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The Friday Morning Listen: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2011, Tom Waits
By Mark Saleski OK, so let's get the list over with quickly. Here are your 2011 nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Alice Cooper, Beastie Boys, Bon Jovi, Chic, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Dr. John, J. Geils Band, LL Cool J, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer, Joe Tex, Tom Waits, Chuck ...
Danilo Perez - Providencia (2010)
By Pico Danilo Pérez is a name that's come up often in this space whenever I'm boasting about what big names such-and-such artist has performed and/or recorded with. So, on the occasion of Pérez's latest CD Providencia, perhaps it's time to devote a little space to the guy who has helped along the careers of so ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2010, Tom Waits
By Mark Saleski OK, so let's get the list over with quickly. Here are your 2011 nominee's for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Alice Cooper, Beastie Boys, Bon Jovi, Chic, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Dr. John, J. Geils Band, LL Cool J, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer, Joe Tex, Tom Waits, Chuck ...
Gimme Five: Beatles Songs Where Ringo Starr Doesn't, You Know, Suck
By Pico, and Nick Deriso Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has taken his share of knocks over the years. Some of those, in the interest of full disclosure, came from us. Then there was legendary jazz figure Buddy Rich's blunt assessment: “Ringo Starr was adequate. No more than that." Still, it wasn't like he didn't have his ...
Gimme Five: Forgotten Jazz Gems from Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Ron Carter/Jim Hall, Oliver Nelson and Nat Adderley
By Nick Deriso Even a passing fan can purchase with some confidence the touchstone jazz recordings of the last century. But what next? How to explore deeper into the legacy? SomethingElse! is here to help, with an ongoing guide to what we like to call “if/then" jazz listening ... IF YOU LIKE ... Charles Mingus' The ...
Oran Etkin - Wake up Clarinet! (2010)
By Mark Saleski She put on Stevie Wonder's “Living For The City" and then asked us to call out the instruments that we heard. I don't really remember how we all did, but that moment has always stayed with me. An actual music class in middle school. It wasn't just about clefs and notes and all ...
Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 9 (Baby Boomer Edition)
More the forty years after Robert Plant joined Led Zeppelin, his prior group The Band of Joy finally has a record. Well, sort of. By Pico This week the biggest buzz about a new record by an aging rock start is Neil Young's Daniel Lanois-produced Le Noise, and rightfully so, but a few of the other ...
Greg Ward's Fitted Shards - South Side Story (2010)
By Pico Unless they have already been a key player in an established band, debut album of jazz solo artists tend to be uninspired affairs. Not yet finding their own identity, these neophytes often fall back on mimicking their major influences, making very competent but unexceptional records. Even most of the best musicians start off slow; ...
One Track Mind: Kimya Dawson, "Tire Swing" (2006)
By Mark Saleski There are so many ways we discover music: from a film soundtrack, the radio (Internet, satellite, earthbound), word of mouth, advertising. Most of these can be thought of as happy accidents. Is there such a thing as an “unhappy accident"? This is the short story of how I came to discover Kimya Dawson. ...
Neil Young - Le Noise (2010)
By Nick Deriso Even after a damaging season of loss, Neil Young remains, as always, restless and relentless—imbuing the modernistic, reverb-soaked “Le Noise" with a kind of anti-melancholy. He hasn't stopped searching for light in the darkness and, even now, somehow never sounds quite the same from album to album. This time, Young partners with producer ...
