tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313626362024-03-07T22:23:59.373-05:00Headphone BleedThey got a name for the winners in the world / I want a name when I lose.Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-65899092485681612102014-11-06T13:32:00.005-05:002014-11-06T13:32:46.256-05:00Headphone Bleed has MOVED!Headphone Bleed has a new home: please redirect yourselves to http://headphonebleed.wordpress.com for not-quite-up-to-date thoughts on music from the blustery northern woods of Maine.Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-40670439333762480212013-02-25T22:44:00.002-05:002013-02-25T22:44:39.672-05:00Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away [The Phoenix]<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQV6Tb4zpGd48Wqy0N2YdlyC5bhXEYwJNwd3MW6LOzT3gq8l8vKTwjiWOPBPViEZ-sA6GyzUDuExssIHrzyRpfvImXBbX9YhtGSPpVRYIZ1pHsL878AnuWYPGohWZGSlBPfLH0Ug/s1600/MUSIC_AlbumReviews_NickCave_PushTheSky.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQV6Tb4zpGd48Wqy0N2YdlyC5bhXEYwJNwd3MW6LOzT3gq8l8vKTwjiWOPBPViEZ-sA6GyzUDuExssIHrzyRpfvImXBbX9YhtGSPpVRYIZ1pHsL878AnuWYPGohWZGSlBPfLH0Ug/s200/MUSIC_AlbumReviews_NickCave_PushTheSky.jpg" width="200" /></a>In which the 50-something singer-songwriter, nearly a decade into a semi-feverish creative rebirth, rips it up and starts again.
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Scott Walker's late-period about-face is one of the strangest in the annals of pop music.<br />
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<p>Bill Withers has always been the down-to-earth, odd-man-out of the '70s soul brothers: he's the one who came bearing a lunch box on the cover of his relaxed 1971 debut, <i>Just as I Am</i>.</p>
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<p>Fans of R.E.M. enjoy arguing over which album was the band's true shark-jump, but 1987's Document was inarguably the end of a groundbreaking era.</p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/144364-rem-document-25th-anniversary-edition/">http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/144364-rem-document-25th-anniversary-edition/</a></p>Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-21925743849447408222012-10-07T11:03:00.000-04:002012-10-07T11:03:39.116-04:00Richard Hawley, Standing at the Sky's Edge [Boston Phoenix]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p>Richard Hawley's seventh studio album opens with "She Brings the Sunlight," a clouds-parting, hippy-dippy drone explosion that plays like "Tomorrow Never Knows" caught in the echo of a football stadium.</p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/143610-richard-hawley-standing-at-the-skys-edge/">http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/143610-richard-hawley-standing-at-the-skys-edge/</a></p>Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-50108831329655714552012-09-04T12:28:00.000-04:002012-09-04T12:28:24.334-04:00Bob Mould, Silver Age [Boston Phoenix]<p>Now that he's getting love from both sides of the indie/mainstream divide (see No Age and Foo Fighters, for starters), Bob Mould is again playing like he has something to prove - or at least an iconography to maintain.</p>
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<p>Ry Cooder's spur-of-the-moment (or is it heat-of-the-moment?) political album opens like any good political album should, with a rollicking blues song told from the point of view of Mitt Romney's dog.</p>
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<p>As its simple title would suggest, the fifth album from the Brooklyn Afrobeat torchbearers gets back to basics.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/142422-antibalas-antibalas/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]</p>Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-88768598103712834862012-08-02T13:30:00.001-04:002012-08-02T13:30:49.804-04:00Blur, 21 [Boston Phoenix]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p>Best Britpop band? That’s a question of taste — though if your answer is Oasis, you’re probably wrong, and if your answer is Blur, you’re probably right.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/141740-blur-21" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]</p>Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-56939876618159975802012-07-19T20:59:00.000-04:002012-07-19T20:59:51.654-04:00Micachu & the Shapes, Never [Boston Phoenix]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p>Like her stylistic sista Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, Micachu's Mica Levi makes pixelated, abstract anti-pop that sounds like marionettes jamming in an aluminum factory.</p>
