PAPALACIC AFTABLASTA II
Cyril Neville (vocals & percussion)
Papa Mali (Guitars & Vocals)
Rob Mercurio (GALACTIC ) (Bass)
Stanton Moore (GALACTIC) (Drums)
TBA (B3 & Vocals) plus many surprise guests!
Sasha Frere-Jones has the details about James Brown’s auction yesterday. Says over 300 pieces of shwag brought in $857, 688. Wouldn’t get his caddy to LA with that money.
Paul Shaffer not only ponied up $10k for JB’s Hammond B-3 (with Leslie, natch) but he also took home “a blue satin cape emboidered with Thy name is Godfather of Soul and rhinestone, sequence (Christie’s meant sequins, unless they have another way of spelling that too!-TT) and metallic embellishments.”
2 days agoFound on Merlin Mann’s blog, who found it on
I still can’t stop laughing out loud
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I’m always amazed when people tell me they don’t subscribe to any podcasts. This is an amazingly under-used source of entertainment and comedy that you can enjoy FOR FREE if you have a computer (that glowing thing you are looking at now.) All you need is iTunes (yes, for Windows or Mac) or some other podcatcher. I prefer using my iPod or iPod-like device for listening while driving or biking, but it’s not necessary. Just go to “podcasts” in iTunes and click “subscribe” when you find the right shows. You are officially the last person to hear about this.
Think about how much time you waste listening to the radio in your car. Do you really need to hear more Eric Clapton? Did I mention it’s all free?
So first of all, you need to hear WNYC’s “Radio Lab.” This is like NPR on shrooms: great, intelligent talk, woven together with amazing music and sound design to transcend the medium and possibly teach you something, definitely make you laugh. Their episode “Pop Music” will teach you why you can’t stop singing certain songs like “Crazy” or maybe “Buttered Popcorn” or whatever “ear worm” is infecting you at the moment. If you’ve ever read Oliver Sacks (“Awakenings”, “Musicophilia”) you will recognize a huge contribution from him. Other episodes on “Laughter” and “Deception” are standouts this season. This is brilliant, fascinating stuff.
Secondly, you need to listen to “You Look Nice Today”, an audio show beyond description, with no redeeming educational value, but fall-down funny. Just 3 guys talking, including Merlin Mann, a super-celebrity for 1 percent of the population, who I barely missed playing in bands in Tallahassee in the late 80’s. If you are smart and into laughing this is for you. If not, listen to your radio.
Finally, I think I am the last guy to find out about “Yacht Rock” a now-defunct web TV show that my friend Carl turned me on to recently. I watched all 11 five-minute episodes in a weekend and couldn’t believe how gunny it all was. Mocking the competition between 80’s smooth rock veterans like The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins and Steely Dan, even Van Halen and Dr. Dre, “Yacht Rock” is extremely tongue in cheek, based on real trivia that guys who listened to FM rock can appreciate. You can check out all the episodes on Youtube, or you can download them (yes, free) from Channel101.com to take them on your iPod-like device. (If you download, you may have to edit off the .txt suffix for the file to play. Don’t ask.) The bad mustache on Hall and Oates is alone worth your five minutes.
3 days agoFun with Censorship!
David Byrne! Dizzee Rascal! Naked people!
(from The New Yorker, again)
1 month agoThis song is an amazing example of music as pure fun. Pure nonesense. Sometimes we forget how cool a song can be when we turn off our brain.
Read more about it from Sasha Frere-Jones at the New Yorker
2 months agoPortishead is Back!
The Dharma Bomb has been closing our shows with Portishead’s “Glory Box” almost since the beginning. People often tell me it’s the best song I ever wrote. Stop, I’m blushing.
Since we are celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year, Portishead has decided to release its first album in a decade, captured here in (somewhat) live glory. What an honor…
These guys invented trip-hop, then vanished. Welcome back.
3 months agoThe Perfect Song
Fred Armisen (SNL) is the rare musician-turned-comedian (unlike David Lee Roth who is barely either) who got my attention opening for Wilco and yukking it up with Jeff Tweedy in the “I Am Trying to Break your Heart” movie (while Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum tries to scarf a piece of pizza from backstage.)
Carrie Brownstein was in Sleater-Kinney and now blogs for NPR.
Together (as ThunderAnt) they show the beauty of songwriting here..
3 months agoFound this today on a great geeky audio blog, musicthing. Check out some of the cool videos posted there too. Then go play in front of a bush.
Captain Beefheart’s Ten Commandments For Guitarists That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere.
2. YOUR GUITAR IS NOT REALLY A GUITARYour guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you’re good, you’ll land a big one.
3. PRACTICE IN FRONT OF A BUSH Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn’t shake, eat another piece of bread.
4. WALK WITH THE DEVIL Old delta blues players referred to amplifiers as the “devil box.” And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you’re bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts demons and devils. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
5. IF YOU’RE GUILTY OF THINKING, YOU’RE OUT If your brain is part of the process, you’re missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.
6. NEVER POINT YOUR GUITAR AT ANYONE Your instrument has more power than lightning. Just hit a big chord, then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.
7. ALWAYS CARRY YOUR CHURCH KEY You must carry your key and use it when called upon. That’s your part of the bargain. Like One String Sam. He was a Detroit street musician in the fifties who played a homemade instrument. His song “I Need A Hundred Dollars” is warm pie. Another church key holder is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin’ Wolf’s guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty making you want to look up her dress to see how he’s doing it.
8. DON’T WIPE THE SWEAT OFF YOUR INSTRUMENT You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.
9. KEEP YOUR GUITAR IN A DARK PLACE When you’re not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don’t play your guitar for more than a day, be sure to put a saucer of water in with it.
10. YOU GOTTA HAVE A HOOD FOR YOUR ENGINE Wear a hat when you play and keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house the hot air can’t escape. Even a lima bean has to have a wet paper towel around it to make it grow.
4 months ago“Make Art! Make Art!”
The Best Song Oscar was bestowed on “Falling Slowly” from “Once” last night. If you haven’t seen it yet, rent it soon. It proves you can make a movie for no money, with no actors or fancy cameras, no CONFLICT (not even “Little Buddah” or “Kundun” can say that) you can engage an audience with brilliant songs and a simple story. People will respond to real emotion every time.
This was all the more wonderful that they beat out the 3 songs nominated from song Disney-fantasy-princess crap called “Enchanted.” Singer Glen Hansard said today he felt “like a plumber at a flower show.” What musician hasn’t felt that way before?
If you didnt see the acceptance speeches, they were truly memorable, with Hansard repeating “Make art! Make art!” at the end, then John Stewart breaking the rules and letting Marketa Irglova come back after the commercial and give her speech. It was a great moment for songwriters:
“This is such a big deal, not only for us, but for all independent musicians and artists who spend so much of their time struggling,” Irglova said. “No matter how far out your dreams are, it’s possible…this song was written was from a perspective of hope, and at the end of the day, hope connects us all.”
BTW, Hansard, lead singer of The Frames, was the young guitarist in the classic band movie “The Commitments” from 1991.
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