“Hey, were you at the Broken Social Scene gig last night? My boyfriend says he saw you there” Oh dear. Please don’t say that you saw me yelling at anyone. “Oh, did he say that for any particular reason?” “No, just that you were there.” Phew. Despite being one of the biggest cities in Europe, [...]
All posts for the month November, 2010
Brother Can You Spare Some Hype?
For all the talk of how the new media – blogs and all that stuff – is going to rescue the music industry from the ginormous hole it’s found itself in, there’s nothing quite like a good bit of hype in the print media to get things going. I get an email from a PR [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 27, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/27/brother-can-you-spare-some-hype/
Post Post-Rock Post
You’ve got to love Mogwai. From their early publicity stunts like printing t-shirts with “BLUR=SHITE”, naming albums after (fake) Glasgow street gangs (Young Team, Come On Die Young) and having some fantastic song titles, to making some excellent examples of post-rock. Yeah, you can argue that they just take Slint’s Spiderland and repeat it in [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 22, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/22/post-post-rock-post/
The Man Himself
So there’s been a bit of Eddie Hinton love going on round here lately, firstly with some covers from Drive-By Truckers, then the superb “Breakfast In Bed” as sung by Dusty Springfield, and now, to finish it off, a song from the man himself. You want beautiful Country Soul from one of the pioneers? Here [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 19, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/19/the-man-himself/
Breakfast In Bed
Reading up about Eddie Hinton the other day, as part of the Drive-By Truckers review, I came across the nugget of information that he’d written “Breakfast In Bed”, as sung by Dusty Springfield, the possessor of one of the finest voices, ever. No more needs to be said, except that if you don’t like this, [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 18, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/18/breakfast-in-bed/
That Southern Thing – DBT At SBE
Like The Hold Steady, Drive-By Truckers take the sound of mainstream American rock and add a big dollop of literary nous. Desperate to overturn the notion that Southerners are a bunch of gator-wrestling, tobacco-chewing inbreds, their Southern-fried country rock albums are more like mini-operas than your average meat-and-potatoes rock bands could ever imagine. Plus, they’ve [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 16, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/16/that-southern-thing-dbt-at-sbe/
Where Does The Time Go?
So I tried. I really, really tried. Tried to do a post a day. But on Friday, after a less-than-drunken night out and suffering from the first bloom of a winter cold, I just thought “I’m too tired for this. Sod the blog”. And there, after all of 11 days, goes my plan to do [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 14, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/14/where-does-the-time-go/
Rock School!
So this is a very quick post just to remind you all of one of the finest music videos ever: Yo La Tengo’s “Sugarcube”: How brilliant is that, eh? And yes, I finally got round to buying “I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One”. Thanks, Gordon and Nosila! MP3: Sugarcube by Yo La Tengo [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 10, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/10/rock-school/
Jason Lytle at Hoxton Bar And Kitchin
How Grandaddy never became successful is beyond me. Great tunes; intelligent lyrics about love, life and the struggle between nature and technology; a charmingly unpretentious band who gave the distinct impression they were just a bunch of mates who got together to form a band whilst skateboarding, all wrapped up with a slightly shambolic air [...]
Posted by loftandlost on November 9, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/11/09/jason-lytle-at-hoxton-bar-and-kitchin/
