Scissor Sisters - Baby Come Home

Long live glam pop!

LUKE . . .

I AM YOUR FATHER!



Happy Father's Day, homies.

P.J. Harvey - The Darker Days of Me and Him (2004)

Harvey is the real, fucking deal.

Mark Lanegan & P.J. Harvey - Hit the City

Ex-grunge guy Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) keeps popping up in my musical wanderings.  He has become a great collaborator (my earlier post with Isobel Campbell).  Here's his duet with one of my favorite rock stars, P.J. Harvey.

Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely

90's folk psych from Athens, GA. Singer Jeff Mangum, now based in Brooklyn, has recently begun touring after a long hiatus. He played at Zuccotti Park last October during Occupy Wall Street.

Tim Minchin - an anthem to the redheaded

"only a ginger can call another ginger ginger"

Sixto Rodriguez - Crucify Your Mind

Recent street session in Paris.  The song is from the album, "Cold Fact" (1970).  Cold facts, indeed.

Rich guy's modest proposal to tax the rich

TED Talk too partisan to be posted to TED.com strikingly low-key and rational.

Morphine - You Look Like Rain

OK, mother's day cards are in the mail.  But for the mother of my own children, the woman I live with, I'd like to say, "I can tell you taste like the sky cause you look like rain."

Morphine - French Fries with Pepper

Saw Morphine live in San Francisco in the mid 90s, not too long before Mark Sandman collapsed and died while performing.  Definitely a NOLA flavor in the "low rock" sound here.