Video of the Week: Gogol Bordello’s “Wonderlust King”

As I type this, Gogol Bordello is in the middle of a 3 day residence at Webster’s Hall, Manhattan.  I could have been there but something better has come up:
I’m going to be attending their New Year’s Eve concert down in Philly with a good friend of mine I haven’t seen in ages. It’s going [...]

The Classics: La Ley’s “Invisible”

Base solely on the opening trifecta of: “Animal,” “Dia Cero,” and “El Duelo” this album is rock perfection in any language.  But to give credit to La Ley, INVISIBLE turned out to be an album full of awe-inspiring rock offerings beyond those three songs and much more.

La Ley (“The Law”) were a  Grammy winning rock band from Chile formed [...]

The Classics: Monica Naranjo

Monica Naranjo’s whole persona is of an acquire taste.  From her looks to her music to her videos, she runs the gamut of pop music and yet, she can’t quite be labeled a *pop* artists.  For the last 15 years she’s gone from pop to opera to baroque to rock to dance to orchestral and even [...]

Song of December: Patrick Wolf’s “Damaris”

What? You think it should be some holiday aria? F-that.  I can’t stand Xmas music.
“Damaris” as you know from my review of The Bachelor, is my favorite song off the cd and I was triple excited when Patrick announced it as the third single.  It is a string-ladden gorgeous ballads that swells up and tells the [...]

Video of the Week: Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings”

All that talk about Remy Shand last week–not to mention the radio at work anchored on the classic/modern soul and r&b station by our supervisor–got me on a Maxwell mood, in particular his latest hit single “Pretty Wings” which is classic Maxwell.  Gorgeously song, groovy instrumentation and impeccably, sexy vocals makes it an instant winner and one [...]

November and Classic Black & White Music Videos

Ever since I posted P!nk’s “I Don’t Believe You” video a few days back, I’ve been gradually obsessing over B&W music videos, which is something that happens about once a year. As much as I love color, there’s just something about B&W images that elevates the artistic merits of a video and it sort of really puts the [...]

Video of the Week: Pink’s “I Don’t Believe You”

P!nk (another surefire candidate for artist of the decade) gives us yet again another amazing visual companion to another great single from her fith album “Funhouse.”
“I Don’t Believe You”  The song is spare and completely heartbreaking, one of P!nk’s most emotive performances yet.  The video, like the song, is just as quiet and spare and [...]

The Classics: Damien Rice

Damien Rice is without argument one of the most talented singer-songwriters to come along this decade.  Granted, his discography consist largely of live albums and only two proper studio albums but those records are sublime.
It would be completely unfair to neglect to mention Lisa Hannigan’s vocal work when discussing Damien’s music because she’s feature so prominently [...]

The Classics: Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves”

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now and for some reason or another I kept forgetting about it so I’ll delay no more.  Curious thing though, even though I have this here blog and email and what-have you, I’m not really a big internet kinda guy.  If I was, I would have heard [...]