October 2019 update: Mr. Baker has died, and I’ve updated and expanded this post a bit, and put it in past tense. I’m rather critical of him. If that’s not what you want to read about […]
Author: Todd Bishop
Daily best music in the world: Splash
Slow week. Of course we can’t just have a continuous onslaught of new stuff— I don’t write just to hear myself bloviate, and I’ve already put on the blog far more information than I was […]
Vindication, thy name is Buzzfeed
SHUT UP, Einstein, there’s a drummer present. We are so smrt: [R]esearchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet found that drummers who kept a tighter rhythm also scored better on a 60-question intelligence test. This is a […]
Daily best music in the world: Weather Report
Lots of other action right now, so light posting is going to continue this week, so enjoy 8:30, by Weather Report. Peter Erskine is on drums. I used to set my turntable to repeat, and […]
Ornette Coleman 1930-2015
New York Times notice Ornette Coleman’s Revolution from The New Yorker Four songs @ Vox Rolling Stone notice Huffington Post notice The Guardian notice NPR notice
Your big paycheck is just around the corner.
In Salon today is a conversation with Marc Ribot about the future of copyright, the Internet, and the state of the music business in general. What started the conversation was some statements by producer Steve […]
Daily best music in the world: Red Red Meat
All my writing energy is going into the new CSD! rock-and-funk book, so let’s enjoy some more rock & roll. Here’s a favorite band of mine: Red Red Meat, from Chicago, who put out a […]
Groove o’ the day: Poison Idea — Marked For Life
Here’s one for my student, Max: from an early demo by northwest punk legends Poison Idea. With our Iron Maiden shirts and long hair, my friends and I went to see them play in somebody’s […]
College — 01
Obligatory Animal House still. I get where he’s coming from. Man, higher education in the US is so screwed up right now, I really do not envy the position of college-age musicians. Truthout has published […]
This / not this: grunge
What can I say, I’m feeling nostalgic. This 1994 video of Portland band Iommi Stubbs playing at The Satyricon is pretty much the epitome of grunge every respect— from the horrible recording, to the lack […]