so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

mp3: charlotte gainsbourg – irm
i’ve had to do a fair number of mri’s (or irm’s in french) myself, so this idea of the music the machine makes really speaks to me. the places i have done it have offered you headphones to listen to music while you’re in there, but i’ve always opted out, mainly [...]

mp3: leonard cohen – master song
i know this is all in good fun… more for the amusement of the participants than any imagined audience. but i’ve got to object to what the record club has done to “master song”. i can imagine the artists assembled in that room putting together an amazing cover of [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

mp3: sonic youth – pay no mindmp3: beck – green light
very nice reciprocal relationship going on on this split… sonic youth, or the sonik-youth, are listed first on the sleeve, but both sides are listed as side b on the album. sonic youth’s cover of beck’s “pay no mind” (minus the snoozer) was recorded and [...]

it’s record store day! i’m about to head out shopping… records i am hoping to pick up include, in order of want:

the flaming lips / black keys split 7″ (mp3s here)
sonic youth / beck split 7″ (mp3s here)
lykke li / el perro del mar split 7″ (mp3s here)

will update later on what i got. here’s [...]

mp3: islands – cyanide breath mintone foot in the grave was reissued yesterday…. with 16 unreleased bonus tracks tacked on! i haven’t listened to those yet, but i’m looking forward to it. one foot in the grave was my favorite beck album until sea change came along, and i still hold it in high regard. [...]

the velvet underground & nico is going for only $5 bucks on amazon.com right now. if you don’t have the album for some reason, now’s definitely the time to pick it up… that price is only good through monday.
mp3: beck and the flaming lips – sunday morning

john tyler
stream:3 tracks from beck’s upcoming modern guilt, here. that song featuring cat power everyone was talking about is pretty anticlimactic in the cat power regard. great song, but it’s more like “orphans” (song that chan marshall heard while walking down a hallway adjacent to the studio beck was recording in and liked the tune, [...]

so that dave berman thing at the corcoran was fucking incredible. one look at the picture above should tell you all you need to know. after berman finished, i checked out the jeremy blake exhibit. it was definitely cool but i wish they had more on display. i knew next to nothing about the guy [...]