The Entroporium

One of the best things you’ll ever read about any band, but caution! may be totally incomprehensible if you know squat about Sonic. EVOL” href=”http://vinyljourney.blogspot.com/2005/01/evol.html” target=”blank”>Vinyl Mine on Sonic Youth’s EVOL As for me, the first time I listened to this record — it was my roommate’s very favorite album, I thought I’d give it [...]

I’ve been pushing this record on my friends for a while and now Susie has taken to playing it everywhere, too. Graham Coxon’s Happiness In Magazines has finally got a US release on Astralwerks and you heard it here first that it’s going to blow up BIG. The first single, “Freakin’ Out” finds Blur’s departed [...]

I’d be interested in chatting with music bloggers from San Francisco. I have an idea for a project, and it would also be great to have a little networking, like all those NYC bloggers do. Give me a shout at shawn at entroporium dot com

Susie and I finally got to see Ray last night. Despite the fact that Ray Charles is one of my favorite all-time artists, that his story is endlessly fascinating in the same way that Elvis’s is and that the movie was generally well-reviewed, I still approached seeing this with trepidation. I had a terrible feeling [...]

DJ Food and and longtime pop provocateur Paul Morley have put together a fabulous bit of avant-garde history/historymaking: a mash-up about the history of the mash-up. 72 megabytes, but oh so worth it. Get it before the copyright police whisk it away. DJ Food – Raiding The 20th Century (words and music expansion).mp3 Thanks to [...]

Robyn Hitchcock has rallied from some really terrible sartorial choices to pair up with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings on his new album, Spooked. It’s far from a perfect record, but the tracks that hit home are really lovely and, well, spooky. Today’s sample is the first cut, a love song by a lonely man [...]

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Expert Help for Your Fantasy Baseball Franchise I’ve just discovered that I’m more widely published than I thought I was. McSweeney’s posted one of my letters!

OK, I’m a little confused. I listened to the President’s inaugural address yesterday and it sounded eerily familiar. Sure enough, it’s a Goldwater ’64 Greatest Hits compilation! I believe that we must look beyond the defense of freedom today to its extension tomorrow. I believe that the communism which boasts it will bury us will, [...]

To celebrate, a vision of unrest in the streets and flowers on the hillside. May we all be safe and strong. [Soundtrack] Bright Eyes – Old Soul Song (For The New World Order).mp3