the Pixies - Doolittle and Bosanova
Slint - Spiderland
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese and the Pod
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
GY!BE - Yanqui U.X.O. and Lift Yr Skinny Fists …
Mogwai - live show from Aus
From Monument To Masses
Nick Drake
Jakob
listening to this kind of music is best enjoyed drinking Guinness Foreign Extra
Allen Toussaint, “The Bright Mississippi”
-jar whiskey jazz, New Orleans style - fuck. Trumpeter Nicholas Peyton excels.
Sarah Jarosz, “Song Up In Her Head”
-clawhammer banjo, Ralph Stanley style - my kind of kid. Nineteen-year old Texan, currently corralled at the New England Conservatory of Music, writin’ bluegrass for grrls (and me). Bluebonnets in spring, I swear.
I made my first couple of CD purchases in a long time on a visit home to Canada recently. Picked up the “new” Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune. There are indeed some new previously unreleased songs on it, as well as some nifty new versions of others. The stepped up version of Stone Free is awesome.
Also picked up, on recommendation from a good friend, the Them Crooked Vultures album. Interesting lineup: Dave Grohl from Nirvana/Foo Fighters, Joshua Homme from Kyuss, and John Paul Jones from…Led Zeppelin.
Watch The Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West. Eminently listenable, bordering on true excellence (if you can forgive the sampling). Released only yesterday (12-Aug), I predict this will be huger than huge, and will dominate American wedding receptions come spring 2012. Exemplary tracks: Otis (feat. Otis Redding), Murder to Excellence, Made in America, Why I Love You, Illest Motherfucker Alive.
As an aside, there’s something about Jay-Z that reminds me of Sinatra at his best. Not sure what that is yet, frankly.