Holidays are great. Holidays in nice houses surrounded by lovely greenery in a nice, friendly town by the sea with great beaches, restaurants and shopping are even better. Sarasota is a marvelous place, and I’m sure I’d enjoy it even more if I was about, oooh, 78. But we had some bad news the other [...]
All posts for the month August, 2009
A Sad Hello From Sarasota
Posted by loftandlost on August 29, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/29/a-sad-hello-from-sarasota/
Grizzly Bear, Live
Koko is a lovely venue. Opened originally in 1900, the spirit of old-style music hall is alive and well with the ornate balconies and the rich red paint; the new bar at the back works wonderfully with the period detail. The bar staff are friendly, the loos aren’t completely horrific, and there’s one of the [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 20, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/20/grizzly-bear-live/
The Les Paul Special
Les Paul, the man who did so much to build and develop the solid-body electric guitar, died Thursday at the age of 94. Famously giving helping design the Gibson Les Paul, his name is as synonymous with the electric guitar as Leo Fender. The thick, heavy sound his guitar made when being pumped through a [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 17, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/17/the-les-paul-special/
Local Heroes – The Xx and Hot Chip
I was reading an article in the Grauniad the other day, which mentioned a little studio under Putney Bridge. I thought to myself “I’ve walked past that!”. And so my curiosity was rather piqued about the subject of the article, The Xx. Living about five minutes from that studio, on the north side of the [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 16, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/16/local-heroes-the-xx-and-hot-chip/
Whisper From The Past – Lambchop
It’s been a long while since I listened to Lambchop properly. Yes, I got “OH (Ohio)”, and played it more than a few times, but years have passed since I last put “Nixon” or “Is A Woman” or even “What Another Man Spills” on. I’d forgotten how good they were. Really, stunning, proper good, not [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 15, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/15/whisper-from-the-past-lambchop/
Wilco (The Blog Post)
I finally got round to buying the new Wilco album the other day, cunningly titled “Wilco (The Album)”. And then a little thought struck me, and that thought was “You’ve hardly listened to their last album yet”. So I listened to “Sky Blue Sky”. And then I listened to it again. And then I thought, [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 8, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/08/wilco-the-blog-post/
Oh What A Fool I’ve Been – The Magnolia Electric Company
Regular readers will be thinking to themselves “What the hell’s going on here? Four posts in as many days?”. Yes, folks, I’ve decided to finally get round to posting some of the stuff I’ve been blithely listening to over the past few weeks. This is, in part to rectify the situation in which the post-stuff-on-the-blog [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 4, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/04/oh-what-a-fool-ive-been-the-magnolia-electric-company/
New Music – Arctic Monkeys and Chateau Laut (Again)
I’m so behind the times. Mucking around on the web last night, I found the video for the new Arctic Monkeys1 song. And I thought, “Oooh, a new song, I’ll bung it on the site in the next couple of days. Nice to have something new and fresh”. This morning, getting more info from the [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 3, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/03/new-music-arctic-monkeys-and-chateau-laut-again/
New Music – Chateau Laut and Edward Sharpe
Getting recommendations from friends and contacts can be a difficult thing to handle. Someone says, “Hey, listen to this, you’ll love it!” and you listen to it and it’s Austrian techno-pop-oompah-rap. What the hell do they think I like listening to? But other times you get some real gems. One of my favourite bands of [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 2, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/02/new-music-chateau-laut-and-edward-sharpe/
The Pitchfork 500 Alt Rock 101 Part 2 – Replacements to REM
So here’s the second part of the Alt-Rock 101 article I started last week. We’ve had Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü and The Meat Puppets, now it’s time for these three: The Replacements – I Will Dare Minutemen – History Lesson (Part II) R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) The Replacements, like Hüsker Dü before [...]
Posted by loftandlost on August 1, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/01/the-pitchfork-500-alt-rock-101-part-2-replacements-to-rem/
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