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Video of the Week: A Note-Perfect 'Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End' from the Analogues

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Recommended Albums #99

Tonic: Sugar (1999) If there was a hidden message in going from bitter to sweet references in the titles of Tonic’s first two albums (their 1996 debut being Lemon Parade) it’s lost on me. But there’s no denying the honeyed glaze coating the riffs and melodies on their second LP. Discovering the band’s music post-2010 was probably key to my own appreciation of them. Among the Matchbox…

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Video of the Week: Jeff Beck demonstrating Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"

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Recommended Albums #98

Amazing Blondel: Evensong (1970) So much distinctive pop, rock and folk music has originated on that little island across the pond. Where would we be without the Brits and their flair for the idiosyncratic musical niche? John Gladwin, Terence Wincott and Edward Baird performed what they themselves called “pseudo-Elizabethan/Classical acoustic music sung with British accents”. And they weren’t…

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Songs You May Have Missed #781

Golden Smog: “Until You Came Along” (1998) From the second full-length outing by the side project supergroup comprised of members of the Jayhawks, Soul Asylum, Big Star and Wilco among others. The band formed in the Minneapolis area playing mostly covers in local clubs. In its infancy the lineups, setlists and even band name were fluid. They played mostly Eagles covers as the “Take it To the…

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‘I Had the Stroke, and It Was All Over': Matthew Sweet's Road to Recovery

(via msn) by David Browne When one of his eyes doesn’t feel as if it’s wobbling up and down, or he doesn’t feel so depleted that he has to nap, Matthew Sweet still has moments of hope. Until last fall, one of the downstairs rooms in his Omaha, Nebraska, home was his music room, filled with guitars, a recording console, and assorted gear. But since he can no longer climb stairs for the…

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Video of the Week: That Time Al Green Walked into a Studio where Chicago was Rehearsing, and they Conjured Some Magic

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Video of the Week: The Phenomenon of Connie Francis' "Pretty Little Baby"

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Video of the Week: I Want It That Way | Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Video of the Week: Chip Ritter's Stupid Human Trick on the Late Show with David Letterman

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Recommended Albums #97

The Lover Speaks (1986) Full disclosure about this one: I have no idea why I own this CD. I have too many CD’s, this is a given. And it makes for some head-scratching moments when I come across an unfamiliar title in an untended stack on the floor of the spare bedroom I call my “office” (except most “offices” aren’t littered with stacks of under-curated CD’s). In a recent (brief) spate of…

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Video of the Week: Dad, I Need a Motorbike

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Songs You May Have Missed #781

Rolf Harris: “Two Little Boys” (1969) From an American perspective, Rolf Harris and his 1960 novelty top ten “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” were a one-hit wonder and a footnote in pop history. Something akin to Tiny Tim. But like Tiny Tim, whose extensive catalogue and encyclopedic expertise on early 20th century pop music are overlooked by most, Rolf Harris was–outside the US–much more than a…

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Songs You May Have Missed #780

Keola Beamer: “He Punahele No ‘Oe” (1995) Keola Beamer is a fifth-generation musician and master of the Hawaiian slack key guitar style. He’s also the composer of “Honolulu City Lights”, one of Hawaii’s biggest-selling songs of all time. Moe’uhane Kika: Tales from the Dream Guitar was produced by George Winston and distributed by Windham Hill subsidiary Dancing Cat Records, so it might be…

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Connie Francis Says ‘Pretty Little Baby' Going Viral ‘Gives Me a New Lease on Life'

(via Billboard and People) by Steve Knopper/Rachel DeSantis Connie Francis is having a moment six decades in the making. If not for TikTok, Connie Francis‘ 1962 tinkly organ bop “Pretty Little Baby” may have been forever obscure. It was never a hit, and Francis, reached by phone at her Parkland, Fla., home, barely remembers recording it. “I had to listen to it to identify it,” admits the…

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Songs You May Have Missed #779

Pomplamoose: “Bust Your Kneecaps” (2016) Husband-and-wife led Pomplamoose have found an atypical business model that works for them–to the tune of about 2 million YouTube subscribers. Where artists have historically promoted physical product with music videos, Pomplamoose videos are the songs. “Videosongs”. There is no lip-syncing. Every vocal is performed on camera. Every instrument you hear,…

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Video of the Week: The Mad Drummer is at it again (Steve Moore)