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A non-fiction kind of mood
By Andrew on Feb 8, 2010 | In Music, Books | Send feedback »
I don't know why, but the majority of books I have been reading lately are non-fiction.
I think it started with Joe Bonomo's Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band, a great account of the titular band. Then came John Grisham's An In… more »
My rock n roll / folk / country compilation
By Andrew on Feb 4, 2010 | In Music, Friends | Send feedback »
I just made a mix CD for a friend of mine. His taste leans toward country, and mine toward rock n roll and punk rock. I love how so many punk bands and rock n roll bands take their cues from early blues and country. Listen to the Gun Club's first alb… more »
Friday I'm-At-Work iTunes Random Ten
By Andrew on May 23, 2008 | In Music | Send feedback »
Man or Astroman | Test Driver | Not even a song, more like a speaker test for A/V equipment
Billy Childish and Holly Go-Lightly | Let Me Know You | Great garage tune from Headcoats/Headcoatees genuises
Teengenerate | Mess Me Up | Awesome Japanese band… more »
A Mother's Day Playlist
By Andrew on May 11, 2008 | In Music, Family | Send feedback »
Mother | Tori Amos
A Mother Has A Hard Road | Killdozer
Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight | The Misfits
Mama Don't Get Off | Jack Oblivian
Mommy's Little Anarchist | Crash Dog
Just Like Your Mom | Electric Frankenstein
Your Mama On the Rocks | H… more »
Happy Mother's Day from Mr. T
By Andrew on May 11, 2008 | In Music, General, Television, Internet, Comedy | Send feedback »
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Friday Completely Unrandom iTunes Ten Plus Ten More Plus Five
By Andrew on Apr 12, 2008 | In Music, Friends, Work | Send feedback »
One of the things I miss most about my previously held job at CitiMortgage was the CD club I shared with 2 of my co-workers. Well, just because I was laid off does not mean Citi should lay claim to my need for new music as well as my need for regular pa… more »
Friday Random Ten
By Andrew on Apr 4, 2008 | In Music | Send feedback »
1 U2 - The First Time
2 Half Pint & the Fifths - Orphan Boy
3 Syd's Dance Band - Never Again
4 Crime - Frustration
5 Johnny Wright - The World is Yours
6 Black Flag - Life of Pain
7 R.L. Burnside - Jumper On the Line
8 The Prescriptions - I Sh… more »
Punk rock on kids' show
By Andrew on Sep 20, 2007 | In Music, Family | 1 feedback »
I had posted before about seeing They Might Be Giants performing on Blues Clues. Well, now I was just watching "Yo Gabba Gabba" with my son, and I saw a live performance from Supernova. I saw Supernova some 8-10 years ago at Fireside Bowl. If I rememb… more »
The Bronx is the best band around, period
By Andrew on Aug 31, 2007 | In Music, Friends | Send feedback »
Last night I saw the Bronx at Double Door, FOR FREE. If you haven't heard them yet, they are absolutely the best rock n' roll band around right now. The show was completely energetic. Vocalist Scott Caughthran has the coolest voice. He ran around the… more »
A Random iTunes Random Ten
By Andrew on Aug 9, 2007 | In Music | Send feedback »
I haven't done one of these in a long time, mostly because I don't listen to music through iTunes. But I find myself sitting here listening to it on shuffle, so I might as well share.
Los Straitjackets - University Blvd
Ramones - Today Your Love, To… more »
They Might Be Giants and Blue's Clues
By Andrew on Aug 9, 2007 | In Music, Family, Television | Send feedback »
I just saw They Might Be Giants doing their song "Clap Your Hands" from their album "No!" on Blue's Clues.
