It appears Los Angeles is taking baby steps towards another lockdown. Quite frankly, it should have happened last weekend when we exceeded the city council’s own threshold for new cases per day. Perhaps someday we, as a nation, will make a serious attempt at controlling covid-19, but it definitely won’t happen until late January, atContinue reading “#203 – The Riddle by Nik Kershaw”
Category Archives: new wave
#200 – Money Money 2020 by The Network
I completely forgot that today was a blog milestone. After 200 albums, this project has become such a part of my daily life I can’t remember what it was like before it existed. That said, I completely forgot that today was that day until I sat down to write this, so I ended up choosingContinue reading “#200 – Money Money 2020 by The Network”
#138 – Fourth Wall by The Flying Lizards
I set out to find today’s selection, intending to listen to some interesting modern classical or experimental music and, a few dozen clicks down the road, I came across the collaboration between The Flying Lizards and minimalist pianist and composer Michael Nyman entitled “Hands 2 Take.” Fourth Wall features some experimental noise-making, but there areContinue reading “#138 – Fourth Wall by The Flying Lizards”
#102 – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! By DEVO
Our Kevin Bacon game, so far: The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney produced – and is the husband of – Michelle Branch, who was featured on Santana’s “The Game of Love.” On a later album, Santana collaborated with Metallica, who backed up Lou Reed, who was in The Velvet Underground with John Cale, who wrote anContinue reading “#102 – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! By DEVO”
#70 – Peter Gabriel 4: Security by Peter Gabriel
I never really explored the Genesis catalog until a few years ago. When I was young, my dad had all of the later albums, which I assumed was representative of the entire catalog. Obviously, now I know that in that era they are a completely different band than they were at the time of theContinue reading “#70 – Peter Gabriel 4: Security by Peter Gabriel”
New Album A Day 