[contextly_auto_sidebar] I CAN remember only a few times I've heard a song and immediately known I was hearing a major talent, someone I'd be paying attention to for years to come. The Smiths, Liz Phair, Pavement, Thelonious Monk, and Glenn Gould have all struck me that way. Time will tell if she really belongs in their company, but the Aussie singer-songwriter knocked me out with her song … [Read more...]
Documenting the Athens Music Scene
[contextly_auto_sidebar] ONE of the first things I saw when I moved to Athens, GA, two years ago was a gallery -- okay it was the landing of a rock club, the Georgia Theatre -- devoted to large, beautifully produced photographs by a guy named Jason Thrasher. Plenty of Athens musical heroes -- R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, for example, and members of the Elephant 6 bands -- were here, as well as … [Read more...]
Lloyd Cole and All the Poets
[contextly_auto_sidebar] YOUR humble blogger has been a fan of Lloyd Cole since songs like Lost Weekend and Why I Love Country Music showed up on "alternative" radio in the mid-'80s. I've seen him perform and interviewed him numerous times since then, and have been struck by what a fine storyteller as well as what an intellectually curious and overall literary (whatever that means) cat he … [Read more...]