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<p>Grasscut are ascension music: each measure another layer of melody, each minute another swell in forward momentum. Songs don't start there, but they get there — and when they get there, like in the stand-out track "Reservoir," your ears are knee-deep in strings, repetition, counterpoint, and emotional oomph.</p>
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<p>Long delays between albums, equally long album titles, uncompromising artistic vision, the is-Joni-Mitchell-is-not-Joni-Mitchell question, and that "Criminal" video. Yeah, we get it — these are the things we talk about when we talk about Fiona Apple.</p>
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<p>Bowie's greatest album? Depends on the day. Canonically, however, this is and will always be a BFD: an archetype of alternative commercial rock, the primo platter of the so-called glam era; and arguably the best record ever made about apocalypse, interplanetary lust, singer-songwriter role playing, and rock-and-roll-as-alien-outsider stuff.</p>
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<p>The first thing you'll notice about Mark Kozelek's fifth LP as Sun Kil Moon are song titles that would give Morrissey a boner: "I Know It's Pathetic But That Was the Greatest Night of My Life," natch, or "Not Much Rhymes with Everything's Awesome at All Times."</p>
<p>[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/138941-sun-kil-moon-among-the-leaves/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]</p>Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-81161201391098039002012-05-16T22:31:00.000-04:002012-05-16T22:31:22.014-04:00The Figgs, The Day Gravity Stopped [Boston Phoenix]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p>These days Mike Gent, Pete Donnelly, and Pete Hayes are involved in enough extracurricular activities (Graham Parker, NRBQ, countless side/session-men gigs) that you could hardly blame them if they closed their two decades-plus Figgs chapter.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/138553-figgs-the-day-gravity-stopped/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]</p>Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-26740411517767321152012-05-07T22:07:00.000-04:002012-05-07T22:07:58.566-04:00Billy Bragg + Wilco, Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions [Boston Phoenix]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p>In 1998, and again in 2000, English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg teamed up with Wilco— not yet on their post-Americana trip — to put unreleased Woody Guthrie lyrics to music.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/137837-billy-bragg-wilco-mermaid-avenue-the-complete/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]</p>Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-90406637238589255582012-04-25T06:21:00.000-04:002012-04-25T06:21:53.216-04:00Rufus Wainwright, Out of the Game [Boston Phoenix]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Out of the Game is being billed as the most "pop" album of Rufus Wainwright's career, which is to say that it dismisses many of his trademark classical and/or stagey affinities.
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The title of the Dandy Warhols' eighth record may be a Woody Guthrie allusion, but don't fret — the closest the Portland, Oregon, band get to politics here is a cover of Merle Travis's "16 Tons."
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[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/137090-dandy-warhols-this-machine/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-89056357608124988642012-04-11T08:05:00.002-04:002012-04-11T08:06:55.070-04:00Quakers, Quakers [Boston Phoenix]<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VjyeYzb_LePghitpwGjEMDu3sJOD8eagy4UgxkToLUUiprRiCizOZ-_lDbtCJ8hnxReHnjZ29mrK_hFdWMrrFKfm_idzc12UBP_06QAVWjE4mv-qvM13SvMXc-w8-KOc_5uPqw/s1600/main_quakers_480.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VjyeYzb_LePghitpwGjEMDu3sJOD8eagy4UgxkToLUUiprRiCizOZ-_lDbtCJ8hnxReHnjZ29mrK_hFdWMrrFKfm_idzc12UBP_06QAVWjE4mv-qvM13SvMXc-w8-KOc_5uPqw/s200/main_quakers_480.