The Modern Log

Sloan shows be crazy.
They play again in the tri-state area this week – Friday night at the Bell House in Brooklyn. You should be there, for real.

I finally bought the Sloan EP Hit & Run but I haven’t listened yet. No idea why I’m putting it off, surely it’s very great, but I better get cracking. Sloan is playing on Monday at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, and there will I be.
Another time when I saw Sloan at Maxwell’s (uhh, 10 years ago), [...]

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Joel Plaskett Emergency / “Face of the Earth”

I missed the Joel Plaskett Emergency’s Ashtray Rock when it was out – something about “Fashionable People” just terrified me – but after hearing him perform this in Brooklyn these last couple of times, “Face of the Earth” is now one of my all-time favorites by anyone.
“I [...]

I am pleased to report that last night’s Joel Plaskett show was gorgeous, revelatory and wasn’t packed full of rude, drunk Canadians.
More later.

Last night, Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop of Travis did a show at Joe’s Pub, The Chronological Acoustical Journey Through the Travis Back Catalogue.
It was spectacular. 
This here is “Driftwood,” which isn’t my all-time favorite Travis song (there are about six or seven different tracks that could fit that bill on any given day), but the [...]

Veronica was using that Facebook interview application, and it asked what flower I’d be.  She picked a daisy. “Yay!” I thought, “James!” But she was thinking Marc Jacobs. Either way, a win.
Here’s James, the last time I saw them, at the Stone Pony. It was September 2008, and the set was amazing. The song I’m [...]

Quest for Fire played in New York this weekend. Two shows, the Bell House (very good) and the Mercury Lounge (bleeping transcendent.)
During the Merc show I tweeted this:
Slackjawed and tingly watching this band kill it. Imagine this is what stripclubs are like for those so inclined.11:39 PM Jun 6th from Twitterrific
Which basically says it [...]

I just saw Fran Healy (this one, not this one) play at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. It was $20, for charity, and there was free beer. Oh yeah, and Fran Healy. He was a lovely delight (as he has been, since we first saw him with Travis at Brownie’s approximately 800 years ago.) There is [...]

Tonight, Dollie is at “Equus” and I am home sick, so I am spending some quality time with my TV. The DVR, which has been more than 90 percent full for weeks now, has been feeling neglected. What I am doing right now is attending to “Life.” I love it. It’s my favorite. And I [...]

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For four weeks, Mike Viola (you know, that amazing genius who wrote that song about me – sorry, never gets old!) played every Friday night at Joe’s Pub. It was altogether wonderful.
Before his sets, Kelly Jones (not that one) played her entire current album live. I’m going to be honest, I wasn’t [...]

I spent last Saturday night in Cambridge, seeing an incredible show, despite the distractions of a trio of wenches who have no appreciate for statement art jewelry (or much of anything else), at the Lizard Lounge.
The show was full of highlights that we’d all be better for reliving, and this one, posted on YouTube, is [...]

Things that are true:
Kim should come back like right away.
I have “Baby Doll” from “Tapeheads” stuck in my head.
Wreckless Eric is a great show to see.
Cold turkey is the only way to quit longhaired musicians with glasses. Now I only like dentists with perfect eyesight.
I am way too tired to make paragraphs.
Me and Mandy Moore [...]

This was a good weekend for shows, two of my all-time favorites in two days.
Friday there was Mike Viola, the second of his four Joe’s Pub shows, third of six shows of his I will see this fall. (Yes, we’re going to Boston for the Candy Butchers bonanza). And then Saturday was James. Ohhh James. [...]

On Thursday night, I saw R.E.M. And while I have to say I was oddly disappointed to not hear “Underneath the Bunker” (have they ever played this live? My guess is “no”), it was a wonderful show. I can’t imagine a better first time. Sloan was playing the same night, at the same time, at [...]

Sloan’s new album, Parallel Play, came out yesterday. My pre-ordered copy is somewhere in the mail, but Yep Roc is nice and lets you download it as well as having a hard copy.
This morning, after spilling my coffee on my light blueish green shirt (”I’d call that seafoam,” said a co-worker who shouldn’t say things [...]