This isn’t exactly a review, just a commendation of the most beautiful and unique voices I’ve ever heard, and share some lyrics from a songwriting talent that is simply unparalleled in modern country music. I’ve been listening to Martha Scanlan like crazy lately. She started out with a band called the Reeltime Travellers, which was [...]
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You’re the Smell of Apple Pie to the Blind
Posted in music on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Music MEME
Posted in music on July 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Tagged by David in a music meme, the masked marauder of montavilla mayhem is sighted in a rare blog post. Perhaps the nemesis knows the secret weakness of Loretta’s Basement – a kryptonitic aversion to rejecting requests. Cautiously, he proceeds…
1985 – The Vision Quest Soundtrack (The best wrestling movie ever made, starring Matthew [...]
Dolorean Rules
Posted in music, tagged dolorean on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Once I was a college freshman with something of a crush on a girl who loved Pedro the Lion. I didn’t know who this band was, since I had been listening to 92.3 KGON’s Classic Rock pretty much exclusively for the past five years, and quit buying secular CD’s because I was that sort [...]
NPR Jazz Profiles
Posted in music on October 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just wanted to turn your attention to a fun new series that Nancy Wilson is doing on NPR called Jazz Profiles. They are basically radio versions of the sort of thing Ken Burns did in the Jazz documentaries: tell an artist’s story and play a ton of their best music. Most recently she [...]
One Hit and Wonderful
Posted in music on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So last night I’m working on translating the Letter of Aristeas when I decide I want to listen to some Devo. Now, I take a lot of crap for my taste in movies, and I’ll admit that I deserve almost all of it. I simply do not have a palate for cinema. [...]
Does the Arcade Fire Know What We Need?
Posted in music on July 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
That’s a question I always come away from the Arcade Fire with. It’s a poignant one for me, since more than any other contemporary source, they give outrageously clear evidence that we need. And they are pretty great at describing what it feels like to know something is wrong in your world. [...]
Now this is something new; the Casper Slide part 2.
Posted in music on July 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
As many of you know, I recently moved away from Portland but last night, I got to go back just for a little while. Things have been difficult lately but last night, I drove up to the beautiful city of San Francisco and saw a wonderful band from PDX called Talkdemonic.
At a little bar [...]
One Of My Best Nights Ever.
Posted in music on July 6, 2007 | 9 Comments »
The Edgefield, likely the coolest outpost in the McMenamins empire, has been having some pretty sweet bands come through to play concerts on their golf course. For instance, Wilco is coming on August 22. This is great, except that they charge you up the shorts, if you know what I mean. Like [...]
Preaching and the Modern Man
Posted in Church, Hermeneutics, music on June 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This is Ryan, signing in from extremely cold room in which I spent all of the last week and will spend the duration of this one. It’s summer school and while I love the condensed look at the Scriptures (as I am currently taking Hebrews – Revelation), it causes me physical pain to sit in [...]
A Dogmatic Approach
Posted in music on June 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Review of Icky Thump by the White Stripes / Ryan Smith
Let the record state that I understand why the collective body of alternative rock fans like the White Stripes. They write simple, catchy songs that do not require a great deal of concentration to enjoy. From their first hit (‘Fell in Love With a Girl’) [...]
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