Get Your Ghana On
Sean MurphyYou had me at Kyenkyen bi adi m'awu (which means "come back my love"). And the reason I know that is because I read the liner notes to the succinctly…
Alex Chilton, R.I.P.
Man, the American rock and roll scene just got discernibly smaller. I'll defer to the bigger Big Star fans (of whom there are many) to properly eulogize this American rock…
Happy Drunken Stereotype Day!
Green beer is for amateurs. The Pogues, on the other hand, are strictly professional. Pint-wise, and otherwise. Cheers to the Irish, the carnassial challenged and non-light beer drinking brethren (and…
NOMAH! or, A Welcome Return for the Beantown Prometheus
Nomah. No mas. It's fantastic to see Garciaparra, and the Red Sox brass, both burying the sharpened Louisville Slugger and letting No. 5 retire as a Red Sox. Hard to…
God Is Not Dead: The Jimi Hendrix Re-Issues
Get excited. There is a new Jimi Hendrix album fully comprised of previously unreleased material. I know I was excited when I first heard the news of Valleys of Neptune,…
A Serious Mess
First off, full disclosure. I don't exactly have a love/hate relationship with the Coen Brothers, because there is too much gray area. Some of their movies I love without reservation (Raising…
Speak Loudly and Be a Big Stick
When Reggie Jackson ruled The Big Apple he famously referred to himself as "the straw that stirs the drink." Dan Shaughnessy, the controversial columnist for The Boston Globe, has never…
Jay Leno: Company Man
Doesn't that picture put both of these imbeciles in perfect perspective? Hey, Tea Partiers count for ratings, too! Listen, I don't begrudge Leno. Make all the money you can dude.…
There Already Was Blood (Part One)
I wasn't trying to be a hero. Picking the "best" (you have to put that word in italics for a variety of obvious reasons) 50 albums of the last decade…
Beguiling shoe-gaze ebullience with dark undertones is NOT DEAD!!!
There is an approximately 100% chance that Beach House's third album Teen Dream is going to end up on my best-of-year list. It's kind of neat when an album is…