Sounds

Gogol Bordello rocked out the Hayek-inspired “Not A Crime”, commenting, surely, on free-markets and free-minds, then spent the rest of the show trying to sell people the shit they don’t want to buy…the new album. There’s too many fucking singers, like some sad after-school multi-cultural feel good pallette…that, yes, feels good, but sounds like shit. And I know the band [...]

I caught wind earlier that day, June 9th 2009, that David Byrne was playing a free show as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I thought to myself…

“God Damn…I love him…”

“I bet there’s gonna be god-awful hipsters everywhere…a sea of sucking humanity…one big coffin…”

“And, of course, I have to mount [...]

The Swedish disco megaband ABBA – and I don’t use the term megaband lightly – was our future.

Do not mistake me. I am not purporting that in the future we will resemble ABBA. No, no. ABBA was our future.

It already happened.

We missed it.

We [...]

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty [...]