While enjoying a few music videos on YouTube, I stumbled across the fact that there is some great footage of a number of the old bluesmen on there, including my favourites, Lightening Hopkins and Son House. I was going to put this fantastic clip of Mississippi Fred McDowel below, but I just can’t get [...]
One of the other bands I was a big fan of that broke up (at the start of last year) is Curve. Apart from being the Xerox PARC to Garbage’s Apple, to draw a nerdly analogy, Curve were extensively ahead of themselves (see what I did there), and you can hear plenty of stylistic influence [...]
Sleater Kinney, just about the best rock band around, are going on an “indefinite hiatus“. I’m sure it wasn’t that long ago I was reading interviews with Janet where she was answering questions about maybe producing the next record, so this is especially disappointing. At least we have Stylus providing us with news posts [...]
Really what is there to add.
Warning: Spoilers for CSI Seasion 6 Episode 21, and ruminations on the reduced flatness of Nicks hair.
Seriously, it didn’t look anywhere near as flat this episode, and I think that’s what we were all concerned about. CSI was busting out the movie references on Tuesdays episode (which I watched yesterday, due to football). There [...]
I know that the words “jazz” and “fusion” are scary, and in general To Be Avoided, but this video of Japanese keyboard maestro Hiromi is just too good to miss, and damn funky (plus, as noted in the post I nicked it from, she’s pretty good looking, in a crazy jazz lady way). It takes [...]
Rocks even harder than the giraffe beetle.
Having enjoyed the sideways car driving action of Fast And The Furious 3: Why Don’t You Get Yourself A Nice Japanese Girl Like All The Other Gaijin, I thought a post featuring Japanese drift master Katsuhiro Ueo would be appropriate. Interestingly, the video is from inside the car, which is very, very loud.