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Comment by Marnie Junet on July 28, 2011 at 6:04pm

Yes Hannah! I thought I was the only one that had heard it! I am a fan of jazz and blues as well as rock, and I am completely obsessed with Translucent Blues. My kids are tired of hearing it LOL! Anyways, I highly suggest for lovers of rock, jazz, blues or good music in general. Any word on tour dates?

Comment by Hannah Faust on July 15, 2011 at 12:14pm

Has anyone heard Ray Manzarek's new album? He collaborated with slide guitar player Roy Rogers on an album titled "Translucent Blues". I just bought it and it is SO GOOD. Really great if you are a fan of classic rock and blues. Here's where I bought it if you are interested: http://manzarek-rogersband.com/cd-translucent-blues/

 

Comment by Thomas Cruz on June 1, 2011 at 9:38am

PSF was one of my fave music websites back when I first started online. Glad it's still going strong!

Comment by Robert Pally on June 1, 2011 at 6:51am

Hi

 

I recently conducted an interview with Daniel Carlson, who is on the list. Now you can read it here: http://www.perfectsoundforever.com

 

DANIEL CARLSON

"Daniel Carlson, who was raised in Chicago, creates on his third record Aviary Jackson, music that goes beyond just putting some songs in a nice order. In the tradition of Burt Bacharach, Pearlfishers, The Beach Boys, High Llamas and Louis Philippe, he offers pop jewels of high quality that satisfy the body and the mind."

 

And here is a list of the other articles:

 

 

 

TETUZI AKIYAMA

  Avant boogie guitar

"It is rare that early '70's boogie, that sludgy, funky, crunchy version of blues rock that morphed into Heavy Metal, is seen, or used as, a springboard for experimental improvisation. OK, it has probably never been done aside from guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. One of the more accessible of avant-garde guitarists, Akiyama has long been able to reach people through boogie, and take the form well beyond its traditional scope."

 

 

 

 

 

 DANGER MOUSE & MIKE PATTON

  Love, Italian Style

"It is no secret that Patton has been a long time admirer of film, film scores and Italian culture. Evidence has been left like a trail of bread crumbs throughout his body of work, maming Italian composer Ennio Morricone, famous for his scorings of Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns," as one of his musical Idols.  So, what will marrying an Italian woman and spending the better part of a decade living in Bologna get you?"

 

 

 STEVE EARLE

  Sympathy for an American terrorist

"In the weeks before 11 September 2001, country-rock singer Steve Earle was thinking about putting together an album of protest songs. He already had one in the bag: "Amerika v 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)," an attack on the U.S. healthcare system he had written for the Nick Cassavetes movie, John Q. But when two hijacked jets brought down the World Trade Center and another crashed into the Pentagon, there was suddenly no room in America for dissent."

 

 

 FREE FORM RADIO & BRANDING

  Sellin' Out & Buying In

"There are also counter-veiling forces out there that can expose us to great music without the logo glow potentially adulterating the experience. These forces and entities can give us a forum to communicate with people that genuinely want to share with others, and have an unmediated dialogue with. What follows are a few questions put to music directors and others involved in Free Form radio stations."

 

 

 MONKS OF DOOM

  Camper Van project's genius?- interview "The story of the Monks of Doom is both an object lesson in how the music industry used to work and a cautionary tale about the difficulties of said lifestyle/pursuit. Its ultimate tragedy is what happened to Meridian, one of those great albums I bet you've never heard, long since out of print. As a special treat, Victor Krummenacher has agreed to let some album tracks be available for streaming on SoundCloud in perpetuity."

 

 

 NEW YORK DOLLS

  An early show reminisced

"They came on a few minutes later, to the cheers of twenty-or-so hard-core fans, mostly photogenic young women. Though similarly attired to their scene peers, the Dolls oozed a regal sleaze that evoked the early Stones’ mystique. Singer David Johansen looked bummed out, his frizzy hair combed over his eyes. Seven-oz. Piels in hand, he sat in a folding chair and lowered the mic. The band charged into their 'hit', 'Personality Crisis', the only lyric I could decipher through the volcanic volume."

 

 

 OLD-TIME MUSIC

  Don't call it 'bluegrass'

"... we should talk about the distinction between 'old-time' music and 'bluegrass music,' a common misuse of musical nomenclature in our culture. Old-Time music is a broad term that can refer to many different styles of North American traditional music. For our purposes in this article, let's say that when we use the term “old-time,” we are talking primarily about the instrumental fiddle & banjo music native to the Appalachian mountains and American southeast."

