‘Peter Himmelman’s Furious World’
For several weeks now, Amy and I have devoted our Tuesday nights to a friendly little music club in Santa Monica, California. From the comfort of our Wisconsin home, we join with a couple hundred...
View ArticleJeff Dowd, inspiration for The Dude in ‘Big Lebowski,’ joins Peter Himmelman...
Do you watch Peter Himmelman’s Furious World every Tuesday night? Yeah, well, we recommend it. Are you familiar with a movie called The Big Lebowski? We read all about it in Rolling Stone last fall....
View ArticleBruce Springsteen to perform on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ tonight
The clip above is from October 18, 2007. For those of you who did not receive the official email from BruceSpringsteen.net, here are the details on tonight’s show: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TO APPEAR ON “THE...
View ArticleEaster traditions and the movie ‘King of Kings’ (Jeffrey Hunter, 1961)
It is funny how a few random details, repeated together over time, can solidify into a ritual which becomes essential to your psychological comfort. This is one of mine — the 1961 movie King of Kings...
View ArticleBilly Bob Thornton’s bizarre interview on CBC Radio’s Q / Qtv
Billy Bob Thronton and his band The Boxmasters were interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio’s Q yesterday. Their latest album is a 2-CD set called Modbilly. Here is last night’s AP story: Joaquin...
View ArticleAmazon.com music: MP3 download deals
With the beginning of May comes a new set of “50 Albums for $5 Each” at Amazon.com — including Middle Cyclone, the acclaimed latest release from Neko Case, and American Beauty by the Grateful Dead, one...
View Article‘Neil Young: Heart of Gold’ (movie, 2006)
Neil Young: Heart of Gold is not Jonathan Demme‘s first concert documentary. He made the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense in 1984 and Swimming to Cambodia, which captured a monologue by Spalding...
View Article‘A Dustland Fairytale': The Killers on Letterman with orchestra
In case you missed it this past Monday (May 11), here are The Killers performing “A Dustland Fairytale,” with orchestra, on the Late Show With David Letterman. We know nothing about The Killers, but...
View ArticleAmazon.com music: June deals on MP3 downloads
Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s own Bon Iver is featured this month as one of Amazon.com’s June 50 Albums for $5 picks. You can grab the wildly popular For Emma, Forever Ago for just five bucks. It includes...
View ArticleHalloween songs: Scary music playlist, spooky tunes
If you’re looking to add some Halloween songs to your personal music library, here are a few suggestions. You can download these songs via Amazon.com and enjoy it at an upcoming costume party or...
View ArticleHang On Little Tomato
Today’s photo — after astonishing rains, with more on the way — is inspired by the song “Hang On Little Tomato” by Pink Martini: The sun has left and forgotten me It’s dark, I cannot see Why does this...
View ArticleH&M ads: Erykah Badu covers Muddy Waters’‘Mannish Boy’
There was an H&M commercial for their fall 2010 fashion trends tonight during The Office, and its music was exactly what I thought it was: Erykah Badu covering the blues standard “Mannish Boy,”...
View ArticleAlejandro Escovedo’s songs of love at Turner Hall
My favorite radio station in the world is Milwaukee Public Radio WUWM, and liking WUWM on Facebook paid off nicely when I won one of their concert ticket contests to see Alejandro Escovedo at...
View ArticleOnline radio streaming: Good work music is hard to find
The hours spent in front of my computer are generally more enjoyable and productive with good work music playing. For this reason, I have a pair of inexpensive but decent little computer speakers...
View Article‘The Beatles Christmas Album,’ by The Beatles
Among all the John Lennon tributes yesterday, a friend of mine — Stripwax creator Jeff Moody — posted a link to a YouTube video featuring one of the Beatles’ wackier departures, “You Know My Name (Look...
View ArticleKate Voegele music videos: ‘Heart in Chains,’‘Hallelujah’
Here’s a video that showed up in my YouTube subscriptions stream, and now I can’t stop playing it: “Heart in Chains,” by Kate Voegele, from her latest album Gravity Happens (available via Amazon.com)....
View ArticleWhich MP3 deals? Amazon $5 albums for November
Among many other Amazon MP3 deals, each new month brings a new list of 100 Albums for $5 Each. It’s always a hit and miss affair, with a few bargain treasures mixed in among the discounted debris. Here...
View ArticleBob Dylan autobiography: ‘Chronicles: Volume One’
On one of my living room bookshelves, next to a few other books about the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, was an autobiography from 2004 I had bought some time ago, but not yet read. Chronicles: Volume...
View ArticleYouTube video: ‘Looking for a City’ (Southern Gospel song)
It’s funny how one random item on the Web can lead you through a tunnel of connections you never imagined yourself following. Today’s rabbit hole was pointed out by my friend Phil Inzinga of the...
View Article‘Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here’
Over the weekend, I was surprised to hear that another of our nephews is a huge Pink Floyd fan. Of course our nephew Elliot, 25, has been smitten with Dark Side of the Moon for years — to the point of...
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