Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/54tIMZEStC6OdTfkhWnvd7 “SGL” – Now, Now. The first new music from Now, Now in five years, and it does not disappoint. “How to Boil an Egg” – Courtney Barnett. This is a song Barnett performed when she first began playing live music, but never put to wax until now. It’s a one-off single, but she also just announced that she’s working…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/6rjV7IwP5QRg1g8IDoD4t3 “Day at Work” – Nouveau Vélo. Man, I was sure these guys were Australian until I looked them up. They’re Dutch?!?! That jangle sounds straight out of Sydney to me. “My Smile Is Extinct” – Kane Strang. Now this cat is from the South Pacific, although New Zealand rather than Australia. A great example of taking depressing lyrics and…
Friday Playlist
Special playlist for a special time of year. https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/65TNV566d1SVBsbrcItNyR “Friday I’m In Love” – The Cure. A highly significant song in my life. Although it was Pearl Jam and Nirvana that were most responsible for shifting my taste in music away from Top 40 pop and R&B back in 1992, this song had a huge impact as well. It was…
Thursday Playlist
At first it didn’t hit me why Chris Cornell’s name was one of the headlines in this morning’s New York Times Morning Briefing email. “Why is he listed, did he say something about Trump?” was my first thought. I just did not expect his name to be listed because the news was just breaking that he died overnight. You can…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/7q4GpO5FHjKwTHMk5e2jcR “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness” – The National. The first single off the next National album is a shot out of the dark. So many of their songs are slow, brooding, builders. Here they get right to the point. Which confuses me. I’m used to it taking a long time to get into their albums; it took…
Friday Playlist
A couple kind of heavy songs in this week’s list along with a healthy dose of Ryan Adams. https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/1hPWVHKtAFDJAJKIT0cAke “Headless Pin Up Girl” – Chemtrails. Written just as lead singer Mia Lust was coming out as Transgendered, this is all about the meaning of identity. “Burn Blue” – Flasher. Hazy but not quite shoegazey. “I’m Not” – Daddy Issues.…
Friday Playlist
Some really good, brand new music to share this week. https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/4dmpYiVFF1j6PRmrFnzLe0 “Shine On Me” – Dan Auerbach. The lead single off the Black Keys’ vocalist’s second solo album sounds like Beck channeling George Harrison. Which means it’s fabulous as hell, and perfect for spring and early summer. “Silver” – Waxahatchee. Katie Crutchfield has written some great songs over the years,…
What If The Beatles Had Said Yes?
Last week was a guest editor week at Kottke. Tim Carmody took over and devoted the week to looking back at where and how the web has evolved over the past decade-plus, and revisiting some of the site’s readers’ favorite parts of the classic web. On Thursday Carmody posted a piece called The Web is a portal to other words,…
Bonus Video
“Starfish and Coffee” – Prince A year ago I was watching this video – one of the few Prince videos available on YouTube at the time – in tears. Still can’t believe he’s gone, especially as we learned about how troubled his final days/years were. I’ve read a couple retrospective pieces about Prince today, and one of them included this…
Friday Playlist
It’s a throwback day around our house today. I’m watching one of my 11-month old nephews for the day. It feels like 2005, 2007, or 2009. So I thought for the Spotify portion of the Friday tunes, I’d pull three songs from those years when I was spending each day with my 11-month-olds. There’s some humorous subtext to at least…