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James

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Music:

Fugazi, Pedro the Lion, The Dismemberment Plan, Little Wings, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, The Band, Stevie Wonder, Elliott Smith, Nomeansno, Bjork, Elvis Costello, Bikini Kill, Led Zeppelin, Supergrass, Willie Nelson, Quasi, Cat Power, Queen, Black Sabbath, Randy Newman, The Secret Machines, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, The Wailers, PJ Harvey, The Magnetic Fields, MU330, The Velvet Teen, Xiu Xiu, We Are Scientists, Bishop Allen, Hello Nurse, Hello Stranger, Hellola Ray, Cupped, The Softness, Spitzer, The Huxtables, Man Man, The English Department, The Botticellis, The High Strung, Gabriel Kahane, Priestess, Electric Six, Dub Trio, and Glen Ponder And Bangkok.

My Blog

Metalocalypse

For the members of Dethklok, of the AdultSwim cartoon Metalocalypse, "brutal" is an adjective that can mean "good" or "bad." It can refer to their own shuddering thrash metal sound or to a questionabl...
Posted by James on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:55:00 PST

Kennedy

When Kennedy played New York's Bridge-and-Tunnel-friendly Crash Mansion last month, a team of roadies spent the first half of his set hauling gear offstage and wheeling it across the packed dancefloor...
Posted by James on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:57:00 PST

Song of the Year

A friend played it for me last summer as we drove to a wedding rehearsal. I heard the first few barsa dense, unaccompanied layering of female voices, most of them processed to a robotic purr through ...
Posted by James on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:18:00 PST