Hugh Laurie, the English actor who plays America’s most self-destructive television doctor, has released a blues album. Laurie enlisted Joe Henry and the great Allen Toussaint to produce the record, signifying that he has lofty goals for the album. According to Laurie people came up to him and suggested that he record a blues album. I suspect that these are the same people we have to thank for the supply of talent on American Idol. Please feel free to indulge the urge to roll your eyes at this barely disguised vanity project. Continue reading
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My brother likes to tell me that I am dangerous when I am bored. So did my parents. And insane. I get that one a lot. One good thing that comes from this, besides repainting a bathroom, is hours of internal head time where I go deep into fantasy land and imagine either an alternate history to things in my past or imagineering career paths for a large swath of my favorite celebrities.
These are the three albums that I am willing to wait a lifetime for: Continue reading
After suffering a stroke the longtime E Street Band saxophone player died at the age of 69.
Source: Rolling Stone
Show some love with your favorite Clarence Clemons videos below.
I was flipping through the channels late the other night when I came across Mo’ Better Blues and was instantly taken back to college. I was raised on jazz so Denzel plus Spike Lee plus music composed by Bill Lee played by the Branford Marsalis Quartet featuring Terrence Blanchard was an intoxicating mix. Yes, I was a hep cat, man. Continue reading
Helplessness Blues is the newest album from Fleet Foxes, released May 3rd, 2011 on the Sub Pop record label. Helplessness Blues is the follow up to Fleet Foxes debut album, Fleet Foxes.
To get an idea of what Helplessness Blues is about, I think it’s important to understand it within the context of the critically acclaimed Fleet Foxes. Sophomore albums unfortunately carry the burden of being judged in light of their successful older brothers, and Helplessness Blues has big shoes to fill. Continue reading
Summertime is the right time for fun, party music. If you’re tired of Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Katy Perry and their ilk, well, it’s time to listen to something new and fresh. Check these songs, buy them on iTunes or Amazon, and add them to your playlist. Delight. Continue reading
Born This Way is NOT The Fame. For some of you, that’s the best news ever. For others, that the worst thing you’ve heard. And then there are those of you who don’t give a shit. Neither does Lady Gaga. Continue reading
What do all these tracks have in common? They’re all remixes. And I like them. And put together, they would make an excellent soundtrack for your Levi’s commercial-esque spontaneous road trip with your attractive and ethnically diverse friends in a suspiciously cool vintage Cadillac.
“On a sliding scale of sexuality I’d place myself around 80-20, but I definitely prefer men to women,” the 51-year-old musician says. “I had sex with, and enjoyed sex with, women until I met someone that I fell in love with, and who is now my boyfriend. That’s the only real news in the last 12 years, but when it’s a slow news day I get dragged out of some closet again.”
I’m going to file this under sour grapes since Out of Time was the first compact disc I ever owned. I’d have traded the shiny (and large) compact disc player I got with it for a role model growing up. The 90’s were rough – yo. The Kinsey Scale has been published since 1948 and has over time become the de facto standard for measuring the scope of human sexuality. Stipe’s 80% claim places him somewhere between a ‘Kinsey 4’ and a ‘Kinsey 5’. Michael Stipe Is 80% Gay [The Advocate]
It’s a lazy Sunday. We don’t have the energy to talk about politics or TV, so let’s post some videos of fun music instead. What are you grooving to this week? I am going to start off with a theme, but don’t feel obligated to stay within the bounds. After all, this is Crasstalk, and we never play by the rules anyway. Continue reading