bad-bad. Simply put, Hallmark Christmas movs are going to lie somewhere between The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (endearing, wonderfully sincere, and the perfect amount of sappiness) and Christmas Bounty (a movie so bad and void of charm I cannot believe it was made), with A Christmas...
The wonderfully desperateMusic Boxballad was originally written and recorded by the British rock band Badfinger in 1970, and made famous by Harry Nilsson a year later. In Carey's hands, a series of gentle keyboard notes drop into a cavernous space where Carey holds court, slowly crescendoing f...
The build started off simply enough – just an Arduino attached to a few buttons that sends data to a Cocoa app which rates the current song. Everything was working wonderfully until [Steve] restarted his mac and the COM ports went to pot. Wanting a ‘plug-and-play’ solution, he did ...
So I curiously re-entered my favorite church basement to find six airtight musicians blasting away with horrible symmetry, squawky sax shards playing against dissonant guitar chords and wonderfully unpredictable rhythmic cells. To put it simply, Zs took me to the nether regions of musical abstraction...
Solitude Standing by Suzan Vega — great lyrics! Where do I go when I need stimulation? Well, going out with a camera in hand gives me an excuse to talk to (literally) anyone. From “could you take my picture” or “I love what you’re wearing, can I?” to “I’m looking fox ...
…..and began the session with the wonderfully encouraging clip above ‘He wasn’t LOST.” Father repeated.‘ I knew exactly where he was……and now he knows he has been FOUND…….and been given a pair of Brand new white jeans’ Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch...
On this second record Patrik veers from acoustic guitar pop songs with witty lyrics, to a home organ instrumental, to a tiny spoken recitation over a hum drone, and a further side of almost folk-like songs featuring his wonderfully lyrical turn of phrase. Try to get to hear it if you ca...
I tried to figure it out when 26 came along and I became an Australian living in London. Here my ethnicity and sexuality wasn’t as big a deal, whenever I speak, I was just another Aussie passing through this heaving and wonderfully multicultural city of 8 million people. As Taylor Swift...
However, I really am not a fan of “Have A Cigar”, with its easy targets and sneering, and its jarring keyboards, nor do I much like “Welcome To The Machine”, which is a bunch of sound effects of some more dismal and bitter lyrics (“You bought a guitar to punish your ma”)....
“wonderfully sacred scripture,” making them widely available for the first time. When The Raincoats appeared in NYC in 2017, in a celebration of Pelly’s biography, not only did the members of Bikini Kill show up, they got inspired to get up and play together—for the first time in 20...