A highly
selective list of the year's best music...
Arcade Fire Neon Bible (Merge)
Air Pocket Symphony (Astralwerks)
Lily Allen Alright, Still
(Capitol)
Apples in Stereo New Magnetic Wonder (YepRoc)
Cheeseburger
(Kemado)
Mitch Easter Dynamico
(125 Records)
Jimi Hendrix Live
at Monterey (Experience Hendrix)
Kristin Hersh Learn
to Sing Like a Star (YepRoc)
Ian Hunter Shrunken
Heads (YepRoc)
Rilo Kiley Under the
Blacklight (Warner Bros)
Alison Kraus and Robert Plant Raising Sand (Rounder)
Nick Lowe At My Age
(YepRoc)
New Pornographers Challengers
(Matador)
Prince Planet Earth
(Sony)
Graham Parker Don't
Tell Columbus (Bloodshot)
Sloan Never Hear the End of It
(YepRoc)
Elliott Smith New Moon
(Kill Rock Stars)
Patti Smith Twelve
(Sony)
Smithereens Meet the
Smithereens (Koch)
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga
(Merge)
Bruce Springsteen Magic
(Sony)
Southern Culture on the Skids Countrypolitan
Favorites
(Yep Roc)
Mavis Staples We'll Never
Turn Back (Anti)
Stooges The Weirdness (Virgin)
White Stripes Icky Thump
(Warner Bros)
Amy Winehouse Back to Black (Republic)
Neil Young Live at Massey Hall
(Reprise)
DECEMBER
The Filth and the Fury
by Matthew Moyer
Many a bar fight has broken out over punk rock's birth. Fans tend to split into
two camps: those who credit the Ramones' first appearance at CBGB in New York
City circa 1974 and those who point to the early galvanizing Sex Pistols shows
in London around 197576. It's probably more accurate to say the New York and
London scenes are two sides of the same coin; each inspired the other with a
rivalry of one-upmanship. The New York stirrings came first, but it was the younger,
more fashion-conscious London movement that captured the attention and outrage
of the world...
[continued in the Library
Journal]
NOVEMBER
Complete Beatles in One Hour
by Steve McLaughlin
Then decompressed back into tempo by
WFMU listener Editor B.
You Must Not Know 'Bout Me
by Rob Hamilton
I like women-empowerment music because Im a big fan of underdog
art in general (one of the main reasons I like punk so much), and because I
like music that encourages you to put your arms around your comrades and sing
out with reckless abandon. Also, chicks dig it...
[continued at the Jackson Free Press]
OCTOBER
Philips, Others Honored
by Andria Lisle
Backstage at the 2007 Recording Academy Honors, hosted by
the Memphis chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
on September 7th, a veritable who's who of Memphis and New Orleans legends
rubbed shoulders and posed for photo ops...
[continued in the Memphis Flyer]
I Have to Hide My Love Away? Help!
by David Browne
In case you hadn't heard, the Beatles blow. They're overrated
lightweights who aren't as influential as certain pivotal punk bands, and they're
to blame for all that soft rock commemorated in the latest Time Life Music infomercial.
And those Sgt. Pepper costumes are, let's face it, cornier than any boy-band
outfit of the '90s...
[continued in the New Republic]
SEPTEMBER
Editions of Contemporary Me
by Geoff Dyer
People with initiative and imagination use the valuable interlude
between leaving school and starting college to enlarge their experience...
[continued in the Threepenny
Review]
Single-Minded: "A
Different World"
by David Cantwell
...What I can’t get past is the way Covington’s song lumps
what we might reasonably look back upon with fondness, even with regret at
what’s
been lost, together with a series of things we’re well rid of...
[continued
in Living in Stereo]
Keeping It Unreal
by Jeff Sharlet
Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor, two publishing professionals who have
turned out their personal record collections to produce a persuasive defence
of inauthenticity as the defining characteristic of great popular music,
borrow the title of their book, Faking It, from a suicide note - the most
authentic, and also the stupidest, genre of all...
[continued in the New
Statesman]
Best Seats
by Bruce Wagner
...The performance began at two in the morning and took place in a bungalow
at the Beverly Hills Hotel. It was amazing...
