We had a mosh pit! We had beer in plastic cups! We had shirtless guy crowd surfing! We had that dude with the cast on his arm – you know the one, slightly unstable, who points a finger at the lead singer like, ‘You should know me, man!’ We had a bit of a scene:... Continue Reading →
Monday morning music – Lianne La Havas
Monday morning, EO and YO finally back at school and I'm supposed to be tackling all those things I didn't do, like some real writing, over the Christmas break. But I'm so enjoying having the house all to myself, listening to KCRW online and reading an article a friend sent about a bunch of old rockers... Continue Reading →
2012: The Year in Random Thoughts & Obsessions
Forget those Best Of / Top 20 / Hot Lists, here's my year's worth of musings: The best music snap of the year (above). Comes from a Berlin disco. Found on the Twitter page of Stana Katic, who's one-half of the TV show, Castle, which my family can tell you I'm senselessly, annoyingly addicted to. It's... Continue Reading →
Country Ain’t Easy
In Hong Kong that is. Dwight Yoakam’s got a new CD out, Three Pears. It’s his first original album in seven years, a welcome surprise from a guy who’s done more acting than singing lately. So I was in HMV Central the other day, to pick up the new One Direction for EO and some... Continue Reading →
Election iPods
In the spirit of factcheck.org and all of the other researchers who've worked so hard debunking the whooping great lies swirling around this election, therockmom has taken on the task of finding a picture of Mitt Romney actually listening to music. Because it's important. We've heard about Romney's iPod and the jokes comparing his musical... Continue Reading →
Further Up The Coast
"I must have got lost… I must have got lost..." If you had told me when I started this blog three years ago that I was going to be writing about Peter Wolf of the J Geils Band, actually writing about him in a semi-serious fashion and not comically or sarcastically, I would have said... Continue Reading →
Dateline: LA
"California, California, you’re such a wonder that I think I’ll stay in bed…" I’ve come to believe I’m inspired by my imagined Los Angeles, not the real thing. My memories are stronger and more stimulating than sitting in block after block of stoplights on Santa Monica Boulevard. As the relentless sun browns my forearms, I... Continue Reading →
More proof that Koreans are the coolest people in Asia
Possibly the planet, at this point. Of course I’m talking about PSY and “Gangnam Style”, a little slice of dance-pop heaven that EO and I can’t get out of our heads. You know PSY is taking off - primed for a backlash by now - because he was recently on The Ellen Degeneres Show. She... Continue Reading →
Remembering Donna Summer
It's a sad week in the world. On Wednesday, my Texas family came together for the funeral of my cousin, Maureen, who was only 50. She's the first of my generation to die, and even though she struggled with health problems for most of her adult life, it's still a shock. Living half way around... Continue Reading →
Go Ask Alice… for Lady Gaga tickets
She has special powers, she knows things, she wants to be my friend. Her name is Alice, and I met her on my first attempt to buy Lady Gaga tickets. I know, I know, I've always been a bit harsh on the Lady, but she's starting her Monster Ball tour in Asia - playing three... Continue Reading →
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