Daytrotter & Shearwater: Free Songs

Shearwater’s Daytrotter Session:
Jonathan Meiberg listened to the songs from this session the other day, after a while away from them, and found that he was personally appalled by his vocal performance that given Sunday morning. He used that word — appalled — at least three times in a short phone conversation and in an e-mail, […]

Austinist’s Top 15 of 2006

I’m proud of all of our music writers for putting together this awesome Top 15 List. Tom and I spent a lot of time editing and piecing it all together, but the end result makes me very happy. It’s a great finish to a great year with these guys, and I’m so proud […]

Holiday Romp & Craig, the Scary Penguin

It looks like Ghost World, Look Who’s Talking Now and any given Stanley Kubrick movie got in a fist fight and that’s what was left.

Photo by Justin Cox

Pulp’s “Like a Friend”

I sort of forgot how much I love this song until I found the video just now. I’d never seen it before, but it came to my attention as I watched Jarvis’ “Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time” video.

Donny Hathaway at Swoon

I wrote a little something about Donny Hathaway (and Roberta Flack) over at Swoon:
One year before she released her critically acclaimed Killing Me Softly (Atlantic, 1973), Roberta Flack released a duet album with long-time friend and former Howard University classmate Donny Hathaway. Though the album was a commercial success, highlighted by “Where is the Love?” […]