Oh, Golden Boots
I would give just about anything to be Andy Macleod for even a single day. (Lord, hear my prayer.)
Stephen Mejias
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Daft Punks
Digital sales rep, Jon Banner, just shared with me this bit of beautiful brilliance.
Music For Pleasure Time
I just got off the phone with Nathaniel Friedman, a writer working on a "vinyl revival" piece scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of Penthouse, that finest of fine men's periodicals. I think it went fairly well. If nothing else, it gives me an excuse to buy the magazine.
Lydia Lunch: Queen of Siam
Lydia Lunch's 1980 album Queen of Siam (ZE Records ZEA 33006, LP) is so impressive—both sonically and musically—that, while listening, you might just find yourself compelled to send an enthusiastic, breathless text message to one of your friends.
While My JVC Vibrates the Concrete
Lyle Owerko likes boomboxes.
Sonny & Linda Sharrock: Paradise
One of the records we listened to at">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/at_the_monkeyhaus/">at the Monkeyhaus last week was Sonny & Linda Sharrock's Paradise—a powerfully uplifting record, in my opinion. Sonny Sharrock, however, did not feel the same. In a 1989 interview with WKCR's Ben Ratliff, Sonny dismissed Paradise as being "not a good album," and attributed the album's failure to his own incompetence as a bandleader.
The Good News Is
Last week, we moved—from the sixth floor of 261 Madison Avenue to the fifth floor of 261 Madison Avenue. The good news is abundant:
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
Hello Jon.
I hope you had a great weekend.
I hope you had a great weekend.
Landslide
Intern Ariel Bitran sent this around the office today, in an e-mail titled "Crying in My Cubicle."
Rather Ripped
Audiophiles and music lovers may be interested in Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, the new book from music critic and Sound">http://soundopinions.org/">Sound Opinions cohost Greg Kot. The book is being billed as "the first definitive account of the digital music revolution," and takes an appreciative look at a world in which peer-to-peer file sharing and CD burning are commonplace tools. It can be argued that such technologies are not only blessings for independent musicians looking to gain wider audiences, but also gifts to the music lover who cannot get enough.