 

 

 ANNETTE PEACOCK

  Singer/composer interrogated- "I'm The One" reissued "For those who don’t... the material on this album is subtle, varied and challenging. Stylistically, there are elements of pop, rock, funk, jazz, gospel and [electronic] contemporary classical. But none of these constraints can hold this music.  The songs tend not to follow the usual linear verse-chorus-verse-break-etc format. Adding this to the often complex melodic structure, this places demands on the listener, who has to concentrate and really listen in order to appreciate the music fully."

 

 

 QUADROPHENIA

  How Townshend birthed it- interview with engineer Ron Nevison/book excerpt "The recording of Quadrophenia was, like most of the Who's projects, fraught with lurches, calamities, and struggles to fit the limits of the era's technologies and market realities into Townshend's outsized conceptual ambitions. For a 1973 recording, it was complex, involving not just the band's usual power trio-plus-vocals format, but much in the way of synthesizers, horns, and sound effects."

 

 

 RUSSIAN JAZZ

  Post-Perestroika music

"Any serious jazz follower remembers a brilliant book by Frederick Starr entitled 'Red & Hot; The Fate of Jazz in the USSR.' However, the book finishes just at the time when so called 'new jazz,' 'free jazz,' 'new music' was emerging in the USSR. Zoom one quarter of a century forward and the USSR does not exist anymore. Having lost 17 republics and about 100 million people, it's been reduced to Russia. But what happened to music?  Moscow jazz commentator and broadcaster Mikhail Mitropolsky throws some light on the subject."

 

 

 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

  Born in the USA/Viva Vietnam

"'Born in the U.S.A.' is rife with hard rock irony laid over the baby boom's endless nostalgia for its rock and roll youth. 'Glory Days' and 'My Hometown' are too, and Springsteen has always been happy with how they were received. So, why did the national IQ drop so hard on 'Born in the U.S.A.'?  On the song's release, the public almost immediately took what they wanted from it and never looked back. Its 'misinterpretation' is now its history."

 

 

 VINYL ANACHRONIST

  Lipstick, pigs & Technics

"Is everyone making analog too complicated?  That's normally a question I reserve for digital and computer audio, where competing formats and endless approaches have made 21st century audio reproduction confusing, confrontational and expensive. While there have always been people who resist buying a turntable because of LP care, cartridge mounting/alignment and a host of sometimes strange tweaks are designed to extract that last bit of information from the grooves."

 

 

 VIRGINIA ROCK

  Not just GWAR- book excerpt

"Keeping It Tight in the Old Dominion tells the history of rock music in Virginia from the 1950's and the rockabilly of Gene Vincent to the punk energy of Cloak/Dagger and Conditions in the 21st century and everything in between. The book's approach is done with interviews with over sixty musicians from the '50's to the current time. This story needs to be told because no one has ever tried anything like it before."

 

Best

Robert

 

 

 

Robert Pally
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Comment by Rashid Stephen Pettit on March 17, 2011 at 10:48pm

Wye Oak - Civilian. third album by Baltimore duo. Reverses the Pixies Loud-Quiet-Loud (so Quiet-Loud-Quiet) and sounds like a more 'rock' version of Beach House - Teen Dream was one of my favorites from last year.

Comment by Natalie Trott on January 21, 2011 at 7:27am

It's not a concept record like their previous albums, so it's difficult to compare. That said, I don't like it as much as The Crane Wife or The Hazards Of Love, but I do like it, since I'm a fan of the Americana and alt.country genres.

Comment by Thomas Cruz on January 20, 2011 at 10:45am

Natalie, how would it rate for you among the previous Decemberists albums?

Comment by Natalie Trott on January 20, 2011 at 8:40am

The Decemberists "The King Is Dead." 

Decemberists turn from Brit-folk to American-country/folk in this one. No drownings, but there are the ever-present water references. 

Delightful. 

Comment by Thomas Cruz on August 7, 2010 at 11:20am

Like most music lovers, I know what I like and I trust my ears and perception unequivocally, almost arrogantly. But, like an ancient Greek rapper once said (paraphrasing), "The wisest man is he who knows that he knows nothing." I often look to have as much critical understanding of the music I am listening to as possible. I guess it comes from reading music magazines/reviews voraciously as a youngster.

Comment by Billy Miller on August 7, 2010 at 10:37am

Thomas, my rule is 3 listens. If I don't get it by then- it's gone. Even though the copy on the Not Lame site can make any CD sound great, I have a few NL dogs in my collection along with the great ones. The only thing that matters is if YOU like it. Ex) Jason Faulkner: Author Unknown. I love 3 Oclock, Jellyfish, Grays, but this one just bored me. Is it possible that he is a good musician, has been part of some great bands, but really isn't a driving creative force? If I posted this in the Power Pop Geeks Unite I would probably get death threats for this comment :-)

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