The year: 1989. The artist: Liza with a Á¢€Å“zÁ¢€. The idea: Bring Liza back into the present out of the standards ghetto sheÁ¢€â„¢d been reduced to by teaming her with…
Jim Kokoris – The Rich Part of Life (2001)purchase this book A few hours later at the press conference where we received the oversized check for a hundred-and-ninety-million dollars, a…
Jim Kokoris – The Rich Part of Life (2001)purchase this book A few hours later at the press conference where we received the oversized check for a hundred-and-ninety-million dollars, a…
You guys, Willie Wisely has a new record coming out on Not Lame very soon. They’re giving away a whole bunch of cool swag to folks who pre-order. Click here…
I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to the keyboard last night. I fell asleep putting Jacob down and when I awoke (around 10:30), I was too groggy to think straight….
Today marks the four-year anniversary of one of the only intelligent decisions I’ve ever made, so in commemoration, here’s an unapologetically mush-filled collection of tunes that always make me think…
I know I say “I write what I want to when I want to” and all, but still…apologies for the lack of recent music reviews lately. It’s just that, you…
Say hello to CAPTAIN VIDEO! Doesn’t he look brave? CAPTAIN VIDEO! will periodically drop by to act as our guide through the Music Videos of the 1980s. You may have…
Today’s stop in Bootleg City takes us back to the Budokan of November 1979, and some cleanly recorded (albeit not revelatory, or even in some cases particularly wonderful) performances by…
So. Let’s say it’s time for breakfast, the most important meal of the day, and you’re seriously jonesing for some waffles. Now, if you’re like me, you could want waffles…
Taking a break from the New Wave casualties of the Á¢€â„¢80s (and there are more to come), letÁ¢€â„¢s get something truly decent and sadly Lost in the Á¢€Ëœ80sÁ¢€¦former Undertones lead…
We Are Scientists – With Love and Squalor (2006)purchase this album Recipe for a Rockin’ Good Time Morning: 1 box donuts 2 cups coffee We Are Scientists’ With Love and…
So. When last we left Billy Joel, he was riding high on the back-to-back, world-beating successes of The Stranger and 52nd Street. You’d think that would mellow a guy out…
How could I have possibly missed this? Captain Video breaks down your favorite and not so favorite videos from the ’80s in hilarious detail.
Okay, this one might sting a bit. The Steve Miller Band was riding high after the huge success of 1982Á¢€â„¢s Á¢€Å“AbracadabraÁ¢€ LP and single Á¢€” the single was just about…
It was the spring of 2001 — May, to be exact — but I remember it like it was yesterday: My good buddy Rahul and I were spending a week…
Sam Bisbee – Oxygen (2006)purchase this album Things seem to be heating up for Sam Bisbee, which is a good thing: Music this charmingly square doesn’t often bubble up from…
The following is an FOJ (Friends Of Jefitoblog) Television Alert! First: Our good pal Amir Talai will be starring in Campus Ladies, the new Oxygen Network sitcom, starting January 8th….
The following is an FOJ (Friends Of Jefitoblog) Television Alert! First: Our good pal Amir Talai will be starring in Campus Ladies, the new Oxygen Network sitcom, starting January 8th….
I wasn’t going to do one of these “year in review” things — they’re a lot of work and nobody ever agrees with you anyway — but when I sat…
Things werenÁ¢€â„¢t really happening for Donna Summer in 1980. The Queen of Disco and the sound she and producer Giorgio Morodor ushered in had fallen out of favor, replaced by…
Hey, hey, it’s Big Star Day here in Bootleg City! Presented for your downloading pleasure: What’s Goin’ Ahn, twenty-three tracks of demos, outtakes, and various other detritus left over from…
Hey, any Buffalo Tom fans out there? I’ve never been the most passionate of fans — and my favorite BT album is Big Red Letter Day, which I imagine most…
Anthony Hamilton – Ain’t Nobody Worryin’ (2005) purchase this album After a long string of nowhere deals and disappointments, Anthony Hamilton has been on a hot streak lately — starting…
Á¢€Å“Secret OktoberÁ¢€, the flip side of DuranÁ¢€â„¢s Á¢€Å“Union of the SnakeÁ¢€ is truly a buried gem, a song that would have considerably brightened the overblown and overly bloated Á¢€Å“Seven and…
[One of the most polarizing features of jefitoblog, I think, is my tendency to give more-or-less equal time to music I hate. Lotsa music blogs are proselytizers for certain artists,…
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)purchase this album The critical consensus I’m hearing seems to point to this as 2005’s Album of the Year….
Various Artists – Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast (2005)purchase this albumVarious Artists – Higher Ground Hurricane Benefit Relief Concert (2005)purchase this album Disaster. Relief album….
Now here’s a band we haven’t discussed yet — Squeeze. Today’s Bootleg City consists of live cuts from 1980 and 1981, the period leading up to and around East Side…
Beckley-Lamm-Wilson – Like A Brother (2000) purchase this album One of the commenters on our look at Dennis Wilson’s Bamboo mentioned Beckley-Lamm-Wilson’s Like A Brother, and it got me to…