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Morse Music: March 2009
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With all due hardness. Monday, March 23, 2009. Because it had been a few months, Trent Reznor is once again offering some free tunes. This time, it's a promotional EP for Nine Inch Nails' upcoming "NIN JA 2009" tour with Jane's Addiction. The EP is downloadable in multiple formats from ninja2009.com. And includes two previously unreleased tracks each from NIN, Jane's, and supporting act Street Sweeper. Thursday, March 19, 2009. U2, No Line On the Horizon. Felt formulaic by comparison, an overplaying of t...
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Morse Music: October 2009
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With all due hardness. Monday, October 26, 2009. Pearl Jam, Backspacer. And yet for most of that time, one got the sense that Pearl Jam were exactly where they wanted to be. Writing their songs, making their records. They played huge shows filled with people who loved every song. Their stop at Wisconsin's Alpine Valley Music Theater during the 2003 Riot Act. The buzz about their ninth studio album, Backspacer. Is still a Pearl Jam album much like any other Pearl Jam album. If you like Pearl Jam album...
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Morse Music: Playing catch-up: Bob Dylan, Passion Pit
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With all due hardness. Thursday, July 30, 2009. Playing catch-up: Bob Dylan, Passion Pit. Yes, I've been very bad, letting six or seven weeks go by in between my last two posts. I don't have any one really good reason. Sometimes, man, you just run out of time for stuff. Anyway, I've missed updating this blog, and I'm hoping to get at least a post a week up for the foreseeable future. In the mean time, a number of albums have come out that I don't know if I'll get around to. Rite a song about a girl?
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Morse Music: June 2009
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With all due hardness. Tuesday, June 2, 2009. PJ Harvey and John Parish, A Woman a Man Walked By. So, PJ Harvey's got this new album out, and I've been putting off writing a review because I hadn't thought of anything particularly profound or insightful to say about it. I still haven't, and I'm thinking that's pretty much going to be the status quo with me and this album. Where it's good, it's good in the ways that PJ Harvey is always good. And it's mostly good. Actually, A Woman a Man Walked By.
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Morse Music: February 2009
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With all due hardness. Monday, February 23, 2009. Common, Universal Mind Control. Has, you have to assume that something is deeply wrong with it. Common's last so-so reception came in response to 2002's detour into psychedelic rock, Electric Circus. Which I actually liked quite a bit. After finding a winning groove with Kanye West at the boards on 2005's Be. And refining it on 2007's Finding Forever. We've seen Common affect poses like this before. One of the joys of Finding Forever. His fifth album (and...
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Morse Music: April 2009
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With all due hardness. Sunday, April 26, 2009. The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love. Anyway, since then everyone from the Smashing Pumpkins to Tori Amos to Prince has taken their crack at that prog-rock staple, with varying degrees of success. The Decemberists, on the other hand, go full-on rock opera with The Hazards of Love. On the rock opera story coherence scale, Hazards. Rates with highly filmable tales like The Wall. It's very deliberately and coherently told- it wouldn't be hard at all to put thi...
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Morse Music: January 2009
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With all due hardness. Friday, January 30, 2009. Secretly Great: Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me". About a year ago, I promised to one day explain why I think that "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is a truly, genuinely brilliant song. That day has come. And get up and dance and make devil horns, they are enjoying the song ironicall. Y: they like it because they feel that they're better than the song, and. Bono has told a story of being schooled by Def Leppard. Somewhere in the pre- Achtung Baby. Check out Jo...
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Morse Music: Pearl Jam, Backspacer
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With all due hardness. Monday, October 26, 2009. Pearl Jam, Backspacer. And yet for most of that time, one got the sense that Pearl Jam were exactly where they wanted to be. Writing their songs, making their records. They played huge shows filled with people who loved every song. Their stop at Wisconsin's Alpine Valley Music Theater during the 2003 Riot Act. The buzz about their ninth studio album, Backspacer. Is still a Pearl Jam album much like any other Pearl Jam album. If you like Pearl Jam album...
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Morse Music: Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
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With all due hardness. Sunday, August 16, 2009. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Making their bid for indie pop album of the summer are the sunny young Frenchmen of Phoenix. Their latest, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Embraces new wave minimalism and colors it in with the kinds of keyboard flourishes we've heard from countrymen of theirs like Air and M83. Ten songs long, it's concise and relentlessly upbeat. Much like last summer's debut album by Vampire Weekend, Amadeus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Morse Music: The Dead Weather, Horehound
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With all due hardness. Monday, August 24, 2009. The Dead Weather, Horehound. His latest supergroup side project, the Dead Weather, is another trip through the blues, this time by way of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. White tosses into the mixing bowl some heavy QOTSA guitars, the apocalyptic vocals of the Kills' Alison Mosshart, and- possibly for the joke value alone- his own steady drumming. Mosshart is at least notionally at the center of the band's debut, Horehound. But the bluster and intensity are m...
