Tag Archives: 2016

Cucumbers Still Fresh 33 Years Later!

I vividly remember where I first encountered Hoboken band The Cucumbers. Back in 1986, I caught a fantastic clip on MTV’s 120 Minutes for the band’s wonderful cover version of “All Shook Up.” The Super 8 + everything else but … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 44]

2016 [continued] The last song on “★” had just been released as the third, and first posthumous, single from the album last week. On my first listen, “I Can’t Give Everything Away” echoed the winsome, Toots Thielemans  harmonica sound of “Never Let … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 43]

2016 [continued] “Girl Loves Me” was the most deliberately impenetrable track here due to the heavy use of synthetic slanguage. I recognize parts of Nadsat, from Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange,” but apparently it’s blurred together with Polari, a British … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 42]

2016 [continued] From the very first listen, the title song from “Lazarus” [which was the only of the four new songs of that production on this album] made a large impact. The song’s descending hook [complete with a contrapuntal, vertiginous ascending … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 41]

2015 I can’t remember exactly when during 2015 that I heard that David Bowie was writing a play called “Lazarus” with four new songs in it but I didn’t investigate it too closely. I assumed that these were for the cast … Continue reading

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Faust Were My Kind Of Bargain At Big Ears

As The Big Ears Festival approached like a speeding train in my consciousness while occupied by other things, I was happy to see that a month or so out, changes had been made to free up some of the early … Continue reading

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Billie Ray Martin Prepping New Soul Album

With a crowdsource campaign that has seen nearly 200% of her goal reached in the first month, singer Billie Ray Martin has cooked up something a bit different from the angular yet soulful dance music that she normally offers. It bears repeating … Continue reading

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