Beyonce' - Cowboy Carter I suppose calling a Beyonce' album overhyped is kind of redundant, but that doesn't make it untrue. It's good but it's not that good. And it's a little bit country but it sure isn't a "country album." That's neither diss nor praise, just fact. I'd say that if there's a them...

When I saw Deadly Game by Michael Caine on the library shelf I asked myself is that the Michael Caine? The answer was yes, so curiosity piqued, I grabbed it. Kudos to him for branching out and for apparently writing the book on his own. As for the result, meh. I liked the main characters. The plot w...

As for Blackbird, it's a pretty basic tune and song. If you stay faithful to the original, which Bey does, I think it's kinda hard to screw it up To be clear, I don't think she screwed it up at all. I was just hoping she would do more of a personal interpretation along the lines of any great cover ...

I disclaim any implication of wisdom and I don't know anything about this festival in particular, but in general DBT festival sets are shorter than typical rock shows. If they're not headlining and in the middle of the bill you'll probably get about an hour and if they're closer to the top of the bi...

After seeing the band on Thursday and Sunday, I'd say if you have an opportunity to catch one of these shows to do it. Both nights were great and the sets had some good variation to them. Bruce sounds really good so far on this run. Yeah, the last couple of days I've been really wondering whether I...

Jonathan V. Last has an interesting column in today's Bulwark. He asks whether Trump is, in quantum physics terms, a particle or a wave, i.e. a symptom or a cause of the threats to the Republic associated with him, and concludes that he's both, which is imho the easy and correct answer. In the cours...

Trump's public social media company started trading yesterday. It closed its first day of trading selling at about two thousand times projected annual revenues. Plus it's losing millions of dollars. It's not a question of if, only when this thing crashes and when it does I don't want to hear any wh...

Beyonce' - Cowboy Carter I suppose calling a Beyonce' album overhyped is kind of redundant, but that doesn't make it untrue. It's good but it's not that good. And it's a little bit country but it sure isn't a "country album." That's neither diss nor praise, just fact. I'd say that if there's a theme...

Elvis Costello - King of America

Big Star - Radio City

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

phungi wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:41 pm

You miss a day, you miss a lot!

Right? I keep saying

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:06 pm

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234995720/

Wow, I"m sure that was quite a moment for Zach and very validating too. Although headlining arenas have got to be some pretty big moments just by themselves.

I never approached the issue like this. To me, it is a no-brainer policy decision to raise it. Clearly, a very unpopular position from a political perspective, but seemingly necessary from a financial standpoint. The age discrimination angle certainly changes the lens through which I now view it. I...

Gregg Hurwitz's Lone Wolf is one of the best entries in his Orphan X series and a welcome return to form after what I thought were a couple of lesser efforts. The depiction of the protagonist's struggle to deal with and be a part of "the normal world" is one of the best examples of the evolution of ...

The adaptation of Juan Gomez-Jurado's Red Queen is pretty good (it's in Spanish w/ subtitles). It is always very difficult to translate a book that relies so much on internal thoughts/monologues/processes and which needs to convey how genius works and I think they did a good job w/ that here. But I'...

Bump. Go Clones Since it's likely my high water mark, i guess this is the place to point out that one of my brackets is in 3rd place in my group. Of course my second bracket is 28th (out of 30). I see that the Cyclones were the championship pick of almost 5% of "ballots." That seems impressive even...

has anyone received the email to actually claim the tix yet? I have received a never ending cascade of emails from TM most of which are highly redundant. But the last set, received this afternoon, lists a 4 step procedure to actually access the tickets. As chuck said, they'll actually show up in yo...

Sterling Bigmouth wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:49 pm

Ticket request didn’t work out, guess it’s the general on-sale for me.

Disappointing, but on the bright side hopefully that means there’s plenty of early interest in the shows.

Damn. Good luck!

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame Inspired by my recent expedition to hear Nick Bartsch's Ronin (see live music thread) which is actually pretty different but has enough similarities to give me a push I thought I'd go way back in the way back machine for this one. The best of it s...

Bump. Go Clones Since it's likely my high water mark, i guess this is the place to point out that one of my brackets is in 3rd place in my group. Of course my second bracket is 28th (out of 30). I see that the Cyclones were the championship pick of almost 5% of "ballots." That seems impressive even...

Based on the stories that pass by my screen, I think "we have to save Social Security" is going to be back on the public agenda soon if it's not already. And inevitably there will be calls to raise the retirement age. I think a careful raising of the retirement age (i.e. geared to those who statisti...

After thinking about the lost (now presumed dead) road crew, my second thought was for all those longshoremen, or at least The Wire's version of them. I suspect it will be a while before they work again.

More mysterious communication from ticketmaster: In an email confirming that I got the tix I requested, they said that tickets go on sale on March 29, which I guess is the "regular" on-sale. I do not know if this means that if you didn't get the tickets you requested you can try again on Friday or t...

From Heather Cox Richardson: "Voters’ frustration with the extremists who have captured the Republican Party appeared to be behind the results in today’s special election for a seat in the Alabama legislature. There, voters in a swing district elected a Democrat, who ran on protecting abortion acces...

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame Inspired by my recent expedition to hear Nick Bartsch's Ronin (see live music thread) which is actually pretty different but has enough similarities to give me a push I thought I'd go way back in the way back machine for this one. The best of it st...

Nik Bartsch's Ronin at City Winery, Boston on 3/25. Look at me, going out on a Monday nite, woohoo! To see a band I'd never heard of until we were invited by friends. "Zen-funk" they call it. I thought it was pretty good. The drummer, Kaspar Rast, was terrific. I gotta look into this live music thin...

In economic news: The cost of some private colleges will now top $90,000/yr starting with the fall '24 semester. NINETY THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS PER YEAR FOR FOUR YEARS!! :shock: :shock: :( Yes, this was inevitable, but still... Trump's public social media company started trading yesterday. It clos...

tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:41 am

solid record.

Stone cold classic. Where is slipkid when I need him?

Maybe you'll have to go the deluxe route for Boston. You are a VIP after all. Well, I don't know about my status but I had already bought 4 VIP tix. I was waiting for the 4 "regular" ones (let's not get into the VIP being GA standind and the regular ones being specific seats, it makes my head hurt)...

Hmmm… I got confirms on all my ticket requests EXCEPT Boston which was my first priority. Fingers still crossed but I guess it wouldn’t be TM without some extra aggravation.

Modern Power Pop Mix on Spotify. Excellent and chock full of songs and artists I'm not familiar with (as well as some excellent choices from among the usual suspects).