketch comedy is one of the mainstays of Veneer family entertainment. The Fast Show, Little Britain, Monkey Trousers--all very amusing. This week we've been watching Big Train, which may be the best of them all. Tonight we watched the final episode of the first season (1999). In the final...
A highlight of our trip to Maryland last week was seeing Peter Murphy in Baltimore, though the less said about the club (and the opening act) the better. The last time we saw him as a solo act was at the 9:30 Club in 2004, when he was being forced into the old tour-to-promote-album-sales paradigm,...
Casting about for new music to listen to I came across the Phenomenauts, and the description sounded all right (something like "pop-punk with some synths"), and sure enough, they're pretty fun (and unlike so many pop-punk bands, they don't sound like whiny teenagers). The track list for their album,...
Mrs. V. and I are big fans of Zero 7; that is, of the Zero 7 songs that they did not invite Sia Furler to vandalize with her breathy, pouty, "ghetto twee*" vocal stylings. Verily, she is the Jar Jar Binks of downtempo. We're okay with the other guest singers, but it's the Fender Rhodes-laden...
Yesterday I caught the headline act for this year's Ithaca Festival: Orleans. Yes, they're still... together. (You thought I was going to say "still the one," didn't you?) It turns out they have a rich local history. The full version, by founder Larry Hoppen, is on Orleans' website, here; I highly...
One of the great things about the sharity blogs is that many of the albums ripped, uploaded, and blogged are done so by fans. While some bloggers just cut and paste the Wikipedia or AMG entries for albums into their blog posts, others write a couple "why I like this record" paragraphs, and for me...
Back in December I posted Moondog's "Bird's Lament," one of those tunes that is so natural it feels like you've known it forever, even the first time you hear it: Listening to Quantic Soul Orchestra's Pushin' On this evening, "Bird's Lament" came out of the speakers, but over a deep funk breakbeat...
Why oh why has Whitesnake's "Fool For Your Loving" been running through my head for the last week? It's not that I have any affinity for the lyrics: "A hard-lovin' woman like you just makes a hard-lovin' man." What the hell does that even mean, anyway? I think it's just that it's such a...
I must interrupt the skronk thread to announce this breaking news, or broken news, as the case may be; it may be old news but it's news to me. Blog favorite Nomo has a new album, Ghost Rock, coming out on June 17th, but they're streaming three songs in advance on RCRD LBL: Ghost Rock was produced by...
The posts I want to do keep getting bigger, and thus they are taking longer to prepare. Coming soon will be a post on UK Skronk, but in the meantime, Mojack brings us some brand new skronk from the US. Mojack is the current band of Greg Ginn (the guitarist from Black Flag and Gone and the founder of...
Since I wrote my Satie post I have discovered electronic duo ISAN's versions of Satie's three Gymnopedies, which add some voices and glitchy percussion to the original compositions while retaining the composer's intentions (I think). Here is Gymnopedie No. 1, "Lento et douloureux"--
or just plain "breaks," as I was last time: The Prodigy is generally considered to be the definitive breaks act, and they have been the most visible, thanks to several videos centered around frontman Keith Flint's evil-clown persona. But Prodigy mastermind Liam Howlett's music underneath Flint's...
The State Theatre of Ithaca has just announced its 2008-09 season schedule, and the big news is, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are coming to Ithaca! Yahoo!!! Not until November, though; sigh. But I'm going! And I bought tickets today to see Nine Inch Nails in Philly! On Mrs. Veneer's...
Shawn Lee has just put out yet another new Ping Pong Orchestra album! It's called Miles of Styles and, as the title suggests, it's got the most varied genres of any record in the series (and it's also double the length). The tunes are mostly instrumental, and Lee uses the song titles to telegraph...
There was one more minor AOR hit I wanted to include in my last post, but there was no audio file to go into the Seeqpod player. "Don't Ever Want To Lose You Ya" by New England was one of many songs I taped off the radio in 1979, but never got the album. Their marketing angle was being "Produced by...
They've been coming back for quite some time now (since 1990), of course, but now my 1980s are coming back. Since my recent post on Slab!, band member Stephen Dray has announced their imminent reformation (in the comments on this blog post), or resumption rather, since he maintains they never...
Here I am saying The Slip is the best Nine Inch Nails album since the first one when I haven't really listened to any of them since Broken. So I've been trying to catch up, going from recent to older; Year Zero and With Teeth are actually better than I thought, but neither are reach-out-and-grabby...
I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan from way back. I was hanging out with my pal $ean at the original Kemp Mill Records where he was assistant manager the day Pretty Hate Machine came out; I bought one right out of the shipping box. I listened to it and knew immediately that "Head Like a Hole" was a future...
Several weeks ago I wrote about Iggy Pop and Peter Murphy sounding nearly the same; just yesterday I discovered the live radio performances that Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor gave during the joint Nine Inch Nails/Bauhaus tour of 2006. Lo and behold, they did an Iggy Pop cover: And to pile on the...
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