Paul McCartney – Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005)purchase this album As I wrote last week, I wasn’t expecting much from this. McCartney albums can be pretty half-baked —…
So apparently now I’m sort of syndicated, yet still completely unpaid. I guess this is the new wave for newspaper websites — now that everyone’s a-bloggin’, they just go around…
Miss me? Sorry about that. Work took me out of the loop for a good two weeks, but IÁ¢€â„¢m back now and rarinÁ¢€â„¢ to go with a bunch of posts….
[Note: For those of you who werenÁ¢€â„¢t here a couple of weeks ago Á¢€” or just have very short memories Á¢€” this here is Part Two of the Complete IdiotÁ¢€â„¢s…
Linked to by stereogum. I feel like an ugly kid who just got invited to his first party.
Linked to by stereogum. I feel like an ugly kid who just got invited to his first party.
Back in February, I mentioned driving past Crazy Buffet, a new restaurant in Sunnyvale. I didn’t have any intention of eating there, really; I just thought it was a funny…
All that McCartney ranting yesterday, and hey, the new single ain’t bad: Paul McCartney – Fine Line (download) Huh. I’m sure this is just Macca’s way of getting my hopes…
I was all set to do a review of the new Herbie Hancock today, but it turns out there really isn’t all that much to say about the new Herbie…
Nada Surf – The Weight Is A Gift (2005)click here to purchase this album I didn’t listen to the radio at all in 1996, so I’ve never heard Nada Surf’s…
Like pretty much everybody else, I’ve had New Orleans on my mind lately. Haven’t said much, because I’m not as eloquent as folks elsewhere, like Atrios and Billmon. Basically I’m…
Bob Dylan – Live at the Gaslight 1962 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 6.5) (2005) Bob Dylan – No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7) (2005) I like…
David Gray – Life in Slow Motion (2005) There was a time when I thought David Gray’s music was insufferably boring. Either I was wrong, or I’ve become insufferably boring…
[Note: As I mentioned last night, todayÁ¢€â„¢s Guide was written by my good friend Ted, who has been patiently and tirelessly defending Rush to me since we met. I take…
Two announcements: 1. Tomorrow’s Complete Idiot’s Guide will be Part One of Two. 2. It will be about Rush. 3. It’ll be written by my good friend Ted. Not to…
Saw it Friday night. I had to twist Leah’s arm, but only a little — she laughs at The Daily Show just as hard as I do. Anyway, it’s very,…
Shaw/Blades – Hallucination (1995) Though his work with Night Ranger and/or Damn Yankees never has or will win any awards for originality or subtlety, Jack Blades is, to me, sort…
Mike Stern – Odds or Evens (1991) The words “jazz fusion” have become a sort of sneering code phrase for crappy instrumental music, but once upon a time, the genre…
Like many a budding homo, I was quite the little fashion plate in high school. Yes, that’s me with the grey pleather pants, white nylon vest, white leather skinny tie…
New day, new host, new lease on life for this place. The mp3s’ new home actually provides more room and more transfer than I’d been allocating before, so that’s nice….
I apologize for the current mp3 outage:we’ve been heavily linked this week, our traffic spiked, and our host noticed what we’ve been up to, so plasticmusicsociety is under involuntary lockdown…
Eric Clapton – Back Home (2005) It’s been a long time since the world sat up and paid attention to a new album from Eric Clapton, and I guess he…
Oh, goddammit. Hi, my name is Jeff, and I’m a Bee Gees fan. Not a “cool” one, either Á¢€” I’m not down with all that disco shit and I don’t…
“The radio, that was my big influence … Bands that were faceless, that didn’t really have anything other than what you heard on the radio. And I liked the real…
I don’t know whether or not they still publish it, but when I was a kid, Marvel Comics had a title called What If? that answered questions like “What If…Spider-Man…
Hey, have you read this book? Bruce Springsteen: Two Hearts — The Definitive Biography, 1972-2003 by Dave Marsh I’m a sucker for rock biographies. Well, I’m a sucker for lots…
Darden Smith – Sunflower (2002) Having spent large chunks of my life around musicians and other assorted music geeks, I’ve grown accustomed to a certain amount of bitterness with regards…
Joe Strummer was not a very popular guy when 1986 rolled around. The year previous, he, alongside a new crew of imposters, had taken a nice healthy dump all over…
We took The Boy to the Tech Museum in San Jose last Saturday. This isn’t the kind of thing I’ve ever really given much thought before, but there’s a lot…