I’m not sure you need me to tell you about the 2013 records by Kanye, Daft Punk and Arcade Fire. They were unanimously fawned over, richly produced concept pieces that actually hang together. Instead, I’ll focus on the handful of albums (yes I still … [Continue reading]
Who Loves The Sun: Remembering Lou Reed
For some people it was the death of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain or Jerry Garcia that made time stop. For me it was Lou Reed. My seminal Lou Reed moment took place on a brisk Fall evening in 1988. I was a freshman in college and off on … [Continue reading]
Is Yo La Tengo The Greatest Indie Rock Band Of All Time?
In the mid ‘80s a young rock journalist named Ira Kaplan and his wife Georgia Hubley started a rock band. Their band, Yo La Tengo, was named after a Spanish baseballer’s lingo for “I’ve got it.” Their name has always been as accessibly irreverent as … [Continue reading]
The Bestest, Tunage 2012
This year, building a music discovery platform called TastemakerX, I was looking harder than usual at new music. I was doing this primarily to prove my thesis that music discovery is becoming increasingly more difficult. This is due in part to … [Continue reading]
The Bestest, Filmmage 2012
Another great year for films large and small, but in reality I think it was the bigger films that were better than the indie’s. Perhaps it’s that the indie film marketplace has never been more difficult than it is today. Art house screens are … [Continue reading]