So that Mingus-ey song I played you last time turned into this:

 

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Jim James might have a mild Jesus complex (see left), but then again, he may deserve it a little bit. My first time ever at Radio City Music Hall for My Morning Jacket on Friday yielded the following insights:
RCMH is still an amazing venue (fucking duh).
Rock and roll may not be as dead as previously [...]

Kill.
Henry.
Sugar.
What a weird name. What a cool band.
I came across these curious cats last night and got sucked right in to their furious soul and quirky-weird acoustic minimalism. All the hipsters hammering away at “anti-folk” (whatever the fuck that means anymore) or post-moldy-peaches confessional drone folk or whatever have a lot to learn [...]

I have an extraordinarily hard time staying inside and blogging when the weather is this fucking gorgeous. So I’m not gonna. Come see Jim Campilongo play tonight. He’s fucking rad. Really, I mean it. You haven’t seen the full potential of the instrument known as “guitar” until you’ve seen him play.  Living Room. Tonight. Eleven [...]

The Nick Casey Band just keeps getting better and better. They’re dark, they’re lyrical, they’re writing songs in a classic vein that nobody else is writing in right now. Added to which, they’re fucking silly people.
If I had written this post earlier (like yesterday), I would have told you all to go see them play [...]

The new Blitzen Trapper record is also fucking amazing. I can’t say this for sure, but they’ve gotta be like the coolest thing in Oregon right now.

As it so happens, I’m listening to the Beatles. This is not an unusual occurrence. But here it is again. I’m listening to the Beatles (Sgt. Pepper, of all things), because it is the first thing that appeared to me on the studio computer as I sat down after the session to write in my [...]