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The Friday Mixtape: 9/25/09
Feel that tension building in your neck, that stress in the spinal cord that feels just like a piece of rope with the twine extra-wrapped? Feel that chafe of fraying fibers, rest to snap
Read More »Song-Off Jr.: Magical Modes of Transportation
Nighttime and an electrical storm in the Mexican heat flashes, high on acid, the lightning breaking out – there! – there! – and the electricity flows through him and out of him, a second
Read More »Mix Six: “The New Wave Effect”
I was too young to experience many of the groups and performers featured here when they were in their prime. Sure, I heard the music of Led Zep, Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Who,
Read More »Basement Songs: Big Audio Dynamite II, “Rush”
I’m running through the streets of industrial Los Angeles cursing to myself. My eyes are searching, desperately scanning the sidewalk and disintegrating asphalt for a coat hanger. The sun beats down on me, I’m
Read More »Caught on Tape: Pete Townshend and Who’s Text
Back for another round of Caught on Tape, Steven Rosen relives his experiences interviewing Pete Townshend in
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: The High Numbers
In this week's edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, Ed Murray takes a look back at the Who's early years -- specifically, the brief time they spent as the High Numbers
Read More »DVD Review: “The Who at Kilburn 1977″
The press materials for The Who at Kilburn 1977 describe this DVD as “a holy grail for fans after decades of anticipation,” and that’s no piece of bull dreamed up by somebody in marketing.
Read More »Desert Island Discs: Dan Wilson and Hugo Burnham
Dan Wilson (Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic, solo artist) Okay Darren, here are my picks! I’m sure if I thought about it more I’d only come up with a bunch more bonus picks, so I’m sticking
Read More »Mix Six: “Songs of Politics, Protest, and War”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Like almost everyone in the U.S. for the past few months, I’ve been pelted with political calls, commercials, mailers, and e-mails from candidates, “concerned citizens,” and the like to
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