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730113459111501938" /></a><br />No, this isn't the theological rap supergroup you've been pining for. Portishead's Geoff Barrow, d/b/a Fuzzface, is but one of many cooks — 35, by one count — in the kitchen of Quakers, a deep-groove, deep-thought hip-hop collaborative debuting on the venerable Stones Throw label.<br /><br />[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/136826-quakers-quakers/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-53718927199007776122012-04-09T20:22:00.002-04:002012-04-09T20:24:14.279-04:00Dr. John, Locked Down [Boston Phoenix]<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2IO_DWZjfH31ZRiAVfM-w4psEpY0dkYNxS3SAH4eqRPpSxkSNb1LvbUPeaqkS4Om209DZXCKy8B8_7yt9DXhvAe_ne7sDo2LDVwzndIpNnZOlIq_SpMuLVv6hU916BdHGAqHKg/s1600/main_DrJohn_480.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2IO_DWZjfH31ZRiAVfM-w4psEpY0dkYNxS3SAH4eqRPpSxkSNb1LvbUPeaqkS4Om209DZXCKy8B8_7yt9DXhvAe_ne7sDo2LDVwzndIpNnZOlIq_SpMuLVv6hU916BdHGAqHKg/s200/main_DrJohn_480.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729561312383212738" /></a><br />The Night Tripper, circa 2012: big fat funky drums, Nuggets-psych organs, ladies in the background going "Yeah-eahh!," woozy/honking brass.<br /><br />[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/136473-dr-john-locked-down/">...continue reading...</a>]Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-59054272901673844352012-03-30T21:10:00.002-04:002012-03-30T21:13:09.843-04:00Johnny Cash, The Soul of Truth: Bootleg Vol. IV [Boston Phoenix]<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVUZk5DxZ0fe1aYUunkDovFwaWWNfKNLDuZhVDhHNiRBSxexOgeE4s7vjD1tlKbjO7JJJrdur-D4tRlpbIW8Dsuth40VnJMTE2DLFI5YoF9DOWCBCf4BCG01zOabDVIVMf7jWbQ/s1600/main_BootletTruth_480.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVUZk5DxZ0fe1aYUunkDovFwaWWNfKNLDuZhVDhHNiRBSxexOgeE4s7vjD1tlKbjO7JJJrdur-D4tRlpbIW8Dsuth40VnJMTE2DLFI5YoF9DOWCBCf4BCG01zOabDVIVMf7jWbQ/s200/main_BootletTruth_480.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725862896156143410" /></a><br />Unlike his pal Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash didn't merely flirt with a gospel phase or release an album or two of spiritually charged music.<br /><br />[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/136146-johnny-cash-the-soul-of-truth-bootleg-vol-iv/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-85962260508723064992012-03-14T09:11:00.002-04:002012-03-14T09:14:22.895-04:00The Shins, Port of Morrow [Boston Phoenix]<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0G307pt2A7nh1HmLC-H1McPaWU1CHNXYypEX0N02d6Cx1L5dKIhriCSa253eb5DrXR2Qk3Vm36YyY54tNZldUat0L25_1phD-ng747xDXVQn328qZxErk9fmEDf39n0hC9kovvA/s1600/main2_Shins_480.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0G307pt2A7nh1HmLC-H1McPaWU1CHNXYypEX0N02d6Cx1L5dKIhriCSa253eb5DrXR2Qk3Vm36YyY54tNZldUat0L25_1phD-ng747xDXVQn328qZxErk9fmEDf39n0hC9kovvA/s200/main2_Shins_480.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719740462205165554" /></a><br />Meet the new Shins. Same as the old Shins? Kinda sorta.<br /><br />[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/135326-shins-port-of-morrow/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362636.post-52243077020668886302012-03-08T19:44:00.001-05:002012-03-08T19:45:47.540-05:00Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball [Boston Phoenix]<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKn0tCaGWQkb-ociEywP78mWLdManvBQM8NqUS_s6F7B2PlkF2qMDA7mw5N1xoh6z5n6TNLSa9Jrw0R1FEcOWwOkRSIufVwIpvJvZP0qsgXkbBgedZnptZzZ0AF5ispp-AMr0utg/s1600/main_Springsteen_480.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKn0tCaGWQkb-ociEywP78mWLdManvBQM8NqUS_s6F7B2PlkF2qMDA7mw5N1xoh6z5n6TNLSa9Jrw0R1FEcOWwOkRSIufVwIpvJvZP0qsgXkbBgedZnptZzZ0AF5ispp-AMr0utg/s200/main_Springsteen_480.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717692089215590418" /></a>There was a time when Bruce Springsteen didn't need rousing choirs, swelling orchestrations, or repetitive Pogues poses to broadcast anthemic populist subversion.<br /><br />[<a href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/134969-bruce-springsteen-wrecking-ball/" target="_blank">...continue reading...</a>]Zeth Lundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04864670246905736974noreply@blogger.com0