Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
Thoughts and Prayers for Norway
In the wake of the bombing and shooting incidents in Norway yesterday, I want to send my condolences to one of the jewels of Europe. Norway has always intrigued me. It seems so close to paradise. As a leader in renewable energy, as a forward thinking Conservative nation, and birthplace of so many great musicians […]
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Hipster’s beware, another sacred cow goes down. Don’t get me wrong, I love Liz Phair, just not the album that most hipster’s would say is her best. Enjoy this one as it appears to be the last O/U. More on that later. http://kitemag.net/featured/overunder-an-analysis-of-overrated-and-underrated-albums-liz-phair Cheers! Related Articles Liz Phair Finally Releases Girlysound Tapes (pitchfork.com) 20 reviews […]
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Tags: Exile in Guyville, Funstyle, Liz Phair, Whitechocolatespaceegg
In advance of the newest by Elvis Costello, a look at two past album by the man himself. In the one corner, My Aim is True. In the opposing corner, the vastly underrated Imperial Bedroom. (Oops! Does that count as a spoiler alert?) Read it for yourself: http://kitemag.net/featured/overunder-an-analysis-of-overrated-and-underrated-albums-elvis-costello
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My new feature for Kite
“A feature about Aussie rock bands? Cool! Where can I read it?” Follow the link and enjoy. http://kitemag.net/headline/the-geography-of-rock-australia And if you’re already a fan of The Church, The Saints (or The ‘Aints), Radio Birdman or even Kylie, then here is some good news: This is the first step towards a much larger project that I […]
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Is Le Noise another Harvest? Or a sequel to Are you Passionate? Find out in the link below. http://kitemag.net/reviews/neil-young-le-noise Related Articles Neil Young: Le Noise Film (jambase.com) C&L’s Late Night Music Club With Neil Young (crooksandliars.com)
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Tags: Daniel Lanois, Kite, music, Neil Young
Some thoughts on the World Cup
Whether you support England, Germany, Spain or the USA teams, the true glory goes to the fans of the beautiful game. http://nexusnewspaper.com/articles/31076 Cheers! Related Articles How Did You Do in Our World Cup Round One Survey? (blogs.constantcontact.com) Paul the Octopus, World Cup Oracle, Dies (omg.yahoo.com) World Cup dealing with vote fixing (canada.com) Allegations of Corruption […]
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Tags: 2010 FIFA World Cup, England, FIFA, Football, Germany, Russia, Soccer, Spain, United States, USA, World Cup 2010
Over/Under–Radiohead
My war against the hipsters begins. Kid A vs. OK Computer. http://kitemag.net/featured/overunder-an-analysis-of-overrated-and-underrated-albums-radiohead I smell nerd blood. Related Articles 34 reviews of Kid A (Radiohead) (rateitall.com) 9 reviews of Hail to the Thief (Radiohead) (rateitall.com) Radiohead – Live in Praha | Free DVD (slamxhype.com) Ben Gibbard Covers Radiohead, Describes New DCFC LP (stereogum.com) Take Cover: Radiohead […]
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Tags: Radiohead
In the meantime….
Here is what I have been working on as of late. A profile on Henry Rollins http://kitemag.net/interviews/from-screaming-to-talking And a two-parter on cover albums (including Duran Duran, The Ramones, Steve Earle and Tori Amos.) http://kitemag.net/featured/the-best-of-the-borrowed-20-11 http://kitemag.net/featured/the-best-of-the-borrowed-10-1 Oh, and I have just submitted an editorial for the fall edition of Beside the Point. We’re going physical ya’ll!
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Tags: Duran Duran, Ramones, Steve Earle, Tori Amos
Neil Young Piece
In between classes, term papers, work and the etc., that makes up my waking day, I wrote this piece about Neil Young for Kite.http://kitemag.net/headline/how-young-got-old Enjoy. Stuff in the works? A profile of Henry Rollins, maybe something on D.O.A. or Aussie punk. Too soon to say for sure. Cheers, Jason
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Tags: Beside the point, Black Flag, D.O.A., Henry Rollins, Kitemag, Neil Young, The Martlet, the Nexus, Whats Radio
In Praise of the Single
Here is an opinion piece I wrote last week for CUP and which was posted to Nexus as well. It’s all about singles, both vinyl and digital. Hard to meet the 200 word limit. So much to say on the topic. Enjoy! http://nexusnewspaper.com/articles/27435
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Tags: CUP, iTunes, Juice Newton, music, nexus, Sade, singles, Spoon
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