Weird. But so awesome. more »
My son, the music critic
By Andrew on Jul 12, 2007 | In Music, Family | 2 feedbacks »
I was just outside eating lunch with my son and daughter while listening to my iPod. Mae's "The Afterglow" came on, and my 2 1/2 year old son looked at me with an extremely serious look on his face and said, "This is a really good song, yeah," and nodde… more »
Album of the Day
By Andrew on Apr 15, 2006 | In Music, Friends | Send feedback »
I've started a string of posts over at my Hint of Disaster blog (used only because my employer does not permit access to Brendoman) wherein I write about whatever album I listened to that day. Most of these (for the next several weeks, probably) I was m… more »
A Fresh Friday Random Ten
By Andrew on Mar 24, 2006 | In Music | Send feedback »
I cleared everything off my iPod last night, and randomly loaded a new 1,044 songs onto it. Here's what it spit out this morning:
Paloalto - Pick Yourself Off the Beach
I got this CD, a CD single for "Fade Out/In," for free from Island/ Def Jam when… more »
Rockin' out with my 17 month old
By Andrew on Mar 23, 2006 | In Music, Family | 2 feedbacks »
For Christmas, I bought Aidan They Might Be Giants' "No!" I had recently discovered that they, and a number of other indie rock artists, began working in what might be called "kid's music." Listening to the CD this morning with Aidan on our way to his gr… more »
My new Cocoon
By Andrew on Mar 23, 2006 | In Music, Family | Send feedback »
No, not the Wilford Brimley movies. I've been looking for a case for my iPod Nano for a while now, and none of them seemed to be what I needed. All I ever found were sport sleeves or arm bands, or the occasional "leather folio." I really wanted a case th… more »
iPod, Diversity Be Thy Name
By Andrew on Mar 23, 2006 | In Music | Send feedback »
My iPod gave me a rather diverse random ten this busy, crazy, hectic Friday.
Strung Out - Rotten Apple
Bad Religion - Faith in God
Tom Waits - Dead and Lovely
The Milkshakes - Pipeline
Minor Threat - Cashing In
Chevelle - Comfortable Liar
Tori A… more »
iTunes Friday Random Ten
By Andrew on Mar 12, 2006 | In Music | Send feedback »
I usually use my iTunes at home for my Friday Random Ten, where I fire up iTunes and see which ten songs come out. But I am at work, and only have my iPod. So let's see which ten songs are first up.
The Gun Club - Gonna Find My Baby
Nirvana - Turnaro… more »
Hoist That Rag
By Andrew on Mar 12, 2006 | In Music | 2 feedbacks »
Today I listened to Tom Waits' beautiful, bizarre album "Real Gone." I hadn't heard it in a while, and this time I was particularly swept away by a song called "Hoist That Rag."
Well I learned the trade
From Piggy Knowles and
Sing Sing Tommy Shay… more »
iTunes Random Ten: Let's Talk About the Blues
By Andrew on Feb 25, 2006 | In Music | Send feedback »
I've got a lot of songs that have the "blues," so here's a random ten songs for you.
Bald-Headed Woman Blues Bassholes Blue Roots
Disappointment Blues The Hellacopters Payin' The Dues (Live Disc)
Blues X Man The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Orange
A… more »
One Billionth iTunes Download
By Andrew on Feb 24, 2006 | In Music, Internet | 2 feedbacks »
The billionth song, ”Speed of Sound,” was purchased as part of Coldplay’s “X&Y” album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. As the grand prize winner, he will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods, and a $10,000 Music Card goo… more »
Of Gender: An iTunes Random Ten
By Andrew on Feb 24, 2006 | In Music | Send feedback »
Wow,I found this in my "to be published" postings, so I guess it never made it to my blog. So, here's last week's Random Ten.
This week, I sort my iTunes to include only songs with words like "boy," "girl," "man," "woman," etc.
Watermelon Man Gun… more »
Colorful random ten
By Andrew on Feb 10, 2006 | In Music | Send feedback »
So, I sorted the songs in my iTunes and created a playlist featuring song titles with colors in them.
AFI Bleed Black
From "Sing the Sorrow," an album I like a lot, even though I don't think it is very cool to like it.
Firestarter She's Red
A ban… more »
A compilation for Kyle: Pere Ubu Essential Songs
By Andrew on Jan 27, 2006 | In Music, Friends | Send feedback »
I have received a couple of compilations from Kyle, such as a 2-disc set of Flaming Lips songs and a single disc volume collecting Kyle's favorite Beck songs. In return, I sent him a disc of Project 86 songs, whittled down from the massive 2 disc set th… more »
Friday Random Ten
By Andrew on Jan 27, 2006 | In Music | Send feedback »
This Train I Saw the Light
This train handles Hank Williams' classic with reverence, while putting their own spin on it at the same time.
Landos 45 Trailer
This band essentially sounds like the Bollweevils, due to Daryl's distinctive vocals.
L7 M… more »
