This past weekend I had the rare opportunity to witness a performance by the one and only Tom Waits. From the venue (the deliciously gaudy art-deco miasma known as the Ohio Theater) to the merchandise stand (CDs, a pamphlet containing Waits’s interview with himself, and T-Shirts made from “real oil-slick photographs taken by Tom […]
Entries from June 2008
Listening In Live: Tom Waits in Columbus, 6/28/08
June 30th, 2008 by Mykola Bilokonsky · No Comments
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What’s The Big Deal With Wilco?
June 26th, 2008 by Steve Mock · No Comments
“Jeff Tweedy is a twat,” one former major-label president told me at the height of the singer’s travails with Reprise. Though acknowledging the enduring merit of Wilco’s music, the executive–who didn’t even work for Warner Brothers–marveled at Wilco’s desire to make “indulgent albums” for what had become the music industry’s largest corporation. “It’s unacceptable at […]
Tags: Uncategorized · What's the Big Deal?
They Bring the Music to Us: Oh Word
June 25th, 2008 by Kimberlee Morrison · No Comments
This week TBTMTU we take a look at Oh Word a hip hop blog for purists. Claiming that the bloggosphere is saturated with music bloggers all writing about breaking music news, so they chose to focus on hip hop roots. Oh Word does this by reviewing and featuring music from the genre’s formative years.
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Press Play: A Review of Coldplay’s Viva la Vida
June 25th, 2008 by Brandon Kiser · No Comments
To know Coldplay is love them, and to hate them, and to love them and to - once again - hate them. Only, that is, to turn right back around and love them one last time before you invert your decision for what is positively not the last time. And if there is one band […]
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Listening In Live: The Return Of Return To Forever
June 23rd, 2008 by Steve Mock · No Comments
Formative jazz-rock fusion group Return To Forever took the stage Saturday night at Freedom Hill Amphitheater in Sterling Heights, Michigan. About midway through the first set, Lenny White took a turn at the mic and addressed the crowd: “In an era of boy bands, this here’s a man band.”
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TBTMTU: All Things Go
June 18th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
This weeks They Bring The Music To Us featured blog is the fantastic All Things Go, which brings things down to earth for a bit here as the last few blogs I’ve featured have been of a higher profile.
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Press Play: A Review of Tilly and the Wall’s O
June 16th, 2008 by Eric Atienza · No Comments
Throughout its existence, Omaha five-piece Tilly and the Wall has been a band that has shown an uncanny ability to harness a pure, almost manic energy, infuse it with heartfelt exuberance, and transmit a final product as infectious and unadulterated as anything ever set to stereo. It’s also been a band that has continually grown […]
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What’s New in Music: 6/12/08
June 12th, 2008 by Brandon Kiser · No Comments
Two days late but just as informative, WNIM for the week of June 10th is here to acquaint you with the going-ons in musicsphere. In this issue as in most, we’ll cover new album releases, chart listings and news stories. So let’s get started.
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TBTMTU: Brooklyn Vegan
June 11th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
A short one today, this weeks They Bring The Music To Us featured blog is Brooklyn Vegan, another one of the music blogs showcased on Sirius Radio’s Blog Radio show (think the Fellowship of the Ring. . . but with blogs).
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Summer Music in NYC: McCarren Park Pool Parties
June 6th, 2008 by Eric Atienza · No Comments
Summer in New York City brings with it many things. Every vaguely green space fills with eager sunbathers, every bar and restaurant patio fills with sun-starved drinkers, and every neighborhood rings with the ubiquitous tune of the Mister Softee ice cream truck. In recent years, from Central Park Summerstage to downtown’s River to River Music […]
Tags: Special Features