Supermodel // Juliana Hatfield Three
I woke up with this in my head, and I think it should be in yours now, too.
Five thousand dollars a day
Is what they pay my baby
For her pretty face
May 22, 2013
(12 plays)
May 16, 2013
(3 plays)
One // Metallica
Definitive.
May 14, 2013
I.L.O.U. // Tony Rogers
Among my many blessings (and I’m trying to focus on them lately, so this is timely) is a group of impossibly creative and talented friends. Here is a brand new video for Tony’s Sycamore album, produced by him and directed by another of my gifted and prolific friends, Michael Starcevich.
Please take a look. This isn’t a bunch of rockers taking shots of their navels with a 5D and calling it a video. This is the real deal, the kind of thing they’d show on music video channels if there still were such a thing. I’m so proud to be part of this ongoing project.
May 8, 2013
(13 plays)
Girl Can’t Help It // Journey
Hi guys! Still busy, working, making a thing. Pictures and words soon. Miss your faces.
Have some Journey as a token of my love in the meantime.
xo
April 26, 2013
(18 plays)
Stone In Love // Journey
4:26
We can’t be friends if you think Journey sucks. I grew up wanting to be Neal Schon. I kinda still do, except for the part where he’s engaged now to a Real Housewife of DC, the one who crashed a state dinner at the White House. That part is weird.
Anyway. Dig the guitar. Not one, not two, but three facemelting solos in this song, and that ripping intro to boot. Neal’s on my personal Mt. Rushmore of guitarists and this recording is a large part of the reason why.
April 25, 2013
(16 plays)
From A Window Seat // Dawes
You guys, this new Dawes record is the real deal. Really insightful, occasionally painful-in-the-right-way lyrics, nifty guitar work, great harmonies. I kinda want to be in this band, except I’d insist on playing too loud and they’d kick me out.
And I find that the hero in the song that I am writing
Doesn’t know he’s just an image of myself
But as much he resists the conversation between the rivers and the freeways
He’s somehow always asking them for help
April 23, 2013
(22 plays)
Femme Fatale // R.E.M.
I’m listening to old R.E.M. today, and I stumbled across this beaut from Dead Letter Office. It’s a sad, haunting song that I’ve heard covered by a bunch of artists but I never knew the story, so I looked it up.
And wow, what a story. Lou Reed wrote it about Edie Sedgwick, a “Warhol Superstar” actress/model/socialite/heartbreaker who would be dead of a (probably accidental) alcohol and barbituate overdose just a few years after this song was written. She was also linked with Bob Dylan and other superstars of that late 60s New York scene.
More great images here.
The original is nearly unlistenable trash, as is everything else on the debut Velvet Underground record that featured Nico “singing.” Too much art school / scenester bullshit and a pound of acid a day leads to bad decisions, like having talentless models sing your songs. Fortunately, there are a lot of great covers of those songs, including this one.
April 22, 2013
(9 plays)
All Kinds Of Time // Fountains of Wayne
4:22 x 4/22
Things I know:
- Welcome Interstate Managers is the best album of the 2000’s. Not the millennium or century (though it has a shot) but the decade. Easily. I will fight you.
- I love the conceit here, and even more so because they didn’t go over the top with it like they sometimes do. Subtlety isn’t their strong suit but I love them anyway.
- But apparently the NFL used this for a commercial? That makes me a little queasy, though I’m happy the boys got paid.
- James Iha of your Smashing Pumpkins is playing guitar on this track. I bet he was relieved to get out from under Herr Billy’s reign of terror for a few hours.
- I would post the album art if I could. Tumblr, man.
April 18, 2013
Here, this is better. Natalie Maines has a solo record coming out in May and here’s the first single. I think it’s a cover of an Eddie Vedder song, though I’m not familiar with the original.
For those of you who hate country reflexively: this is not. Try some.
April 17, 2013
(695 plays)
Say It Isn’t So // Hall & Oates
4:17 @ 4/17
In my next life, I want to be born with Darryl Hall’s vocal cords. And his hair.
April 11, 2013
(9 plays)
Song for the Dumped // Ben Folds Five
I have a surprising lack of Angry Music in my collection. This is pretty close, though.
Well, fuck you, too
Give me my money back
Give me my money back, you bitch
April 11, 2013
(9 plays)
Always Turns Out You // Dean Collins
4:11 for 4/11, also gratuitous music by me / sexxy sex Thursday.
This is one of the older recordings I have…I think we did this in 1989 or ‘90. You can see that my practice of imitating the styles of my favorite guitarists goes back a while. As usually it was the producer’s direction. Steve. :)
April 6, 2013
Missing The War // Ben Folds Five
Ben is a national got damned treasure on par with the Declaration of Independence and baseball. Pretend it’s April 36th on this video and see if you disagree.
He drove home again, pissed and beaten
It’s really no big deal, it happens all the time
It’s no big deal
April 5, 2013
(0 plays)
Love Me // Elvis Presley
Treat me like a fool, treat me mean and cruel, but love me
April 1, 2013
(69 plays)
A Single Song // Steve Kouba
My friend and frequent co-conspirator Steve Kouba released this song tonight, and all bias aside, I think it sounds great. A couple of months ago, I posted the solo I did for this all by its lonesome, and now here it is all reassembled via computerized magics.
Steve’s an amazing pianist and a Northwestern alum of my era. It still kind of amazes me that we didn’t really work together until 20-something years after we graduated. Small school, big world, or something. I’m going into the studio with Steve next week to work on two more songs for his someday-to-be-released album and I can’t wait. Check out his bandcamp for more of his excellent work.
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