[continued
in the New
Yorker]
2007 Best Music Scribing Awards...
Abbey
Road Reunion: EMI Engineers at Studio
2
Recording the Beatles launch
party, November 2006
Sly
and the Family Stone Collection 4/19/07
Guilty
Pleasures: Spongebob, Shania Twain 2/26/07
All
Tim Riley Here & Now NPR links
backwards by date
Tim Riley iTunes podcast link
podcast
archives 2006-2001
Box
sets: Fats Waller, Bob Wills, Buddy Guy, Gram Parsons 12/01/06
US vs. JOHN LENNON 9/26/06
Pollini's
Nocturnes 8/23/06
Bottle
Rockets, Deadstring Brothers 7/11/06
Dixie Chicks
5/26/05
Motown Singles
12/12/05
Scorsese's
Dylan 9/26/05
Pink Floyd Live 8
7/01/05
Covers:
Petra Haden Sings Who Sell Out
4/29/05
True
Love Ways: Couples Songs 2/14/05
2004 As Meathook 1/04/05
Beatles Capitol box, Fiery Furnaces, Dan
Zanes 11/30/04
Fever: Rock Transforms Gender
9/13/04
Punk's Revenge 7/05/04
Underminding Phish 6/15/04
Jack
White's Loretta Lynn, Melissa Auf der Maur 5/11/04
Nashville R&B 3/15/04
Grammy
Gab 2/1/04
Remastered Rock 12/11/03
Let
It Be Naked Not 11/24/03
Parton, Springsteen, Frizzell tributes
10/13/03
Miles
Davis Complete
Jack Johnson 9/8/03
Liz
Phair, Amy Rigby, Juliana Hatfield 8/04/03
Do the Mash 6/30/03
Radiohead O'Riley wnyc 6/23/03
Rosanne
Cash Rules of Travel 4/21/03
Country Pop 3/17/03
Grammy Humbug 2/10/03
Vintage Fleetwood Mac 1/06/03
Joni
Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde & Sinead O'Connor 12/2/02
Mekons,
Alison Moorer, Chuck Prophet, Joan Osborne, Beck 10/26/02
Ed Sullivan Rocks Rhino DVD [ text] 09/23/02
24-HR PARTY PEOPLE:
The Movie to the Soundtrack 8/23/02
Eminem, Nelly... 8/12/02
Gap TV ads 7/8/02
The Wipers Box 6/3/02
Langley Music Project 4/01/02
Mission of Burma 2/25/02
Freedy Johnston 1/7/02
Duds:
Andrea Bocelli, Paul McCartney, Who's Mick Jagger?, Jacko
12/18/01
George
Harrison 1943-2000 11/30/01 (6:25)
Shelby
Lynne Phil Spector Country
10/29/01
Bob
Dylan: Love and Theft and Genius
9/27/01
Cachaito
Lopez: Buena Vista Bassist 8/13/01
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shopping: 2009 rock/pop
album of the month:
Chris Potter Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
recent picks:
Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi
the-dream Love vs. money
Lily Allen It's Not Me It's You
Oxford American
10th Anniversary Edition
Bob Dylan Tell Tale Signs (Sony BMG)
Walter Becker Circus Money (Mailboat Records)
Beck Modern Guilt (Interscope)
Al Green Lay It Down (Blue Note)
Erykah Badu New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War (Motown)Portishead Third (Mercury)
Carlene Carter Stronger (Yep Roc)
Punch Brothers Punch (Nonesuch)
Waco Brothers Waco Express: Live and Kickin' at Schuba's (Bloodshot)
Steve Malkmus & the Jicks Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
recent picks:
Gig Posters: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century, by Clay Hayes (Quirk)
The Song Is You, by Arthur Phillips
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music,
by Tom Gioia Oxford American 10th Anniversary Southern Music Issue
There's A Riot Goin' On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture, by Peter Doggett (Canongate)
Re-make/Re-model: Becoming Roxy Music, by Michael Bracewell
(Da Capo)
Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance, by Dean Wareham (Penguin)
Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out
by Tom Wright (Hal Leonard)
Creem: America's Only Rock'n'Roll Magazine
by Rogbert Matheu (Collins)
Can't Buy Me Love
by Jonathan Gould (Harmony)
Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life
by John Sellers
Recording the Beatles
by Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
by Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor
Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
by Gayle F. Wald
Blue
Monday Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock'n'Roll
by Rick Coleman
Everything
I'm Cracked Up To Be
by Jen Trynin
White Bicycles: Making Music in the Sixties
by Joe Boyd
Always Magic in the Air
by Ken Emerson
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