Neil Young
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Talking Heads
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]
Foday Musa Suso
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]
Slim Whitman
Dear Mr. Whitman, I call you Mr. Whitman from total respect for you. Sir, I met you in Canton, the nurse at the record store with the big smile and […]
Sting
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►THE INDULGENCE OF BEING EARNEST If you want to watch Sting’s girlfriend Trudie Styler give birth to his fourth child, by all means go see […]
Soccer
When the Cosmos have a party, it’s Chinaglia and Beckenbauer and the continentals in one corner, Tueart and the Brits in another, and Alberto and Marinho and the South Americans […]
Charlie Singleton
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]
Wayne Shorter
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►THE INDULGENCE OF BEING EARNEST If you want to watch Sting’s girlfriend Trudie Styler give birth to his fourth child, by all means go see […]
Devadip Carlos Santana
The Swing of Delight Columbia C236590 by Spottswood Erving Round, pure, golden, delicious: Santana’s guitar still sounds ripe for the picking, but that’s nothing new. Nor is his affiliation with […]
Terje Rypdal
The ECM stereotype is firmly in place, and it reads this way: ECM is the home of the New Cool School, where producer Manfred Eicher plays the roles of President […]
Diana Ross
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]
Oregon (2)
In Performance Elektra 9E-304 by Spottswood Erving At the start of the second disc of this live double LP, George Shultz, Oregon’s manager, asks the audience, “How do you like […]
Oregon
Too much prettiness gives me the gout. When subjected to large doses of refined lyricism, tonal purity, and postcard melody, my ears swell up. And when they do the pain […]
Music Videos
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►VIDEO BLUES Music video is in a state of crisis according to Kevin Godley, who has directed the Police, Herbie Hancock and Frankie Goes to […]
MoMA Disco
THE NATURAL CITY Valentine Goroshko, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, and Alexandr Kosolapov have offered to turn part of the Museum of Modern Art into a disco. Museum officials are unmoved by the […]
Joni Mitchell
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►TREADING WATER VS. SWIMMING The songwriting explosion of Stevie Wonder’s late adolescence and early adulthood gave us our finest modern pop standards, and his ability […]
John Cougar Mellencamp
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]
Michael McDonald
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]
Wynton Marsalis
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►THE INDULGENCE OF BEING EARNEST If you want to watch Sting’s girlfriend Trudie Styler give birth to his fourth child, by all means go see […]
Kris Kristofferson
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]
Waylon Jennings
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]
Keith Jarrett
Nude Ants ECM- 2-1171 by Spottswood Erving The Place: a pie-shaped slice of basement in the Big Apple, where one can hear the 7th Avenue subway rumble by during breaks. […]
Industrial Robots
PERFORMING HOT, HEAVY, and hazardous tasks common to heavy industry (such as spray painting, welding, and machine-tool loading), American robots have slowly grown in number to over six thousand. But […]
Herbie Hancock (2)
Monster Columbia JC 36415 By Spottswood Erving Another gruesome pop disc from Hancock. This one plods on (thump) and on (thump) and on (thwack) with the overproduced gusto of a […]
Herbie Hancock
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]
Football
As Howard says: “The Most Disappointing Team in the National Football League.” You assholes should be in a high school league, there you may even have a .500 record. You […]
Brian Ferry
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]
Sheila E.
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]
Bob Dylan
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]
Dire Straits
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]
Defunkt
Defunkt Hannibal 1301 by Spottswood Erving These days, serious jazz cats who decide to play dance music are—take themselves to be—as rebellious and avant-garde as the ones who decided not […]
Sam Cooke
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]
Bootsy Collins
“And one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you,” cautioned Nancy Sinatra, smiling and safely sexless, on the tube of my youth. On the radio too. […]
George Clinton
MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]
Stanley Clarke
Hail space warriors You have come a long way Our flight for freedom has taken us through many arenas We have weapons and vessels but now I choose the sound […]