She’s generous, anyway, when making it easy for Camera Obscura fans to figure out what exactly she means when she calls their new record, “My Maudlin Career,” “intense.” There are a lot of words I’d use to describe Camera Obscura records: “beautiful,” “classic,” “pretty,” and “pretty sad,” but “intense” was never among them. If you’re [...]
It’s another video recap week, y’all. Sorry about all the coughing in advance.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy did a guest DJ spot on NPR’s “All Songs Considered” – and yes, I know that’s old news, but I’m still catching up after a busy week. What makes it relevant has nothing to do with timing. This is our blog. What’s relevant to this blog is what Kerry and I want [...]
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We’ve had this blog for about a year now, and even though sometimes it feels like we’re writing in a vacuum, I know from the comments that people are reading. But we’re still surprised when anyone that works at NPR or PRI or APM contacts us. Today, we got a press release. We don’t normally [...]
luna715/Flickr Bad news folks – looks like the socialists are going to take away our guns. At least that’s the fear that’s caused a bit of an ammo shortage in the U.S. since the election of President Barack Obama. Which is, I think, hyperbolic. But I think it’s fair. If you care about your right [...]
 I love it when Bob Garfield kicks someone’s ass. He’s really one of the smarter people in the media today, and when he’s right, and talking with someone who’s clearly in the wrong, it’s an amazing thing. I mean, we’re used to Brooke doing that kind of thing – flipping an opponent over her back [...]
It’s pledge drive week for our local public radio station (WKNO, what what!), and I have a confession to make: I’ve been listening to my iPod on the way to work. It’s not that I don’t love and support WKNO (we make a donation every year to multiple public radio programs in the name of [...]
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 I checked. I haven’t written about Mulatu Astatke before. I find this completely shocking. For the last two or three years, after almost every episode of “This American Life,” I have had this song stuck in my head: YeÌ€gelleÌ Tezeta And I couldn’t be happier with that state of affairs. There aren’t many songs [...]