Marianne Faithfull is still beautiful: Easy Come, Easy Go - 12 songs for music lovers

First, a few things you need to know:

Marianne Faithfull isn’t really a singer, not in any traditional sense and not after years of a multitude of abuses to her vocal chords, but sing she does. And thank God for that. (full article here)

April 28, 2009

When popstars become half my age: on lust, longing, and mid-life crisis...the Lily Allen conflict...

It almost felt like summer this morning...almost.

Coming out of the ass end of yet another of far too many Ohio winter’s, waking up to a morning whence the sun comes out from hiding to simply prove its existence and the thermometer finds the generosity to spit out a couple of digits the first of which is "5" followed by anything else is, sadly enough, a good day.

And it does feel like summer...sort of...(full article here)

March 18, 2009

Nostalgia from today: on Glasvegas, naivete, and silly love songs

Maybe this is exactly what I needed. Maybe what I needed to get me off of the snide and back into this rockwrite gig after a few years of wandering and wondering why I ever did it in the first place was a record so BIG, so nostalgic, so silly (yet so serious), so naive, and so audacious as to channel Bono, Jesus of Dublin whilst paying homage to Jimmy Davis all in the lead track on their debut album...(full article here)