Photo via Spiffae Here is my first stab at an EVR show. I wanted it to be a Fall Show, all breezy, blustery kinda songs its mostly gentle rock and folk, then gets a bit ambient-y/bleak towards the end (winters comin!). Im kicking myself hard for not including some Benoit Pioulard now, since Ive been listening to Temper pretty much nonstop and...

Looks like its Video Day on 17 Dots. I subscribe to the daily culture newsletter Very Short List (its pretty great, I highly recommend!) and todays was particularly rewarding. Heres the backstory Thirty-nine years ago, a 14-year-old named Jerry Levitan managed to talk his way into John Lennons Toronto hotel room. Impressed by the kids chutzpah,...

...band is a little, um, cheesy, but Alton is still a master singer. Perhaps well all get lucky and Altons superior Silver Jubilee album will show up here soon Various Artists, Best Seven Selections : Another reggae record, this one a Yancey discovery. Some of the vocals are a teeny bit too pro for me, but this is still an extremely solid comp...

...Music. There I was, sitting at my new desk, intently listening to music critic Rob Sheffield read his affecting memoir of his relationship with fellow critic Renee Crist, whose life was cut short at the age of 31. Sheffields narration felt so personal. He could be some guy I knew, just talking about music and love and loss with casual...

...Music is the only place in the world to get them. How you like that Okay, so moving right along, heres what else weve got for you today Gil Shaham, Elgar: E.: Violin Concerto in B Minor : Okay so Im an idiot when it comes to classical music, but even I know who Gil Shaham is! I have been informed that this new recording is a very big deal,...

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So last night at the Barbican there was a performance of songs from the last two Scott Walker records, Tilt and The Drift entitled, appropriately enough, Tilting & Drifting . Inexplicably, I was in New York and not in London last night for this performance. Why? Because Im an idiot Short form: since Scott is notoriously terrified of performing...

...Music GZA, Alphabets Bat for Lashes, Im On Fire Ani DiFranco, Joyful Girl Gaslight Anthem , The 59 Sound (Acoustic Michael Knott, Hospital Kooley High, Too Late Y Society, Scientist PaceWon & Mr. Green, The Eye of the Needle De La Soul , Supa Emcees Lightheaded, Timeless Dagha, Try The Foreign Exchange, Take Off the Blues